JANUARY 2020
THINK Beyond Your Genes – January 2020
“At the present moment, the public is again being challenged by the influence of negative thinking as it relates to the fear of another life-threatening pandemic … this time the coronavirus. Please note an important fact about the historic and famous deadly pandemics such as the black death (bubonic plague) in the 1300’s and the 1918 swine flu, both of which caused millions of deaths.”
9-15 MARCH 2020
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
“With everything that’s happening about the Coronavirus, it might be very hard to make a decision of what to do today. Should you wait for more information? Do something today? What? Here’s what I’m going to cover in this article, with lots of charts, data and models with plenty of sources …”
Facts about Covid-19 – Swiss Propaganda Research
“Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment.”
16-22 MARCH 2020
How Did Taiwan Manage the Coronavirus so Well?
“Despite being one of the closest countries to mainland China, Taiwan has done a remarkable job of keeping the novel Coronavirus from spreading in its population.”
“China’s rampant consumption of exotic animals and lack of hygiene standards is far from above criticism”
Timeline: The early days of China’s coronavirus outbreak and cover-up
“Axios has compiled a timeline of the earliest weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in China, highlighting when the cover-up started and ended – and showing how, during that time, the virus already started spreading around the world, including to the United States.”
What Taiwan Could Teach the World About Handling Coronavirus
“Taiwan Has Been Shut Out of Global Health Discussions. Its Participation Could Have Saved Lives”
Stanford Professor: Data Indicates We’re Severely Overreacting To Coronavirus
“In an analysis published Tuesday, Stanford’s John P.A. Ioannidis — co-director of the university’s Meta-Research Innovation Center and professor of medicine, biomedical data science, statistics, and epidemiology and population health — suggests that the response to the coronavirus pandemic may be ‘a fiasco in the making’ because we are making seismic decisions based on ‘utterly unreliable’ data.”
An Update on the Coronavirus and Bear Market
“Things are changing on a daily basis in terms of the Coronavirus and how it’s affecting us all. I have spoken with many different investment managers, both for equities and fixed income, and wanted to give you another update on what’s going on in the economies and the markets.”
Is shutting down Britain – with unprecedented curbs on ancient liberties – REALLY the best answer?
“Some years ago I had the very good luck to fall into the hands of a totally useless doctor. It was hell, and nearly worse than that, but it taught me one of the most important lessons of my life. He was charming, grey-haired, smooth and beautifully dressed. He was standing in for my usual GP, a shabbier, more abrasive man.”
“Panics from pandemics unleash unchecked governmental power. The very premise of popular films like V for Vendetta reveal this: a group uses a virus to seize power and create a totalitarian society. Anyone could witness this from far-off lands, watching the news about China locking people up in their own homes and then removing them screaming from those homes whenever the state wanted. World War I and the Great Depression birthed virulent forms of governments with leaders like Hitler, Mao, Mussolini and Stalin.”
Facing covid-19 reality: A national lockdown is no cure
“Covid-19 will go away eventually in one of two ways. Either we will develop a vaccine to prevent it, or the virus will burn itself out as the spread of infection comes to confer a form of herd immunity on the population. Neither of those possibilities will occur quickly.”
23-29 MARCH 2020
THINK Beyond Your Genes – March 2020
“My intention is to CALM the fears generated by the media continuously repeating that the ‘sky is falling.’ So … here is my March Update on COVID-19. Firstly, ‘What is a virus?’ A virus is neither a living or metabolizing organism, they are simply membrane-bound protein capsules containing genetic programs.”
12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic
“Below is our list of twelve medical experts whose opinions on the Coronavirus outbreak contradict the official narratives of the MSM, and the memes so prevalent on social media.”
An Expert says the Current response to the Coronavirus is ‘Grotesque, Absurd and Very Dangerous’
“A recent interview with Professor Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, an infectious medicine specialist. The Professor is one of the most highly cited medical research scientists in Germany. He was head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, one of Germany’s most distinguished seats of learning. The transcript is below.”
Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?
“If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified. But there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high.”
“In my opinion, a national lockdown is an overreaction. But my opinion is irrelevant for two reasons: The majority disagrees with me; I am not a virus expert. However, thinking critically means sometimes siding with the minority, not because I want to be a contrarian, but because I’m interested in the truth, even if it’s uncomfortable.”
“It will be several months before we know the human damage the coronavirus has done. But the damage wreaked by fear has now become overwhelming.”
How deadly is the coronavirus? It’s still far from clear
“In announcing the most far-reaching restrictions on personal freedom in the history of our nation, Boris Johnson resolutely followed the scientific advice that he had been given. The advisers to the government seem calm and collected, with a solid consensus among them. In the face of a new viral threat, with numbers of cases surging daily, I’m not sure that any prime minister would have acted very differently. But I’d like to raise some perspectives that have hardly been aired in the past weeks, and which point to an interpretation of the figures rather different from that which the government is acting on.”
“The scientist whose calculations about the potentially devastating impact of the coronavirus directly led to the countrywide lockdown has been criticised in the past for flawed research.”
30 MARCH-5 APRIL 2020
Hysteria has forced the UK into lockdown, crashed the economy and will kill more than coronavirus
“Just two years ago, in the Beast From The East winter of 2017-18, a flu epidemic prematurely claimed the lives of more than 50,000 frail and elderly victims. In the official jargon, these were ‘excess winter deaths’.”
Can Hydroxychloroquine be Used to Treat Coronavirus?
“This drug has received fanfare for its treatment for lupus and is best known as an anti-malarial medication.”
Ramaphosa may be destroying the economy for nothing
“Cyril Ramaphosa believes a Chinese-style lockdown to be both effective and necessary. For all his infatuation with the Chinese surveillance state, however, South Africa does not have the means to duplicate it, nor is it able to copy rich-world alternatives to a lockdown. Is he destroying the economy for nothing?”
China’s deadly coronavirus-lie co-conspirator — the World Health Organization
“The fog of war obscures much about the novel coronavirus pandemic. But two facts seem absolutely certain. First, China’s Communist authorities have lied, concealed and misled about the origins of the epidemic and the toll of the virus in China. Second, the World Health Organization has acted as Beijing’s handmaid.”
How did covid-19 begin? Its initial origin story is shaky.
“The story of how the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, has produced a nasty propaganda battle between the United States and China. The two sides have traded some of the sharpest charges made between two nations since the Soviet Union in 1985 falsely accused the CIA of manufacturing AIDS.”
Coronavirus: Why the Swedish experiment could prove Britain wrong
“In Sweden, an interesting experiment is playing out, which may soon reveal that Britain is way off when it comes to modelling the number of coronavirus patients who will end up in intensive care.”
Researchers warn the COVID-19 lockdown will take its own toll on health
“As governments race to stem the spread of coronavirus through an unprecedented closing of schools, businesses and travel, some specialists fear the long term public health impacts of a depressed economy and shuttered society.”
A German Exception? Why the Countryʼs Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low
“The pandemic has hit Germany hard, with more than 92,000 people infected. But the percentage of fatal cases has been remarkably low compared to those in many neighboring countries.”
6-12 APRIL 2020
Taiwan’s Viral Success Makes It Harder to Ignore
“On Jan. 14, the World Health Organization sent a tweet that turned out to be one of the most significant statements in the world’s fight against the virus now known as Covid-19. Based on information from China, the global health agency wrote, the new coronavirus didn’t appear to spread via human-to-human transmission. Two weeks earlier, health authorities in Taiwan had reached the opposite conclusion.”
Coronavirus: Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says
“The coronavirus pandemic will turn global economic growth “sharply negative” this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.”
Meet the former NYT reporter who is challenging the coronavirus narrative
“As daily life across America is upended by the coronavirus crisis — with mass business closures plunging the economy into freefall — one former New York Times reporter is sounding the alarm about what he believes are flawed models dictating the aggressive strategy.”
Why it’s time to lift the lockdown
“It is looking more and more likely that Covid-19 is already widespread in the population, confirming the predictions of the Oxford University team led by Professor Sunetra Gupta, and suggesting the virus is much less deadly than has been feared.”
Consider The Possibility That Trump Is Right About China
“Critics are letting their disdain for the president blind them to geopolitical realities …”
South Africa needs to end the lockdown: here’s a blueprint for its replacement
“The public debate on strategies to tackle COVID-19 often unhelpfully positions health and economic considerations in a diametric fashion – as trade-offs. In fact, economic policy has health consequences. And health policy has economic consequences. The two need to be seen as parts of a coherent whole.”
Where is the vigorous debate about our response to Covid?
“After a career as a scientist and clinical academic, I have been struck by how often they (we!) have very complicated and exceedingly well-reasoned ways of getting things quite wrong. That’s why I have always thought it best for the recommendations of experts to have ‘advisory’ status only.”
13-19 APRIL 2020
What Covid-19 has revealed about the culture wars
“Catastrophic events like the coronavirus pandemic force us to examine, and in some cases rethink, how we see the world. Sometimes they also shed light on important trends and patterns of behaviour that predated the pandemic.”
An epidemic of doomsday forecasts
“Forecasts about the impact of Covid-19 have caused considerable controversy. For 30 years, I have been a professional forecaster, specialising in the social, economic and political dimensions of tomorrow’s technologies. And for years I have joked that, because of the 21st century’s acute uncertainty about the future, forecasters have never been in greater demand – and have never been less credible.”
10 Ways to Move Away from Fear and Drama in the Midst of the Coronavirus
“Every time you turn on your television or check your social media, coronavirus news is everywhere. Schools are closed, events are canceled, restaurants have switched to delivery and carry-out service only, and grocery shelves are empty. It is hard not to let the drama and fear of the unknown overtake your life.”
China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days
“In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations. President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20.”
Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged From a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China
“The goal of this document is to examine evidence that may prove that (1) the SARS-CoV-2 virus was present at a biolaboratory in Wuhan, China, and (2) the SARS-CoV-2 virus was introduced into the greater Wuhan population by an infected lab worker or animal. These claims from this point on will be referred to as Claim 1 and Claim 2.”
The lockdown is killing people, too
“The culture of fear around Covid-19 is seriously harming people’s health.”
Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy
“That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd.”
“The novel coronavirus may have first passed to humans somewhere in southern China months before the outbreak in the city of Wuhan, a new study found, cutting against widely held theories about the origins of the pandemic.”
20-26 APRIL 2020
The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation
“The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase. Tens of thousands of Americans have died, and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts.”
The significant extension of the Coronavirus restriction on movement – and why it is concerning
“Yesterday, slipped out without formal announcement, was a significant extension in England of the Coronavirus regulations.”
27-3 MAY 2020
I’ve worked the coronavirus front line — and I say it’s time to start opening up
“COVID-19 has been the worst health care disaster of my 30-year career, because of its intensity, duration and potential for lasting impact. The lasting impact is what worries me the most. And it’s why I now believe we should end the lockdown and rapidly get back to work.”
Taiwan: how to manage a pandemic
“The spread of Covid-19 has been suppressed without shutting down social and economic life.”
Delaying herd immunity is costing lives
“The current lockdown is protecting the healthy instead of the vulnerable.”
Taiwan Emerging From Pandemic With a Stronger Hand Against China
“Few governments around the world are likely to emerge from the pandemic with a stronger standing than before. Taiwan is one of them – and that’s not good for China.”
Chinese Communist Party Knew That Their Bio-Labs Were A Ticking Time Bomb In October
“The communist Chinese government was painfully aware that bio-labs including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where it is thought the coronavirus could have originated, were in desperate need of safety upgrades to prevent accidental leaks.”
We’re destroying the nation’s wealth – and the health of millions
“Why do I bother? For six weeks now I have been saying that the Government’s policy on Covid-19 is a mistake. Most people do not agree with me, and many are angry with me for saying so.”
China ‘intentionally concealed the severity’ of coronavirus outbreak to hoard supplies: DHS report
“China downplayed its coronavirus outbreak in order to buy time to hoard medical supplies needed to respond to the pandemic, according to intelligence documents.”
4-10 MAY 2020
“Seasonal Flu/respiratory illnesses strike every year. Compared to a typical epidemic, the current Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the UK badly. Compared to 2018, which was bad year for flu/respiratory disease, in 2020 we are approximately two weeks ahead of the overall deaths happening in England and Wales. In other words by 04-MAY-2018 we had almost the same number of “all cause” deaths as we have had by 24-APRIL-2020”
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11-17 MAY 2020
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