-->Mary Starrett
April 8, 2003
NewsWithViews.com
Those photos of Asians wearing masks have been effective, haven't
they? By now you probably wring your hands every time someone near
you sneezes.

Maybe you've canceled a plane trip or decided to stay away from large
groups of people…just to be safe.

Good thinking. Just stay in, watch the war on TV (Operation Iraqi
Freedom Ta Da!) and nurse that fear and anxiety you've been feeling.
Unless of course, like me, your THERE'S MORE TO THIS THAN WE'RE BEING
TOLD radar went off the very first time you heard about
this"mysterious" disease called S.A.R.S. - short for severe acute
respiratory syndrome. Relax, the mega public health"experts" are
working feverishly to try and figure out just what this coughing,
sneezing, shortness of breath"disease" is.

In the meantime you can be comforted by the Executive Order President
Bush signed Friday afternoon saying"health authorities" can hold you
against your will if they even think you have this"virus". The E.O.
Specifically made provisions for"apprehension, detention or
conditional release" (.i.e."be a good little citizen and take your
vaccine/ medicine and we'll let you go")..."of individuals who
refuse hospitalization and isolation".

Oh, you missed the announcement of that executive order? That's
understandable. See, it's standard operating procedure for any risky
political move ; you sign it, pass it, cram it down our collective
throats right before a holiday or on a Friday, after everyone's gone
home for the weekend to worry about stuff like whether to order in or
go out for pizza.

And exactly how much media attention did this executive order to
QUARANTINE Americans receive? A tiny blurb at the bottom of a page is
where I found it. S.A.R.S is really at this point just a collection
of vague symptoms that anybody can have a number of times a year.
This"disease" is the first to be added to the quarantine list in
over 20 years The last large-scale quarantine in this country was in
1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic.

Some preliminary research into the symptoms and likely cause of this
pneumonia-like virus (of which there are over 50 strains, by the by)
shows a number of reasons why this has all the earmarks of an effort
to control the masses and none of the markers for a bona fide
pandemic.

Back to quarantine.

I shudder to think how many Americans see Bush's executive order
saying you can be held against your will as a good thing (that is if
they even heard about the order to begin with!) Here we go again
trading freedom for security and deserving neither. Ben Franklin
would be mightily ashamed of us for how easily we're allowing
ourselves to be enslaved. One executive order or Patriot Act or
Homeland Security Bill at a time.

S.A.R.S. supposedly started when a physician in China sneezed in a
crowded elevator. When I read that wire service story I laughed out
loud. Amazing how they figured that one out. Now they're saying these
respiratory symptoms could be linked to an airborne strain of the
sexually transmitted disease Chlamydia (which is a very common STD,
worldwide), and that those who pass along the virus would be
considered"super -spreaders". What next? The cause is athlete's foot
and halitosis? Let's arm ourselves with the facts in advance of the
daily onslaught of government-generated media hysteria:

1) S.A.R.S. has not been proven to be one single disease.

2) You could go anywhere in the world and find people with the
very"symptoms" they're calling S.A.R.S. and it wouldn't mean a
thing.

3) The populations with the worst health care have had"deaths" from
this vague"disease". Could it be because sick people in places with
lousy medical care and sanitation usually die anyway from things that
don't effect people with better health care?

4)"There's no known cure or vaccine" for this virus. And we don't
have a cure for the common cold, either. Does that mean we should
have lived in fear our whole lives of coming down with a cold?

Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard graduate in public health has written
some bone-chillingly prophetic books in recent years on emerging
global diseases. (Emerging Viruses: AIDS&Ebola- Nature, Accident Or
Intentional? and Death In The Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic
Warfare/Tetrahedron Press).

Horowitz says The S.A.R.S. scare has all the earmarks of a"novel
social experiment in population manipulation" designed to"
facilitate evolving economic and political agendas" and is nothing
more than"a grotesque scam…suspicious in it's timing" and meant to
prompt hysteria.

Investigative reporter Jon Rappoport thinks along the same lines. He
says it's classic"Psy Ops" with not a little population reduction
thrown in. So why all the fuss over a strain of pneumonia?

You tell me.

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