US govt doc: “Not For Public Distribution or Release”

Is this why Trump is furious with China?

Nickolai Hubble | 7 May 2020  US Government’s leaked plan   Dear Reader,   You weren't supposed to see this document. It was for the eyes of Trump and his government only. But somehow it found its way to the press. I’m talking about the US Virus Plan. It was meant “For Official Use Only // Not For Public Distribution or Release.” But in March, The New York Times revealed what the US government was really thinking about the coronavirus. Not what Trump tweets and talks about in conferences. Take a look:   (Source: The New York Times) According to US officials we might see the pandemic continue for the more than a year… Here’s another headline from March, from France24 this time: ​  (Source: France24) Quoting from the article: “The Pentagon is assuming the coronavirus epidemic in the United States will last at least several months, and that some countries are at risk of ‘political chaos,’ its top officials said….” Is this why Trump is furious with China? In fact, Trump told Reuters he was looking at different options in terms of consequences for China over the virus. Who knows how this will play out… Look… I don't mean to alarm you... I don't mean to scare you... Just because someone is predicting something… it doesn’t mean it will come true. You see, the coronavirus pandemic, like the economy, is a complex problem. And recently plenty of “expert” predictions have been wrong. But I think you will agree with this: If there's one thing the coronavirus has taught us... it’s that we should be prepared for the worse. Whether we’re talking about the pandemic or its impact on the economy. Think about it… Did you expect at the beginning of 2020 that you would have to spend 2 months locked in your house? Did you expect to see close to 30,000 deaths from a virus in the UK alone? But here’s what’s happening now: You can't go outside. You can't go to work. You can't leave the country. Would it surprise you if you saw ‘Financial Martial Law’ applied in Britain? I wouldn’t be… That’s why I created a guide to help cushion a small portion of your wealth from such an event... If you’d rather be safe than sorry, you should read this special report here.   Nickolai Hubble Chief Strategist, The Fleet Street Letter Monthly Alert   PS. I bet you’ve heard the saying a thousand times before… “the only thing we have to fear is… fear itself.”   But did you realise when this was said, and by whom? It was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration speech during the depths of the Great Depression. The point he was making was that a fear-driven market can be terribly destructive. Financial crises hurt. But fear can be far worse. What we’re seeing now is a strange and new (for us, at least) coming together of two powerful forces:    Fear about our mortality and fear about our money. That’s why the fallout is hard to predict, the panic hard to curb… and why the normal tricks that central banks have up their sleeves – cutting rates and pumping money… have failed so far. That makes it doubly urgent in my opinion to secure a small portion of your money out of a financial system with – at best – an uncertain future. At worst, a rapid reversal of fortunes. Change is all around us and my mission is to help you be in a position to not only be prepared for it… but potentially prosper. Click here to get my urgent report – Escaping the financial System – immediately.

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