{"id":4290,"date":"2020-08-06T23:43:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2020-08-06T23:44:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:44:17","slug":"power-grab-how-did-two-weeks-to-flatten-the-curve-turn-into-a-two-year-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4290","title":{"rendered":"POWER GRAB: How did &#8216;two weeks to flatten the curve&#8217; turn into a two-year lockdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>                                                                                    \u00a0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          \u00a0                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Remember when we were told that it would take two weeks to \u201cflatten the curve\u201d?\u00a0 <strong>Stay home, isolate from your friends and family, close your business, delay your doctor visits and surgeries, stop attending funerals. Save lives!\u00a0<\/strong> We were told that if we did that, we would slow down the rate of people getting sick, so the hospitals wouldn\u2019t be overwhelmed.<br><br> <strong>It\u2019s been more than four months now.<\/strong>  <br><br>The curve has been flattened \u2013 in fact, most hospital wards have been empty the whole time.\u00a0 <strong>So how did \u201cflattening the curve\u201d turn into unlimited rule by unelected health officials?<\/strong> The same health officials that jet-set around the country while telling you that you can\u2019t leave your house.\u00a0 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/two_weeks_or_two_years_covid-19_power_grab?e=5045b662f03737f70cfc320ff61dca55&amp;utm_source=therebel&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=el_aug5els_8_6_20&amp;n=7\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to watch what I have to say about that.\u00a0  <br><br>This virus has been no worse than the annual flu season in terms of the death toll. It\u2019s done now.\u00a0\u00a0 But that\u2019s not enough. <strong>Now we\u2019re being told to wear masks everywhere we go and to continue distancing ourselves until a rushed, made in China vaccine, is developed<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>and that this could take another 2-3 years.\u00a0<\/strong> This is politics, not medicine.\u00a0<br><br> <strong>They love their power over you, and they won\u2019t let go.<\/strong> And other than <em>Rebel News<\/em>, who is telling the other side of the story? Yours truly,\u00a0 Ezra Levant\u00a0 <br><br>P.S. Every weekday I speak frankly like this, telling the other side of the story, saying things the Media Party would never say. This video is a sneak peek at one of my daily shows that\u2019s normally behind a paywall. 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