The Corona Virus...facts not panic

 Great Barrington Declaration

As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.  

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States, by:

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.

Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.

Co-signers

Medical and Public Health Scientists and Medical Practitioners  14,879

Current signature count: 856,4404

medical & public health scientists 13,985

medical practitioners 43,804

concerned citizens 797,721

If you would like to sign the declaration you can do so by just scrolling to the bottom of this page: ( I already did). 

gbdeclaration.org/    

More facts about the Corona virus

 New York Data Confirms Once Again – 99% of Coronavirus Fatalities Have Pre-Existing Conditions – 94% of Fatalities Over Age 45!…Open The Economy!

By Marsha West

It’s very difficult to find the numbers – as if they are being hidden. The reason may be because the actual numbers of coronavirus fatalities indicate the China coronavirus is not nearly as deadly as heralded by the Mainstream media and the results are similar to flu-like data.

Initial data out of New York show a pattern consistent with the rest of the world – the elderly and the sick are almost exclusively at risk by the coronavirus. Individuals without pre-existing conditions and younger Americans under the age of 65 are at a very very low risk of dying from the coronavirus.

Steve Elliott Grassfire reports today that the “New York Coronavirus Data Confirms EVERYTHING about age and condition of victims, meaning it’s time for a more targeted strategy”.

Data was finally located related to the China coronavirus deaths in New York:





View rest of article:
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/breaking-new-york-data-confirms-99-coronavirus-fatalities-pre-existing-conditions-94-fatalities-age-45-open-economy/

The Corona Virus...what's happening?

National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System

Here's Candace Owens comment about the corona virus video that's circulating lately; the link to the interactive map is posted toward the end of her post.  Jessica Harris posted this on Facebook yesterday.

Dear America— there is a video circulating in the media today that shows bodies being loaded into a truck in Brooklyn. The insinuation is clear: bodies are piling up in the city as a result of the #coronavirus.
But This is factually incorrect.

I finally was able to locate a CDC state by state chart that shows weekly death rates in America. The chart (posted below) shows weekly flu deaths, weekly pneumonia deaths, and finally—weekly death totals (which is inclusive of every death category).

What does this chart reveal? It reveals that death rates have dropped EVERYWHERE in America as soon as pandemic began. This means that there are not more bodies, anywhere. In case you are thinking “it’s because people aren’t going outside”, that is not true for NYC. New York City is unusual because there are very few car accident fatalities, due to citywide traffic. The overwhelming majority of people in New York City die from heart disease, cancer, & respiratory failure. Staying inside would not see a drop in any of these categories, as they are not contagious.

This chart reveals that there has been a steep decline in pneumonia and flu deaths. For those of you that are thinking “well— don’t people normally stop dying from the flu in March”, the answer is no. Last year, flu and pneumonia deaths PEAKED in March (always shown by using this map).

So what does this interactive map reveal? For one, it reveals that there are not more dead bodies, so please discredit any media organization that is telling you that there are overwhelming deaths.

This map also reveals that the biggest question that any respectable journalist should be asking is— why did everyone suddenly stop dying from pneumonia and the flu? If the coronavirus rate is really increasing “exponentially” as they’ve been telling us— shouldn’t death rate be higher by now? Why is is it getting lower?

Is it possible that people with the flu and pneumonia are now having their deaths recorded as “coronavirus”. My instincts tells me that Covid-19 isn’t nearly as deadly as they say. My instincts also tell me that it’s been here in America since before January.

My instincts tell me that if it truly was as deadly as they say— there would be mass graveyards built in Bangladesh and India right now where millions of refugees are now walking alongside the road because the railroad system was shut down.

To be clear— I fully believe that Covid-19 is a real virus, but quite frankly, after more than a month— there just isn’t a single country that is proving the thesis of its deadliness. Least of all America.

Here is the link to the interactive map. California is down more than 2,000 deaths a day. Best to use this map on a desktop. Please share you thoughts. They’ve take so many of our rights already— we must hold on to our right to free speech."

Public policy panic about the COVID-19 pandemic not supported by the facts

"All COVID-19 deaths are tragic. Yet, for every frail or chronically ill person (regardless of age) with underlying medical conditions (whether known or unknown) who succumbs to COVID-19, there are hundreds of people, mostly younger, healthier students and working age adults who will have their lives ruined for months or perhaps years by the economic collapse ostensibly created to control the epidemic. We estimate that the economic disruptions will destroy many more lives than the social distancing and economic shutdown would save."

more:
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/26/public-policy-panic-about-the-covid-19-pandemic-no/?fbclid=IwAR3E8jt7Y_q3s9a3fAjPbkZWFPqy5kJyv25dwKHeQvW41kSUQfxoJ5xrjZE


How China, The WHO, The CDC and the Mainstream Media Worked Together to Create the Greatest Pandemic Hysteria in World History

“The media in the US and around the world are corrupt and repeating China’s talking points. What the media seldom mentions is that the individuals who are dying from the coronavirus are elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. Everyone else is at a very, very low risk of dying. The fatality rate for young people is almost zero but we keep children from their schools.”

(Jim Holt – The Gateway Pundit) China, the World Health Organization, the CDC and the leftist media combined to create the greatest pandemic hysteria in world history. Here’s how they did it.

China

The entire coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, China. A large city estimated at around 13 million in the heart of China. This city rarely sees a blue sky and is busy and overcast from the smog that is constantly in the air. This is where the coronavirus was first reported.

Initially it was a curious case but soon the media began reporting incidents of people dying in the streets and a healthcare system totally overwhelmed. (The media never told you that the health care in Wuhan is third world with very few facilities and doctors.) Stories of crematoriums working overtime were reported.

But was this all a set up by the Chinese as was warned twenty years ago? The China economy was in shambles after its own overbuilding and faulty financial reporting. The Trump policies also made a huge impact on an already collapsing economy. Was the coronavirus a means to fight back?

read the article here:  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/how-china-the-who-the-cdc-and-the-mainstream-media-worked-together-to-create-the-greatest-pandemic-hysteria-in-world-history/


Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Revises Model

“He now says that the U.K. should have enough ICU beds and that the coronavirus will probably kill under 20,000 people in the U.K. — more than 1/2 of whom would have died by the end of the year in any case [because] they were so old and sick.”

(Amanda Prestigiacomo – Daily Wire) Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, offered a massive revision to his model on Wednesday.

Ferguson’s model projected 2.2 million dead people in the United States and 500,000 in the U.K. from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and blunt its curve.

However, after just one day of ordered lockdowns in the U.K., Ferguson is presenting drastically downgraded estimates, revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured. Now, the epidemiologist predicts, hospitals will be just fine taking on COVID-19 patients and estimates 20,000 or far fewer people will die from the virus itself or from its agitation of other ailments, as reported by New Scientist Wednesday.

Ferguson thus dropped his prediction from 500,000 dead to 20,000.

Author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson broke down the bombshell report via Twitter on Thursday morning (view Twitter thread below).

View article →
https://www.dailywire.com/news/epidemiologist-behind-highly-cited-coronavirus-model-admits-he-was-wrong-drastically-revises-model/


CBS News Uses Footage of “Worst Hit” Hospital in Italy While Describing New York Coronavirus Outbreak

(I'm unsure of this one)

https://summit.news/2020/03/30/cbs-news-uses-footage-of-worst-hit-hospital-in-italy-while-describing-new-york-coronavirus-outbreak/?fbclid=IwAR38y7oYXOFxP2MJMcrMxTmPnqa3hTXhGl86aWdsQn0c6NIpkL8lkfv09gc



Global measles deaths rise to 140,000; young kids hit hard   Written in December 2019

Last year 140,000 people worldwide died from complications of measles infections, according to the latest data compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In 2017, the WHO tracked 110,000 measles deaths. Most of measles-related deaths are in children under the age of 5.

more:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/12/global-measles-deaths-rise-140000-young-kids-hit-hard?fbclid=IwAR2tqtUd_83ZWfnTGHS_BcXvdDW76tMTqueAwoIATobkaPBqa-hDd2oeKbs

"Last year 140,000 people worldwide died from complications of measles infections, according to the latest data..."
*Why wasn't the world locking down for that?