{"id":51303,"date":"2021-02-05T16:12:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=51303"},"modified":"2021-02-05T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:12:57","slug":"dont-ever-forget-the-incredibly-fake-videos-that-came-out-of-wuhan-that-scared-the-rest-of-the-world-into-covid-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=51303","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t ever forget the incredibly fake videos that came out of Wuhan that scared the rest of the world into Covid mania."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How Phony Coronavirus \u201cFear Videos\u201d Were Used as Psychological Weapons to Bring America to Her Knees<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Revolver<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.30-revolvernews-6019d27607a60.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.30-revolvernews-6019d27607a60.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.30-revolvernews-6019d27607a60-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.30-revolvernews-6019d27607a60-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.30-revolvernews-6019d27607a60-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.30-revolvernews-6019d27607a60-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.30-revolvernews-6019d27607a60-2048x1072.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1309\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you were online during January 2020 you likely saw the barrage of video clips that were supposedly coming out of China depicting ghastly \u201cCoronavirus\u201d scenes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Most of those videos have been quietly wiped off the internet, but back in January and February those grisly videos were a viral sensation and they scared the sense out of Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The videos captured supposed Coronavirus victims in various stages of pandemic horror. Some showed people foaming at the mouth and collapsing in the streets, while others featured ominous government officials wearing Hazmat suits, hovering over lifeless bodies struck down from the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">It was a virtual buffet of fear-porn, and Americans couldn\u2019t get enough of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Personally, I saw hundreds of those videos. The comments from people sharing the clips would range from sarcastic \u201cJust the flu\u201d type stuff \u2014 intended to mock and shame anyone who tried to downplay the seriousness of the virus \u2014 to wild conspiracy theories claiming Coronavirus caused brain swelling, spontaneous convulsions, and instant death.<\/p>\n<p>It was some of the most powerful video propaganda I\u2019ve ever witnessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Imagine being a soccer mom and logging onto Facebook and seeing your sister-in-law\u2019s post of a Chinese man foaming at the mouth and dropping dead, with the caption \u201cJust the flu &#x1f644;\u201d You keep scrolling down your timeline and see the same clip over and over, and other similar shock videos shared by neighbors, friends, and people you work with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">You\u2019d lose your mind, and rightfully so. That\u2019s powerful messaging and it had a major impact on the American psyche, day in and day out for two months straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">For me, being a suspicious person by nature, it all felt very hysterical, staged, and phony. But at a time when fear, confusion, and distrust were at an all-time high, it was virtually impossible to talk rationally about the virus with friends and family who were sucked in by the \u201cterror propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">It\u2019s understandable because even though I didn\u2019t buy into the hype, there was still a nagging voice in the back of my head whispering \u201cwhat if\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">And even that quiet little \u201cwhat if\u201d was tremendously powerful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">In just two short months Americans were whipped into a fear-frothing frenzy which set the table for the tyrannical lockdowns and mask mandates that would follow. Lockdowns that consumed our nation, pitted neighbor against neighbor, struck down our booming economy, and wiped out small businesses from coast to coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Two years ago, if you would have told Americans they would voluntarily shut down their businesses and lock themselves in their homes they would\u2019ve laughed in your face. But those viral videos laid the groundwork for lockdown acceptance. They were the first of many perfectly-timed events that Americans would use to justify tossing away their rights and livelihood in exchange for harsh restrictions and lockdowns \u2014 after all, nobody wanted to foam at the mouth and keel over while shopping for cappuccino makers at Bed Bath &amp; Beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">However, there was one very big problem\u2026 little did we know back then that all of those spine-tingling videos were fake.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, the beginning of the Coronavirus mass hysteria and the very first building blocks that led to a nation-wide lockdown, the destruction of our economy, and the great global reset was a complete and total hoax.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think a bombshell like that would concern everyone or at the very least pique the interest of journalists and politicians, right?<\/p>\n<p>But it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Many people shrugged off the videos, claiming there\u2019s always fake or sensational news online. And they\u2019re right. But this was different. Very different. Those \u201cChinese fear videos\u201d were hand-picked, edited, and manipulated in order to market a very specific horror story to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Those video clips played night and day into the darkest and most personal fears of every single American who watched them.<\/p>\n<p>And there was a running narrative, as well. It went like this:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear America,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A deadly virus is coming to get you, and your government will downplay it and tell you it\u2019s \u201cjust the flu,\u201d but it\u2019s not. It will kill you and your family.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to those videos, millions of Americans didn\u2019t trust President Trump right out of the gate. While he was working to calm the nation, frantic Americans were thinking about all those Chinese people keeling over in the streets. \u201cWhy isn\u2019t Trump as frantic and scared as we are,\u201d many people wondered\u2026 what was he hiding?<\/p>\n<p>It all came back to those videos. They set a powerful narrative and programmed countless American minds.<\/p>\n<p>But who would do this? That\u2019s the million-dollar question.<\/p>\n<p>Internet trolls are brilliant and have pulled off some mindboggling stunts, but this felt very different from that. This felt highly organized, sophisticated, and had consistent expert messaging peppered with very cunning psychological warfare.<\/p>\n<p>It looked and felt like a professionally coordinated marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the answer to the million-dollar question is obvious: the people who did this are the ones who would benefit most from the collapse of the US economy, a return to a globalist agenda, and the removal of President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The next logical question is: who has the means, talent, and resources to successfully pull off a campaign like this?<\/p>\n<p>My theory would go something like this: Some entity, perhaps associated with the Chinese government, weaponized a cache of carefully edited \u201cvideo clips\u201d and used them as\u00a0<em>phase one<\/em>\u00a0of an intricate \u201cgorilla-type\u201d propaganda war designed to scare the American people into surrendering their lives and livelihoods in an effort to collapse the world\u2019s greatest economy, oust a popular America First President, and reset the globalist agenda. Once these videos were in circulation, it is possible that certain sectors of the American establishment amplified the fear in order to justify the brutal consolidation of power right around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not an investigative journalist, and I don\u2019t have the resources to uncover who created, uploaded, and marketed those videos. But together, you and I can look back at some of the fake viral videos and stories from last year, and examine how they were cleverly marketed to the American people to achieve peak fear and submission.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest viral sensations at the start of the COVID pandemic was a collection of videos showing Chinese people keeling over from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>At the time these videos came out we didn\u2019t know that COVID-19 doesn\u2019t cause people to spontaneously \u201cdrop like flies.\u201d I\u2019ve had COVID \u2013 a very bad case, actually, that lasted for over three months \u2013 and even so, I was still able to stand upright. However, the videos that came out last year told a much different, far scarier story.<\/p>\n<p>They showed random Chinese people dying in the streets from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coronavirus has people keeling over in streets - TomoNews\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uf4-Vzf1CyM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That video looks particularly menacing and \u201cvirusy\u201d thanks to the officials in Hazmat suits.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a theme you\u2019ll see a lot throughout these videos and images \u2014 Hazmat suits. They\u2019re everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of Hazmat suits, when digging around for these clips, I discovered that first-responders in China routinely wear Hazmat suits on the job. It\u2019s part of their uniform.<\/p>\n<p>However, thanks to TV shows and Hollywood movies, most Americans immediately think of scientists and highly-contagious deadly viruses when they see a Hazmat suit and it instantly legitimizes the claims that are being made. So it\u2019s easy to see how that viral clip would have a major impact on many US citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The next video was everywhere on social media as well. It claimed to show dead COVIID victims lining the streets and waiting to be picked up like piles of garbage.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what a Twitter user tweeted out about the video on February 17th, 2020:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWuhan China. Dead Bodies waiting 4 pickup. Coronavirus NO ordinary Virus. Is it intentionally released BIO WEAPON?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"INSIDE CHINA| People dead to be picked up like weekly GARBAGE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kL0v9hySVyw?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Imagine watching this video and picturing your city\u2019s \u201cMain Street USA\u201d lined with dead bodies?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing soon to a town near you\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a terrifying image and can really mess with someone\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>However, this was also a lie.<\/p>\n<p>The video actually shows people sleeping on the streets in Shenzhen, China \u2014 a city over 600 miles away from Wuhan, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/8509320385\">AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the imagery in this video and the idea that some \u201cbioweapon\u201d was coming to your town was tremendously powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Would you voluntarily stay locked inside your home to avoid being struck down by a bioweapon?<\/p>\n<p>After seeing that video, probably.<\/p>\n<p>Another popular viral image showed a man supposedly suffering from COVID, who collapsed at the airport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.25-revolvernews-6019d159925b8.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2238px) 100vw, 2238px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.25-revolvernews-6019d159925b8.png 2238w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.25-revolvernews-6019d159925b8-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.25-revolvernews-6019d159925b8-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.25-revolvernews-6019d159925b8-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.25-revolvernews-6019d159925b8-1536x855.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.25-revolvernews-6019d159925b8-2048x1140.png 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"2238\" height=\"1246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These types of photos were everywhere \u2014 they fed into a popular \u201cWuhan\/Coronavirus\u201d narrative that showcased people trying but failing to \u201cescape\u201d the city.<\/p>\n<p>The stories were dramatic tragedy-type tales of victims and scared citizens desperately trying to flee but were either captured or killed by Hazmat officials or they collapsed and died just before they made it out of the city.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like a Lifetime movie, right? Very emotional stuff involving the human spirit and the will to live \u2014 you can relate, can\u2019t you? Sure you can. These poor people are just like you\u2026 bla bla bla.<\/p>\n<p>Only, they\u2019re not exactly like you, because unlike you, this story isn\u2019t real.<\/p>\n<p>The man in this photo did not have COVID. In actuality, he was drunk and passed-out according to fact-checker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2020\/photos-and-videos-allegedly-showing-the-coronavirus-are-now-challenging-fact-checkers\/\">Poynter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another running theme in the \u201cChina fear clips\u201d were videos showing authorities (oftentimes listed as \u201carmed doctors\u201d by the person posting the video) violently apprehending or killing COVID victims in order to help save the world.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine seeing doctors so frightened of a virus that they\u2019re forced to use weapons against innocent sickly victims. It\u2019s unthinkable and terrifying to even imagine, let alone watch it unfold before your own eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the COVID pandemic felt like a Mad Max movie with apocalyptic themes and \u201cgood and evil\u201d trading places.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors have been made evil by a virus so insidious that it turns heroes into villains \u2014 what a plot twist!<\/p>\n<p>However, the videos that were shared as actual encounters were really just training videos, many of them with actors.<\/p>\n<p>You have to keep in mind that China is a communist country and they don\u2019t allow just anyone to randomly film things especially involving \u201cgovernment officials,\u201d as we do in the US.<\/p>\n<p>If something was recorded, it was ok\u2019d by the government.<\/p>\n<p>But the people who posted these types of videos went to great lengths to make you believe that you were watching a real-life takedown.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample of the type of \u201ctraining videos\u201d that were passed off as real encounters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coronavirus: 'SWAT' team tackle man in training exercise\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F83iuaZ3Rxg?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>One of the most compelling videos is no longer available online.<\/p>\n<p>When I watched this particular video it had a rather big impact on me. It was definitely one of my \u201cwhat if\u2026\u201d moments.<\/p>\n<p>It was a clip of a woman lying dead in the street and the story was that she was shot and killed at the border by doctors as she attempted to flee Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>There are those powerful themes again\u2026 Lifetime movie meets Mad Max.<\/p>\n<p>I remember watching it and thinking, could this be true? Is there a virus so awful that doctors who took an oath to save mankind are now murderers?<\/p>\n<p>Again, what an unthinkable horror and it really made me pause and question myself. Was I not taking this seriously enough? There are so many videos out there\u2026 Am I ignoring the ugly truth?<\/p>\n<p>What if\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But like all the others, this video was also a lie.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to locate a screenshot from the video:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.26-revolvernews-6019d1b02536c.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1954px) 100vw, 1954px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.26-revolvernews-6019d1b02536c.png 1954w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.26-revolvernews-6019d1b02536c-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.26-revolvernews-6019d1b02536c-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.26-revolvernews-6019d1b02536c-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.26-revolvernews-6019d1b02536c-1536x854.png 1536w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1954\" height=\"1086\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The actual video was real, but it had nothing to do with COVID. It was a well-documented motor-scooter accident involving two teenagers, one of whom tragically died. However, the video was artfully edited to remove the \u201cscooter\u201d from the frame in order to tell a completely different story, with an entirely new narrative and theme.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/observers.france24.com\/en\/20200219-china-police-kill-woman-escape-quarantine-covid-19\">From Observers France<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People all over the world have been sharing a video that they claim shows a woman killed by police in China for trying to escape quarantine for the COVID-19 virus, which has infected more than 70,000 people since it first appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The propagation of this video is evidence of the rising hysteria about the virus online. However, our team took a closer look, and found out that the video itself tells an entirely different story.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-second video shows a person wearing a yellow jacket and black trousers lying motionless on the ground. The person\u2019s face is covered in blood. In the background someone is screaming, and at the very end of the video a woman runs towards the person on the ground. The video has garnered hundreds of thousands of views on social media, especially Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users claimed that the person on the ground was a woman fatally shot by police when she tried to break past the blockade set up to try to contain the virus in Wuzu, a city in Hubei province.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang W. sent us another version of the video shared online, which is a fraction of a second longer. If you pause the video, you can see that there is a motorbike or scooter lying on its side on the sidewalk a few metres from the person on the ground. Also, at 0\u201904, you can see that the concrete barrier around a nearby tree has been damaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo teenagers were going too fast on their scooters,\u201d explains one of the messages posted in the group alongside the video. \u201cThey hit the edge of the road and lost control. The driver died.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There were hundreds and hundreds of these types of videos floating around social media \u2014 and all of them went viral, and many news outlets and blogs covered them as well\u2026 they were everywhere, and they shaped so much of what was yet to come for our country \u2014 but they were all fake.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, even so, nobody in the media or our government is asking who made them and posted them online, and why.<\/p>\n<p>Their silence speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn\u2019t the end\u2026 those early videos were just the tip of the psychological warfare. They were just the beginning. Part two quickly kicked in.<\/p>\n<p>I like to call this the \u201caffirmation phase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just as the dramatic COVID videos were starting to taper off, a bombshell report from the Imperial College in London splashed on the scene and its findings all but validated the slew of China horror clips that we\u2019d been watching for months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The report, which was covered in-depth by The New York Times in April 2020, estimated that as many as 2.2 million Americans would likely die from COVID-19 if we didn\u2019t go into quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, if we didn\u2019t lock ourselves in our homes we would end up like all of those poor Chinese people in those videos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Here\u2019s a blip from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/17\/world\/europe\/coronavirus-imperial-college-johnson.html\">NYT<\/a>\u00a0piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\">American officials said the report, which projected up to 2.2 million deaths in the United States from such a spread, also influenced the White House to strengthen its measures to isolate members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Imperial College has advised the government on its response to previous epidemics, including SARS, avian flu, and swine flu. With ties to the World Health Organization and a team of 50 scientists, led by a prominent epidemiologist, Neil Ferguson, Imperial is treated as a sort of gold standard, its mathematical models feeding directly into government policies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cGold standard\u201d indeed\u2026 By mid-May Mr. Ferguson\u2019s erroneous \u201cmodel\u201d that predicted millions of deaths would be lining birdcages all over the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">But at that time we didn\u2019t know any better. We simply trusted the \u201cgold plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">And if that wasn\u2019t enough to convince you, the COVID catastrophe in Italy was unfolding right before our eyes. The world watched in horror as Italy\u2019s medical system collapsed under the weight of all the sick people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Now, as someone who once lived in Italy, I can tell you that they don\u2019t exactly have \u201cred carpet\u201d healthcare to begin with. Much of the medical system in Italy looks and feels as old as the Colosseum. So, the implosion was not all that shocking for those of us familiar with Italy\u2019s hospitals. But to the average American, it was a horror show. And the images coming out of Italy, coupled with the China videos and the \u201cgold standard\u201d report, was enough for most people to throw in the towel and declare \u201cwe\u2019re doomed\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The COVID fear train was traveling full-steam ahead. All aboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Terrified Americans watched in real-time as Italy\u2019s hospitals buckled \u2014 stories began circulating showing COVID patients lying on gurneys under trees, on dirt-covered roads, and in parking lots.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite a sight to behold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Imagine how many Americans pictured themselves or their loved ones on those same outdoor gurneys somewhere in LA, Nashville, or Indianapolis \u2013 gasping to take their last breath, waiting for the foam to bubble up and death to snatch them away? It\u2019s a gory picture to paint, but this was the vibe in early Spring of 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Only, just like the China videos before them, many of the stories coming out of Italy were also fake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">One viral Facebook post showed a series of photos with slews of hospital patients lined up on gurneys outside with the caption: \u201cThis is Italy. There is no more space in hospitals. Think twice before you put your foot outside the door\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.28-revolvernews-6019d1fe632a9.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1246px) 100vw, 1246px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.28-revolvernews-6019d1fe632a9.png 1246w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.28-revolvernews-6019d1fe632a9-254x300.png 254w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.28-revolvernews-6019d1fe632a9-867x1024.png 867w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.28-revolvernews-6019d1fe632a9-768x907.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1246\" height=\"1472\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That last line, \u201cThink twice before you put your foot outside the door\u2026.\u201d is some top-shelf fear-porn. Would you wander outside the safety of your home if you just saw a line of gurneys under a tree? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">However, the image was not from Italy, and it had nothing to do with Coronavirus. The image was actually from Croatia and those patients in the photo were earthquake survivors, so of course, they\u2019re not going to be inside damaged hospital buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Here\u2019s what the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/52124740\">BBC<\/a>\u00a0said about that Facebook post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The images being shared are genuine, but they are not from Italy.<br \/>\nA reverse image search reveals they were taken in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, after it was hit by an earthquake on 22 March.<br \/>\nThe most widely shared post seems to have originated in India just as the government there imposed a nationwide lockdown on 25 March.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the fake videos and images weren\u2019t just coming out of China and Italy. The US also got in on the fun.<\/p>\n<p>During a segment on New York\u2019s \u201covercrowded hospitals,\u201d CBS used B-roll footage from an Italian hospital with a banner that read: \u201cCoronavirus Race to Respond: America\u2019s Epicenter: New York Now Accounts For More Than Half of US Cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.29-revolvernews-6019d234cbbd4.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2154px) 100vw, 2154px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.29-revolvernews-6019d234cbbd4.png 2154w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.29-revolvernews-6019d234cbbd4-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.29-revolvernews-6019d234cbbd4-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.29-revolvernews-6019d234cbbd4-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.29-revolvernews-6019d234cbbd4-1536x800.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021.02.02-10.29-revolvernews-6019d234cbbd4-2048x1067.png 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"2154\" height=\"1122\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why did CBS use a hospital in Italy to try and convince Americans that New York was buckling under the demand?<\/p>\n<p>Another good question that deserves an answer.<\/p>\n<p>And as a side note to that, Americans had a hard time finding these \u201coverflowing\u201d hospitals\u2026 and trust me, they searched and searched. At one point the hashtag #EmptyHospitals was trending on Twitter and videos like this popped up all over the place (most have since been deleted by Youtube):<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MUST SEE!!! Hospital parking lot completely empty!!!READ DESCRIPTION!!!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yoF9V-Zo8Mw?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As it stands now, we haven\u2019t even begun to scratch the surface of this Coronavirus pandemic plot\u2026it would be the most bizarre story ever told if it wasn\u2019t so obvious what really went down.<\/p>\n<p>We were purposely bamboozled and tricked into thinking that a virus that caused brain swelling, convulsions, and spontaneous death was coming to our shores, and if we didn\u2019t close our businesses, lock ourselves in our homes, and surrender our liberties millions of us would die.<\/p>\n<p>That was the message which was delivered loud and clear for two months.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with those early videos out of China. They were the very first building blocks of a coordinated marketing campaign to reboot America.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at the totality of what happened as a result of the pandemic and ask yourself who benefited most from all of those \u201cperfectly-timed\u201d events. I think if you do that, and also consider the well-crafted fear campaign that was foisted upon all of us, you will agree that my \u201cworking theory\u201d holds water.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2021\/02\/how-phony-coronavirus-fear-videos-were-used-as-psychological-weapons-to-bring-america-to-her-knees\/\">https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2021\/02\/how-phony-coronavirus-fear-videos-were-used-as-psychological-weapons-to-bring-america-to-her-knees\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Phony Coronavirus \u201cFear Videos\u201d Were Used as Psychological Weapons to Bring America to Her Knees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}