Posted on 09/24/2020 7:00:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to watch a physicist try to explain quantum mechanics to a room full of delinquent kindergartners, we finally have a pretty good idea.
Most of our readers probably already know that Trump appointed Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford University’s prestigious Hoover Institution to his COVID-19 task force last month.
As I noted when the good news broke:
Dr. Atlas is one of the thousands of medical experts the Democrats and their media enablers don’t want you to know about who’ve been trying to put the breaks on the suicidal, anti-science response to COVID-19 they’ve conned us into following.
Way back in April, Dr. Atlas tried to save America from the deadly quack medicine we were convinced to guzzle down like a junkie who’s stumbled on a gallon jug of cough syrup in an op-ed titled:
The Data Is in — Stop the Panic and End the Total Isolation.
He explained five facts that were already apparent a month after lockdowns started and some of which should have prevented anyone from ever even suggesting the heretofore unheard-of lunacy.
Fact 1:The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19. Fact 2: Protecting the older, at-risk population would have been sufficient to prevent hospital overcrowding, (which it turns out was never a danger anyway). Fact 3: Total isolation policies, if effective, PREVENT vital herd immunity and, hence, only PROLONG the problem. Fact 4: People are dying because medical care for other ailments was shut down due to hypothetical COVID-19 fatality projections (that were produced by a guy with a history of massively inflated projections and, predictably, turned out to be total garbage). Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who could’ve been better protected by adopting targeted measures. In May, Dr. Atlas tried to get the word out that the useless untargeted measures inflicted on us instead are going to kill far more people than even the most exaggerated projections about the virus’s death toll used to con us into accepting them.
Dr. Scott Atlas says lock-down policy "is killing people" and "there's no science whatsoever to" -keep K-12 schools closed -require kids wear masks & social distance -close summer programs He adds death/serious illness is nearly zero in people under 18. https://t.co/zglMKOv4a5
— Kari Lake (@KariLakeFox10) May 25, 2020
It’s Baffling to
Say the least.
People call it
Overblown while adjusting
Their Mask as I stuff mine
In my back pocket saying
“It’s All About CONTROL!”
The difference between a real professional and a career government bureaucrat.
bttt
Also the difference between a radiologist and infectious disease experts.
l8r
He was good on Lou Dobbs tonight. I have to say, I’d heard good things about him but had never heard him or read much of what he had to say because I’ve been taking a bit of a break lately. Refreshing to have a common sense advisor to the president who isn’t afraid to advocate for what’s right, in understandable language after having Birx and Fauci spouting their lies and propaganda to the press.
#12. Thanks for the explanation of why a vaccine could/would build up cell immunity to the Covid-19. It might also, if I follow medical logic, help lessen (or possibly prevent) a mutated form of COVID-19 from growing to epidemic proportions by weakening it in those who have gotten their shots.
We will eventually have a much better understanding of the Coronavirus and how it functions, spreads, etc. so even if a vaccine is a stopgap measure, it is important in helping to immunize people and slow-down or stop the existing virus, thus giving scientists time to develop a modified vaccine.
We have great doctors and medical researchers in America. Let’s have some more faith in them rather than in media smucks, pseudo-doctors, and chart-drawers.
The testing we’re doing is highly ineffective. We need to know who has already had the virus, not just those who have tested positive. We need to be testing for antibodies and we need to be testing for T-cells.
What percentage have the antibody already, but were never Covid tested? I know my daughter-in-law fits this category. She found out from donating blood and is now called frequently for plasma because of the antibodies.
What percentage have T-cells?
What percentage of those with T-cell have antibodies and never knew they had the virus?
What percentage of those with T cells had the virus and were sick and to what degree?
Only with this data can we truly estimate “risk”.
Instead, at least in my state, we’re doing 10 X the number of test as we did before so we have 10 X the number of positives, but the number of deaths is still what it was with 1/10 the number of tests.
Researchers have known since the middle of the last century that, besides antibody-producing B-cells, your body also has a second equally important defense against infections provided by T-cells.
The idea that we need a vaccine - depends upon pretending T-cells don’t exist.
T-cell immunity to the coronavirus that’s alleged to have caused the SARS outbreak in 2003 has also been shown to provide crossover immunity to COVID-19..
Common cold coronaviruses that .. everyone has had can also provide T-cell immunity to COVID-19.. half of us were likely immune to COVID-19 even before the virus that’s supposed to cause it ever existed..
The fact that so many of us started out immune to COVID-19 has huge implications. If half of us turn out to have pre-existing immunity, the claim bandied about that we won’t achieve herd immunity till 2/3 have become infected turns out to be total garbage.
~James Todaro, MD
I saw that. He was losing patience and was about to call them idiots I think. Kudlow(?) saved him by taking over the podium.
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