THIS IS NOT FROM A NAMED SOURCE SO COULD BE A DELIBERATE HOAX
ALLEGEDLY FROM A DOCTOR WORKING IN BROADGREEN HOSPITAL, LIVERPOOL
BEAR IN MIND ALL MEDICAL STAFF HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED NOT TO SPEAK PUBLICLY, OR TO THE MEDIA, ABOUT THE PANDEMIC WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION ON PAIN OF LOSING JOB, PENSION AND MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
HENCE A POSSIBLE GENUINE NEED FOR ANONYMITY
GLOSSARY: MI = Myocardial Infarction, medical jargon for Heart Attack
HE SEEMS TO KNOW A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN ANY GOVERNMENT MINISTER:
"To all the people on here threatening to unfriend people, or wishing a second wave of COVID on people, for daring to go out in the sun yesterday, you really need to think about what you are writing, and a lot of you are health professionals as well.
What was the aim of lock down? What did every single health "expert" say was the reason to justify a lockdown? And why do we have a Flu season at all? And why have we continued to have a steady incidence rate despite being in lockdown? And why are thousands of elderly people dying in nursing homes?
The reason we had lockdown was to "flatten the curve" or buy time to increase ITU/crit care beds. Well with 4 nightingale hospitals mothballed and 50% of hospital beds lying empty, I think we have achieved that.
Not one "expert" worth his salt will tell you that we can stop a respiratory virus, and if they did they would be lying or I am deluded and we have no common cold or Flu cases every winter. So with a fifth of the country likely to have already had the virus and a health service with a massive amount of level 2 and level 3 beds, we are more than ready for a second spike, as it stands. Remember we cannot lock down forever and we need to come out, which brings me on to the Flu season.
Why do we have a flu season? The main reason we have a Flu season is because as it gets cooler people coop up and spend more time in close proximity, the population becomes denser and therefor it's easier for a virus to travel, also people tend to eat less fruit and veg and see less sunlight and our natural defences are slightly depleted, sound familiar?
The longer we stay locked down, the closer we will be to the next Flu season, so essentially you will be hitting a second spike as people begin to mix, late summer early Autumn which will be just as the next Flu seasons hits, so a second spike will lead nicely into a third and if you want to overwhelm the NHS then this is the exact way to do it.
Lastly why are so many elderly people dying of COVID, well it's largely down to the paranoia that people are displaying on platforms like facebook. GP's are not assessing elderly patients face to face, they are not being taken to hospital or they are terrified to go to hospital incase they get COVID, so they stay at home until it's too late.
Strokes are down up to 70%, where have these patient gone? MI's down 50%, Hospital attendances down 90%, where are all the falls?? But why do they all have COVID signs?
Well anyone who has worked with elderly patients, and I suspect lots of you have, will know there are multiple reasons an elderly person can develop a pneumonia (COVID symptoms). They might fall and be in pain therefore not fully expand their lungs and develop atelectasis and then pneumonia.
They may have reduced mobility, due to quarantine, and become constipated and this may push up on the diaphragm and cause atelectasis or cause them to vomit and aspirate leading to pneumonia.They may develop urinary retention and UTI, secondary to constipation, and become bed bound, causing more time in a prone position and develop a basal collapse of the lungs and again atelectasis and pneumonia. The fact that they have reduced mobility may even mean they spend more time in bed or just sitting, which again is enough to cause chest infection/pneumonia.
Strokes may not present (they aren't) and develop swallow issues and aspirate leading to pneumonia, MIs may present late and develop pulmonary oedema with a secondary infection again leading to pneumonia, and many may have a cold or a Flu (which is down 95%) and go on to develop a pneumonia.
All of the above reasons would cause a patient to have COVID symptoms and will kill elderly patients if not treated, and all of them are enough to be classed as a COVID death currently. And this is why so many nursing homes are being decimated, it's as much through fear as it is through COVID.
Before you campaign and sign petitions to lock yourselves and your family away, remember also that lock down has consequences.
The first 2 reasons are clear above, the elderly will become frail, not be treated and die in their thousands, and thousands of people will not attend A&E at all, or until it's too late and again will die. This is before you factor in the 60 thousand cancer patients that will lose their lives because of missed screening or delayed operations. And then there is the burden on mental health services and the deaths caused by domestic abuse or suicide. And that's before the biggest killer by far which will be austerity.
We are heading for the biggest recession in 300 years, the last one has cost an estimated 500000 lives, why will this one be any different? And even with the lock down measures prolonged, will we have saved any lives any way, as our frail residents face a second and third spike in quick succession.
I understand that you my be scared and its overwhelming being constantly bombarded with negativity and fear, but before you completely isolate yourselves and fall out with loved ones and friends, ask yourself is lockdown still working, and what are the potential benefits of staying locked down versus, carrying on with some semblance of a normal life?"
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Nightingale hospitals largely empty as NHS weathers the storm
Facilities were launched with a fanfare but medics complain they lack equipment for complex Covid-19 cases
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Temporary hospitals set up around the UK to handle the surge in coronavirus cases are almost empty, with at least one of the hastily constructed facilities expecting never to open its doors as the NHS weathers the crisis better than many had feared.
Seven Nightingale hospitals — named after the pioneering Victorian nurse — have been erected at unprecedented speed across England in recent weeks, with logistical support from members of Britain’s military. Similar facilities have also recently opened in Scotland and Wales. But the majority have only taken a handful of patients.
NHS leaders reject any suggestion that they have become “white elephants”, casting the dearth of coronavirus sufferers at the Nightingales as a mark of how well the health service prepared for the biggest public health emergency in a century. The UK has avoided the wrenching scenes in Italy where dying patients were treated in corridors after some hospitals ran out of beds.
It would “count as a huge success for the whole country if we never need to use [the Nightingales] but with further waves of coronavirus possible it is important that we have these extra facilities in place and treating patients”, Sir Simon said.
However, medics are complaining that the London Nightingale — built in just nine days at the ExCeL conference centre in the city’s east end, lacks the staff or facilities to handle some of the more complex cases of coronavirus.
One north London doctor complained that the Nightingale was “meant to exist to offload patients” when other hospitals were overwhelmed. “When you’ve got something that doesn’t do that it’s a waste of resources. It feels like they’re just cherry picking those patients less likely to die,” she added.
One critical care doctor said that, as he and his fellow medics had learned more about the disease, they realised patients were likely to need renal or surgical support, which the Nightingale was not equipped to provide.
Rejecting one report that the London facility has struggled with staffing levels and had to turn away seriously ill patients, officials said the intention had always been that staff would be drawn in from other hospitals as and when they were needed.
A further 160 military personnel will be deployed to Harrogate and Bristol to help with porterage, equipment maintenance, stores management and distribution.
At other Nightingales, the story is of facilities largely unused because regular NHS hospitals have been able to care for coronavirus patients.
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In Birmingham clinicians are examining whether the city’s so far empty Nightingale could be used for routine operations that have been postponed in order to free up beds in main hospitals. But David Rosser, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which runs four hospitals in the city, cautioned last week: “Is it as good as a bed in a hospital? No, not by a long stretch. It remains fundamentally a warehouse with beds in it.”
The Sunderland Nightingale has been fitted out in recent weeks as a 460-bed, 20-ward, facility at an undisclosed cost. It will be ready by the end of this month to receive patients from north-east England, should demand for beds outstrip capacity.
In Glasgow, the Louisa Jordan hospital, which commemorates a Scottish nursing heroine who died in the first world war, opened on Monday but the government was relatively confident it would never be needed.
NHS England has not disclosed how much the English Nightingales have cost, beyond pointing out that both the London and Birmingham hospitals are occupying their expansive sites rent-free. However, the Scottish facility cost £43m to establish, officials said.
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Before some have even opened, the future of the Nightingales is under consideration within government. On Wednesday Ben Wallace, defence secretary, suggested they could be pressed into service for different kinds of treatment, such as cancer or step-down care, noting that partly due to the effectiveness of the lockdown, “there’s not full utilisation of some of these Nightingales”.
There was “a discussion to be had, with the wider NHS, about do you want to use these facilities for something else, or do you want to decant Covid [patients] to there and go back to your day job elsewhere”, he told MPs.
An NHS spokesperson said: “Looking out over the coming months we expect to sustain the Nightingales and also deploy them to support recovering patients and others, as the rest of the NHS re-establishes routine services.”
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Cape Cod Field Hospital Closes Without Seeing Any Coronavirus Patients
May 8, 2020 at 10:43 am
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HYANNIS (CBS) — A field hospital set up to deal with an expected surge of coronavirus patients on the Cape has been shut down without ever seeing a single patient.
The temporary hospital in a gym at Joint Base Cape Cod was one of five set up across eastern Massachusetts to take in COVID-19 patients who were not in critical condition but not well enough to go home.
Cape Cod Healthcare, which managed the site, stopped staffing it Tuesday because it had not used any of the 94 beds there. That’s because Cape Cod and Falmouth hospitals still have plenty of beds available for patients after elective and non-emergency cases were postponed to make space for the expected surge.
The field hospital at the gym at Joint Base Cape Cod. (WBZ-TV)
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A bigger issue than Professor Ferguson's private life is the accuracy of his model. When applied to the Swedish policy it forecast 40,000 deaths by now, over 15 times the reality.
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NEIL FERGUSON, one of the Government's senior scientific advisors on the coronavirus response was financed by the pharmaceutical industry in the run-up to the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic, unearthed reports reveal.
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PUBLISHED: 15:07, Mon, May 4, 2020 | UPDATED: 15:22, Mon, May 4, 2020
Coronavirus: Neil Ferguson gives prediction on UK death toll
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Professor Neil Ferguson is one of the most senior advisors to the Government on the coronavirus outbreak. Tasked with shaping the UK’s response, Prof Ferguson sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) with several other scientists.
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He spearheads a team at Imperial College London which produces the mathematical prediction models largely credited with prompting the Government to impose the current lockdown.
Prof Ferguson has a history in working as an epidemiologist for over 20 years, though he began and finished his studies in the field of physics.
Just as Prof Ferguson’s prediction models have proved decisive in the ongoing fight against coronavirus, so too were his models used as a precedent in the fight against Swine Flu (N1H1).
His team at Imperial College predicted a scenario in which 65,000 people in the UK died – a significant benchmark in the WHO's decision to issue a pandemic.
In the end, the UK death toll from Swine Flu stood at 457.
Added to this, the controversy over so-called “conflicts of interest” with those who advised the World Health Organisation (WHO) but had simultaneous ties with the pharmaceutical industry.
The WHO requires all advisors to declare any conflicts of interest prior to their being recruited.
In 2010, the WHO revealed the names of 16 experts and advisors on its emergency committee which recommended the declaration of the Swine Flu pandemic – five of them having had links with the pharmaceutical industry.
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The 2018 documentary “TrustWHO” noted how Prof Ferguson, who was on the committee, “reported conflicts of interest”.
The film’s maker, Lilian Franck, said: “Neil Ferguson declares consultancy fees from GlaxoSmithKline, Baxter, and Roche.
“The manufacturers of the Swine Flu vaccines and medications.
“Not a problem for the WHO.”
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At the time, in an interview with the pharmaceutical publication, Scrip, Prof Ferguson explained the extent of his ties to the companies.
He said: "I chose to end the relationship with GSK and Roche in 2007 due to the mounting pressures of other (more important) work, and because I wanted to pursue advisory work with public bodies which is more easily done without current relationships with commercial companies."
He added: “I think it would be difficult to find a true expert on influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs who has not worked at some time with pharma companies.
“The development of such products is undertaken by commercial companies, they have the data, and they are interested in research which relates to their products.
Coronavirus death toll: UK deaths from COVID-19 are gradually falling
Coronavirus death toll: UK deaths from COVID-19 are gradually falling (Image: Express Newspapers)
“I think science generally benefits from links between academic and commercial research, as does the quality of scientific advice offered to public health agencies."
The pandemic proved a perfect financial opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry.
JPMorgan estimated some $7-10billion (£5-8bn) was made off 2009 vaccine profits alone.
When contacted by Express.co.uk, Prof Ferguson said he had no conflicts of interest in relation to the coronavirus pandemic.
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He said: “I have no commercial consultancy interests, and have not had for several years.
“For the reasons previously stated, I have no links with pharmaceutical and/or vaccine companies related to work on pandemics.
“My only links to vaccine and pharmaceutical companies are in the area of dengue (a mosquito borne virus which is a research interest of mine).
“I receive no personal income or expense payments from that work.
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Sweden shows lockdowns were not necessary, but will Bill Gates listen?
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Sweden shows lockdowns were not necessary, but will Bill Gates listen?
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Sweden shows lockdowns were not necessary, but will Bill Gates listen?
You have to hand it to them. As the world fell into sustained panic over Covid-19, a group of scientific advisors in Stockholm were looking beyond the terse soundbites and limited data of the WHO, plotting a careful course through an international crisis that has caused paralysis for those nations who took the sensationalism at face value.
By doing what they could to quarantine older and at-risk groups, whilst letting everyone else function as normally as possible without a lockdown, Swedish leaders have not only ensured their economy can remain healthy, but they have also managed to maintain a lower death rate per million than countries like the Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the UK and Ireland.
Like a lot of people, I thought a lockdown was the only way to handle a virus portrayed as an apocalyptic event, one that would change the world forever. What the fall-out will be is unknown, but we can now say with quiet confidence that a lockdown was not necessary, if only our “experts’ analysis” of the disease had been more level-headed.
Following an Oxford study suggesting millions of people in the UK had already contracted the virus, a Stanford study in California has more recently indicated that the rate of infection with coronavirus is at least 50 times higher than the number of confirmed cases in Santa Clara county where the sample was taken, a finding that would make “the cure” almost certainly worse than the disease.
Writing at The Hill, former Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center Dr. Scott Atlas said the fatality rate is likely to be around 0.1% of carriers, some 20 times lower than WHO estimates, which means the vast majority of people are not at any significant risk of dying, even if they do contract Covid-19. One would not get that impression from the media’s coverage of Covid-19 however.
The solution all along was to isolate at-risk groups, such as the elderly, early and quickly, thereby lowering overcrowding concerns in intensive-care units, thus rendering moot the motivating reason for lockdowns in the first place. The Swedes did make mistakes along the way though, with a higher death-rate than neighbouring countries being attributed to a lack of information being conveyed to immigrants from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
You might say hindsight is wonderful, but one senses something is amiss when countries start to add “probable” deaths from Covid-19 to the official Covid-19 death-count (on-foot of guidelines from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention). Even though the deceased has not been tested, “if the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty”, the fatality will now be added to the coronavirus death-count in a number of countries.
The fact that most of the world has been led into mass-panic, lockdown and near-economic-ruin by the bungling WHO, who are ultimately controlled by only a handful of people, highlights how easily we can fall prey to group-think.
Whether there is a nefarious mastermind or grand conspiracy behind the global shutdown remains to be seen; the lockdowns could all just be attributable to human error and hysteria, but there certainly is a lot of money to be made by whoever develops a vaccine.
Enter Bill Gates. He seems to have appointed himself as our knight in shining armour, cometh to take away the germs of the world, gaining the status of prophet recently too when an old Ted Talk predicting microbiotic doom resurfaced.
Whether or not Mr. Gates is impressed by the Swedish approach is difficult to determine, but his fixation on developing a vaccine would suggest he hasn’t high regard for the human ability to produce antibodies.
To this end, Dr. Atlas goes further in his claims about lockdowns, saying they have prolonged the pain internationally because people are not becoming infected at a rate that will allow for “herd immunity”, a taboo phrase the Swedes are depending on.
He writes: “We know from decades of medical science that infection itself allows people to generate an immune response — antibodies — so that the infection is controlled throughout the population by “herd immunity.” Indeed, that is the main purpose of widespread immunization in other viral diseases — to assist with population immunity.
“In this virus, we know that medical care is not even necessary for the vast majority of people who are infected. It is so mild that half of infected people are asymptomatic, shown in early data from the Diamond Princess ship, and then in Iceland and Italy. That has been falsely portrayed as a problem requiring mass isolation. In fact, infected people without severe illness are the immediately available vehicle for establishing widespread immunity. By transmitting the virus to others in the low-risk group who then generate antibodies, they block the network of pathways toward the most vulnerable people, ultimately ending the threat. Extending whole-population isolation would directly prevent that widespread immunity from developing.”
Herd immunity, after all, is what people like Bill Gates want, only his means of achieving it will be via a vaccine, not transmission.
The dawn of mandatory vaccinations, and perhaps even accompanying certificates proving we are “safe” to travel, does seem to be upon us because of people like the Microsoft founder, but before that happens, perhaps we should take pause and ask: are we really willing to give up so much freedom from state-intrusion over a disease that appears to be as misunderstood as it is over-hyped?
A remarkable story made headlines last week — a goat, a quail and a papaya tested positive for coronavirus.
Following a request by the president of Tanzania to evaluate the country’s coronavirus test kits, state security services sent a series of non-human samples to the national health laboratory to be tested. The samples — which included goat, quail and papaya, as well as inorganic substances such as motor oil — were labelled with human names and ages, while technicians at the lab were not told of the plot.
After the fruit and animal samples received their positive results, President John Magufuli said there was a “dirty game” playing out at the lab, and that the imported test kits were faulty and had “technical errors”. He also questioned whether there was a possibility of bribes or sabotage taking place:
“People could be used, the test kits could be used too. It could also be a sabotage because this is war… So when you notice something like this, you must know there is a dirty game being played in these tests… that there are unbelievable things happening in this country. Either the laboratory workers in there are bought by people with money, either they are not well-educated, which is not true because this laboratory is used for other diseases… Because even the reagents are imported, because even the swabs are also imported, so it’s a must that something is actually going on.”
Importantly, the president then expressed concern about false positive test results, saying that some people are being told they are infected when they are not actually carrying the virus.
“Through the extra information I have here, there must be people who are told they are positive, while they are not really corona patients, and some might even die from worry.”
The lab’s director as well as its quality assurance manager were suspended, while the Ministry of Health announced a 10-person committee to investigate operations at the lab — not only procedures for handling and processing samples, but also the test kits themselves.
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In response, the Africa CDC, who provided the tests in conjunction with the Jack Ma Foundation, defended the tests, as did the World Health Organization. Jack Ma, the richest man in China and the man behind Alibaba, has been on a mission to supply over 150 countries with medical supplies, including a shipment of 1.1 million coronavirus tests kits to Africa.
Note that instead of acknowledging a possible problem with test kits or procedures, MSM reporting on this story repeatedly mentions President Magafuli’s endorsement of a Madagascan tonic as a COVID-19 treatment, his wish for Tanzanians to “pray away” the virus, and Tanzania’s failures with respect to its coronavirus response. Mainstream outlets tend not to mention that he has a PhD in chemistry, his comments about sabotage, or his concerns over faulty tests and false positive results.
Flaws in Testing
This is not the first time coronavirus tests have come into question. In Britain, tests produced under Public Health England (PHE) protocols were found to lack sufficient accuracy and were abandoned. Similarly, in the United States, the CDC’s own tests were also found to be flawed. Other countries including the United States, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey and India have all reported faulty or inaccurate tests from Chinese suppliers.
Obviously, bad tests means bad results. False negative test results return people who are actually infected with COVID-19 back into the community, confirmed to be safe to enjoy their remaining freedom. If the virus spreads and behaves as the MSM would have us believe, a small number of false negatives could spell disaster.
False positive results are dangerous for another reason — they cause people to be diagnosed with COVID-19 when they don’t actually have it. Considering those people and possibly their entire households may then be quarantined, this is not a good outcome. It gets worse when you add in the possibility of all their contacts being traced, notified that they might have COVID-19, and also possibly being isolated, based on bad test results.
Bear in mind that when large numbers of people are tested, a small percentage of false positives will falsely inflate case numbers, possibly giving the appearance of outbreaks occurring where there may be none. Considering much of the world has been placed on lockdown and large chunks of the global economy held for ransom, we ought to have an exceptionally high degree of confidence in the tests being used to detect coronavirus.
Preparation for extraction of SARS-CoV-2 genome using RT-PCR (Photo: Dean Calma/IAEA. Source: Wikicommons)
A Closer Look
Unfortunately, taking a closer look at the details of the testing process does not inspire confidence. Rather, it brings up a number of potential pitfalls, which, taken together cast a different light on the entire coronavirus crisis.
The following brief analysis by virus researcher David Crowe summarises his discoveries regarding the ‘PCR‘ or RT-PCR test, the main method being used to test people for COVID-19. His research points to what are potentially massive flaws, including:
the arbitrary nature of test procedures and the ambiguous nature of test results
documented cases in which test subjects alternately test positive, then negative, and then positive again on successive tests
the inability of the test to prove that a virus is functional or even present
the possibility of both false negative AND false positive results
variability in test procedures (which sequence portions of the virus are being sought, etc) among dozens of different test kits
the possibility of the ultra-sensitive tests being contaminated.
Before we mortgage our freedom and the global economy alike on the back of these tests, it should be a prerequisite that their results are at least accurate — but neither the tests themselves nor the public health bureaucrats pushing them even attempt to claim total accuracy.
So, who will test the tests? How accurate would you like your test to be?
More on this from David Crowe’s The Infectious Myth:
A lot depends on the result of your COVID-19 test, whether it is positive, indicating infection or, big sigh of relief, negative, indicating that you are not infected. But is there such a thing as “the” COVID-19 test? Indeed there is not. There are many and each is looking for different things and making different decisions about whether those things are present or not.
The Test is Not Binary
It is important to understand that the COVID-19 test does not inherently have only two values. The test uses multiple cycles of the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) technology, with an arbitrary count of cycles being the boundary between positive and negative, usually interpreted as infected and uninfected. Not only is this division arbitrary, but we know that it does not work that well because there are numerous published examples of people testing positive, then negative, then positive again, within a few days. There is, so far, no explanation of this phenomenon amongst people who are unwilling to question the test technology, test implementation or viral theory, although manufacturers do obliquely refer to this problem in their technical documentation by admitting that false positives can be caused by “non-specific signals in the assay” or, more directly, “As with other tests, false-positive results may occur.”
Imagine a game dreamed up by Harry Potter and Lewis Carroll. It is played in a field and the bounds are a circle that is not marked. If someone yells “out of bounds” the referee goes to the centre with a curled-up flamingo and rotates it a number of times, a number chosen arbitrarily by the referee. Some choose 30, and some choose other numbers up to 45. Additionally, different referees have flamingoes of different sizes, and sometimes they are curled up more tightly than at other times. But, if you are within the, say, 37 flamingo turns, you are safe, and if not, out of bounds. Welcome to the world of testing for the coronavirus.
Complexity
Coronavirus tests are performed by sophisticated machines with simple interfaces. Program the parameters of the test, pop in the samples, and in a relatively short time, the results are displayed, sometimes as a graph, or other times as simply as “Positive”, “Negative” or “Invalid”. But the process is not simple. First the RNA needs to be extracted from the sample, which will include a lot coming from your cells, from bacteria, or other sources, as well as possibly some from viral particles, all of which could possibly react with a later stage, causing a false positive. It is also important at this step to eliminate non-RNA substances that could interfere with following steps.
Secondly, the RNA needs to be converted into DNA, because PCR only works with DNA. This process uses the enzyme Reverse Transcriptase, hence the moniker RT-PCR for the combination of RNA conversion followed by standard PCR. The RNA to complementary DNA (cDNA) conversion process is quite inefficient. Stephen Bustin, a professor at Anglia Ruskin university, and perhaps the world’s leading expert on quality control of RT-PCR, told me in a recent interview
(infectiousmyth.podbean.com/e/the-infectious-myth-stephen-bustin-on-ch allenges-with-rt-pcr) that the amount of DNA obtained can vary widely, easily by a factor of 10. Since the PCR cycle number is a measure of the amount of material obtained, different efficiencies at the RT step essentially invalidate the simple use of the PCR cycle number. Two different test setups in two different labs, that both use the PCR cycle number 35 as a cutoff, may actually have the cutoff between negative and positive at wildly different places.
Finally, the third step, pure PCR occurs. As described above, this is repeated many times. On each cycle the DNA is unrolled from the double helix into two strands, the portion of interest is duplicated, and the DNA rolls up again.
You may think this explanation is complicated. Yes. It is a complicated process. And although a fancy machine makes it simple to operate, it doesn’t mean that every machine, every lab and every operator gets comparable results. Your situation is even worse than the operators because you will likely just be told either “Infected” or “Clear”.
A Potpourri of Tests
The NHS does not exert much control over the choice of COVID-19 test, allowing in-house validation of test kits (http://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/202 0/03/guidance-and-sop-covid-19-virus-testingin-nhs-laboratories-v1.pdf ) although, more recently, it started to insist that commercially available, rather than in-house tests be used (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/21/public-health-england-admits-coro navirus-tests-used-send-nhs). The US Food and Drug Administration, on the other hand, requires at least a façade of test approval through their Emergency Use Authorizations. I downloaded 33 of the test kit instructions, hopefully a representative sample, to try to see how the tests differed in what they were looking for, how long they were looking, and how they decided whether they had found it or not. I also scanned the test limitations, to see whether the manufacturers thought their tests were perfect or not. If you are a true masochist, you can check my analysis at:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devic es/emergency-use-authorizations
The Number of Flamingo Turns
For some tests in the FDA list, the number of PCR cycles to distinguish positive from negative is not specified, but for most, it is. In general, the more PCR cycles, the more likely that a false positive will be obtained, and the fewer cycles, the more likely a false negative will be obtained. One manufacturer each recommended 30 cycles, 31, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39. 40 cycles was most popular, chosen by 12 manufacturers, and two recommended 43 and 45. The MIQE (Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative RT-PCR Experiments) guidelines for operation and reporting of RT-PCR states that the use of 40 or more cycles is unwise (academic.oup.com/clinchem/article/55/4/611/5631762). Bustin’s advice in my interview with him was that not more than 35 cycles be used. With either 35 or less than 40, the majority of COVID-19 RT-PCR tests approved by the FDA may be pushing RT-PCR to its limits or beyond.
What is Being Looked For?
The RT-PCR tests look for only a tiny fraction of the COVID-19 genome. And different tests look for different tiny fractions. Most do not specify the size of the portions, but a test developed by Charité Berlin (not on the FDA list) looks for the RdRp and E genes, which amount to 213 bases out of about 30,000 for the entire genome, or less than one percent. On the FDA list, the tests reference the E, N and S genes and portions of the ORF (Open Reading Frame). What is most important to know is not what the function of these RNA segments is, but simply that the tests are looking for very different things. It is as if we went looking for leopards with one person using spots as the guide, another the claws, another the teeth and another the eyes.
Worse than differences in what they are looking for is the way of defining whether they have found it. Some tests look for one portion that must be present for the test to be declared positive. Others look for two portions and both must be positive, while others only require one of the two to be positive. Some tests look for three portions, and generally only require two to be detected, although one test requires all three.
This is worth thinking about. A test that looks for three portions of the genome is generally happy if two are found. That means that we can have a leopard without spots as long as it has leopard-like claws and teeth. Or spots and teeth, but different claws. What does it mean to have a genome of a very simple creature like a virus, for which any part can be missing, but we still say it is what we are looking for? And if we only have 1% of an animal, is it possible we will decide it is a leopard when it is actually an ocelot?
Limitations of the Test
Each test comes with a list of limitations. And the majority probably apply to all tests, even though they are only listed in some. These include noting that the test is only looking for RNA, and does not prove that a virus is present, and certainly cannot prove that the virus is functional. Some note that RNA from the virus may persist after the infection has been resolved.
A variety of reasons for false negatives and false positives are given. While public health agencies are generally not interested in false positives, this problem has the power to magnify the epidemic, as well as turning people’s lives upside down. Some tests note correctly that false positives increase as the number of actual infections in the population being tested decrease. Also, RT-PCR is so ultra-sensitive, that a tiny amount of contamination at any stage of the process can result in a false positive, and the manufacturers warn about this. Some tests indicate that other coronaviruses may cause positive test results, but many coronaviruses are not believed to be very pathogenic, so this is equivalent to a false positive to the person receiving the misleading result. A mix-up of two specimens may cause one false positive and one false negative, as people are given the wrong results.
Some tests indicate correctly that the presence of the coronavirus RNA, even if taken as proof of viral infection, does not prove that it is the cause of any symptoms being experienced.
Many also recommend that the test alone not be used to make a diagnosis but that clinical information (such as symptoms) and a doctor’s opinion be incorporated.
Many tests admit they have not been tested on immunocompromised people or on people with symptoms, indicating that the manufacturers are concerned about the accuracy in these groups.
Impact on Your Life
One story from China illustrates the absurdity of the current situation with COVID-19 testing, the impact on people’s lives, and the unwillingness of medical professionals to consider that the test could ever be a problem.
The story of an elderly Chinese man is found in a pre-publication medical article
(https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-23197/v1):
A 68-year-old man was admitted due to fever, muscle pain, and fatigue. He was initially diagnosed with COVID-19 according to two consecutive positive results for SARS-CoV-2 RNA plus clinical symptoms and chest CT findings, and was discharged from hospital when meeting the discharge criteria, including two consecutive negative results. He was tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA twice during the quarantine and was hospitalized again. He was asymptomatic then, but IgG and IgM [antibodies, with IgG indicating immunity] were both positive. He was discharged in the context of four consecutive negative test results for SARS-CoV-2 RNA after antiviral treatment. However, he was tested positive once again on the 3rd and 4th day after the second discharge, although still asymptomatic. IgG and IgM were still positive. After antiviral treatment, the results of SARS-CoV-2 RNA were negative in three consecutive retests, and he was finally discharged and quarantined for further surveillance.
The most disturbing thing about this article is that, at no point, did the authors raise the possibility of false positive test results. Perhaps the unnamed 68-year-old man would disagree, arguing that his life being turned upside down, being forced to take drugs while healthy, and being isolated from his family was more disturbing.
Today, the West is desperately trying to point the finger at China. In doing so, they are trying to deflect the problem as the politicians who authorized this lockdown have demonstrated that they are not qualified to hold office in any capacity, even as court jesters, for they are not even funny. I have often said that with each financial crisis they ask for recommendations. NEVER has any committee just once asked if the proposed solution has ever been used before and what happened.
In the case of Neil Ferguson, either he is a complete idiot or a fraud for I do not see any other possibility. An idiot because he only spoke to other epidemiologists and never ran by any economist what the cost of shutting down the entire economy would be. Perhaps he is a fraud insofar as he knew the result and did so at the direction of Bill Gates to further his climate change agenda. Why NO GOVERNMENT is grilling this guy until you cannot tell if he is crying or sweating goes to the fact that the politicians realize what they have done is also unprecedented. In the old days, they would be subjected to a death ritual reserved for traitors.
Why would any politician listen to Ferguson alone? Not a single economist was asked what would happen if they locked everyone down on Ferguson’s recommendation.
Throughout history, NEVER has any government EVER been so foolish as to lockdown the entire economy. If someone was sick, they were quarantined. That is why leper colonies were created throughout history to contain such diseases.
There are lessons that history has to offer. The breakdown of civil order has begun. Thucydides does not identify the disease which was the Plague of Athens that took the life of Pericles. He does describe the body politic – the civil unrest which became a plague in Athens.
Remarking upon the “spectacle of men dying like sheep, through having caught the infection in nursing each other,” Thucydides notes that “this sight led others to avoid the sick, emptying many houses of their residents for want of a nurse.”
As houses emptied and burial sites filled, Athenians cast aside age-old traditions, throwing the bodies of loved ones into the closest funeral pyre. With the collapse of all rituals came the collapse of civil unrest, with men “now coolly venturing on what they had formerly done in a corner.” Now that there was no longer “fear of gods or law of man,” misrule became the rule.
Thucydides also records the morality of Pericles in a funeral speech he delivered. Pericles gave praise to those Athenians who died in the war against Sparta, recalling the many reasons for this sacrifice. Pericles included in this list of political achievements an “administration that favors the many and not the few,” laws that “provide equal justice to all,” and a system where advancement depends on “capacity and merit,” not wealth and social standing.
However, Pericles also declared that Athenians, unlike other peoples, know that discussion and reflection are not “stumbling blocks to action, but an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.” Those who have wealth spend it “more for use than for show,” while those citizens who “attend only to their private business have no business at all in Athens.” This is how democracy works, Pericles concluded, and why Athens serves as “school for all Greece.”
NEIL FERGUSON, one of the Government's senior scientific advisors on the coronavirus response was financed by the pharmaceutical industry in the run-up to the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic, unearthed reports reveal.
By JOEL DAY
PUBLISHED: 15:07, Mon, May 4, 2020 | UPDATED: 15:22, Mon, May 4, 2020
Coronavirus: Neil Ferguson gives prediction on UK death toll
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He spearheads a team at Imperial College London which produces the mathematical prediction models largely credited with prompting the Government to impose the current lockdown.
Prof Ferguson has a history in working as an epidemiologist for over 20 years, though he began and finished his studies in the field of physics.
Just as Prof Ferguson’s prediction models have proved decisive in the ongoing fight against coronavirus, so too were his models used as a precedent in the fight against Swine Flu (N1H1).
His team at Imperial College predicted a scenario in which 65,000 people in the UK died – a significant benchmark in the WHO's decision to issue a pandemic.
In the end, the UK death toll from Swine Flu stood at 457.
Added to this, the controversy over so-called “conflicts of interest” with those who advised the World Health Organisation (WHO) but had simultaneous ties with the pharmaceutical industry.
The WHO requires all advisors to declare any conflicts of interest prior to their being recruited.
In 2010, the WHO revealed the names of 16 experts and advisors on its emergency committee which recommended the declaration of the Swine Flu pandemic – five of them having had links with the pharmaceutical industry.
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The 2018 documentary “TrustWHO” noted how Prof Ferguson, who was on the committee, “reported conflicts of interest”.
The film’s maker, Lilian Franck, said: “Neil Ferguson declares consultancy fees from GlaxoSmithKline, Baxter, and Roche.
“The manufacturers of the Swine Flu vaccines and medications.
“Not a problem for the WHO.”
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At the time, in an interview with the pharmaceutical publication, Scrip, Prof Ferguson explained the extent of his ties to the companies.
He said: "I chose to end the relationship with GSK and Roche in 2007 due to the mounting pressures of other (more important) work, and because I wanted to pursue advisory work with public bodies which is more easily done without current relationships with commercial companies."
He added: “I think it would be difficult to find a true expert on influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs who has not worked at some time with pharma companies.
“The development of such products is undertaken by commercial companies, they have the data, and they are interested in research which relates to their products.
Coronavirus death toll: UK deaths from COVID-19 are gradually falling
Coronavirus death toll: UK deaths from COVID-19 are gradually falling (Image: Express Newspapers)
“I think science generally benefits from links between academic and commercial research, as does the quality of scientific advice offered to public health agencies."
The pandemic proved a perfect financial opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry.
JPMorgan estimated some $7-10billion (£5-8bn) was made off 2009 vaccine profits alone.
When contacted by Express.co.uk, Prof Ferguson said he had no conflicts of interest in relation to the coronavirus pandemic.
Big pharma latest: GSK and Roche were among the companies Ferguson received fees from
Big pharma latest: GSK and Roche were among the companies Ferguson received fees from (Image: GETTY)
He said: “I have no commercial consultancy interests, and have not had for several years.
“For the reasons previously stated, I have no links with pharmaceutical and/or vaccine companies related to work on pandemics.
“My only links to vaccine and pharmaceutical companies are in the area of dengue (a mosquito borne virus which is a research interest of mine).
“I receive no personal income or expense payments from that work.
“I am a co-investigator on a research grant funded by a pharmaceutical company to analyse early preclinical data on a novel drug to treat dengue fever.”
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21:57, 14 MAY 2020UPDATED05:42, 15 MAY 2020
More than 19 million Brits may have already been infected with coronavirus and got better, according to scientists.
Experts at Manchester University revealed the figures as health chiefs approved a “game-changer” 100%-accurate antibody check which would show who has already had the virus.
Testing co-ordinator Professor John Newton said: “This is a very positive development.”
The tests will be rolled out in the weeks to come and could pave the way out of lockdown.
Hopes were last night growing that a new coronavirus antibody test could pave the way for an end to lockdown and a return to work for millions of Brits.
Health chiefs have approved a check developed by Swiss drugs giant Roche that is 100% accurate in detecting those who have had the disease, which may have given them immunity.
Deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam said frontline NHS and care workers will have first access to the checks, which are to be rolled out “in the days and weeks to come”.
And the potential “game-changer” came as scientists from Manchester University claimed more than 19million people may have already been infected and recovered.
Health experts at the University of Washington also predict the UK was on course to have its first day with no Covid-19 deaths on July 30 and the toll would dip below 100 by June 14.
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But it was revealed that of the 233,151 people who have tested positive in the UK since the outbreak began, around 148,000 were found to have had the virus in the last two weeks – during the lockdown.
As the recorded death rate yesterday rose by 428 to 33,614, UK Coronavirus Testing Programme national
co-ordinator Professor John Newton said: “This is a very positive development because such a highly specific antibody test is a very reliable marker of past infection.
“This in turn may indicate some immunity to future infection, although the extent to which the presence of antibodies indicates immunity remains unclear.”
Boris Johnson previously called antibody testing a “game-changer”.
And hailing the breakthrough, the PM’s spokesman said yesterday: “We still need to work to understand its full potential but this is clearly an important step forward and it does continue to have the potential to be a game-changer, as the PM set out.”
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Oxford University professor of medicine Sir John Bell added: “It’s a step in the right direction. In the evolution of these antibody tests to get one that works really well is a major step forward.”
He also said antibodies “stick around probably for a year or two” and added that the Roche test was the “best approved test available on the market now”.
A quarter of Covid-19 patients who have died in English hospitals since March 31 – when pre-existing conditions began to be reported – had diabetes, according to NHS England.
Of the 22,332 patients who died, 26% were diabetic, 18% had dementia and 15% were reported to have chronic pulmonary disease.
The Office for National Statistics said 148,000 people in England had coronavirus between April 27 and May 10 – the equivalent of 0.27% of the population.
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The effect of coronavirus on the wider health service was laid bare as figures showed 900,000 A&E attendances in April, down 57% from 2.1 million a year earlier.
NHS England, which published the figures, said the fall was “likely to be a result of the Covid-19 response”.
Experts fear some patients who need treatment are staying away for fear of piling extra pressure on the health service, or of catching coronavirus in hospital.
Emergency admissions fell sharply last month, down 39% from 535,226 in April 2019 to 326,581.
Society for Acute Medicine former president Dr Nick Scriven described the drop as “a significant concern”.
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He added: “This is a ticking time bomb in itself and it will be exacerbated by a myriad of other pressures in the coming weeks.”
Cancer referrals dropped 8%, with GPs in England making 181,873 in March 2020 – down from 198,418 in 2019. Urgent breast cancer referrals showed a bigger drop, down from 17,137 in March 2019 to 12,411 this year, a fall of 28%.
Admissions for all routine hospital surgery in March totalled 207,754, compared with 305,356 in 2019.
As workers across the country yesterday began returning to factories, building sites and call centres, unions warned ample testing and PPE must be in place before the NHS is fully opened.
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Unison’s Sara Gorton warned: “As hospitals get busier and clinics begin to reopen, the safety of staff and patients is paramount. But this can’t happen without plentiful PPE supplies.
“Tackling Covid has been a huge challenge, but this next phase will be a crucial test too.”
But NHS Providers chief Chris Hopson said trusts are still facing “significant problems” on testing.
NEWS YouTube censors epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski for opposing lockdown By Jon Levine May 16, 2020 | 1:10pm  Dr. Knut WittkowskiHelayne Seidman Sign up for our special edition newsletter to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic. Big Tech companies are aggressively tamping down on COVID-19 “misinformation” — opinions and ideas contrary to official pronouncements. Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, former head of biostatistics, epidemiology and research design at Rockefeller University, says YouTube removed a video of him talking about the virus which had racked up more than 1.3 million views. Wittkowski, 65, is a ferocious critic of the nation’s current steps to fight the coronavirus. He has derided social distancing, saying it only prolongs the virus’ existence and has attacked the current lockdown as mostly unnecessary. Wittkowski, who holds two doctorates in computer science and medical biometry, believes the coronavirus should be allowed to achieve “herd immunity,” and that short of a vaccine the pandemic will only end after it has sufficiently spread through the population. “With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected,” he says in the now-deleted video. “I was just explaining what we had,” Wittkowski told The Post of the video, saying he had no idea why it was removed. The footage was produced by the British film company Journeyman Pictures. “They don’t tell you. They just say it violates our community standards. There’s no explanation for what those standards are or what standards it violated.” In articles and interviews across the web, he has likened COVID-19 to a “bad flu.” That likely made him a target for YouTube, which said in April it would be “removing information that is problematic” about the pandemic.
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Navigating the Hysteria And Fear Around Covid-19
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Sat, 16 May 2020 12:32 UTC
Cronyvirus-hysteriaAs everyone must be aware by now, this 'pandemic' we've been watching in slow motion has been vastly exaggerated and met with exaggerated responses that are, however, all too real and cannot be undone. What's spreading uncontrollably around the world is secondarily a virus and primarily a lack of common sense, and actions that will leave the world as we know it in ruins unless we somehow manage to stop them. Much is happening every day, and it's all rather chaotic and confusing, especially anything that comes out of the mouths of government officials, echoed by the brain-dead androids in the media. So I want to do a short recapitulation of where we stand at this point.
SARS-CoV-2 is a virus the effects of which are not much different from many other coronaviruses, which are quite common, or from seasonal flu. While overreacting to its initial spread is somewhat understandable due to the many unknowns associated with it, it is perfectly clear now that it poses no more danger than the other viruses just mentioned. Most people don't get infected when exposed to it. Of those who get infected, most show mild or no symptoms. Of those who show symptoms, only a very small percentage dies. And the ones who die are almost exclusively people who are old and have underlying health problems, or, in other words, people who die from any infection. We've lived with such viruses forever. There is no reason to panic or to introduce destructive measures. The only significant difference between this virus and the others is its PR campaign.
From the evidence we've gathered in the last two months, SARS-CoV-2 on its own doesn't and can't cause all that much harm. It is only in combination with other factors that it becomes deadly. Most of the time, it does not translate into the 'disease' named COVID-19. One of its observed effects is decreased oxygenation of blood. This will not cause much trouble to a healthy person, but it will amplify any existing health problems. It will also have a stronger effect in combination with other factors like air pollution, which is why Wuhan and Northern Italy have been hit so hard. Much of the damage we see is due to the already poor health of many people, pollution, and stress. And stress is, of course, what the governments and the media have been creating 24/7 for months, clearly with no sense of real responsibility. Much of the suffering we've seen has been directly caused by this incompetent (or malicious?) response.
It has also been made clear by many experts that this virus came from a laboratory and not from Chinese people eating bad (or bat) things, as Western propaganda, completely devoid of any scientific basis or even just common sense, would have us believe. Among other reasons, if you find sequences from HIV in a coronavirus, you know they didn't get there by random mutations (unless you're as misinformed about microbiology as most people seem to be about SARS-CoV-2). Which one of the two labs that have been working on exactly this kind of stuff for years and are thus the most likely, if not only possible, culprits, i.e. Fort Detrick in Maryland or the lab in Wuhan is responsible for this 'leak', I leave for you to decide. But it should be remembered that they worked on this together, to a large extent, with Fauci pouring millions of dollars into it in both labs. And we know the security measures in Fort Detrick were so bad that it was closed in Summer 2019 for that reason. I will let you ponder what light it casts on our situation that it almost certainly came from one of those and most definitely not from a Chinese market.
Many countries are also finding that they had cases of COVID-19 all the way back to at least November last year, long before the pandemic 'officially' started 'in China'. Doctors all over the world remember 'strange cases of the flu' or pneumonia from November-December. Testing for antibodies in people who were sick in that period of time are coming up positive for SARS-CoV-2. Some samples from autopsies from that time test positive too. So this virus appears to have been everywhere from China to Iran to Europe to the US at the end of 2019. Many of us who were sick back then and thought our symptoms were really strange for a regular flu are making the connection and realising what it probably was that we had back then. And guess what? There was no lockdown, we recovered, and things went on as usual. Many of us, like me, didn't even go to see a doctor. The panic that came later was not started by the virus (which had already been around for months) but by the WHO, the governments they instructed, and the media that slavishly amplifies and repeats every government utterance on the topic.
Lockdown, physical distancing, and masks were introduced to 'flatten the curve' to avoid overwhelming hospitals. As most hospitals everywhere have been empty for the last 6 weeks, this goal has been achieved, and there is no more reason for any of these measures to continue. The measures do not and can not stop the spread of a virus. They can, and do, however, destroy people's lives, both directly and indirectly, and will continue to do so for years. They are also violations of basic human rights and freedoms. We've been told that 9/11 happened because the terrorists 'envied our freedoms'. Well, they don't have to envy anymore. Our freedoms are gone. And if you believe it's only 'temporary', you haven't learned anything from history.
Countries without 'quarantine' (Sweden, Belarus, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan) have shown clearly that their results are no different from those of countries with 'quarantine'. (Note that 'quarantine' is a word for restricting the movement and rights of infected people. Restricting the movement and rights of healthy people is usually called fascism.) Of these five countries, Sweden can be said to be doing worse than the other four. Yet Sweden is doing better than Italy, France, the UK, Spain, Netherlands or Belgium. At the same time, it's not willfully destroying its economy, harassing its population, and taking away people's basic rights. Belarus is riding this out with ease without any restrictions whatsoever. The claims that we'd have been worse off without 'quarantine' are thus completely unsubstantiated.
Virologists and doctors all over the world have been warning us that wearing masks, aside from having little to no effect on stopping this virus, does a lot of damage. It deprives us of oxygen, which leads to all kinds of health problems, and this, ironically, actually produces some symptoms similar to those of SARS-CoV-2. The waste we exhale, including viruses, is inhaled back with a mask on. Thus our viral load increases, and our latent viruses (of which we all have plenty) get amplified and awoken. You can actually get sick from the viruses in your body that were latent but were awoken by wearing a mask. Wearing a mask also isolates you from the normal environment and thus weakens your immune system, making you more susceptible to viruses of all kinds, as well as to other threats to your health. These problems also amplify one another. Low oxygen weakens your immune system. A weakened immune system gives a better chance to the latent viruses to spread and multiply, and so on. And of course, the people whom this affects the most are old people with already weakened immune systems, and especially those with respiratory problems. In other words, exactly the people we should be trying to protect the most.
The counting of COVID-19 cases and deaths has been one of the most fraudulent things ever witnessed, and all the numbers are almost completely meaningless. Tests are wildly inaccurate. Deaths are inflated by counting anyone who can even remotely be counted, including people with heart attacks who are merely suspected of having coronavirus. No test needed. Just an assumption. And since hospitals in many places get more money for covid patients than for any other patients, and since government institutions encourage doctors to write 'COVID-19' wherever possible, it is no surprise that the numbers are nowhere near accurate or meaningful. And this is all by design, as has been proved countless times and confirmed by government officials and agencies. Yet even with all the manipulation in the direction of increasing the apparent threat of SARS-CoV-2, the virus fails to appear significantly worse than the flu. It seems very likely that if reported correctly, the number of deaths 'from' covid-19 would be significantly less than those 'from' the flu.
The measures taken under the guise of 'fighting a virus' (false because they don't achieve that - they only slow down the spread) and 'saving lives' (no evidence of that happening) are in many cases so bizarre, illogical, and destructive that people really should think about how much of this can be ascribed to just incompetence before it starts strongly suggesting malicious intent. The economy is being destroyed, which means higher food prices and many other necessities, millions of lost jobs, destruction and decreased production of food, starvation, poverty, disrupted education, closure of small businesses and thus many people's livelihoods, domestic violence, increased alcoholism, suicides, and much more. The psychological damage to countless people is only beginning and will continue for years to come. This whole generation of children will be damaged by something so incredibly stupid and at the same time completely unnecessary that it's hard to fathom how this could ever have happened.
At the same time, of course, the rich are getting richer, as always, and the usual parasites are capitalizing on this crisis. Nobody's being 'saved', we're all getting harmed in many ways while politicians, bankers, and CEOs are robbing us like they always do, and yet many people, in an amazing display of loss of cognitive function, apparently, are cheering for their own demise. Everything that's wrong with our system, everything people have been protesting against for years, has been magnified many times, but many people go along with this utter madness and support it. It turns out that all you have to do to make the whole world participate in collective suicide is to repeat the same lies every day and tell people all this is to 'save lives'. It doesn't have to make any sense. No lives need to actually be saved for it to work. It seems that just saying 'saving lives' is a magical mantra that makes anything not only acceptable but highly desirable, no matter how many lives it actually destroys. People's critical thinking has been obliterated by decades of programming and conditioning, and they will happily be digging their own graves, for free.
The proposed solutions are just as fake as the reasons for a global lockdown. A vaccine for coronavirus is pretty much impossible, for many reasons. The virus mutates much faster than anybody can make a vaccine. We don't have vaccines for any other coronaviruses either, as they have been so difficult to make that success has eluded us so far. Nor do we have one for the common cold, for that matter. And this new virus is of course less known and less studied than all the 'old' ones. Any vaccine that will be announced for SARS-CoV-2 is pretty certain to do more harm than good (if you believe it can do any 'good' in the first place), and any serious testing is very unlikely to ever occur. But it will make a lot of money for people who are already rich, and you'll be paying for it. With your money, with your health, and with your freedom if vaccination becomes necessary in order to travel, buy things, and engage in other common activities.
There certainly is some resistance to all this inanity, and it's growing every day. So are attempts to stifle it. The powers that be are in a desperate overdrive with censorship of vital information and persecution of anyone who dares speak the truth about what's happening. Google (including YouTube) is on one of the largest censorship sprees in the history of mankind, and so is Fakebook. The extent of their endeavour to tell you what you're allowed to see, read, or believe, is indeed frightening. The truth, or even some people's opinions, are clearly more dangerous to them than an angry hippo.
Maybe the largest obstacle for effective resistance to this madness is that too many people have been so brainwashed that they actively support their own destruction, even if it's so clearly visible to the rest of us. As we have seen, even many alternative media have taken an illogical stance against basic human rights, dignity, freedom, and any sense of normal life, under the completely misguided idea that they're helping someone (who exactly?), so these times are indeed a spectacle to behold.
The coming months will bring remarkable changes to our society and to our lives, one way or another. The direction of these changes will greatly depend on people's ability to realize that what's happening right now is not in their interest at all, and to see just how much they've been betrayed by their governments, and that it really might be time 'to get mad'.
We'll see whether covid-19 will be followed by livid-20. If not, stupid-21 will probably kill us all. _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
It is now virtually certain that COVID-19 was brought to Wuhan by American troops taking part in the city’s World Military Games last Oct. 18-27.
The 300-strong US contingent stayed 300 meters from the Huanan Seafood Market where China’s outbreak began (see map below) at the Wuhan Oriental Hotel.
Five of the US troops developed a fever on Oct. 25 and were taken to an infectious-diseases hospital for treatment.
42 employees of the Oriental Hotel were diagnosed with COVID-19, becoming the first cluster in Wuhan. At the time only 7 people from the market had been thus diagnosed (and treated before the hotel staff). All 7 had contact with the 42 from the hotel. From this source, the virus spread to the rest of China.
The American Military Games team trained at a location near Fort Detrick, the military’s viral lab closed down by the CDC in July for various deficiencies.
The big question now is whether the transmission was planned, or accidental.
Chinese authorities are awaiting an explanation from US authorities.
A few days ago, Mike Pompeo phoned Yang Jiechi, Chinese State Councillor for Foreign Affairs. Pompeo’s counterpart is actually Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Yang is Wang’s boss, so Pompeo wanted to talk about something urgent and important.
Pompeo wanted the Chinese not to publicize what they had found.
Yang’s reply: “We await your solemn explanation, especially about Patient Zero.”
China’s leaders have long suspected US military involvement in the Wuhan outbreak but were determined to stop the disease before pursuing the Americans for an honest accounting.'. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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by Tyler Durden
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Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,
A strange comic book that was commissioned for publication by the European Union in 2012 eerily predicted almost exactly what has unfolded with the Covid-19 global pandemic. However, in this propaganda laced presentation of the outbreak, unelected globalist bureaucrats save the planet.
The comic book, titled ‘Infected’, was a production of the European Commission’s international cooperation and development arm. It was not intended for widespread public consumption, but instead to be distributed inside EU institutions. Only a few hundred of the comic books were made.
The EU’s description of the strange publication states that “While the story may be fictional, it is nevertheless intertwined with some factual information.”
The graphic novel depicts scientists inside a lab in China experimenting with deadly pathogens:
A wannabe hero time travels from the future, alerting authorities to the coming pandemic, and presents an antidote, before quickly becoming the target of opportunists who want to steal the cure and sell it to drug companies:
The story features the transmission of a novel virus from animals to humans in a crowded wet market:
“Indeed, imagine if you were infected in this market by a new contagious agent.” says the UN’s chief advisor on contagious diseases, adding “You probably wouldn’t even realise it until the end of the incubation period.”
The publication suggests that air travel would exacerbate the spread of the disease, with the character adding that “You’d have headed back to Europe, the US, Latin America, or Australia as planned via an international airport.”
The cartoon depicts the failure of a global health organisation to act quickly enough to stop a pandemic:
It also predicts draconian safety measures, including social distancing, which make everyday life “totally unbearable”:
The piece concludes with an EU Parliament hearing, in which Brussels pushes for more integrated European cooperation on global health matters, mirroring a real life initiative known as ‘One health’.
The globalists are lauded for helping develop and distribute a vaccine to the world:
Was this predictive programming or just a bizarre coincidence?
In 2020, in reality, the EU has pandered to China, and bowed to censorship regarding the virus outbreak.
The EU has also been heavily criticised by member states and insiders for monumental failings owing to internal bureaucracy. The EU’s science chief even resigned due to the inept coronavirus response from the institution.
In the Eurocrats’ own fiction, globalism saves the planet. In reality, it ends in mass death and global tyranny. _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
So Trump stating that Hydroxychloroquine cures Covid19 and other respiratory ills is a good move .... bypassing big Pharma and Vaccines .... a 20 dollar cure instead of a 2000 dollar problem. See?
And it's about Zinc, this article explains how Zinc blocks virus replication in cells:
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppa t.1001176
So when the BBC and the present Government are saying that Lockdown must persist until a Vaccine is found you know they are full of * and lying to you, simple as.
And as a bonus here is a list of normal foods that have a high Zinc content ..... as stated "blocks virus replication in body cells": https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/best-foods-high-in-zinc _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com http://aanirfan.blogspot.com
Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
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Triple-drug combo of anti-malaria pill hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and ZINC improved coronavirus patients' chances of being discharged and cut death risk by almost 50%, study finds
Researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine looked at 932 coronavirus patients hospitalized between March 2 and April 5
Half were given a combination of hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc sulfate and the other half did not receive zinc
Patients receiving the triple drug combination were 1.5 times more likely to recover enough to be discharged and 44% less likely to die
The team believes hydroxychloroquine helps zinc, which has antiviral properties, get into infected cells
Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
By MARY KEKATOS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and AFP
Combining the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine with the dietary supplement zinc could create a more effective treatment for coronavirus patients, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that taking the drugs together, along with the antibiotic azithromycin, increased patient's chances of being discharged and decreased their risk of dying.
It did not, however, change the average time patients spent in hospital, how long they spent on a ventilator or the total amount of oxygen required.
President Donald Trump has often touted the drug as a 'game-changer' during his press conferences and on Twitter, and the US Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of hydroxychloroquine.
The team, from New York University Grossman School of Medicine, says the findings are encouraging but that more studies, including a randomized clinical trial, are needed.
Researchers from NYU Grossman gave half of coronavirus patients a combination of hydroxychloroquine (pictured), azithromycin and zinc sulfate while the other half did not receive zinc +5
Researchers from NYU Grossman gave half of coronavirus patients a combination of hydroxychloroquine (pictured), azithromycin and zinc sulfate while the other half did not receive zinc
Patients receiving the triple drug combination were 1.5 times more likely to recover enough to be discharged and 44% less likely to die. Pictured: A nurse suctions the lungs of a COVID-19 patient at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, NY, April 20
President Donald Trump has often touted the drug as a 'game-changer' in tweets and during his press conferences. Pictured: Trump speaks during a press briefing on testing in the Rose Garden at the White House, May 11
'In the beginning of this outbreak, we didn't have much information on what worked and what didn't,' senior investigator Dr Joseph Rahimian, an infectious disease specialist at NYU Langone Health, told DailyMail.om.
'There is some evidence that zinc works because it had antiviral properties...so we wanted to see if there was a difference in patients who got it.
For the study, published on pre-print site medRxiv.org, the team looked at 932 COVID-19 patients hospitalized between March 2 and April 5.
Roughly half were given a combination of zinc sulfate, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
The other half received just hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
Results showed that patients receiving the triple-drug combination had a 1.5 times greater likelihood of recovering enough to be discharged.
They were also 44 percent less likely to die, compared to those who were given the double-drug combination.
Researchers say the addition of zinc sulfate decreased the need to be put on a ventilator, and the risk of being admitted to the ICU or being transferred to hospice.
'I was surprised by the results,' Rahimian said.
'I was hoping that we could see a benefit...but it'soften difficult to see a substantial difference in morality so it's exciting to see that result.'
However, both groups spent an average of six days in the hospital and about five days on a ventilator. They also both received about the same amount of oxygen.
For future studies, the team wants to conduct a randomized placebo trial - considered the gold standard of research - to see if the findings can be replicated.
'We want to see if hydroxychloroquine is the best [drug] to give with zinc or other if there is another one that makes it more useful,' Rahimian said.
Hydroxychloroquine has been proposed as a treatment against the virus because it has antiviral properties that have been proven in lab settings, but not in people.
It interferes with the virus' ability to enter the cells and also seems to block them from replicating once they are already inside.
Zinc itself has antiviral properties and past research has suggested it may reduce the time people suffer from common colds.
Rahimian believes that, when used to treat coronavirus patients, it is the zinc that does the heavy lifting and is the primary substance attacking the pathogen.
Hydroxychloroquine, on the other hand, acts as an agent that transports the zinc into cells, increasing its efficacy, he suggested.
'Zinc is an easily available, well-tolerated medicine to use with few side effects so if there is a possibility it might a benefit, that is appealing,' Rahimian said.
'I don't think it's the only thing patients need to get better certainly, but adding szinc might be helpful to patients recovering.'
The opening of schools is taking place because children's social sanity and education is being severely marred by a policy which, for the first time in history, has seen millions quarantined who show no symptoms and cannot be harmed.
Mass media lies and social media censorship of expert opinion is stifling powerful arguments for lifting the lockdown.
I think the hysteria generated by this virus is an attack on humanity by Bill Gates & the transnational elite, a psychological warfare operation which destroys people's livelihoods, helps transnational big business and plunges governments deeper into bankster debt even than in 2008. _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
The COVID spike that wasn’t and other commentary
By Post Editorial Board May 20, 2020 | 6:14pm
Visitors to the River Walk pass a restaurant that has reopened in San Antonio, Texas.
Visitors to the River Walk pass a restaurant that has reopened in San Antonio, Texas. AP
Media watch: The COVID Spike That Wasn’t
https://nypost.com/2020/05/20/the-covid-spike-that-wasnt-and-other-com mentary/
CNN reported that “Texas is seeing the highest number of new coronavirus cases and deaths just two weeks after it officially reopened,” implying that reopening led to a resurgence — which, groans RealClearPolitics’ Sean Trende, is “simply wrong.” In fact, the “rate of increase has remained virtually unchanged since early May” in the state’s large metro areas. Since “COVID-19 does not kill quickly,” the latest Texas deaths were “mostly seeded before the reopening,” and the data suggest the rising infection numbers result from increased testing, not an uptick in cases. Notably, “the percentage of tests being returned positive is at a two-month low.” CNN’s “misfeasance or malfeasance” — a “major media company spreading what is dangerously close to disinformation” — erodes “overall public confidence in an important institution for democracy.”
Libertarian: #MeToo’s Memory-Holing
After Tara Reade alleged that Joe Biden had assaulted her, many #MeToo leaders said they’d “never claimed that all women should be believed,” notes Reason’s Robby Soave — in “a transparent attempt to rewrite history.” As Soave notes, Hillary Clinton captured the “movement’s central tenet” when she said “every survivor of sexual assault” has “the right to be believed.” Simply put, “#MeToo advocates demanded a presumption of belief for every individual who claims to be a sexual-misconduct victim.” To say anything else “is, to use a term beloved by victims’-rights advocates, gaslighting.”
Foreign desk: Uniting Against China
“Far from correcting course” after covering up the coronavirus crisis, “the Chinese Communist Party is doubling down in its attempts to squash any criticism,” sighs Michael Auslin at The Hill. Yet “all the threats and insults” against countries and organizations that dare question the origins of the pandemic, “redolent of the worst Soviet diatribes during the Cold War,” might actually weaken Beijing’s standing — especially if democracies “work together, presenting a united front in the face of Chinese intimidation tactics.” Since “democracies still have enormous power, wealth and appeal,” they could work to prevent Beijing from “picking off the needier nations with aid or intimidation tactics.” A united China playbook would be the first step toward “transparency and equality” in the West’s relationship with China.
Pandemic journal: How Florida Got It Right
The coronavirus response in Florida, where “the disaster so widely predicted hasn’t materialized,” is “the opposite of the media narrative of a Trump-friendly governor disregarding the facts to pursue a reckless agenda,” observes National Review’s Rich Lowry. Gov. Ron DeSantis & Co. “followed the science closely from the beginning, which is why they forged a nuanced approach.” Sunshine State officials ignored the models that quickly proved wrong, instead examining the evidence from abroad, which showed the elderly were most at risk. So “Florida went out of its way to get COVID-19-positive people out of nursing homes, while New York went out of its way to get them in, a policy now widely acknowledged to have been a debacle.” As DeSantis told Lowry, “if I can send PPE to the nursing homes, and they can prevent an outbreak there, that’s going to do more to lower the burden on hospitals than me just sending” gear to hospitals.
Iconoclast: Our Predictable Crises
Central Michigan faces “a serious ecological crisis” as “flooding has led to the failure of multiple dams along the Tittabawassee River” — and it “was predicted years ago,” laments The Week’s Matthew Walther. But it’s the sort of problem “no one wants to address until it’s too late, not just in Michigan but across the United States, where the phrase ‘crumbling infrastructure’ has been with us so long that it too is probably on the verge of collapse.” We’re “incapable of meaningful action until we find ourselves in the middle of a totally predictable crisis.” Indeed, many problems cited during the coronavirus pandemic — “the dangers of nursing homes, racial inequality, social atomization” — should have been “dealt with long before we found ourselves faced with a novel virus. Instead, we waited as we always do until the dams burst, metaphorically and otherwise.”
— Compiled by Karl Salzmann & Kelly Jane Torrance _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
Elsewhere on this site we go in some detail into the science of epidemics and other matters. This article is just a quick run-down of the Top Twelve Lies.
1. People dropping dead in the streets.
Guardian January
Metro January 31st
The Sun January 31st
This is how the media portrayed Covid19 at the beginning: a disease so dangerous that people walking along the street suddenly dropped down dead. Virtually all the UK media carried these photos. It’s very odd that in the first two pictures, and variants of them in other papers, those emergency workers have no equipment with them, and appear to be just standing around doing nothing. Are these faked photos? There have been no reports of people dropping dead in the street anywhere since then. And if it had been true in China, the virus would have been noticed very quickly. We now know that the symptoms are indistinguishable from colds, flu or pneumonia. These photos were the start of the Coronapanic lies.
2. Three Percent Will Die.
The WHO put out this 3% death rate figure early on. You don’t need to be a maths wizard to know that’s one person in thirty. That’s a serious reason to panic. We now know that the death rate is around 0.1%. That’s about one in a thousand, and comparable to seasonal flu. But just as important, the figures are massively skewed towards people around eighty who have at least two existing serious conditions, and are already in a care home: people who have minimal quality of life, and little remaining expectation of life. For younger, healthy people, and younger here can mean under seventy, never mind twenty or thirty, the risk of death is vanishingly small.
3, Herd Immunity is a Dangerous Idea.
This is one of the most serious corruptions of science ever. You don’t need a degree in Epidemiology to know that epidemics come and go. The very definition of the word implies that. (Conversely, a disease which stays around for many years is called endemic.) You do need to know just a smidgen of Epidemiology to understand why epidemics come and go. It’s not rocket science. When the new disease arrives, everybody is susceptible to it, because it is new and therefore nobody has any immunity. The disease can race through the population, but as it does so it leaves immune people in its wake. As the number of immune people grows, the disease finds it harder and harder to spread. When the number of immune people reaches a certain point (which varies with different diseases) the bug can find no new people to infect, so the bug itself effectively dies. That point is called herd immunity. It is the only way to defeat a new virus. But see number 4.
4. We Need a Vaccine to Give us Herd Immunity.
Vaccines work by creating artificial herd immunity, but that’s no better than natural herd immunity. And the simple fact is, as everyone knows, we don’t have a vaccine. How long will it take to make one, test it properly, and roll it out? Eighteen months? Three years? Never? In any event, even if we use a vaccine before proper safety testing, it will still take longer than it does to reach herd immunity naturally. (And note that the Common Cold is also often caused by some other Coronaviruses. Still no sign of a vaccine for any of those.)
5 Lockdowns Work.
The evidence here is very, very weak. It is common sense that they must have some effect. But we have New York, with a hard lockdown and massive deaths, while Tokyo with a minimal lockdown has hardly any. Or Sweden with a very mild lockdown having a lower death rate than Britain with a draconian one. Or Spain and Portugal, which together make up the Iberian Peninsula, having massively different death rates. There is another factor, or factors, involved here, and the mass media seem to have no concern as to what they might be. Happily there are some scientists who do seek to explain the differences. Several factors have been put forward with good evidence:
1 Vitamin D plays a huge role in the immune system, and variations in deficiency certainly play a part, at least in individual cases. In fact, it is negligent of the Government not to have promoted Vitamin D supplementation on a large scale.
2 Flu vaccines also play a role in causing worse outcome with Coronaviruses. The mechanism is called vaccine-induced viral interference. Naturally those who make vaccines are not keen for you to know about such undesirable side-effects.
3 Obesity is a negative indicator, which will partly explain New York’s high death rate. One of the oddest Covid statistics to date is that out of the small number of deaths in Japan, no less than seven are Sumo Wrestlers!
One could tease out many other factors, but not one comes close to the Grand Deal-Breaker in Epidemiology, which is immunity. Immunity is the principal reason people do not get sick with any disease. Hence the primary factor in differential death rates must be how long different countries had the virus before they realised. As the infection travelled through populations, confused with colds and flu, it was steadily building immunity. China has a truly miniscule number of deaths given its huge population. The virus there was on the rampage right through Winter Flu Season, before they realised there was something new. When they did, they locked down, and the lockdown appeared to be very effective; but only because they were already close to herd immunity. The countries surrounding China, which have a great deal of intercourse with it, have similarly low death rates (Vietnam, nobody at all!) How and when the virus got into other countries is difficult to unravel now; but one should be aware that Wuhan Airport is a major hub, with flights all over the World. We can reasonably infer that Norway, for example, was infected early, yielding the much lower recorded deaths later. Such a conclusion is borne out by the fact that, having now eased its lockdown, cases are still going down. In other words, there is no sign of a “Second Wave”. After a tight and effective lockdown preventing transmission, and also therefore preventing the growth of immunity, there should indeed be a second wave. The lack of one points very strongly to previously acquired immunity. (In all of this New York remains the ultimate outlier, and I’m no more prepared to attempt a complete explanation of NY statistics at this stage than anybody else.)
6. Lockdown Does Not Cause More Deaths than it Saves.
The leaked figure of 150,000 lockdown-caused deaths has never been refuted by the UK Government. It is only common sense that with the NHS shut down to almost everyone, there will be more deaths from other causes. Also more suicides, more domestic violence, and the array of problems that increase mortality when poverty increases. The economic crash is going to have a big effect there. And do we regard the suicide of a healthy 20-year-old as equivalent to the death of an ailing 85-year old? Lockdown is not a One-Way Street when it comes to saving lives; more likely a Wrong-Way Street.
7. Being Infected May Not (or Does Not) Make You Immune.
This is a truly bizarre assumption to make about any specific infection. (Note that the Common Cold, which is endemic, is caused by a number of different viruses.) This “fact” was allegedly based on some people who seemed to be infected twice. But the extreme difficulty of distinguishing between Colds, Flu, Covid19 and Pneumonia means this was always a ridiculous conclusion to reach. And if it were true it would be a one shot kill of the “Race for a Vaccine.” Vaccines only work because they stimulate the immune system in the way a natural infection does. If Covid19 did not provoke a normal immune response, any vaccine would be useless.
8. Having Covid Means Having Serious Symptoms.
In the beginning of this sorry saga, the most serious symptom, as noted in Lie 1 above, was instant death. Now we know that it mostly has no symptoms at all, or presents like a Common Cold. All the World’s highly-paid and endlessly-promoted “experts” somehow didn’t notice this.
9. Masks Work.
If they do, why can’t we all wear them and get back to normal? If they don’t, why are we ever recommended to use them? The effectiveness or otherwise of masks has been a controversial matter for months. Some Doctors have said that healthy people wearing them outside of a clinical setting is definitely a bad idea. Is the mask controversy just another way to ramp up fear and confusion?
10. Two Meter Social Distancing is Necessary.
There is no good science behind this. In Norway, with its incredibly low death rate, they use one metre. And there is never a reference to whether you are indoors or out. If you breathe out virus indoors, it has little choice but to hang around in the room for a while. If you are outside in fairly still air, which has a speed of about 2 metres per second, the virus you breathed out 2 seconds ago is already 4 metres away. And because the air you breathe out is always warmer than the surrounding air, and warm air rises, that potentially virus-laden air will rise up outside with no ceiling to stop it. So two metres is not necessary in Norway, but it is in England, whether you are in a small room or on a breezy beach. Is this fear-mongering nonsense, or science? It is certainly not the latter.
11. Money has Nothing to do with Any of This.
The influence and mega-bucks of Bill Gates and Big Pharma is supposedly not skewing the debate. Bill Gates’s donations to Prof Lockdown Ferguson’s Imperial College, or to the WHO, make no difference, and Bill Gates’s desire to produce seven billion doses of vaccine does not give him a financial interest. Bill Gates is a nice guy who knows a lot about computer viruses, so we should all look to him as our Saviour from this virus. I fancy there’s more logic in Alice in Wonderland.
12. The Destruction of Basic Human Rights is a Price Worth Paying.
People being under virtual House Arrest, with Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Work, Freedom to attend School, all curtailed, is OK? The introduction of mass personal surveillance is a good thing? If a foreign invader threatened our Rights like that we would fight for them, and accept casualties in the process. Why are we suddenly turning that logic on its head, and deciding to give up Rights to (possibly) save lives? Do we all fondly imagine that we will soon have our Rights back? History shows that Rights are generally hard won, and once lost they are very hard to get back. And if you think you still have Freedom of Speech, try as I and others have, to put across a view that is different to the Government. Yes, you can get it across to a few. But if it reaches many more, Google, or YouTube, or Facebook will soon censor it. If you are reading this article, it is because you are one of a small number, meaning the article is still below the censor’s radar, or the popularity level that triggers censorship.
In those wonderful days before Covid19, we all knew that Politicians, Journalists and Salesmen are inveterate Purveyors of Porky Pies. Now these same people are regarded as Saints and Saviours, with absolutely nothing but our best interests and well-being in their hearts. It is a fact, meaning a real one, not a fake one, that I can think of no topic ever that has had so many utterly bizarre lies told about it. It is also a fact that I cannot think of any matter where politicians around the World all suddenly started braying like donkeys with the same awful hoo-ha. And also a fact that I cannot think of any occurrence which has simultaneously destroyed human rights and wrecked the economy across the entire Globe. Is it not odd that all of those three extreme observations should apply to the very same little virus? If anyone can’t see a problem here, it can only be that Coronapanic has totally obliterated their thought processes.
For more detail on the above, please read other articles on this site. _________________ --
'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell
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Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
To bypass this fudging of numbers one can look at the aggregate (i.e. all-cause) mortality data from EuroMomo, which summarises data from 24 European countries using official submissions.
The most meaningful way to look at the aggregate mortality data is to assess the statistical variability across a long timeline.
This will indicate whether there are any noticeable patterns ('spikes') that are vastly different to prior years.
What then jumps out from the all-cause mortality data is that:
1. The overall variability (i.e. the spike in the data) is driven by only a few highly impacted countries:
Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
2. If you isolate the above highly impacted countries and interrogate the data by age-group, you will notice that the spike in these countries is really driven by:
- The age group 65+
- Most intriguingly, for the age group 15-64 only England in the UK, and to a much lesser extent Spain and France.
I am attaching here the EuroMomo chart that shows the z-scores for ages 15-64 for the highly-impacted countries. You may have to download and zoom in, but otherwise it's clear.
EuroMomo's own summary for week 20 (i.e. week ending May 17th) is as follows:
EuroMomo wrote:
Excess mortality observed
Pooled estimates of all-cause mortality from the EuroMOMO network show declining levels of excess mortality, after a high excess observed overall for the European countries, which has coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic. This excess mortality has been driven by a very substantial mortality excess in some countries, while other countries have seen no excess. The mortality excess has mainly been seen in the age group of ≥65 years, but also in the age group of 15-64 years.
For the EuroMOMO network as a whole, from week 10, 2020 and as of week 20, there were over 159,000 excess deaths estimated in total, including 143,000 in the age group ≥65 years and 13,000 in the 15-64 years age group. This time period includes part of the influenza season as well as the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mortality levels now appear to be approaching normal expected level in several of the affected countries. However, the data reported for the most recent weeks must be read with caution, despite the applied correction for delay in registration.
My columns haven’t been very funny recently. This one isn’t going to be any funnier. Sorry. Fascism makes me cranky.
I don’t mean the kind of fascism the corporate media and the fake Resistance have been desperately hyping for the last four years. God help me, but I’m not terribly worried about a few hundred white-supremacist morons marching around with tiki torches hollering Nazi slogans at each other, or Jewish-Mexican-American law clerks flashing “OK” signs on TV, or smirking schoolkids in MAGA hats.
I’m talking about actual, bona fide fascism, or totalitarianism, if you want to get technical. The kind where governments declare a global “state of emergency” on account of a virus with a 0.2% to 0.6% lethality (and that causes mild, flu-like symptoms, or absolutely no symptoms whatsoever, in over 97% of those infected), locks everyone down inside their homes, suspends their constitutional rights, terrorizes them with propaganda, and unleashes uniformed goon squads on anyone who doesn’t comply with their despotic decrees.
I’m talking about the kind of totalitarianism where the police track you down with your smartphone data and then come to your house to personally harass you for attending a political protest, or attack you for challenging their illegitimate authority, and then charge you with “assault” for fighting back, and then get the media to publish a story accusing you of having “set up” the cops.
I’m talking about the kind of totalitarianism where the secret police are given carte blanche to monitor everyone’s Internet activity, and to scan you with their “surveillance helmets,” and dictate how close you can sit to your friends, and menace you with drones and robot dogs, and violently pry your kids out of your arms and arrest you if you dare to protest.
I’m talking about the kind of totalitarianism that psychologically tortures children with authoritarian loyalty rituals designed to condition them to live in fear, and respond to absurd Pavlovian stimuli, and that encourages the masses to turn off their brains and mechanically repeat propaganda slogans, like “wear a mask” and “flatten the curve,” and to report their neighbors to the police for having an “illegal” private party … and to otherwise reify the manufactured mass hysteria the authorities need to “justify” their totalitarianism.
Yeah, that kind of stuff makes me cranky.
And you know what makes me really cranky? I’ll tell you what makes me really cranky.
It is people who publicly project themselves as “anti-authoritarians” and “anti-fascists,” or who have established their “anti-establishment” brands and “dissident” personas on social media, or even in the corporate media, either zealously cheerleading this totalitarianism or looking away and saying nothing as it is rolled out by the very authorities and media propagandists they pretend to oppose.
I don’t know exactly why, but that stuff makes me particularly cranky.
I’ll provide you with a few examples.
The militant “Portland anti-fascists” who the corporate media fell in love with and made famous for bravely fighting off the Trump-loving Putin-Nazi Menace over the course of the last four years, as soon as the Corona-Totalitarianism began, did what all true anti-fascists do when the state goes full-blown fascist … no, they did not “smash the state,” or “occupy the streets,” or anything like that.
They masked-up and started making vegan hand sanitizer.
Popular Internet “anti-imperialists” started accusing everyone opposing the lockdown of being part of some far-right Republican plot to “promote mass death under the banner of freedom” or to “normalize death” to benefit rich people, or being members of a “death cult,” or something.
Celebrity socialists took to Twitter to warn that we would “shortly have the blood of thousands of people on our hands,” and call us “anti-vaxxers” and “flat earth *.”
Indie political and military analysts patiently explained why governments needed to be able to pull people out of their homes against their will and quarantine them.
Anarchist anthropologists averred that the lockdown wasn’t damaging the productive economy; it was only damaging the “bs economy,” and those complaining about being out of work were people whose work is “largely useless.”
Others simply looked away or sat there in silence as we were confined to our homes, and made to carry “permission papers” to walk to work or the corner grocery store, and were beaten and arrested for not “social-distancing,” and were otherwise bullied and humiliated for no justifiable reason whatsoever.
(We are talking about a virus, after all, that even the official medical experts, e.g., the U.K.’s Chief Medic, admit is more or less harmless to the vast majority of us, not the Bubonic * Plague or some sort of Alien-Terrorist-Death-Flu … so spare me the “we-had-no-choice-but-to-go-totalitarian” rationalization.)
My intent is not merely to mock these people (i.e., these “radical,” “anti-establishment” types who fell into formation and started goose-stepping because the media told them we were all going to die), but also to use them as a clear example of how official narratives are born and take hold.
That’s somewhat pertinent at the moment, because the “Brave New Normal” official narrative has been born, but it has not yet taken hold. What happens next will determine whether it does.
In order to understand how this works, imagine for a moment that you’re one of these people who are normally skeptical of the government and the media, and that you consider yourself an anti-authoritarian, or at least a friend of the working classes, and now you are beginning to realize that there is no Alien-Terrorist-Death-Flu (just as there were no “WMDs,” no “Russian hackers,” no “pee-tape,” etc.), and so it dawns on you that you’ve been behaving like a hysterical, brainwashed, fascist minion of the very establishment you supposedly oppose … or at the very least like an abject coward.
Imagine how you might feel right now.
You would probably feel pretty foolish, right? And more than a little ashamed of yourself. So … OK, what would do about that? Well, you would have a couple of options.
Option Number One would be admit what you did, apologize to whomever you have to, and try like hell not to do it again. Not many people are going to choose this option.
Most people are going to choose Option Number Two, which is to desperately try to deny what they did, or to desperately rationalize what they did (and in many cases are still actively doing).
Now, this is not as easy at it sounds, because doing that means they will have to continue to believe (or at least pretend to believe) that there is an Alien-Terrorist-Death-Flu which is going to kill hundreds of millions of people the moment we stop locking everyone down, and forcing them to “social distance,” and so on.
They will have to continue to pretend to believe that this Alien-Terrorist-Death-Flu exists, even though they know it doesn’t.
And this is where that Orwellian “doublethink” comes in.
People (i.e., these “anti-authoritarians,” not to mention the majority of the “normal” public) are not going to want to face the fact that they’ve been behaving like a bunch of fascists (or cowards) for no justifiable reason whatsoever.
So, what they are going to do instead is desperately pretend that their behavior was justified and that the propaganda they have been swallowing, and regurgitating, was not propaganda, but rather, “the Truth.”
In other words, in order to avoid their shame, they are going to do everything in their power to reify the official narrative and delegitimize anyone attempting to expose it as the fiction that it is. They are going to join in with the corporate media that are calling us “extremists,” “conspiracy theorists,” “anti-vaxxers,” and other such epithets.
They’re going to accuse those of us on the Left of aligning with “far-Right Republican militias,” and “Boogaloo accelerationists,” and of being members of the Russian-backed “Querfront,” and assorted other horrible things meant to scare errant leftists into line.
Above all, they are going to continue to insist, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that we are “under attack” by a “killer virus” which could “strike again at any time,” and so we have to maintain at least some level of totalitarianism and paranoia, or else … well, you know, the terrorists win.
It is this reification of the official narrative by those too ashamed to admit what they did (and try to determine why they did it), and not the narrative or the propaganda itself, that will eventually establish the “Brave New Normal” as “reality” (assuming the process works as smoothly as it did with the “War on Terror,” the “War on Populism,” and the “Cold War” narratives).
The facts, the data, the “science” won’t matter. Reality is consensus reality … and a new consensus is being formed at the moment.
There is still a chance (right now, not months from now) for these people (some of whom are rather influential) to stand up and say, “Whoops! I screwed up and went all Nazi there for a bit.” But I seriously doubt that is going to happen.
It’s much more likely that the Brave New Normal (or some intermittent, scaled-down version of it) will gradually become our new reality.
People will get used to being occasionally “locked down,” and being ordered to wear masks, and not to touch each other, and to standing in designated circles and boxes, like they got used to the “anti-Terrorism measures,” and believing that Trump is a “Russian asset.”
The coming economic depression will be blamed on the Alien-Terrorist-Death-Flu, rather than on the lockdown that caused it. Millions of people will be condemned to extreme poverty, or debt-enslaved for the rest of their lives, but they’ll be too busy trying to survive to mount any kind of broad resistance.
The children, of course, won’t know any better. They will grow up with their “isolation boxes,” and “protective barriers,” and “contact tracing,” and they will live in constant low-grade fear of another killer virus, or terrorist attack, or Russian-backed white supremacist uprising, or whatever boogeyman might next appear to menace the global capitalist empire, which, it goes without saying, will be just fine.
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 12:46 am Post subject:
'VIDEO: The “Lock Step” Simulation Scenario: “A Coronavirus-like Pandemic that Becomes Trigger for Police State Controls”:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/all-sectors-us-establishment-lock-step-d eep-states-latest-bio-war/5702773
It looks to me like a very-well thought out plan, even down to the 'stolen Coronavirus specimens' from a Canadian lab, to the building by France of the Wuhan Level 4 Biosecurity lab, and Gates's organisation $370 million grants to the Wuhan lab.
The PTB have learnt some since 9/11, so I figure they set out some pretty rock-hard 'Red Herring' trails beforehand, a lot stronger than they did in the 9/11 case. They probably even instigated the Chinese experimenting on Coronaviruses in Wuhan.
But I do not believe the 'Pandemic' came from there, I believe it was intentionally brought in by the US Military Contingent to the Wuhan World Military Games, which opened on October 18th 2019, 'co-incidentally' on the same day as the Event 201 Coronavirus Pandemic Simulation was held in New York by Gates and cronies.
This time they want their 'blame China game' to stick, unlike their Saudi 'hijackers', Pakistani ISI General sending $100,000, 'magic fireproof Passport' and 'Top Gun' Hani Hanjour narratives. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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