Posted on 02/10/2022 8:00:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The South African doctor who first discovered the Omicron variant says she was pressured by European governments to not reveal that it was mild.
Angelique Coetzee let slip the bombshell revelation during an interview with Germany’s Welt.
“I was told not to state publicly that it was a mild illness. I have been asked to refrain from making such statements and to say that it is a serious illness. I declined,” she said.
Coetzee explained how under the World Health Organization’s own definition, the strain perfectly fitted the bill for a mild variant.
“The definition of mild Covid-19 disease is clear, and it is a WHO definition: patients can be treated at home and oxygen or hospitalization is not required,” she said, adding: “A serious illness is one in which we see acute pulmonary respiratory infections: people need oxygen, maybe even artificial respiration. We saw that with Delta – but not with Omicron. So I said to people, “I can’t say it like that because it’s not what we’re seeing.””
The doctor was asked why health authorities tried to prevent her from telling the truth, to which she responded, “They tried, but they didn’t make it.”
“What I said at one point – because I was just tired of it – was: In South Africa this is a mild illness, but in Europe it is a very serious one. That’s what your politicians wanted to hear,” she added.
Coetzee specifically identifies scientists in the Netherlands and the UK who questioned her judgment by asking, “How can you explain that it’s a mild disease? It’s a serious illness. Look at the mutations.”
This is interesting given that SAGE government advisors in the UK got it so spectacularly wrong, claiming that Omicron would cause as many as 6,000 deaths a day if harsher restrictions weren’t imposed.
🚨🚨 Breaking – ONS deaths data for January shows actual deaths around 93% lower than the SAGE forecast if Boris did not introduce more restrictions.
➡️ They forecast 2,890 deaths per day as a central estimate – the reality was under 200 deaths per day
❌ Forecast failures.
pic.twitter.com/vs0wqaiGEJ— Jamie Jenkins (@statsjamie) February 8, 2022
Official death data for January in the UK shows actual deaths to be around 93% lower than SAGE’s grossly inaccurate forecast.
For weeks Coetzee tried to reassure the world that the strain was mild, did not cause a significant leap in deaths, and could actually end up being a good thing by providing natural immunity.
The doctor was largely ignored, with European governments imposing harsher lockdown restrictions across the board and exploiting fears to push for mandatory vaccine laws.
All of this needs to be part of a criminal investigation, given the utter devastation caused by lockdown policies.
Well, we did try to warn you.
pic.twitter.com/cnKgJyvLee— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 10, 2022
Dr Fubar called her 🤪
It’s not news that governments are deliberately instilling fear and panic.
Good article.
““I was told not to state publicly that it was a mild illness. I have been asked to refrain from making such statements and to say that it is a serious illness. I declined,” she said.”
I believe this 100%.
I’d like names and affiliations. Specifics.
When does this crap stop?
Hey Joe Rogan. Put this brave woman on your show. Don’t issue any phony disclaimers about her being on the “fringe”. Ask her who tried to pressure her. Then ping Neil Geriatric and tell him to watch his podcast.
It may not be news to FReepers but it sure is news to a lot of people who still believe everything the government and Corporate Media tells them to believe.
I could answer that, but I doubt the Brandon gulag has access to Free Republic, and I’d kind of miss you guys.
Dr. Coatzee’s remarks have hardly been reported in the FakeNewsMSM...just like they ignored the Johns Hopkins’ Lockdown critique.
in Australia, the covid porn vaccine shill on taxpayer-funded ABC Australia, got called out today:
11 Feb: Over 60 Australia: Ben Fordham slams Dr Swan’s Covid “alarmism”
(2GB) Radio broadcaster Ben Fordham has launched a scathing attack on the ABC’s Dr Norman Swan, condemning his “Covid scare campaign” in the wake of the Omicron wave.
The 2GB radio host jumped to the defence of Dr Angelique Coetzee, who “discovered” the Omicron variant in South Africa, who claims he has been subject to online “attacks” and abuse from scientists, doctors and global politicians for down-playing the severity of the variant.
Fordham called out a series of doctors who he called “Covid alarmists”, as he urged listeners not to listen to them after citing low deaths rates from the latest Covid variant...
“The death rate from Omicron is 0.1 per cent. Its fatality rate is the same as a bad flu season in Australia.”
“But the scare campaign has been in overdrive. At the start of the pandemic we were warned about 150,000 deaths in Australia. We’ve had 4,300.”
“All tragic but nothing like we warned about,” he said...
Fordham went on to slam “Covid cheerleader” Dr Swan who recently claimed that Omicron was not as mild as previously believed and gave little to no natural immunity.
“Norman Swan was ignoring the science, he was ignoring the scientist who discovered Omicron,” Fordham said...
https://oversixty.com.au/health/caring/ben-fordham-slams-dr-swans-covid-alarmism
WHO’s the enemy? Guess WHO?!!!
Simple, repetitive observation updated:
South Africa update -- 11 February 2022
( 96,705 "JHU official" deaths / 59,308,690 South Africans ) x 100 = 0.163 percent mortality rate.
Thus South Africa's survivability rate over TWO+ years is 99.837 %. Or mild, anyway. As ths South African doctor said.
--- "Official death data for January in the UK shows actual deaths to be around 93% lower than SAGE’s grossly inaccurate forecast."
UK update -- 11 February 2002
As of 11 February 2022
( 159,713 UK deaths over almost two years / 67,886,011 people in the UK ) x 100 = a mortality rate of 0.235 percent of the population over a period of two years.
A survivability rate in the UK of 99.765%.
Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/
From the UK's SAGE group's enormously incorrect and hysterical modeling, it has still taken over two years to "document" UK and South African "official Covid deaths" showing, per the above simple arithmetic, that Covid has been an extremely "survivable" respiratory disease, as have been NOT reported in the mainstream press nor by European and North American governments. Almost as if the whole thing were a "media" event.
Short answer: When we stop complying.
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