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originally posted by: Kurokage
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Like I said in your other thread, I think rightly or wrongly, world politicians and scientists when faced with a new global virus like covid planned for the worse case scenario, if they hadn't and it was something like a global Ebola, we all wouldn't be here discussing the errors.
Initially hey thought that it was going to be like the original SARS virus, which is about 10 times more deadly than Covid-19, and which was primarily transmitted on hard surfaces, which is why we were told to wipe everything with bleach, but not to wear masks.
When the found out that it had a lower mortality rate but was airborn they changed the advices.
Do you have some evidence to show that the IFR of COVID-19 was 10 times higher (initially).
To remind you that the estimation of IFR by Professor John Ioannidis and his colleagues which revealed 0.15% was done using the original virus together with the first few variants. So what you are saying isn't true.
See my links to the post I made above.
The problem here is IFR is different across several different published articles and is still very contentous and is still being debated.
For some reason the bottom of my post is not being seen?
Nature
One of the most contested statistics during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been the infection fatality ratio (IFR): the proportion of those infected who will go on to die from that infection. In the first general wave of the pandemic, estimates of the overall COVID-19 IFR ranged from 0.01 to 2.3%, with a review combining estimates across studies reporting an overall estimate of 0.68% (0.53–0.82%)
I made a big error earlier and I'm still suffering a spiced rum hangover!
originally posted by: nonspecific
It must be a different United Kingdom that I and everyone I know lives in then.
a reply to: zosimov
originally posted by: ScepticScot
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Like I said in your other thread, I think rightly or wrongly, world politicians and scientists when faced with a new global virus like covid planned for the worse case scenario, if they hadn't and it was something like a global Ebola, we all wouldn't be here discussing the errors.
The worst case scenario wasn't evaluated properly due to panic, incompetence, politics, and lack of understanding of infectious diseases as well as their history. Anyone with a basic understanding and having read the history of infectious diseases can easily deduce that coronaviruses have very small infection fatality rates, infecting a large number of the population and killing very few in comparison.
In the case of OC43 which likely caused the 1889-1890 pandemic the IFR was between 0.1% to 0.3%. You wouldn't expect anything different for SARS-CoV-2, it actually has an IFR close to 0.15%, and you can deduce that the other human coronaviruses have caused in the past pandemics and regional epidemics with similar IFRs
The reaction to Covid-19 was what we call shambles. Most infectious diseases experts and epidemiologists knew well how infectious or lethal was Covid-19 from the beginning (first few months). But politics blended with science and here are the results of the worst policy ever.
In the UK the push for preventative measures was coming from the exerts and largely resisted by the goverment until it became obvious there was little choice.
originally posted by: zosimov
a reply to: ScepticScot
Broadcasting the idea that anyone who chooses not to take the experimental shot is choosing not to save lives is bullying behavior which causes real harm in daily interactions for those who buy into it.
You really can't see that?
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: ScepticScot
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Like I said in your other thread, I think rightly or wrongly, world politicians and scientists when faced with a new global virus like covid planned for the worse case scenario, if they hadn't and it was something like a global Ebola, we all wouldn't be here discussing the errors.
The worst case scenario wasn't evaluated properly due to panic, incompetence, politics, and lack of understanding of infectious diseases as well as their history. Anyone with a basic understanding and having read the history of infectious diseases can easily deduce that coronaviruses have very small infection fatality rates, infecting a large number of the population and killing very few in comparison.
In the case of OC43 which likely caused the 1889-1890 pandemic the IFR was between 0.1% to 0.3%. You wouldn't expect anything different for SARS-CoV-2, it actually has an IFR close to 0.15%, and you can deduce that the other human coronaviruses have caused in the past pandemics and regional epidemics with similar IFRs
The reaction to Covid-19 was what we call shambles. Most infectious diseases experts and epidemiologists knew well how infectious or lethal was Covid-19 from the beginning (first few months). But politics blended with science and here are the results of the worst policy ever.
In the UK the push for preventative measures was coming from the exerts and largely resisted by the goverment until it became obvious there was little choice.
That's not quite how I remember it. Both the MSM and the social media news that I get from the UK said that the UK government was pushing for herd immunity through gradual exposure due to the fears that doing anything drastic would destroy the economy and harm children's educations, and that it was the opposition political parties who were pushing for harsh lockdowns and the school teachers who wanted the schools closed.
The UK government was aware from the beginning that covid was mostly just a bad case of the flu, and that it was only the elderly and people with comorbidity who needed protecting, but they were forced into locking down after the political opposition parties persuaded the public that the government needed to do more.
It's why the UK closed it's schools and brought in masks after most other places. It's also why the lockdown was more restrictive in Scotland and Wales than in England, because Scotland and Wales have separate governments that align with the opposition, while England aligns with the government.
I think it has been settled long time ago through one of the most cited papers in the world by Dr John Ioannidis. It has around 492 citations and is being published pretty much everywhere including the WHO. It's actually the reference frame for all research thereafter.
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
a reply to: AaarghZombies
For a vaccine to be released for wide use then you need to know the short, medium, and long term effects as well as the benefit to risk ratio for all age groups as well as all risk groups.
Does anyone know them?
I wouldn't think so.
originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: Asmodeus3
I think it has been settled long time ago through one of the most cited papers in the world by Dr John Ioannidis. It has around 492 citations and is being published pretty much everywhere including the WHO. It's actually the reference frame for all research thereafter.
I wouldn't agree quite just yet thats it's settled, there are a few people who disagree with Ioannidis.
originally posted by: BlackArrow
a reply to: AaarghZombies
Well realistically they don't need to cover it up any more /quote]
This isn't a case of "any more", they admitted to it in the first few months, it was pretty hard to miss actually because an extremely well respected female journalist with the BBC died of a blood clot form the Astrazenecca shot and her face was all over the MSM.
The EU admitted that there was a problem after 15 deaths, and changed their entire vax strategy almost overnight.
Yes, 15, and only 15. 15 named people who can be confirmed to have been alive before covid, and who can be confirmed as having died. That's literally all that it took. 15 deaths to change the vax policy of a block with over 360 million people in it.
There was no cover up, if anything they panicked and changed strategy based on the belief that the vax was more dangerous than it really was. So an over reaction rather than denial.
This is the most researched vax in history.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
a reply to: AaarghZombies
For a vaccine to be released for wide use then you need to know the short, medium, and long term effects as well as the benefit to risk ratio for all age groups as well as all risk groups.
Does anyone know them?
I wouldn't think so.
Yes to the first two. The vax was researched for about 6 months before being released which covers medium and short, and for the third - most vaxes aren't researched for more than about 6 months before being approved so you're asking for something that's actually rather unusual.
For example, the flu vax is absolutely never researched for more than a few months before being approved.
It's been almost two years, and a couple of billion people have had at least two shots, and we're not knee deep in dead.
This is the most researched vax in history.
originally posted by: ScepticScot
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: ScepticScot
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Like I said in your other thread, I think rightly or wrongly, world politicians and scientists when faced with a new global virus like covid planned for the worse case scenario, if they hadn't and it was something like a global Ebola, we all wouldn't be here discussing the errors.
The worst case scenario wasn't evaluated properly due to panic, incompetence, politics, and lack of understanding of infectious diseases as well as their history. Anyone with a basic understanding and having read the history of infectious diseases can easily deduce that coronaviruses have very small infection fatality rates, infecting a large number of the population and killing very few in comparison.
In the case of OC43 which likely caused the 1889-1890 pandemic the IFR was between 0.1% to 0.3%. You wouldn't expect anything different for SARS-CoV-2, it actually has an IFR close to 0.15%, and you can deduce that the other human coronaviruses have caused in the past pandemics and regional epidemics with similar IFRs
The reaction to Covid-19 was what we call shambles. Most infectious diseases experts and epidemiologists knew well how infectious or lethal was Covid-19 from the beginning (first few months). But politics blended with science and here are the results of the worst policy ever.
In the UK the push for preventative measures was coming from the exerts and largely resisted by the goverment until it became obvious there was little choice.
That's not quite how I remember it. Both the MSM and the social media news that I get from the UK said that the UK government was pushing for herd immunity through gradual exposure due to the fears that doing anything drastic would destroy the economy and harm children's educations, and that it was the opposition political parties who were pushing for harsh lockdowns and the school teachers who wanted the schools closed.
The UK government was aware from the beginning that covid was mostly just a bad case of the flu, and that it was only the elderly and people with comorbidity who needed protecting, but they were forced into locking down after the political opposition parties persuaded the public that the government needed to do more.
It's why the UK closed it's schools and brought in masks after most other places. It's also why the lockdown was more restrictive in Scotland and Wales than in England, because Scotland and Wales have separate governments that align with the opposition, while England aligns with the government.
Covid isn't a bad flu (or flu at all).
The heard imunity view was only for the first week or so and quickly discounted as an option.
It's a bit of a generalisation but the Scottish and Welsh responce were structer as that was more in line with the advice.
Downing Street often adopted the least strict approach or rejected out right SAGE recommendations.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org...=Fro m%20%251%24s&aoh=16646434531545&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
Sunak recently said whe felt they should have rejected the scientific advice more often.
That isn't always a bad thing as goverment should look at the bigger picture but the priorities were very different.
originally posted by: Mandroid7
a reply to: AaarghZombies
This is the most researched vax in history.
It is literally experimental, with changing ingredients.
With your daily barrage of msm garbage, you still can't list the ingredients in it.
Can you?
-no
Here is a zombie that IS qualified
Vax zombie
originally posted by: thethinkingman
If anyone wants to dispute any of this. They can go ahead and explain in their own detailed words, with their own detailed knowledge how and what the mechanisms would be for this virus to harm and kill you and just to make it even easier for you, you can specifically explain how lisa shaw was killed by it. But i very much doubt any of you will because you cant just easily search that up on google in 5 minutes and pretend YOU know.
originally posted by: Mandroid7
a reply to: AaarghZombies
This is the most researched vax in history.
It is literally experimental, with changing ingredients.
With your daily barrage of msm garbage, you still can't list the ingredients in it.
Can you?
-no
Here is a zombie that IS qualified
Vax zombie