{"id":246687,"date":"2021-12-07T07:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T07:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246687"},"modified":"2021-12-09T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T06:53:12","slug":"covid-19-a-pandemic-of-fear-manufactured-by-authorities-yale-epidemiologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246687","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 a Pandemic of Fear \u2018Manufactured\u2019 by Authorities: Yale Epidemiologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-isabel-van-brugen\">Isabel van Brugen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jan-jekielek\">Jan Jekielek<\/a> \u2013 The Epoch Times Dec 5, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19-pandemic\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> has been one of fear, manufactured by individuals who were in the nominal positions of authority as the virus began to spread across the globe last year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-yale\">Yale<\/a> epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch.<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance on Epoch TV\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/dr-harvey-risch-hydroxychloroquine-ivermectin-and-other-therapeutics-highly-effective-in-early-covid-treatment_4131804.html\">American Thought Leaders<\/a>\u201d program, Risch, an epidemiology professor at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, argued that by and large, what has characterized the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\">CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a> pandemic has been a \u201cdegree of fear and people\u2019s response to the fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, I\u2019d say that we\u2019ve had a pandemic of fear. And fear has affected almost everybody, whereas the infection has affected relatively few,\u201d said Risch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy and large, it\u2019s been a very selected pandemic, and predictable. It was very distinguished between young versus old, healthy versus chronic disease people. So we quickly learned who was at risk for the pandemic and who wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the fear was manufactured for everybody. And that\u2019s what\u2019s characterized the whole pandemic is that degree of fear and people\u2019s response to the fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Risch has authored more than 300 original peer-reviewed publications and was formerly a member of the board of editors for the American Journal of Epidemiology.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I&#39;m looking at clinicians who have now treated more than 150,000 patients, with fewer than 2 dozen deaths, with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hydroxychloroquine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hydroxychloroquine<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ivermectin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ivermectin<\/a> &amp; other therapeutics.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34WATCH\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AdFnjPmJvw\">https:\/\/t.co\/AdFnjPmJvw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ozS0QbWFp7\">pic.twitter.com\/ozS0QbWFp7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jan Jekielek (@JanJekielek) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JanJekielek\/status\/1465833303567745031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The epidemiology professor suggested that individuals who held the nominal positions of authority during the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 initially spread a much worse picture of the \u201cdire nature\u201d of the virus than was warranted, he said.<\/p>\n<p>That included the message that everybody was at risk, anybody could die from contracting the virus, and everybody needed to stay in their homes to protect themselves, and, in this way, protect society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were quite afraid of that message, as anybody would be \u2026 with the government, with authorities, with scientists, scientific people, with medical people in authority in the public health institutions, all saying the same message starting in about February, March of last year. And so, we all kind of believe this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the first two months of the pandemic, stringent lockdowns and mask mandates were implemented to curb the transmission of COVID-19 in the United States and across the globe. Risch said that the types of messages issued by authorities led to widespread heightened anxiety levels.<\/p>\n<p>All of our anxiety levels were raised, and we all made decisions to curtail, to various degrees, our exposures to other people, some more than others, but I think everybody had levels of anxiety that really affected how they carry out their life at that time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has said that 96 to 98 percent of Americans need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before the nation can \u201cgo back to normal,\u201d pushing the rhetoric that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/09\/09\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-fighting-the-covid-19-pandemic-3\/\">unvaccinated Americans are to blame<\/a> for slowing down the nation\u2019s economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-total\">data<\/a>\u00a0from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of Dec. 4, just over 70 percent of American adults were fully vaccinated against the virus, while 23.9 percent had received a booster dose.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview with Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch and read the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/dr-harvey-risch-hydroxychloroquine-ivermectin-and-other-therapeutics-highly-effective-in-early-covid-treatment_4131804.html\">full transcript on Epoch TV<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/covid-19-a-pandemic-of-fear-manufactured-by-authorities-yale-epidemiologist_4106244.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of medical and scientific authorities that dispute the impact and severity of Covid-19, like Yale Epidemiologist Dr Harvey Risch. The fact that the media consistently ignores them makes the media as complicit in the scamdemic as the politicians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":246689,"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":[105,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-mind_control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246687","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=246687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246691,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246687\/revisions\/246691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}