Wow, the world has changed so much since the beginning of 2020. COVID-19 has dominated the headlines of every media outlet and a lot of countries have declared “state of emergency”. Every day my sons would ask me to check the Coronavirus Update for the most up to date numbers. Our lives have certainly been impacted by the outbreak, and I am sure it applies to everyone on earth.

At this moment, I am enjoying the opportunity to work from home everyday. For my family, it is another homeschooling day. However, other aspects of our lives have changed. Our church worship has moved to virtual. I wear a mask and gloves when I go grocery shopping. My family can hardly go outside and fellowship with other families. Swimming classes have been cancelled. Skating arena is closed. No more restaurants. Thankfully, we live in the country so at the minimum we still have some room to roam in the backyard.

During this crisis, we see people rushing to stock up toilet paper, water, sanitizer, wipes and food.  People with shrewd entrepreneurship foresee the demand, scoop up the products at local Costo and resell them online for a nice profit.  MSM would then label these people as “price gouger”.

Personally, I believe in free market which is much better than government interventionism and certainly far superior than socialism.  In a free market society, price is determined by supply and demand.  If a person acquires the product legally (either producing or purchasing wholesale) and resell them at a higher price, what is wrong with that?  ALL businesses generate profit by buying low and selling high.  

Think Costco.  Don’t they buy in bulk from suppliers at a very low price and resell them to its members (that is you and me)?  A free market system is the most efficient way of distributing goods to where it is most needed.  If a bottle of hand sanitizer now costs $50 rather than $5, a logical person should think twice before dishing out the dough.  Why do I need to pay so much?  Is there any alternative product or method to achieve the same goal?   In this case, it turns out that alcohol, vinegar and regular soap is almost as effective as the chemicals in the sanitizer bottle.

I do not blame those Amazon sellers.  They go through the hassle of paying upfront for pallets of wipes, repacking them, listing them online and shipping them.  If there are people willing to pay $50 for a bottle of hand sanitizer, then there is a market.  As long as nobody is forced at a gunpoint to buy or sell, I personally  believe no harm is done and government should not intervene.

What about price gouging of essentials like food staples?  It is definitely hard to swallow the feeling of the need to pay an arm or leg for a small bag of rice during a disaster/famine/war, but that is reality; and human history concurs. This brings me again to the topic of “prepping”.

I have been an advocate of preparing for any type of disasters for several years.  What is wrong with stocking up can food and toilet paper?  MSM is inoculating the public with the idea of “hoarding” equals “selfish”.  No.  Hoarding by means of legal and honest way is not selfish at all.  

In our society, each person has a fair chance to buy certain goods at any price in any amount.  It is prudent and smart to stock up when something that you need goes on sale.  It is plain common sense.  In the COVID-19 situation, these “hoarders” are actually doing everyone a favor:  since they have enough supplies, they don’t need to go out as often during lockdown to the stores.  Whereby, they have much less chance infecting others or being infected with the virus.  By stocking up beforehand, they are helping to “flatten the curve”.

Therefore, it is very important to have enough supplies for your family for at least 3 months.  Do not rely on the government.  Be responsible for yourself and your family. 

Listen: we are not spreading fear or panic by preparing.  If you know something bad and dangerous is coming and you prepare for it, you will have much less fear and panic when shtf. 

I have met and heard Christians saying we don’t have to prepare because we rely on God.  I totally agree that ultimately we are dependent on God’s provision every single moment.  And it is our faith, not food nor gold nor guns, that could sustain us through the tribulation.  However, to those who choose not to prepare, I would ask you this:

Do you save money in your banks for rainy days?

Do you purchase insurance against your automobile or home?

Do you purchase insurance against your business?

If you are a DIYer, do you keep extra hardware (screws, bolts, nuts, etc….) at home in case you run out?

Heck, even the government mandates that you purchase auto insurance if you drive and pay for employment insurance if you are employed (in Canada).

Therefore it is prudent and wise to prepare enough (3 months minimum) supplies for your family and some more to share during crisis.  Do everything in your power to stock up and then trust in the Lord for the rest, knowing that one can never be prepared 100% for every adverse situation.  

It is worth to read The Grasshoppers Are Swarming Mad That You Are Prepared For The Crash

I believe the COVID-19 is a rehearsal of what it would be like under one world government: The COVID World Order Is Coming. 

Governments all over the world are suspending personal freedom and implementing draconian lockdowns.  Businesses are forced to close within 48 hours of notice at the maximum.  Millions are unemployed overnight.  The government is now free to raise debt and rain helicopter money to everyone, thereby enslaving this and future generations by unlimited debt.

It is truly turbulent times that we live in.

One of the website that I visit frequently is Alt Market, and I particularly like to read blog posts authored by Brandon Smith.  Besides sharing most of his viewpoints on financial and geopolitical issues, his style of writing is “down to earth” and succinct to the point.  He is able to summarize detailed observation on current events and give  accurate forecast  on future trends.

I have copied and pasted his recent article on what we can learn from Covid-19. Once again, it reminds us the importance of being self-sufficient and not trusting the government (in most cases).  Only in God the Almighty should you put your faith.

It is a bit long but worth a read.

Every disaster contains a lesson or a message that needs to be examined. Every tragedy, no matter how terrible, should be absorbed into the public consciousness and adopted as a cautionary tale; a part of our mythos. These events should not be cast into the memory hole to make life less stressful, they need to be taken seriously. Otherwise, the damage done and the lives lost are all for nothing.

Refusing to examine the dark side of life and its dangers has become a staple of our society, to the point that it has given birth to a kind of religious cult. Naive optimism has become a virtue, a misplaced form of faith that encourages people to remain oblivious in the face of adversity. And the more precarious our system becomes, the more these people see unicorns and rainbows. It is truly bizarre.

Some of us understand the mechanics of our economic, political and social machine and recognize that they are broken. The system cannot be fixed because it has been corrupted by people with evil intent (globalists); it is designed to fail. The agenda? To crash almost everything and then replace it with a centralized behemoth, a global empire. The intent is to force the masses to accept this “new world order” using a false choice – We can have chaos and death, or “order” through total Orwellian control. Peace, sovereignty and freedom are not offered as choices.

As Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Kennedy and Johnson, and a member of the Trilateral Commission, wrote in the April, 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation’s (CFR) journal Foreign Affairs (pg. 558) in an article titled ‘Hard Road To World Order’:

“In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”

The answer offered to every disaster is always more centralization, even if centralization was part of the problem from the beginning. The coronavirus pandemic event will be no different.

As was hinted at during Event 201, a coronavirus pandemic exercise run by Johns Hopkins, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum only three months before a REAL coronavirus outbreak took place in China, the goal will be to use the event to create a central economic authority to distribute resources to “counter the virus”. You see, the elites never let a good crisis go to waste.

But this plan requires complicity and apathy among the public. It requires our consent in order to work. For if we continue to undermine and resist it the globalists will never feel safe and secure. Like a cancer, they will eventually have to be cut out and removed if the system is to ever be truly fixed.

The pandemic might be an opportunity for the elites, but it is also a learning experience for the rest of us, and it might even bring some clarity to issues that have been hotly debated for several years. But what are some of these lessons?

Lesson #1: The Prepper Movement Was Right All Along

Over the past decade I have seen some extremely odd responses to the prepper movement, including a lot of aggression and hostility not to mention numerous hit pieces and hatchet jobs in the media. What is it about individuals being prepared for a potential crisis that sends so many snowflakes into a meltdown? Why do they care?

If you think that survivalism is all “conspiracy” and “doom and gloom” then why not ignore it like you ignore everything else? If preppers were wrong, then nothing happens, and all we did is spend some of our money on supplies that we will use anyway over time. No harm no foul. Yet, the mainstream acts as if the preparedness mindset is a criminal action that damages the rest of society.

Of course, as we can see from the coronavirus event in China, preppers were right all along. Almost every single potential problem we have warned about and written about over the years is now plaguing the Chinese citizenry, and most of these problems could have been solved by prepared citizenry.

Over 600 million people in China are now under lockdown; essentially martial law. Supply lines are dwindling in some areas, food is limited, medical treatment is nonexistent for many. The people in quarantine are completely dependent on the government for their survival and that same government has been systematically dragging people out of their homes and forcing them into makeshift “hospitals” (prisons) where they are almost certain to become infected. If ever there was a scenario where prepping was called for, this is it.

I can’t recall how many times I’ve heard people argue that prepping is “pointless” and that all our concerns over a crisis event are “overblown”, but we are now facing a pandemic in modern times, not to mention possible economic collapse. The only argument these people can make now is that the virus “won’t spread to the West”, but that is an assumption based on blind faith rather than science or logic.  And even if it ends up being correct, what does it hurt to prepare anyway?

Lesson #2: Supply Lines Will Be Damaged Or Restricted

As noted above, preparedness is the first step to solving most problems, because most crisis events tend to result in similar consequences. In China, food and other goods are being rationed and supply lines in some areas are shut down completely. The only option is to have what you need BEFORE a breakdown occurs.

In the US, retailers are dependent on highly coordinated “just in time” freight networks that supply only what a store needs for normal shopping traffic for the week. In the wake of a calamity, stores will empty in a matter of a couple days. If freight lines are slowed down or cut off because travel is restricted due to viral outbreak, then what you have in your home is basically all you will have until the restrictions are lifted. After studying the history of plagues and pandemics, I would conclude that the average viral event will last at least 1 year, sometimes longer. The Spanish Flu of 1918 did not burn out in the US for two years.

Anyone who claims the coronavirus will be gone in a matter of a couple of months is probably lying, or is making ignorant assumptions. Prepare for the long haul if the pandemic hits US shores hard.

Lesson #3: Never Trust Government

All governments lie. They will claim they do this to “protect us from ourselves” and to “avoid panic”, but politicians and elites do not care about this. They do not lie to protect society, they lie to maintain power and control, and sometimes, they lie because they want to keep the public docile and vulnerable. For, the more inactive and vulnerable we are, the more dependent we will all be on them when disaster strikes.

The viral outbreak in China has thoroughly illustrated why governments cannot be trusted. China has consistently lied about the infection and death rate surrounding the coronavirus. Numerous health officials in China have leaked information indicating the threat is FAR larger than the government admits. Some of these brave people been punished or have died in the process of trying to warn the rest of the world.

Currently, China is claiming a minimal and slowing infection rate, but on the Japanese cruise ship Diamond Princess, we have a large scale example of the coronavirus in action.  The 3700 passengers of the Diamond Princess are being slowly tested for the virus, and authorities have found at least 175 people infected out of 490 tested so far.  That’s an infection rate of at least 35%!  Some people may argue that a cruise ship is close quarters and so the infection rate would be higher, but your average Chinese city is also very close quarters.  The data coming from the Diamond Princess suggests that the Chinese are lying extensively about the scale of the outbreak.

With hospitals completely overwhelmed by a 30% to 35% infection rate, the quality of care would collapse and many people would die.

The Chinese government has resorted to censorship and threats in order to keep the citizenry quiet. This includes punishing people who are accused of “posting rumors” about the true extent of the damage caused by the virus and the threats have been specifically directed at medical staff that are the closest witnesses to the outbreak. The overall purpose of the lockdown appears to be an attempt to suppress the real infection rate and death rate.  The mass quarantine itself allows the government to streamline the cover-up; they can more easily imprison the sick and then dispose of their bodies with less public observation, and they never have to report the real death statistics.

If the government has nothing to hide, then why try to restrict all information coming from professionals on the ground? They claim they want “transparency” after the debacle that was their response to the SARS outbreak in 2003, but obviously this is not true.

Do not think for one second that this would not happen here in the US or in Europe either. We have already heard Donald Trump dismiss the virus threat on multiple occasions, and if it does strike here, do not be surprised if Trump’s response is as draconian as China’s. To understand why, read my article ‘Trump Cannot Be Anti-Globalist While Working With Global Elites’.

Lesson #4: Expect The Virus To Eventually Arrive In Your Country

In the US, the argument from the apathetic crowd is that we only have 12 cases, so what is there to worry about? I would remind those folks that the ONLY people that have actually been tested for coronavirus in the US are people that have arrived specifically from China in the past few weeks, who are showing symptoms and who voluntarily bring up this fact to health officials.

This means that people who come from Singapore, Thailand or any other nation in Asia that has also been exposed to the virus have likely not been tested at all. With a dormancy period of two weeks (and according to some studies up to 24 DAYS), the coronavirus has no symptoms yet it can still be highly contagious.

I would also point out that hospitals nationwide have been given a very limited supply of coronavirus tests (only 200 tests nationwide), some of which have been proven faulty, so, if the outbreak becomes prominent, they won’t be able to give an accurate number of infection cases anyway.

We are in the early stages of this pandemic. I definitely would not give the all clear yet. Unless the US government plans to shut down ALL flights into the US right now, there is no way to prevent the outbreak from coming here in the long run.

Lesson #5: Enforced Quarantine Is Not Necessarily For Your Benefit

As I noted in my article ‘How Viral Pandemic Benefits The Globalist Agenda’, there are many times in which the establishment creates crisis events deliberately, or, they exploit natural crisis events to further their agenda. In the midst of a viral outbreak, most people given the proper information and warning would prepare.  They would stock supplies and self isolate (or group isolate if they are organized) until the infection burns out. But this is not what the establishment wants. They do not want people who are independent and self reliant during a disaster; they want people that are completely unprepared and dependent.

This is why they will continue to lie about the extent of the danger until it is too late. This is why it took the UN’s World Health Organization at least two months of the coronavirus spreading through China before they finally admitted there might be a crisis in the making. And, this why forced quarantine will be used to push people out of their homes and into centralized areas where they will be more susceptible to infection, not less.

Take the example in China to heart, because it may be exactly what we face in the near future. The point being – If you and your neighborhood or community already have a plan in place to survive an outbreak, do not allow government to interfere with it, because your chances of getting sick or dead grow with every moment of government involvement. Remember, these are the same people that tried to keep you in the dark about the danger; they are not to be relied upon or cooperated with.

Lesson #6: Expect Martial Law

If a viral outbreak spreads through the west, do not be surprised if martial law measures are implemented. If you live in a major city and you see or hear about checkpoints being set up, get out immediately. As we’ve seen in China, once the walls are put up you will not be able to get out.

Rural areas are less likely to be effectively locked down by authorities because it would require too many personnel to achieve this. Major population centers on the other hand will be easily cut off.

There is a question here of how to respond. Should Americans go along with martial law? Would it be for the “greater good”? I am highly skeptical. Like I said, all governments lie and they lie to control, not to help. If martial law measures are interfering with an effective quarantine that individuals or communities have already put in place, and if the government is putting you at risk, then you might have to fight back.

At least in the US we have the means to do this if necessary. You will not be seeing many people dragged from their homes as easily as they are in China right now. Frankly, if I was a CDC or FEMA employee trying to force people into centralized quarantine I would fear for my life as last I checked those hazmat suits are not bullet proof.

Hopefully, we will get lucky, this will not be the case and the coronavirus stays primarily overseas. If it doesn’t, though, then expect that everything that is happening in China today will happen here tomorrow.