Posted on 05/05/2020 1:20:57 PM PDT by grundle
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
May 5, 2020
1) Sweden did not have a lockdown.
Experts predicted that it would have 40,000 COVID-19 deaths by May 1.
The actual number was 2,769.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/05/sweden-suppressed-infection-rates-without-lockdown/
2) Nobel Prize-winning scientist shares COVID-19 data showing strict lockdowns were an overreaction.
“the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor’”
3) Keep parks open. The benefits of fresh air outweigh the risks of infection:
4) Dr. Deborah Birx:
“I think we underestimated, very early on, the number of asymptomatic cases. And I think we’re really beginning to understand there are people that get infected — that those symptoms are so low-grade that they don’t even know that they’re infected”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/dr-birx-coronavirus-asymptomatic-cases
5) This is a scientific paper called “Full lockdown policies in Western Europe countries have no evident impacts on the COVID-19 epidemic.”
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v1.full.pdf
6) WHO lauds lockdown-ignoring Sweden as a ‘model’ for countries going forward:
https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/who-lauds-sweden-as-model-for-resisting-coronavirus-lockdown/
7) Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No:
8) From a medical paper:
“The COVID-19 death risk in people <65 years old during the period of fatalities from the epidemic was equivalent to the death risk from driving between 9 miles per day (Germany) and 415 miles per day (New York City)”
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054361v1
Note from Daniel Alman: The above may be a good reason for a lockdown in the New York City metro area (which includes parts of New Jersey and Connecticut), but certainly not for the rest of the U.S. And certainly not for Germany.
9) A report by the United Nations cites the predicted harm that will happen to tens of millions of children in low income countries as a result of the COVID-19 global wide shutdown.
Examples of this harm to children include increases in malnutrition, loss of education, increased rates of teen pregnancy, reduced access to health care, reduced rates of vaccination, increased rates of infectious disease, increased rates of water borne illness, and increased rates of death:
https://unsdg.un.org/sites/default/files/2020-04/160420_Covid_Children_Policy_Brief.pdf
10) Here in Sweden we’re playing the long game, and listening to science not fear:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/sweden/articles/sweden-coronavirus-policy/
11) All across the country, huge numbers of hospitals have laid off huge numbers of health care workers. Here are some examples:
Coronavirus financial losses prompt Boston Medical Center to furlough 700 employees, 10% of hospital’s workforce
Kentucky hospital chain furloughs about 500 employees as coronavirus saps business
https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241565211.html
A mounting casualty crisis: Health care jobs
https://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2020/04/a-mounting-casualty-crisis-health-care-jobs/
Four West Virginia hospitals lay off hundreds because of coronavirus-related shrinking revenues
Thousands of US medical workers furloughed, laid off as routine patient visits drop during coronavirus pandemic
I Can’t Get My Hip Surgery Because Of Coronavirus Even Though Nobody Is In Our Hospital
MUSC Health lays off 900 due to COVID-19 financial strain
Oklahoma City hospital closed amid coronavirus spread
Even nation’s largest health systems laying off health care workers amid COVID pandemic
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-victim-americas-largest-health-systems/story?id=70317683
We’re destroying hospitals in the name of fighting the coronavirus
https://nypost.com/2020/04/27/were-destroying-hospitals-in-the-name-of-fighting-the-coronavirus/
Mayo Clinic to furlough or cut pay of 30,000 employees
https://www.foxnews.com/science/mayo-clinic-furlough-or-cut-pay-employees
Coronavirus testing company Quest Diagnostics furloughs workers
12) U.S. medical testing, cancer screenings plunge during coronavirus outbreak – data firm analysis:
13) The text of this New York Times article states:
“Some medical experts fear more people are dying from untreated emergencies than from the coronavirus.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/health/coronavirus-heart-stroke.html
14) The quote here is my own (Daniel Alman) words, but I have included sourced data to verify my claims:
“New York and New Jersey, combined, account for more than half of U.S. COVID-19 deaths. Both of these states require nursing homes to admit patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. In my opinion, this policy constitutes mass murder.”
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/mass-murder/
Note from Daniel Alman: The above shows that instead of shutting everything down, New York and New Jersey should stop committing mass murder.
15) Cancer surgeries and organ transplants are being put off for coronavirus:
16) How the COVID-19 lockdown will take its own toll on health:
17) Higher rates of unemployment correlate very strongly with higher rates of suicide and drug overdoses:
18) Bill Maher is against the lockdowns:
19) Hypocrite New York Times writer Taylor Lorenz wants to shut down other people’s jobs, but not her own:
20) Here’s another hypocrite who wants to shut down other people’s jobs, but not her own.
The woman in this article and video ratted out local businesses.
Then someone published her name on the internet.
Now the woman is worried that she might lose her own job:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYhvc_86HsI
21) Illinois Gov. Who Forced State Lockdown Busted Flying His Wife And Kids To Florida:
22) Chicago Mayor Forced To Defend Getting A Haircut In Violation Of Her Own Stay-At-Home Order:
23) Barack Obama Goes Golfing at Country Club the Day After Michelle Urged African Americans to Stay Home:
24) Video: Wisconsin Deputies Threaten a Mother For Letting Her Daughter Play At a Neighbor’s Home During Shutdown:
25) Mississippi police issue $500 tickets to drive-in church service attendees:
26) NYC Mayor Threatens to Shut Down Synagogues, Churches: But not Mosques:
27) De Blasio Breaks Up Rabbi’s Funeral:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/nyregion/hasidic-funeral-coronavirus-de-blasio.html
28) The First Amendment protects freedom of religion.
29) The First amendment protects freedom of assembly.
30) Tucker Carlson: Totalitarianism doesn’t shock us any more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KACUbQjvrk
31) Shutting down the schools is reprehensible.
The harm that this will end up causing children will be very large, and very long lasting.
Not just academically, but also psychologically, socially, and professionally.
We are teaching children to be terrified of something that, in reality, is not even a statistical threat or risk to them.
COVID-19 death rate by age in the U.S.:
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-us-coronavirus-deaths-ages-65-older-cdc-report-2020-3
Perhaps for the time being, schools should only have teachers who are below a certain age – perhaps 50. Or maybe 60.
We should isolate people who are especially vulnerable.
And we should let children go to school, get infected, and build up herd immunity.
We shouldn’t let children near their grandparents until their infection has cleared, they have developed antibodies, and they are no longer contagious.
32) The 1968 flu killed approximately 100,000 people in the U.S. But we still kept the schools open. And the restaurants. And the movie theaters.
33) Should we keep everything closed until there are zero germs in the world? Good luck with that!
34) The entire justification for the lockdowns was a lie.
The alleged justification for the lockdowns was that we had to flatten the curve so the hospitals did not get overwhelmed.
The hospitals did not get overwhelmed.
On the contrary, all across the country, huge number of hospitals are laying off huge numbers of health care workers. (see #11 on this list for many examples.)
But the lockdowns are still going on.
Therefore, the entire justification for the lockdowns was a lie.
More lists.
You really get a stiffy about lists, huh?
And there were 200MM people in the US in 1968, so that would equate to about 160K deaths at today's population. Heck, I don't think we've even topped 2017 yet.
Here is a great sermon on the subject...its long but most definitely worth it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhantHg75wg
And, add to that the several trillion dollar debt that didn’t have to happen.
I agree with all. Thanks to FreeRepublic brilliance, my husband reading so much, living in Texas, I have progressed through this with greater faith and no fear.
Great list.
Mass lockdowns should never have happened. They have never worked anywhere.
The politicians got to get their name out there (look at Cuomo), they could show what great leaders they are and use it against their opponents too as Schumer and Pelosi did with trump early on.
The media had an endless story with high ratings for weeks.
Some of the circuit riding doctors and scientists, some of the scientific or medical establishments got their 15 minutes of fame.
Some government agencies actually were told to take 3 times the money they requested, i.e. the CDC and NIH. Every crisis has a government agency that can exploit this for their budget or to expand their influence/powers and this is the CDC and NIH’s chance.
Then add in Hollywood that over the past few decades produced more than 79 pandemic movies and a people that are highly sensitized to this: https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/best-pandemic-movies-on-netflix-hulu-prime-and-more.html Do you think it is a mere coincidence that the first reports were that this corona virus came from bats (straight from Contagion)?
All of that together sort of produced this perfect storm. IMHO. The time was right for a massive over reaction. If this were 30 years ago, we would have not even called it a horrible flu season (there have been worse). Considering the symptoms (flu like) and the fact that we would not have been able to get an electron microscope picture so quickly, to isolate the virus and DNA sequence it, to devise a test and mass produce it cheaply (for example, AIDS/HIV took 3 - 4 years to identify and develop a test for), that is exactly what we would have called it, the flu. We would have labeled it as such based on the presentation of symptoms.
So, America discovers the flu in 2020. Congratulations-
Security and liberty overlap and there are forces taking advantage of this.
Thanks!
thanks for your list.
32) The 1968 flu killed approximately 100,000 people in the U.S. But we still kept the schools open. And the restaurants. And the movie theaters.
And the CDC also states the 1957-68 flu killed approximately 116,000 people in the U.S. when the population was about half of what it is today (171,984,000 vs. 330,541,000). Meaning COVID-19 would have to result in about 200,000 dearths to compare. And as you stated, 10 years later the Hong Kong flu resulted in the death of 100,000 in America
Yet where was the comparative response to those pandemics in proportion to the danger they presented to Americans? One can argue there should have been a "COVIDcaptivity" response, but which ignores the deaths that will also produce. .
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