Beto must have eaten some more dirt and it gave him some confidence.
plenty worth noting:
13 Jun: Medium: What Every Thinking Person Needs to Finally Get Clear About COVID
Everything we believed was wrong
by Omar S. Khan, Global consultant, 30 years experience spanning Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East.
This, I hope, will be the last of my explicitly “COVID” pieces, as we transition to open societies.
However, should we be tempted to relapse into this self-destructive temptation, I thought I would do a “grand tour” of COVID fallacies, once and for all, grounded in data and the best medical assessments we have from around the globe...
Everything touted as “best practice” re. COVID-19 and the medieval “lockdown” remedy was wrong. The seismic economic, social, and non-COVID medical impacts were not necessary, and it was herd thinking and “lemming” behavior run riot that led us astray. We can quickly do a run through the pseudo-scientific, media hysteria fostered, medical guesswork morphing into policy making absurdities...
So, what is driving this policy is not science, just pure adult paranoia, and media conniptions...
The “black swan” was not the virus but the lockdowns
Who could have predicted that a new virus would be hyped to such frothing foam, that we would take the most unprecedentedly stupid step in recent political and economic history, and literally shutter the entire planet?
Lockdown is a medieval concept and only infiltrated US policy planning via a high school research paper in 2006
I’ve written about the history of lockdown in my article Where Did “Lockdown” Come From and so won’t revisit it in detail. However, this was a paper extrapolating based on no knowledge of viruses, epidemiology, or public health. It was roundly rejected by a group of specialists, led by Dr. D.A. Henderson, who led the public effort to eradicate smallpox. He pointed out the repercussions could be ruinous, there was no science behind just widespread ubiquitous “locking down” or quarantining, and he argued that free societies have successfully dealt with pandemics for centuries while remaining functioning.
As late as 2019, WHO did not even list “lockdown” as an option in their list of 18 “Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza.”
China’s panicked three week economic shutdown of Wuhan and two month shutdown of travel in and out of the province, instigated by waiting too long, after there was a mass eruption, and superspreaders had traveled far and wide, became somehow the playbook for everyone...
The collective and abject failure of nations to question group think deserves assiduous study from psychologists, doctors, economists, and possibly shamans, for some time...
We have to dust ourselves off from this debacle, and somehow exfoliate, empower and energize the future.
https://medium.com/@oksensei66/what-every-thinking-person-needs-to-finally-get-clear-about-covid-e5e530cc6e49