[ April 22, 2024 ]
1) The shocking inflation of COVID-19 death numbers
2) States with longer lockdowns had worse results
3) Outside nursing homes, the fatality rate never warranted such action, even if it would work
4) Outside New York, this is barely worse than bad flu seasons
5) Excess deaths are from the lockdowns, not the virus
6) Social distancing was invented by a high-school kid and politicians, not scientists
Horowitz: We have been lied to: 6 facts that change everything we know about SARS-CoV-2
Every day we learn new information demonstrating the lies driving lockdown.
Daniel Horowitz, The Blaze, May 18, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementEvery day we learn new information demonstrating the lies driving lockdown. Here are some of the most important ones from over the weekend.
1) The shocking inflation of COVID-19 death numbers: From day one, we were warned that states are ascribing every single death of anyone who happens to test positive for the coronavirus — even if they are asymptomatic — to the virus rather than the clear cause of death. Now, thanks to a lawsuit in Colorado, the state was forced to revise its death count down by 23 % over the weekend — from 1,150 to 878. The state is now publishing numbers of deaths “with” COVID-19 separate from deaths “from” COVID-19. As I reported on Thursday, county officials started accusing the state’s department of health of reclassifying deaths of those who tested positive for the virus but died of things like alcohol poisoning as COVID-19 deaths just to insidiously inflate the numbers. This revision in Colorado is a bombshell story that, of course, will remain unknown to most Americans. Every state needs to do this, and if they did, we would find an across-the-board drop in numbers by at least 25%, the same %age by which Dr. Birx reportedly believes the count is being inflated, according to the Washington Post. For example, in Minnesota, state officials are now admitting that every single person who dies in a nursing home after testing positive is now deemed to have died from the virus, never mind the fact that 25% of all natural deaths in a given week occur in nursing homes and that most cases of COVID-19 are asymptomatic, which means more often than not, they died exclusively of other causes.
2) States with longer lockdowns had worse results: Kyle Lamb posted a solid analysis on Twitter, grouping states by how long they implemented a lockdown and averaging out the deaths per 100,000 people by each grouping. The results are stounding, as there is a perfectly inverse relationship between how long a state implemented a lockdown and how successful it was in keeping the deaths down. I independently cross-checked these numbers, and they appear to be accurate.
While this doesn’t necessarily prove that lockdowns cause more COVID-19 deaths (although they definitely cause other deaths), it’s nearly impossible to assert the other way around – that lockdowns prevent deaths – if we see zero correlation in the data. This is especially true given that Florida is the third most populous state and has the highest concentration of seniors, yet deaths and hospitalizations are way down since the state reopened on May 4. Florida is more densely populated than Michigan and Pennsylvania, yet has one-sixth and one-fourth of the deaths per capita, respectively. The same holds true for Georgia, which is a fairly densely populated state. Infections are down over 40% and deaths are down 31% since reopening. As Secretary of Health Alex Azar said yesterday, “We are seeing that in places that are opening, we’re not seeing this spike in cases. We still see spikes in some areas that are, in fact, closed.”
3) Outside nursing homes, the fatality rate never warranted such action, even if it would work: Every day we find more hard data showing that the overwhelming majority of cases are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, and outside nursing homes, the chance of dying is very low and very limited to a population we can more efficiently shield. For those who are younger and healthier, deaths are almost nonexistent. Spain was one of the hardest-hit countries and has a higher overall fatality rate than others, yet its age-stratified fatality rates mirror what we have seen in the Netherlands, Denmark, France, and elsewhere. One Twitter commentator has broken down the age-based fatality rates of the comprehensive Spanish antibody study, and the results are similar to what we’ve seen elsewhere:
He used public information to calculate the case data and the population age data, and I have spot-checked some data points and they all seem on target. It’s identical to what the Netherlands found.
Remember, Spain was one of the hardest-hit countries, but even there, 57% of all deaths and the overwhelming majority of deaths of those above age 80 were in senior care facilities. When you take them out of the equation, the death rates are shockingly low. Yet the same politicians who focused on locking up an entire country failed to care for those in nursing homes. This demographic COVID-19 death chart from Massachusetts speaks volumes about the targeted scope of the danger.
It’s essentially the same story in every state.
4) Outside New York, this is barely worse than bad flu seasons: While Europe is opening its schools, almost every U.S. state continues to keep schools shut. Yet according to the CDC’s latest weekly report, “For children (0-17 years), COVID-19 hospitalization rates are much lower than influenza hospitalization rates at comparable time points during recent influenza seasons.” Even the World Health Organization’s top scientist just admitted that children “seem less capable of spreading the virus.” As for everyone else, if you look at the bump in overall deaths for most states (outside the tristate area), they are either at, slightly below, or slight above the 2018 flu season. But at this point, everything is way below a typical flu season in the winter, yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to the media. According to the CDC, hospitalizations and deaths have been declining in all 10 designated regions for the past 3-7 weeks. Still, we are now being more fascist that even Italy in violating civil rights.
5) Excess deaths are from the lockdowns, not the virus: While there is zero evidence that lockdowns saved any lives of coronavirus patients, there is clear evidence they cost other lives. It has been observed in a number of states that there are excess deaths being detected, primarily from people dying at home. The CDC is predicting 21,462-40,097 excess deaths NOT due to COVID-19, likely from those too scared to come to the ER because of the exaggerated risk being associated with COVID-19. Also, a recent analysis of excess deaths in England shows that they are seeing thousands of people dying at home from other symptoms because of the lockdown.
6) Social distancing was invented by a high-school kid and politicians, not scientists: Jeffrey Tucker of the American Institute for Economic research reports that the origin of this cult of “social distancing” being used for totalitarian lockdowns was the brainchild of a high schooler’s sociology paper in 2006, promoted by the Bush administration during the avian flu. It was widely mocked by the epidemiological community, including by Johns Hopkins, for “causing the potential for a ‘serious adverse outcome,'” thereby ensuring that “a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.”
How have we allowed such an illogical approach to crush our liberties, economy, hospitals, education, and criminal justice? How have we lost our freedoms?
The answer is that the public is not getting the right information. This is why the political class is doing everything in its power to censor anyone who dares question the idolatry of this lockdown cult. YouTube has censored the videos of Knut Wittkowski, who was a top epidemiologist in Germany and then served as the head of biostatistics, epidemiology, and research design at Rockefeller University. One would think we’d want to hear his opinion, but there is only one view that is allowed to gain traction. Why is it that only one side is scared of the information of the other side?
As James Madison warned, “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
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29 Comments
3 years ago
Hydroxychloroquine Works.
Progressives would rather have dead Americans than admit Trump’s hunch might be right.
3 years ago
Reply to
sodacrackers2
Trump is notorious for reading allot. It’s horrible how many corrupt, souless people we have in these high positions getting awards for being monsters.
3 years ago
Reply to
BobSmith101
I posted this a couple of days ago. My wife listens to a podcast every night from a doctor. All he does is talk about what is known about CV19. No politics just the facts that he has found. He presents them and lets you decide. I have listened to some of it. Last week Youtube took down two of his videos. He had the audacity to say that hydroxychloroquine works. It is not right for everyone but it does work for some. I cannot figure why the left is so adamant about the evils of a drug that has been safely used for decades. Most of them probably had never heard of it until Trump said something about it. Their pure hate for Trump maybe the reason. It may be that simple. The doctor appealed the removals and got one put back up. I don’t know about the other one. But there is some pure evil at work here. Why in the world would they be so against something that helps people?
3 years ago
None of it surprises me.
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
I wasn’t sure in the beginning but now I know it is to bring Trump down.
DEMS had no counter talking point for the economy.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I Wish the TRUMP More wisdom like He have now and 4 more years in good health, Best POTUS ever, the Dutch adore Him. Grts from Amsterdam. a Trumpster.
3 years ago
Reply to
Anjo Brendel
You have Geert Wilders a real gutsy strait shooter who all freedom lovers need more of.
3 years ago
Trump’s Excited:
Moderna Pharma Says Their New Messenger RNA Covid-19 Vaccine Looks Promising.
search term: mRNA-1273
https://www.ibtimes.com/there-coronavirus-vaccine-moderna-says-initial-test-mrna-1273-promising-2978297
“These interim Phase 1 data, while early, demonstrate that vaccination with mRNA-1273 elicits an immune response of the magnitude caused by natural infection starting with a dose as low as 25 µg [microgram],” Dr. Tal Zaks, Moderna’s chief medical officer, said in a press release.
3 years ago
Why is Fauci so bad at science?
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Because his first love is MONEY and POWER.
He has no regard for human beings.
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Because Marxism (and heavy investments) trump all to those who don’t believe in God.
3 years ago
Trump administration was told by Fauci, CDC and others that 2,200,000 MILLION would be dead,… we have 87k, and even that number is suspicious?!!
DNC and Media need death rates UP or at least infection rates to increase.
AND NO VACCINE UNTIL 2022 !!!
3 years ago
our government (of, for, and by the people?) deliberately destroyed the private sector for this? this was either stupid or deliberate. the evidence shows it was deliberate. the reaction from the private sector should be to refuse to go back to work until every government official involved with this reign of terror resigns
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Nice thought but not gonna happen. Out of work citizens still pay the salary of the politicians screwing them over.
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
Yes hostage tyranny…!
Maybe now those with “eyes to see” will vote correctly for Constitutional Conservative candidates = esp in PRIMARIES and bump the RINO’s.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
That’s like cutting your nose off to spite your face. How about we insist that all government workers go without pay until all of our rights are restored?
3 years ago
Government-mandated shutdowns (house arrest without a court order) over the virus will lead to deaths of despair .. suicide and drug overdoses.. the country cannot continue to ignore the collateral damage being caused by the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats..
3 years ago
Reply to
Boudica
Yes as Pam Geller did targeting criminal tyrant parasites like De Blabbermouth…!
3 years ago
McConnell taps Rubio as acting chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee
Probably good. The previous guy was Richard Burr, a hopeless RINO who got caught doing insider trades over the Dow crash from Covid-19. Rubio is better than Burr was, and Rubio has done yeoman’s work on the Venezuela crises. He has worked hard to squeeze the tyrant Maduro out of office.
Rubio’s appointment is important for the Covid-19 crisis, because US intelligence will be heavily involved in investigating China’s motives and machinations. Above all, we need to know if this was bio-warfare.
3 years ago
There are two facts worth consideration:
1. The test case by which mitigation efforts were driven was a senior care facility in the Seattle area.
2. The confinement of infected persons in a cramped environment only made things worse as evidenced by cruise ships afloat and denied a port to disembark.
3 years ago
Destroying lives one way or another is a statist Marxist badge of honor whether Stalin or Faux-ci…!
The Godless couldn’t care less in their prideful self worship in wielding power…!
3 years ago
It is all about control and depopulating the earth. Kill as many of us as they can that is what Fauci has been working on along with Bill Gates and George Soros.
I don’t wear a mask or social distance when out and about and find it interesting how many sheeple move away from me the closer I get to them. But then I was raised properly that people have personal space and don’t sneeze or cough without covering your mouth. It is funny tosee the people wearing masks and gloves after being in a store get in their cars still in same masks and gloves and drive away. Kind of defeats the purpose. Besides the experts have said you don’t need a mask outside.
The social distancing is for the facial recognition cameras. They need 5 ft between persons to work.
3 years ago
Anyone surprised?
