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burden of deaths, damaged economies, effectiveness of face masks, herd immunity, incorrect numbers, infection fatality rate, lockdown measures, Professor Michael Levitt, Professor Neil Ferguson, protecting elderly people, reported vs. excess deaths, smart lockdowns, Social distancing
“I think the policy of herd immunity is the right policy. I think Britain was on exactly the right track before they were fed wrong numbers. And they made a huge mistake. I see the standout winners as Germany and Sweden. They didn’t practise too much lockdown and they got enough people sick to get some herd immunity. I see the standout losers as countries like Austria, Australia and Israel that had very strict lockdown but didn’t have many cases. They have damaged their economies, caused massive social damage, damaged the educational year of their children, but not obtained any herd immunity.
“There is no doubt in my mind, that when we come to look back on this, the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor.”
From the YouTube summary:
“As he is careful to point out, Professor Michael Levitt is not an epidemiologist. He’s Professor of Structural Biology at the Stanford School of Medicine, and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for “the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.”
“With a purely statistical perspective, he has been playing close attention to the Covid-19 pandemic since January, when most of us were not even aware of it. He first spoke out in early February, when through analysing the numbers of cases and deaths in Hubei province he predicted with remarkable accuracy that the epidemic in that province would top out at around 3,250 deaths.
“In this interview with Freddie Sayers, Executive Editor of UnHerd, Professor Levitt explains why he thinks indiscriminate lockdown measures as “a huge mistake,” and advocates a “smart lockdown” policy, focused on more effective measures, focused on protecting elderly people.
“Read the full accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/nobel-priz… “
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German virologist: Covid-19 is less deadly than we thought
From the YouTube Summary:
“Read the full accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/german-vir…
“Freddie Sayers talks to Professor Hendrik Streeck about why he thinks lockdown measures were initiated too quickly, and how his findings show a Covid-19 fatality rate of 0.24-0.36%.
“The deadliness of Covid-19, measured by the “Infected Fatality Rate” or what percentage of infected people end up dying, has become an issue of global significance.
“At UnHerd, we’ve spoken to experts at both ends of the range of estimates, from Neil Ferguson (who believes the IFR to be just under 1%, perhaps 0.8-0.9%) to Johan Giesecke who maintains that it is nearer 0.1%, or one in a thousand.
“This may sound like splitting hairs — they are both under one percent after all — but in reality, the difference between these estimates changes everything. At the lower end, a much more laissez-faire policy becomes possible, and at 30,000 deaths it starts to look like the UK has already been through the worst of it; at the higher end, a policy of continued ultra-caution is necessary because a more relaxed approach could mean hundreds of thousands of additional deaths.”
Norman, the ONLY thing Tubularsock knows for sure, like 9/11, something is up for sure but Tubularsock doesn’t trust ANY information from ANYbody!
There seems to be an agenda ……….. hmmmm.
Oh, except Bill Gates sucks!
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Yup. Something is up. It’s still too early to tell where it’s all going, except that the economy is certainly imploding, and a lot of people are already hurting even as millions more are about to sink into that same pit of distress. The whole CV thing has a stench of something all too coincidental and preemptive to it. It looks like an exercise of sorts, to work out the kinks of coordinating between various apparatuses of social control. Or maybe something bigger than mere social unrest is being anticipated? We shall see. I’m also thinking: “hmmmm.”
And, yes, fuck Bill and his plans to save the world. All the money in the world and still he wants ‘moar.’ Speaking of disease, eh?
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