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Into Darkness: Where The Fed Is Leading Us<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The system is hurtling towards breakdown. Protect yourself now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you may know, I was one of the very first voices publicly reporting on covid-19, issuing an alert that the virus was a significant pandemic event on Jan 23rd<\/sup>, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was long before most media outlets even managed to write their first \u201cIt\u2019s just the flu, bro!\u201d article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the same logic and scientific methodology I was trained in as a PhD, I was able to \u201cpredict\u201d things well in advance of nearly every official or mainstream news source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m using quotation marks around the word  \u201cpredict\u201d because it\u2019s not really a prediction when you\u2019re just extrapolating trends that are already underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as it\u2019s not really a \u201cprediction\u201d to estimate where a thrown pitch will travel, it wasn\u2019t much of a prediction to state that a novel virus with an R-Naught (R0) of well over 3 would be extremely difficult to contain once it arrived in a country.  Note that I didn\u2019t say impossible<\/em> \u2014 South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam all get high marks for containment \u2014 but certainly difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US and the UK proved this in spades, as they\u2019re both led by below-average \u2018managers\u2019 rather than leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaders make tough decisions based on imperfect information.  Managers dither and hedge and only make up their minds after the facts are already in and events well underway.  Naturally, the US\/UK managers were simply no match for the exponential rate that the Honey Badger Virus (aka Covid-19) spreads at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I call it the Honey Badger virus because of its incredible ability to evade quarantine, as eagerly and easily as Stoeffle, as seen in this short enjoyable video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n