“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Posted on 04/11/2020 6:30:14 AM PDT by NOBO2012
“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
I don’t easily buy into conspiracy theories; anyone with a creative mind and active imagination can connect dots and propose a plausible theory involving good guys and bad guys.
The internet can take something that is simply the result of wrongheaded people making bad decisions and turn it into an elaborate theory overnight. On the other hand history provides ample enough evidence of absolute evil to justify keeping an eye out for human conspiracy to commit mischief.
With all that on background I have had a nagging feeling over the past few weeks that we are somehow being played. And I will say the appearance of Ezekiel Emanuel’s article, U.S. Must Stay Locked Down For 12-18 Months Until There’s A Vaccine, set off my sensors. But still, it’s hard to tell the difference between a conspiracy to do harm and an opportunistic “never let a crisis go to waste” maneuver. The shutdown of the American economy due to COVID–19 - whether due to a grand scheme or simply the result of human foibles in the face of imperfect information - is almost irrelevant at this juncture; the damage is real. Trying to fix the damage inflicted on us by statisticians posing as epidemiologists by continuing to follow their advice is a mistake. Try running your business strictly on the stats without factoring human behavior into the equation and see how quickly the enterprise will fold.
What if the epidemiologists are wrong? What if this massive shutdown is nothing more than a delay of the inevitable? What if they are trying to manipulate and outfox the course of nature and they’re wrong? What if you really can’t fool Mother nature, as some of their fellow epidemiologists suggest. For instance, Stanford University epidemiologist John Ioannidis, co-director of its Meta-Research Innovation Center, who makes this startling claim:
If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR [virus] tests, the number of total deaths due to ‘influenza-like illness’ would not seem unusual this year. At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average.”
This was not written by some right-wing crank claiming coronavirus is a conspiracy to deny President Trump a second term, or an excuse to bring down capitalism.
It’s from a sobering and illuminating essay by Stanford University epidemiologist John Ioannidis, co-director of its Meta-Research Innovation Center, published in the life sciences news site STAT.
And then there’s Knut Wittkowski, formerly head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at the Rockefeller University in New York City, who has this to say:
(Knut Wittkowski,) a veteran scholar of epidemiology has warned that the ongoing lockdowns throughout the United States and the rest of the world are almost certainly just prolonging the coronavirus outbreak rather than doing anything to truly mitigate it…“[W]hat people are trying to do is flatten the curve. I don’t really know why…if you flatten the curve…it takes more time.
“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, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated,” he added.
If the future of the country is to rest on the shoulders of epidemiologists at least let them be epidemiologists who actually do real science:
Asked about Anthony Fauci, the White House medical expert who for weeks has been predicting significant numbers of COVID-19 deaths in America as well as major ongoing disruptions to daily life possibly for years, Wittkowski replied: “Well, I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science.”
Dear Mr. Presient: we the people are getting dangerously close to taking up our pitchforks and torches.
Please fire the “experts” and get America back to work.
NOTE: I know Raj would appreciate it if I acknowledge that he was most probably right about this from the start.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Who is this Raj that he mentions?
I agree: lockdowns for anyone other than the elderly and those at high risk, are a mistake.
(Doesn’t Dr. Fauci know this? If not, what are we paying him for?)
Please click on the thread link and enjoy.
Agreed, thought this as well.
The government won’t end the shutdown. It will end when people are fed up and ignore it in increasing numbers.
A quick link to the history of MOTUS. Very enjoyable.
Yup.
At the nully hacienda, we've been hunkered down since 2/3, well before anyone was told to shelter in place.
Offer everyone hydrochloroquine prophylaxis, hunkered down or not.
Check the infection rate every week, and re-evaluate the need to isolate.
Durn. Forgot the ping list.Bring Out Your Dead
Must. Have. Coffee.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.
So now will we lock down every flu season?
The government won’t end the shutdown. It will end when people are fed up and ignore it in increasing numbers.
When do you opine/predict/guess see that will happen? No wrong answers...
I'm guessing not sooner than 5/1, nor later than 5/31
Only if the people who developed and weaponized the infectious agent totally freak out when it escapes.
Which, by the way, China did!
I am worried that the statists will not take their boot off of our necks that easily. They have gotten a taste of the total power they want and the police will probably be used to keep and expand that power.
Abbott is readying Texas tonOpen For Business. Hopefully other GOP Governors will follow suit.
Our Governor over-reached ~ very disappointed in Stitt on this one. Tulsa mayor, G.T. Bynum ( P. T. Barnum ), started the pony show ...
The author gets so close then goes back to the same thinking.
Expect Fauxi, Scarf Queen and Gates to release more virulent forms of COVID late this summer.
Fauci Says “Immunity Cards” May Be Coming As Authoritarian Nightmare Expands Exponentially (Video)
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3833987/posts
Dr DeathPanel Ezekiel Emmanuel
Dr Faki
Bill Gates
Henry Kissinger
James Bullard, the CEO and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=370&v=dN29ZHsGeo4&feature=emb_logo
Are ALL on the VaxForTheMasses/Stay at Home til you’re properly vaxed/certified team.
These NWO creeps need to be exposed and their sinister plan STOPPED, yesterday.
>>So now will we lock down every flu season?
can we lock down homosexuals and iv drug abusers? end aids now
LOL, remember the s-storm when somebody dared suggest that they close down the bathhouses when AIDS first started.
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