Posted on 03/29/2020 5:31:30 PM PDT by OddLane
I explore the effect of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, and how the methods employed at the time have made a recurrence in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Ioannidis is the epitome of a humble scientist.
spend an hour watching this and ask: why is this man not a regular - or even an irregular - on FakeNewsMSM?
AUDIO: 1hr2m46: 25 Mar: Youtube: Perspectives on the Pandemic with Dr. John Ioannidis
(recorded 23 March interview by John Kirby, The Press and The Public Interest)
In this extended interview, Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University cautions that we do not have reliable data to make long-term decisions about COVID-19, and that an extended lockdown might have far graver effects than the disease itself.
Use this index to jump to points of interest; though we do recommend taking the time to watch the full interview:
00:50-Dr. Ioannidis summarizes his article titled “A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data” (linked below)
03:47-The truth about COVID-19’s death rate ETC
from the comments:
Discussion of Itay’s high fatality rate, starting 16:48 - This needs 1 billion views.
Too bad this will never run on MSM. Their panic bubble would burst pretty quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEr4rmjwd0g
Ioannidis properly refers mostly to SARS CoV2, which is the original name of COVID-19. I call it SARS 2.0. the original SARS resulted in 744 deaths worldwide. if SARS 2.0 ends with 10,000 or less US deaths, Ioannidis admits it might have been lost in the “bin” of the seasonal flu figures, except for the media.
he says there’s a media halo over much of this adventure. Google showing 9 billion results for coronavirus and 100 million results for influenza.
(paraphrasing) I think we really have a pandemic of news stories and news clips and anecdotes about COVID-19. I don’t want to diminish its importance, but we need to get solid evidence, at a minimum.
ends on how to avoid the public seeing the next such occurrence as being a scam, if proclamations about 50m will die turn out to be wrong. must not lose the confidence of the public. hopes shelter-in-place can be ended in a few weeks, if data becomes available. says it is inadmissible data won’t be available within 3 weeks (from date of recording).
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