Has COVID-19 Testing Made the Problem Worse?
Kevin Ryan
Concerns about the virus SARS-COV-2 that causes the disease called COVID-19 have centered around reported mortality rates. However, errors in reporting those rates have led to confusion regarding the true health impacts. Because estimated rates are dependent on the test used to identify infected patients, understanding that test and its history could lead to much needed clarity.
Errors in reported mortality rates have come from mistakes in calculation. An example has been equating the measured case fatality rate (deaths divided by patients actively infected) with the actual mortality rate (deaths divided by patients who were ever infected). The latter number is unknown and will not be known until antibody titers can be performed to see who has previously been infected.
But that actual mortality rate is expected to be much lower, perhaps around 0.3% as estimated by an epidemiologist from Stanford University.
Another common error has been attributing the deaths of all infected people to COVID-19, regardless of other pre-existing illnesses.
This error has been magnified by governments mandating that all deaths of presumptive patients be listed as death from COVID-19, even if the patient was never tested for SARS-COV-2 at all.
The mortality rate errors would be further worsened if there were errors in testing for presence of the virus. What is becoming increasingly clear is that there have been serious questions regarding the reliability of that testing.
The test in question uses a technique called reverse transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) to identify the presence of RNA from SARS-COV-2. Testing follows different protocols in different countries and the first problem was seen in China, the reported origin of the virus.
The Chinese Mystery
A scientific study was performed in China that targeted subjects who had been in close contact with SARS-COV-2 infected patients. The results were peer-reviewed and published in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology on March 5th, 2020.
The data-driven conclusion of the study was that “nearly half or even more” of patients testing positive for SARS-COV-2 did not actually have the virus. In other words, half of the results were false positives.
For perspective, this study was peer-reviewed and published in a Chinese state journal a month after COVID-19 was said to have surpassed the 2003 SARS epidemic and just as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak to be a pandemic. This was a full month after China had ordered a lockdown affecting over 36 million people.
Mysteriously, this peer-reviewed study was withdrawn a few days after publication and is no longer available for review. In response, one investigative team asked a Chinese graduate student to contact the lead author of the study, Dr. GH Zhuang, for explanation.
Dr. Zhuang responded by email but did not cite a reason for withdrawal of the paper, only saying that it was “a sensitive matter.”
Others then made the false assumption that the author had identified a mistake in the science despite the fact that no such mistake was ever identified.
As reported by the investigative team that contacted Dr, Zhuang:
Without access to the paper, nobody can assess the value of the work or determine whether it suffers from a scientific flaw. It’s also unknown if the paper was retracted for political reasons.”
To understand the concept of a false positive one should realize that analytical test methods need to be balanced with respect to quality considerations like sensitivity and specificity.
If a test is not sensitive enough, the analyte of interest will not be found when it is there, giving a false negative. If a test is not specific enough, something else in the test sample will be identified as being the target analyte when it is not, giving a false positive.
In this case, a false positive could mean that the test is reacting to another virus or genetic source. Alternatively, the test could be detecting the presence of SARS-COV-2 residues after a previously infected individual is no longer sick. Lastly, even very small amounts of contamination in the laboratory can cause a false positive.
No matter the cause, false positives mean higher reported mortality rates, more confusion, more fear, and more bad decisions.
The RT-qPCR test for SARS-COV-2 is being used as a qualitative test, despite the technique name including the word quantitative. This means that the actual amount of virus in a sample is not considered important, only the presence of even a small amount of virus. This concern would be lessened if the actual test results showing levels of virus detected were available.
Unfortunately, all the public sees are numbers of positive or negative determinations.
WHO Guidance and the Test
The World Health Organization (WHO) originally based testing on a kit developed in Germany, not on the Chinese protocol. WHO has since developed general guidance for testing SARS-COV-2.
This guidance requires some understanding of terminology so it’s helpful to understand the virus and the principle of testing.
RT-qPCR involves multiple steps. The sample is first lysed (i.e. the cells are cut) to release any viral material. Then the target RNA is converted into complementary DNA (cDNA) using an enzyme called reverse transcriptase. This is sometimes called the “extraction” step.
After this, the cDNA is used as a template for amplification using qPCR, allowing the original quantity of target RNA to be determined.
The amplification is not done on the entire cDNA sequence but on segments that are expected to be representative of the specific genome of interest and, correspondingly, not representative of other genetic materials that could be present.
Segments of the SARS-COV-2 genetic code that are usually targeted correspond to sections of the original RNA named ORF1a, ORF1ab, S, M, E, and N.
Synthetic primers and fluorescent probes are identified to match up with the target genetic segments to facilitate amplification and detection. The primers are small nucleotide sequences that bind to the target segments of the cDNA genetic sequence. The primers used are critical and issues with primer design can lead to variation in results.
As described in an article in The Scientist, the WHO-recommended primers first target the E gene of SARS-COV-2. The E gene is considered highly divergent and therefore more specific to the different coronaviruses. If a lab following WHO guidance obtains a positive screening test, it will do confirmatory testing targeting other areas of the virus genome. To avoid false positives, “every positive test has been confirmed with whole genome sequencing, viral culture, or electron microscopy.”
The US Test
Unfortunately, the US decided to follow its own rules for testing of SARS-COV-2. In fact, WHO and CDC never discussed the U.S. using the same test as being done internationally. Investigators from The Scientist found that it was “not clear why the CDC chose to develop a different assay to that selected by the WHO and taken up by other countries. The CDC declined to respond to questions.”
The CDC was criticized for its decision and problems were later found with its test kits. Although CDC has been secretive about the details, the concerns with its test appear to have included both test design issues and contamination.
CDC began manufacturing its test kit in January and shipped it on February 5th to state labs and to 30 other countries including 191 international labs. A week later, in a February 12th briefing at the CDC, problems with the test were reported. Although the statements made were unclear, it appeared that states were complaining the test was “inconclusive” and therefore CDC was going to focus on “redoing the manufacturing.”
It was reported that, “the CDC added to the confusion by providing limited information to labs in the weeks that followed. There was a period of time after the tests were recalled where there was near silence. It was about two weeks.” It was only after an open letter to Congress on February 28th, from more than 100 virologists and other specialists, that the CDC responded by allowing independent labs that had validated their own tests to begin testing.
The CDC test originally included three primers, all targeting one gene—the N gene of SARS-COV-2 that encodes for the nucleocapsid. The primers were denoted N1, N2, and N3. Nucleocapsids of RNA viruses “are fairly simple structures that contain only one major structural protein…This protein is usually basic or has a basic domain.”
Although the CDC test might have provided good sensitivity, it appears that it did not provide high specificity as it targeted only one basic gene of the coronavirus. CDC admitted the lack of certainty in a disclaimer noted in the method, saying, positive results “do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease.”
At first, due to CDC secrecy, problems with the test kit were difficult to understand. As the Washington Post reported, “The trouble with the CDC test arose because the third attempt at a match, known as the N3 component, produced an inconclusive result even on known samples of the coronavirus.”
But that was not the whole story.
On February 28th, as the open letter to Congress was being recognized, it was reported that the N3 primer of the CDC kit was contaminated. The contamination caused the negative control within the kit, containing DNA that was unrelated to SARS-COV-2, to react as if it was a positive hit for SARS-COV-2. In other words, the kits were generating false positives for negative controls.
How much contamination was present was not clear because, again, the actual test results giving amounts of virus found are not available to the public. And CDC has not been open with communications about the problems found. Oddly enough, in April, test kits in the UK were also found to be “contaminated with COVID-19.”
What did CDC do to correct the problems with the kit? Instead of re-manufacturing the N3 primer as originally planned, on March 15th the CDC simply told everyone who had the kit to remove the N3 primer and use the kits without it. Additionally, CDC changed its method requirements to eliminate the need to confirm positive results.
This made the test kit that was based on detection of only one basic gene in SARS-COV-2 even less specific and told users that results didn’t need to be confirmed. These changes made the test less reliable in terms of identifying SARS-COV-2 and therefore made any subsequent estimates of mortality rates less reliable as well.
Summary
The history of testing for SARS-COV-2 infection has involved problems that have led to delays in testing and reporting of rates of infection than are falsely higher than actual. Complicating these issues are government mandates for medical professionals to list COVID-19 as cause of death for patients who have inconclusive causes of death and, in some cases, were never tested for SARS-COV-2 at all.
Understanding problems with the test performed for identification of infected patients can lead to much-needed clarity and less panic. There are many questions that still need answers. For example: Are reported rates for other diseases like influenza dropping in proportion to the rise in reported infection by SARS-COV-2? What were the details of the Chinese study that was mysteriously retracted? What has investigation into the CDC kit contamination revealed? What other countries have based their mortality figures on test kits that provided unreliable results?
Citizens can help by calling on authorities and test facilities to publicly share the details of testing including the actual results of the RT-qPCR tests showing levels of virus present.
In addition to information sharing, an international investigation into the problems seen with testing, starting with Chinese results and U.S. test kits, should be conducted. Such an investigation could lead to preventing the reporting of false positives and the ensuing panic and bad decision making that come from artificially high estimated mortality rates.
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Just found this website . Thank goodness . I’m actually thinking of starting an IG just to develop content around various “official” docs relating to the state of our world . Seems my “friend list” on all my personal social media aren’t engaging or are upset when I post there 🤷🏻♀️ Anyway, grateful for the articles . Thank you.
We will probably all soon have to be vaccinated with a Gulf War Syndrome cocktail of drugs.
With the same results.
Like Gates’s bungled vaccination campaigns in India.
Whoever set out to investigate on that mysteriously retracted Chinese paper certainly did not do a good enough job. The actual paper is not retracted, and can still be found on the official website of the publisher, Chinese Journal of Epidemiology. Of course it is Chinese, which unfortunately causes trouble for many who are potentially interested. The paper is however, retracted as a preprint on PubMed, a full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. I here copy and paste the editor office’s note on why it is retracted on this site: Editor office’s response for Ahead of Print article withdrawn The article “Potential false-positive rate among the ‘asymptomatic infected individuals’ in close contacts of COVID-19 patients” was under strong discussion after pre-published. Questions from the readers mainly focused on the article’s results and conclusions were depended on theoretical deduction, but not the field epidemiology data and further researches… Read more »
Thanks for your interest in the article and for sharing the Chinese language link. When queried through webarchive, that link was not made available until 15 days after original publication, in late March. It is available now, however, as you shared, and can be translated online. Looking into the website “rhhz.net” might also be useful. Why PubMed decided to not only remove the index to the article is unclear. The PubMed editor’s rationale that the paper “depended on theoretical deduction” is not valid, of course, because all such papers depend on theoretical deduction. The NPR team that completed the investigation through contacting the author published its article a few days after that new Chinese link became available. Since neither the Chinese article nor the author of the paper has provided a legitimate reason for the PubMed indexing reaction, the mystery remains to be solved. As NPR stated, the author simply… Read more »
Early tests were crap, delivering false positives and negatives. And antibody tests are not perfected yet, either.
Bill Gates’ Vaccine Crime Record Indian doctors blame Gates for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian Government dialled back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously. Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Instagram Post on Bill Gates “Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy–the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism. Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans. Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India ‘s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age… Read more »
Vaccines will be used in the Great Culling, I believe. The link between HIV outbreaks among gay men in New York, and a Hepatitis B vaccine program have long been very suspicious.
Speaking of tests, the latest podcast from David Crowe in The Infectious Myth Series. Episode 251 April 14, 2020 https://infectiousmyth.podbean.com/e/the-infectious-myth-stephen-bustin-on-challenges-with-rt-pcr “The Infectious Myth – Stephen Bustin on Challenges with RT-PCR RT-PCR is the main method for declaring that someone is COVID-19 infected or not, as well as having numerous other uses in molecular biology research and biological testing. Professor Stephen Bustin is a world expert on the technology, and the potential problems with using it to produce accurate and repeatable results. Although the coronavirus test is presented as a binary test, it is actually based on whether the production of DNA is detectable prior to an arbitrary number of PCR cycles. If there is variability in the quantification, then samples will be above or below the limit, when they should not be, resulting in false positives and negatives. David and Stephen walk through the steps, from the extraction of RNA… Read more »
They also use the PCR test, which detects RDNA bits, but CANNOT determine the Genome … so it creates a false representation that COVID-19 is more prevalent than it really is. All of this psychosocial terrorism is both unnecessary and a Criminal Act.
Of course, the common cold, the flu and other annoying things that have always been around on Earth are corona viruses …. but they use “corona virus” and COVID-19 in the same breath, deliberately trying to add the RDNA bits common in everyones blood stream as ‘evidence” of COVID-19. That’s a criminal deception, and is part of the social con.
I get the impression that the term “COVID-19” is being used more often than “coronavirus” simply because it looks scarier and has connotations of code terms for Nazi camps or Soviet gulags.
@Val, influenza viruses and coronaviruses are quite distinct. Many “common cold” viruses are coronaviruses, but not all.
Also, reporters, being lazy, often not bright, and sensationalist, conflate the name of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) with its generic type (Coronavirus) and with the disease it causes (Covid-19). That’s okay for folks writing articles read by thousands, but we won’t stand for it here in the comments section, by golly. 😉
The test for coronavirus is within the realm of almost any genetics lab. But it is pretty far from regular activity at a routine medical lab. When you get ‘your blood work ‘report it is a pretty extensive and impressive piece of technology and expertise. But there is nothing about genetics. A regular hospital lab is not going to be able to fit this into their regular routines. Please watch this video.
https://youtu.be/mn4yXyj2xdU
Excellent, thanks. Your’e doing a stirling job. Despite all the evidence that the numbers of cases and deaths are meaningless, because the tests are unreliable and likewise the reported cause of death, a lot of people (Monkton being one) are still focused on “models”. https://stovouno.org/2020/04/10/open-letter-to-mps-the-lockdown-is-a-disastrous-error/
Barbara, thanks for sight of your excellent letter. I intend to use it in my ongoing (but usually fruitless) efforts to convince friends of the realities of the situation.
Yes, this letter is excellent. You’ d have to be daft or reckless not to understand its significance. But will they get it? History suggests not.
TESTS, TESTS, AND MORE TESTS “The data-driven conclusion of the study was that “nearly half or even more” of patients testing positive for SARS-COV-2 did not actually have the virus. In other words, half of the results were false positives.” If this statement is not troubling enough, a blogger just yesterday posted a video on the thread “Corona World Order” citing research by Dr. Andrew Kaufman’s showing that COVID-19 is an exosome which exists normally in our lung cell fluid. Kaufman claims that 80% of the COVID-19 tests yield false positives. Who knows what to believe I’m not a virologist, but something smells pungently fishy. Tests, tests, and more tests in all the years that hundreds of thousand if not millions died from the flu no one ever mentioned contact surveillance testing. Google/Apple the NSA duo who for years assisted oligarchs in China to intensely surveil a population of billions… Read more »
Same now happening in Australia. “Coronavirus lockdowns could end in months if Australians are willing to have their movements monitored”. ie, blackmail.
and what if we’re not willing to have our movements monitored?
The blackmailer is this bloke, Dr John Coyne is head of Strategic Policing and Law Enforcement and head of the North and Australia’s Security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-16/coronavirus-tracing-app-should-i-download-it/12151324
Interesting, how the medical industry is working hand-in-glove with the security state–both organizations are deleterious to one’s health.
Very interesting Charlotte. Someone on here a few weeks ago described MI5 influence within the UK NHS. Explains a lot, makes sense.
I originally wrote this April 4th. Real death rates here!!!!No testing data needed!!!! Read all below!!! If you want realistic data regarding the death rate due to Covid 19 go to this CDC webpage https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm and scroll down to table 5 and click on the Covid 19 deaths tab. This will bring NYC data to the top. NYC offers the best data to determine actual statistics on Covid mortality as it spread there the longest before current attempts at containment. The data is from February 1st to April 4th. That’s the last time the CDC updated it. The only important thing to look at on the chart is the percentage of expected deaths for the same time period. That figure correlates average number of deaths during the same time period over the past number of years, to deaths this year. New York City is at 133% of expected deaths on… Read more »
Correction, I originally wrote April 12 around midnight.
Sorry if the math above doesn’t agree with your beliefs. If someone could tell me what the extra 58% over the average amount of deaths in the same time period are from in NYC, if there not from Covid, what are they dying of?
Any number of things that will be studied for years to come! First of all, you have to know that the definition of “COVID-19” death is a catch all phrase that it would appear is being used for political and media clout as just about all deaths these days are categorized as COVID-19 even if the person clearly died of other medical issues or wasn’t even tested! Are people dying from a virus that causes lung disease, sure, just as happens every single year during ‘flu season.’ Second, you have to account for the damage that the lockdowns are doing. People who normally are going to doctor appointments and having procedures and therapies done aren’t having those things done, in part because doctor offices and hospitals are closed and partly because the media has people paralyzed with fear that if they leave their homes/ apartments they will surely die from… Read more »
Perfect answer, go to the nearest hospital with Covid positive patients, bum rush the staff and kiss a Covid positive tested patient on the lips. Report your results in two weeks, I dare you…..Btw today just three days later, NYC deaths are now 165% of average. My aunt who has inoperable liver cancer has to go to the hospital in Boston every week to 7 have liters of fluid drained from her abdomen. Hospitals are still doing normal life saving procedures, they are having staff that have tested negative do those procedures. My aunt sold real estate until she had to retire for health reasons, my uncle is a welder, they are not rich. I hope your right for my aunts sake, as she has been social distancing since about three months before anyone ever heard of Covid 19, as a normal flu could kill her in her current condition,… Read more »
Ah so we go from a verbose analysis of the statistical data (although you forgot to multiply by the number you first thought of divided by the latest rainfall) to the usual hysterical anecdotal outburst. “Yes – go to a hospital and stick your head up the arse of a corpse and weep at the injustice of it all!”
Great argument buddy! I like how you put a lot of thought into your response lol
I was simply summarising you.
You are – at least currently – convinced that this one contagious disease and that the stats you use are reliable, and not a result of the ‘social immune response’ to being terrorised, along with all the propaganda that Trillion dollar interests can pull out of the hat. Fear drives a ‘negative economy’ as in the Medical Industrial Complex and all its related extensions and supports. Fear is only healthy when it is properly addressed and resolved. Hidden and denied fear works a mindset aligned in the Deep State of self-isolated lockdown that locksteps in alliances against threat of any true exposure. Narrative capture works a mind-control of the inability to and resistance against questioning its own internalised invested identity. Those who are not baited by the ruse still have fears to meet with regard to the agenda operating – and its social support and defence through a hacked bot-net… Read more »
Despite the vagueness of your entire reply, and your attempt to “frame the narrative” in the tongue of the mysteries, (good flow by the way), I was not “baited by the ruse”. The ruse being that you have some higher knowledge that you can offer me, that will free me from the chains of my “alien subjection”. Probably due to the extreme nature of my birth sign, my entire life I have been surrounded with people such as yourself, that tend to teeter over that tenuous line between high intelligence, and mental instability. I know you believe your helping people, and I can tell your a true believer, so please don’t be offended that I spoke of your mental state. After all you, you very elusively said the same thing about me. “Narrative capture works a mind-control of the inability to and resistance against questioning its own internalised invested identity”-binra… Read more »
I reread what I wrote and cannot make any sense of your view of it. Perhaps framing the words and work of others as nonsense is your chosen area of expertise? I don’t believe in sheeple. I have no desire to enter into your framing or farming of my state of mind, intentions or fear-driven delusions. You are welcome to yours. What you choose to make of what you read from me or anyone else is your own responsibility – which I commend you to own or embrace. No one else can live your life. If you spaced your typing in paragraphs it would be clearer for others to read. But perhaps that is neither your desire or intention. If you meant anything you said, I would meet in points of shared agreement – but nothing I have read from you on this page has given me any sense that… Read more »
Oh, and another thing, the whole country is locked down, if your reasoning is based in reality, than death rates from all causes should be spiking, and all over the country we should be seeing death rates over %100 of average for the same time period in previous years. We’re not. In fact most states death rates compared to average are less than 100% of average this year because we had a milder winter than the past two years, and fewer people died of the regular flu this year. Normal travel patterns brought Covid to lesser affected regions later, hence the shutdown was more effective in those regions. I live in Massachusetts, the Eastern half of the state has ten times or more cases and death rate than the western half of the state. Thankfully I live in the western half. I hope all of you live in lesser affected… Read more »
But didn’t you hear Boris? We’re all going to lose loved ones at the rate of 5 a day from now till the end of time!
Troll much? Again, great and well thought out response buddy!
Boris’s response.
You are quick to point the accusation away from yourself
There is additionally the question of whether the treatment for Covid19 may be killing a significant number of patients who might otherwise have survived.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-overused-for-covid-19/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
Congratulations JudyJ! You posted something relevant and poignant in response to the thread that has come about because of my post! The doctor in the link below agrees the ventilators are doing more harm than good, and shows what he’s found to have a higher success rate in keeping people alive.
https://www.drbrownstein.com/dr-bs-blog/
Hi Officer712
You might be interested to see this link if you haven’t already.
https://thehighwire.com/exclusive-video-blowing-the-whistle-on-covid-19/
I have now, thank you, and I will be forwarding my original post to to Dr Wittkowski to see what his response is.
Just read more Dr Wittkowski, and I fully agree. We can open back up under his parameters. But it would have to be done right, there would have to be measures taken to keep the caretakers of elderly from giving it to the elderly, and elderly that don’t have caretakers currently would need caretakers as a way to distance them from the rest of society until herd immunity is up. Thanks again JudyJ!
‘Herd immunity’ means vaccines, yearly and billions of profits. They may not work, or as with the SARS vaccine, prove disastrous when the recipient is infected. Medical treatments exist, like hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin, but the BigPharma establishment plus the Groupthinking MSM presstitutes HATE cheap, off-patent, solutions, and Trump’s endorsement has sent them into the usual frenzy of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
[I think your point is that vaccines may be cynically rolled out, presented as the only ‘safe’ way to achieve ‘herd immunity’? Please be careful to avoid accidentally reinforcing overblown claims made about the disease. There is ZERO information available at present to suggest that natural herd immunity will not be just as effective against this disease as it has been against the millions before it. Vaccination is, of course, a form of artificial herd immunity, involving intentionally giving people a small but manageable infection -Ed]
Well Richard, it looks as though my retort has been pre-empted by an Ed. Great response Ed, thanks for the lesson! All I was going to say was read/watch Wittkowski, as he was talking about natural herd immunity. I didn’t even know vaccinations were considered herd immunity. Thanks again!
I don’t know, but it’s almost as if the rest of the US is shipping it’s ill to die of Covid in NYC. My state of 10,500,000 had 11 new cases yesterday, 0 deaths. Yet our governor says we can’t go back to work until cases and deaths begin to fall. I don%to know what he expects. We might have to start raising the dead to change his mind.
This virus didn’t just appear everywhere at the same time, you have to take into account travel patterns, and time to spread, it obviously got to New York and California before anywhere else in the country and had a chance to spread before everything got shut down, it obviously got to your state later, and didn’t have as much time to spread before everything got shut down.
Here in my little-affected state we’re being accosted by You Wait, You’ll Get Yours Theory.
I hope you don’t “get yours”, and I hope they come up with a plan to get US back to work before WE die of starvation or newspaper ink poisoning from lack of toilet paper, but I hope it’s a well thought out plan that minimizes the very real death toll of this virus.
Based on the stats provided in the link 40% of the number of deaths above the two year average in NYC aren’t attributed to covid-19. What do you think those people are dying of? That is nearly half of deaths above the two year average definitely have nothing to do with Corona. Most posters here (myself included) would argue that guidelines for reporting Corona deaths and unreliable testing means deaths are being misattributed to covid creating inflated numbers. It that was true then the proportion of deaths above the two year average that have no link to covid-19 is likely even higher. This phenomena of a jump in mortality driven not just by covid deaths but by an almost equal number of non-covid deaths is observable in the Italian, Spanish and most recently the UK mortality figures. Comparing the UK and Sweden, they are both roughly at the same point… Read more »
What table on the linked page are you referring to, to get your 40% above average not being contributed to Covid deaths?
Probably the fact that, as this article points out, testing is very unreliable and appears to have the potential for a significant false positive rate.
I have a question for you, Officer712. In your first post you said the virus needs to be taken seriously. I’d be interested in knowing what you mean by this? Do you think ‘lockdown’, imposition of a virtual police state and destruction of the world economy is the serious response that is necessary?
John Milton, another person that is maybe not so good at math or didn’t fully read my First comment. My first comment has real 100% accurate math using statistics not dependent on the accuracy of testing to determine the actual death rate. C’mon, you people seem like your critical thinkers, use those noggins and really wrap your head around my first comment. YOU DON’T NEED ACCURATE TESTING TO GET AN ACCURATE DEATH TOLL AS A PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION. John Milton, in answer to your question, as a part time Police Officer in three towns , I’ll have you know we’re not in a police state. Other than requiring people to wear masks in close quarter public places there really aren’t any mandates. We haven’t been told as police officers to arrest or report people that are not following social distancing guidelines, or business’s that are staying open even though they’re… Read more »
My job is dead “because of Covid.” Don’t trifle me with petty distinctions about co-morbidities like due corrections and early supply line problems with China. It was the pan-panic.
Great response! Especially like the wordplay! I am truly sorry for your loss. And I wish I had a solution that could get you back to work. I’m right there with you, Im a full time carpenter, as well as a part time officer. I’m laid off from my full time job due to Covid, and can’t get any more hours as an officer than my normal 1-2 shifts per month. What did you do before The Covid killed your job? And what could we do as a society to keep future “pan-panics“ from killing jobs like yours? And why do so many people that post here think that “the global elite” would deliberately tank the worlds economy in order to be able to exercise more control over the global population. We’re all just numbers to the “global elite“, most of them could care less how many of us worker… Read more »
i.e. if they died, they died of COVID! Death itself is proof of COVID.
Seriously Bro, don’t you have anything intelligent to say?
What I said was what you said.
You obviously didn’t read/understand my original post, or you’d know you didn’t just say the same thing as me. Troll all you want, I’m done responding to you until you can make an actual argument based on more than the mis-interpretation of one paragraph I wrote. Show that you understand everything I wrote in my first post, Articulate an actual argument against it, and we can have an actual debate.
You know you are playing pea and thimble tricks with numbers Officer712, so don’t pretend to be indignant if you get called on it.
Ouch, pea and thimble tricks! There is not a single trick in any of my math! If you would be so kind as to detail a specific instance where I messed up on the math, I would actually be very grateful. If you look at the new numbers on the CDC page I linked in my original post, (as they finally added the new deaths), you’ll see that the new calculation of percentage of expected deaths at 158% in table 5 For NYC is now exactly what I had calculated it would be given the the deaths they had not yet added. I’ve have never argued the Article that has prompted us all to post here. I think the testing has been completely botched. This is the first time I’ve ever posted a comment/comments to any article. I thought it was so we could all share ideas, and was really… Read more »
“ I was referring to the excess deaths being attributed to Covid-19. My point is the testing is so unreliable that you can not, with confidence, attribute them all to Covid-19 – especially when deaths are being labelled as Covid deaths even without the unreliable test being performed.” – John Milton, The “ excess deaths” your referring to are different than the excess deaths I’m referring to. Let me explain The “excess deaths“ your referring to are deaths that are mis-reported deaths, or over reported deaths: deaths attributed to Covid that aren’t from Covid or an -excess of reported deaths- which is not the same thing as an excess of deaths The excess deaths I was referring to in my original post are deaths from all causes as a percentage of the average number of deaths from all causes during the same time period in previous years: actual excess deaths… Read more »
Only about half of the excess mortality in NY has been attributed to covid19, even with the extravagant and unjustifiably lax way that is being diagnosed. The rest is unexplained, but assumed to be linked to the partial closure of some hospitals, the unavailability of elective surgeries, including cancer surgeries, and the reluctance of people to attend ERs when suffering from potentially life threatening conditions such as stroke or heart attack. Given the over-diagnosis of covid19, we can assume this number might actually be even larger, and the real covid19 numbers smaller.
Hi Admin1!
I like how authoritatively you presented your case despite that you used what you yourself refer to as assumptions twice in your argument. Alas it does however point out that I made a rather large assumption myself in thinking Covid was the only new variable that could explain such a large amount of extra deaths. Kudos!
All assumptions are wrong, but some are useful.
UPDATE!
If you go to the CDC link in my post, they have updated the table 5 statistics to the date I wrote my original response to the above article ….and of course my math was 100% right!….NYC now at 158% of average deaths during the same time period in previous years.
Hey, I’ll reply to your comment here. But first a question: Do you believe everything your government says? And do you believe they always act in people’s best interest? You asked: What table on the linked page are you referring to, to get your 40% above average not being contributed to Covid deaths? I replied: Probably the fact that, as this article points out, testing is very unreliable and appears to have the potential for a significant false positive rate. To which you then suggested that I either didn’t read your entire first post (I did – suggestion: use some paragraphs, it makes reading a long post easier), or that I am not good at maths. Dear friend, it seems you misunderstood my point. I am not disputing the figures / calculations you made. How can I? I do not have access to raw data, so have to take on… Read more »
First in answer to your two questions, no, and no/yes. #1-If I believed everything the government says, I wouldn’t have spent 4 hours fact checking the reported death rate by doing all that math in my initial post. I was as surprised as anyone to see their reporting was pretty much spot on, if not a little low. #2- the government is made up of people. I believe they act in their own self interest, so in one sense they do “always act in people’s best interest”, especially in this case given probably 70-80% of State and federal congresspeople are in the age range most likely to die by Covid. Now comes the no part. No I don’t think the government always acts in -the people’s-(the 98%) best interest. I believe they generally act in the best interest of corporations, and that’s why I’m sure this lockdown won’t last much… Read more »
Instead of responding to your lengthy mish-mesh of numbers and assumptions (sorry I didn’t have the patience to try to make heads or tails of it), correct or not, let me just throw a few back at you. WHO prediction in 2017 for 2020 total worldwide deaths would be 60.2m (can’t be bothered to look up the source but it’s Googleable), so that makes 5m per month. Corona has been really active for, shall we be conservative and call it 3 months, and 408’000 people have died from it as of today. In that time, 15m people have died from all kinds of causes as per WHO average, and therefore Corona has killed just under 3%, but that’s assuming they are ALL excess dead, so it’s likely significantly less than that (I would guesstimate at the very least 80% are part of the original statistic and probaly more like… Read more »
Hi Johan,
You didn’t have the patience to make heads or tails of my mosh mash of numbers? What you put to comment was a mush mash of numbers sir. What I put out was statistical analysis that tracked 100% accurately to my predictions. At its peak NYC hit over 240% of average deaths from all causes, and is still at 200% of deaths from all causes, despite the lengthened time period from the original analysis. What you spouted, has no relevance to the discussion
For a great perspective on effective lockdown vs no lockdown go to the link below, scroll way down to COVID-19 deaths, choose add country, and add New Zealand and Australia.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/sweden?country=SWE~USA
Well it looks like mankind failed a global IQ test, badly. How to make 7.5 Billion people not only believe that the common cold is a deadly pandemic but actually lap it up. Time for extinction.
A greater fear bends the mind that then seeks the lesser to hide in – and pays the price.
Jimmy Dore & Co are now calling for an all-out general strike.
How long are you lot going to remain quivering in your boots?
With the greatest respect, and with a strong tendency to wish to support Jimmy Dore, I really think we should know first what we are striking for. Could even we OffG readers agree on what we really want? Surely that is still too diffuse a matter for such a concrete step to be taken without quite a bit of serious planning? I’m sure there are many like myself who are far from quivering in their boots, but, on the contrary, are straining at the leashes for that one clear spark which will get this show on the road – the show which is connected with the saving of human evolution. For me, personally, dragging the chiefs of the WHO and the IMF, as well as the entire US Supreme Court, Congress and Senate, out of their offices to take their place in the queue for employment would be a great… Read more »
I would maintain that the one thing the tenders of the American System fear the most is the General Strike.
To that end, of eradicating even the notion of such a thing, there are more than a thousand companies that advise major corporations on nothing else other than how to bust unions and defeat labor initiatives (source: michaelparenti.org).
The one thing USA INC really excels at is atomizing solidarity.
You could call it “Planned Social Distancing”.
There are dot-matrix electronic billboards all over our area that flash out, now: “OBSERVE SOCIAL DISTANCING”
Creepy.
That’s undoubtedly all correct. My feeling is that for OUR own good, we would need to know what we wish to achieve before we undertake such a thing.
Let’s just say the General Strike succeeds, and somebody in government asks, timidly, “Okay, you win. Now what do you want?” Would the answer be, “Higher wages”, or “Equal pay for women”, or “Trans rights”…? We should know what our answer would be.
We should know what our answer would be – and it should be a good one…
The basis for the answer that works for all, regardless our differences, is one that honours the way of honest and open communication. First this must be accepted in and for ourself – because the ‘narrative control’ is no less active in the ‘self-isolating’ private mind, than in the world at large. If we are conflicted in ourself but masking over our fears, guilts, shames, hates or sense of lack and division, then we will be seeking to work out our personal script on our relationships and world – AS IF it is really out there. IE: We will only see what our conditioned and reactive habit operates. Identifying the conditions that hold for and support real relationship and communication is key. Or there is no foundation for a mass of reactive grievances and vengeance seeking its own ‘world order’ – that will seem to be a Movement until its… Read more »
– employment
+ execution
🙂
Well, I did say, ” a great start”… After all, who would employ those parasites when their current minders are so clearly losing their filthy grip? So I imagine they would find their way into your queue soon enough…
Executions are so uncommon these days, however. Perhaps that’s no coincidence…
All directions to governments around the world on how to act on the plandemic are emanating from the US. But who is really in charge? “The Israelis control the policy in the congress and the senate.” Senator Fullbright, Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee: 10/07/1973 on CBS’ “Face the Nation”. “I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews….. terrific control the Jews have over the news media and the barrage the Jews have built up on congressmen …. I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get congress to do anything they don’t approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the congress through influential Jewish people in the country” Even more so today. IT’S… Read more »
Hey, how dare you say even one word against us – we are protected don’t you know.
And don’t even think of having a bad thing to say about, or trying to stop our practice of genital mutilation of our new born boys. That would be antisemitic! Even our friends at the Guardian agree!
Our boys just adore having their foreskins removed. Anaesthetic and consent not required! The lucky ones even get a dose of herpes for good measure.
America, the home of eugenics.
Gosh-must have gone to ‘spam’, eh? I just observed that male genital mutilation gets a lot less attention than the female type. Offended someone, apparently.
Peter Hitchens interview – 2 days old:
The radio host, Mike, is wrong to assume that illness spreads more easily in 2020 than in 1918 due to air travel. “So many people from China were spreading the disease and that could probably never have happened.” It did happen. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese labourers were imported to work in the U.S. a century ago, and hundreds of thousands more Chinese worked on the front during WW1.
The railway network was much bigger than today. Millions of soldiers departed and returned by ferry across the Channel. Sixty million soldiers fought in filthy conditions. And when the survivors got home many lived in slums and tenements, with unclean water, poor sewagerage, lack of health care – Florence Nightingale had only just reformed nursing 50 years earlier…
The unchallenged assumptions these ‘voice of the people’ radio jocks make are breathtaking.
as we’re at the Ho -spit.
the vid – # film your hospital, see the Nurse on reception, (at 3mins +)….when he asks
“whats going at at this hospital”….watch the response, the arm and hand, Hand on heart sign – of chiefly devotion, allegiance and transformation – her knowing facial expression is also interesting.
Oh the secrecy. “We can’t tell you …” I love his comment, “Yes, I have a fever, a pissed off fever.”
If you want propaganda pretty much straight from the fascist Trump Administration’s mouth, this is where you can come,
Kit, don’t wear a mask and congregate freely and often. It’s really no big deal.
Trump is a complete dickhead. We all know that.
But why do you never question those behind the scenes who really run things?
Trump is as much a front-man as were the Italian mobsters in the US ‘Mafia’.
I left out the video link for James Corbett –
https://www.corbettreport.com/what-no-one-is-saying-about-the-corona-crisis/
Corbett is an agent of the deep state; always has been.
Corbett regularly has on Ryan Dawson (or whatever his name is) whose father is a high-up CIA operative (go look it up if you don’t believe me).
Please, no more BS from the likes of Corbett.
Actually, if you study propaganda, Corbett is a masterclass in it.
Corbett is a complete phoney. Likewise the world you live in is a complete phoney.
So here’s tonight’s bit of music..
I agree, Corbett is a gatekkeeper. That’s the conclusion I came to when I watched his video on Noam Chomsky gatekeeper. Since then I thought I might have been unfair, and then everyone has been raving about his work on the covid19 hoax. But in the video I saw, Corbett completely ducks the question of Bill Gates’ involvement (I think he mention the Gates Foundation once). Not credible. https://stovouno.org/2020/04/03/covid-19-bill-gates-engineers-a-global-crisis-from-seasonal-flu/
I must correct you. Corbett has dealt with the eugenicist beliefs of the super-rich, from the robber barons of the early 20th C all the way down to Bill Gates. And he has connected these obsessions with the current hysteria and the missionary zeal for mandatory vaccination.
I’m happy to look at any examples of Corbett discussing the Gates connection to (ownership of) the coronascam
He comes across as a very shallow individual – a circus ringmaster, if you like – and I can well imagine he might be a gatekeeper, but he has some hellish good guests on his programme…
Thanks RobG. I didn’t know that about Corbett. Will do some research. Nevertheless, I like what he says on the video and suspect many of the posters here might agree with him. Its the first Corbett video I’ve watched.
I can’t stand his droning twanging yank voice..
Getting to the root of the problem. Some straight talking from James Corbett.
Something you won’t be reading about or hearing a word about in MSM during our “corona-brain-death” pandemic. NIST is now on the clock to defend their completely indefensible report on building 7’s collapse. Family members have joined A&E for 9/11 Truth in this filing which can proceed to legal action if NIST fails to respond in defense of it’s bogus report of “fires” as the cause of the free-fall disintegration of the building. https://www.ae911truth.org/news/677-9-11-families-experts-mount-unprecedented-challenge-to-nist-in-new-filing Of course along with the story linked above there are many other life and death stories you also won’t be hearing about. Such as how many each day will die in Venezuela and Iran, not because of any virus, but because of completely amoral U.S. sanctions, or for that matter how many will perish in Yemen, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Libya, or anywhere else the U.S. led Western death machine is busy at work destroying… Read more »
This thorough, entirely professional response to the outrageously, and dangerously sloppy NIST report has to be one of the defining issues of the 21st Century. No thinking person should be unaware of the basics here, even 19 years on. Thank you Gary for this very important update.
Good news: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/and-it-beings-angry-michiganders-surround-capital-building-demand-governor-reopen-economy “As we have noted, the evolution of the virus pandemic is not just a public health crisis nor a financial meltdown but could transform into a social unraveling. And, oh boy, it appears we could be right. But before we cover today’s events. Several weeks ago, what piqued our interest was a warning from the Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of how “a social bomb” was ready to explode over major Western cities “in a few weeks.” And it appears, those few weeks have just expired, as protests begin: On Wednesday afternoon, massive crowds, organized by a conservative group, have surrounded Michigan’s state Capitol building. Protestors are angry at Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) stay-at-home public health order during the pandemic. Supporters of the Michigan Conservative Coalition have requested Whitmer to reopen the economy on May 1 and ease restrictions to return life to normal… Read more »
The thought has just occurred to me that the Left are excited about this because they see it as the general strike they always wanted. Except that the government actually ordered it. And the mainstream media are constantly fueling it. Pretty odd strike.
Gallowsway is probably sitting around with fellow delusionals envisioning the sudden rise of The Workers Party *as the UK government collapses and people stick the V’s up to Kier Starmtrooper and his Zionist cabal* etc. etc.
You know he has three acid tabs on his forehead underneath that fedora don’t you ? He never goes on stage without them.
It’s a paid sabbatical. A stay at home gap semi year. It’s challenging. Probably mostly for yanks who normally only get a week or 2 off a year.
Make the most of it. Try and make a habit of it. You don’t have to work like a slave all the time. Learn to make hay of the sunshine. Or for the yanks – you been given plenty of Lemon days make lemonadays out of them.
There is no left or right only top and bottom. Pretend you are living the days that the top do every day of their life without having to go to work.
Only without their money. And perhaps shortly without any money.
It is a bit of a cliched metaphor but still..
Those minutes before the rsunami comes on. When the water is far out, it is so quiet and everyone is still on the beach.
Economically, that’s where we are now.
‘tsunami’
Gesundheit!
Megatsunami.
That’s easy – get your government to print money to give to you to spend on your basic needs. You still won’t be as rich as the trustafarians but you won’t need to work to survive as they don’t.
Sure. I’ll phone the government up tomorrow. A couple of thousand should tie me over for the weekend.
So we just did some basic shopping for our spring vegetable gardens. The nearby garden store, a national chain, is having to stack extra pallets of things 15 feet in a large parking lot. So I doubt they are ordering any more, so the production facilities will close, leading at first to price deflation, then eventually shortages. Same thing is happening in the food supply chain here. I wonder how good the old MMT money fairy will be then? I saw a lot of wheel barrows on hand, but in the cashless society, I suppose they aren’t as useful as they were in Weimar.
ALL money is MMT money.
It has always been since the invention of it.
The government either ‘prints’ it directly or authorises others to do so on its behalf.
FDR used it in the new Deal when he authorised the manufacture of millions of wheelbarrows and then ’employed’ millions of men to shift dirt with those, from one hole in the ground into another, just so they could have money to buy food to feed their family, and to preserve the illusion that it was not ‘helicopter’ money.
MMT experts have always said that real resources (meaning both things and people) are the real issue. If real resources (including things and people, i.e. the unemployed) are available for sale in the currency that the government issues, then that currency issuing government (like the UK or the USA) can always create sufficient currency to buy them. If the real resources are not available, then obviously creating more currency in those situations will not help, and MMT would not advocate this in that situation. If you are going to cite MMT, then you need to learn it from the real experts, e.g. William (Bill) Mitchell Warren Mosler W Randall (Randy) Wray Stephanie Kelton and not second or third hand from some ill-informed journalist with an agenda. In the present situation, I would agree that shortages are a real danger, and if and when food shortages kick in, the shit will… Read more »
Ten days is about it with minimal extra days for public holidays. If you survive 5 years then it will go up to 15 (but in order to keep your job you probably won’t be able to take it). There’s an additional tweak that’s common these days — if you have to take time of sick then you’ll get maybe three days before it starts coming out of your vacation allowance.
Terrible isn’t it Martin – that is why we and the EU have regulations to stop such gross abuse if employees.
The protections that the brexiteers sold us to abandon decades of rights and protections to turn us into little more than slaves as the US workers are – that country was founded and built upon slavery and hasn’t moved far from ot in 200 years.
They may not have black skin and chains and whips – but who needs slave masters when you turn yourself into one and flog yourself daily and believe it to be your RIGHT and DUTY to be a SLAVE.
It is self imposed MENTAL slavery.
And brexit is bringing it to the UK.
You are trivialising all the harm that is being done, to economy, small businesses, health, most of all to our democracy.
You are hiding from truth.
Putting health below wealth in your list shows YOUR priority.
Democracy is not your aim you have no desire to ask people what they want and let them have it.
The parasites and wannabe parasites place their wealth FAR higher than the health of their eternal enemy-other people. How else do you explain the US ‘health system’?
Your comment reminds me of the “boomers want to save their 401k” tweets. It creates a strawman, promotes social division, and deflects from the actual point. I am not wealthy for full disclosure (and I am ok with it). On the personal front, I have absolutely zero skin in the game. I was a loner before and now the entire world has joined me in my solitude 🙂 I also was already telecommuting. I work in software, “big data”, and eyeing getting into AI, and for once in my life actually have saved 2 years expenses as of 4/1. But then looking beyond my own lonesome self, I have to consider the impact of (entirely predictable) events such as the (1) destruction of the middle class; (2) hoovering of forced-failed small businesses by Big Business; to say nothing of (3) a hotel california police state that society will never be… Read more »
WHAT ‘democracy’? The USA? The UK? Austfailia? You must be joking!
If the current situation was to be likened to a labor action then it would be a lockout, not a strike. On the surface the two actions look the same but they’re completely different actions that service very different purposes.
special
https://twitter.com/IAmElizabethIta/status/1250457942329102344
https://youtu.be/NjjybyJ59Lw
Good video here calling out Fauci for the snake that he is. Clearly in the service of Gates, WHO and big pharma. I’ll be keeping a close eye on this creature from now on.
https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/
….has been updated.
Snippet:
“•In the UK, 40% of hospital beds are currently unoccupied, four times more than usual. The reason for this is the sharp decline in general patient admissions. Intensive care beds, whose capacity has been increased, are on average 78% occupied. In addition, 10% of nurses are in quarantine.
•The temporary corona hospitals of the US military near New York are „largely empty“ so far. The hospitalization rate in New York was overestimated by a factor of seven.
“
Yep it’s beginning to kick off big time in New York where fraudulent statistics are being exposed and awkward questions are being asked about deaths from Covid 19.
“Has COVID-19 Testing Made the Problem Worse?” It depends what one means by “the problem.” For me, the main problem is we allow this to be framed as a science issue at all, when it really needs to be framed as a freedom or human rights issue. Because I think it is clear from the above – of which I will confess to only following about 50% to 75% before I “lost the will to live” – that scientists themselves are going to argue about these figures till the end of time, so I am not at all optimistic that we will ever get a scientific consensus in the “post mortem” on COVID-19, except perhaps of an approximately agreed mortality rate of let us say under 2% to 5% of infected persons. The question to be answered then will be what exactly is the % figure that a government can… Read more »
Great comment.
I would rather have a real virus destroy our whole civilization than us treated as cattle within it.
Does anyone get a choice, in your dream world?
Exactly if they don’t care about our human rights, our well being our livelihood
What makes you think they care you get sick and die?
“…e.g. we are told we can get if off door handles even, so that it can be carried around by warm blooded mammals in general (which includes cats and dogs) seems to be almost certain unless somebody can explain or prove otherwise, which I’ve seen no evidence they’ve been able to do.” I saw one panicky headline last week, “You may be able to infect others ‘just by breathing’s”. And yesterday, Albertsons supermarkets, who have the touchiest of all here in SoCal, had a cardboard cutout of a nurse that they have used for years for helpful offers of flu vaccines, now with a real surgical mask taped to her cardboard mug, and a sign on the door, “You cannot enter without a face covering.” And so on. It seems like a very provocative way to slowly strip the public of precious liberties, “under the colour of authority.” No indication… Read more »
Sorry, “Gavin NEWSOM” and “just by breathing” corrections above.
It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude. This is the, it seems to me, the ultimate in malevolent revolutions shall we say, and this is a problem which has interested me many years and about which I wrote thirty years ago, a fable, Brave New World, which is an account of society making use of all the devices available and some of the devices which I imagined to be possible making use of them in order to, first of all, to standardize the population, to iron out inconvenient human differences, to create, to say, mass produced models of human beings arranged in some… Read more »
To follow up to your excellent comment above, we’re in agreement that the issue at hand is precisely, and only, Human Rights. Regarding the patronizing intent you noted while waiting in line for food at the market, we have already been treated to the cattle line at the airports. Speaking of flying, raise your hand if you think getting on a “no fly list” with apparently no way to get off, just gave birth to “medical passport” and “asymptomatic plague carriers”. Continuing to pick at our collective political scab (and I mean collectively as in globally), I remind everyone that we’re almost 20 years into a ‘New Age of Physics’ were steel skyscrapers vaporize in seconds. Remember that? (Did you ever ask your self: “I wonder what they teach the kids in civil engineer schools these days?”) And now, of course, we’ve graduated to a New Age of Biology, when… Read more »
The tipping point is approaching.
This stage managed event will be brought down by ordinary folks who will demand/insist/ fight for ordinary freedoms.
The law will bow and snap under the weight of sanity.
I hope you’re right Fair dinkum, but I suspect there will be a huge division within society – those who want martial law, vaccination, digital tracking, and those (like most of us here perhaps) who will refuse to become obedient commodities. As usual, the ‘authorities’ will exploit this division.
I am expecting years of chaos and revolution, as well as a continuing degradation of environment and what is left of the natural world – the latter is likely to be be privatized for the benefit of the 1%.
The response by governments around the world seems to be ad hoc and chaotic.
Rules made on the run because they don’t know what else to do. Perhaps they are frightened for themselves and their families.
No doubt they are all fearful of losing the next election.
I’m sure they would all love to have more control over the masses, but I don’t think this is a coordinated attack by governments. It’s too messy in too many places
Nobody could have foreseen the chaos and panic, because herd mentality is unpredictable.
The future will be more regulated but most of us already live under fairly strict rules already.
Taking people’s travel and social freedoms is just a bridge too far.
Suppose you are a benevolent oligarch with all the money and power in the world, what would you do? Perhaps this: since you are being so annoyed of bullshit jobs, you decide to get rid of that parasitic and useless profession once and for all, but how? Well, you let your spinners concoct a story about a common cold virus that is so deadly that for that matter you need to close whole societies, except for people who have a real job. And since you have all the money and power in the world, you let this lockdown of countries continue for some time until the world economy is ruined and that governments have to decide what they find really important: real jobs or bullshit jobs? – And then the bullshit jobs dissapear. But since you are benevolent, powerful and have all the money in the world you help societies… Read more »
Feel your pain, although not in your field Of expertise. We are all surrounded with people of the same divisive opinions, seeded by this current narrative & situation. People are being berated, ney fined for sitting (alone) for a bit of quiet reflection on the beaches and some are starting to emerge to ask the simple question – whats wrong with that?! I think the silent majority are starting to push back and question where they feel able. And that is pause for hope. Best wishes.
Behind the science and beyond the contaminations of tests, there is a theme here, that reminds us of similar problems, in what was its forensic microcosm, in the flight, and plight, of the JFK Magic Bullet… …. and all that “science” ~ especially but not limited to the Warren Commission Report, volume upon door-stopping volume, without a micron of real science to it, really, or worthy of the name, in the end. That Magic Bullet, alas, is still in flight, of sorts, since the family of Texas Governor John Connally, who was also shot, refused to grant the wish of Cyril Wecht, a coroner, permission to exhume Connally’s body and remove bullet fragments from his wrist, thus settling once and for all the question of that Magic Bullet, and whether or not it really IS magic, or just seems that way. Since we can’t prove beyond a shadow of a… Read more »
Yes, we do, because the “virus” will suddenly reappear when they have the vaccination, the 5G satellites, the army and the tracking systems in place. Stay tuned for phase 2, coming soon.
For the sake of my mental health, I avoid mainstream TV but I occasionally catch a bit. And from what I picked up recently, it seems to me that the tone has altered from spooky spooky to weepy waily i.e. we’ve gone from fear porn to grief porn. Well the British public have been groomed for this for decades with the soap stuff. But it also recalls wartime propaganda, only this time the enemy isn’t the Bosh or the Commies but the virus.
Macron literally called it the invisible enemy.
Does vocal support for the lockdown and corporate narrative correlate with how medicalized someone is? I think it’d be difficult to question the motives of an industry when one has become dependent on it for everyday functioning. Or does support correlate with general anxiety? Those are my two guesses that would explain people’s support. Wondering what others think.
I think financial status would be another big correlate. Hard to imagine being in fully support of the lockdown when you will have no money to buy food. There is some emergency fund but I don’t see how that’s going to provide any real security .
how about basic stupidity?
I bows before applied stupidity.
It bows…
I think you are on the right track with those two factors. I would add:
Tendency to authoritarianism -> obvious
Lack of life purpose -> suddenly life has meaning
Lack of friends or connection to others -> less to lose from social distancing, now others
can’t enjoy themselves either.
Yes those 3 definitely as well. I think the 2nd and 3rd one in particular. Now one can be a little hero with greater significance in life by policing others.
For example, this person wishing people sunbathing would be pepper sprayed: https://twitter.com/Tommy36200749/status/1246819757506080769
It amounts to all the SJWs on SSRIs
another weird aspect of CDC test is examined by jon rappoport on blog https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/04/08/corona-creating-illusion-of-pandemic-through-diagnostic-test/
where CDC testing instructions say,
“Positive results are indicative of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA; clinical correlation with patient history and other diagnostic information is necessary to determine patient infection status…THE AGENT DETECTED MAY NOT BE THE DEFINITE CAUSE OF DISEASE”(CAPS are Rappoport’s). “Laboratories within the United States and its territories are required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities.”
Must read on this topic: Flaws in Coronavirus Pandemic Theory:
https://theinfectiousmyth.com/book/CoronavirusPanic.pdf
Podcast by the author on the topic with professor Stephen Bustin who is a world expert on the technology:
The Infectious Myth – Stephen Bustin on Challenges with RT-PCR
(Highly technical, rather intended for experts I would say.)
Thanks Jim, I listened to the infectious myth podcast and it was excellent. My take away is… whoo boy, this test is an unbelievably sensitive and complicated process with results absolutely dependent on the specific lab, protocols, and I suspect lab tech’s who run the tests. Now add to that the government demanding “moar testing” and you have right there the entirety of this “pandemic”. As an example, New York apparently produces something like 20k to 25k tests A DAY. (source: covidtracking.com). That is industrial scale, no way these tests are being done with the kind of care the expert in this podcast suggests they need. Of those tests, new york claims 40% positives. Again, that is a highly dubious rate. Once the “test” gives you a “positive” then it is easy to (1) generate public belief and panic about the omnipresence of the virus and (2) categorize all deaths… Read more »
I should say that the virus has not spread at anything like the levels reported for metro new york. Of course there are many positive tests reported for other counties in the region, just at a much lower level than NYC area. For a visual of what I am talking about see the map here
https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Tracker/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-Map?%3Aembed=yes&%3Atoolbar=no&%3Atabs=n&%3Amobile=true
“If a test is not sensitive enough, the analyte of interest will not be found when it is there, giving a false negative. If a test is not specific enough, something else in the test sample will be identified as being the target analyte when it is not, giving a false positive.”
The above small example from this article is one of the reasons that this virus is spreading fear and panic worldwide. The masses will never understand this high level of analysis. All of this has been dumbed down for their consumption by a corrupt MSM which is owned and controlled by the 1% who drive an agenda of fear based on fraudulent statistics. How we respond to this is important but going on the evidence so far it looks more than likely they will achieve their goal. Ignorance in the population guarantees this.
Keep up the good work OffGuardian – I’m off for dinner now and then going to watch Series 6 of Schitt’s Creek cos I reckon that’s where we are up to!! Have fun :0)
The long and the short of the article is that the CDC clearly has an agenda. “The question remains,” as the telly talking heads like to say, what is the CDC’s agenda.
Ask the UN or the WHO. Or the rich minority which rules the world and want a new world order.
another excellent analysis from the Slog:
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/coronavirus-world-exclusive-for-a-world-in-crisis/
thanks for the link, I am always looking for new sources of good information
You write: “To avoid false positives, “every positive test has been confirmed with whole genome sequencing, viral culture, or electron microscopy.”
This cannot be true: the virus has not been isolated and purified (Koch’s gold standard). Given the crisis, that would have taken too long, they’ll say. All they have is a piece of RNA from the lungs of a Chinese which resembles known coronaviruses. 15% of all humans carry coronavirus without any symptoms…
A video was posted here by a doctor who said that the symptoms of dying patients are not pneumonia symptoms… I begin to suspect that our doctors don’t even begin to know what the hell is going on – just like with AIDS – and that they blame some retrovirus, in order to save face, and in the hope of getting the Nobel Prize…
the latest episode of the highwire discusses the issue of covid19 resembling NOT pneumonia or acute respiratory disease but something more akin to malaria, like a blood disease
Great video! Proves what a sick zombified world we are living in!!
Another mystery presents itself. I’ve worked as an electron microscopist for nearly 30 years doing biological research. Many articles mention this virus has been ‘verified by electron microscopy’, but this is an imprecise way of reporting it. With conventional transmission electron microscopy (TEM), there are 2 main ways virions can be observed in the TEM: The first is called negative staining. It involves purifying or partially purifying a virus which was obtained from a host organism or culture, and perhaps concentrating the isolated material to improve imaging conditions. A drop of the isolate is dried onto a TEM support grid (analogous to a glass slide for a compound light microscope) and a heavy metal stain is added which outlines and contrasts the background around the virus particles. This type of prep is seen in the popularized images displayed by the media, sometimes with false color added. By every indication this… Read more »
But why do the masses want so desperately to believe in the VIRUS? Is this the result of 20 years of programming in victim culture? If, as I believe, the pandemic is a panic-demic, we are seeing Munchausen syndrome by proxy on a national and international scale.
But why do the masses want so desperately to believe in the virus? This is what I struggle to get my head round and I recall OffG twitter saying the same. When I have tried to discuss the reality and context with people who believe in the supposed threat of the virus, in an attempt to be reassuring I begin by saying that the evidence doesn’t support the bleakness of what we are told. But this has been met with nothing but scorn and vitriol. Not even an attempt to listen to the evidence. Why? I can only deduce that these people would rather see hundreds of thousands of people dying than consider that they may have been naive and gullible. These same people would claim to be compassionate but paradoxically they prove that they are anything but by refusing to listen to what I have to say. For one… Read more »
@JudyJ you have articulated my exact thoughts on the matter.
I no longer try to point anything out to people. I have come to the conclusion that a lot of them rather like the lockdown. You can put all your worries off till it is lifted.
@Jane
that is so true…
My reply to you JudyJ and to Jane below:
Yes these people are actually selfish and I think they do actually like the lockdown. I would suppose if one has what one deems a secure and cushy employment, with the possibility of them being as effective working from home as in the office, then there is no reason for them to care what happens to other people economically.
“People can lose their businesses, other people with less secure jobs can lose their jobs or be forced to take a pay cut, but that’s got nothing to do with me. I’m safe from the virus, being locked up inside. What do you expect the government to do? Not everything is a conspiracy! People who show me all these super educated, statistical facts, are know-it-all’s!”
And yes, I am quoting someone almost verbatim.
I dunno, why are they paying shills to spread misinformation on social media?
But why do the masses want so desperately to believe in the VIRUS? There’s a number of factors: First, there is a tendency to embellish things for the worst. Andrew Loog Oldham realised that when he managed The Rolling Stones. Give the public a little hint and they will be eager to turn it into the worst. Bill Wyman with notoriously weak bladder has to duck behind a bush at a petrol station. This gets magnified to: “He peeped on the petrol pump” which becomes “They all peed at the pump” to “They all peed on a pump attendant”. Second, the childlike trust the public have in the MSM. I mean: Look – it’s the BBC! This is not your little tin foil sideshow, here! Third, the Witch Hunt factor. Once everyone appears to believe something, nobody dares to go against it. This is magnified by the emotive element. Endless… Read more »
There is also a fourth aspect: that acceptance of the coronavirus narrative is seen as an anti-government position. After all, Trump and Boris didn’t want to lock down. So the virus story gives everyone that thrill of being opposed to the powers that be.
such a neat point…the media was raging against trump wanting to “open up by Easter” (I am an american)
this is so true…
Just searched that Munchausen syndrome by proxy and what a brilliant comparison on what’s going on… Gaslighted on a global scale.
It’s like a re-run of “‘HIV” is the cause of AIDS”, but in this new version the slogan is “SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of DEATH”.
The main problem with this type of test starts at an early phase…
How many sick people was used to extract samples and how many NOT sick people was used for the same?
The samples collected where BLIND given to how many different technicians for RT-qPCR testing?
What were the results?
Did they repeat the test with a new set of technicians?
What were the results?
I’ve not read until today a study publishing this information.
At this stage of the hoax testing seems to be irrelevant. Testing, using proper, verifiable tests (of which there are NONE), would have been useful across a spectrum of age groups and areas to determine the efficacy of the virus – and could be used now by governments to increase the imprisonment of the population further – but the time is coming for RESISTANCE to what is happening not further delay for spurious reasons
I say this in the light of the North of Ireland deciding to increase the ‘lockdown’ for 3 more weeks – and the UK is sure to follow at tomorrow’s update despite Spain, Italy and Austria (I think) opening things up – the UK has to prove it’s real by endangering the population further – as companies announce closure and going into administration
Even France is re-opening schools after May 11th, and Denmark is in the process of doing so.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20200414/lockdown-how-france-will-reopen-its-schools-after-may-11th
https://www.france24.com/en/20200415-danish-schools-begin-reopening-after-month-long-closure
SWEDEN UPDATE: After dropping late last week, deaths spiked over the long, holiday weekend, leading to calls from the usual suspects to put Sweden under lockdown. But Anders Tegnell appears to be hanging tough, having already warned his country that they would have to accept a slightly higher death toll upfront in order to prevent more deaths at the back end: Nevertheless, Tegnell, the chief epidemiologist, insists that Sweden’s approach still seems to make sense, though he also acknowledges that the world is in uncharted territory with the virus. He argued that while Sweden might have more infections in the short term, it will not face the risk of a huge infection spike that Denmark might face once its lockdown is lifted. ‘I think both Norway and Denmark are now very concerned about how you stop this complete lockdown in a way so you don’t cause this wave to come… Read more »
Graphs of pandemics go smoothly up and then they go smoothly down. Any big spikes in the graph are impossible. If they appear then they are the result of changes in testing or how the stats are recorded etc. All the spikes we are seeing from all over the place go to show that the stats are bogus, basically.
This is more psyop, if Sweden really wanted to give the lie to the phoney pandemic then they would stop using the inaccurate tests and stop diagnosing everyone with pneumonia as a covid19 case.
The fact it’s following WHO protocols that inevitably inflate the number of false positives and fatality rates suggest it is being set up to fail and to reinforce the ‘necessity’ of lockdown.
“After dropping late last week, deaths spiked over the long, holiday weekend, leading to calls from the usual suspects to put Sweden under lockdown”
Not true!
The increases in deaths in Sweden the last 4 days were:
5.1%
4.1%
2.7%
2.0%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Sweden
Quote To understand the concept of a false positive one should realize that analytical test methods need to be balanced with respect to quality considerations like sensitivity and specificity. If a test is not sensitive enough, the analyte of interest will not be found when it is there, giving a false negative. If a test is not specific enough, something else in the test sample will be identified as being the target analyte when it is not, giving a false positive. Unquote the best bit test kits in the UK were also found to be “contaminated with COVID-19.” Who yes WHO $ remembers AIDS HIV inc? Same horse different jockey HIV POSITIVE ? DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LIVE… THE HIV WESTERN BLOT TEST The HIV Western blot consists of a thin nitrocellulose strip in which are embedded proteins claimed to be unique to HIV. Each protein is labelled with a… Read more »
Yup. Everyone getting suckered into focusing the corona death-scam > whilst ignoring obvious evidences of total environmental collapse. Not the “global warming” meme, but the complete and total collapse of all Natural ecosystems.
The vain pursuit of global capitalism has led to massive over exploitation of resources in virtually every country and Nation on the planet. Even with the bloated employment of military forces, there is no way out of our resource depletion predicament. Declining mass production and collapsing economies have been known quantities to the New World Order for decades… Here’s why: >
“About 360,000 babies are born each day according to the UN. That’s more than 130 million a year.”
How Many Babies are Born a Day? – TheWorldCounts
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/toxic-exposures/polluted-bodies/how-many-babies-are-born-a-day
Compare to number of deaths per day from corona virus… It’s not even a good bet…
Why do you pick out ‘global warming’ to deny from what you correctly identify as ‘..the complete and total collapse of all Natural ecosystems’. The two are linked in synergy.
Hello Richard Le Sarc: The global warming meme has been so over worked from so many angles, it’s become a very dull blade. A more descriptive description would be catastrophic planet-wide incineration. I agree there is linked synergy…
I can only assume negative votes come from persons who believe man should continue exploiting natural resources until every living thing becomes very dead…
It’s a matter of nomenclature, is it. I do like, if that’s the proper word, ‘..catastrophic planet-wide incineration’. Having narrowly escaped ‘incineration’ twice in the last five years, and often driving past numerous neighbours who did not escape, I feel that it will be ‘..the fire next time’, just as God promised Noah.
The Chinese found that a CT scan of the lungs was much more reliable as a test for Covid-19 than the RT-PCR test they had been using. Faster and probably cheaper too.
Well, reliable as a test for something. No guarantee it’s a test for “Covid-19”.
A CT scan is good to ONLY confirm lung lesions, without other tests, nothing else can be extracted from a CT!
Excellent take down of the dodgy CDC which seems to be set on making sure the tests are ineffective. They also refuse to cooperate with the WHO about the epidemic in the US and identifying their patient zero. Or provide full genomes to world researchers. Who are never the less collecting thousands of genomes from all geographical clusters. So it only delays the research. Anyway what of the various antibody tests? And other blood tests which are being developed? Ultimately the false positives AND false negatives only impact on the CURRENT infections and not the final outcome. One thing that does show actual data is the mumber of deaths across the world. You can’t make up dead people (…that is not an invitation to the Petras of the boards). These deaths can be compared to the seasonal monthly and weekly time frame historical averages and ranges – if there are… Read more »
the CDC is a vaccine agency – no more no less
And it owns vaccine patents.
There are other vaccines inventors in the world
There are other cdc’s in the world
If you can’t prove that the “virus” causes the disease(s), or even if it really exists, then I think you would a job proving that the antibody tests prove anything.
This has been posted before, but is for anyone who hasn’t seen it:
(Andrew Kaufman)
It’s Andrew Kaufman’s insight that “the David” quoted, which got him banned.
Do you believe viruses exist?
Do you believe they cause disease?
How is that proved?
Would the same proof help you believe SARS-CoV-2 is a virus?
The WHO is cheating by switching between two denominators “all infections” and “confirmed cases” Here a graph that shows the distinct difference:
And here the Video:: “TRUTH: Seasonal FLU TWICE as Deadly as Coronavirus?” – https://youtu.be/ohO8eAwi_po .
I have been very cynical about this pandemic, often pointing people towards non-existent excess mortality figures whilst shrugging. However, there are are now significant increases showing in Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and England.
Not saying these lockdowns are necessary – Sweden has avoided implementing a general lockdown and is so far doing fine – just that this is not something than can be outright dismissed any more.
Also, with regard to mortality rates, the article states “false positives mean higher reported mortality rates”, which I don’t believe is necessarily the case – random testing returning false positives would tend to lower the mortality rate, surely.
‘ However, there are are now significant increases showing in Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and England.’
But not in Sweden (which is not locked down, while there is still Covid19) as far as I know.
Which would proof that the lockdown causes the excess mortality and not the virus
Not ‘would’ prove, but ‘could’ prove.
Natural when almost ALL deaths are being labeled as COVID-19.
Small example of a news report:
“Spanish football coach Francisco Garcia has passed away at the age of 21 after contracting coronavirus”
… later in the article…
“Upon his arrival at the facility, Garcia was found to be suffering from a form of leukaemia…”
And yet it’s labelled a COVID-19!
Pretty soon any suicide or domestic violence death will simply be lumped into the ever handy “another COVID-19 death” box – I can see the logic now – “hey, if we didn’t have to lockdown “because” of corona, those people would still be alive today” – thus they are “corona-deaths.”
That and also if they perform a postmortem test, and it turns positive, you bet, another COVID-19 death!
This has already been explained ad nauseam in previous articles and comments.
In this day and age GOOD and USEFUL INFORMATION is NEVER TOO MUCH!
And REPETITION is required because we have BILLIONS of ignorant people wearing masks and gloves, locking themselves in their cells… due to a flu!
Of course there are increases. They have made it virtually impossible for anyone to die without being diagnosed as covid19. Why do people keep ignoring the corrupt way the cases are diagnosed when talking about numbers? The numbers are meaningless so stop assigning meaning to them.
“Concerns about the virus SARS-COV-2 that causes the disease called COVID-19 have centered around reported mortality rates.” That’s a recurring theme here. But it rather coldly ignores the costs of a two or three-week ordeal that leaves the sick person alive but permanently scarred, both physically and psychologically. The experience might be compared to being tortured in Abu Ghraib. I have had the flu 3 times in my life but nothing came close to the suffering this 32-year old doctor in perfect health endured. I think if any of you went through such an ordeal, you wouldn’t be so cavalier about COVID-19 being a bad cold, the flu, etc. === he evening of Saturday, March 7, Cai was afraid to go to sleep. He was barely able to talk without collapsing into coughing fits. Earlier that day, he started receiving oxygen from a tank through a nasal cannula, a flexible… Read more »
“But it rather coldly ignores the costs of a two or three-week ordeal that leaves the sick person alive but permanently scarred, both physically and psychologically. ”
What, you mean like Boris Johnson?
In any case. the police state measures – going by the oficial narrative – can only slow the progress of the virus through the population- you know flatten the curve.
Knut Wiitkowski makes a good argument for the case that ultimately more people may die, because the failure to build herd immunity in the first wave leads to more fatalities in the second wave than would otherwise be the case.
In addition, the willful economic damage being self-inflicted by the various countries, not only reduces the available resources to fight such a second wave, but also obviously increases the number of future deaths from other reasons.
I noted earlier that in my city breast and bowel cancer Screenings are currently not being performed. For many this will be the difference between life and death.
No-one is denying that people are dying, Louis. The relevant questions are: How prevalent is this virus? What exactly is it? What do the statistics say? Do the statistics justify the extraordinary response? etc. None of these can be answered by “Look at this terrible death here!”
It’s really no use arguing with someone whose favorite source is the New York Times.
AHHH, the old meme of the covid death being 10 times worse than any death….
An extra special, covid death…
So, a ‘flu death where the body’s own immune system attacks itself is just lovely and this generally occurs in those with stong systems…
When the facts don’t work for you just resort to fact-free emotional manipulation eh Louis?
Latest daily percentage increases in total deaths :
Germany – 9.6%
UK – 6.9 %
France – 5.0%
Italy – 2.9%
Spain – 1.8%
Belgium – 6.8%
Netherlands – 4.3%
Ireland – 4.0%
Norway – 1.7%
Denmark – 4.9%
Sweden – 2.0%
Source – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic
All of these, with the exception of Sweden, have introduced the police state to various degrees and chosen ‘collective suicide’, in the words of epidemiology Professor Sucharit Bhakdi.
Exactly – there is no effort whatsoever to analyse the impact of the inhumane lockdown – apparently, with no justification,it’s for our own good – this is complete shit – the figures are manipulated – fullstop – noiw, what’s next?
This would go a long way to explain why this virus in the US anyway is such a naughty boy. Causing so much illness and death in New York City metro (but leaving the rest of the state that does not house the national news media largely unaffected). Or that it has yielded nearly twice as many cases per capita in Los Angeles county but has not been so rude in the surrounding counties. Why would a virus behave so differently in nearby locales? Hmmm … could it depend on who does the testing?
Or the virus is being seeded.
Sure, the hype is seeded.
Per capita is a useless measure. Who is using it?
Well, just about every epidemiologist in the world? Anytime you take the taw incidence of an illness in a population and divide by population you get a per capita measure. To make very small numbers look more impressive epidemiologists then multiply this by some larger number (say 1000, or 100,000, or (lately) 1 million). I mean if I say that 10,000 New Yorkers have died in association with covid19, that does sound scary. But there are 19.45 million New Yorkers. So for each New Yorker, only .000514 people have died, that sounds … less scary. So better inflate it by a million so it seems scarier again … for every million New Yorkers 514 people have died (much scarier). All based on a per capita, and used by everyone. Can you pick out 514 people in a crowd of 1 million? I bet you cannot imagine a crowd of 1… Read more »
Who is using it?
A simple question you did not answer.
– name one epidemiologist and link it.
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One forest has 100 trees another has 1000.
A lightning strike sets a tree alight in both forests. They set 2 more trees alight they set 4 more trees alight – the total trees burning in each forest are 7. Is the smaller forest fire worse than the bigger bigger forests? Because the small forest per capita is 7/1oo and bigger is 7/1000?
Name me one epidemiologist who believes your logic makes sense.
Or could be this …. people are more scared in NY
http://www.ptca.org/news/2020/0408_INCREASED_DEATHS_NYC.html