Following that chart, there is an interview with Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Oxford University epidemiologist who argues that lockdown does not resolve the problem that Covid presents, which must eventually be faced, and means accepting an “endemic equilibrium such as we enjoy with influenza …”, which she says, should be achieved by allowing the virus to circulate while protecting the vulnerable.
In effect, Professor Gupta is saying that herd immunity is the end game, and as she has argued in various publications, herd immunity may already have been reached in parts of Britain where serological surveys indicate up to 20% of the population have Covid antibodies, while up to 60% may have T-Cell immunity from infection by virtue of exposure to other corona viruses.
Herd immunity may also have been achieved in the US. In late June CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield, stated that US Covid cases may be ten times the number reported. Currently, the number of reported cases is 7.3 million. If that is a 90% under-report, then the actual number of cases is equal to 21% of the US population. Add in the 60% of the population that may have T-cell immunity to Covid infection due to prior exposure to other corona viruses and you have the numbers for herd immunity. What that means is that the rate of infections in the future will stabilize around the present number, though with seasonal variation, as with other viruses.
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Oxford University professors have been saying the threat from the disease was being overstated by everyone and have been against the lockdowns pretty much from the start. The UK government relied on deepstate run Imperial College, which has a longstanding record of being wrong about just about every public policy controversy, to justify the lockdowns.
ReplyDeleteOne thing about this is that just about every academic specialist not on a government or Gates payroll has been against the panic. This happens to be one of the ways this is different from climate change/ global warning controversy, which is hilarious because there is a strong link among internet commentators between lockdown skepticism and global warning skepticism, since they seem to stem from a belief that scientists are wrong about everything. But not many people know that the consensus among independent health experts have consistently been more on the anti-lockdown side. And we are finding out from discovery in the various court cases that governments were not exactly consulting medical experts before issuing these edicts.
The UK Government's insistence on a new lockdown seems preposterous since the Covid death rate now is no more than about 5% of the rate at the spring peak, despite packed beaches during the last days of summer and partying undergraduates congregating in crowds entirely contemptuous of the alleged Covid risk, which actually is virtually no risk at all to young people.
Delete"One thing about this is that just about every academic specialist not on a government or Gates payroll has been against the panic."
DeleteEverything we know about who thinks what and why and in what numbers we know through the mass media. Yet the mass media is entirely unreliable. Entirely.
One thing we know about this entirely unreliable mass media is that it is owned and controlled by monopolies. The apparent diversity in production companies, news organizations, and so on keeps people fooled there is diversity where it really counts, in terms of competition between companies with functions of journalism.
There is no competition, as their used to be, between teams trying to do the best investigation and analysis of what's happening, (and in the most timely fashion).
CS recently posted a link to an article written by geophysicist Syun-Ischi Akasofu of the University of Alaska. Akasofu commented on how investigative reporters from around the world coming to Alaska to "investigate" arctic warming, would often ask him for the locations of houses sinking into the ground due to global warming. They wanted photographs.
Akasofu had to tell them there were no such houses to be photographed. Building contractors have learned to insulate house foundations to prevent permafrost melt.
The point is "investigative" reporters arrive on the scene with a pre-planned angle, a ready-made narrative, and even what documentation will "inform" the pre-planned angle and ready-made narrative. They aren't investigating a damned thing.
And-- on top of that--as if that already isn't bad enough-- what they produce is fear porn. They go back and publish this nonsense and it scares the pants off poor old granny. She is frightened because what she is telling them is frightening.
No one I ever knew, democrat or republican, liberal or conservative, thought monopoly ownership of mass media was for the good of the people, but really, who ever started screaming alarm when monsters such as MSNBC made their appearance? Nobody, or perhaps by then it was already too late to scream a scream that would be heard.
MSNBC-- how many people remember the MS stands for Microsoft? Microsoft! (Microsoft sold its interests to Comcast some years ago. I don't remember the specifics of the deal but believe MicroSoft's influence on MSNBC remained considerable.)
Then this "pandemic", Bill Gates and his vaccines taking the limelight, paying the piper, naming the tune, and we all-- whatever we think or know or want-- dancing and marching to Bill Gates's globalized mega-beat.
"One thing we know about this entirely unreliable mass media is that it is owned and controlled by monopolies."
DeleteWhich is why "democracy" is a charade. There can be no democracy without a free press, and press controlled by a handful of oligarchs is not free. Moreover, it is not a press at all in the sense of a medium of useful information: it is a medium of indoctrination.
Until recent times, the media of western nations primarily served the interests of national financial interests. This was something people were somewhat inclined to accept. How many Americans, for example, were not in some way proud of the fact (at least until the recent revelations of totally corrupt management) that Boeing Corp., an American company, was the world's top aircraft maker, or that Tesla, an American company, leads the world in electrification of automobiles, etc. But now that the oligarchs have turned globalist, the better to secure cheap labor, low taxes and bigger markets, the media have become the enemy of the nation state and hence the enemy of the people.
But as you infer, there's nothing an ill-informed populace can do about it. The situation reminds me of the remark of David Lloyd George, UK Prime Minister during WW1:
"If the people knew what is happening" he said, "this war would end tomorrow. But of course they cannot know."
Today, if the people knew what is happening, the drive to destroy the nation states of the world (with at least a facade of democracy) would end tomorrow. But of course they cannot know.
"How many Americans, for example, were not in some way proud of the fact (at least until the recent revelations of totally corrupt management) that Boeing Corp., an American company, was the world's top aircraft maker, or that Tesla, an American company, leads the world in electrification of automobiles, etc.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right on the money. So much of American prestige was due to its ability to mass produce goods of the highest quality and yet available to the average person for an affordable price. There were so many excellent American companies. We had the best management and the most disciplined and educated labor force the world had ever seen. We were on our way to greatness. We were ready to Climb every mountain,Ford every stream,Follow every rainbow, Till you find your dream...The American Dream. And you didn't have to be asleep to believe in it.
"If the people knew what is happening" he said, "this war would end tomorrow. But of course they cannot know."
And,
George Herbert Walker Bush said : ‘Sarah, if the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us.’ That is a famous 1992 quote by George Herbert Walker Bush to Sarah McLendon, a Texas journalist who Bush had known for years and who was the grand dame of the White House press corps at the time. McLendon had asked Bush: ‘What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra?'”
There are questions as to whether George H.W. Bush did in fact say this. However I have no doubt America was dismantled from within by its own elected government officials, among others, and deliberately. Why I think that I better save for another time.
Thanks for the origin of that George H.W. Bush quote. I had wondered about it.
ReplyDeleteAs for America's days of greatness, I recall in the 60's Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute projecting America's GDP per capita into what in today's dimished dollar would have been hundreds of thousands. Everyone, it seemed would own a flying car, a cottage by the lake, etc. And herman Kahn was no lightweight, figuratively or literally.