John McAfee warns governments are deceiving the public about the virus!

NEW YORK (PNN) - May 2, 2020 - The government is deceiving you. The pandemic is a ploy spread by fake-news media, and if you care about your lives, go out and buy guns now.

That was the message of John McAfee. Between evil laughs and dark chucklings, the tech guru, tax fugitive, and general wild man shared his suspect views on the “state of the world” during COVID-19 last night at Virtual Blockchain Week.

“We are living in a paradigm the world has never seen,” the 74-year-old crypto advocate and antivirus-software pioneer said.

“One-third of the planet is in lockdown,” he said, adding that most of those people are sitting at home, watching TV, and not doing much of anything, while the Fascist Police States of Amerika government “pulls money out of thin air.” The situation is not sustainable, he argued.

He was especially disturbed by a recent $2 trillion stimulus package  in the FPSA, which appears to be backed by nothing other than the good graces of the FPSA government.

“You can’t pull money out of the air and expect everything to be okay. Money is based on something called industry, production, service. We haven’t increased any of that,” he said, with a deep, unsettling chuckle. He predicted the money-printing will lead to a collapse of the FPSA dollar.

Bitcoin and blockchain were meant to “save us from financial slavery and from the overburdened government that creates the fiat currency that we are forced to use,” McAfee said.

But he doesn’t think crypto will save us this time.

“We are not going to jump into crypto,” he said, because it’s not easy enough to use. “It is not like opening a bank account. You have to spend days understanding what it is and how it works.”

But as far as the markets go, he predicts that the price of Bitcoin will spike ahead of the halving event on May 12. He recalled that in 2016, the last halving event, there was a huge rise in the price of Bitcoin, and then a huge drop. He believes history will repeat because the same people populate the cryptosphere, and they’re just as greedy as they were four years ago.

As far as the threat of COVID19, McAfee thinks the number of deaths are skewed because they are presented out of context. It is certainly not worth shutting down entire economies, he believes.

Repeatedly, he said more people die of diarrhea and the flu. Both comparisons have been supported by leading epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists around the world.

The way McAfee sees it, we are being lied to by the government and stirred up by the media.

“If you use your head and common sense, you can see you are being deceived,” he said.

Due to the global shut down and the money printing, he believes dark times are ahead for our species.

The solution?

"Go buy guns, and guns first,” he said. “Because if you just have food and you don’t have guns, your neighbors are going to take it because your neighbors have guns.”

McAfee, who appears to enjoy it when people think he is on edge, then pulled out an AK-47 assault rifle and began praising its sturdiness.

“This sucker will always fire,” he said.