Has Parisian water been contaminated by the Coronavirus? According to the mayor of Paris there is no reason for panic, despite the discovery of “small traces” of the virus in the city’s non-potable water network.

As FranceInfo indicated, this water is usually only used to clean the streets and traces of the virus have only been discovered on “4 of the 27 sampling points tested” according to the laboratory of the municipal water authority from Paris. In addition, this network is a “completely independent network” added the town hall authority.

But online news outlet 20 minutes confirmed that the City immediately decided to suspend the use of the network as a “precautionary measure”. It also added that the other network, the one used for everyday consumption, was not affected. “It [the water] can be consumed without any risk”.

“The non-potable water network is supplied by so-called raw water taken from the Seine and the Ourcq canal, routed without heavy treatment” the city declared. This water is used to water parks and gardens, clean streets and operate waterfalls for example.

The assistant to the mayor of Paris in charge of the ecological transition, Célia Blauel, decided to seize the Regional health agency so that it could “analyze the possible risks presented by these traces”.

“We have an in-house laboratory, we are the first to have these results and to sound the alarm,” she said. The mayor of Paris hopes to have the results in the course of next week.

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You go to the supermarket wearing a mask and gloves. You wince every time you pick up a piece of fruit or vegetable wondering how many other people touched it or worse coughed on it. You fill your cart as fast as you can trying to buy only prepackaged foods. Then you brace yourself for the fear and loathing of the checkout line. Your anxiety increases because the person in line is standing too close to you. You see that the cashier just handled cash, OMG cash, you are frantically trying to remember what they said about how long the virus lives on money. Decision after decision, plastic or paper, you want to save the sea turtles, but does it live longer on paper or plastic, a moral dilemma. You finally make it to your car. You put the groceries in, you start the car and breathe a sigh of relief. Then you realize that you didn’t take your plastic gloves off until after you touched the steering wheel. More anxiety realizing you just contaminated the wheel and used the last of the wipes you keep in the car. Prior to the pandemic anyone even remotely thinking and behaving this way would be diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder.

The coronavirus pandemic has awakened a dormant primal fear of contagion and long suppressed tribal instincts. Throughout history, rites of purity evolved to protect communities from both physical and spiritual contamination by designating specific things as taboo and impure. Customs, rules, prohibitions and highly codified notions of impurity evolved to avoid dangerous contagion. Impurity is not just manifested in disease it is also associated with enemies, corpses, bodily functions, corruption, social upheaval, violence, strange, anomalous or inexplicable phenomena, and contact with ‘others.’ Often referred to as ritual uncleanness, impurity is an inherent quality of taboo things. Whether in the form of a specific virus or mob violence, impurity is experienced as a form of contagion because it is believed that it may spread from one individual or object to other members of society.

Impurity is intrinsically intertwined with designated societal taboos and can only be mitigated by purification rituals. Rites of purity are found in all known cultures and religions, are expressed in a wide variety of forms, and function to remove specifically defined uncleanness. Until the coronavirus pandemic the concept of impurity in American culture was primarily relegated to toilet training and the academic field of anthropology.

Many new rituals, social conventions and taboos surrounding hygiene, food, clothing and other customs have evolved to mitigate contagion of the virus. The fear of infection has resulted in taboos on handshaking, hugging or coughing in public. Purification rituals now include a variety of ablutions such as ritual hand washing, repetitive cleaning and regular disinfecting of doorknobs and other surfaces.  New social conventions include mask and glove wearing, taking shoes off indoors, leaving packages outside and not touching your own face. These and other significant changes took hold in just three weeks. Fear of deadly contagion is a powerful influence.

Social distancing has awakened another dormant instinct, tribalism. The consequences of primal fear of infection is that you only feel safe in your home, among your family and in your community. Tribal communities are closed orders and are characterized by an ‘us versus them’ philosophy. Enforcing boundaries, borders and territories is no longer an option when it is a matter of survival. When it is ‘you versus them’ you cannot afford the luxury of political correctness, multiculturalism or cultural diversity unless you want to risk dying from excessive virtue signaling. Ironically, identity politics is inherently tribal so as long as the protected classes continue their elitist exclusionary policies, they will survive to continue fighting over which one of them is most discriminated against.

In tribal societies communities have to cleanse themselves by excluding, expelling, or proscribing the things and people whose presence contaminates the community. The coronavirus epidemic immediately elicited innate tribal instincts. Florida, North Carolina, Rhode Island and vacation towns across the country began implementing special prohibitions on people entering their states from places with high infection rates. Local officials in the Outer Banks area of North Carolina required proof of permanent residence in order to access the area. Florida and Rhode Island governors ordered all incoming New Yorkers to self-quarantine. Florida set up checkpoints on Interstate 95 and other northern borders to screen motorists traveling from the New York City area. Rhode Island’s National Guard and state police stopped motorists with New York license plates and went door-to-door to enforce the quarantine. Tribal instincts emerge when it is a biological imperative.

Media reports of people transgressing the new taboos by intentionally coughing on produce and spitting in people’s faces increased fear and tribalism. Customers at a Stop and Shop grocery store in Kingston, Massachusetts had to tackle a man who coughed and spat on produce. Violation of purity taboos not only results in physical contamination but breaking a taboo is the equivalent of unleashing corruption, social upheaval, violence and evil upon the community. When one person can easily contaminate the entire community dread of coronavirus infection escalates from a physical threat and is experienced as an existential fear.

Tribal cultures interpret the world through magical thinking. Unlike rational thought, magical thinking is completely unscientific and a reverse reasoning of causal relationships. While some purification rituals such as washing your hands are based on science and understood as a method of avoiding germs to mitigate the physical threat, fear of contagious evil requires magical thinking to mitigate the existential threat of impurity.

Outsiders are not only impure but more significantly, they begin to symbolize evil in the form of contagious pollution. The impure ‘other’ is experienced both physically and spiritually as a mysterious and harmful substance of the outside world which keeps attacking, contaminating, defiling, and infecting your grocery store, your neighborhood your community. Families have to protect themselves and their communities against this threat of defilement and have to expel it once the contamination has taken place. Violence as an expiation ritual is justified.

Obsessive, chronic behaviors performed to ward off feelings of uncleanness are fertile ground for the fomenting of violence, intolerance and fear. Extremists understand the fear of contagion and are exploiting the coronavirus to recruit, indoctrinate and inspire attacks against non-whites, Jews and law enforcement. The symbolism of contagion is found throughout extremist propaganda in both overt and subliminal images and language. It is calculated to stigmatize ‘others’ as infectious disease to evoke fears of contagion, death and annihilation. Relegating the other to disease makes it easier to commit violence.

Extremists have repackaged antisemitic conspiracy theories for the coronavirus to incite hatred and fear. Extremists have a long history of adopting Nazi themes and symbols in their propaganda including the strategy of depicting Jews as dirty, filthy, impure life-threatening agents of disease and corruption. Accusing Jews of creating pandemics, disease and more goes all the way back to the black plaque. Muslim and Arab media exploited the 2009 swine flu epidemic to stigmatize Jews as infectious disease and extremists are currently accusing Jews of creating the coronavirus to seize power and money.

Recent white supremacists’ communications suggested targeting law enforcement agents and non-white people with attacks designed to infect them with the coronavirus. They said it was an “obligation to spread it should any of them contract the virus.” Extremists detailed several methods for coronavirus attacks including spending time in public with perceived enemies, leaving “saliva on door handles” at local FBI offices, spitting on elevator buttons and spreading coronavirus germs in “nonwhite neighborhoods.” Also spraying saliva from spray bottles on the faces of law enforcement and committing crimes and leaving coronavirus laced items at the scene for detectives to find.

Extremists know exactly how to exploit and trigger deep seated fears of contagion. They exploit vulnerable and frightened people who feel that their way of life is being threatened. They blame the disease on non-whites, Jews and law enforcement to target them as the community scapegoats. They understand that primal fear of contagion requires ritually purging the community of the evil dirty polluted ‘other’. Violence is sanctioned and justified because it has been transformed into a purification ritual. Instead of killing police, Jews and non-whites you are just cleansing the community of contagious disease. Primal fear of contagion generates primal violence. Rational thinking is replaced with tribal magical thinking, law and order is replaced with law of the jungle. Culture devolves quickly.

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The rescued “refugee child” in the photo (right) is wearing a shirt with an inscription “Istanbul 1453” – the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453.

Who equipped these young men with such clothes? The victory of Islamic Ottomans against Christian Byzantium with force of arms.

by Giulio Meotti

It is a question of a dominant mentality, not of a judiciary that now investigates and inspects nursing homes in northern Italy. It is a sort of social euthanasia, of “seniorcide,” of large-scale triage so it is considered wrong to ask to be put on a respirator for oneself if one is “old and sick.”

According to a Sunday Times reconstruction of a Boris Johnson government meeting in late March, Prime Minister’s advisor Dominic Cummings exposed the government’s plan before “BoJo” fell ill: “Herd immunity, protecting the economy and if that means that some retirees die, too bad” (Cummings later denied saying so). On the one hand there is an informal protocol, whereby the “elderly”, especially those with pathologies, are not treated but accompanied to death with sedatives in nursing homes, as if Covid-19 was a terminal disease for them.

On the other hand there are formal protocols. The latest was released by the Financial Times. 

NHS, the British Health Service, assigned patients a sort of “score” to decide who is unfit for intensive care. Age, frailty and previous conditions. Patients with eight points in the three categories must not be hospitalized. A patient between 71 and 75 would have 4 points for age and 3 for the fragility index, bringing the score to 7. Any additional disease, such as dementia, heart disease, lung disease or high blood pressure, will add 1 or 2 points, thus excluding intensive care.

“The elderly are abandoned like lambs in the slaughterhouse”, said conservative Ros Altmann, former minister for pensions under David Cameron and member of the House of Lords. “I have never seen anything like this”. We are abandoning the elderly because we have decided that their lives are not worth as much as those of young people.https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html

Meanwhile, charitable organizations accuse the British government of not tracking deaths in retirement homes. “The official figures are wiping out the elderly as if they didn’t matter,” said Caroline Abrahams, director of the charity Age UK.

They are denied treatment, but also a place in victim statistics. As if not only had they lost the right to life, but as if they didn’t exist. In a document from the Karolinska university hospital in Sweden (the largest university hospital in Europe) disclosed by the newspaper Aftonbladet, it is specified who remains outside the intensive care unit: who is over 80, over 70 years old and with a significant disease and those with between 60 and 70 and at least two heart, lung and kidney diseases. The idea is simple: the “herd” will survive, but the “weakest” members of society must be “sacrificed”. The famous epidemiologist Marcello Ferrada de Noli who worked at the Karolinska in Stockholm said that Sweden is sacrificing the elderly.

In France, the decision to grant the use of the Rivotril drug at home and in rest homes – and no longer only in hospitals – triggered a debate. Used in palliative therapies for terminally ill patients, Rivotril is now also used outside because in hospitals they cannot cure everyone.

Risk of surreptitious euthanasia? “Have we decided to sacrifice the old?”, asks France Culture. It is not a matter of the judiciary, but of the prevailing mentality, explains Éric Ciotti in Le Figaro: “How can we let such a massacre affect our elderly? They were handed over to certain death, which is absolutely unacceptable in a democratic nation where one life should always be worth another, regardless of age. A society is judged by the way it takes care of its elders. It is a true indicator of civilization.”

Spain has also put it in writing, advising against treatments for those over 80 years of age and with previous pathologies. These are the recommendations of the Catalan Generalitat. Dutch doctors asked the elderly to think twice before asking for intensive care.

This is how we arrived at the data just released by the London School of Economics: half of all Covid-19 deaths in Europe occurred in nursing homes. They call it this, “geriatricide”. And we were very ready for all this.

Not even two months ago, Holland spoke of a pill with which the elderly could commit suicide and in Spain the procedure for passing the euthanasia law had already started. All frozen, for now, there are already enough coffins around. For years we have discussed “quality of life” and “compassion”. When the viral tragedy hit society, all we had to do was raise our hands. Charles Darwin called it “the survival of the fit.” 

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The editor-in-chief of Germany’s largest paper Bild on Thursday launched a full-frontal attack on China’s communist president Xi Jinping for his regime’s failure to come clean about the coronavirus outbreak and the massive human rights violations carried out by the communist party.Julian Reichelt, the prominent editor-in-chief of the Bild, wrote to Jinpingthat  “Your embassy in Berlin has addressed me in an open letter because we asked in our newspaper Bild whether China should pay for the massive economic damage the coronavirus is inflicting worldwide.”

He wrote that, “You [Jinping], your government and your scientists had to know long ago that coronavirus is highly infectious, but you left the world in the dark about it. Your top experts didn’t respond when Western researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan.You were too proud and too nationalistic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace.”Reichelt said “ You rule by surveillance. You wouldn’t be president without surveillance. You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country.You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world.”He continued with his bill of particulars, noting that “surveillance is a denial of freedom. And a nation that is not free, is not creative. A nation that is not innovative, does not invent anything . This is why you have made your country the world champion in intellectual property theft.China enriches itself with the inventions of others, instead of inventing on its own. The reason China does not innovate and invent is that you don’t let the young people in your country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted to have, but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is coronavirus.”The spokeswoman for China’s embassy, Tao Lil, published an open letter in German on the embassy’s website to Bild on Wednesday, stating “I followed your reporting on the corona pandemic in general and China’s alleged guilt in particular today. Apart from the fact that we consider it a pretty bad style to blame a country for a pandemic that is affecting the whole world and then to present an explicit account of alleged Chinese debts to Germany, the article ignores some essential ones facts.”She added that “We note that many countries now struggling with COVID-19 have had time to prepare for the cross-border spread of the pathogen after China reported its outbreak under IHR [World Health Organization] guidelines.”

The Bild editor-in-chief cited a Washington Post article that reported that “your laboratories in Wuhan have been researching corona viruses in bats, butwithout maintaining the highest safety standards. Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for political prisoners?Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of Corona victims all over the world?”He conclude that “In your country, your people are whispering about you. Your power is crumbling. You have created an inscrutable, non-transparent China. Before Corona, China was known as a surveillance state. Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease.That is your political legacy.”

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As it now turns out, the Islamist hate preacher Ahmad Armih, who unjustly collected Corona emergency aid of 18,000 euros, taught the Breitscheidplatz assassin Anis Amri and the IS terrorist and former rapper “Deso Dogg”. Born in 1973, the native Palestinian, who is preaching under the alias name of Ahmad Abul Baraa, came to Germany during the Lebanese civil war and has been doing Islamic missionary work throughout Germany for 17 years, as the tabloid “Bild” reports. In the As-Sahaba Mosque founded in 2010 in the corner of Torf-street and Sprengelstreet “Abul Baraa” radicalized and became an Imam. “In his sermons he repeatedly stirs up the fear of the revenge from Allah and the Prophet – which affects all those who do not strictly observe the regulations of the Koran,” the newspaper reports. Undeterred by the investigations of the public prosecutor’s office, which seized parts of the allegedly ripped-off Corona aid money during a house search this week, the Salafist continues to preach on the Internet and spread his fundamentalist, anti-constitutional views. Already in December 2018, Armih was the target of a raid at the As-Sahaba Mosque: At that time, 16,000 euros in cash and data material were seized; just as with the Corona money that had just been fraudulently obtained, there were also strong suspicions that the hate preacher could still be supporting IS terrorists in the Middle East war zones, according to the tabloid “Bild”.

Now it became public that among Armih’s audience were, among others, the rapper “Deso Dogg”, who later became an IS murderer in Syria, as well as the Breitscheidplatz terrorist Anis Amri. According to “Bild”, he also maintained close contacts with Reda Seyam, the Egyptian terrorist who is considered the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks in Bali in October 2002, which left 150 dead. The fact that the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution had him under surveillance in the face of such connections makes it all the more incomprehensible that the Berlin development bank IBB paid out unchecked Corona aid money to Armih, who was officially registered as a welfare recipient.

In Berlin, the Salafist scene is growing about twice as fast as in the rest of Germany: in 2019, the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution counted 1120 people here among the milieu of the toughest Islamists – according to its boss Michael Fischer, this was 100 persons more than in the previous year and corresponds to an increase of ten percent. “Bild” sums up: “Berlin may have a bigger Salafist problem than the republic as a whole”.

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It happens almost every day: For two weeks now, the Yvelines police have been the target of projectiles every evening as they pass through immigrant neighborhoods during the imposed curfew.

Interventions to secure a Covid-19 lockdown in the “sensitive” areas of Yvelines near Paris, are becoming more and more dangerous. In the night of Thursday to Friday, officers were again taken to task in Mantes-la-Jolie and in Trappes.

In Trappes, hostilities started at 5 pm le Parisien reported. The day before, it was at Les Mureaux that the police were attacked by residents.

The night from Friday to Saturday was not really quieter than the others for the police, again seeing projectiles lanced at them in several social housing estates of the department.

At Mureaux, around 6:50 pm, some fifteen people gathered on avenue Georges-Bizet stoning a police patrol.

Shortly before 10 pm in Mantes-la-Jolie , around thirty “youths” chased after the police. Arab and African youths set up a real ambush in rue du Docteur-Broussay against the officers. A group of about 80 rioters then gathered before tipping rubbish bins on the road.

At the end of the evening, the scenario was repeated on the side of Poissy where the police of the anti-crime brigade were also stoned.

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Two weeks ago,  protests erupted outside of Camp Lindenstrasse – a migrant living facility in Bremen, Germany. Forty or so angry migrants took to the streets and called on government authorities to shut the facility down amid the coronavirus crisis.

One of the protesters can be heard yelling: “They only care about whites! The racism is too much” one of the angry

“These babies were born here! They are German babies!” another protester screams.

Roughly 500 inhabitants live at the facility.

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A controlled lab test has confirmed what most scientists expected. The coronavirus is quickly destroyed in the sun and that it doesn’t last long in high temperatures and high humidity.

The findings are a vital piece of information that will give political leaders further guidance on how far to go in restarting the economy.

Yahoo News:

A briefing on the preliminary results, marked for official use only and obtained by Yahoo News, offers hope that summertime may offer conditions less hospitable for the virus, though experts caution it will by no means eliminate, or even necessarily decrease, new cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The results, however, do add an important piece of knowledge that the White House’s science advisers have been seeking as they scramble to respond to the spreading pandemic.

The study found that the risk of “transmission from surfaces outdoors is lower during daylight” and under higher temperature and humidity conditions. “Sunlight destroys the virus quickly,” reads the briefing.

While that may provide some good news about the outlook for outdoor activities, the Department of Homeland Security briefing on the results cautions that enclosed areas with low humidity, such as airplane cabins, “may require additional care to minimize risk of transmission.”

It was expected that the virus wouldn’t do well in warmer, wetter climates and nations near the equator have shown a relatively slow spread.

“We are not saying that at higher temperatures, the virus will suddenly go away and everything would be fine and you are going out,” Qasim Bukhari, a computational scientist at MIT and a co-author of the analysis, told Yahoo News in an interview. “No, we are not saying it. We are just seeing that there is a temperature- and humidity-related dependency, but I think many people now have started to realize this.”

Bukhari said that since he and his colleagues published that analysis, the numbers on the coronavirus’s spread continue to support their contention. “They are doing a lot of tests now in India. Also, when you look at the numbers in Pakistan it’s the same. There are more than 5,000 cases in Pakistan right now,” he said. “But the increase is not as rapid as you see in other countries.”

The virus will survive the summer and phase two of the pandemic will begin in earnest next fall. What then? Do we shut down the economy again?

There will be calls for that but for practical economic reasons, it won’t happen. Once the economy starts revving up, masks and social distancing will become the new normal and perhaps frequent testing for the virus as well. There will be more death but hopefully, the lessons we’ve learned from the first round in the fight against the virus will serve us well in the future.

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