Commentary: How we got COVID’s risk right but the response wrong

Portland Press Herald ^ | 29 October A.D. 2023 | Justin Fox

[lightman]

Likely to be swept over by the attention given to the Lewiston, Maine shootings.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

COVID response was like Ukraine response: intent is more important than actual results.

[grey_whiskers]

Notice like all true believers, he still goes out of his way to piss all over the Great Barrington Declaration -- and uses the great character-assault word "credibility".

Because it's not about the facts, it's about the narrative: and then using the narrative, about money and power. Thanks, lightman. *PING* to the rest of you.

[GOPJ]

Jay Bhattacharya “coauthored an article for the Wall Street Journal questioning the validity of the scary 2 to 4 percent fatality rate that the early models like Neil Ferguson’s were estimating – and that were causing governments to panic. He believed (correctly, as it turns out), that the true fatality rate was much lower.”

I'm guessing there are still real scientists in the world - and they tend to get things right. But this pandemic information was passed to celebrity "scientists" - and they're the same folks who freaked about global cooling, global warming, peak oil, ozone hole, population bomb etc etc etc. And THEY made it a freak out and caused the panic.

Ok, now I'm going to go back and finish readying the article to find out the actual answer.

[Socon-Econ]

There were conservatives who went soft on the fear mongering because they were eager to blame the disease on the Chinese or the illegals. And then there were conservatives who accepted masking because doctors wear them around open wounds.

[enumerated]

This guy is proud of himself for guessing 300-600k would die of Covid, based on the CDC report that 550k died, right in his range.

Doesn’t he realize those people died with Covid and not of it?

My prediction was far closer: zero.

Covid was a hoax whereby people dying of any cause while testing positive for Covid, were counted as Covid deaths.

[Jeff Chandler]

Missing from this article is the deceptive denigration of effective therapeutics such as HCQ and Ivermectin in the name of emergency approval for pharmaceutical profit centers.

[LS]

No, the risk was NEVER correct. Scott Atlas’s book shows that they were all the time missing the total number of cases precisely because it was NOT deadly, that most people had a mild flu and never reported, that the tests were terrible, and that the real number of cases was several orders of magnitude greater than those known.

In other words, the death rate was very small.

[gibsonguy]

The response was motivated by one thing. “How can we use this to take Trump out?”. Everything rotated around that objective.

[silverleaf]

The vaunted Imperial College of London and the physician-revered Lancet both seriously discredited themselves with flawed “ analysis” at the outset and during the event

A review of the data manipulation early-on used by the Imperial College to project mortality was sad and scandalous ( sorry have lost the sourcing that reviewed this)…yet that was the alarmist data used to influence Trump’s decisions….

Only time and history are going to rid us of the apologists for their past failures.

And will we ever get honest reflections of how many “ covid deaths” were actually caused by willful lack of treatment with HCQ or IVM, and how many were killed by dysfunctional but mandated use of remdesivir and ventilators

[Secret Agent Man]

Nope

Got the risk wrong too jerkoff author

[grey_whiskers]

Thanks for the info.

Can you send me a link to the book, please?

[DesertRhino]

A huge steaming pantload. They just cannot let it go. Lockdowns were not REALLY lockdowns, Sweden really wasn’t so free after all. And I notice this assclown skims right over three critical facts.

One, the flu completely disappeared during the pandemic. It went to almost zero.

Two, a massive majority of the deaths were medical misadventure, to be polite. Remdesivir to kill the kidneys, them pump with fluids while under complete sedation on a machine, and no family allowed in? That’s a straight up a recipe for death.

And three, there was massive death certificate fraud where dying within 6 weeks or whatever of a positive test was considered death by covid.

[DesertRhino]

Good point. Denying effective therapies was point number 4. It was depraved to say stay at home until you are so sick you must be hospitalized.

[joshua c]

risk was inflated

[logi_cal869]

The author is an idiot. Not much of a mea culpa.

[Jeff Chandler]

stay at home until you are so sick you must be hospitalized

Intubation was a veritable death sentence.

[rktman]

Yeah, NO!
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[CommieCutter]

I pretty sure they got it all wrong.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Five - the mass of collateral damage to society as a result of the covid communism. Clinics, doctors offices slammed shut without a plan B on how to continue care for those with chronic illnesses. A lot of people around here were found dead in their homes or died behind the wheel of their cars causing some nasty wrecks. Dialysis patients took a heavy hit on that I know. Others wigged out and went for suicide, a number of which were successful. There's a lot for the scum who benefited from the covid scheme to answer for.