A common misperception amongst those who support lockdown as a public health intervention against a transmissible respiratory virus, is that they only harm people in poor countries (as though that’s somehow okay, which of course it isn’t). Deaths and Lockdowns: There’s no proof that lockdowns save lives but plenty of evidence that they end them … More Deaths and Lockdowns
“Never before [had] the search for traces of a virus [been] carried out so broadly and intensively… besides, many cases of death, that happened to coincide with seropositive H1N1 lab-findings, were simply attributed to “swine flu” and used to foster fear“. ~ Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, EU Parliamentary Health Committee, 2009 It took me many months … More Buying Up Big
She is one of the most calm, common sense filled voices of reason and established public health practice throughout this crisis. Here she speaks with a Swedish podcaster for half an hour on her epidemiology and immunology research, the impact of lockdowns compared with focused protection of the vulnerable, herd immunity, the ad hominem attacks … More Professor Sunetra Gupta
Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav gave a ball-of-fire testimony to the Corona Ausschuss a couple of days ago, in English. Today’s public health establishment are working under political forces in a climate of extortionate profits and power. Whilst 150 million people are being pushed into extreme poverty America’s billionairres alone in the past year increased their … More A Veneer of Medical Legitemacy
What you do when you have nothing amidst aggressive mask mandates The world’s poorest children, whose only possible hope is some level of education, are now out of school indefinitely. They don’t have internet access and they don’t have adults around them who can teach them to read or write. Many of them accessed their … More Crazy Has Consequences
The US state of Florida, perhaps even more than Sweden, has upset the Lockdown Applecart. Ron DeSantis vs The “Party of Science”, written by Christina Pushaw, summarises the politics, opportunism and deceit of people using the pandemic for personal gain and the ways in which DeSantis has been maligned for following established public health rather … More Recording the Right Side of History
Every cloud has a silver lining. Discovering Professor John Ioannidis would have to be one of the best silver linings of the Covid pandemic response. The Inaugural Lecture of the European University of Cyprus Public Health Lecture Series features a presentation by Ioannidis. Described as a paragon of evidence based medicine and meta-research, famous for … More Evidence Based Public Health and Political Conspiracy
Dr Naomi Wolf, Yale graduate and Rhodes scholar, author and journalist, gives evidence to the Corona Ausschuss, here. She articulately describes the role of multiple agendas from very bad actors in today’s crisis. We have been invaded without a single bullet having been fired. Our liberties have not been removed because of a virus which … More History Repeats
This Letter to the Editor in the British Medical Journal offers a summary of the pandemic and our public health response. The author states “no competing interests”, an important consideration but which always needs double checking. Christian Drosten stated no conflicts of interest in his Eurosurveillance paper recommending a faulty PCR test which was taken … More Summarising a Pandemic
This week’s media misrepresentation includes “Fears of catastrophe as rising Covid-19 cases hit Papua New Guinea’s stretched health system“. “Plunged into a Covid-19 crisis“, “temporary beds are filling up fast with seriously ill patients“, “health workers are being particularly affected, prompting fears that services may be crippled“, “a new coronavirus tragedy is just starting to … More Surreal Times
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