This Coronavirus Scare is Hysterical Insanity, With Years of Negative Consequences to Follow!

"Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" - David Horowitz

By Rich Kozlovich

This coronavirus scare is insanity! I've been storing articles to support that statement for some weeks, and it's time to organize the information I've gathered, and share it with you.

In the past I made this observation:

This article will be another expansion on my regular coronavirus updates, which I've posted regularly in recent weeks.  I would think there would be, at the very least, a modicum of outrage over the truth versus the hyperbole being promoted by a corrupt media.  Shockingly, there isn't!  In spite of the fact the vast majority of people I talk to, many of them wearing masks because they have to for their jobs, believe this is all nonsense.  Oh, there are those who are panicked, make no mistake about that, but almost every one of the people I talked to agreed infectious diseases are a part of life, that people get sick, and people die, and it happens every year, and will happen every year hereafter.  But no one shut down the economy over it.

So that bodes well these two questions:

• Are we to shut down the economy and destroy people's lives every year from now on for every new infectious disease that strikes?   
• Are the rantings of a corrupt and hysterical media to be the criteria for deciding public health issues from now on?

I've to show this "pandemic" is mostly politically motivated media driven hysteria.  And in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, we're accepting insanity versus reality.  Here are the actual numbers.

The COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) keeps a running total of deaths and proven infections.  As of 5:30 AM on June 29, 2020 here are the coronavirus rates of infection and the rates of mortality based on a worldwide population of 7,800,000,000 and an American population of 330,000,000 using this internet calculator.

Here are the results:

• Worldwide infections, 17,619,378. Infection rate, 0.2%.
• Worldwide deaths, 680,092. Mortality rate, 0.008%.
• Confirmed infections in the United States, 4,564,973. Infection rate, 1.3%
• United States deaths, 153,378. Mortality rate, 0.04%.

Again, and again, and again I emphasize the substantial difference between the infection and mortality rates of coronavirus and past virus attacks.

• In 1968 the Hong Kong flu killed over 1,000,000 people worldwide. Worldwide population in 1968 was 3,534,000,000. The mortality rate was 0.3%! America lost 100,000 that year, and morality rate was 0.05%.
• In 1957/58 the Asian flu, which originated in Guizhou, China killed up to 2,000,000 people in a worldwide population of 2,900,000,000 had a mortality rate 0.068%. America lost 116,000 people. The mortality rate was 0.07%. 

No one sought to shut down the nation then when the infection and mortality rates were higher. Why are we now?

Worse yet, the rate has clearly been inflated by fraudulent reporting by as much as 25%.  We know they're cooking the books here, and misrepresenting them here, here, and it continues.  The "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield,  acknowledged the number of COVID-19 deaths could be inflated where someone who had the virus actually died from something else, but it was recorded as a COVID death." 

My friend Mike Shaw outlines how and why this is happening, in his articles, More COVID-19 Misinformation  and  Still More On COVID-19  saying: Don't believe the numbers, and shows why!

No doubt, you’ve heard about the astronomical infection rates being seen in Florida. But when many labs were reporting 100 percent positives, a TV station decided to look into this. In the case of Orlando Health, their reported 98% positives were really 9.4%. The Orlando VA Medical Center showed 76% positives, but this was really 6%. The discrepancies were explained as failure of certain labs to include both positive and negative results in their reports to the state. If you think that sounds a bit fishy, you’re not alone.

We still see the infection rate numbers going up substantially, while the mortality rate, the number that really counts, is remaining low, and is dropping.  Why? Because they're testing large segments of the population for this virus now.  That was not done to this degree in the past, and that makes things look far worse than they are. Mortality rates are what count, and even with all the false reporting to make the number far scarier than they actually are, they're still not comparable to the Hong Kong or Asian flu.

To give balance to all this Mike Shaw comes to the nation's rescue in his article, COVID-19 Panic Porn explaining how all this testing is misleading.

He notes:

An oft-repeated figure suggests that there are 1031 virus particles on Earth, and that at least one of them infects every living cell on the planet. Need more? Considering that the size of a virus ranges from 20 - 300 nanometers, if you could lay them end-to-end, the column would extend almost 200 light years into space. And, speaking of space, there are over ten million times more viruses on Earth than there are stars in the entire universe.

Before you freak out too much about how many people are testing positive for SARS-CoV-2), note that Human Herpesvirus 6 is found in almost 100% of humans, and is associated with many diseases far more serious than COVID-19. HHV-6’s little brother HHV-4 (aka Epstein-Barr) is “only” present in 90-95% of us, and while well-known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis, it is also associated with certain cancers and chronic fatigue syndrome. And, Herpesviruses come with a bonus. Once you’re infected, the virus remains in your body forever.

Varicella-zoster virus, commonly known as the cause of chickenpox, hangs around and can manifest later in life as the very nasty disease of shingles.

Still, it is important to realize that the vast majority of viruses do not cause disease in humans. Typically, when a virus jumps to humans from another species, there can be problems, as our immune systems must now confront this new invader, and will sometimes overreact—this overreaction causing disease. A virus will self-defeat if too many hosts die. Usually, new viral outbreaks tend to become less harmful with time; and potential hosts develop better immunity.

1. In June, we tested over 2,231 patients (data through [23 June]). Positive rate is now close to 20% (was 4-6% in May). Vast majority of the cases are mild to very mild symptoms. Average age of the people getting tested in mid-30s.

2. Very different patient (in terms of age) than we’ve seen before June. Most of these patients would not have met criteria that we previously had (and all the health facilities had) for COVID testing. Now with more testing kits we are able to test a broader group of patients.

3. Clinically, we’ve had very few hospital transfers because of COVID. Vast majority of the patients are better within 2-3 days of the visit and most would be described as having a cold (a mild one at that) or the symptoms related to allergies.

4. In terms of what is driving them to the ER—Roughly half have been told by their employers to get a test. They have a sneeze or a cough and their employer tells them to go get tested. The other half just want to know.

5. Heard several stories of how discharge planners are being pressured to put COVID as primary diagnosis— as that pays significantly better.

6. Overall, based on what we are seeing at our facilities, the above information is really a positive story. You have more people testing positive with really minimal symptoms. This means that the fatality rate is less than commonly reported.

Governor Cuomo is now complaining he's taking political heat for the fact that almost half of all the coronavirus deaths in New York linked to nursing homes.  Nursing homes he forced to take in coronavirus patients.  (and Here).  Furthermore, this post claims that some states had 77% of all their coronavirus death were connected to nursing homes.  But they say they just follow the science.  Hogwash!

Let's try and get this right once and for all.  Epidemiology isn't science!   It's statistics, speculation, guess work.  All of which are components of science, but in themselves, none of them are science.  Science must be observable and repeatable.  Epidemiological projections are incapable of demonstrating either.  Only time, observation and the actual documentation of events represent science.

There are seven reasons why epidemiology isn't science listed in Steve Bigler's article, " A retired physician's take on epidemiologists."   And what it all comes down to is this:  Epidemiologists are academically anointed well paid crystal ball gazers, only their crystal balls are computer models, and just as unreliable.  But they're always going to make it worse than it is because if they make the numbers large, and they turn out small, no one blames them. If they make them small, and the reverse occurs, everyone blames them. Their goal is to be well paid while having "no personal accountability for the outcome. Nice work if you can get it!"

One important aspect of this is just how infectious is this coronavirus, of which there are 40 of them.  Mike Shaw once again:

"Hendrik Streeck, MD PhD, Head of the Institute of Virology and Institute for HIV Research, University Hospital Bonn, Germany"............ “There is no significant risk of catching the disease when you go shopping. Severe outbreaks of the infection were always a result of people being closer together over a longer period of time.........“There is no significant risk of catching the disease when you go shopping. Severe outbreaks of the infection were always a result of people being closer together over a longer period of time....

As to spreading via surface contamination, Streeck noted that “When we took samples from door handles, phones, or toilets it has not been possible to cultivate the virus in the laboratory on the basis of these swabs. To actually [catch] the virus it would be necessary that someone coughs into their hand, immediately touches a doorknob and then straight after that another person grasps the handle and goes on to touch their face.”

There is also the recently confirmed finding that COVID-19 is a droplet infection and cannot be transmitted through the air. According to virologist Christian Drosten, coronavirus is extremely sensitive to drying out, so the only way of contracting it is if you were to inhale the droplets. There have been various reports touting long viability for the virus on surfaces, but caution should be exercised in comparing ideal laboratory conditions to real life............. 

Which brings us to the stunning findings of Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel of Tel Aviv University who plotted the rates of new coronavirus infections of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Italy, Israel, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Spain. As it happens, irrespective of whether the country quarantined like Israel, or went about business as usual like Sweden, coronavirus peaked and subsided in exactly the same way.

The claim was this virus was highly infectious. In fact, claims were made this was the worst of the worst! We now know that's blatantly false, but it was the excuse needed to force America into wearing masks, shutting down businesses, controlling the population. 

Let me say this as clearly as I can. Masks Are Neither Effective Nor Safe: A Summary Of The Science.  Please read this entire piece as it takes apart every false argument for masks we've been inundated with, using real science, not computer models, not epidemiological guesswork, not speculation:  Factual science.  And no matter how unpopular that science may be with the fomenters of this hysteria, the authors conclude with this.

In the summer of 2020 the United States is experiencing a surge of popular mask use, which is frequently promoted by the media, political leaders and celebrities. Homemade and store-bought cloth masks and surgical masks or N95 masks are being used by the public especially when entering stores and other publicly accessible buildings.  Sometimes bandanas or scarves are used.  The use of face masks, whether cloth, surgical or N95, creates a poor obstacle to aerosolized pathogens as we can see from the meta-analyses and other studies in this paper, allowing both transmission of aerosolized pathogens to others in various directions, as well as self-contamination.

It must also be considered that masks impede the necessary volume of air intake required for adequate oxygen exchange, which results in observed physiological effects that may be undesirable.  Even 6- minute walks, let alone more strenuous activity, resulted in dyspnea.  The volume of unobstructed oxygen in a typical breath is about 100 ml, used for normal physiological processes.  100 ml O2 greatly exceeds the volume of a pathogen required for transmission.

The foregoing data show that masks serve more as instruments of obstruction of normal breathing, rather than as effective barriers to pathogens. Therefore, masks should not be used by the general public, either by adults or children, and their limitations as prophylaxis against pathogens should also be considered in medical settings.

Let's try and get this right, there clearly is a cure, or at least a drug that works well enough for critical patients to recover. 

COVID-19 Censorship demonstrating just how corrupt this has become including attacking those who advocate for children to return to school saying:

Disagreeing with politically correct opinion is one thing, but brutally censoring it is a whole different matter. It looks like that Star Chamber has come back to haunt us. Will it be coming for you next?

Here's what's real and we need to get this!

This coronavirus is with us now forever.  Every virus that's attacked humanity is still popping up every year, infecting and killing people every year, and so to will this virus.  That's life.  It's not going to change, so now do we destroy our economy every year when someone comes down with this virus?  How about when a new virus pops up?  And they're going to be with us forever, and new ones pop up continually, that's the nature of viruses, and that's not going to change. Here and Here.

What will be the long term negative consequences to society and small businesses?  None of this bodes well for small businesses, the economy as a whole, and for the continued stability of society, and it shouldn't take a degree in economics to understand that.

So now what about the children? Do they go back to school? Kids Should Be Going Back To School This Fall In-Person, July 27, 2020 By Michael D. Shaw, who points out it's not only acceptable, it's good for the kids, and ends with this comment:

My take is that at the very least, we need some sort of defined endpoint, and not a constant moving of the goalposts.

Recall that we were initially just trying to “flatten the curve” and not overload the hospitals. I had noted early on that our COVID-19 policy has pretty much been: Quarantine the healthy and ignore the vulnerable. Keeping children out of school continues to quarantine the healthy, while offering a poor substitute for education.

 So, what will be the "defined end point" for a return to normal?  

• No one tests positive for this virus again?  No!  
• No one dies again from this virus?  No!  
• A vaccine is developed, which will take years. No!
• A cure?  No  
• Trump is defeated in November? Yes!  Because that's what this is really all about.

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