New study says the infection fatality ratio of the “deadly virus” has fallen from 3.4% to 0.15%…that’s plummeting 95% in less than a year
With every new study,
with every new paper, the “deadly” pandemic gets less and less, well, deadly.
The most recent data review, published in late March,
puts the infection fatality ratio (IFR) at 0.15%.
That is, once
again, pretty much the same as a normal flu season.
The new paper is
the work of Dr John Ioannidis, whom you likely remember. He is an eminent
epidemiologist and statistician who publicly urged the need for “good data”
last spring.
Do you remember
last spring? The blissful days of never having even heard of “infection
fatality ratio”? (I do. Fondly.)
The phrase
really rose to prominence last year, after the World Health Organization (WHO)
announced the IFR of the scary new virus was 3.4%.
This is not, in
and of itself, especially high. But it is significantly higher than most
cold/flu viruses.
Around the same
time, somebody (or multiple somebodies) actually edited the Wikipedia page of the
Spanish Flu, to change its IFR and make it seem like Covid
was just as dangerous. Who did this remains a mystery, although why has become
fairly obvious.
At the time,
many experts (such as those listed in our 12 Experts article)
predicted the actual IFR
of “Covid” would be much, much lower than the WHO’s estimate, and that this
would become clear as new data were gathered.
Dr John
Ioannidis was one of the most vocal on this point, he was featured on our list
and was also the first interview in the Perspectives on the Pandemic series.
All the way along he has urged the need for cool heads and good data.
His first a study, last April, found the REAL IFR of Covid19 was 0.27%.
Then he did another in October that found it may be even lower at 0.2%.
And now, this
most recent study found 0.15%.
Right in line with seasonal influenza (which has, conveniently enough, dropped off the face of the
planet).
That’s a
reduction of 95% of the WHO’s estimate, in less than a year. It’s also right
along the same lines as the WHO’s (accidental) admission, made last October,
that around 10% of the world had likely been exposed to the virus, rendering an IFR of roughly
0.14%.
And remember to
bear in mind the ridiculous way national
governments collate their so-called “Covid deaths”. Even with
the official death statistics being “substantial overestimates” the
IFR is still low. Very low.
Now, let’s couch
this with all the usual disclaimers: Yes, the virus may not ever have been
isolated, and thus has not as yet been proven to exist. And yes, even supposing
it does exist, it has not been proven to cause the disease known as “Covid19”.
But,
increasingly, the distinction between “no virus” and “a
virus that isn’t dangerous” seems entirely moot, doesn’t it?
As the real IFR
of Covid is revealed to be lower (and lower, and lower) than
the original estimates, it moves further and further into line with the basic
background risk of just being alive.
Still, don’t
forget to take that experimental gene-therapy “vaccine”. We don’t know if
they’re completely safe yet, because long-term trials won’t finish for two
years, and the technology has never been used on humans before, but
still…you’ve only got a 99.85% chance of survival without it.
https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/21/covids-ifr-just-keeps-dropping/
