It is good to have friends, especially in trade and business, friends to do things for you, or too you, like hack your computers. Something to do, to keep busy during lock down, instead of the doodles that google suggests each day:
  https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12227940

“The first West Australian Premier Mark McGowan knew of an attempted cyber attack against his office, reportedly originating from China, was through a news article in the New York Times.
Key points:

     I have written many articles criticising the politically correct Pope, but there was good reason. From the beginning I thought that the Pell case was flawed, and I read, I think, a brilliant piece by Andrew Bolt that took it to pieces. Now, after winning on appeal, Pell notes that the whole thing was part of the cultural wars, an attack upon a conservative, and I agree:
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-14/cardinal-george-pell-andrew-bolt-sky-news-interview/12146594

“Cardinal George Pell says he believes "culture wars" and his conservative views on social issues contributed to him being prosecuted and jailed on child sexual abuse charges — convictions that were overturned by the nation's highest court last week. Key points:

     What a disgrace Obama is:
  https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trump-obama/in-leaked-call-obama-describes-trump-handling-of-virus-as-chaotic-idUKKBN22L0SX

“Former President Barack Obama described President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as “chaotic” in a conference call with former members of his administration, a source said on Saturday. Obama has largely kept out of the fray even as Trump has blamed him and his Democratic administration for a variety of problems related to having sufficient supplies to battle the pandemic that has killed more than 75,000 Americans.
But in his call on Friday with 3,000 members of the Obama Alumni Association, people who served in his administration, Obama urged his supporters to get behind Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who is trying to unseat Trump in the Nov. 3 election.’

     Here is the latest from Trump; tough talk implicating both Biden and Obama in the Russian conspiracy. Clearly,m if the roles were reversed, the Democrats would already have Trump in prison, breaking rocks and never getting his hands on another cheese burger again. But, this is clown world:
  https://gellerreport.com/2020/05/obama-biden-implicated.html/
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obama-slams-trumps-coronavirus-response-absolute-chaotic-disaster

“Donald Trump: Barack Obama and Joe Biden Will Be Implicated in Russia Hoax
President Donald Trump said in an interview on Friday that former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden will soon be implicated in the Russia collusion investigation. “There’s more to come from what I understand, and they’re going to be far greater than what you’ve seen so far, and what you’ve seen so far is incredible, especially as it relates to President Obama,” Trump said while speaking with Fox & Friends about Obama’s role in the Russia “hoax.” “I believe he and Biden…Sleepy Joe was involved in this also, very much, and other people around President Obama were totally involved,” Trump said. Trump reacted to the news after House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) released 57 interview transcripts on Thursday from the committee’s probe to see if the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. The documents show that former United States Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates testified that she was surprised when Obama told her in an Oval Office meeting about the call that Trump’s campaign adviser, Michael Flynn, had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Asked in the interview if Trump would directly confront Obama or Biden, the president said he would rather have the truth come out in documents. “I’d rather have it come out in papers. Why would I call them up?” Trump asked. “They tried to take down the President of the United States.” The president also reacted to former Senate staffer Tara Reade’s allegations of sexual assault against Biden. “I don’t know if it’s false or not. Joe’s going to have to be able to prove whatever he has to prove, or she has to prove it, but that’s a battle he has to fight,” Trump said. Trump recalled that he had been falsely accused of sexual harassment many times. “Maybe it is a false accusation. Frankly, I hope it is for his sake,” he said.

    How about this one for poetic justice? Last week we had the outing of the UK scientist who did the computer modelling that he thought showed that Covid-19 would be a killer unless the economy was shut down, and economies across the world were shut down, just like that. Only his libido was not in shutdown mode and he violated his own recommendation to meet his married lover. Now, we have the Covid-19 gurus in the White House having to go in quarantine themselves. Beautiful!
  https://www.breitbart.com/news/coronavirus-strikes-staffers-inside-the-white-house/

“Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the virus. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading member of the task force, has become nationally known for his simple and direct explanations to the public about the coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes. Also quarantining are Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Stephen Hahn. Fauci’s institute said that he has tested negative for COVID-19 and will continue to be tested regularly. It added that he is considered at “relatively low risk” based on the degree of his exposure, and that he would be “taking appropriate precautions” to mitigate the risk to personal contacts while still carrying out his duties. While he will stay at home and telework, Fauci will go to the White House if called and take every precaution, the institute said. Redfield will be “teleworking for the next two weeks” after it was determined he had a “low risk exposure” to a person at the White House, the CDC said in a statement Saturday evening. The statement said he felt fine and has no symptoms.

     I have only seen one David Icke book, one with him full naked on the cover, if my memory serves me well. That stunt was played out by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, so we are not off to a good start. Then there is the lizard people stuff, which could be a metaphor, or may not be; he does not come clean. But, whatever, he has been banned, deplatformed by both YouTube and Facebook. One would think, normally that he must have said something to get up the Establishment’s nose:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-05-07-david-icke-is-wrong-about-coronavirus-but-i-support-his-right-to-speak.html
  https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/02/youtube-deletes-coronavirus-conspiracy-theorist-david-ickes-channel

“The video service, which is owned by Google, told the BBC: “YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 as described by the WHO and the NHS.
“Due to continued violation of these policies we have terminated David Icke’s YouTube channel.”

     Health care workers are so stressed dealing with the billions of dead in hospitals, that they need some down time, time to shake off their gear (if they are female and pretty) and to go topless to get a lot of media attention. I don’t know if you Aussies got news of this one, the topless physician here in New York, which we are told is experiencing something like the zombie apocalypse:
  https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/topless-medical-worker-blows-off-steam-in-times-square/

“A medical worker de-stressed — and disrobed — in a piece of street performance art in Times Square on Monday morning. “I’ve been working for six weeks and I’ve seen a lot of death, so I wanted to mix art and costumes to relieve my tension,” the topless woman, wearing an oversize reflective feline mask and holding a kitchen knife, told The Post. “I did it to relieve some stress,” she said, asking that her identity be shielded more than her chest. The woman said she works as a physician assistant in a New York City hospital.”

     If this legal virus spreads here, it will be a problem, not able to be dealt with by lockdowns:
  https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/doctors-nurses-and-most-medical-workers-are-now-immune-from-malpractice-lawsuits-in-pa/article_61c68d8e-9080-11ea-9c62-570f6f29a48b.html
  https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/05/pennsylvania-gov-tom-wolf-grants-civil-immunity-to-doctors-health-care-workers-in-covid-19-front-line.html

“Pennsylvania’s “health care heroes” got a different kind of armor in their fight on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday, as Gov. Tom Wolf signed an executive order granting them broad civil immunity against malpractice actions stemming from care provided to COVID-19 patients. The immunity covers doctors, nurses, hospital technicians, nursing home employees, as well as people like practitioners permitted to exceeded their licensed scope of practice to help, recent retirees who came back to offer their services in the most thinly-stretched areas and National Guard medical corpsmen and women pressed into service at beleaguered nursing homes. It does not, however, cover willful misconduct or acts of gross negligence, acts arising from non-COVID-19 medical treatment, or apply to the actual owners of the hospitals or nursing homes that employ these health care workers. A source familiar with discussions leading to the order said that, as written, it could protect a doctor, for example, in an overtaxed hospital who, in a good-faith attempt to save lives, tried to treat two patients off the same ventilator. That would be an example, of good faith practice in a situation where there was no well-established standard of care that the governor wants doctors to have the latitude to pursue. It is not intended, however, to provide some kind of new protection to operators of a facility that have already compiled a long record of operational violations that were only magnified by the pandemic. Business leaders within and outside of the health care field - fearful of a coming avalanche of coronavirus-related lawsuits - almost immediately criticized the protections offered as far too limited.”

     Sweden may be the cucked nation in Europe re rapes and migration, but it seems to have got the corona crisis just right. And, this is the view of the World Health Organization, too, hardly one of our favourite globalists:
  https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-sweden-which-avoided-mass-coronavirus-lockdowns-should-be-model-for-the-world

“A top official from The World Health Organization (WHO) praised Sweden on Wednesday as a "model" for the rest of the world, in fighting the novel coronavirus. “I think if we are to reach a new normal, I think in many ways Sweden represents a future model of -- if we wish to get back to a society in which we don’t have lockdowns," Dr. Mike Ryan said while speaking to reporters from Geneva. Ryan, who serves as executive director of WHO's Emergencies Program, praised Sweden's health care system and credited it with making all the right moves from the beginning of the outbreak. "They've been doing the testing, they've ramped up their capacity to do intensive care quite significantly," he added. "And their health system has always remained within its capacity to respond to the number of cases that they've been experiencing." Ryan claimed the backlash Sweden has faced for its seemingly lax policies on social distancing is an unfair criticism. "Sweden has put in place a very strong public policy around social distancing, around caring and protecting for people in long term care facilities and many other things," he said.”

     Of course, communism is evil and a failed system, but that does not mean  that unregulated capitalism, known as neo-liberalism is therefore the default option. It has its own evils as well, especially related to mass migration and its acceptance of agendas such ads the Great Replacement, if only implicitly.  So, on the one hand consider the US unemployment situation with almost the population of Australia thrown out of work:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/08/u-s-lost-20-5-million-jobs-in-april-unemployment-soared-to-14-7/

“The unemployment rate jumped to 14.7 percent in April and the economy shed 20.5 million jobs, according to data released by the Department of Labor on Friday. April was the second consecutive month of job losses for the U.S. economy following the record 113 months run of expanding employment rolls. Economists had forecast that the economy would lose 21 million jobs and that the unemployment rate would climb from 4.4 percent to 16 percent. So the April figures were better than expected. March’s job losses were revised up from a loss of 701,000 to 870,000. February, which saw job gains, was revised down by 45,000 from 275,000 to 230,000, a reminder of how just how strong the jobs market was prior to the onset of the coronavirus crisis. Employment fell sharply in all major industry sectors, with particularly heavy job losses in leisure and hospitality, the Labor Department said. Both average hourly earnings and average hours worked moved up in April, likely reflecting businesses shedding newer and lower-paid employees first and attempting to make do with smaller payrolls by increasing hours. Manufacturing shed 1.3 million jobs, including 381,500 in the auto sector. Construction lost 975,000 jobs. Health care and social assistance shrank by more than 2 million jobs. White-collar positions have not been immune to the coronavirus jobs catastrophe. Information technology and financial services sectors shrank by more than one-quarter of a million jobs. Business services lost 2.1 million jobs. The scale of the job loss has been breathtakingly sudden despite an unprecedented level of support for the economy from the federal government and the Federal Reserve. Over the past seven weeks, more than 33 million Americans have filed claims for unemployment benefits. But the number of claims has been declining for five consecutive weeks.”

     On Saturday night, while most of the hard-working staff at the bullpen of Alor.org, worked away in a cigar smoke-filled room deep into the night, I was home with my wife in the green leafy suburbs, relaxing watching Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), with a good red, a movie which in spite of its political correctness, still rammed home the inherent dangers of the computer revolution. This story below seems minor at first, with robot dogs on patrol, but it is just a first step. Down the track the dogs of war will tear you apart if you step out of line:
  https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/05/09/creepy-robot-dogs-patrols-singapore-parks-to-enforce-social-distancing/

“Robot dogs named “Spot” have reportedly been dispatched to parks in Singapore to remind citizens of safe social distancing measures. The Straits Times reports that four-legged robot dogs will be patrolling Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park in Singapore from Friday, May 8, to remind citizens of safe social distancing measures. The robots, named Spot, will reportedly be patrolling gardens and nature reserves managed by National Parks Board and at parks managed by Singapore town councils. The robot patrol is part of a pilot trial being jointly conducted by NParks and the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG). The Spot robot will be broadcasting a recorded message to park visitors reminding them to observe safe social distancing measures. The robot is fitted with cameras, enabled by GoveTech-developed video analytics, that will help to estimate the number of visitors at the parks. The firm claims that the cameras will not be tracking park goers or be capable of recognizing specific individuals and will not collect personal data. The Spot robot will be deployed over a two-mile stretch in the River Plains section of the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio park during off-peak hours over the course of two weeks and will be accompanied by at least one NParks officer. The robot was originally developed by the American firm Boston Dynamics and is capable of navigating obstacles more effectively compared to wheeled robots.”

     Leftist Michael Moore has really upset fellow Leftoids with his latest movie Planet of the Humans.
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/09/delingpole-michael-moore-has-become-a-hero-to-climate-deniers-complains-guardian/

“How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right?” asks a disturbed and tearful George Monbiot in the Guardian. Simple: by speaking the truth, for a change. Unlike almost every other prominent leftist you could name in the world, Moore has finally admitted that the renewable energy emperor is wearing no clothes. Far from being “clean” energy or “green” energy, renewables are in fact a dirty, ugly, planet-destroying fail. Planet of the Humans, the environmental documentary executive-produced by Moore and directed by and starring his fellow leftist Jeff Gibbs, has now had more than 7 million views on YouTube. Their natural leftist allies aren’t at all happy with this, though. Indeed some of them — such as left-wing activist Josh Fox and discredited climate scientist Michael Mann — initially attempted to get the movie pulled by its distributors. When they realised that this wasn’t possible — the film remains stubbornly available for free viewing on YouTube — they then backed down from their threat. They defended their pusillanimity, lamely, by claiming: “We don’t want to give them extra publicity.” It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the wailing, gnashing of teeth and general discombobulation Moore’s anti-renewables bombshell has caused within the green movement. Sure, the film says nothing that I haven’t been saying at Breitbart and elsewhere for over a decade: that renewables are expensive, environmentally destructive, do not reduce fossil fuel usage, do not reduce CO2 emissions, kill birds and bats, ruin views, despoil nature, enrich crony capitalists at the expense of ordinary energy users, etc. But what makes it so especially deadly and effective a weapon against the green movement is that it was made not by one of its avowed enemies but by its natural allies.”

     Hungry is standing up for Western civilisation against the globalist forces. Witness the latest act of resistance and wish that Australian politicians had one once of this raw guts:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/09/hungary-yes-protecting-women-no-gender-ideology-illegal-migration/

“Hungary’s parliament has passed a declaration against signing the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women because it smuggles in provisions declaring gender a “social construct” and allowing “gender-based asylum claims”. Dr Zoltán Kovács, Secretary of State for International Communication and Relations in Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government, reported that the Hungarian legislature had passed its declaration against the seemingly unimpeachable Council of Europe convention in an official blog post. The protection of women and the fight against domestic violence have always been of central importance to the government,” he insisted, noting that Orbán had put domestic violence on a new footing in the criminal code in 2013, after the first of three consecutive election wins — but added that the Istanbul Convention, in his view, goes “far beyond this”. He noted, for example, that “the Convention defines ‘gender’ as ‘socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men'” — which puts it at odds with the Hungarian constitution, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Adopting the Istanbul Convention with its “social gender” definition would “void” the Hungarian constitutional position that there are “only two biological genders, male and female,” he explained.”

     However it is viewed, as a bioweapon gone wrong, or simply an evolved virus flowing freely in wet markets, Senator Tom cotton has taken the simple approach, that China is culpable.
  https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/08/cotton-chinese-government-made-a-conscious-decision-to-allow-coronavirus-to-get-outside-its-borders/

“Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued when determining how and whether or not China was responsible for coronavirus global pandemic, it was undeniable China allowed the virus to spread beyond its borders. He told FNC’s Neil Cavuto that for that reason, the Chinese Communist Party was “culpable” for allowing COVID-19 to become a global pandemic. “Whatever the origins of this virus — and, right now, I think the best circumstantial evidence points to those labs in Wuhan,” Cotton said. “But whatever the origins of it, it’s clear to me that, once China realized how deadly this virus could be to some people and how contagious this virus was, that they made the conscious decision to let it get outside of their borders. They didn’t stop international air travel. They pressured countries not to impose travel restrictions. “They pressured the WHO to oppose travel restrictions as well, even when they knew, as far back as early December, that this virus was highly contagious and very deadly,” he continued. “So, whatever the origins of this virus may ultimately be, even if it was an accident or a mistake, the Chinese Communist Party is culpable for turning what could have been a local public health challenge in Wuhan into the worst global pandemic in a century.”

     It was suggested that I write a review of Andy Nowicki’s Ruminations of a Low Status Male, volume 1 (2017), 40 pages in all in Kindle and 42 pages in paperback, going for $4.50. That is a lot of money for me, even given the rise in dole, as to match the increase, I increased my alcohol consumption. Then I have my pet cockroaches to feed. So, I read what I could for free on Amazon.com. Nowicki, who one reviewer on the net gives 10/10, says that he is not successful, low status, and does not make much money, barely enough to get his family by. What! He has a family! He has some money! Really, he may feel low status, but almost everybody I know is worse. In fact, I am worse of, living in a shed, but I thank the Good Lord for small mercies. At least I can burn highly toxic plastic to keep warm. My brothers and sisters out there tonight are sleeping on the street literally some with just a thin sleeping bag. I think some people do not know how lucky they are, just to be warm and have a belly full of food, even sub-optimal food, and the privilege to whinge about it in print.
  https://www.amazon.com/Ruminations-Low-Status-Male-Status-Lust-Self-Loathing-ebook/dp/B074Q4YC7T
  https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com/2018/02/ruminations-of-low-status-male-volume-3_6.html

     Today’s politically correct challenge is to give a white guilt racist spin on the story of Black people being treated poorly by the Chinese. To be clear, I do not approve of any human being being (wow, correct use of two “being”), treated badly, but that is not the point.  The prima facie problem here for the establishment view, is that this is an interaction between two groups, who are non-white. That is the given. So, let’s get the basic story, then see how we can blame whites for it.
  https://www.ibtimes.sg/video-african-man-dragged-by-leg-supermarket-china-blacks-barred-entry-44519

“Another video of continuing discrimination being carried out against Africans in China has emerged that shows an African man being dragged by the leg and thrown out of a supermarket that doesn't serve black customers. While discrimination against Africans in China has continued unabated, the Communist government police have now also begun cracking down on Africans for sharing videos of attacks and injustice being meted out to the blacks in the country. The video it is claimed is from a supermarket in Beijing where the African man had gone along with his friend to shop for groceries. The two, it is claimed, were asked to leave as blacks are not allowed. However, when one of them refused to leave the store, he was dragged by the leg and thrown out of the supermarket. In the video, onlookers can be heard laughing and giggling as the African man is being dragged out of the store. Another video recently had emerged from China, where a pregnant African woman was turned away from two hospitals.

     He is joking, right?
  https://hannity.com/media-room/biden-im-going-to-spend-my-life-campaigning-for-democrats-in-1918-excuse-me-2018/?fbclid=IwAR1hTNonsLtFfTAYe6sFeUcbTmQDEDerUcuUglSZAlbKvH1B_ZHPn1Fk3kQ

“Former Vice President Joe Biden continued his gaffe-filled campaign this week; telling one reporter that he “spent his life campaigning for other Democrats in 1918” before correcting himself with the proper century.
“I’m going to spend my life campaigning for other Democrats… In 1918… um…. Excuse me 2018… I campaigned for over… in 24 states… For 65 candidates!” said Biden.”

     A study, reported by the Daily Mail.com, but no link I could find, has concluded that the bug lockdown is all for nothing. And, if there is to be a society at all at some point, people will need to come up from their underground bunkers and face the dawn, or rather, face the virus.
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8294507/New-study-reveals-blueprint-getting-Covid-19-lockdown.html

“Draconian stay-at-home orders and shutting all non-essential businesses had little effect on fighting coronavirus in Europe, according to a study. But the same scientists discovered closing schools and banning all mass gatherings did work in slowing outbreaks across the continent. University of East Anglia researchers now say relaxing the stay-at-home policy and letting some businesses reopen could be the UK's first step to easing lockdown. The findings throw into question whether Britain's total lockdown - announced on March 23 - was ever necessary amid claims social distancing policies announced on March 16 curbed the crisis on their own. Other leading scientists have claimed Britain's COVID-19 outbreak peaked and started to decline before the official lockdown began, arguing that Number 10's drastic policy to shut the UK down was wrong. Transport use plummeted and fewer people were visiting GPs with tell-tale coronavirus symptoms the week before lockdown, suggesting the government's call for the public to work from home where possible and to only take essential travel was effective enough. And one Swedish researcher, Dr Johan Giesecke, who has seen his country resist calls for a lockdown but escape relatively unharmed, said the pandemic is unstoppable and everyone will be exposed to the coronavirus sooner or later. It comes after Boris Johnson yesterday confirmed that strict rules imposed under the six-week coronavirus lockdown will start to be eased on Monday, on the same day that Britain's death toll became the first in Europe to rise above 30,000 and the number of people diagnosed with the disease surged past 200,000. The Prime Minister will outline a five-step plan for Britain's 'second phase' on Sunday, with the government set to drop its 'Stay at Home' message and replace it with 'Stay Safe'. But as the UK and other countries in Europe prepare to lift restrictions the World Health Organization has warned them not to be afraid of restarting them it the virus begins to take off again.”

     I had all but forgotten about that old globalist fool, Theresa May, but she is back, to blame nationalism, not China, for the Wuhan flu:
  https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/07/theresa-may-blames-nationalism-for-the-chinese-coronavirus-crisis/

“The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May blamed the forces of nationalism and populism for the scale of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, saying that countries should instead coalesce around “great multilateral institutions” such as the World Health Organization (WHO). In an article entitled “Nationalism Is No Ally in This Battle Without Borders” — the ex-prime minister who failed to deliver Brexit said that the pandemic hit the world at a time in which a “US president was elected on a mandate of America First”. “Against a backdrop of populist politics in many countries, the search for political solutions to economic and social challenges has become a competition of absolutes. A polarised politics has taken hold. It views the world through a prism of winners and losers and sees compromise and co-operation as signs of weakness,” the ex-prime minister wrote in The Times. “Lost is the idea that countries do better by working together to solve common problems, even if doing so sometimes means an apparent sacrifice of short-term benefit for the greater good,” she added. Mrs May chose instead to hail the “great multilateral institutions” of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), despite the fact that the WHO promoted Chinese communist propaganda from the outset of the coronavirus outbreak. “There remains no collective international view as to what works best in dealing with the virus — nor does there seem to have been any attempt to form one. This risks exacerbating the shift towards nationalism and absolutism which is emasculating the institutions that served us well over decades,” May lamented.”

     If there was ever a good refutation of the absurd globalist philosophy of free trade given to us by David Ricardo (1772-1823), it is the whole China fiasco, starting from the origin of the Wuhan flu, either in bat soup or a bioweapons lab (opinions differ) to now hoarding personal protective equipment (PPE):
  https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/07/navarro-possible-china-hoarding-coronavirus-ppe-for-profiteering-diplomatic-weapon/

“Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “The Evening Edit,” White House trade adviser Peter Navarro discussed how China could be using the coronavirus pandemic to strengthen its position around the globe. Navarro laid out a timeline for host Liz MacDonald explaining how at once, China became an importer of personal protective equipment (PPE). As the virus has spread, it has used that PPE to earn a profit, or as a diplomatic tool to advance diplomacy. “We get patient zero probably mid-November, probably from the Wuhan bioweapons lab,” Navarro said. “Gets sick early December, we get all sorts of people infected. China knows there’s human-to-human transmission in early December, but for six weeks, they hide that from the world behind the shield of the World Health Organization. What did they do during that? According to their own Chinese customs data, they went from a net exporter of personal protective equipment to a huge net importer. They basically vacuumed up all the PPE, particularly the masks, the gloves, the goggles, in the world. What did that mean, Liz? It meant when the people Milan, or New York, or Detroit, or New Orleans needed that there wasn’t enough for them. That’s all on China.” “Now, what were they doing?” he continued. “Middle of January they were coming here and signing a trade deal without telling us about the virus. And then, they were also secretly trying to get a patent for this drug Remdesivir which has significant therapeutic potential. And what are they doing now? Yes, they want to maybe hoard all the PPE. Use it — use it, basically sell it to us at profiteering prices or use it as a diplomatic weapon to force countries in Europe to do — to deny that this is — the virus is from China. And there’s a paper that they did, a whitepaper that everybody should read that goes back to right after the crisis, Liz — the financial crisis, where it explains what China needs to do after a crisis in order to consolidate power and take over the world. “This is what we’re up against,” Navarro added. “And obviously, it’s very difficult to believe anything the Chinese Communist Party tells us. But we are in perilous times. In the meantime, what’s really important, I think, for us to focus on is getting the economy back on its feet at the same time that we do our best to protect the men and women at the frontlines — the health care workers — as well as everybody else here in America. And that’s — that’s what I’m focused on. I’m focused on supply chain.”