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Some Covid-19 Links
Medical doctors are not well trained in statistics. When personal financial interest are involved they ignore even its most basic rules.
California doctors with dubious COVID conclusions debunked – Pasadena Star
Experts demolish studies suggesting COVID-19 is no worse than flu – Ars Technica
This is somewhat similar to the calculation I made here:
Antibody tests support what’s been obvious: Covid-19 is much more lethal than the flu – Washington Post
A really good piece for debunking the various Coronavirus conspiracy claims:
Bill de Blasio Has Had It With Hasidic Jews – Occidental Dissident
The Plandemic is the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time.
How many people are involved in pulling off the conspiracy? Every government on earth including sworn enemies like Iran and Saudi Arabia are part of the plot. Everyone who has been infected by the virus, those who died from from it and their families are part of the conspiracy. The health care system of every country on earth down to the local level – hospital administrators, doctors, nurses, medics – are part of the plot. County coroners are part of the conspiracy. The only people who know the TRUTH are a bunch of internet cranks who think everything that ever happens in the world is a conspiracy
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THEY wanted the virus to disproportionately kill Hasidic Jews, Hispanics and blacks.
SARS-CoV-2 is a bioweapon which escaped from the lab in Wuhan but fortunately it is just the flu so it really isn’t that bad.
The WHO is conspiring with Bill Gates by rejecting immunity passports.
The WHO is covering up the fact that the virus is “just the flu.” It failed to notify the world early enough that we were due for a normal flu season.
The real threat isn’t the virus that has killed 59,000 Americans. It is a nonexistent vaccine for it.
5G is causing all the deaths from the coronavirus which is why South Korea has been devastated by 246 coronavirus deaths.
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The way this virus works is really curious. We still miss the most basic understanding of it.
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes
A personal report from the frontline. Some patients deteriorate extremely fast.
The Pandemic-Era Emergency Dep’t: Weirder, Wilder & Emptier Than Ever – Matt Bivens
Lots of news about potential vaccines going into trial. But most of them, if not all, will likely fail.
Why it’ll still be a long time before we get a coronavirus vaccine – New Scientist
Trials of experimental coronavirus vaccines are already under way, but it’s still likely to be years before one is ready and vaccination may not even be possible
More media now have 'excess death' tracking graphics.
Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads | Free to read – Financial Times
Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries – Economist
Use the dropboxes and buttons below the graphics to play with the data.
An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVID-19 – 91-DIVOC
Similar pieces will be written about other countries.
Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy’s Lombardy – AP
Note:
Epidemiologists now say the virus had been circulating widely in Lombardy since early January, if not before.
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Unions and mayors of some of Lombardy’s hardest hit cities now say the country’s main industrial lobby group, Confindustria, exerted enormous pressure to resist lockdowns and production shutdowns because the economic cost would be too great in a region responsible for 21% of Italy’s GDP.
The Pentagon generals must love the Coronavirus. It will allow them to spend on a new 'threat'.
The dangerous new consensus: blame China – Stephen Kinzer / Boston Globe
As late as the beginning of this year, if an American newspaper’s front page did not have an article denouncing Russia, it was probably only because space was needed for one denouncing Iran. Yet almost overnight, the anti-Russia organ has fallen silent. A newer model has replaced it.
This new Wurlitzer blares a message that is not much different in tone or content from the old one, but with the word “China” replacing “Russia” whenever we identify the source of evil in the world. News outlets spend hours every day denouncing China. No one could have been surprised when a poll taken in March by the Pew Research Center showed that fully two-thirds of Americans now hold negative views of China — more than at any time since Pew began asking the question 15 years ago.
This Is How America and China are Weaponizing the Coronavirus – Mark Perry / National Interest
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Many of you see the evils of Capitalism gone bad. For some reason you seem unable to fathom that Science has been captured by the worst sort of Capitalism, as is the Public Health agencies you rely on for statistics on diseases and health
Medicine is dominated by corporate interests—physicians, academic institutions, and government agencies—whose financial interests are intertwined with drug and vaccine manufacturers. Physicians, professional associations, medical institutions, and government agencies are collaborating partners in the business of medicine in Public-Private Partnerships
The government and industry have a cozy relationship and the public health arena offers no exception. One aspect of this: the revolving door. There are many examples. One is Julie Gerberding, the former head of the CDC, resigned from her government-appointed position in January 2009 and was named the president of Merck Vaccines in December 2009. Gerberding began her new job in January 2010, one year after leaving the CDC, which is the minimum amount of time she was legally required to wait before joining an industry that she previously regulated. It is clear that Dr. Gerberding received a professional reward for expanding universal immunization policies and, in effect, pharmaceutical company profits, for marginalizing the plight of victims of adverse reactions to vaccines. In January Julie sold off close to 10 million of her Merck Stock. Half of her holdings in Merck alone.
The National Science Foundation was established in 1950 and began disbursing grants for basic scientific research.
The government began throwing money at basic research and thus transformed it into a bureaucracy. Research became high-tech-and incredibly expensive.
In 1961 Eisenhower warned at the same time he warned of the MIC that this could result in the capture of the nation by a (pseudo) scientific-technocratic elite. Indeed this elite has become a branch of the MIC.
The first scientific journal… began publication in 1665. By 1800 there were 100 journals; by 1900, 10,000 journals. By 1986, an unreadable total of nearly 140,000 papers were being published each year just by U.S. scientists,about one-third of the world total. Today that number is 2.5 million, and a total of 50 million since 1665
Most of these journals depend on industry for advertising revenues to keep them alive. In Medicine Big Pharma provides most of their revenue. They are careful not to publish anything that might offend Big Pharma. This is true outside medicine as well.
Such overgrowth in scientific ranks produces regression to the
mean. Competition among large numbers of scientists for one or a few central sources of funding restricts freedom of thought and action to a mean that appeals to the majority. The scientist who is very productive, most able to sell research, and well liked for not offending his peers with new hypotheses and ideas is selected by
his peers for funding. These peers cannot afford a nonconformist, or unpredictable, thinker because every new, alternative hypothesis is a potential threat to their own line of research.
Consensus science not Science. Driven by vast infusions of federal and commercial money, it has grown into an enormous and powerful bureaucracy that greatly amplifies its successes and mistakes all the while stifling dissent. Such a process can no longer be called science, which by definition depends on self-correction by internal challenge and debate.
Albert Einstein would not get funded for his work by the peer review system, and Linus Pauling did not (for his work on vitamin C and cancer even though he received two Nobel Prizes). The only benefit of the numerous cascades of competitive tests and reviews set up by peer review is the elimination of unsophisticated charlatans and real incompetence. In sum, the review of too many by too many achieves but one result with certainty: regression to the mean. As these armies of new scientists flood the peer review system, they even act to suppress any remaining dissension by the few remaining thoughtful researchers.
Peer review can never check the accuracy of experimental data; it can only censor unacceptable interpretations. A scientist’s grants, publications, positions, awards, and even invitations to conferences are entirely controlled by his competitors. As in any other profession, no scientist welcomes being out competed or
having his pet idea disproved by a colleague.
Few scientists are any longer willing to question, even privately, the consensus views in any field whatsoever.
NIH research grants not only fund some in-house labs, but they now provide the basic source of funding for universities and other institutes, including research
conducted in other nations. Half the total federal research spending on universities and colleges for all subjects combined is now provided by the NIH. NIH grants have now become a major source of income for the larger and increasingly dependent universities. According to a 1990 article in the Journal of NIH Research, “When NIH sneezes, it is the academic community that catches cold.”
Academic science was not content with grants , so they sought profits and wealth. The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 was written to make it easier for federally funded academic research to receive patent protection that would allow the ready licensing of the of valuable R&D to private businesses. It has enabled university technology transfer offices all over the world to generate billions of dollars of licensing revenue – especially in the life sciences—by licensing patents from federally funded university research to corporate partners. Bayh-Dole has effectively turned research into big business for many universities and transformed technology transfer offices into important profit centers at academic institutions all over the world.
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