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What is the right response to lockdowns? Lockdowns do indeed have costs. Some are financial and some of them are personal and health-related. There’s more than one way to wreck a life. For example:
Well, we are 9 months into the political response to the virus. Data is showing alarming trends. Yes, Covid is out there but so too are drug overdoses and suicide. People, especially young people, those who are least at risk from the virus are forcibly cut off from friends, families, and communities.
Extensive research in Wuhan Province, the birthplace of the Coronavirus (or so the story goes), suggests that the asymptomatic spread of COVID19 is a fairy tale, fake news, a story told by politicians to keep the people down.
Representative Marsh’s remarks concerning the Wearing of Masks and the spread of COVID, are riven with misinformation concerning the efficacy of mask-wearing. To begin with, as an ophthalmologist, Marsh ought to know that there are five orifices in one’s head through which COVID can gain entry to one’s body.
An appeals court in Portugal has delivered some amusing news. Four people forced to quarantine based on a PCR test result challenged that order in court and won. How? According to this report, the Court deemed the PCR test too unreliable.
The headline is a quote. The source is Dr. Mike Yeadon. He is the former vice president and scientific director of Pfizer. And before you scoff, I’ve got a number for you. It’s 0.169% 1. That is the percentage chance you have of dying from COVID19 if you are between 0 and 60 in NH …
Ignoring Sweden’s success, nations across Europe are embracing (once again) extreme social distancing, also known as lockdowns. It has to do with a virus that originated in China. COVID- something. Becasue the only thing less effective than masks – is – canceling your entire economy.
If you did not watch debate night for the VP’s this time you missed something. The debate was a better articulation of the Harris-Biden position than Joe was able to present. The interaction was more professional than the first Presidential debate. There did seem to be a clear winner.
It’s time to get over the panic and fear and get back to work. The President left the hospital the other day. He had a simple message for the American people. He said do not live in fear or let the fear of this virus “dominate” your life.
Public trust in science depends on its consistency, transparency, and divorce from political ideology. There can be no left or right, leftist or conservative, blue-state or red-state. This is true when scientific expertise is taken seriously.
