By KTAO Project Editor

It's a sad fact that many of us base our understanding of the COVID-19 Pandemic on nothing but "assumptions."  Most tend to just assume what they are being told "by the experts" is true and very few seem to question any of the "official" narratives.  

One of the most glaring assumptions has been the belief that COVID-19, which we are told is a totally unique coronavirus that has never existed before, means that our immune system simply isn't equipped to deal with it.  We are also told that COVID-19 causes different, more deadly symptoms from new strains of coronaviruses that cause seasonal flu. 

The following information clearly shows that there is virtually no difference between symptoms allegedly caused by COVID-19 and symptoms caused by seasonal flu coronavirus strains.

The only symptoms I hear people claim really distinguish COVID-19 from flu are difficulty breathing and loss of taste and smell.  Fact is, seasonal flu can cause these symptoms as well.  The CDC info below clearly shows "difficulty breathing" can be a symptom of seasonal flu complications.  And here's info from Keck Medicine at USC about the symptoms of loss fo taste and smell.

Source: Keck Medicine - University of Southern California

What Can Cause a Loss of Taste and Smell?

1. Viral infections like the flu, colds and COVID-19

If you’ve had a cold, you may be all too familiar with a stuffy nose that makes it hard to smell. In fact, both the common cold and influenza can cause temporary anosmia. Scientists have also identified a loss of taste and smell among the symptoms associated with COVID-19.

“Viruses can disrupt the nerves related to smell, and they can target the tissues in the nose,” says Elisabeth D. Ference, MD, an otolaryngologist at Keck Medicine of USC and assistant professor of clinical otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “The viruses can cause inflammation, either to the nerve or to the lining of the nose, that impacts the normal function of our sense of smell.”

When smell is lost, often taste is, too. “Approximately 80% of the flavors we taste come from our sense of smell, so if our nerves related to smell are not working, then we also have an impairment in our sense of taste,” Ference explains. “Taste that is sensed on the tongue — salty, sweet, sour and bitter — will still be present. However, the subtlety of food, such as oregano on pizza, will be lost.”

The following information is directly off the CDC's own web site.  It clearly states that it's very difficult (impossible) to determine whether someone has a case of the seasonal flu or alleged COVID-19 based on symptoms alone.  They claim the only way to determine which is which is with a test that has proven to be extremely unreliable and inaccurate.  Even the New York Times is beginning to tell a little of the truth about the COVID-19 Pandemic Hoax in a recent report that 90% of Positive COVID Results Should Have Been Negative!

In addition, it has been widely reported that in a great many cases people are being classified as COVID-19 based on symptoms alone.  It is not a big stretch to conclude that a many alleged COVID-19 cases are in fact cases of the seasonal flu! 

Source: CDC Web Site

By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org

The toll lockdowns have taken on human life and human rights has been incalculable. Increases in child abuse, suicide, and even heart attacks, all appear to be a feature of mandatory stay-at-home orders issued by politicians who now rule by decree without any legislative or democratic due process. And then, of course, there is the economic toll on employment, which will feed negative impacts into the longer term. The economic burden has fallen the most on the young and on working-class families, whose earners are least able to work from home.

These measures also have made a mockery of basic human rights while essentially expropriating private property. Mom-and-pop business owners were told to shut their doors indefinitely or face arrest. The unemployed were told it was now illegal to work for a living if their careers were deemed “nonessential.” Police officers have beaten citizens for not “social distancing” while mothers have been manhandled by cops for attempting to use playground equipment.

This was all done because some politicians and bureaucrats—who were in no danger of losing their large paychecks—decided it was a great idea to carry out a bizarre and risky experiment: forcing large swaths of the population to stay at home in the name of preventing the spread of disease.

An Experiment Concocted by Governments

Indeed, politicians have long dreamed of forcing people into isolation en masse. But this was most recently revived during the George W. Bush administration. As the New York Times reported in April,

Fourteen years ago, two federal government doctors, Richard Hatchett and Carter Mecher, met with a colleague at a burger joint in suburban Washington for a final review of a proposal they knew would be treated like a piñata: telling Americans to stay home from work and school the next time the country was hit by a deadly pandemic.

Drs. Hatchett and Mecher were proposing…that Americans in some places might have to turn back to an approach, self-isolation, first widely employed in the Middle Ages.

How that idea — born out of a request by President George W. Bush to ensure the nation was better prepared for the next contagious disease outbreak — became the heart of the national playbook for responding to a pandemic is one of the untold stories of the coronavirus crisis.

The concept of social distancing is now intimately familiar to almost everyone. But as it first made its way through the federal bureaucracy in 2006 and 2007, it was viewed as impractical, unnecessary and politically infeasible.

By Daniel Paine
JustTheNews.com

Stanford Professor Jay Bhattacharya talks "disastrous decision" of loading COVID patients into nursing homes, failing to follow pandemic playbook.  Citizens and public authorities fixated on society-wide lockdowns as a key measure to combat COVID-19 have failed to account for the devastating effects those measures can have on society as a whole, a Stanford professor of medicine says

This is one of the most disgusting things I've seen so far from the lunatics running schools. This takes social conditioning/brainwashing in schools to an entirely new level of CRAZY! Kids literally have a ZERO% risk of serious illness from COVID-19 much less dying from it. In addition, the evidence still shows kids are unlikely to catch or spread coronavirus yet look at the abuse some LUNATICS are subjecting kids to! This is CHILD ABUSE!

Sky News host Alan Jones says he is tired of being sucked in by governments trying manage our health which has resulted in a “ruthless and heartless abuse of power” exercised by ignorant know-all politicians.

I hate to put it bluntly as this, but the country is in a mess.  Why are we allowing or expecting government to manage our health”. Since August, 5.5 million Melburnians have been locked down in their homes whilst enduring an 8pm curfew. Why are 5.5 million Melburnians living like battery hens; 6.5 million Victorians paying for the stupidity of Daniel Andrews. He should have resigned long ago if he had any decency. But this is the mess you get into if you want to allow politicians to control your lives. Andrews and a useless, silent and spineless Cabinet have no ability to manage Victoria and Australia out of this mess.

By Steve Watson
SummitNews.com

As the rest of Europe and the world remains under the grip of draconian rules and the threat of new lockdowns, Sweden, which allowed its citizens to remain free throughout the entire pandemic, has pretty much declared victory over the coronavirus.

The country now has one of the lowest infection rates on the planet, and it’s difficult not to admire how it has handled the past year, with no strict lockdown or compulsory face mask rules. All businesses, schools and public places remained open in Sweden for the duration.

“Sweden has gone from being the country with the most infections in Europe to the safest one,” Sweden’s senior epidemiologist Dr. Anders Tegnell commented to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

“What we see now is that the sustainable policy might be slower in getting results, but it will get results eventually,” Tegnell clarified.

“And then we also hope that the result will be more stable,” he added.
 

Tegnell previously warned that encouraging people to wear face masks is “very dangerous” because it gives a false sense of security but does not effectively stem the spread of the virus.

“The findings that have been produced through face masks are astonishingly weak, even though so many people around the world wear them,” Tengell has urged.

An Austin local was escorted out of Bishop Cidercade after refusing to wear a mask while in the building. Once outside, he delivered an epic rant about medical tyranny in America!

Seriously everyone! THINK! Reflect a little. We are now being told we have all these dangerous SURGES, SPIKES, INCREASED SPREAD OF THE VIRUS with more people testing positive as if this is more evidence we need to keep everything locked down, more mask-wearing, more distancing. THE TRUTH IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE. If you believe the virus is spreading as they claim, it's proof positive that LOCKDOWNS DON'T WORK! MASKS DON'T WORK! SOCIAL DISTANCING DOESN'T WORK!

Dr. Jeff Barke: The fatality rate for young people is way below that of influenza. If you're under 25, you're 50 times more at risk to die from drowning than COVID-19.

Dr. Jeff Barke: The fatality rate for young people is way below that of influenza. If you're under 25, you're 50 times more at risk to die from drowning than COVID-19.@thewillwitt pic.twitter.com/eMCfFqVOeo

— PragerU (@prageru) September 7, 2020

A new study from medical researchers at UCLA and Stanford University found the chances of contracting or dying from coronavirus are much lower than previously thought. One America's Pearson Sharp has the details.

Editor's Note: Kennedy has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, a specific form of an involuntary movement disorder called dystonia that affects only the voice box.  Although the condition is by no means life-threatening, it is life-changing for the few who have it. It takes a bit to get used to Kennedy's voice but I guarantee you it is well worth the effort.

David Knight discusses whet Robert Kennedy Jr. recently revealed about the forthcoming Covid-19 vaccines they intend to force everyone to take.