Public Hysteria Vs. Scientific Thinking
by Gilad Atzmon | Mar 27, 2020 |
Gilad Atzmon — gilad.co.uk March 27, 2020
The Corona crisis has exposed our political and media establishments as dysfunctional and possibly dangerous. If the West was, until recently, associated with scientific, analytical, rational and methodical thinking, then not much is left of that Athenian reasoning. Like houses of cards, most of our Western democracies have succumbed to populist decision making that is, by its nature, deeply unscientific.
When I enrolled in university 35 years ago, scepticism and critical thinking were regarded as precious Western values. This approach has been discarded: skeptics are reduced into public enemies. They are scorned by the media and often smeared by their professional colleagues.
No one, I guess, doubts that the world is facing a hazardous health crisis, yet so many questions regarding the nature of this crisis, its origin, the virus at its centre and possible solutions are brushed aside in a manner reminiscent of historical clerical witch hunts rather than treated with the kind of reasoning that should be ingrained in us by Western Liberal traditions.
So far, only a few brave medical scholars and experts have dared to question the general trend. Off Guardian produced a good summary of the arguments advanced by some of the scientists who are unimpressed by the current official narrative and the strategies applied by our so-called elected politicians:
German specialist in microbiology, Dr Sucharit Bhakdi confirms that the Corona death rate is not a new phenomenon. “We are afraid that 1 million infections with the new virus will lead to 30 deaths per day over the next 100 days. But we do not realise that 20, 30, 40 or 100 patients positive for normal coronaviruses are already dying every day.”
German physician Dr Wolfgang Wodarg is not convinced that Corona is as dangerous as we have been told. He maintains that we should be asking questions like, “How did you find out this virus was dangerous?”, “How was it before?”, “Didn’t we have the same thing last year?”, “Is it even something new?”
Dr John Ioannidis is a Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy and of Biomedical Data Science, at Stanford University School of Medicine. Ioannidis posits that the cause of the current panic may have something to do with the new diagnosis of Covid 19 rather than with the general symptoms of the virus which aren’t new to us. “If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to “influenza-like illness” would not seem unusual this year. At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average.”
The Israeli doctor, Yoram Lass, a public health specialist, informs us that “Italy is known for its enormous morbidity in respiratory problems, more than three times any other European country…”
To this minority group of scientifically thinking medical experts we should add Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, a Pulitzer prize winning author, who wrote a spectacular extended article for the New Yorker yesterday.
Mukherjee offers a different perspective on Covid 19 and its dangers. He explains that the impact of viruses is often influenced by the dosage of the virus a patient is subjected to. Mukherjee writes “three questions deserve particular attention, because their answers could change the way we isolate, treat, and manage patients. First, what can we learn about the “dose-response curve” for the initial infection—that is, can we quantify the increase in the risk of infection as people are exposed to higher doses of the virus? Second, is there a relationship between that initial “dose” of virus and the severity of the disease—that is, does more exposure result in graver illness? And, third, are there quantitative measures of how the virus behaves in infected patients (e.g., the peak of your body’s viral load, the patterns of its rise and fall) that predict the severity of their illness and how infectious they are to others?”
Mukherjee notes that in the current crisis, “most epidemiologists, given the paucity of data, have been forced to model the spread of the new coronavirus as if it were a binary phenomenon: individuals are either exposed or unexposed, infected or uninfected, symptomatic patients or asymptomatic carriers.” Mukherjee argues that viruses’ effects aren’t necessarily an on/off phenomenon. For instance, he compares Covid 19 to HIV. “People with a high set point [virus dose] tended to progress more rapidly to aids; people with a low set point frequently proved to be “slow progressors.” The viral load—a continuum, not a binary value—helped predict the nature, course, and transmissibility of the disease.” In many viral infection cases the more virus you shed, the more likely you are to infect others.”
The Russian immunologist Ilya Metchnikoff, working in the early nineteen-hundreds, described the phenomenon as “the struggle”—or Kampf, in German editions of his work. Metchnikoff imagined an ongoing battle between microbe and immunity. The Kampf was a matter of ground gained or lost. What was the total “force” of the microbial presence? What host factors—genetics, prior exposure, baseline immune competence—were limiting the microbial invasion? And then: was the initial equilibrium tipped toward the virus, or toward the host?
Mukherjee points out that in “a 2004 study of the coronavirus that causes sars, a cousin of the one that causes covid 19, a team from Hong Kong found that a higher initial load of virus—measured in the nasopharynx, the cavity in the deep part of your throat above your palate—was correlated with a more severe respiratory illness.”
This helps to explain the greater risks faced by front line health care personnel who are exposed to high dosages of Covid 19 on a daily basis and it also helps to explain why the hospital may be the most dangerous place to be. Those who have already developed symptoms who then enter emergency medical centres may well be exposed to even more serious or even fatal outcomes from the high dose of Covid19 and the many other diseases they can be exposed to.
This realisation adds to our understanding of the current tragedy in Northern Italy and Spain. It may even be that, as a general rule, the less you trust your public health system, the better your chances to survive Corona and other viruses. In Britain, for instance, the Government advised people who develop symptoms to self isolate and not to contact the NHS unless the respiratory situation seems to get out of control.
At a time of crisis and particularly at a time of a crisis of such magnitude, an open scientific debate of the Athenian Agora nature that includes the exchanges with qualified skeptics and critics provide the only light at the end of the tunnel.
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As usual Gilad writes a very good article: this time on the lack of proper scientific methodology concerning Coronavirus and Covid-19 and the lack of reasoning and rationality in its modelling and general effects, since its symptoms are similar to a bad Cold or Flu. His lack of analysis of the genetic makeup and genes and proteins of the Coronavirus for Covid-19, is suspect. Is it because a Taiwanese Virologist has shown that the Coronavirus, Covid-19, by a genetic tree analysis shows the virus most likely came from the USA, reference GlobalResearch.ca, type in China’s Coronavirus: A Shocking Update. Did The Virus Originate in the US?, written by Larry Romanoff. And also that the Israeli, Galilee Institute, working on this same type of Virus has a vaccine ready in less than a month. This is all very suspicious, for a Jew that writes Anti-Jew and Anti-Israel articles all the time. Or wait, he is nothing more than Controlled Opposition for those causes. So in this case he does NOT want to mention Israel and Israeli research into Coronaviruses because that would actually support China’s claims that the Covid-19 came from American/Jewish collaboration at places like Harvard and Dr. Charles Lieber (Jew) with his Chinese Virology students/scientists there and how Harvard University received money from China for Harvard’s economic interests. This link only shows MSM view (not full story):https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/28/politics/harvard-professor-chinese-nationals-arrest-espionage/index.html
What a surprise? American institutions like money/brides and will sell stuff to their enemies. CIA stings, psyops, the list of possibilities is endless. Kind of like Joe and Hunter Biden getting big bucks ($ 1.5 million) from China for some Business deals (military secrets, Stock market insider deals, etc.). US Democrats are TRAITORS!
So I say, Gilad wrote this article in his sleep, because there is no Jew and Israel bashing as per his normal self! For me this article is a Gilad fail and disappointment, because he only scratched an itch and did not expose any blood and guts! CONTROLLED OPPOSITION lite! I want the Jugular Gilad, not story time for babies!.
This is a Notice to all Governments. The people will have their redress one way or the other for your bungling and your injustices.
It is clear from all of the evidence that the losses and damages resulting from the government lock downs and restrictions against commerce and human relations now far outweigh the heath risks to the general population from the COVID 19 virus. Unless our governments revise the measures so as to apply to the small fraction of very vulnerable and generally very elderly people in our populations who have a significant mortality risk, there will be numerous law suits by citizens, businesses, and corporations for full recovery of their losses.
Undoubtedly, there will also be major negligence and intentional-tort, class-action law suites particularly against the governments of the Untied States, Canada, and China. The governments of these nations have permitted the development and possession of the weaponized COVID-19 flu virus, and have allowed it to “escape” either negligently or with intent. They, therefore, are vicariously liable to the entire world for all damages including personal income and economic losses of the various victims.
The preponderance of evidence remains that the present Corona virus in the past few years was at the Ft. Detrick biowarfare lab in Maryland, and from there samples went to the University of North Carolina from which publications reveal in was likely altered and tested, and from there samples of this virus went to the Level IV lab in Wuhan, China. There is also evidence of experimentation on the same virus at the Level IV lab of the Canadian government in Winnipeg, Canada, and from last summer there is evidence of a Chinese molecular biologist at that lab taking sending samples to the same lab in Wuhan.
In civil law the fact that it was likely the COVID virus which escaped or was released would be the basis for a strong a claim based on negligence, and all three nations could be sued jointly and severally by any victim able to get standing in either the US or Canadian courts. That fact that the virus was in the US and Canada and that there were paltry security precautions to prevent it from going to a facility like Wuhan which had a bad record for security having allowed other viruses to escape in the past, would according to legal advice in this area, make all three nations liable in negligence. Also, even if the virus was not bioengineered the probability of the exact same virus which went to Wuhan, and Wuhan being the epicenter of the out break, strongly indicates that it was the same virus. With the governments of US and Canada being sued by aggrieved parties in these nations, it is conceivable that they would third party China and be able to seize any assets owned by Chinese interests in these nations.
Coronavirus Bioweapon: ‘A hybrid virus which is far more deadly, and can’t be vaccinated against’ SOTN: Alternative News, Analysis and Commentary, March 9, 2020
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=8712
The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furinlike cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade, B. Coutarda, et al https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220300528
Politics : India University [STUDY WITHDRAWN – My opinion is censorship]
“Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.abstract
Dr.Shiva Ayyadurai Speaks on Pandemics and The Deep State – March 27, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mb5kgfRJMw
Dr. Rashid Buttar -Scientific Corruption – Covid 19” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15YKs_dyEZI [Forget his credentials. This is good stuff.]
Buttar exhibits the actual scientific publications showing how our government have overreacted based on scant data that the mortality rate is any greater than the yearly flu incidence and also how this particular version of the coronavirus was likely altered in bioengineering labs in the US.
Numbers independent studies by experts have now shown how totally unreliable the testing and modelling of our governments have been in assessing this risk, e.g.:
“Fundamental principles of epidemic spread highlight the immediate need for large-scale serological surveys to assess the stage of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic” Lourenco, et al – Oxford https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042291v1
“Investigating the impact of influenza on excess mortality in all ages in Italy during recent seasons (2013/14–2016/17 seasons)” Rosano et al, (an important study showing previous excess flu-related mortality in Italy, i.e. Italy should not be used for mortality risk modelling) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285