Dr. John Oxford, virologist, Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London, and a leading expert on influenza, including bird flu and the 1918 Spanish Influenza, and HIV/AIDS.
What he says:
Personally, I would say the best advice is to spend less time watching TV news which is sensational and not very good. Personally, I view this Covid outbreak as akin to a bad winter influenza epidemic. In this case we have had 8000 deaths this last year in the ‘at risk’ groups viz over 65% people with heart disease etc. I do not feel this current Covid will exceed this number. We are suffering from a media epidemic! SourceSo why the continued lock-down?
Many unofficial reports are now emerging that reveal Covid19 infection rates in the general population that are huge multiples of officially reported rates.
That means that infection rates in many communities are pretty certainly past the point necessary to achieve herd immunity, which is to say the point at which the disease spreads with ever increasing difficulty before dying out entirely.
Yet no government has reported a survey of the general public to determine whether herd immunity has been achieved.
Why not?
Presumably, because governments do not want the public to know.
And that presumably, is because governments want the lock-downs to continue for reasons quite other than those stated.
What are those ulterior and unstated motives?
Interesting question that:
To drive up unemployment while destroying small businesses that are the chief employers of low-wage labor?
Why would governments want this?
Many reasons come to mind. Here are a couple:
1. By creating a much larger pool of the unemployed, a desperate and docile pool of cheap labor is made available to the corporate giants that own the government.
2. While thousands upon thousands of small business that have been forcibly closed -- shops, restaurants, a multiplicity of service enterprises -- the big boys, Amazon, Star Bucks, Tim Hortons, Crispy Kreme will have been planning how to take over the space newly created for their own expansion.
3. Or is the objective simply to create widespread poverty on a permanent basis?
Is it the idea that living standards for the majority having been crushed, they are to remain crushed?
What, after all, is the point of so many people stuffing their faces with junk food, pissing away energy and other resources on hedonistic cruise vacations, trips to Vegas and stuffing themselves with toxic, obesity- and diabetes-inducing grease- and sugar- loaded junk food.
Welcome to the new peonage.
Other possibilities? Suggestions welcome!
And here's one obvious alternative: a Deep State plot to get rid of Trump.
Related:
LA Times: Hundreds of thousands in L.A. County may have been infected with coronavirus
Perspective on the Pandemic: Interview with Prof. John Ioannides
Thierry Meyssan: Covid-19: Neil Ferguson, the Liberal Lyssenko
Ron Paul: What If The Lockdown Was A Giant Mistake?
Jim Fedako: Exactly How Many Deaths To Justify Giving Government's Control Of Everything?
ZH: Why The Shutdown Must End
