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Your chances of dying from Covid-19? If you're healthy & under 65, a 40-mile daily commute by car is more likely to kill you

Malcolm Kendrick
RT
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 12:46 UTC
covid swap
© Getty Images / Alain Pitton/NurPhotoA doctor checks the identity of a man before taking swabs. Toulouse. France. April 28th 2020
Yes, coronavirus is a serious infection for the elderly and vulnerable. But, for just about everyone else, it's a relatively mild condition with a very low fatality rate. The only thing to fear is our overreaction to it.

In this piece, I intend to establish a reasonably accurate estimate for the risk of dying of Covid-19 for the average healthy person under the age of sixty-five.

If we go back to the start of the pandemic, most of the world locked down based on a prediction that the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) of Covid-19 would be in the region of one per cent.

In the UK, the pandemic modellers at Imperial College London, the group with the greatest influence on Government policy, estimated the IFR at 0.9 percent. In short, they predicted that approximately one in a hundred people infected with the Sars-Cov2 virus would die.

Has this estimate proven accurate? If so, within a world population of between seven and eight billion, we would expect to suffer up to 76 million deaths. So far, there have been just over one million.

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Petition to support Mark Crispin Miller and academic freedom


OffGuardian
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 05:37 UTC
Crispin Miller
If you believe in academic freedom, as well as free speech overall, please consider signing this petition, and sharing it with others who believe that higher education must be free from censorship of any kind, whether by the state, corporations, foreign interests, pressure groups, or by the university itself.

A full professor in NYU's Department of Media, Culture and Communication (since 1997), and a recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations, Prof. Miller teaches a course on propaganda, focusing not only on the history of modern propaganda, but — necessarily — on propaganda drives ongoing at the time.

The aim is to teach students to identify such drives for what they are, think carefully about their claims, seek out whatever data and/or arguments have been blacked out or misreported to protect those claims from contradiction, and look into the interests financing and managing the propaganda, so as to figure out its purpose.

On Sept. 20, after a class discussion of the case for universal masking as defense against transmission of SARS-COV-2 (in which discussion she did not participate), a student took to Twitter to express her fury that Prof. Miller had brought up the randomized, controlled tests — all of those so far conducted on the subject — finding that masks and ventilators are ineffective at preventing such transmission, because the COVID-19 virions are too small for such expedients to block them.

Comment: In the new totalitarian normal, a course about propaganda and teaching students to look at these things with a critical eye will be among the first to go.

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Covid experts: there is another way

Sunetra Gupta, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff
UnHerd
Sun, 04 Oct 2020 01:00 UTC
Sunetra Gupta, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff
As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical, and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health - leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.


Comment: What a pleasure it is to listen to informed rational scientists talk about the virus with some healthy doses of sanity.

But, of course, there have already been some detractors of these ideas:
Last month, two scientific groups in the UK offered conflicting advice. In one open letter, Prof Gupta and her colleagues argued that suppressing the virus was "unfeasible", while the other, headed by Prof Trish Greenhalgh, also at Oxford, said it was not practical to cut off an entire cohort of vulnerable people from open society.

William Hanage, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, said the declaration seemed to be attacking the idea of mass, ongoing lockdowns, a proposal that nobody was suggesting. "After pointing out, correctly, the indirect damage caused by the pandemic, they respond that the answer is to increase the direct damage caused by it," he said.

Work by Hanage and others suggests Covid becomes more lethal than flu for people in their mid-30s and climbs exponentially from there, meaning that swathes of the population would need protecting. "Stating that you can keep the virus out of places by testing at a time when the White House has an apparently ongoing outbreak should illustrate how likely that is," he said.

Another concern, he added, was that an uncontrolled outbreak among young and healthy people could leave many with long-term medical issues, including the "long Covid" disorders that have already affected young people.

In a Twitter thread responding to the declaration, Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist at Yale University, said shutdowns and other interventions were necessary to reduce rates of infection. With nearly half of the population having some underlying health risk for Covid-19, he said herd immunity strategies were about "culling the herd of the sick and disabled. It's grotesque."


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Sweden denies entry to migrants from Greece's Moria camp, is a radical policy change on the cards?

John Cody
Remix News
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:00 UTC
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© Remix News"If migration levels are so strong that integration is no longer successful, we risk further problems," said Prime Minister Löfven on the topic of accepting refugees
Sweden, a country with one of the most liberal asylum policies in the world, is drastically changing its attitude towards migrants.

Although the country will provide material aid to Greece, it has decided not to accept any refugees from the burned Moria camp or other Greek islands, unlike Germany, which has agreed to take in 1,500. Sweden has thus joined Austria and the Visegrád Four countries of Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia, which refuse to accept migrants from the camp, writes Czech news portal Novinky.

It is not clear whether the change of course in asylum policy concerns only the problem of relocating the 12,500 people from the destroyed Greek Moria camp, or whether Sweden is changing its approach to migration in general. The fact is, however, that the topic of migration dominated the 2018 Swedish elections, and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven is now under pressure. As Swedish media points out, his minority government coalition with the Green Party is the weakest in 70 years.
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Brussels orders lockdown on bars and cafés for 4 weeks amid claims of Covid-19 'cases surge'


Euronews
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:21 UTC
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© AP Photo/Francisco SecoPanda bear cuddly toys rest in an empty terrace of a restaurant in downtown Brussels, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020.
Bars and cafés in Brussels were on Wednesday ordered to shut for a month due to a surge in COVID-19 cases.

The regional government said in a statement that the wider Brussels area currently has a 14-day incidence rate of 502.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants — more than double the national rate of 232.8 cases per 100,000 population.

Young people continue to account for the majority of infections but an increase of cases among older people has also been observed.

This has led to an increase of hospital admissions with 15 per cent of intensive care beds now occupied, rising to 25 per cent in two hospitals, the statement added.


Comment: Occupied because of what? That they don't explicitly state coronavirus is implicated is likely because it is not and instead, as with every year, admissions due to flu and related complications are on the rise.


Comment: It's quite suspect that numerous Western countries have all of a sudden decided to take the same nonsensical measures as each other. It's almost as if they're all being leaned on by the same entity:

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St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters now indicted by grand jury

Mairead McArdle
National Review
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:58 UTC
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© Reuters / Lawrence BryantPatricia McCloskey and her husband Mark aim guns at protesters as they enter their gated community during a demonstration against St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson.
The St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters outside their house in a June incident that was caught on video were indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in St. Louis.

Mark and Patricia McCloskey were charged with two felonies, unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering, after they stood outside their home on Portland Place, a private street, on June 28 and pointed firearms at hundreds of protesters, some of them armed, who marched by, chanted and threatened the couple as they made their way over to St. Louis mayor Lyda Krewson's residence to demand her resignation. Mark McCloskey, 63, held a semiautomatic rifle while Patricia McCloskey, 61, stood beside him and held a semiautomatic handgun, the prosecutor's office said.

Comment: Kim Gardner, the St. Louis attorney who is pressing charges has an interesting background. Her actions fit right in with Soros' agenda:

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Int'l lawyers bringing class action over "Covid scandal"

Reiner Fuellmich
Off Gaurdian
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:46 UTC
Reiner Fuellmich
Hello I am Reiner Fuellmich, and I have been admitted to the bar in Germany and in California for 26 years. I have been practicing law, primarily as a trial lawyer, against fraudulent corporations such as Deutsche Bank - formerly one of the world's largest and most respected banks, today one of the most toxic criminal organizations in the world - VW one of the world's largest and most respected car manufacturers, today notorious for its giant diesel fraud - and Kuehne + Nagel the world's largest shipping company, we're suing them in a multi-million dollar bribery case.

I'm also one of four members of the German Corona Investigative Committee. Since July 10th 2020 this committee has been listening to a large number of international scientists and experts testimony to find answers to questions about the corona crisis, which more and more people worldwide are asking.

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Michigan attorney: 'Burn your masks', forget COVID emergency orders after state Supreme Court decision

Charlie Langton and Jay Dillon
Fox5
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:47 UTC
Michigan protest lockdown
© NBC NewsThousands of demonstrators descended on the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, April 15, 2020 to protest Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's restrictive stay-at-home order on
Friday afternoon, as most people were logging off for the weekend, the Michigan Supreme Court issued a ruling that many of Governor Gretchen Whitmer's emergency orders regarding COVID-19 safety are not legal.

The stunning ruling said she illegally drew authority from a 1945 law that doesn't apply. One aspect the court pointed out was the redeclaring states of emergency in what has been a string of orders from Whitmer. The state of emergency is meant to last 28 days.

Michigan attorney Katherine Henry said at 4:35 p.m. on Friday, when the state Supreme Court ruled Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's executive orders were unconstitutional, all of her orders issued since the end of April are over.

Comment: Katherine Henry shows how it's done. Will other states follow suit? And, once the shock wears off in the Michigan citizenry, will they be getting out the torches and pitchforks for Whitmer?

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Church of England forgave pedophiles and allowed them to continue working with children, inquiry finds

Lizzie Dearden
Indepenedent
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
John O’Brien
John O’Brien: Church of England spent decades failing to protect some children and young people from sexual predators
Almost 400 church employees have been convicted of child sex offences

The Church of England forgave paedophiles after they expressed remorse and allowed them to carry on working instead of protecting children, a report has found.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said that between the 1940s and 2018, 390 clergy members or people in positions of trust were convicted of child sex offences.

"The culture of the Church of England facilitated it becoming a place where abusers could hide," said a report released on Tuesday.

"Deference to the authority of the Church and to individual priests, taboos surrounding discussion of sexuality and an environment where alleged perpetrators were treated more supportively than victims presented barriers to disclosure that many victims could not overcome."

IICSA said that many members of the church regard forgiveness "as the appropriate response to any admission of wrongdoing".

Comment: It seems that the Church of England - as well as other well established Churches - will not make the necessary changes to how it responds to its pedophiles unless it is absolutely forced to by external means. So much for the "clergy's moral code".

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California governor's office tells diners to wear masks "in between bites"

Caitlin O'Kane
CBS News
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:25 UTC
masked masks eating restaurant
The California governor's office put out a tweet on Saturday advising that restaurant-goers keep their masks on while dining. "Going out to eat with members of your household this weekend?" the tweet reads. "Don't forget to keep your mask on in between bites. Do your part to keep those around you healthy."

In California, masks are required for anyone going outside their home, as well as workers in customer-facing businesses, offices, factories, and health care professionals, among others, according to the state's COVID-19 guidance.

Comment: They're just going to keep on throwing more and more idiotic rules at people until they all snap. Welcome to clown world.

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