Protection and Waning of Natural and Hybrid Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 - "Among persons who had been previously infected with SARS-CoV-2... protection was higher than that conferred after the same time had elapsed since receipt of a second dose of vaccine among previously uninfected persons"
Booster dose and breakthrough infection provide similar COVID ‘super immunity,’ study finds
How Omicron Infection Turbo-Charges Vaccinated People’s Immunity - Bloomberg - "A pair of studies showed that infection produced even better immune responses than a booster shot in vaccinated patients. Teams from Covid-19 vaccine maker BioNTech SE and the University of Washington posted the results on preprint server bioRxiv in recent weeks... Other researchers who reviewed the studies said the findings match up with the growing body of evidence for an immune boost from exposure to different virus variants via vaccination and infection. Scientists have also shown broad immune responses in people who caught delta after getting their shots."
"Science" in Singapore will continue to be very different from in the rest of the world - it is even superior to that by one of the vaccine makers
Risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection and COVID-19 hospitalisation in individuals with natural and hybrid immunity: a retrospective, total population cohort study in Sweden - "The risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection and COVID-19 hospitalisation in individuals who have survived and recovered from a previous infection remained low for up to 20 months. Vaccination seemed to further decrease the risk of both outcomes for up to 9 months, although the differences in absolute numbers, especially in hospitalisations, were small. These findings suggest that if passports are used for societal restrictions, they should acknowledge either a previous infection or vaccination as proof of immunity, as opposed to vaccination only."
I am repeatedly accused of being anti-vaxx for citing scientific research on covid vaccination. The longest lasting damage of covid may be in the damage that covid hysteria has inflicted on science
Global Britain is ‘shut for business’, warns Theresa May - "Britain is “shut for business” because of travel restrictions that are “incomprehensible” in one of the most vaccinated countries in the world... In a forthright attack on the Government’s Covid policy, the former prime minister said that if ministers blocked travel every time there was a new variant, “we will never be able to travel abroad ever again”. She said Britain was “falling behind” the EU in reopening travel, despite being way ahead on vaccinations, and called on Boris Johnson to be “up front” with the British people about the fact that Covid deaths would continue, in the same way that 10,000 to 20,000 people die from flu each year... Airlines UK has warned that carriers will not be able to recover if they continue to accrue yet more debt, and Mrs May said the Government had to decide whether it wanted a UK aviation sector in the future “because at the rate it's going, it won’t have one”... Mrs May has chosen her interventions sparingly since she left Downing Street in 2019, but held nothing back as she criticised the “chaotic” traffic light system for travel... “We will not eradicate Covid-19 from the UK. There will not be a time when we can say that there will never be another case of Covid-19 in this country … sadly people will die from Covid here in the UK in the future, as 10,000 to 20,000 people do every year from flu.”"
From June 2021
Because vaxholes don't believe the vaccines work, they still cried bloody murder at restrictions being eased
Nearly all over-50s in England now have coronavirus antibodies - "Nearly all over-50s in England now have antibodies to coronavirus, either through vaccination or a previous infection, latest figures suggest."
From June 2021. That didn't stop the lockdowns
Similar viral loads in Omicron infections regardless of vaccination status - "Omicron-infected patients who had received a third vaccine dose had viral loads similar to patients with two doses or who were unvaccinated."
The vaxholes are going to be very upset. Maybe they will demand that everyone get a fourth shot or be excluded from society
This seems to confirm that with omicron, the vaccines don't prevent transmission (which is something we more or less already knew). Of course, vaxholes get very upset and/or ignore the science on vaccines and transmission despite screaming "trust the science"
COVID-19: The Unvaccinated Pose a Risk to the Vaccinated - FactCheck.org
When a "fact check" needs to be fact checked. It doesn't even talk about the studies on transmission. So much for facts
Russian spy ‘stole Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine blueprint and used it to develop Sputnik jab’ - "North Korean hackers were also accused of targeting the coronavirus vaccine project led by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca"
Coronavirus unlikely to become more deadly because it’s run out of ‘places to go’, says Oxford jab creator - "Covid is unlikely to mutate into a deadlier, vaccine-evading, variant because it’s run out of “places to go”... Dame Sarah Gilbert said coronavirus is likely to become less severe in its effects. Speaking at a Royal Society of Medicine webinar on Wednesday, she said: “We normally see that viruses become less virulent as they circulate more easily and there is no reason to think we will have a more virulent version of Sars-CoV-2.” Dame Sarah said that some variations were to be expected but predicted that coronavirus would eventually become like the flu virus... “The virus can’t completely mutate because its spike protein has to interact with the ACE2 receptor on the surface of the human cell, in order to get inside that cell. “If it changes its spike protein so much that it can’t interact with that receptor, then it’s not going to be able to get inside the cell. So there aren’t very many places for the virus to go to have something that will evade immunity but still be a really infectious virus.” Dame Sarah said that, as Covid-19 transitions to a more seasonal virus, there will be a general immunity building up in the population. She said: “We tend to see slow genetic drift of the virus and there will be gradual immunity developing in the population as there is to all the other seasonal coronaviruses."
From September
In 2021, some covid hystericists got very upset when I mentioned the fact that viruses usually become less virulent as they evolve. Guess they need to cancel her too
Legacy Media Finally Calls Out the 'Experts' for Their COVID-19 Misrepresentations – PJ Media - "the New York Post broke the story on the teachers’ unions’ undue influence on the CDC’s school reopening guidelines. The New York Times tattled on the CDC and shredded Dr. Walensky for saying outdoor transmission is less than 10% of all infections. It is under 1%, possibly less than 0.1%, according to the data. This gross overstatement has no possible purpose other than continued restrictions. Now, ABC News tells us that all the places the CDC told us to avoid were not major transmission vectors:
Bars, gyms and restaurants. Those were just a few settings health experts warned could become hotbeds for COVID-19 spread as states began reopening in the spring and summer of 2020 following the first and second waves of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Yet, public data analyzed by ABC News appears to tell a different story. The data from states across the country suggests specific outbreak settings (including bars, gyms, restaurants, nail salons, barbershops and stores — for the full list, see graphic below in story) only accounted for a small percentage, if any, of new outbreaks after the pandemic’s inital wave in 2020...
A meta-analysis published in Dec. 2020 articulated two critical findings. First, the asymptomatic spread within the home was 0.7%. This finding should have told the experts that casual outdoor contact and even activities like shopping, getting your hair done, and dining indoors would not result in significant transmission if participants were asymptomatic. Further, household transmission between spouses, the people who have the closest contact for the most prolonged period, occurred in approximately two out of five cases. Transmission rates to other members of the household were under one in five. How likely is it that anyone will catch COVID-19 passing another shopper in Walmart if these are the rates when you live with an infected patient? Not very. Despite this study—and many others done globally before and after—lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures, and other restrictions stayed in place for the healthy and the vaccinated"
Meme - Mask: "I'm just not ready to accept that everything I believed was a lie"
Rapid initiation of nasal saline irrigation to reduce severity in high-risk COVID+ outpatients: a randomized clinical trial compared to a national dataset observational arm - "SARS-CoV-2+ participants initiating nasal irrigation were over 8 times less likely to be hospitalized than the national rate."
Too bad this doesn't make big pharma big money
We Opened the Schools and ... It Was Fine - The Atlantic - "Schools aren’t the problem. They never have been. One of the frustrating things about the pandemic has been our inability, even at this late date, to understand why surges occur. They hit communities with mask mandates, and communities without... What is pretty certain, however, is that schools are not to blame. They didn’t cause the surges. They didn’t cause the massive numbers of hospitalizations and deaths that Florida experienced this summer and that Michigan appears to be experiencing now. They haven’t done nearly as much damage as bars, restaurants, and indoor events (including kids’ birthday parties), which never seem to receive the same amount of attention... universities may arguably be going too far. Some are engaging in massive testing programs of the already vaccinated, which may pick up infections that are unlikely to be contagious. Others are limiting how many friends students can see in a day, or asking asymptomatic, vaccinated people to mask up outside and even in between bites and sips if they’re drinking or eating too slowly. Some schools have reverted to online-only classes because of breakthrough cases. It’s important to understand that preventing new cases completely is nearly impossible. Continuing to regulate behavior when you’ve already achieved a massive level of vaccination is likely to backfire. A school cannot expect to have no COVID cases when the community has COVID. Our goal needs to be “safe enough,” not perfection. That’s the approach many schools have taken, including Indiana University, where I serve as chief health officer."
Closing schools is a political measure, after all
We cannot let death dominate our lives - "The fact that death tolls rather than recovery rates have dominated the media expresses our view of life itself. Tragically, there have been 1.8million Covid-19 deaths globally so far (we will leave the debate about the real number of people who died ‘from’ rather than ‘with’ Covid for another time). But over 60million people have recovered from the illness. These recoveries are surely something to note, if not to celebrate... In the past, it was common for people to die from infectious diseases. These could strike anyone at any time and carry people off in a matter of days. But in the modern world, where the major infectious diseases have been beaten by science and technologically advanced medical breakthroughs, the predominant form of death is that of old age. The paradox of the coronavirus is that despite the cause of death being pre-modern (through an infectious disease), it has reinforced the predominance of the modern experience of death – it is, after all, still largely the elderly who are tragically most affected. Nevertheless, the pandemic has forced everyone, no matter how vulnerable, to live under the shadow of death. The eminent sociologist, Tony Walter, in his brilliant studies on the revival of death, argues that societies come to terms with death by reducing the social importance of those who die... Walter suggests that when it comes to the elderly, their physical death is more often than not preceded by social death. This is what has given rise to the fashionable argument by the euthanasia lobby that social and physical death should coincide. In the hands of today’s experts, this has become the unconscious assumption of managing death in the pandemic. We are all now regarded as akin to the vulnerable elderly whose social death will inevitably precede physical death. Bringing about our social deaths – locking us down, preventing us from having any contact with others – has become the prerequisite for managing death itself. As Walter argues, in the modern world we are all left to construct our own meaning around death – or are simply ‘left unprepared when the moment comes’. The family, the traditional private retreat for self-repair and personal freedom, where much of this meaning was sought, has been transformed over many years. Today, the family and other social ties have been supplanted by experts – by doctors and therapists – who have invaded the private sphere with the authority of yesterday’s priests, admonishing us about what to eat, how to make love, how to die and how to grieve. As individuals have been cut off from the public sphere and are increasingly isolated, dependence on the experts has increased. The new expert-led approach to managing death has had such a profound impact on life in 2020... We are expected to act and behave like those waiting to die. Lockdowns are in essence a demand that we go to sleep, that we succumb and drift to the ultimate passivity of physical death. Appetite, ambition and desire give way to apathy, inclination to disinclination, interest to disinterest, engagement to disengagement, freedom to unfreedom, wonder to indifference... Instead of being vigilant, we have been told to trust ‘The Science’. 2020 has been the year of the living dead. The tyranny of expertise has anaesthetised society. 2021 must be the year we wake up again"
2021 was not. But 2022 looks better. So far
Targeted lockdowns could cut the pandemic's economic losses by billions - "What we need is a tool that considers both health and the economy, not the false dichotomy that we must choose one over the other... In the early days of the pandemic, with information limited, the focus was almost exclusively on health and on imposing a lockdown for all non-essential parts of the economy so as to minimize infection and mortality rates — and that was right. While this “health-only” policy did reduce infection rates and flatten the curve, it also resulted in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Success on the infection front was short-lived, however, as infection rates surged again in the early fall... With the knowledge gained over the past year, however, we can now better gauge risks and have more-informed discussions about the optimal mix of policies — on the health front, on the economic front, and, critically, in the intersection of the two. That such an intersection exists is often denied, of course. People are either pro-hospital or pro-business. But this is a false dichotomy. We need to be pro both. The question we should be asking – and it’s the question we ask as a society every day, even in non-COVID times — is what health outcomes do we find acceptable while minimizing economic loss (or maximizing economic gain, as it were). Our model uses data collected during the nine months between March and December 2020 to explore what intervention strategies will minimize economic loss without worsening, and maybe even improving upon, the health outcomes we achieved before the second wave of infection. Compared to a uniform lockdown for everyone, we find that a targeted approach by age or industry would allow policymakers to achieve the same or better health outcomes at a lower economic cost until vaccines are widely available... An age-based approach to lockdown can reduce the economic loss — without worsening health outcomes — from an estimated $116 billion to $77 billion, a significant saving in terms of incomes, profits and taxes of approximately $40 billion. The economic gain results from younger people being locked down less severely, while the elderly are protected even further. We get similar results when we focus on industries, where targeting higher-contact sectors produces better economic results — again: without sacrificing health outcomes."
From February 2021. Sadly, political incentives meant that didn't happen
Measles cases surge nearly 80% in wake of Covid chaos, with fears other diseases could follow - "Measles cases have surged nearly 80% worldwide this year amid disruption caused by Covid-19, the UN has said, warning that the rise of the “canary in a coalmine” illness indicated that outbreaks of other diseases were likely to be on the way. The coronavirus pandemic has interrupted vaccination campaigns for non-Covid diseases around the world, creating a “perfect storm” that could put millions of children’s lives at risk... Yellow fever was among the diseases that could surge next, he said, after rising cases were reported in west Africa... Covid also continues to pile pressure on healthcare facilities and drag staffing and attention away from vaccination for longstanding deadly diseases. “The impact of these disruptions to immunisation services will be felt for decades to come,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. “Now is the moment to get essential immunisation back on track and launch catch-up campaigns so that everybody can have access to these life-saving vaccines.” Gregory said it was time to put childhood immunisation on “at least the same level of priority as finishing Covid vaccination”."
Proof that 2 years of lockdowns and restrictions were the right way to go. Clearly we need to lockdown forever to control diseases.
"Children are not supposed to die" so we need to force all kids to get vaccinated against covid as a priority and ignore all other diseases
Justin Nelson 🇺🇦 on Twitter - "Rage crying this morning. Two years of isolating and keeping my toddlers safe, and I get infected with #COVID19 at a mandatory team offsite, even while wearing a KN95 mask myself. Now my toddlers are exposed. 🤬 This isn’t over. @US_FDA we need to #ImmunizeUnder5s now!"
And covid hysteria continues
The surprisingly modern Middle Ages | History Extra - "‘Do you get a sense that people generally were talking about climate and sort of having an understanding of it changing over time, and, and thinking about that?’
‘No, and I think that that's much more something that symptomatic of our society today. And our obsession with climate change is not only because there is climate change, and I'm by no means foolish enough to deny that there is manmade climate change, it seems self evident. But our ability in the 21st century to count things, to count things and measure things and process that data, has made us incredibly conscious of, and prone to worrying about things that can be measured and counted. One of those things is climate change. Another as we've seen at the moment is, is disease. If you can count process, analyze the data of the number of people who've got a particular respiratory disease, day by day, almost hour by hour, according to the location. It gives, there's an observer effect at play. And there's, there's an obsessional effect at play. Now that not only applies to the society that we live in, and how we interact with each other in the present day, it also applies to the way that we look at history...
Now, the comparison [of covid] with the Black Death in epidemiological terms, in terms of sheer mortality is kind of specious, because the Black Death ripped through Eurasia and in Western Europe killed between 40 and more likely nearer 60% of the people. It had a lethality that is incomparable with COVID. On the other hand, it did the same thing in the 14th century that COVID has done in the 21st century, which is to illuminate what a society is like and what its preoccupations are. Now, if we say in the 21st century, what has COVID taught us about ourselves, we are hypervigilant about personal hygiene, we are absolutely petrified of the idea of death. We, we move a lot, move around a great deal and we're great host species for respiratory diseases. We're obsessed with measuring things, an obsession I've already alluded to, and we're convinced that we can control absolutely anything via technology, which is partially if not wholly true. Okay, so that's how it illuminates the 21st, that's how COVID illuminates the 21st century Well, in the 14th century, the Black Death illuminates the 14th century in, in a similar sort of way. It shows how mobile the centuries become what what what relatively for the time fast and extensive links there are between the global East and global West. This is a disease that has its origins with the Mongols, comes via the northern Black Sea to Constantinople, to Italy, rips its way through, through Western Europe as far as Scotland and Ireland in medieval times in no time at all. It's not as fast moving as COVID because the transport isn't as fast moving but the, it like, it sends, it's like, it sends kind of radioactive dye into the networks around the world and shows you just how sophisticated they’ve become. Similarly in its responses, if you think about the flagellant movement, which is, has its origins in Italy, and is, how do I describe the flagellants, it's a sort of religious, manic religious movement in which its adherents believe that by whipping themselves and scourging themselves in public they will somehow draw down the mercy of God and alleviate the suffering of mankind in general. Now, we have eyewitness accounts from the height of the Black Death in the 14th century, from the streets of London, which have parades of flagellants marching around the streets day after day, whipping themselves, lying down on the ground, being whipped until they’re bloody, chanting religious songs, everyone turns out in the streets to watch them in the hope that this is going to cure the Black Death. Now. It just happens in the 21st century. You're saying everyone get inside, this is a super spreader event. What the hell are you doing? This is, this is a disease that has a pneumonic component, there's a respiratory spread to the Black Death. Get inside. Of course, but in the 14th century, it doesn't. No one's thinking about that. But it does illuminate the obsession in certainly in Latin Christianity at that point, with sin, with redemption, with penance, with physical scourging and sufferance of the physical body in the hope of achieving spiritual relief. So yeah, the answer is, there is a point in comparing Black Death and COVID. But it's probably not the point that most people hope to achieve when they make a comparison.’"
In other words, one reason for covid and climate change hysteria is the abundance of information
Keir Starmer has made himself a laughing stock - "These are both hypocrisies, but with very different roots. Do people think Johnson relished delivering the lockdown messages crafted for him by the ‘experts’? Hardly. Did it come as a surprise that he struggled to enforce these restraints upon himself and his circle? Surely not to anyone who had paid any attention to his previous conduct. Partygate has merely revealed Johnson’s character weakness, which might be termed ‘behavioural incontinence’. But with Starmer something still-less appealing has been exposed. The Labour leader repeatedly lambasted Johnson and even Rishi Sunak over the matter of a birthday cake with colleagues. He took the mantle for himself of someone who could restore ‘trust’ and ‘integrity’ in politics. He condemned Johnson as a human being in the most brutal terms, claiming: ‘Rather than come clean, every step of the way he has insulted the public’s intelligence… Just as he has done throughout his life, he has damaged everyone and everything around him along the way.’ Yet now it turns out that Starmer was not so keen on coming clean himself... And despite his own double standards being clear for all to see, he hasn’t even had the grace to hold his hands up, Johnson-style, and admit to falling below the standards the electorate was entitled to expect. Instead, Starmer has whined about being on the receiving end of ‘mudslinging’ – rather than in his preferred position of being the one dishing it out. It is all dreadfully unappealing. Starmer the lawyer has spent the whole of this year trying to oust a prime minister via legal or quasi-legal process, involving Sue Gray, the Met Police and fixed penalty notices. Not once has he challenged Johnson to call a General Election so that the people can decide. This recalls his conduct post-Brexit, when first he promised Labour would be honour-bound to implement the verdict of the people and then conspired with others of an establishment mindset to stop Britain leaving and to overturn the referendum result. Starmer is now reduced to dodging public engagements at which he might be asked about the tangled web he has woven. The best he can hope for is to escape a fixed penalty notice on a technicality at the end of a police inquiry likely to drag on for six weeks. But that would merely feed a growing view among Tory-inclined voters that Johnson has been stitched up by a left-leaning, anti-Brexit establishment. Given that the Metropolitan Police broadened their criteria for investigating past lockdown breaches soon after the mysterious defenestration of their former commissioner, Cressida Dick, at the hands of London mayor Sadiq Khan, such suspicions are only to be expected. The result is likely to be that Johnson, with Partygate neutralised, gets off the hook in the eyes of nearly everyone who might vote Tory at the next election. And remember, this is now Starmer’s best-case scenario. The worst-case scenario – that Starmer does in due course get slapped with a fine – would surely end with him either resigning or becoming a national laughing stock, as the prissiest man in Britain."
Keir Starmer did not break law over lockdown beer event, insists ally - "A member of Sir Keir Starmer’s top team has refused to say if the Labour leader should resign if he was found to have broken the law for drinking beer during lockdown. David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, insisted that Sir Keir had not broken the law and that there is no police investigation into the incident. It comes after the party came under criticism for its response to 'partygate' when a photograph emerged of the Labour leader drinking a beer last April in a Durham office... At the time of the gathering at the constituency office of local MP Mary Foy, social distancing rules included a ban on indoor mixing between households. Durham Police have been asked by Richard Holden, the Tory MP for North West Durham, to reconsider its decision that no offence was committed during the meeting. Mr Lammy on Sunday dismissed the idea, saying it was "depressing" to be asked questions about Sir Keir’s actions just before the local elections... Both he and the Labour leader have also apologised for the party’s suggestion that Angela Rayner was not at the event, with Sir Keir insisting it was "a genuine mistake" that repeated denials were made."
It's only bad when Tories do it
Ofsted boss blasts state schools that put food parcels ahead of learning during lockdown - "Many state schools were more interested in delivering food parcels to the poorest children last summer than they were in delivering remote education to all their pupils"
The SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in High Income Countries Such as Canada: A Better Way Forward Without Lockdowns - "The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused tragic morbidity and mortality. In attempt to reduce this morbidity and mortality, most countries implemented population-wide lockdowns. Here we show that the lockdowns were based on several flawed assumptions, including “no one is protected until everyone is protected,” “lockdowns are highly effective to reduce transmission,” “lockdowns have a favorable cost-benefit balance,” and “lockdowns are the only effective option.” Focusing on the latter, we discuss that Emergency Management principles provide a better way forward to manage the public emergency of the pandemic. Specifically, there are three priorities including the following: first, protect those most at risk by separating them from the threat (mitigation); second, ensure critical infrastructure is ready for people who get sick (preparation and response); and third, shift the response from fear to confidence (recovery). We argue that, based on Emergency Management principles, the age-dependent risk from SARS-CoV-2, the minimal (at best) efficacy of lockdowns, and the terrible cost-benefit trade-offs of lockdowns, we need to reset the pandemic response. We can manage risk and save more lives from both COVID-19 and lockdowns, thus achieving far better outcomes in both the short- and long-term."
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality - "As a way of slowing COVID-19 transmission, many countries and U.S. states implemented shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. However, the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health. The effect of SIP policies on COVID-19 transmission and physical mobility is mixed. To understand the net effects of SIP policies, we measure the change in excess deaths following the implementation of SIP policies in 43 countries and all U.S. states. We use an event study framework to quantify changes in the number of excess deaths after the implementation of a SIP policy. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases. The increase in excess mortality is statistically significant in the immediate weeks following SIP implementation for the international comparison only and occurs despite the fact that there was a decline in the number of excess deaths prior to the implementation of the policy. At the U.S. state-level, excess mortality increases in the immediate weeks following SIP introduction and then trends below zero following 20 weeks of SIP implementation. We failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier, and in which SIP policies had longer to operate, had lower excess deaths than countries/U.S. states that were slower to implement SIP policies. We also failed to observe differences in excess death trends before and after the implementation of SIP policies based on pre-SIP COVID-19 death rates."
In other words, lockdowns lead to more deaths
Is 'coronaphobia' more deadly than the coronavirus? - "Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging diseases unit, advises against reimposing national lockdowns owing to health, social and economic downsides. Is this an implicit admission lockdowns were wrong in the first place?... “Mission creep” is familiar to conflict analysts. It has infected United Nations peace operations, NATO expansion and multilateral operations like Libya in 2011, all with unhappy consequences. The mission creep from flattening the curve to eradicating COVID-19 has been equally ill-conceived and calamitous. The initial goal was reasonable and realistic; the obsession with elimination is not. To ensure compliance from increasingly skeptical and resentful people, the focus has shifted from very low mortality to rising infections in allegedly devastating second waves... The global death toll from COVID-19 is around 700,000, making it the 20th deadliest killer on annual statistics. Fourteen causes kill over a million annually. The top killer is coronary heart disease with 9.5 million deaths; influenza and pneumonia kill three million. Screening and treatment for many deadlier illnesses have been deferred because of the obsession with COVID-19. In Australia the average daily death toll from all causes is 432; the total COVID-19 fatalities on Aug. 5 was 255. For that people’s lives, livelihoods, education and freedoms have suffered massively. Melbourne is effectively under martial law masquerading as medical law... For the first time in history, countries have bizarrely chosen to put entire healthy populations under house arrest. In the United States, more people have died from suicide and drug overdoses than COVID-19, according to Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The smart strategy for an epidemic that is strikingly age and gender stratified is a targeted approach. Overweight men over 80 are the most and fit young people the least at risk. For the under 19s, the threat is lower than the risk of being struck by lightning... treat people as adults. Give them the scientific guidance on hygiene and social distancing. Transfer the burden of risk back to individuals for assessing the dangers to themselves and the appropriate preventive measures and practices. Finally, ignore the modelers. Their credibility has been shredded. Professor Karol Sikora, chief medical officer at Rutherford Health in the U.K., refers disparagingly to “epidemiologists of a rather pessimistic stripe” whose “science tracks epidemics and models worst-case scenarios.”"
Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study - "Scientists from University College London, and the Universities of York, Bristol and Liverpool say their studies of children are the most comprehensive yet anywhere in the world."
Covid hystericists are very upset about this