Approximately one month ago,
John P.A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford,
published an article entitled “A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes
hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.“ In the
article, he emphasized that there is simply not enough data to make claims
about reported case fatality rates, and that the projections that the World
Health Organization (WHO) were making do nothing but “cause horror — and are
meaningless.” This has become much easier to see now, and the earlier models
that were predicting over one million deaths in multiple countries have, as a
result of COVID-19, changed and were clearly way off by a lot. Those
predictions also led to a massive amount of hysteria and panic, and the
perception that COVID-19 is more dangerous than it actually is.
Dr. Eran Bendavid and Dr. Jay
Bhattacharya, two professors of medicine at Stanford University who published
an opinion piece in the Wall
Street Journal entitled, “Is the coronavirus as deadly as they
say?” earlier on during the pandemic were also questioning what was being put
out as as well, among many other scientists arounds the world. Here’s a great example from
Germany.
This is not to say COVID-19
isn’t dangerous and precautions shouldn’t be taken, please keep that in mind,
but the measures that are put in place by multiple governments are indeed
questionable and always have been.
Fast forward to today,
Ioannidis, Bendavid, Bhattacharya and several other academics, together, most
of them from the School of Medicine at Stanford University have just published a study titled
“COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in in Santa Clara County, California.” In the
study the authors point out that “many epidemic projections and policies
addressing COVD-19 have been designed without seroprevalence data to inform
epidemic parameters.”
The goal of the study was to
obtain an accurate estimate of how many people in Santa Clara County,
California have actually been infected with the virus, and the way they went
about this was to try and see how many people had developed antibodies from
COVID-19. The study used a sample of residents in Santa Clara country of more
than 3000 people, of whom which they evaluated for the presence of COVID-19
antibodies. Based on what they saw within the sample size, the researchers
estimated that between 2.5 and 4.2 percent of the population in Santa
Clara county has antibodies “which is an indication that they had been infected
with the virus a while ago.”
It seems very likely that the
disease is more widespread than people believe, everywhere. – Bhattacharya
(source)
The conclusions of the study
were expressed by Ioannidis in a recent interview:
If you compare the numbers
that we estimate to have been infected, which vary from 48,000 to 81,000 versus
the number of documented cases that would correspond to the same time horizon,
around April 1st, when we had 956 cases documented in Santa Clara County, we
realize that the number of infected people is somewhere between 50 and 85 times
more compared to what we thought, compared to what had been documented.
Immediately that means the infection fatality rate, the chance of dying, the
probably of dying if you are infected diminishes by 50 to 85 fold because the
denominator in the calculation becomes 50 to 85 fold bigger. Our data suggests
that COVID-19 has an infection fatality rate that is in the same ball park as
seasonal influenza. It suggests that even though this is a very serious
problem, we should not fear. It suggests that we have solid ground to
have optimism about the possibility of eventually re-opening our society and
gaining back our lives…Sooner rather than later with full control and a data driven
approach.
Right now, it’s looking like
the number of infected is higher, and also that deaths due to COVID-19 are
being miscalculated, and are lower than what the numbers are showing. The
researchers suspect this is the same case, globally, in many countries. You can
read more about miscalculated deaths here. If
this is true, that would drive the case fatality rate even lower than what the
researchers predict in their study above.
The New York Times states
that approximately 3,700 were added to the death toll that were simply presumed
to have COVID19, without being tested. (source)
Final Thoughts/Takeaway
The coronavirus outbreak and the lockdown measures that have resulted
from it have raised a lot of questions from the population regarding
corruption, false information, and using fear/hysteria to drive the population
into the acceptance of inappropriate measures. Has our fear and hysteria been
manufactured? Have the measures that governments have taken come as a result of
manufacturing our consent? Are these measures happening for reasons other than
our safety? Are they really for our best interests or is something else going
on here? Why are we being forced to comply? More ‘big’ names are asking
these questions and sharing their beliefs. Edward Snowden recently expressed that
the fear and hysteria are simply being used to increase surveillance measures
and to heighten the national security state, measures that will remain long
after the virus just as they did long after 9/11. He suggested that
governments should simply make suggestions, present science and evidence as to
why they believe social distancing and isolation can help, and encourage people
to follow but not enforce them.
What’s also suspicious is that
opinions about the coronavirus are been flagged as ‘fake news.’ One of the
latest examples comes from Dr. Ron Paul, who encouraged people to ask
themselves whether this coronavirus “pandemic” could be a big hoax, with
the actual danger of the disease being massively exaggerated by those who seek
to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic. He
went on to stat that “That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without
question people will die from coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories
should take precautions to limit their risk of exposure. But we have seen this
movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to grab more of our
freedoms. When the “threat” is over, however, they never give us our freedoms
back. (source)
Is this lockdown necessary? Is there something else going on here?
Events like this coronavirus pandemic only serve the collective as they spark
massive amounts of questioning and critical thinking from the citizenry. It
simply serves the collective in the long run, and as a result it empowers the
collective to take their lives into their own hands, and not simply allow
themselves to be forced into measures by governments that seem to be
unscientific and unnecessary. At the end of the day, I believe humanity will do
what is right for each other, and what is right for each other in times like a
major pandemic would be obvious. There is no need for us to constantly rely on
governments and pharmaceutical companies to tell us what is, what isn’t, what
is right and what is wrong. It’s quite clear that we can think for ourselves
and the more events like this happen, the more of us there are that will
continue to think for ourselves and ask questions, and challenge the status
quo. The more you drive population by force, the more you awaken that
population to corruption within those who use force, because at the end of the
day, force should never be necessary.
For me, and obviously many others, it’s hard to see how COVID-19 is
ultimately any different from already existing coronaviruses, flus and other
respiratory illnesses. For example, did you know that metapneumovirus has been shown
to have worldwide circulation with nearly universal infection by age 5? Did you
know that outbreaks of metapneumovirus have been well documented every single
year, especially in long term care facilities with mortality rates of up to
50%? (source) Did you know
that human metapneumovirus infection results in a large number of
hospitalizations of children every single year? Did you know it has a
substantial morbidity rate, again in the elderly, but also among children as
well? Did you know that millions of children every single year die of these
types of respiratory illnesses because they lead to acute respiratory illness? Imagine
if the infection rates and death numbers were constantly tracked, and put on an
easy to access website mainstream media and on all radio channels. Imagine if
the other coronaviruses and respiratory illnesses that are more severe in some
cases, and arguably more infectious in some cases were subjected to constant
monitoring and beamed out to the population every single minute, could you
imagine the hysteria?
Something to think about.
Reprinted with permission
from Collective Evolution.
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