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One would reasonably expect a worldwide pandemic that began three years ago to have been recorded with some ballpark accuracy in case counts, and morbidity and mortality data throughout the world by now, as each hemisphere has been through three winters. One would also expect that a worldwide vaccine campaign that peaked over a year ago to have resulted in reliable vaccine uptake maps. One would expect a general consensus regarding such data...
... De Becker’s article, as the Johns Hopkins data, necessarily relies on reports that are fraught with much difficulty, for the reasons I review below, primarily the wildly misapplied PCR “test” to COVID diagnosis. However, because that alleged test is primarily how the world has evaluated and tallied COVID cases and deaths for three years, we are necessarily dependent on and limited to the derived data from this alleged test for any meaningful assessment of COVID epidemiology.
COVID-19 diagnoses have been troublesome from the beginning. It has been noted, including at Johns Hopkins University, which produces the most university-based statistical data on COVID, that reported deaths from flu, pneumonia, heart disease and diabetes decreased significantly in 2020, while COVID-19 deaths became the cause of death listed for now over six million lost lives around the world. Flu and pneumonia as primary causes of death nearly disappeared. ... Cardiovascular mortality reports also dropped precipitously, without any credible reason for the change. Another unexplained surprise to epidemiologists was that those deceased with a COVID cause of death exceeded the average age of life expectancy in the US. Genevieve Briand of Johns Hopkins University discusses these anomalies.
... The first was a manufacturing technique that wound up being wildly misappropriated as a diagnostic test, despite the prior protests of its inventor, the late Kary Mullis, PhD. [6] The essence of the world’s confusion and fear of COVID stems from the testing itself. Reverse-transcriptase, polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is a method for producing more RNA nucleic acid sequences. Essentially, PCR does what it was designed by Mullis to do: It matches or aligns specific genetic signatures between a given test reagent and a sample. As the test is run in consecutive cycles, each cycle multiplies the sample. So that sample then grows exponentially. The PCR is simply incapable to determine if the introduced sample contains adequate viral particles or virions to rise to the threshold of causing an infection.
For those who have worked with PCR, it is understood that any PCR process run through 20 or more cycles is useless for detection. The CDC acknowledged that 33 cycles or more are unlikely to detect active virus. Yet for all of 2020, throughout the US, the number of cycles used in “COVID-19 testing” have been above 37 and often well into the 40’s. ...
The second factor that fired up the COVID engines, so to speak, at least in the United States, was the financially-incentivized COVID cause of death. Under the US CARES Act, hospitals were compensated more than twice as much money [9] for a COVID case than a flu or pneumonia case, [10] and the most lethal treatments were compensated even further. [11] Many US hospitals made millions of dollars from this shift in diagnosis during treatment and on death certificates....
... As fortune would have it, the unpatented and relatively inexpensive half-century old drug ivermectin, whose inventors won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015, [14] also has been the most effective medicine against COVID, [15] due in part to its specific effect against RNA transcriptase, as well as its blocking effect on all three parts of the trimeric spike protein, and other mechanisms. [16]
Hydroxychloroquine is also used widely throughout at least equatorial regions of Africa as a prophylactic against parasites, but which fortunately has now been studied extensively and used successfully as both prevention and treatment of COVID disease, and as inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 replication and activity. This is shown in over 380 studies conducted in 55 countries. [17]
originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: Maxmars
There were a few important factors:
www.bbc.com...
originally posted by: Maxmars
a reply to: quintessentone
A brief word on this BBC article which you have shared...
"...a recent continental study by Partnership for Evidence-based Response to Covid-19 (PERC)"
PERC is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The CDC foundation and others...
Their study would not pass the "no conflict of interest" test outright.
But the BBC seems to not make that clear... I wonder why?
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: Maxmars
a reply to: quintessentone
A brief word on this BBC article which you have shared...
"...a recent continental study by Partnership for Evidence-based Response to Covid-19 (PERC)"
PERC is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The CDC foundation and others...
Their study would not pass the "no conflict of interest" test outright.
But the BBC seems to not make that clear... I wonder why?
All those measures and advice have been available to us since day 1 of the pandemic. The medical profs have been explaining to us how the Covid virus is killed by washing hands with soap and water, hot/humid weather etc. Nothing new under the sun, except Africa has low levels of urbanization as well.
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: Maxmars
The case fatality ratio in Africa is still above 2%.
Most countries are well below that now.
Case fatality rate of COVID-19 - Our World in Data (Select Africa on the left hand side and compare it to other countries).
originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: Maxmars
The case fatality ratio in Africa is still above 2%.
Most countries are well below that now.
Case fatality rate of COVID-19 - Our World in Data (Select Africa on the left hand side and compare it to other countries).
Wow the Bill Gates our world in data site. I trust old depopulation Bill.
originally posted by: Maxmars
a reply to: chr0naut
This article uses John Hopkins University data, as well as data from the Primary Doctor Medical Journal (also peer reviewed).
Neither are blatantly beholden to, or allied with Pfizer or the rest of Big Pharma. I can't say the same for Gates/Zukerberg/Stavos/CDC... which are fundamentally a driving force in commercial media reporting.
Understand that this sort of 'source' inquiry while healthy, is essentially a troubling application of doubt to the information which is solid. The word 'dodgy' tends to trigger mistrust... why did you use it? Are you sure you just don't want this information to be true?
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: Maxmars
The case fatality ratio in Africa is still above 2%.
Most countries are well below that now.
Case fatality rate of COVID-19 - Our World in Data (Select Africa on the left hand side and compare it to other countries).
Wow the Bill Gates our world in data site. I trust old depopulation Bill.
But you distrust everybody credible or authoritative.
... and apparently you haven't noticed, but the world isn't being depopulated with megadeaths.
One of the key "fatal errors" in the Corman-Drosten paper is that they wrote it — and developed the PCR test — before there was any viral isolate available. All they used was the genetic sequence published online by Chinese scientists in January 2020. Interestingly, the paper was published a mere 24 hours after it was submitted, which suggests it wasn't even peer-reviewed before being embraced by the whole world. Undercover DC interviewed Kevin Corbett, Ph.D., one of the 22 scientists who are now demanding the paper's retraction, who stated:31 Every scientific rationale for the development of that test has been totally destroyed by this paper. It's like Hiroshima/Nagasaki to the COVID test. When Drosten developed the test, China hadn't given them a viral isolate. They developed the test from a sequence in a gene bank. Do you see? China gave them a genetic sequence with no corresponding viral isolate. They had a code, but no body for the code. No viral morphology.
originally posted by: quintessentone
All those measures and advice have been available to us since day 1 of the pandemic. The medical profs have been explaining to us how the Covid virus is killed by washing hands with soap and water, hot/humid weather etc. Nothing new under the sun, except Africa has low levels of urbanization as well.