Covid19: India — Herd Immunity Achieved: Not Many Dead, and Other Remarkable Facts About the Novel Corona Virus

The Spectator reports:

Serological tests on 21,387 residents of Delhi by the Indian Centre for Disease Control suggest that 23.5 per pent of the city’s population have antibodies to Sars-Cov-2, the virus which causes Covid-19. Remarkably, this is a higher proportion than has been measured in New York, where 22.7 per cent were found to have been infected with the virus. The tests in Delhi were carried out between 27 June and 10 July. Since then, the epidemic seems to have peaked and receded. The infection rate comes as a surprise given Delhi’s relatively low numbers of deaths. As the population of Delhi’s National Capital Territory is 16 million, the antibody figures suggest that 3.76 million people in the city have been infected. Up until Saturday, the Indian government had recorded 3,571 deaths in Delhi. That would give an Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) of just 0.094 per cent.

The Spectator also reports on the "absence of evidence" concerning the value of wearing a face mask:

A report from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has reviewed the evidence on whether individuals in the community who don’t have Covid-19 symptoms should wear face masks to reduce the spread of the virus. It says randomised trials show a small protective effect from wearing medical face masks, but a nationwide training programme would be needed as incorrect use limits their effectiveness. On the use of non-medical face masks, it says there is ‘no reliable evidence’. The review concludes that, with infection rates low in Norway, ‘assuming that 20% of people infectious with Sars-CoV-2 do not have symptoms, and assuming a risk reduction of 40% for wearing face mask, 200,000 people would need to wear facemasks to prevent one new infection per week in the current epidemiological situation’. So, ‘wearing face masks... is not recommended for individuals in the community without respiratory symptoms’.

Then there's the fake study authored by Harvard Med School Prof. in the famous medical journal, the Lancet, claiming, falsely, on behalf of big pharma that the cheap, old, and safe drug hydroxyquinoline is ineffective in the treatment of Covid19.

All of which raises two questions: 

(1) why are we led by such apparently useless people as Trump, Trudeau, Johnson, for example, with the only alternative available to the public being people of similar calibre — Joe Biden, for example.

(2) are these buffoonish characters the only ones available or are they post turtles providing cover for those engaged in a transformation of the world: a transformation from a world in which freedom of the individual was among the highest values to a world dominated by a globalist elite where the common man will be seen as nothing more than, for now, a necessary evil, and a form of life to be eliminated as soon as artificially intelligent machinery is available to take his place.

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