(Natural News) In a piece entitled, "The Coronavirus Hoax," which first appeared at the RonPaulInstitute.org website, American patriot, hero and former congressman Ron Paul argues that the entire reaction to the coronavirus is a grand hoax. It's all scripted, he explains, to bring in authoritarian government without any real justification, and he implies the virus itself is likely no more dangerous than the seasonal flu.

We reprint Ron Paul's full column below.

While Ron Paul is a living legend and one of the most moral and courageous individuals to have ever walked the halls of the US Congress, we would be negligent in our own duties if we did not point out how horribly wrong Ron Paul's conclusions have become on this issue. We do not challenge Ron Paul's morality, or honesty or dedication to humanity, but we do challenge his arguments and (bad) conclusions.

Flatly stated, Ron Paul is horribly, dangerously wrong about the coronavirus. His article is so misguided, my first reaction was that someone must have hacked his website.

So I waited a few hours to even write this response. Alas, his original piece is still posted, which means he indeed wrote it. That's far more disturbing than the idea of the Ron Paul Institute website being hacked, by the way.

To understand why, take a look at these two graphics. The first is the map of coronavirus cases spreading across the USA at an exponentially accelerating rate: