The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies.
Dr. David Nabarro from the WHO appealed to world leaders yesterday, telling them to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method” of the coronavirus.
He also claimed that the only thing lockdowns achieved was poverty – with no mention of the potential lives saved.
“Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer,” he said. [..]
His message is timely. In a world first, a number of health experts from all over the world came together calling for an end to coronavirus lockdowns earlier this week.
They created a petition, called the Great Barrington Declaration, which said that lockdowns were doing “irreparable damage.”
“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,” read the petition.
“Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”
Glenn Reynolds: Early on, short lockdowns made some sense. They kept hospitals from being overloaded and let people get a handle on what was going on. But we’re in what, day 200 of “15 days to slow the spread” now?
Nest stop, masks.
As winter approaches we get a drop in dewpoint as we go outside. The moisture in the breath will “dampen” the cloth/fibres/cellulose/Shamwow upon exhalation and any bacteria or other pathogens will have a nice broth to live and grow on. Inhilation will provide direct access to mucous membranes.
Look for a nice uptick in respiratory tract infections starting right about now.
That’s why they told us masks were counter-productive 6 months ago and they specifically told us why but Nazis will be Nazis. More people die of the increase in overdose deaths than die of the China flu. More people die of suicide. The lockdown has economically destroyed millions of lives and likely saved very few who weren’t destined to die of respiratory problems by spring.
It’s amazing to me that the same people who accept that we have made huge strides in treating the virus refuse to accept that we have also made strides in understanding the transmission of the virus. Masks are a low cost alternative to lockdowns, not that hard to do, and lockdowns have always been far too costly for speculative benefits. Mask benefits are not speculative and have been observed in the real world. I don’t even care if lockdowns work, they are too costly, end of story.
very few who weren’t destined to die of respiratory problems by spring.
So you think that the vast majority of the 200,000+ excess deaths in the United States, for example, will be made up for by spring? Death counts are still running higher than normal by about 5K a week, and infections are going up with the onset of cold weather, but you think that this will all magically reverse in a few weeks?
Did you wear a mask last flu season?
“The global population is roughly 7.8 billion people, if 10% have been infected that is 780 million cases. The global death toll currently attributed to Sars-Cov-2 infections is 1,061,539.
That’s an infection fatality rate of roughly or 0.14%. Right in line with seasonal flu and the predictions of many experts from all around the world.”
https://off-guardian.org/2020/10/08/who-accidentally-confirms-covid-is-no-more-dangerous-than-flu/
“tim in vermont.”, you’re an idiot.
What do you expect from some from Sanders territory?
But will governments listen? The lockdowns allow them to be totalitarian but out of concern for your health. Ha!
Nov 3 the virus will no longer be a threat if Biden wins. If Trump wins or it’s contested I fear civil war in the USA and the virus will be the least of our concerns.
Oh my, who coulda seen that coming. Never mind the complete ruination of the global economy. Never mind that mom and pop business’ where thrown under the bus but Walmart/Cnd Tire/Costco where business as usual. At least based on earlier complete subservience to the word of WHO JT will immediately change course, of course…
China must be really hurting if they’ve told The Who to once again change their stance.
Or maybe they want in person voting in the US.
My thought exactly!
We stopped buying anything Chinese some months ago, even returning produce we found from China after purchasing, and we let the stores know why. We believe we are noticing an increase in advertising and labelling stating clearly, and I hope proudly, that goods are grown or manufactured in Canada.
So yes, China may be hurting.
It is nice to see the push to local. I really hope that it keeps up. We make an effort to be support around us as much as we can.
If you followed: https://twitter.com/PhdParody you’d know that all the rain and floods wiped central Chinah Agriculture to the floor. Pork and fowl were decimated by floods and virus’ and produce this year was flooded out. It’s not in the news now, but there will be shortages and hungry people in Chinah, starting this winter. I don’t buy anything Chinah these days, most of it is crap anyway.
Their fishing fleets are vacuuming up everything that moves in the ocean https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-09-23/tensions-rise-in-ecuador-and-peru-as-chinese-fishing-fleet-moves-south-from-galapagos
I expect shots to be fired soon.
Not at all. The Chinese economy has almost completely recovered. Their approach to dealing with Wuhan flu was simple. Order everyone back to work and hush up any further deaths. Reliable testing of Chinese citizens has ceased. The spread of American flu is the fault of Donald Trump and it no longer troubles China. That’s the party line and God help you if you contradict it.
What the Politburo want now is the supports kicked out from under the economies of the western world, so they and their favoured oligarchs can pick up real bargains at a fraction of fair value—and force their Western debt-peons back to work at wage cuts of 40 to 50 percent, most of which will line the pockets of Overseas Chinese slumlords.
“The Chinese economy has almost completely recovered.”
From General Secretary Xi Jinping’s mouth to your ear.
You may trust anything the ChiComs say, but I don’t. So, how does it pay to be a Chinese Agent of Influence?
I heard all those floods kind of messed things up in China, never mind the COVID. Plus my DIL who is in supply management for a major grocery store chain tells me they are having all kinds of issues getting stuff because almost nothing is coming out of China. If they have recovered so well, why so few exports?
Ooz, do they let you eat free at that wet market, you know the one in the article you linked to , the CCP propaganda article.
And Ooz, how is getting rid of that couch working out?
I have heard that most of the 30 people or so who have died from the coronavirus in China have returned from the dead as well, so they’re really doing better than ever. We really would be doing much better here in the US if we just followed China’s lead in the handling of the pandemic – just say everything’s fine and execute anybody who says otherwise. Can you imagine what our case rate would look like?
Didn’t the US quit funding WHO? The Chinks are notoriously “cheap”, they aren’t going to step up to the WHO plate and fund them, if the US isn’t. WHO is gonna stew in their own juice for now. Looks good on them.
Does anyone listen to the WHO any more. Defund it.
One feels obliged to ask whether our COVID-19 tests can disnguish between viruses. As a helpful link, this tells us that 20% of colds are produced by coronaviruses, 2-20% by unknown viruses and the others by rhinoviruses (nose virus). Can the tests distinguish between these?
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/common_cold_causes
Can we say “Unintended Consequences”?
The only reason to backtrack is it is affecting the money flow.
Crushing this scam economy.
Lockdowns are the 21st century’s gigascaled and universalized version of prohibition. It targets all people (drinkers and non-drinkers alike) , and it targets all aspects of their lives, not merely their beverage of choice.
WHO is always months behind the curve. They came out against masks in July and walked it back the next day after being inundated by responses from people actually doing research on transmission of the virus. They just this month finally accepted that the virus can be spread from the breath alone of an infected person, even if there are no symptoms or coughing.
Denmark is preparing to release a study where they had 3K people wear masks and 3K not wear masks for a month, so that should be interesting.
I’ve been saying for months that if Biden wins, you won’t hear another word about Wuhan flu.
I did not expect the WHO to be so confident that Trump will be out of the White House by January (and dead of Arkancide by Easter) that they’re no longer bothering to conceal the fact that it was all a bunch of hot air.
The good people of the western world ruined by the Wuhan flu hysteria will be told to go back to work at whatever wage anybody is still willing to offer a “deplorable”—AFTER being fiddled out of their homes and businesses, to be acquired at pennies on the dollar by Han Chinese “investors,” for re-sale only to “entrepreneurs” who speak Mandarin.
Fortunes will be made in 2021 scavenging the wreckage of Western economies by the Overseas Chinese.
Yes. Mission accomplished indeed—or so they think.
What the pandemic has taught us about science –
Seeing science as a game of guess-and-test clarifies what has been happening these past months. Science is not about pronouncing with certainty on the known facts of the world; it is about exploring the unknown by testing guesses, some of which prove wrong.
“Rosalyn Yalow, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, was fond of displaying the letter she received in 1955 from the Journal of Clinical Investigation noting that the reviewers were “particularly emphatic in rejecting” her paper.”
“science is prevented from turning into religion not by asking scientists to challenge their own theories but by getting them to challenge each other, sometimes with gusto.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/11/what-the-pandemic-has-taught-us-about-science/
That is why our masters, who revile the truth, have never had much use for science—except the parts of it that expedite killing people who refuse to bend the knee to them.
One day we’ll find out how much Beijing spent over the decades on developing viruses designed to kill or incapacitate military-age white men.
5 Charts That Show Sweden’s Strategy Worked. The Lockdowns Failed
“Hence, the mass protests, violence, and spikes of mental health deterioration, drug overddoses, and suicide nations around the world have witnessed in 2020 have been notably absent in Sweden.”
“There is no correlation between lockdown stringency and COVID-19 deaths, while their harms are induspitable. ”
https://fee.org/articles/5-charts-that-show-sweden-s-strategy-worked-the-lockdowns-failed/
As I noted in last week’s tips, Three Professors/epidemiologists from Oxford, Stanford and Harvard say “There is another way”:
“Keeping these measures (Lockdowns) in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.”
https://unherd.com/2020/10/covid-experts-there-is-another-way/
Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm told Joe Rogan this “other way” a way back on March 9.
The link I’ve posted below at 2:09 walks through Sweden’s numbers, then compares them to flu seasons, and then to other countries. One of the most telling items, later on in the video, is overlaying the steep infection rates from temperate areas that get winter (Italy, Sweden, US NE) with the tropical areas (Brazil, Ecuador, US southern), and the over-lay of those two infection zone types is an exact match for the overall US infection charts.
I heard Scott Adams say this on his periscope this morning, so went to check it for myself (you know – trust, but verify). Not to be found on the WHO’s website, nothing on my DuckDuckGo news search (I refuse to use Google), nothing on BBC news search , nor on CBC (quelle surprise!) and I won’t use Drudge anymore.
So thanks to Kate for finding these two sources. I thought Scott was imagining things.
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, Scottish doctor, author, speaker, sceptic
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/
I’ve been reading Dr. Kendrick’s blog for a long time and really appreciate his common sense approach. I haven’t seen any of his articles mentioned on SDA, but perhaps they have been. He’s been working on the front lines with Covid19 patients and has been writing about various aspects of it on his blog for months.
Excellent (but long, 1 1/2 hrs) interview last week on Covid19 related topics:
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-zac-uncensored-with-dr-malcolm-kendrick-live_W2EGf2HuoMorJVI.html
Also in June, a blog article about lockdowns:
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/06/11/covid-will-lockdown-lead-to-a-major-health-disaster/
“…..with no mention of the potential lives saved”. Or, for that matter, no mention of the lives LOST due to lockdowns.
In July 2020, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a paper regarding this matter by researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University and Yale University. An article about the study from Virginia Commonwealth University summarizes its findings and quotes the researchers as follows:
Some excess deaths “may reflect under-reporting” or “patients with Covid-19 who died from related complications,” “but a third possibility, the one we’re quite concerned about is” the “spillover effects of the pandemic, such as delayed medical care, economic hardship or emotional distress.”
In the five states that that had the most Covid-19 deaths in March and April:
– Stroke deaths were 35% above normal.
– Alzheimer’s deaths were 64% above normal.
– Heart disease deaths were 89% above normal.
– Diabetes deaths were 96% above normal.
– New York City’s death rates alone rose a staggering 398% from heart disease and 356% from diabetes.
“Still others may have struggled to deal with the consequences of job loss or social isolation. A number of people struggling with depression, addiction and very difficult economic conditions caused by lockdowns may have become increasingly desperate, and some may have died by suicide. People addicted to opioids and other drugs may have overdosed.”
Reposted from the Oct 9 Reader’s Tips.
Holy carp, just saw this on LinkedIn. Looking at the numbers for excess deaths, then COVID19, in Sweden. Afterwards comparing with other historical numbers for over 100 years and other countries.
How many hundreds of millions are condemned to extreme poverty and early deaths by the lockdown lies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UvFhIFzaac
I planned on listening to the first 5 minutes as many podcasts start to repeat after that point. Instead I wound up watching the entire ~35 minute video. The data is quite compelling! Of particular interest, some locations had less than normal seasonal deaths before covid struck, making the restoration to normal extra-scary (and “caused” by coronavirus).
C-Miner – It starts out well with “The epidemic largely ended in May”… I’ll listen to the rest of it.
To lockdown or not will soon be an irrelevant question.
Edmonton International Airport to trial locally-made rapid COVID-19 saliva test this fall
The rapid test, produced by local company GLC Medical Inc., will be conducted with a hand-held unit that takes a saliva sample and provides COVID-19 results in less than one minute.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-international-airport-piloting-rapid-covid-19-saliva-test
Wait for the CBC headline – “Head of CMA concludes that testing for COVID 19 in airports effects a two tiered healthcare system”
Edmonton International Airport to trial locally-made rapid COVID-19 saliva test this fall
Jumpin’ Jehosaphat! It’s bad enough that the EIA requires me to run the gauntlet of soyboys and short fat tattooed bull dykes in the security area. This past trip to my house, everyone was subjected to temperature checks before going into line (a few months late, as is usual for government action).
Now I have to spit in order to get on a plane? (I’d willingly spit, but not where or on I’d be ordered to.)
B.A.D. – Hey, how did you add italics to your comment? Do you have special deal with Kate? lol
If instant-testing gets us back to 100% business as usual, open borders and warm vacations, I’ll even swap spit with the vertically-challenged, graphically enhanced bull dykes. OK, I wouldn’t go that far, but almost anything else.
PHP2 – use the less than sign around the key letter like brackets where you want to start, then a / sign in a second set of less and greater thans to end. So I’ll use round brackets to show (beside the real ones) that to start italics (i) and to end italics (/i)
it also works for bolding and other text, replacing the i with a b.
https://www.w3schools.com/html/
C-Miner and Edward Teach – Thanks guys. 20 years ago I used to manage folks that performed HTML tagging. Or was it SGML? I should have paid more attention.
A communist virus whose effects were exacerbated by a communist world health organization and perpetuated by left wing governments the world over. Yet another atrocity inflicted upon the world by the left. When will citizens learn? Satan could not have concocted a more sinister plan for the globe than progressivism.
Lockdowns do not work well.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/10/10/coronavirus-rages-in-europe-what-went-wrong-n1034334
Why hasn’t Youtube banned this John Lennon song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RuCEhHcG4
I mean, Wendy Mesley was suspended from hosting for uttering a word in the title of this song. It’s a bit like the Jewish law that prescribed the death penalty for saying G-d’s name… only for much different reasons.
So let me get it straight, Chicoms are concerned that they are having problems dumping their shit on western markets and thus their WHO Lapdog declares lockdowns bad. Just like masks initially were bad (when Chicoms cleaned up Canadian supply and sent it home) and then became mandatory when Chicoms sold us their surplus. Ugh ok, and we have always been at war with Eastasia.
Colon R~4, it’s not the chinese who sell shit, it’s the importers who demad shit that’s the problem, and it wasn’t the chinese who took our PPE, it was the Turd who gave it to them, and the Turd is in power because of ignoramus voters like you, and the ooz!
Please stop talking. Yes it was Chicoms in Canada who cleaned up every pharmacy and sent supplies back home. Just then when Health Canada was telling us that masks are not necessary (and you were waiting for your Chicom mail order bride, she never arrived did she, ouch) Chicoms were buying out every last every mask in Canada. So shut your trap and go jerk off into your liquid soap dispenser, she ain’t coming and you get no refund, looser.
And then there is that.
“Infection Fatality “Estimates” For Covid-19 Via CDC: 0.003%, 0.02%, 0.5% & 5.4%”
https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/09/25/infection-fatality-estimates-for-covid-19-from-cdc-0-0003-0-002-0-005-0-54/
What can one say.
The wise guys “èxperts” seem to be all over the guesswork.