https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/why_did_the_nih_fund_wuhan_labs.html
Hours later, one of the WHO's biggest backers, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced they would be giving an additional $150 million to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The foundation had already pledged $100 million in February to fight COVID-19. Their new $250 million total will go toward the "support development of diagnostic, therapeutics, and vaccines; help strength African and South Asian health systems; and help mitigate the social and economic impacts of the virus," according to a press release
https://www.foxnews.com/world/world-health-organization-money
Force the closure of lawful businesses and effectively ruin owners without due process or recourse
Prohibit peaceable assembly, regardless of commonsense safety measures
Target and harass religious congregations, including ones using commonsense safety measures
Seize private property without due process and suspend lawful evictions, which amounts to the same thing
Limit or deny access to firearms for qualified citizens
Suspend in-person voting
Force whole cities into a species of house arrest and monitored release absent any proof of wrongdoing or infection
Bully citizens and businesses with arbitrary and capricious ‘stop-where’s-your-mask?’ procedures
Release violent offenders to prey on the population and withdraw law enforcement protection
These were not ‘suggestions’ nor appeals to public conscience, cooperation, and consent. These were decrees enforced with fines, handcuffs, threats, and spying. Millions of Americans have watched the news in horror and disbelief as well-known Democrat executives and lawmakers across the country have gone full authoritarian in just a few short weeks.
https://www.redstate.com/diary/clint-fargeau/2020/04/17/did-president-trump-trick-dems-into-going-full-authoritarian/
“The Democrats have moved the goal posts,” writes Strassel. They are setting up impossible conditions so they can blame President Trump for each COVID-19 death that comes after the shutdown ends. Even with mass testing and contact tracing, deaths will continue to occur. Trump is not a magician. And the Democrats know this. “Yet Mrs. Pelosi sees in this moment a political opportunity to pin the blame for the natural course of a disease on the White House,” notes Strassel.
Strassel’s analysis:
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/04/17/820436/
TYB
https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/virus-strikes-at-the-heart-of-art/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-time-for-oprah-to-renounce-dr-phil-and-dr-oz-over-their-dangerous-coronavirus-propoganda?ref=home