Thursday, June 25, 2020

What happens to U.S. economy and stock markets if universities don't open this fall and no college football season?


I have an ardent Alabama Crimson Tide friend, who in his old age before the world was turned upside by the bioweapon made in Red China (*see Sancho Panza's invigorating contribution at bottom of this post), bought and resold tickets to college sports events. Football tickets were his big money maker, basketball and baseball tickets paid the rent and utilities.

The roll-tider told me yesterday that the mayor of Tuscaloosa said during a recent public talk that the University of Alabama, the main campus of which is in Tuscaloosa, had announced fall classes will start off virtual, and the mayor as much as said there will not be a football season this year. 

 I said I was thinking the same myself. Even if 100,000-capacity Bryant-Denny Stadium is empty, you have college team players practicing nose to nose, sweating, huffing and puffing, they can’t wear face masks. Then, they are in locker rooms undressing, showering, etc., without face masks. Same during and after games, without face masks. Even if there are no fans in the stands, just one player catches coronavirus, the entire team could become infected. The opposing team could become infected. And, the roll-tider added, a player dies and the university gets sued. That, too, this former practicing Alabama attorney said.

The roll-tider said, when the Alabama football team plays a team like Citadel, that brings $20 million into the Tuscaloosa economy that weekend. When Alabama plays a team like LSU, that brings in $50 million. That’s not going to happen if there is no football season. And, I said, the University will lose all those ticket and concession sales, and TV revenues. That, too, the roll-tider said, and the University will have to refund the ticket holders.

But that’s just the beginning of the disaster, the roll-tider said. The University contributes over $1 billion annually to the Tuscaloosa economy. If classes are virtual this fall, how many students will return to Tuscaloosa? There are 38,000 students. Counting those students, Tuscaloosa's population is 101,000. I asked how many apartments will stand vacant, how many prepaid rent refunds will have to be made? How will restaurants, bars, grocery stores and movie theaters get by? They depend on 38,000 students being there most of the year. 

 Likewise every town or city in America that was built around a university, like Auburn, Alabama, Starkeville, Mississippi, Tallahassee and Gainesville, Florida, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Austin and Waco, Texas, Columbia, Missouri, Lawrence, Kansas. No football season and colleges not opening physically this fall will economically crush such cities and the U.S. economy, and there’s not a thing President Trump and FOX News can do about it.

When I shared that cherry forecast with a former college economic professor friend last night, he said it will be worse than I painted it. Every large city has lots of universities. If classes are virtual this fall, it’s gonna be really bad. And, it’s gonna be really bad again if the coronavirus resurges, which is about 100-percent gonna happen because too many states, cities and people are not taking the necessary precautions, especially using face masks in tight quarters. I said I have come to assume anyone I see in a grocery store not wearing a face mask is MAGA or Republican.

I said the stock market took a big tumble today because of soaring coronavirus infections in America. Imagine the tumble the stock market will take this fall if universities have virtual classrooms, there are no college football and basketball games, no pro football, basketball, hockey games, pro golf tournaments. Cruise ships stay docked. Movie theaters don’t open. Restaurants and bars operate at half capacity. Maybe I need to buy puts on the stock market.

I said I’m reading online that lower Duval Street in Key West, the main attraction there, is jammed nights with people not wearing face masks. Coronavirus infections are rising down there. Tourists become infected, return home and spread the joy there.

 While President Trump goes along with his FDA director banning the proven early-infection-stage cure for Red China lab-made coronavirus: hydroxychloroquine and zinc, developed by Dr. Vladimir Zelenko and explained to Trump and his Chief of Staff in this March 23 letter, which soon was read to the public by FOX's Sean Hannity, and then Trump, without mentioning Dr. Zelenko, announced he used the cure to prevent catching coronavirus after some of Trump's staff became infected. 
But, Trump did not fire his FDA director for dooming many Americans who who catch Red China's present to the world. Instead, Trump fired the New York City U.S. Attorney prosecuting Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to file suit in federal court to stop publication of Trump's former security advisor John Bolton's tell-all book about Trump.

*Sancho Panza's bioweapon contribution (grab you best hold):

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • Forbes’ June 7, 2020, article on a Norwegian report that claims to present proof that SARS-CoV-2 is a laboratory creation was almost immediately altered to reflect the opposing view
  • The 180-degree turnaround is being justified by citing “scientific consensus on COVID-19” — a consensus that does not exist
  • There are many reasons for protecting the narrative that SARS-CoV-2 is of a natural origin. If it is proven to be a lab creation, the public may demand biosafety/biowarfare research into dangerous pathogens be stopped
  • Thousands of scientists involved in such research would lose their jobs if funding came to a halt and biosafety level 4 laboratories were to be shut down. Many could also potentially face life in prison for violating the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989
  • American scientists and health organizations would also be responsible, and the U.S. doesn’t want to implicate its own agencies in the creation of SARS-CoV-2
If you need further proof that the mainstream media is censoring truthful news, look no further than Forbes’ June 7, 2020, article on a Norwegian report that claims to present proof that SARS-CoV-2 is a laboratory creation.

The article was initially published with the headline “Norway Scientist Claims Report Proves Coronavirus Was Lab-Made.”1,2 Shortly thereafter, that headline was altered to “Controversial Coronavirus Lab Origin Claims Dismissed by Experts.”3

Forbes Pulls a 180


As revealed in the side-by-side screenshots below, the 180-degree turnaround is being justified by citing “scientific consensus on COVID-19” — a consensus that most certainly does not exist as of yet — and evidence showing SARS-CoV-2 is lab-created is being roundly dismissed as “rumor and conspiracy.” If this doesn’t show you just how complicit the media is driving a pre-established narrative, I don’t know what will.
forbes side-by-side screenshot
Here's a sample of the changes. The original article states:4


“The study from Sørensen and British professor Angus Dalgleish show that the coronavirus's spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted. They also highlight the lack of mutation since its discovery, which suggests it was already fully adapted to humans.”

The updated article now reads:5

“The authors of a British-Norwegian vaccine study6,7 — accepted by the Quarterly Review of Biophysics — claim that the coronavirus's spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted.
In their paper, the Norwegian scientist Birger Sørensen and British oncologist Angus Dalgleish claim to have identified ‘inserted sections placed on the SARS-CoV-2 spike surface’ that explains how the virus interacts with cells in the human body. Virologists, however, note that similar sections appear naturally in other viruses.”

Why All-Natural Narrative Is so Important to Maintain

Undoubtedly, the fear of exposure is real, and if you see the words “consensus” or “conspiracy theory,”8 you are likely seeing an attempt at a cover-up. What are they afraid of?
Well, there are many reasons for protecting the narrative that SARS-CoV-2 is of a natural origin. If it is proven to be a lab creation, the public may demand biosafety/biowarfare research into dangerous pathogens be stopped.
If SARS-CoV-2 is an engineered manmade virus, it is proof positive that gain-of-function research poses tremendous risks to humanity and that those risks far exceed any potential gain. Virtually all other threats to humanity — environmental toxins, pesticides, GMOs, pollution — pale in comparison to the danger posed by biodefense/bioweapons research.
Thousands of scientists involved in such research would lose their jobs if funding came to a halt and biosafety level 4 laboratories were to be shut down to prevent another global manmade pandemic from occurring. These laboratories pose probably one of the greatest of any threats to mankind, and we deserve to have a serious debate about their risks and benefits.
Aside from threatening the future of biosafety/biowarfare research in general, many could potentially face life in prison for violating the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.9
China, of course, has every reason to quell evidence that the pandemic originated in its first BSL4 laboratory, as it could be held legally responsible and restitution claims from affected nations would likely run in the trillions of dollars.10,11
According to tech analyst Ray Wang, founder of Constellation Research Inc., colleagues within the Chinese scientific community told him they were prohibited from discussing the “new strain of flu” that had emerged in China in January 2020, because the Chinese Communist Party wanted to prevent the outbreak from becoming publicly known. According to Wang:12
“Nobody wanted to talk about it because there was a dual-use lab. If you’re a government, you don’t want to hurt your own people either. Today, what’s actually happening is they are trying to cover up for that.”
But American scientists and health organizations would also be implicated, as the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the leadership of Dr. Anthony Fauci, funded coronavirus gain-of-function research being done in Wuhan, China. So, to say there’s a lot at stake would be a serious understatement.
The U.S. doesn’t want to implicate its own agencies in the creation of this virus, which is why government officials focus on the source of the leak — China — rather than the fact that it’s engineered. Clearly, if it’s engineered, everyone associated with its creation, including those funding it, would be responsible.
So, when discussing the origin of SARS-CoV-2, it’s important to be crystal clear on what the problem is, namely the existence of dangerous bioweapons/biodefense research. It’s not a condemnation of the Chinese population or its government per se, although critique of China’s handling of the outbreak is getting louder.
Even Fauci has stated, “I think the Chinese authorities that did not allow the scientists to speak out as openly and transparently as they could really did a disservice."13 However, while we may eventually be provided with unequivocal proof that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan lab, genetic manipulation will undoubtedly continue to be denied past any point of believability. 
If SARS-CoV-2 is an engineered manmade virus, it is proof positive that gain-of-function research poses tremendous risks to humanity and that those risks far exceed any potential gain. Virtually all other threats to humanity — environmental toxins, pesticides, GMOs, pollution — pale in comparison to the danger posed by biodefense/bioweapons research.

Natural Evolution Argument Fails for Lack of Evidence

What we’re seeing now is an ever-widening gulf between scientists and drug-industry-run media. While a majority of the press corps insist there is a “consensus” on the natural zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-2, scientists keep publishing evidence to the contrary.
For example, a June 8, 2020, paper14 by Daoyu Zhang argues against zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2, stating genetic analyses of pangolin samples used to support zoonotic transference appear to be contaminated:
“Recently, there were much hype about an alleged SARS-like coronavirus being found in samples of Malayan pangolins (Manis Javanica) possessing nearly identical RBD to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Prominent journals cite the alleged discovery to claim that pangolins may be one of a possible intermediate host for the zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to humans.
Here, we report that all databases used to support such a claim, upon which metagenomic analysis was possible, contained unexpected reads and was in serious risk of contamination. Here we also report that the presence of unexpected reads are directly related to the presence of coronavirus reads.”
One nowadays rare mainstream news article15,16 that dares look at both the engineering and leaking issue was published in The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2020. As noted in this article, “New research has deepened, rather than dispelled, the mystery surrounding the origin of the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19.” Indeed.
In his article,17 “So Where Did Covid Come From?” foreign reporter Ian Birrell also points out “It’s not mere conspiracy theory to ask if this new coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab.” Meanwhile, CNN continues to push the zoonotic narrative by airing a special on the connection between bats and COVID-19.18
As noted in the April 2020 paper, “Is Considering a Genetic-Manipulation Origin for SARS-CoV-2 a Conspiracy Theory That Must Be Censored?” by Deigin and Rossana Segreto:19
“Theories that consider a possible artificial origin for SARS-CoV-2 are censored as they seem to support conspiracy theories. Researchers have the responsibility to carry out a thorough analysis, beyond any personal research interests, of all possible causes for SARS-CoV-2 emergence for preventing this from happening in the future.”
Deigin and Segreto go on to review evidence of a cover-up at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. I recently interviewed molecular biologist and virologist Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., about this as well. For the details of this story, see “Cover-Up of Wuhan Virus Exposed.” Deigin and Segreto’s paper20 is also an excellent read.
In short, SARS-CoV-2 may not be a new virus after all. A highly conserved close ancestor was already in the database under the name BtCoV/4991. The question is, why has this been covered up?
The fact that some scientific findings are being censored wholesale while others are being promoted as “consensus” is extremely dangerous and undermines the field of science as a whole.
When the press corps is no longer free to report facts and is instead used as an industry and political propaganda machine to the exclusion of truth, it can only lead to a devolution of society. Is that really what we want? The COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic and social disaster brought in its wake, is a wakeup call to the world in more ways than one.
What’s clear is we cannot afford to continue dangerous gain-of-function research on pathogens. We need to get to the bottom of its origin, so that steps can be taken to ensure something like this does not happen again. If we don’t, repeats are virtually guaranteed, and the next time, we may not be so lucky to get a virus with a mortality rate as low as SARS-CoV-2.

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