What Then Must We Do?

Last week, I was a guest on Ernie Hancock's Show "Declare Your Independence."

We talked about Covid-19, about the official suppression of information on vitamin C as a treatment, about the devastating total-state response, and about what to do about Internet censorship.

...and we also talked about this show.

If you don't already know Ernie, you should. You can find him on Freedom's Phoenix, on his show, Declare Your Independence, and Pirates Without Borders.

Enjoy!

I interview Stefan Raymond, a Canadian who has lived in South Korea for nine years. We chat about some of the differences between how the Covid-19 outbreak has been handled in the US vs. in South Korea, as well as how people living in both places have reacted to it all.

You can read Stefan's blog here, and the blog post I mention in this podcast is here.

After recording this podcast, I was struck by something that I had kind of forgotten about in all the years since moving back to the US from Asia. I remember coming back, not the last time, in 2000, but the time before that, in 1996, from two plus years in Japan. 

It was probably the worst culture shock I have ever experienced. Because I was coming from a place where I never had to think about politics. I could focus just on work, and writing, and friends, and appreciating the beauty around me. It was such a beautiful time. 

Even my time in Hong Kong, where I was a journalist and was focused on politics, was so different from being here. I never feared the government while I lived there. I worried about what the Chinese government might do after 1997, but I wasn't really afraid, and I certainly didn't fear the government (pre- or post- handover) while I was there.

Coming to the US from that was a huge shock, and not only because of the government. The things that stand out for me the most are: Being inundated with loud, violent, scary images all the time. In entertainment and on the news, which a lot of people seemed to be tuned in to ALL the time. There were the constant car pursuits, where police chased citizens in cars for god only knows what reasons; there were the reality TV shows following police around as they broke into people's homes and threw them down on their lawns; there was the constant, constant fear porn masquerading as news, with furrowed-browed newscasters issuing dire warnings about all the things we were supposed to be afraid of today.

I was in Tokyo when the Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack took place - on a subway train I sometimes rode on. It was a huge shock, but people's lives got back to normal pretty quickly. Probably there were some additional security measures put in place after that - but if there were, I never heard about them. And the event wasn't used as an excuse to clamp down on the free movement of peaceful people, as every crisis in this country is.

My interview today reminded me of all of this - of what it is like to live in a country where you don't fear your own government. And I don't mean that the governments of Japan or Hong Kong were completely libertarian (although HK came very close), or perfect by any means. But, speaking as a foreigner living there for many years, those governments were in the background. I never worried about them doing the things I worry about the US government doing to the people living under it.

I want so badly to get back to that kind of place. A place where I don't have to be obsessed with politics, where I don't feel like the biggest issue outside of my own personal ones is an out-of-control state rampaging over our society.

It is possible to live in a peaceful, civilized, culture. I know, because I have lived in some. I just don't know if it is possible here.

I talk with long-time libertarian writer, Tom Mullen, about the US government's never-ending war on prices, and how it hurts all of us.

Tom wrote a piece recently, titled "The State and Federal Governments' Coronavirus Response Will Dwarf Economic Damage Done by FDR." You can read that here.

And if you didn't know that FDR's actions actually harmed the economy rather than helped it, then listen to this episode to find out!

You can find Tom's books here:

Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? Part One

http://www.tommullen.net/featured/a-return-to-common-sense-reawakening-liberty-in-the-inhabitants-of-america/

A few days ago, I spoke with Larry Cook, founder of the Stop Mandatory Vaccination Facebook group. We talked about how high-dose Vitamin C has been part of the official protocol for treating Covid-19 in China, and how at least one of his posts about that has been "fact checked" by Facebook (see here for what that looks like.)

Larry also has some pretty dismal predictions for what is coming next. It would be easy to dismiss some of these predictions as "crazy conspiracy theories", or whatever terms people now use to not have to think about uncomfortable possibilities. But one thing I know about Larry is that his predictions thus far have been pretty accurate, especially re: Beach-Ball mandates in CA and in the US broadly.

He has also been right about Vitamin C, and thankfully, some doctors in the US are starting to recognize that. Tune in to hear what Larry thinks is coming next for those who oppose official narratives on vaccines and medical treatment.

Links:

Larry's site, StopMandatoryVaccination. You can also find the StopMandatoryVaccination group on Facebook... if you look really hard.

This is the (long) piece he mentions about Covid-19 and melatonin.

And this is the piece about using high-dose vitamin C in China.

I talk with Jeff Tucker about how governments around the world have responded to the threat of the Covid-19 virus, whether the response of the US government has been warranted, how that response will impact our society and the people living in it, and whether there is any hope for liberty in these times.

Jeff is editorial director for the American Institute for Economic Research, where you can find analysis about the economic impact of all of this that you are unlikely to find anywhere else. You can also find Jeff on Twitter.

Some of the articles that he mentions here include:

An Epistemic Crisis

Good Reasons to Doubt the Estimate of Covid-19 Deaths

South Korea Preserved Open Society & Now Infection Rates Are Falling

CoronaVirus Isn't a Pandemic