Posted on 12/28/2020 6:22:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The latest scare headlines warn us that a super-contagious strain of the Wuhan virus has emerged in England and is breaking free into the rest of the world. You can already hear the Chicken Littles running around screaming, "We're all going to die." It turns out, though, that the data are based upon a very preliminary, almost certainly inaccurate, study from the same Imperial College London group that started the original panic about a coming plague worse than the Black Death.
Some time ago, when appearing on Tucker Carlson, Mark Steyn said British prime minister Boris Johnson's brush with the Wuhan virus had destroyed him. He's simply not the same man anymore. Where he was once a confident leader, he's now a nervous follower — and there's no one he follows with more nervous energy than whatever scientist has caught his ear.
On December 18, the British media reported that Boris Johnson was going to announce a draconian series of new lockdowns based upon informed he'd heard about a "new mutation" of the Wuhan virus that was 70% more transmissible than the existing strain. With Johnson panicking, there was a chain reaction of panic in other countries, including the U.S. Suddenly, Britain was on the top of everyone's travel ban list.
The problem, as Jordan Schachtel notes, is that there's really no science behind the latest panic. Instead, it appears in a single, preliminary projection from a team that's been consistently wrong about everything:
British media has reported Boris Johnson received his 70% more transmissible statistic from a single source, Erik Volz, an epidemiologist in his mid 30s who is currently a member of Imperial College London's epidemiology department.
Imperial College London is home to Neil Ferguson, who predicted that 2 million people would die in America —
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The Chinese have a saying: "When a small man casts a big shadow, it means the Sun is about to set"...
80 yrs old.
Nobody in the beltway ever seems to retire...
I had forgotten that flick!
Most people have!..................
Power is the most addictive drug known to humankind.
Yes, I have no power and I enjoy retirement LOL.
They have never isolated a new strain of SARS. How can they allege it has mutated?
You didn’t gravitate to the heart of the swamp to rule us all, did you?
My cousin is married to a DC “superlawyer”.
Harvard Law, class of 1961.
Still working six days a week, LOL.
The thing about addiction, it’s never enough.
I believe they are referring to:
https://origin.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/10/trump_and_covid_the_realities.html
and
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/vaccines_have_arrived__along_with_more_answers_more_questions.html
I’ve read some nutty stuff on here, but this takes the cake. Anyone without a Doctorate and post doctoral work has no legitimacy to use the phrase ‘so-called scientists’. This is beyond tin-foil hat, straight into full-retard.
It must be true... These so-called scientists have a “banana” curve plotted that proves it...
24/7 Panic Porn by the msm
There has been a LOT of disinformation and misinformation pushed out this year. Seems the deep state/dims/media wanted to panic the country in order to sneak an election steal by all of us.
We been Had!
.
Will We Shake it Off?
It's called a distraction, to divert your attention away from what is their real purpose.
I have a friend that’s a semi-retired realtor that works a few hours every day. He’s pushing 90.
I’m going to meet him for a beer in an hour. At the pub.
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