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Spain revises coronavirus deaths due to double counting and other errors

Reuters
Mon, 25 May 2020 05:20 UTC

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Members of the Spanish Emergency Military Unit (UME) wearing full personal protective equipments disinfect outside the Archaeological Museum amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain May 25, 2020.

Spain's health ministry revised the country's coronavirus death toll down by nearly 2,000 to 26,834 on Monday after checking data provided by regions.

The total number of cases recorded since the outbreak began has also been revised down, and is now 235,400 — 372 fewer than on Sunday, it said.

Just 50 people died of the virus over the past week, it added, a marked fall from previous weeks.

Comment: Despite governments around the world continuing to enforce the lockdown in numerous ways, and even increasing the Orwellian measures, this is just the latest revision to the numbers reflecting the true nature of the virus - flu-like but less harmful, for the vast majority - and it further highlights the disastrous mistake the general public made by believing the government propaganda over their own lived experience:

The public must lead us out of the lockdown

Brendan O'Neill
Spiked
Mon, 25 May 2020 00:01 UTC

The political elites have lost the plot over Covid-19. The people must take over.

There was a fascinating clip on the news last week. ITV was reporting from a crowded beach in Brighton. People were sunning themselves, chatting with friends, necking beers. All to the fury of lockdown fanatics, of course, who view these pleasure-seekers as selfish, unwitting murderers. 'You're killing people!', as the demented cry goes.

During ITV's report, a man holding a bottle of beer and mingling with his family said something really revealing: 'I know we're down here drinking beer... but if we carry on the way we're going, I think we're going to have a major lockdown in two weeks... and we're going to see a massive rise in deaths again.'

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Chicago sees deadliest Memorial Day weekend in years amid coronavirus lockdown

Emily Zanotti
The Daily Wire
Mon, 25 May 2020 00:01 UTC

Chicago saw its deadliest Memorial Day weekend in years this weekend, even though a coronavirus-related lockdown is still in effect and will continue to be in effect until the end of May.

Gun violence typically ticks up in the city as the weather warms up, and Memorial Day weekend is often the start of a brutal and violent summer, tinged with gang violence on Chicago's south and west sides. This year has been no exception; according to public television station WTTW, homicides and gun violence are on the upswing in the city, even though most of the city's recreational activities are shut down to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus and the city's residents are under a strict stay-at-home order.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Friday and Saturday of Memorial Day weekend saw 9 people killed and 27 more injured in a rash of gun violence.

Comment: Could it be that the lockdown is making people kinda squirrely?

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A man tried to attack North Carolina churchgoers with a knife. An officer took him down

Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
Mon, 25 May 2020 00:01 UTC

Church attendees in North Carolina on Sunday were shocked when a man wielding a knife disrupted their outdoor services.

Police were called to the scene and a sheriff's deputy shot and wounded the man, The New York Post reported.

More from the Post:

Investigators were trying to determine why the man, whose injuries didn't appear life-threatening, interrupted the service outside Oak Grove Baptist Church in Waxhaw, North Carolina, said Deputy Tony Underwood, a spokesman for the Union County Sheriff's Office.

Underwood said the man lives across the road from the church and, from a driveway about 200 yards (182 meters) from the outdoor service, had been shouting obscenities at congregation members on Sunday and on previous occasions. Investigators suspect the man was upset about the noise from the outdoor service, according to Underwood.

Comment: It seems entirely possible that the kook was upset that the churchgoers weren't practicing social distancing. It goes to show how dangerous lockdown fanatics actually are. People who believe their media and governments wholeheartedly are bound to be driven insane. We expect to see more of this type of thing in the future.

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Correctly counting the cost shows Australia's lockdown was a mistake

Gigi Foster
Financial Review
Mon, 25 May 2020 14:44 UTC

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The costs of what we have done are enormous and will show up most obviously over the next few months in the body counts sacrificed to causes other than COVID-19.

The future will now be worse because the flawed pandemic health projections didn't correctly calculate their effects on economic welfare.

Australia's economic policies in response to the coronavirus threat have been driven in the main by projections of death and infection rates, produced by epidemiological modelling, that since have been proven to be orders of magnitude above what any country anywhere in the world, regardless of policy, has experienced.

Meanwhile, the welfare costs of our economic policy responses have been either overlooked entirely, gestured towards vaguely but not actually calculated, or calculated in ways strikingly out of alignment with international best practice when estimating the welfare costs of different policy alternatives - eg, using full value-of-a-statistical-life (VSL) numbers, rather than age-adjusted VSL or quality-adjusted life years, when valuing lives lost to COVID-19 (which are predominantly the lives of older people with a few years, not an entire life, left to live).

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Lockdowns failed to alter the course of pandemic and are now destroying millions of livelihoods worldwide, JP Morgan study claims

Tim Stickings
Daily Mail
Fri, 22 May 2020 16:49 UTC

Coronavirus lockdowns have failed to alter the course of the pandemic but have instead 'destroyed millions of livelihoods', a JP Morgan study has claimed.

Falling infection rates since lockdowns were lifted suggest that the virus 'likely has its own dynamics' which are 'unrelated to often inconsistent lockdown measures', a report published by the financial services giant said.

Denmark is among the countries which has seen its R rate continue to fall after schools and shopping malls re-opened, while Germany's rate has mostly remained below 1.0 after the lockdown was eased.

Comment: Despite the information given in the above article, they still end off by saying you need to remain afraid. The 'pandemic' was nothing but an overreaction to a fairly mundane virus. Yet in spite of the fact that this was blatantly obvious fairly early on, the authorities continued the sham lockdown while the population and economy suffered. One imagines the blowback is going to be epic.

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How fear, groupthink drove unnecessary global lockdowns

Yinon Weiss
RealClear Politics
Thu, 21 May 2020 05:57 UTC

Reliance on Faulty Models

In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked.

That is the story of what may eventually be known as one of the biggest medical and economic blunders of all time. The collective failure of every Western nation, except one, to question groupthink will surely be studied by economists, doctors, and psychologists for decades to come.

To put things in perspective, the virus is now known to have an infection fatality rate for most people under 65 that is no more dangerous than driving 13 to 101 miles per day. Even by conservative estimates, the odds of COVID-19 death are roughly in line with existing baseline odds of dying in any given year.

Yet we put billions of young healthy people under house arrest, stopped cancer screenings, and sunk ourselves into the worst level of unemployment since the Great Depression. This from a virus that bears a survival rate of 99.99% if you are a healthy individual under 50 years old (1, 2).

New York City reached over a 25% infection rate and yet 99.98% of all people in the city under 45 survived, making it comparable to death rates by normal accidents.

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'Orwellian dictatorship': Italian government to recruit 60,000 'civic assistants' to snitch on Covid-19 rule-breakers

RT
Mon, 25 May 2020 14:56 UTC

© Reuters / Alberto Lingria
People walking on a beach in Santa Severa, near Rome, as Italy begins easing of lockdown restrictions

The Italian government is preparing to recruit unemployed citizens to act as volunteer social-distancing enforcers, who will operate amongst the masses as life returns to a semi-normal state after the Covid-19 lockdown.

The government will publish a call this week for 60,000 so-called "civic assistants" to help perform control and assistance tasks - like reporting social distancing infractions or a lack of masks - during its reopening phase, to prevent non-compliance and a new surge in infections, AdnKronos reported.

The government will specifically target unemployed people who are availing of social benefits to perform the snooping and snitching on a "voluntary basis." Those who sign up will be demonstrating a "great civic sense" a government note announcing the plan says.

Comment: It's likely that if the government is unable to find 'voluntarily' snitches, they will coerce them with the threat of losing their unemployment benefits - bearing in mind that a great many only recently lost their job due to the tyrannical lockdown justified by the contrived coronavirus crisis. This sinister initiative is exemplary of the Pathocrats vision for the 'New Normal'.

Joe Rogan: Covid-19 and vitamin D - Watch the show that forced Rogan to leave YouTube

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Mon, 25 May 2020 20:22 UTC

Last week the world's number one YouTuber and talk show host Joe Rogan announced his departure from the highly censored Alphabet (Google) owned platform. The real reason for his departure appears to have been his defiance of government-corporate orders to conceal from the public something uncontroversial and known for several generations until now: that Vitamin D and C are good for health and can prevent the onset of symptoms associated with communicable diseases or other injury to the organism.

Users of social media platform have looked on in bewilderment as stories they share talking about Vitamin C and D are labelled with 'Fake News' warnings. These typically accompany twisted rebuttals of the original claim, such as saying that Vitamin D is not a vaccine against coronavirus - a claim that was never made.

Below is the interview that probably did him in. This comes on the heels of an announcement over a month ago that while he was a Bernie Sanders supporter, he would probably vote for Donald Trump over Joe Biden. This is also against YouTube rules for the platforms high-ranked stars with a large social media following as influencers.

Russian prosecutors seek 18-year sentence for ex-US marine accused of espionage

RT
Mon, 25 May 2020 19:57 UTC

Russian prosecutors demanded an 18-year prison term for former US marine Paul Whelan, on charges of spying for Western intelligence, on the last day of his trial in Moscow.

The Canadian-born defendant, who holds passports of four countries, was arrested in Moscow in late 2018 after reportedly receiving a flash drive with classified material from a Russian acquaintance. His attorney insists Whelan is innocent.

In his final statement to the court, the 50-year-old reiterated that he was not a spy and asked for an acquittal, according to the Moscow city court press service.

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Society's Child

Spain revises coronavirus deaths due to double counting and other errors

The public must lead us out of the lockdown

Chicago sees deadliest Memorial Day weekend in years amid coronavirus lockdown

A man tried to attack North Carolina churchgoers with a knife. An officer took him down

Correctly counting the cost shows Australia's lockdown was a mistake

Lockdowns failed to alter the course of pandemic and are now destroying millions of livelihoods worldwide, JP Morgan study claims

How fear, groupthink drove unnecessary global lockdowns

'Orwellian dictatorship': Italian government to recruit 60,000 'civic assistants' to snitch on Covid-19 rule-breakers

Joe Rogan: Covid-19 and vitamin D - Watch the show that forced Rogan to leave YouTube

Russian prosecutors seek 18-year sentence for ex-US marine accused of espionage

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