NEW GROCERY STORE ETIQUETTE

Image: FBI searches for masked bank robber: July 2019


The New Grocery Store Etiquette

Or: Who was that masked man?

Apologies to The Lone Ranger

Yesterday, in the supermarket, after dutifully spritzing and trusting my beloved personal shopping cart to the man in control of admission to the inner sanctum, I found I could not access one of the aisles because the lineup (due to distancing) was preventing me.

Standing in my way (no fault of his; his feet were planted firmly in the middle of the designated distancing circle) was a young man wearing a mask. I could see only his left eye as it glanced warily at me sideways. I asked politely (yes, I can be polite!) if he would allow me to access the aisle and -- I'm not exaggerating -- he literally goosestepped sideways!  When I had passed him, he goosestepped back onto the circle.  Either he's always been a little bit crazy or he's been made mad with fear and suspicion of others.

Or else, he's a part-time bank robber and worried I might be an undercover FBI agent?

I worried I might have done something wrong by asking him to move, so when I encountered a floor clerk I asked if it was okay for people to traverse the aisle from both ends, and she said, "Oh, sure" -- even though the aisles are too narrow for proper distancing when one person passes another.

That didn't bother me, but may quite possibly have frightened the masked man -- or not, if he was just a robber with a guilty conscience. He didn't pull a gun on the cashier, so that's a positive sign.

This whole public fright thing has reminded some folks of 9/11, but I can go back a bit farther than that, when, possibly, people were being experimented on to see just how panicked they could be induced to feel.  This was during the approach to New Year's eve, 1999 -- the Y2K scare.

From Britannica:

• An estimated $300 billion was spent (almost half in the United States) to upgrade computers and application programs to be Y2K-compliant. As the first day of January 2000 dawned and it became apparent that computerized systems were intact, reports of relief filled the news media. These were followed by accusations that the likely incidence of failure had been greatly exaggerated from the beginning.
• Those who had worked in Y2K-compliance efforts insisted that the threat had been real. They maintained that the continued viability of computerized systems was proof that the collective effort had succeeded. In following years, some analysts pointed out that programming upgrades that had been part of the Y2K-compliance campaign had improved computer systems and that the benefits of these improvements would continue to be seen for some time to come.

I was personally responsible for the welfare of half a dozen computers in an Ottawa consulting firm. Though highly skeptical, I dutifully informed the company President that there was remedial software available for a price, and asked if he wanted me to take that route. He paused for a moment, no doubt assessing my tone of voice, and then firmly said "No".

On New Year's eve I shut down all the computers and went home. When the holiday was over, I returned to the office, booted up the work stations, and everything was normal.

Somebody got filthy rich off that scam, bilking companies out of millions, and to this day, I am skeptical of all panic news, including 9/11, A-234 AKA Novichok and the current Covid-19 fright which some people are, not surprisingly, calling C-9/11, and I have to admit that the intimidating effect on the population is pretty much the same.

Omigawd, Tom Hanks and his wife have come down  with it! (Globe & Mail).

How convincing is that, eh?  The guy's an actor.  So is Justin Trudeau (he was so good at it that he had a job teaching it!). And for that matter, so is Boris Johnson and most politicians you're ever going to meet!

As far as I'm concerned, since the stats are much lower than in the regular flu season, and pretty much only the already-compromised are reportedly dying from it, then it's just another version of the annual flu.

Check out what Dr. Wodarg said about how the flu has to upgrade itself every year because people build immunity to the previous version.

Thankfully, the Globe article about the Hanks confirmed that:

• For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.
• The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. According to the World Health Organization, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.

It's abysmally clear that, as in the Y2K scare, corporations stand to benefit hugely from this manufactured crisis at the expense of the ordinary population -- and aspersions cast on China (as Novichok was erroneously blamed on Russia) suggest it may well be simply yet another version of economic warfare.

I'm not alone in my suspicions. Take your pick of the multitude of op-eds confirming them.

Looks like it began with Trump in March of 2018. (NewYorkPost)

• Trump and other US officials have long charged China with intellectual property theft — forcing companies to share technology and innovations in order to do business in the country — and the president’s move seeks to combat that.

You can be sure that Trump, not being any kind of intellectual whatsoever, didn't dream this up all by himself.  But apparently severe financial penalties against China were not enough for the US.

One has to wonder if some American military lab didn't come up with a new version of the old virus.  Why? Well, because something equally vile has been tried before.  Remember this? ---

Fort Detrick Scientist “Commits Suicide” as Anthrax investigation closes in

• Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, reportedly committed suicide ... as the FBI prepared to charge him in the anthrax attacks weeks after the 9/11 attack in 2001.

Now check this out: DuckDuckGo Search results re:
 US military lab closed down in August 2019

Nothing to see here folks? If the truth ever has to be admitted to, scapegoats will be found.

As they like to say in detective novels, the US had "motive and opportunity":

Grayzone: Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the 'fall of China'

Below are some links well worth checking out:

Too many old people drawing government pensions?  Isolate them to death:

NCBI/ University College London: A study on the deleterious effects of social isolation

Too many people demanding a proper minimum wage? Prevent them from working at all:

GlobalResearch: More People Died of Suicide Last Week in Tennessee Than COVID-19
“The truth is: a sick economy produces sick people.”

More from Global Research:

GlobalResearch: COVID-19: A Pretext for World Government and Totalitarianism
We are now beyond the point of no return.

GlobalResearch: Ron Paul: The Coronavirus Hoax. “Governments Love Crises”

Thanks to Pennyforyourthoughts for the following heads-up:

VIDEO: Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr John Ioannidis of Stanford University
A calm rational talk on the Covid virus

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