{"id":212646,"date":"2020-08-28T07:42:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212646"},"modified":"2020-09-01T06:35:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T06:35:36","slug":"watch-french-professor-says-there-is-no-second-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212646","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: French Professor says there is no second wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Off-Guardian \u2013 Aug 27, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ulA8u05Z-Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a recent interview on French television <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Toussaint\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Prof. Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Toussaint<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of the Universit\u00e9 Paris-Descartes has said that hysteria over a \u201csecond wave\u201d in France is based on the widespread misinterpretation of data. His main points are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Deaths in France (and all across Europe) have fallen to almost zero.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cSecond Wave\u201d headlines are counting \u201cnew cases\u201d, not deaths<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">These cases are almost all young, healthy people exhibiting no symptoms<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Politicians are being irresponsible and scaring people for unnecessarily<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Scientists on the \u201cScience Council\u201d don\u2019t believe in the measures they\u2019re prescribing and happily break their own rules.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Prof. Toussaint caps it all with this quote:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is not, at this time, any scientific argument that attests to the usefulness of masks\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Before repeating (as we have said ourselves and which Dr Luis de Benito of Madrid <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/paXmj6-hNh\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>stated last week<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) that we no longer talk about deaths, but instead talk about second waves and new cases, because the death figures have dropped to almost zero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We no longer talk about deaths, because they\u2019re averaging less than 10 per day \u2013 for three weeks less than 10 per day \u2013 so now we have passed to some future fear\u2026next week, next month, next spring\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He is right about this, across Europe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euromomo.eu\/graphs-and-maps\">excess mortality is now either average or below average<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The danger, if indeed there ever was much, has apparently passed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Our thanks to the people who sent this video to us on social media, and YouTuber <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPn4FsiQP15nudug9FDhluA\">Ivor Cummins<\/a> for uploading and translating it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Can you spare $1.00 a month to support independent media<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Unlike the Guardian we are NOT funded by Bill &amp; Melinda Gates, or any other NGO or government. So a few coins in our jar to help us keep going are always appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ccffff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/offguardian\">Patreon<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ccffff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2020\/08\/27\/watch-french-professor-says-there-is-no-second-wave\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the media stoking fear about a \u201csecond wave\u201d when Covid-19 deaths have fallen to almost zero and the media are now only counting \u201cnew cases\u201d \u2013 not deaths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212647,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212646\/revisions\/212647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}