A pandemic is not to be ignored, nor is the fear mongering of politicians and the media and others of good or ill will
Pandemics are not to be ignored, but fear mongering and using a pandemic for political purposes is reprehensible.
Politicians and their lackeys do what politicians and their lackeys do; let’s take that for granted.
I think, though, because of the constitutional basis for the freedom of the press, we have a right to demand accurate reporting without an implicit and explicit exploitation of that reporting for political purposes supporting this, that and the other candidate or political movement.
When it comes to this pandemic we should demand that reporters not report every person who is tested as positive as having a death sentence hung around their neck.
When it comes to this pandemic, we should demand that reporters report what percentage of those who are positive are exhibiting serious symptoms requiring hospitalization. Thus if there are 1000 testing positive, how many of those are in the hospital. And if in the hospital, how many are in ICU and if in ICU how many are on ventilators.
The fact is that the vast, vast majority of those testing positive either have no symptoms, mild symptoms or flu like symptoms on steroids but not requiring hospitalization and all of these people at home with the flu like symptoms on steroids recover at home, just like the flu.
I have good friends in Augusta and the entire family has tested positive. The father has flu like symptoms on steroids but can still function at home. The mother and three children have only lost their sense of smell and taste and all of them are on the mend.
We have a right to critique network, social media and print news accounts who report on the worst hit areas with the highest deaths as though this is common everywhere in the USA or elsewhere. It would be like reporting that the violent deaths in Chicago each week which exceeds the deaths in Iraq or Afghanistan is typical of every city in the USA or reported as though it is.
Another example illustrates my point. A few weeks ago we had a deacon ordination at our Cathedral Basilica. One of the older permanent deacons attending discovered after the ordination he had tested positive. Pandemonium broke out. Prior to the Mass, this deacon came up to me as we had not seen or spoken to each other in years. He shook my hand and we had a long conversation up close and personal. It was recommended that everyone who had contact with him shelter in place for two weeks, get tested in a few days and pray they don’t die with everyone else who was in the Cathedral with him. My parochial vicar and seminarian as well as I were all tested and tested negative. No one, in fact, who got tested, tested positive. And the deacon who caused the hysteria? Never had serious symptoms and is well on the mend.
And finally the Church has an opportunity here to call Catholics and others of good will to repentance and preparation for the after life just as we do during the seasons of Advent and Lent. It is religious malpractice not to do so.
This is my parish Facebook letter update:
Updates from our pastor as of
July 4, 2020
Dear Parishioners,
Happy Independence Day!
The Obligation to attend Mass continues to be lifted through July due to the ongoing pandemic. Fr. Daniel Firmin Diocesan Administrator will discern when the obligation to attend Mass will be reinstated or delayed further. Therefore, if you are sick in any way, have a hacking cough, are sneezing, or have a fever please do not atttend Mass. If you have underlying health issues or are age 65 and older with health risks, please know you are released from the obligation to attend Mass. Watch our live feed of Mass, make an Act of Perfect Contrition and a spiritual Communion.
I must reiterate that we can’t guarantee your good health when attending Mass even with our precautions in place. If someone comes to Mass with an active virus, common sense tells us that it can be spread in the congregation. Let us pray that our precautions will prevent that.
We are highly recommending that you wear a mask to help dissipate any risks to others and yourself. If the Diocese mandates the use of a mask or Bryan County officials do for public buildings, the use of a mask will be mandatory in Saint Anne also. Please, though, maintain six feet physical distancing especially if you are not wearing a mask.
Life in the public square is more risky than ever. Going into the public from the shelter of our homes is kind of like going into combat. We have armor to wear but that will not prevent casualties or death. Yet we go forward bravely. All the more reason, though, to put on the armor of God, go to confession and be right with God and neighbor for the promise of eternal life and Independence! God bless you.
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"There was a terrible accident today at the intersection of Frances Meeks Way and Ford Avenue, right by the church, leaving one person dead and three seriously injured." Thus says the media reporter...
As my Constitutional right, I "DEMAND accurate reporting without an implicit and explicit exploitation of that reporting..."
The news media MUST tell us how many cars and how many passengers in those cars passed through the intersection of Frances Meeks Way and Ford Avenue WITHOUT having an accident and WITHOUT causing death and/or serious injury.
When it comes to driving in Richmond Hill we should demand that reporters not report every person who drives a car through this intersection as having a death sentence hung around their neck.
Yeah, that's the ticket....
Always mixing apples and oranges, but auto deaths world wide is a greater pandemic than COVID-19, thus it may be a good point.
However, I only wish there was reporting on accidents in Richmond Hill. I have yet to see any news on any accident and there are many since I have been here. In fact on Friday traffic was snarled as I was heading home on 144. When i finally got to the scene two cars in bad accident and SUV on its side. I have not heard a thing about injuries or death. Yes, we need accurate reporting on this and if there are many, many, many accidents on Francis Weeks by the Church, we need accurate reporting. I’d love to see a light there! And what else do you know of this accident? Any parishioners involved. I’d like to know but know nothing as you are the first to tell me!!!!!!
Another example of my fantastic points is this. The local media reported on the pandemic in the Cathedral-Basilica caused by the deacon as well as the pandemonium. Did you see or read about any follow-up??? That the pandemonium caused by this poor deacon was for naught as no one tested positive and he himself is recovered? And two parishes in the Savannah deanery canceled their Sunday Masses immediately the next day, the very day they were to reopen and have still not reopened!!!!!
And in Augusta a nursing home had 70 patients and workers test positive. No follow-up, so we are left to presume that they all died. But in fact through the grapevine no one died although in a nursing home if a resident gets a bad cold that could lead to death because they are hanging by a thread as it is!
And in Richmond Hill, our one nursing home had 17 test positive. How many died? We don’t know, no follow up but through the grapevine I heard none of these died although most there could die at any moment of natural causes because of old age and serious health problems since that is why they need 24 hour a day care!
No, accurate reporting is accurate reporting.
"Two people contracted salmonella after eating at 'That's Italian' restaurant in Richmond Hill, located less than one mile from St. Anne Catholic church." Thus says the media reporting.
I DEMAND that the media report that 37 people ate at 'That's Italian' on the same day and none of them contracted salmonella! It is my Constitutional right to demand accuracy, to demand the whole truth.
When it comes to eating at 'That's Italian' we should demand that reporters not report every person who eats at this restaurant as having a death sentence hung around their neck.
Yeah, that's the ticket....
Yes, I would like to know how many contracted that since I ate there that day. Did they get it there or elsewhere. The place of business should be shown respect too as the type of reporting you desire could put them out of business. Yes, need better and accurate reporting. I wonder if I will get sick now since I haven't heard this news story at all as Richmond Hill reporting is abysmal!
Thus far your two excellent examples have clinched the fantastic premise of my even more fantastic Post. Anymore examples to help make my point even more fantastic. Of course if your examples aren’t true, Shane! Shame! For creating fake news and a lie.
Welcome to the mutual admiration society!
"Fr. McDonald made a fool of himself on his blog today."
I DEMAND that the media report that Fr. McDonald does not always make a fool of himself on his blog! It is my Constitutional right to demand accuracy, to demand the whole truth.
When it comes Fr. McDonald's blog, we should demand that reporters not report only the times he makes a fool of himself, although that would take up a fair amount of their time.
Yeah, that's the ticket....
Yeah, fantastic premise....
Oh, if only I would get national news coverage with my commonsense posts, but the comment section, that really deserves scrutiny by the media, to say the least.
Father, your “grapevine” on that nursing home in Augusta is either inaccurate or very old news (assuredly not your fault, but it always pays to check a grapevine source before posting...)
From WJBF on May 13:
“In Richmond County, Windermere Health and Rehab has 76 positive cases out of 77 residents. There are two additional deaths there for a total of eight now due to COVID-19. 33 employees remain positive.”
And BTW, every evening WRDW gives the testing stats, hospitalizations and deaths for the past 24-hr period. I find locals news reporting here is far better than national. In the past four weeks, hospitalizations at the three large area hospitals have increased from 22 to 86 yesterday. Deaths have decreased due to more adequate PPE and prompt aggressive ICU management according to local authority, Dr. Coule.
"We have a right to critique network, social media and print news accounts who report on the worst hit areas with the highest deaths as though this is common everywhere in the USA or elsewhere."
As much as you have an imaginary right, you cannot exercise it. In his Harvard speech way back, Solzhenitsyn was critical of the West. Yes we do not have official government censorship. But if an opinion is not fashionable, ways will be found to censor/suppress it, which can be worse that government censorship. Try posting a video on Youtube that is highly critical of the government's dealing with the SARSCovid-2 virus through lockdowns, like Professor Knut Witkowski did, and it will be taken down. The pretext for him was that he did not follow the WHO directives. Tell that to Japan which by not following WHO is now the envy of the world of how little damage Covid-19 did, and Sweden which has now probably reached herd-immunity, both without those very dumb lockdowns. I say "dumb" because had the so-called scientists working for the government read the research in the journals instead of slavishly following WHO, they would have realised that individual immunity is the only key to controlling any upper respiratory virus, rather than misplaced faith in science. We cannot eradicate these viruses, so we have to co-exist with them through God-given immunity. Coronaviruses are interesting because having one, like the common cold, is likely to give immunity to others. Ominously, the immunity may not be long lasting because of the high resources the body uses to generate anti-bodies against them. That is to say, if you do not use your immunity you lose it, so lockdowns and even social distancing are counter productive for healthy people who would retain their immunity by constant exposure. But of course, money is always at the bottom line of anything, so these so-called scientists are assured of oodles of money for their pet research by just mentioning the sacred word "CoVid-19" in their grant applications.
Before these are taken down, these are important English version interviews of emeritus Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, an infections epidemiologist who has published widely over the years on infection spread, and is one among many experts with a voice of reason on Covid-19, which is something very unfashionable today (although the English translation could use some fine tuning):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYUPjqNerU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbWJ4xIPAkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGCJEBh80gg
The media are businesses, and blood sells. Their main job is not to inform the public but to make a profit for the owners. If you want information on CoVid-19, you have to do your own research in the journals which few do. Why are the media now reporting spikes in so-called cases instead of hospitalisations and deaths which continue to plummet in USA is because they want to give the impression of the end of the word so people will read their stories and generate a profit. End of comment on the money-grubbing media.
" Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18".
Albert Einstein
Latest COVID stats
Georgia- 9th in population
13th in total deaths
20th in new deaths
17th in deaths per million
Florida-3rd most populous state
Current deaths=3,732
Florida-27th in deaths per million
New York state -4th in population ( was third until passed by Florida)
New York current deaths=32,248
Deaths per million rank-2nd
Texas= ranked 2nd in population
Texas current deaths=2,648
Deaths per million rank=40th
Top 5 states in COVID deaths
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Anonymous @5:00
Are these deaths FROM or WITH CoVid-19? From the very outset, this has not been distinguished since it would require autopsies, which are rarely performed today for deaths suspected due to pathogens. In other words, the deaths FROM CoVId-19 are very likely way below the reported figures.
It is interesting that deaths per million WITH/FROM Covid-19 in USA are still well below many other western countries.
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) this past week reported an anomaly in Britain. There, only a third of all deaths for seniors in excess this year (compared to previous years) can be attributed to Covid-19. The only possible explanation (so far) for the other two-thirds excess deaths is that all these quarantine measures (eg lockdowns), particularly in the medical system, postponed treatment for those with very serious medical conditions, such as cancer and cardiac diseases. In other words, the severe quarantine measures, not unlike in many parts of USA, were likely responsible for way more deaths than CoVid-19 itself.
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1931
Prof Michael Levitt of Stanford, the Nobel winner for chemistry, has rightly called this SARSCoVId-2 virus the "panic virus."
One thing I was pointing out in my comment above is that looking at CoVID deaths per population, states like Georgia, Florida, and Texas are doing quite well.
Total cases numbers are of little use in and of themselves.
If we tested for the flu virus, we would have multi-millions of positives, but given that almost no one right now actually has the flu, what good are those numbers?
Sweden has NOT reached herd immunity - totally untrue assertion.
Not only have they not reached herd immunity but I believe they also Acknowledged their response could have been better.
Sweden, like England, was late to roll out testing and did not do enough to prevent the spread of the virus in care homes. The latest statistics that I have been able to find on-line (28 June) not surprisingly correlate with those for England over the same period. Yet Sweden, unlike England and most of Europe, did not adopt an economically and socially disastrous lockdown. Large gatherings were prohibited, and sensible social distancing and other preventative measures were put in place.
If, towards the end of the year, the result of Sweden's more proportionate response proves to be less than cataclysmic, other governments will find it hard to claim their draconian measures were 'vital', and the 'experts' who insisted on them will have some explaining to do.
This is a serous pandemic and as wth epidemics, people get very sick and many die. We all acknowledge this truth. But context in reporting is necessary. It was lacking in the hysterical reporting of the priest sex abuse scandal as there were no comparisons with Protestant and Jewish clergy or anyone else, like the boy scouts. No context on cultural reasons for sweeping it under the rug as most professions did up until our enlightened period of the 1980's.
So with COVID there are almost 170,000 deaths; 2 million having tested positive. We live in a country of 300 million. How do these statistics compare with H1N1 Epedemic in this country a few years back? No comparisons in the media, but I am sure someone will tell us.
Be careful, Fr. McDonald, with that, or any other comparison. Comparing the responses of governments to a disease would, first, show how effective the responses are at controlling the spread of the disease, not only treatments and recovery. This disease has a much higher fatality *rate* and appears to be highly contagious. If the raw numbers of people dying are less that of another disease then it *might* be a testament to the effectiveness of government reactions and policies, not the relative mortality of the compared diseases. To John Nolan’s point, the response might effective but have an result as bad as another disease and have the effect of killing the patient with the cure. I think that the Initial travel restrictions would have been better if they were sooner and more comprehensive. Targeted lockdowns in places like London and New York would have been helpful until effective restrictions on gatherings, e.g., could be developed. It was clear from the start that wholesale lockdowns are not needed, but targeted restrictions are important. In the US we are seeing the combination of the inevitable spread across geographies coupled with age and health factors that is being characterized as a resurgence. I think it is only the result of delaying the inevitable through public policy.
Good points all, rcg. Comparisons never help and may hinder understanding.
I’ve said it before and will again: COVID-19 is a NOVEL virus, unlike SARS viruses in the past. And it has now mutated (in Florida, at least) into a more infectious variant, but early reports say a less deadly one.
It should also be remembered that after the Wuhan outbreak the Chinese authorities attempted to cover it up and persuaded the WHO to deny that it was a pandemic.
Still, what do you expect from the people who brought you bubonic plague and the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 which makes Covid-19 look like small beer?
The British government has in the last few days offered to give asylum to Hong Kong residents and is about to do a U-turn on allowing Huawei a stake in systems vital to national security. Beijing has threatened 'consequences'. Australia has announced a large increase in its defence spending to counter what they correctly see as a growing and malevolent regional Power. Expect further bullying.
The US traditionally regarded Japan as the 'yellow peril'. Japan is now an ally against a greater peril. If China does not implode in the next 50 years (which is a distinct possibility) then we had all better watch out, including the only remaining superpower.
Swedish Blonde:
Most countries in the west are close to herd immunity, particularly those who did not put in place severe quarantine measures. As I mentioned, you cannot eradicate these viruses, so you have to be able to live with them, which, for at least the past 100,000 years when humans became social animals, has been what has allowed humans to survive well by developing natural immunity. But there is a lot of money involved with big-pharma trying to find a magic bullet vaccine....
When you have a precipitous decline in new cases, and statistically an almost insignificant death rate, you either have reached herd-immunity, or pretty darn close:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
The interesting thing about Sweden is that the health authorities looked at the scientific facts available instead of slavishly following WHO directives as most Western governments did. We will see in a year who has been right all along when all the scientific data will have been analysed and synthesised.
Be that as it may, death rates in the Western world are now getting lower and lower.
The problem of reliable testing is still with us, though, and it does not help that thought control social media like Youtube ban videos. Dr. Cahill of Ireland, an expert in testing for infections, had a video banned on Youtube because she dared criticise big-pharma and their approach to testing for immunity which she tried to show was not reliable because of minute contamination of the raw materials they supply, another very unfashionable opinion that mitigates the "blood show" the news media promotes:
https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-dolores-cahill-censored-update-video-removed/
Fortunately Dr Ionnadis of Stanford has not been banned yet, probably because he is so well known and respected in the scientific community, but he has also been very critical of the whole government approach to CoVid-19, showing that from the currently available scientific facts, SARSCoVid-2 is not that serious at all and is on the morbidity level of a common flu outbreak which itself can be deadly to those with compromised immune systems:
https://usa.greekreporter.com/2020/06/27/up-to-300-million-people-may-be-infected-by-covid-19-stanford-guru-john-ioannidis-says/
Of course, scientific facts have not mattered to many governments since the outbreak of this virus....it is a victory of scientism as the source of all truth, including religious truth.
Bee here:
"If the raw numbers of people dying are less that of another disease then it *might* be a testament to the effectiveness of government reactions and policies, not the relative mortality of the compared diseases."
Statements like this remind me of that old joke of someone claiming they have developed an effective elephant repellent, and as proof, points out there are no elephants anywhere in the vicinity.
In other words, the reasons for lower death rates may not really be the extreme measures taken or applied.
I agree with Fr. McD, it would be very helpful to not just be told the number of "new cases" and deaths in a locality, but also the number of hospitalized for COVID specifically, their age group, and the number of ICU patients. I'm sure those numbers are available to the government and could be released on web sites. Chicago provides weekly graphs by zipcode of new cases per population, mortality rates per population, and so on, but doesn't provide actual numbers or age groups by zipcode of weekly data, and the information that is provided is too vague to make a reasonable guess as to the spread of the disease in a given area.
In other words, key data is being withheld, data which would give a better picture of the illness to those making decisions about themselves and their families.
Since this society is all about science, and, at least in Chicago, someone is working with the data and publishing it in some form already, why not give raw numbers of significant data and let people understand for themselves the truth it reveals?
God bless.
Bee
Bee,
My point was actually the opposite: the *rate* of death is quite high, the numbers of dead are manageable within an annual flu season. My criticism of government action is in the blind hog finds an acorn category: the response was right for a short and reflexive action, but not as a continued policy. We could have allowed people to resume limited daily local commerce if we had the political will to discriminate among the population groups based on risk. Meanwhile, we had the governments oddly proclaiming certain business, i.e. liquor stores, vital economic actors while disallowing some manufacturing operations. (#taxrevenues).
I am skeptical of herd immunity as an effective response for a national outbreak because the destroying angel in the person of this virus does not treat everyone all the same (as is his tradition). The practical goal of our actions as a society is to act on earth as we believe it is wanted in heaven and protect the weak through our best attempts. That includes balancing the health and prosperity of the nation. Giving the raw data to the people is, unfortunately, a recipe for disaster unless we believe that politicians are, as a class messing up because they are less intelligent than the man on the street. At some point the Republic must ask the men of gold what we should do next.
Bee:
I agree with you. For me it has taken work to find reliable scientific data on CoViD-19. The news media seems to assume that the general public is of a dumb Joe-6 pack mentality, so they report vague information in simplistic terms that fits into their fearmongering agenda. But this reveals their own mentality. They do not understand the scientific terminology and issues, and perhaps do not even want to, but I would hope that it is not the case that they are unable to.
Same could be said of governments. What do the politicians know of science and CoVid-19? Instead of finding out for themselves, they simply regurgitate what their advisors tell them, which itself comes from down the ladder of bureaucrats that reflects someone's seductive or safe opinion or belief. You have to wonder what the point of government is if the politicians are just well paid regurgitators. I admire Sweden because the authorities there did seek and find the relevant scientific data, studied it, and made decisions based on it and not regurgitate someone else's opinions like the highly politicised WHO.
"I agree with Fr. McD, it would be very helpful to not just be told the number of "new cases" and deaths in a locality, but also the number of hospitalized for COVID specifically, their age group, and the number of ICU patients."
Most states publish this data on their state department of health webpages. In many cases it is updated twice daily. It is not hard to find.
This page has exceedingly good, detailed info: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Fr. McDonald will, if he goes there, discover that on the right side the number of cases and the number of recovered is very prominent.
Note that the death rate world wide is 14%.
Bee here:
Anonymous at July 6, 2020 at 4:47PM:
I went to my state's Dept of Health, and although it gave current statistics on ICU bed and ventilator availability (which Chicago's web site does not provide), it was for the whole city of Chicago. Other than that, the statistics are just as vague and general as on Chicago's web site.
Sorry, but I could not find where the death rate world wide is 14%. Is that the deaths from all causes? Because the CDC says the death rate from COVID-19 is around .26%
God bless.
Bee
'Note that the death rate world wide is 14%.'
14% of what?
The JHU website has a table showing mortality country by country. Belgium and the Netherlands are neighbouring countries with similar populations (Belgium 17m, Netherlands 11.5m). Belgium imposed a strict lockdown, whereas the Netherlands imposed less draconian measures and began to relax them a month earlier than its neighbour.
Belgium recorded the highest mortality rate of any country (85.54 per 100,000) whereas the Netherlands recorded 35.67 per 100,000.
England only opened up pubs, restaurants and places of worship on 4 July, although with restrictions and admonitions from the government to behave ourselves or lose our freedoms again.
Meanwhile figures were released this morning showing that UK deaths (from all causes) over the last two weeks were actually below the seasonal average.
On Sunday I was able to attend Mass for the first time since mid-Lent (Oxford Oratory). It was a sung OF Mass, in Latin except for the Scripture readings, celebrated facing liturgical east as is usual, although without lights and incense or deacon and 'subdeacon' and with only one server (who read the first lesson - the second was read by a deacon who was in choir). However, the mixed choir sang the Gregorian Propers and a polyphonic Ordinary from the choir loft.
Following the bishops' guidelines we sat in alternate rows with one metre distancing and wore face coverings. Needless to say these restrictions did not apply in the sanctuary. Communion was distributed after Mass (I didn't stay for it) but it was assumed that most people would receive on the tongue and to kneel three feet apart at the rail isn't difficult.
The Missal remained on the altar throughout and the opening and concluding rites were done facing the altar (a decided improvement). Another benefit was the suppression of the 'bidding prayers'. What was strange was having to leave the congregational responses to the choir. Even in a sung EF Mass this doesn't happen.
The congregation was down on pre-COVID levels, but 505 people watched the live stream (the recording is still available) and 297 watched the earlier EF Low Mass.
I checked the CDC this morning and found this:
Based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) decreased from 9.0% during week 25 to 5.9% during week 26, representing the tenth consecutive week during which a declining percentage of deaths due to PIC has been recorded. The percentage is currently at the epidemic threshold but will likely change as additional death certificates for deaths during recent weeks are processed.
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Using only the confirmed US COVID 19 cases (2,886,267) versus the confirmed deaths attributed to same (129,811) gives the pandemic an average death rate of ~4.4%.
From the above link on Dr. Ionnadis:
"Dr. Ioannidis: 0.05% to 1% is a reasonable range for what the data tell us now for the infection fatality rate, with a median of about 0.25%. The death rate in a given country depends a lot on the age-structure, who are the people infected, and how they are managed. For people younger than 45, the infection fatality rate is almost 0%. For 45 to 70, it is probably about 0.05-0.3%. For those above 70, it escalates substantially, to 1% or higher for those over 85. For frail, debilitated elderly people with multiple health problems who are infected in nursing homes, it can go up to 25% during major outbreaks in these facilities."
As Prof Wittkowski was pointing out a month ago, before his video was taken down by Youtube, had WHO not made a fuss over this, we would never even have noticed it because SARSCoViD-2 has the fatality rate of the common flu, even without a vaccine. However, something to keep an eye on is that a couple of studies have linked flu vaccine to one actually being more prone to developing COVID-19...showing once again that all vaccines have side effects, even deadly ones. Unfortunately for the West, Africans are waking up and are refusing to be guinea pigs for these big-pharma vaccine experiments.
This whole circus (because scientific facts are ignored, unavailable, skewed, or "dirty") now has to deal with another issue. Anti-body testing has so far only been serological (blood testing). But we know that the human immune system is far more complex than that, thank God. Dr Cervia and his team at University Hospital Zurich, pursued this. They found that like for other viral infections, the mucus system in the human body has its own defence that zaps viruses even before they reach the blood system. They found that the younger you are, the more of these "anti-body soldiers" you have in your mucus system, while those with increasing symptoms or effects of CoVid--2 have more in the blood, showing a serious body immune reaction to the virus. The bottom line is that the infection rate has been way under-reported for this virus, which makes sense since it was already prevalent in France and Italy by mid-December, and spreading uncontrollably world-wide during January and February, and receding because of herd-immunity by the end of March but being derailed by government imposed quarantine measures. Testing for anti-bodies in the mucus system is a very long and arduous process. The research article is still in peer review stage:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.108308v1
Both Bill Gates and his pal Dr Fauci are pushing for a vaccine for this and other viruses, promoting one Italian member of Parliament to ask parliament to issue an arrest warrant for the "vaccine criminal" Bill Gates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX51utvnj9E&feature=emb_logo
Scientism is alive and well at the CDC:
Regarding Ioannidis: "“He’s so attached to being the iconoclast that defies conventional wisdom that he’s unintentionally doing horrible science.”
And
"His current study fits most of the high-risk criteria for falsehood that he outlines, such as publishing in a really hot scientific field with few corroborating studies, using a small bias sample, [and] reporting provocative findings in a politically charged arena." - Travis Gerke, an epidemiologist at the Moffitt Cancer Center and a visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Anonymous @ 11:39
"conventional wisdom", "high-risk criteria for falsehood", "few corroborating studies", "reporting provocative findings in a politically charged arena."
These are very precise concepts worthy of a true scientist? What about disproving what Ionnadis and his team are claiming....by random sampling the population for all 3 forms of antibodies.
Victor - The words and phrases you cite were NOT in a technical report.
If you'd like to check his scientifically "worthy" phraseology, you might read a few of his publications such as...
A prospective investigation of PTEN loss and ERG expression in lethal prostate cancer
TU Ahearn, A Pettersson, EM Ebot, T Gerke, RE Graff, CL Morais, ...
Journal of the National Cancer Institute 108 (2),
Association of prostate cancer risk variants with gene expression in normal and tumor tissue
KL Penney, JA Sinnott, S Tyekucheva, T Gerke, IM Shui, P Kraft, ...
Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers 24 (1), 255-260
Prostate cancer (PCa) risk variants and risk of fatal PCa in the national cancer institute breast and prostate cancer cohort consortium
IM Shui, S Lindström, AS Kibel, SI Berndt, D Campa, T Gerke, KL Penney, ...
European urology 65 (6),
Baseline prostate-specific antigen levels in midlife predict lethal prostate cancer
MA Preston, JL Batista, KM Wilson, SV Carlsson, T Gerke, DD Sjoberg, ...
Journal of Clinical Oncology 34 (23), 2705
Circulating vitamin D, vitamin D–related genetic variation, and risk of fatal prostate cancer in the N ational C ancer I nstitute B reast and P rostate C ancer C ohort C onsortium
IM Shui, AM Mondul, S Lindström, KK Tsilidis, RC Travis, T Gerke, ...
Cancer 121 (12), 1949-1956
Cholesterol uptake and regulation in high-grade and lethal prostate cancers
KH Stopsack, TA Gerke, O Andrén, SO Andersson, EL Giovannucci, ...
Carcinogenesis 38 (8), 806-811
Perineural invasion and risk of lethal prostate cancer
P Zareba, R Flavin, M Isikbay, JR Rider, TA Gerke, S Finn, A Pettersson, ...
Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers 26 (5),
There are more if you need them...
Anonymous @ 7:45
None of these address CoVid-19.
John P.A. Ioannidis: C. F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention in the School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) and by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science
From Wikipedia:
"Ioannidis's 2005 paper "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"[1] is the most downloaded paper in the Public Library of Science[18][19] and is considered foundational to the field of metascience.[20] In the paper, Ioannidis demonstrates that most published research does not meet good scientific standards of evidence. Ioannidis has also addressed the replication crisis in diverse scientific fields including genetics,[21] clinical trials,[22] and neuroscience.[23] His work has aimed to identify solutions to problems in research, and on how to perform research more optimally.[24][25]?
Ionnadis as a metascientist has been giving trouble to sloppy scientists (and government policy makers based on sloppy science) for some time, and it ain't appreciated.
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