21stcenturywire--2020-04-18--COVID-19: Bill Gates Continues to Misrepresent Science and the Coronavirus

“ On 5th April Bill Gates told us everything we need to do to stop the virus .
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ people have interpreted it .
26 million viewers were misled .
Bill Gates told the @ @ @ @ @ t even notice .
He also misrepresented the coronavirus , its behaviour and what we @ @ @ @ @ entirely .
Find out what you should have realised before the government got you to @ @ @ @ @ Watch :

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Independent analyst Andrew Maher reports…
“On 5th April Bill Gates told us everything we need to do to stop the virus. It’s just not quite how people have interpreted it. 26 million viewers were misled. Bill Gates told the truth and people didn’t even notice. He also misrepresented the coronavirus, its behaviour and what we need to do to respond entirely. Find out what you should have realised before the government got you to go to your homes.” Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-19--Episode #323 – ‘Lockdown Folly’ with special guests

Episode # 323 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on April 19 , 2020 with host Patrick Henningsen , broadcasting LIVE on the Alternate Current Radio Network ( ACR ) … 5pm-8pm UK Time | 12pm-3pm EST ( US ) | 9am-12pm PST ( US ) This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR with host Patrick Henningsen covering the top stories in the US , Europe and internationally .
This week we continue our coverage of the Western world ’ s experimental Medieval-style , draconian ‘ lockdown ’ measures , featuring the voluntary implosion of participating countries ’ economies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of democracy as we once knew it – all in reaction to the presence of a novel Coronavirus COVID-19 infection .
In the final segment we ’ ll also talk with SUNDAY WIRE Roving Correspondent for Culture & Sport , Basil Valentine , on the latest government meltdown over whether or not the “ end the lockdown ” as the coronavirus crisis rolls on .
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This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR with host Patrick Henningsen covering the top stories in the US, Europe and internationally. This week we continue our coverage of the Western world’s experimental Medieval-style, draconian ‘lockdown’ measures, featuring the voluntary implosion of participating countries’ economies, societies along with the indefinite suspension of democracy as we once knew it – all in reaction to the presence of a novel Coronavirus COVID-19 infection. In the final segment we’ll also talk with SUNDAY WIRE Roving Correspondent for Culture & Sport, Basil Valentine, on the latest government meltdown over whether or not the “end the lockdown” as the coronavirus crisis rolls on. All this and much, much more. Enjoy the show…
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-19--COVID REVISED: Are New WHO Guidelines Adding to the Death Toll?

Burying the dead during the pandemic in Hamadan , Iran ( Photo : Farsnews.ir/Behzad Alipour Wikicommons ) It was front-page news this week that China has revised the coronavirus death toll for the city of Wuhan , the original epicentre of the outbreak .
Three days earlier , New York City also revised its coronavirus death figures .
Wuhan ’ s death toll jumped by 50 % ; New York ’ s jumped by 17 % .
In both cases , the change in the death toll reflected inclusion of “ probable ” or “ suspected ” cases of COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus .
This is consistent with recent World Health Organization guidelines instructing certifiers to record COVID-19 on death certificates in the absence of testing , including where the disease is only “ assumed to have caused , or contributed to death.
” Whether taking their cues from the WHO or not , many nations are recording deaths of suspected and probable COVID-19 cases as deaths due to COVID-19 .
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For example , in the United States , Center for Disease Control ( CDC ) adopted the WHO stance on March 24 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Other countries , such as Britain and Ireland , had already designated COVID-19 as a “ notifiable ” disease , requiring it to be listed on death certificates wherever it is present .
Therefore , the death toll figures being used to drive ‘ lockdown ’ policies and other coronavirus response measures include significant numbers of unconfirmed cases , as well as cases with serious complicating factors ( long-term chronic medical and respiratory conditions ) , potentially exaggerating the danger or role played by COVID-19 in the actual cause of death .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ no unique symptoms of its own ( the most common being fever and cough , which can have various causes ) .
This undoubtedly adds a great degree of difficulty to the job of physicians trying to determine “ probable ” cases of the disease .
Faced with the death of a patient , determining the cause of death may not be straightforward — especially where the patient has long-term health conditions ( comorbidities ) affecting a patient ’ s outcome .
For context , most of the coronavirus deaths in Italy ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % ) and USA ( 99.1 % ) involve other health conditions .
In light of this , these judgement calls by physicians , as well as the way in which they are being required to fill in death certificates , are vitally important to getting an accurate picture of COVID-19 mortality without including deaths from other causes .
On the situation in the UK , professor of pathology Dr John Lee wrote in The Spectator : “ If someone dies of a respiratory infection in the UK , the specific cause of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unless the illness is a rare ‘ notifiable disease ’ .
So the vast majority of respiratory deaths in the UK are recorded as bronchopneumonia , pneumonia , old age or a similar designation .
We don ’ t really test for flu , or other seasonal infections .
If the patient has , say , cancer , motor neurone disease or another serious disease , this will be recorded as the cause of death , even if the final illness was a respiratory infection .
This means UK certifications normally under-record deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at what has happened since the emergence of Covid-19 .
The list of notifiable diseases has been updated .
This list — as well as containing smallpox ( which has been extinct for many years ) and conditions such as anthrax , brucellosis , plague and rabies ( which most UK doctors will never see in their entire careers ) — has now been amended to include Covid-19 .
But not flu .
That means every positive test for Covid-19 must be notified , in a way that it just would not be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the current climate , anyone with a positive test for Covid-19 will certainly be known to clinical staff looking after them : if any of these patients dies , staff will have to record the Covid-19 designation on the death certificate — contrary to usual practice for most infections of this kind .
There is a big difference between Covid-19 causing death , and Covid-19 being found in someone who died of other causes .
Making Covid-19 notifiable might give the appearance of it causing increasing numbers of deaths , whether this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appear far more of a killer than flu , simply because of the way deaths are recorded.
” The question needs to be asked , how many deaths being attributed to COVID-19 are “ probable ” cases , diagnosed with no test on the basis of non-unique symptoms , because the WHO as well as national health authorities have instructed physicians to record deaths this way ?
How many serious health conditions are being minimized so that all “ COVID-19 deaths ” can be captured ?
And what part is played by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ potentially skewing these figures ?
In the wake of the change to Wuhan ’ s death toll , various media outlets are questioning the Chinese government ’ s honesty and transparency , with frequent mentions of a possible cover-up of the real numbers .
While the Chinese have explained the discrepancy as a function of statistics catching up to reality , western media outlets are questioning the veracity of China ’ s statistics altogether .
Amid such questions , nobody seems to be asking what part the World Health Organisation guidelines played in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comes to New York , it may be no surprise that no such questions about transparency are being floated by the MSM .
However our question remains : what part is played by the WHO in affecting the way deaths are recorded , and therefore the way the COVID-19 death toll is calculated ?
Ultimately , this is just more evidence that the various death tolls , projections , curves to be “ flattened ” and other statistics surrounding the pandemic are not necessarily incontrovertible “ science ” but in fact largely just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may or may not be borne out by reality .

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Burying the dead during the pandemic in Hamadan, Iran (Photo: Farsnews.ir/Behzad Alipour Wikicommons)
Miles Elliott
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It was front-page news this week that China has revised the coronavirus death toll for the city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the outbreak. Three days earlier, New York City also revised its coronavirus death figures. Wuhan’s death toll jumped by 50%; New York’s jumped by 17%. In both cases, the change in the death toll reflected inclusion of “probable” or “suspected” cases of COVID-19 — patients who were not tested for the virus.
This is consistent with recent World Health Organization guidelines instructing certifiers to record COVID-19 on death certificates in the absence of testing, including where the disease is only “assumed to have caused, or contributed to death.”
Whether taking their cues from the WHO or not, many nations are recording deaths of suspected and probable COVID-19 cases as deaths due to COVID-19.
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For example, in the United States, Center for Disease Control (CDC) adopted the WHO stance on March 24, presumably along with other member states. Other countries, such as Britain and Ireland, had already designated COVID-19 as a “notifiable” disease, requiring it to be listed on death certificates wherever it is present. Therefore, the death toll figures being used to drive ‘lockdown’ policies and other coronavirus response measures include significant numbers of unconfirmed cases, as well as cases with serious complicating factors (long-term chronic medical and respiratory conditions), potentially exaggerating the danger or role played by COVID-19 in the actual cause of death.
An added complication is that COVID-19 has no unique symptoms of its own (the most common being fever and cough, which can have various causes). This undoubtedly adds a great degree of difficulty to the job of physicians trying to determine “probable” cases of the disease. Faced with the death of a patient, determining the cause of death may not be straightforward — especially where the patient has long-term health conditions (comorbidities) affecting a patient’s outcome.
For context, most of the coronavirus deaths in Italy (88%), UK (91%) and USA (99.1%) involve other health conditions. In light of this, these judgement calls by physicians, as well as the way in which they are being required to fill in death certificates, are vitally important to getting an accurate picture of COVID-19 mortality without including deaths from other causes.
On the situation in the UK, professor of pathology Dr John Lee wrote in The Spectator:
“If someone dies of a respiratory infection in the UK, the specific cause of the infection is not usually recorded, unless the illness is a rare ‘notifiable disease’. So the vast majority of respiratory deaths in the UK are recorded as bronchopneumonia, pneumonia, old age or a similar designation. We don’t really test for flu, or other seasonal infections. If the patient has, say, cancer, motor neurone disease or another serious disease, this will be recorded as the cause of death, even if the final illness was a respiratory infection. This means UK certifications normally under-record deaths due to respiratory infections. Now look at what has happened since the emergence of Covid-19. The list of notifiable diseases has been updated. This list — as well as containing smallpox (which has been extinct for many years) and conditions such as anthrax, brucellosis, plague and rabies (which most UK doctors will never see in their entire careers) — has now been amended to include Covid-19. But not flu. That means every positive test for Covid-19 must be notified, in a way that it just would not be for flu or most other infections. In the current climate, anyone with a positive test for Covid-19 will certainly be known to clinical staff looking after them: if any of these patients dies, staff will have to record the Covid-19 designation on the death certificate — contrary to usual practice for most infections of this kind. There is a big difference between Covid-19 causing death, and Covid-19 being found in someone who died of other causes. Making Covid-19 notifiable might give the appearance of it causing increasing numbers of deaths, whether this is true or not. It might appear far more of a killer than flu, simply because of the way deaths are recorded.”
The question needs to be asked, how many deaths being attributed to COVID-19 are “probable” cases, diagnosed with no test on the basis of non-unique symptoms, because the WHO as well as national health authorities have instructed physicians to record deaths this way? How many serious health conditions are being minimized so that all “COVID-19 deaths” can be captured? And what part is played by the World Health Organization’s guidelines in potentially skewing these figures?
In the wake of the change to Wuhan’s death toll, various media outlets are questioning the Chinese government’s honesty and transparency, with frequent mentions of a possible cover-up of the real numbers. While the Chinese have explained the discrepancy as a function of statistics catching up to reality, western media outlets are questioning the veracity of China’s statistics altogether. Amid such questions, nobody seems to be asking what part the World Health Organisation guidelines played in bringing about the revision.
When it comes to New York, it may be no surprise that no such questions about transparency are being floated by the MSM. However our question remains: what part is played by the WHO in affecting the way deaths are recorded, and therefore the way the COVID-19 death toll is calculated?
Ultimately, this is just more evidence that the various death tolls, projections, curves to be “flattened” and other statistics surrounding the pandemic are not necessarily incontrovertible “science” but in fact largely just estimates, based on various assumptions which may or may not be borne out by reality.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-20--Protests Build Across U.S. as Public Begin to Realize True Scale of Government Recklessness

As reality begins to dawn on American and the the atmosphere of mass-panic and hysteria gradually wears off , citizens are now coming out in droves and demanding answers as to why the country was shut down on the basis of completely baseless and elaborate doomsday predictions being promulgated by government officials and mainstream media over the last two month .
The result of Federal and State government gamble has been tens of millions of Americans forced into unemployment , with hundreds of thousands of businesses already destroyed , as well as communities across the country now fractured and broken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries like the United States and the UK , had entered into a voluntary collective economic and societal suicide pact – without any exit strategy .
Why are some governments determined to keep the public under house arrest when it ’ s admitted by officials that the ‘ crisis ’ has already peaked ?
The issue is now morphing into a politically-charged partisan issue in the US now , pitting pro-Lockdown Democrats against anti-Lockdown residents who appear to have the support of the White House .
NBC News reports : This issue , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will end up being the defining issues over which Democrats and Republicans will be arguing going into the 2020 General Election .
Protesters have taken to the streets in states across the US , demanding that governors reopen economies shut by the coronavirus pandemic .
Rallies in Arizona , Colorado , Montana and Washington state took place on Sunday , following earlier protests in half a dozen states .
Agitation for easing restrictions has grown , despite the risk of a Covid-19 resurgence posed by reopening too soon .
US President Donald Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The US has become the centre of the Covid-19 crisis , with over 735,000 cases and some 40,000 deaths – but signs have emerged that it is reaching the apex of the outbreak and that infection rates are slowing in some states .
In Washington state , an early US virus hotspot , hundreds of people gathered in the state capital , Olympia , to demand the governor relax rules restricting the economy .
Police estimated the crowd at 2,500 , making it one of the largest protests in US states against lockdowns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agency reports .
Many of the protesters ignored social distancing guidelines , as well as pleas from rally organisers to wear masks .
Montana saw a few hundred protesters at a rally held in Helena , the Associated Press news agency reports .
There was a similar-sized protest in Denver , Colorado , where protesters descended upon the state capitol building to demonstrate against the social distancing orders .
As protesters clogged streets with cars , healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks stood at crossroads in counter-protest .
Dozens of cars circled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while roughly 200 people assembled on the lawn , waving signs and flags .
In Arizona , protesters also took to their cars – estimated to be about 100 – and drove in circles around the state capitol in Phoenix to create gridlock , reports say…

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As reality begins to dawn on American and the atmosphere of mass-panic and hysteria gradually wears off, citizens are now coming out in droves and demanding answers as to why the country was shut down on the basis of completely baseless and elaborate doomsday predictions being promulgated by government officials and mainstream media over the last two month. The result of Federal and State government gamble has been tens of millions of Americans forced into unemployment, with hundreds of thousands of businesses already destroyed, as well as communities across the country now fractured and broken.
It appears that ‘lockdown’ countries like the United States and the UK, had entered into a voluntary collective economic and societal suicide pact – without any exit strategy.
Why are some governments determined to keep the public under house arrest when it’s admitted by officials that the ‘crisis’ has already peaked?
The issue is now morphing into a politically-charged partisan issue in the US now, pitting pro-Lockdown Democrats against anti-Lockdown residents who appear to have the support of the White House. NBC News reports:
“Governors across the country criticized President Donald Trump’s expression of solidarity with those protesting various state-issued stay-at-home orders, saying his comments are “dangerous” and “don’t make any sense.”
This issue, along with its predictable protracted fallout – will end up being the defining issues over which Democrats and Republicans will be arguing going into the 2020 General Election.
BBC reports…
Residents protest California lockdown orders this past weekend (Image Credit: Mike Blake Source: Reuters)
Protesters have taken to the streets in states across the US, demanding that governors reopen economies shut by the coronavirus pandemic.
Rallies in Arizona, Colorado, Montana and Washington state took place on Sunday, following earlier protests in half a dozen states.
Agitation for easing restrictions has grown, despite the risk of a Covid-19 resurgence posed by reopening too soon.
US President Donald Trump has signalled support for the protests.
The US has become the centre of the Covid-19 crisis, with over 735,000 cases and some 40,000 deaths – but signs have emerged that it is reaching the apex of the outbreak and that infection rates are slowing in some states.
In Washington state, an early US virus hotspot, hundreds of people gathered in the state capital, Olympia, to demand the governor relax rules restricting the economy.
Police estimated the crowd at 2,500, making it one of the largest protests in US states against lockdowns over the past week, Reuters news agency reports.
Many of the protesters ignored social distancing guidelines, as well as pleas from rally organisers to wear masks.
Montana saw a few hundred protesters at a rally held in Helena, the Associated Press news agency reports.
There was a similar-sized protest in Denver, Colorado, where protesters descended upon the state capitol building to demonstrate against the social distancing orders.
As protesters clogged streets with cars, healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks stood at crossroads in counter-protest.
Dozens of cars circled the capitol, local media report, while roughly 200 people assembled on the lawn, waving signs and flags.
In Arizona, protesters also took to their cars – estimated to be about 100 – and drove in circles around the state capitol in Phoenix to create gridlock, reports say…
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-20--US Oil Price Drops Below $1 per Barrel – As Demand, Storage Capacity Dries Up

The penny is now starting to drop , as the markets begin to respond negatively to leading Western governments ’ @ @ @ @ @ in their reactionary attempt to contain the spread coronavirus crisis .
The economic apocalypse which @ @ @ @ @ but which government have been actively ignoring , is beginning to arrive .
The collapse @ @ @ @ @ a direct result of the economic downturn triggered by government measures meant to ‘ fight @ @ @ @ @ leading global markets into their deepest depression since the 1930s .
As a result , @ @ @ @ @ some 30 % globally since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis .
In the meantime @ @ @ @ @ extreme volatility – and unpredictability , across major markets .

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The penny is now starting to drop, as the markets begin to respond negatively to leading Western governments’ risky self-imposed economic Lockdown policies in their reactionary attempt to contain the spread coronavirus crisis. The economic apocalypse about which experts were warning, but which government have been actively ignoring, is beginning to arrive.
The collapse in global oil prices is a direct result of the economic downturn triggered by government measures meant to ‘fight the invisible enemy’, leading global markets into their deepest depression since the 1930s.
As a result, demand for oil has dropped some 30% globally since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis.
In the meantime, this may trigger more extreme volatility – and unpredictability, across major markets.


21stcenturywire--2020-04-20--Tennesseans Protest Coronavirus Lockdown Order Across State – ‘Stop Living in Fear’

On Sunday , citizens across multiple cities in the state of Tennessee protested the ‘ Safer at Home ’ orders – Nashville , Knoxville , Chattanooga , Jackson and Memphis all held rallies putting pressure on Governor Bill Lee to end the statewide lockdown .
According to Tennessee ’ s state health website , only 13 % of COVID-19 cases have resulted in hospitalization and 2 % have resulted in deaths out of nearly 7 million residents .
The video footage below captured the protest rally at the State Capitol in Nashville , including an interview with one passionate protester @ @ @ @ @ @ @ living in fear…we don ’ t have to give up our freedoms to make it through this crisis.
” Watch : In Chattanooga , a local entrepreneur and rally organizer told The Tennessean : “ What people don ’ t seem to be looking at is the certainty , [ … ] We know we are killing everybody economically and taking away their liberties , but there ’ s no way to prove , or know , if distancing has been helpful .
You assume it has , and I assume it has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There ’ s no A-B test .
That ’ s a crazy position to be in.
” There were 112,438 new unemployment claims filed in Tennessee for the week ending April 4 – the same week Gov .
Lee ’ s statewide lockdown order went into effect .
Update : Shortly after we published this story , Gov .
Lee announced that Tennessee ’ s ‘ Safe at Home ’ order will expire on April 30 and the “ vast majority ” of businesses in the state will be allowed to reopen @ @ @ @

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On Sunday, citizens across multiple cities in the state of Tennessee protested the ‘Safer at Home’ orders – Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Jackson and Memphis all held rallies putting pressure on Governor Bill Lee to end the statewide lockdown.
According to Tennessee’s state health website, only 13% of COVID-19 cases have resulted in hospitalization and 2% have resulted in deaths out of nearly 7 million residents.
The video footage below captured the protest rally at the State Capitol in Nashville, including an interview with one passionate protester urging people to “start educating yourself…stop living in fear…we don’t have to give up our freedoms to make it through this crisis.” Watch:
https://youtu.be/qdF7Hys0pCY
In Chattanooga, a local entrepreneur and rally organizer told The Tennessean:
“What people don’t seem to be looking at is the certainty, […] We know we are killing everybody economically and taking away their liberties, but there’s no way to prove, or know, if distancing has been helpful. You assume it has, and I assume it has, but it’s not knowable. There’s no A-B test. That’s a crazy position to be in.”
There were 112,438 new unemployment claims filed in Tennessee for the week ending April 4 – the same week Gov. Lee’s statewide lockdown order went into effect.
Update: Shortly after we published this story, Gov. Lee announced that Tennessee’s ‘Safe at Home’ order will expire on April 30 and the “vast majority” of businesses in the state will be allowed to reopen on May 1.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-20--REVEALED: UK Ministers Knew Crisis Had Peaked Before Lockdown, But Panicked Anyway

Since March , 21WIRE has consistently said draconian lockdown measures being pushed by countries like the UK , France , US and Canada – were ill-informed and not at all necessary in order to ‘ contain ’ the coronavirus .
Moreover , we have consistently stated across many media platforms that these were not science-based decisions either , but rather political decisions taken by government officials as part of a mass-panic , alongside a parallel roll-out of a broader authoritarian agenda .
For this , our publication and its contributors were attacked and marginalised by other media outlets and pundits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theory ’ and that we should accept the government ’ s rationale for unprecedented lockdown policies and the suspension of democracy and civil liberties .
However , since then , a number of eminent experts have emerged who are also saying the same thing we were over the duration of this crisis .
Just today , we have learned that a leading UK professor of medicine from the University of Oxford , Professor Carl Heneghan , Director for Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine , has revealed how the peak of the UK ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full week before Boris Johnson initiated lockdown on March 23rd .
According to Heneghan ’ s analysis , draconian measures were not necessary , as the data clearly showed how infection rates had already halved after March 16th .
This latest revelation is also a devastating blow to the popular political talking point that “ the lockdown and social distancing stopped the coronavirus.
” The data clearly shows that the virus had already made its way into the population and that in the long run the trajectory of its spread was already a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the decision to shutdown the country was never based on actual science .
The Oxford professor also explains how government experts have been ‘ consistently wrong ’ throughout the crisis , and even revealed how UK ministers descended into panic , and appeared to have ‘ lost sight of the evidence ’ – as they rushed the country into a full national quarantine even though they had access to , and were being briefed with , accurate data which showed the crisis had already peaked .
Heneghan also stated that some of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ‘ hold their nerve ’ while eschewing popular ‘ doomsday scenarios ’ which were being pushed incessantly by governments and media in order to justify draconian lockdown policies .
The Scandinavian country has recorded just 392 new patients and 40 deaths today , approximately 10 per cent of the UK totals .
Britain ’ s diagnoses have not been announced yet .
In an interview with the UK Mail Online , Prof Heneghan stated : “ The peak of deaths occurred on April 8 , and if you understand that then you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infections .
That would be 21 days before then , right before the point of lockdown.
” “ Consistent with previous analyses , the peak day of deaths was the 8th of April .
The structure of the data is similar across the regions , with the peak in London on the 4th of April , four days ahead of the rest of the country , the 8th of April.
” – Carl Heneghan and Jason Oke , Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine .
He claims that if the Government accepts that deaths peaked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mean that infections were at their highest around three weeks prior .
Data shows the rate of Britons with upper respiratory tract infections dropped from 20 per 100,000 people on March 15 to around 12 per 100,000 just six days later .
The figures do not relate solely to coronavirus but may be a good indicator because so few people were being tested for the deadly infection .
All along , the UK government , now led by caretaker PM Dominic Raab , has been telling the public that it ’ s being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this may appear to be a slick soundbite , it hardly reflects the reality of the situation since early March .
“ The UK Government keeps saying it is using the best science … But it appears to be losing sight of what ’ s actually going on .
We ’ ve been getting scientific advice that is consistently wrong , ” said Heneghan .
“ It has failed to look at all the data and understand when the peak of infections actually occurred.
” “ Fifty per cent reductions in infections occurred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ washing and social distancing was introduced.
” “ If you go look at what ’ s happening in Sweden , they are holding their nerve and they haven ’ t had doomsday scenario .
Our Government has got it completely the wrong way around.
” Sweden has been under fire in media and on social media by pro-lockdown activists who are insisting that Sweden is somehow ‘ risking millions of lives ’ by opting not to implement experiment universal quarantine policies .
Rather than cave to media pressure and the advice of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most of its schools open , as well as its shopping , pubs , restaurants and public spaces .
The government has also elected to advise rather than to enforce social distancing and common sense mitigation measures .
According one of Sweden ’ s leading epidemiologists , Professor Johan Giesecke , Sweden is close to achieving natural herd immunity .
SEE ALSO : Sweden vs COVID-19 : Why ‘ Herd Immunity ’ Matters and Why Lockdown Doesn ’ t Work Professor Heneghan also criticised the UK government for its over-reliance on draconian ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approach , which now risks serious damage the country ’ s economy – panic-driven policy which could end up causing more casualties and suffering than COVID-19 itself : “ Look at our partners [ in the EU ] .
They ’ re opening up again .
We should be reopening society .
We need to get a plan in place rapidly , we can ’ t wait three weeks then slowly open up.
” “ As well as major economic issues , austerity will impact people ’ s physical and mental health.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it ’ s making the public scared to engage with healthcare.
” “ People are avoiding going to GPs and hospitals because they believe there is so much infection there that they might catch it [ coronavirus ] .
That ’ s really damaging.
” Heneghan ’ s study also adds addition credence to the independent analysis by Andrew Mather found here .
Mather ’ s work was derived solely from publicly available data from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) .
He remarked back on April 4th : “ We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the government had access to clear data demonstrating that long before the declaration of UK lockdown and even at the time of the Prime Minister ’ s March 3rd broadcast , the data showed that Italy , Germany , Sweden and the UK were all decelerating , leveling off , and then falling away in terms of the rate of growth of the contagion .
The crisis was over though the contagion would continue until exhausted .
It is as inevitable as a ball thrown into the air , slowing down , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ despite all available data , the UK and other western governments , forged ahead and voluntarily imploded their economies and societies , as well as suspended democracy and basic rights of citizens .
Across the western block , this has led to tens of millions of unemployed and hundreds of thousands of businesses destroyed as a result of the central government decrees .
Experts are also warning about the long-term health and societal impact and immeasurable number of avoidable deaths resulting from these government decisions , a legacy which will likely reverberate for @ @ @ @ @ @

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IMAGE: Britain’s caretaker Prime Minister, Dominic Raab at Downing Street’s daily crisis briefing.
Since March, 21WIRE has consistently said draconian lockdown measures being pushed by countries like the UK, France, US and Canada – were ill-informed and not at all necessary in order to ‘contain’ the coronavirus. Moreover, we have consistently stated across many media platforms that these were not science-based decisions either, but rather political decisions taken by government officials as part of a mass-panic, alongside a parallel roll-out of a broader authoritarian agenda. For this, our publication and its contributors were attacked and marginalised by other media outlets and pundits who insisted this was a ‘conspiracy theory’ and that we should accept the government’s rationale for unprecedented lockdown policies and the suspension of democracy and civil liberties. However, since then, a number of eminent experts have emerged who are also saying the same thing we were over the duration of this crisis.
Just today, we have learned that a leading UK professor of medicine from the University of Oxford, Professor Carl Heneghan, Director for Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, has revealed how the peak of the UK’s coronavirus ‘crisis’ actually came a full week before Boris Johnson initiated lockdown on March 23rd.
According to Heneghan’s analysis, draconian measures were not necessary, as the data clearly showed how infection rates had already halved after March 16th.
This latest revelation is also a devastating blow to the popular political talking point that “the lockdown and social distancing stopped the coronavirus.” The data clearly shows that the virus had already made its way into the population and that in the long run the trajectory of its spread was already a fait accompli. In other words, the decision to shutdown the country was never based on actual science.
The Oxford professor also explains how government experts have been ‘consistently wrong’ throughout the crisis, and even revealed how UK ministers descended into panic, and appeared to have ‘lost sight of the evidence’ – as they rushed the country into a full national quarantine even though they had access to, and were being briefed with, accurate data which showed the crisis had already peaked.
Heneghan also stated that some of the non-lockdown states like Sweden have done well to ‘hold their nerve’ while eschewing popular ‘doomsday scenarios’ which were being pushed incessantly by governments and media in order to justify draconian lockdown policies. The Scandinavian country has recorded just 392 new patients and 40 deaths today, approximately 10 per cent of the UK totals. Britain’s diagnoses have not been announced yet.
In an interview with the UK Mail Online, Prof Heneghan stated:
“The peak of deaths occurred on April 8, and if you understand that then you work backwards to find the peak of infections. That would be 21 days before then, right before the point of lockdown.”
(Heneghan is referring to the delay between when a person is infected to when they will fall seriously ill, which is roughly three weeks on average)
“Consistent with previous analyses, the peak day of deaths was the 8th of April. The structure of the data is similar across the regions, with the peak in London on the 4th of April, four days ahead of the rest of the country, the 8th of April.”
– Carl Heneghan and Jason Oke, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.
Crucially, The Mail adds:
He claims that if the Government accepts that deaths peaked on April 8, then it must mean that infections were at their highest around three weeks prior.
Data shows the rate of Britons with upper respiratory tract infections dropped from 20 per 100,000 people on March 15 to around 12 per 100,000 just six days later.
The figures do not relate solely to coronavirus but may be a good indicator because so few people were being tested for the deadly infection.
‘Guided by the Science’?
All along, the UK government, now led by caretaker PM Dominic Raab, has been telling the public that it’s being “guided by the science.” While this may appear to be a slick soundbite, it hardly reflects the reality of the situation since early March.
“The UK Government keeps saying it is using the best science … But it appears to be losing sight of what’s actually going on. We’ve been getting scientific advice that is consistently wrong,” said Heneghan.
“It has failed to look at all the data and understand when the peak of infections actually occurred.”
“Fifty per cent reductions in infections occurred on March 16, right when hand washing and social distancing was introduced.”
“If you go look at what’s happening in Sweden, they are holding their nerve and they haven’t had doomsday scenario. Our Government has got it completely the wrong way around.”
Sweden has been under fire in media and on social media by pro-lockdown activists who are insisting that Sweden is somehow ‘risking millions of lives’ by opting not to implement experiment universal quarantine policies. Rather than cave to media pressure and the advice of people like Bill Gates, Sweden has left most of its schools open, as well as its shopping, pubs, restaurants and public spaces. The government has also elected to advise rather than to enforce social distancing and common sense mitigation measures.
According one of Sweden’s leading epidemiologists, Professor Johan Giesecke, Sweden is close to achieving natural herd immunity.
SEE ALSO: Sweden vs COVID-19: Why ‘Herd Immunity’ Matters and Why Lockdown Doesn’t Work
Professor Heneghan also criticised the UK government for its over-reliance on draconian ‘lockdown’ policies as its lone strategic approach, which now risks serious damage the country’s economy – panic-driven policy which could end up causing more casualties and suffering than COVID-19 itself:
“Look at our partners [in the EU]. They’re opening up again. We should be reopening society. We need to get a plan in place rapidly, we can’t wait three weeks then slowly open up.”
“As well as major economic issues, austerity will impact people’s physical and mental health.”
‘The second issue of lockdown is that it’s making the public scared to engage with healthcare.”
“People are avoiding going to GPs and hospitals because they believe there is so much infection there that they might catch it [coronavirus]. That’s really damaging.”
Heneghan’s study also adds addition credence to the independent analysis by Andrew Mather found here.
Mather’s work was derived solely from publicly available data from the World Health Organization (WHO). He remarked back on April 4th:
“We reveal a new slide which shows how the government had access to clear data demonstrating that long before the declaration of UK lockdown and even at the time of the Prime Minister’s March 3rd broadcast, the data showed that Italy, Germany, Sweden and the UK were all decelerating, leveling off, and then falling away in terms of the rate of growth of the contagion. The crisis was over though the contagion would continue until exhausted. It is as inevitable as a ball thrown into the air, slowing down, and coming back to earth.”
Nonetheless, despite all available data, the UK and other western governments, forged ahead and voluntarily imploded their economies and societies, as well as suspended democracy and basic rights of citizens. Across the western block, this has led to tens of millions of unemployed and hundreds of thousands of businesses destroyed as a result of the central government decrees.
Experts are also warning about the long-term health and societal impact and immeasurable number of avoidable deaths resulting from these government decisions, a legacy which will likely reverberate for years, if not decades.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-21--A Vaccine By September? Not So Fast…

A Vaccine By September? Not So Fast…

More often than not , politicians will tell people what they want to hear , rather than what ’ s really true .
Their oracle of choice for such messsaging is the mainstream media , who have been aggressively pushing the claim that a miracle vaccine for the coronavirus will be arriving “ in a few months.
” Are such claims really true , or are they hype ?
This is an important question to ask , especially as the promise of a new vaccine seems to be the centerpiece of most western governments ’ strategies to ‘ re-open ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ lockdown ’ measures designed to supposedly contain the spread of COVID-19 .
The Guardian claims that human trials for a Covid-19 vaccine could be completed as early as mid-August .
However , when pressed on the details , UK officials are reticent to promise anything specific .
John Bell from the government ’ s coronavirus vaccine taskforce admitted as much in a recent BBC interview : When asked recently , the UK government ’ s chief science advisor , Sir Patrick Vallance also reiterated that finding a coronavirus vaccine which actually works @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ This is a new disease that didn ’ t exist before December and we have a lot to learn about the virus and how the body responds to it , ” said Vallance in The Guardian .
“ All new vaccines that come into development are long shots ; only some end up being successful , and the whole process requires experimentation.
” “ Coronavirus will be no different and presents new challenges for vaccine development .
This will take time , and we should be clear it is not a certainty.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ officials in the UK , US and Canada seem to be using the vaccine as the cornerstone of their policy remedy to experimental ‘ lockdown ’ measures imposed in March and April .
How long can they keep their mostly healthy citizens under house arrest before social unrest and disenchantment reaches unsustainable levels for government to retain power and control ?
Currently there are some 100 different vaccine projects underway in the ‘ Great Corona Race ’ to see which one will be crowned the winner in the global panaceas sweepstakes .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even inspirational to some , the reality is much more complex and even more problematic than anyone will care to admit , especially those who are bought and paid for by the transnational corporate pharmaceutical industry which stands to make hundreds of billions in profit should any COVID-19 vaccine ever be adopted for wide scale use .
Speaking to STAT , Mark Feinberg , president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative , whose work as chief public health and science officer at Merck Vaccines was instrumental in the development of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : More skepticism was recently aired by an envoy from the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) , warning that there is no certainty over whether there will be a successful vaccine .
“ You don ’ t necessarily develop a vaccine that is safe and effective against every virus , ” said David Nabarro , professor of global health at Imperial College London .
“ Some viruses are very , very difficult when it comes to vaccine development , ” he said to The Observer .
“ So for the foreseeable future @ @ @ @ @ @ @ find ways to go about our lives with this virus as a constant threat.
” Among the leading high profile skeptics is one eminent Australian vaccine inventor who says COVID-19 may never have a preventive vaccine , but could possibly burn out .
The co-inventor of the controversial HPV vaccine , Professor Ian Frazer , admits that a workable vaccine for the coronavirus is “ tricky ” and may not even be possible .
He is instead working on an anti-viral treatment for the most vulnerable who get sick .
Frazer says that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were testing vaccines , medical scientists still do not have an effective model of how to attack this virus .
Interestingly , Frazer stated that for 99 % of people who catch it , COVID-19 is a “ trivial illness.
” The professor of medicine at Queensland University , which is testing for its own COVID-19 vaccine , said immunisation against coronavirus was similar to immunising against the common cold .
“ It is tricky , vaccines for upper respiratory tract diseases , because the virus lands on the outside of you , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of us as a football , with the skin and respiratory tract on the outside of the football and the lungs are where the outside interfaces with the inside.
” “ The place where the virus lands is outside us and it tries to infect the cells within us.
” “ Our immune system is inside of us .
When it lands inside our lungs it tries to infect our cells and succeeds .
Our immune system goes to fight the virus and that ’ s why people get sick .
“ If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it can cause damage to the lungs … .
The wrong vaccine could make things worse so we have to be very selective about what part of the virus we want to attack.
” “ If you immunise someone with a vaccine , it goes inside and makes an immune response within you … .
What you want is an immune response to migrate out to where the virus lands.
” “ There is no vaccine against the common cold.
” Prof Frazer said that with flu , the immune response inside a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occur until the flu virus gets inside them .
“ We tried to deliver a vaccine to the lungs with the Flu Mist which you snuffed up your nose , delivering the vaccine to the place where you need an immune response , but it didn ’ t work terribly well , ” he said .
“ Coronavirus doesn ’ t get into you , it stays on the surface cells in your lungs .
All these flu viruses get into you , so the body can fight and makes T cells.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cells , it makes them sick .
At the moment we don ’ t know how to make a coronavirus vaccine work.
” “ That ’ s why there are 100 vaccines under testing using every conceivable approach ….We don ’ t know if any of them will work.
” Prof Frazer said a vaccine for the 2003 SARS ( severe acute respiratory syndrome ) outbreak was never successfully developed and then the virus burnt out .
SARS broke out in China and didn ’ t spread as far , partly because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not as great 17 years ago as it is today .
But , Prof Frazer said , it also had diluted potency as it went from host to host .
“ As it passed from animal to the first human and then through the second human , as it passed through every human it got a little less good at infecting people , ” he said .
“ The virus attenuated itself ; it got less powerful … .
It may well be the same with this virus .
It ’ s not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It may become less effective.
” “ We are now mapping it as it goes and changes are occurring in its genetic make-up , small changes.
” “ Changes to it in China led to the virus becoming less virulent or sick-making … .
At the moment it ’ s not passing through a lot of people in Australia.
” Prof Frazer said coronavirus was less infectious and not as deadly as MERS , the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome or camel flu which broke out in South Korea in 2015 .
“ MERS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people sick , ” he said .
“ One person who went to South Korea from the Middle East infected 170 people and a third of those died … .
He went through four hospitals before he was diagnosed , but in South Korea they were very effective with contact tracing.
” “ MERS is much nastier .… than coronavirus.
” Prof Frazer explained the annual vaccines prepared against the winter flu by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories ( CSL ) were not entirely effective .
Each year CSL “ takes about a quarter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make the vaccine , ” he said .
“ We purify the protein parts of the virus out of the eggs and make the vaccine out of that .
“ But it ’ s not 100 per cent effective at all … for older people ( because ) as your immune system gets weaker as you get older .
“ With measles you are protected against it for life .
The vaccine kills any virus that gets into your blood .
“ We don ’ t have a mode that works against other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ currently developing vaccines for cancer , is working with a team of medical scientists on a trial for a coronavirus treatment drug .
The intervention drug ’ s purpose is to dampen down the inflammatory response in high-risk coronavirus patients .
He said for 99 per cent of people who got coronavirus it was a trivial illness , but that was not the case for those in the vulnerable categories .
See the full interview at News.com Australia *** Still , there are powerful forces at play who are determined to rush what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four-year process of vaccine research and development – and somehow squeeze all of that into an even highly unrealistic and potentially risky 6 to 18 months .
The UK government ’ s John Bell seems to be one of those promising a world record in deploying this new coronavirus ‘ solution ’ : “ If we can see evidence of a strong immune response by the middle or the end of May , then I think the game is on , ” he said , adding that the next step would then be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ manufacture at scale many billions of doses ” .
By rushing the process , western officials and their pharmaceutical ‘ partners ’ are effectively skipping animal testing and moving straight on to using humans as their guinea pigs .
“ Outbreaks and national emergencies often create pressure to suspend rights , standards and/or normal rules of ethical conduct .
Often our decision to do so seems unwise in retrospect , ” wrote Jonathan Kimmelman , director of McGill University ’ s biomedical ethics unit , for STAT .
Could such a hasty move @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unnecessarily ?
Should the general public be concerned that by releasing these humans out into the public then some people might also be more at risk to serious infection should they have a bad autoimmune reaction to an untested experimental vaccine ?
As it turns out , there are numerous problems already with the seasonal flu shot , and it only stands to reason that a vaccine for the common cold variant of the coronavirus will experience related problems of “ negative vaccine effectiveness ” , or the increase in risk of illness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ viruses .
Like any vaccine expected to cover for multiple variants of the coronavirus , we have learned from the Flu shot that this may not actually be possible .
Criticisms and failures of the annual Flu shot can be found here , here and here .
Such a rushed strategy by the world ’ s governments may pose additional problems in terms of risk to public health , but so far governments do not seem to mind in this case because supposedly ‘ the threat is too great to wait and follow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Far from being the ‘ sure thing ’ which people like Bill Gates , GAVI , and other health experts are claiming it to be , the idea that a working vaccine which the industry has never been able to manage in history , can all of the sudden be conjured up in a mater of months – could easily end up introducing more new problems into this situation in addition to the ones we have already .
All indications are that any rush to fast-track a vaccine for COVID-19 could end badly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are hyping this possibility .
The real question is : do they really have the public ’ s best interests in mind , or are there other more powerful ( and profitable ) overriding agendas at play here ?
LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW…

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More often than not, politicians will tell people what they want to hear, rather than what’s really true. Their oracle of choice for such messsaging is the mainstream media, who have been aggressively pushing the claim that a miracle vaccine for the coronavirus will be arriving “in a few months.” Are such claims really true, or are they hype? This is an important question to ask, especially as the promise of a new vaccine seems to be the centerpiece of most western governments’ strategies to ‘re-open’ their economies and societies after imposing draconian ‘lockdown’ measures designed to supposedly contain the spread of COVID-19.
The Guardian claims that human trials for a Covid-19 vaccine could be completed as early as mid-August. However, when pressed on the details, UK officials are reticent to promise anything specific.
John Bell from the government’s coronavirus vaccine taskforce admitted as much in a recent BBC interview:
“[The question is] will it protect people, and that has not been tested and it will only be tested once you have vaccinated a significant number of people and exposed them to the virus and counted how many people have got the virus in that population.” he said.
When asked recently, the UK government’s chief science advisor, Sir Patrick Vallance also reiterated that finding a coronavirus vaccine which actually works is anything but a fait accompli.
“This is a new disease that didn’t exist before December and we have a lot to learn about the virus and how the body responds to it,” said Vallance in The Guardian.
“All new vaccines that come into development are long shots; only some end up being successful, and the whole process requires experimentation.”
“Coronavirus will be no different and presents new challenges for vaccine development. This will take time, and we should be clear it is not a certainty.”
But how much time? Government officials in the UK, US and Canada seem to be using the vaccine as the cornerstone of their policy remedy to experimental ‘lockdown’ measures imposed in March and April. How long can they keep their mostly healthy citizens under house arrest before social unrest and disenchantment reaches unsustainable levels for government to retain power and control?
Currently there are some 100 different vaccine projects underway in the ‘Great Corona Race’ to see which one will be crowned the winner in the global panaceas sweepstakes. While this grand narrative sounds wonderful, and even inspirational to some, the reality is much more complex and even more problematic than anyone will care to admit, especially those who are bought and paid for by the transnational corporate pharmaceutical industry which stands to make hundreds of billions in profit should any COVID-19 vaccine ever be adopted for wide scale use.
Speaking to STAT, Mark Feinberg, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, whose work as chief public health and science officer at Merck Vaccines was instrumental in the development of the immunization against Ebola, stated the following:
“The traditional vaccine timeline is 15 to 20 years. That would not be acceptable here,” said “When you hear predictions about it taking at best a year or a year and a half to have a vaccine available … there’s no way to come close to those timelines unless we take new approaches.”
More skepticism was recently aired by an envoy from the World Health Organisation (WHO), warning that there is no certainty over whether there will be a successful vaccine.
“You don’t necessarily develop a vaccine that is safe and effective against every virus,” said David Nabarro, professor of global health at Imperial College London.
“Some viruses are very, very difficult when it comes to vaccine development,” he said to The Observer. “So for the foreseeable future, we are going to have to find ways to go about our lives with this virus as a constant threat.”
Among the leading high profile skeptics is one eminent Australian vaccine inventor who says COVID-19 may never have a preventive vaccine, but could possibly burn out.
The co-inventor of the controversial HPV vaccine, Professor Ian Frazer, admits that a workable vaccine for the coronavirus is “tricky” and may not even be possible. He is instead working on an anti-viral treatment for the most vulnerable who get sick. Frazer says that although 100 different teams around the world were testing vaccines, medical scientists still do not have an effective model of how to attack this virus.
Interestingly, Frazer stated that for 99% of people who catch it, COVID-19 is a “trivial illness.”
Candace Sutton from News.com Australia reports…
The professor of medicine at Queensland University, which is testing for its own COVID-19 vaccine, said immunisation against coronavirus was similar to immunising against the common cold. “It is tricky, vaccines for upper respiratory tract diseases, because the virus lands on the outside of you,” Prof Frazer said. “Think of us as a football, with the skin and respiratory tract on the outside of the football and the lungs are where the outside interfaces with the inside.” “The place where the virus lands is outside us and it tries to infect the cells within us.” “Our immune system is inside of us. When it lands inside our lungs it tries to infect our cells and succeeds. Our immune system goes to fight the virus and that’s why people get sick. “If the immune system turns on too strong it can cause damage to the lungs …. The wrong vaccine could make things worse so we have to be very selective about what part of the virus we want to attack.” “If you immunise someone with a vaccine, it goes inside and makes an immune response within you …. What you want is an immune response to migrate out to where the virus lands.” “There is no vaccine against the common cold.” Prof Frazer said that with flu, the immune response inside a person’s body didn’t occur until the flu virus gets inside them. “We tried to deliver a vaccine to the lungs with the Flu Mist which you snuffed up your nose, delivering the vaccine to the place where you need an immune response, but it didn’t work terribly well,” he said. “Coronavirus doesn’t get into you, it stays on the surface cells in your lungs. All these flu viruses get into you, so the body can fight and makes T cells.” “This virus doesn’t kill the cells, it makes them sick. At the moment we don’t know how to make a coronavirus vaccine work.” “That’s why there are 100 vaccines under testing using every conceivable approach ….We don’t know if any of them will work.” Prof Frazer said a vaccine for the 2003 SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak was never successfully developed and then the virus burnt out. SARS broke out in China and didn’t spread as far, partly because overseas travel by the Chinese population was not as great 17 years ago as it is today. But, Prof Frazer said, it also had diluted potency as it went from host to host. “As it passed from animal to the first human and then through the second human, as it passed through every human it got a little less good at infecting people,” he said. “The virus attenuated itself; it got less powerful …. It may well be the same with this virus. It’s not very effective in making us sick. It may become less effective.” “We are now mapping it as it goes and changes are occurring in its genetic make-up, small changes.” “Changes to it in China led to the virus becoming less virulent or sick-making …. At the moment it’s not passing through a lot of people in Australia.” Prof Frazer said coronavirus was less infectious and not as deadly as MERS, the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome or camel flu which broke out in South Korea in 2015. “MERS … was very efficient infecting and making people sick,” he said. “One person who went to South Korea from the Middle East infected 170 people and a third of those died …. He went through four hospitals before he was diagnosed, but in South Korea they were very effective with contact tracing.” “MERS is much nastier .… than coronavirus.” Prof Frazer explained the annual vaccines prepared against the winter flu by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) were not entirely effective. Each year CSL “takes about a quarter of Australia’s egg supply to make the vaccine,” he said. “We purify the protein parts of the virus out of the eggs and make the vaccine out of that. “But it’s not 100 per cent effective at all … for older people (because) as your immune system gets weaker as you get older. “With measles you are protected against it for life. The vaccine kills any virus that gets into your blood. “We don’t have a mode that works against other coronaviruses.” Prof Frazer, who is currently developing vaccines for cancer, is working with a team of medical scientists on a trial for a coronavirus treatment drug. The intervention drug’s purpose is to dampen down the inflammatory response in high-risk coronavirus patients. He said for 99 per cent of people who got coronavirus it was a trivial illness, but that was not the case for those in the vulnerable categories. See the full interview at News.com Australia ***
Still, there are powerful forces at play who are determined to rush what is even fast as a two to four-year process of vaccine research and development – and somehow squeeze all of that into an even highly unrealistic and potentially risky 6 to 18 months. The UK government’s John Bell seems to be one of those promising a world record in deploying this new coronavirus ‘solution’: “If we can see evidence of a strong immune response by the middle or the end of May, then I think the game is on,” he said, adding that the next step would then be “the massive issue of how you manufacture at scale many billions of doses”. By rushing the process, western officials and their pharmaceutical ‘partners’ are effectively skipping animal testing and moving straight on to using humans as their guinea pigs. “Outbreaks and national emergencies often create pressure to suspend rights, standards and/or normal rules of ethical conduct. Often our decision to do so seems unwise in retrospect,” wrote Jonathan Kimmelman, director of McGill University’s biomedical ethics unit, for STAT. Could such a hasty move also help proliferate a new mutated strain unnecessarily? Should the general public be concerned that by releasing these humans out into the public then some people might also be more at risk to serious infection should they have a bad autoimmune reaction to an untested experimental vaccine? As it turns out, there are numerous problems already with the seasonal flu shot, and it only stands to reason that a vaccine for the common cold variant of the coronavirus will experience related problems of “negative vaccine effectiveness”, or the increase in risk of illness from influenza (Flu) and non-influenza viruses. Like any vaccine expected to cover for multiple variants of the coronavirus, we have learned from the Flu shot that this may not actually be possible. Criticisms and failures of the annual Flu shot can be found here, here and here.
Such a rushed strategy by the world’s governments may pose additional problems in terms of risk to public health, but so far governments do not seem to mind in this case because supposedly ‘the threat is too great to wait and follow proper procedure.’ Is it really? Far from being the ‘sure thing’ which people like Bill Gates, GAVI, and other health experts are claiming it to be, the idea that a working vaccine which the industry has never been able to manage in history, can all of the sudden be conjured up in a mater of months – could easily end up introducing more new problems into this situation in addition to the ones we have already. All indications are that any rush to fast-track a vaccine for COVID-19 could end badly. Still, government and the media are hyping this possibility. The real question is: do they really have the public’s best interests in mind, or are there other more powerful (and profitable) overriding agendas at play here? LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW… READ MORE CORONAVIRUS NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Coronavirus Files SUPPORT OUR INDEPENDENT MEDIA PLATFORM – BECOME A MEMBER @21WIRE.TV


21stcenturywire--2020-04-21--A Voice of Reason in Storm of Corona Hysteria

Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis , a number of independent publications and journalists have come under attack from @ @ @ @ @ and their pundits defending risky government ‘ lockdown ’ policies and the suspension of civil @ @ @ @ @ the tide begins to turn and governments ’ lockdown logic rapidly erodes , these dissenting @ @ @ @ @ .
One voice of sanity amid all the pro-government hysteria has been British journalist Peter @ @ @ @ @ Forum speaks to Hitchens who directly challenges the UK government ’ s mass-panic Coronavirus lockdown @ @ @ @ @ enthusiastic embrace by the British public disturbs him greatly .
Hitchens also maintained that restricting @ @ @ @ @ a healthy population , and stalling a healthy economy is extremely dangerous – and even @ @ @ @ @ irreparable harm to individuals , society and the nation , and will ultimately threaten our @ @ @ @ @ Watch :

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Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, a number of independent publications and journalists have come under attack from corporate and state-run media outlets and their pundits defending risky government ‘lockdown’ policies and the suspension of civil liberties. However, as the tide begins to turn and governments’ lockdown logic rapidly erodes, these dissenting voices are now being vindicated. One voice of sanity amid all the pro-government hysteria has been British journalist Peter Hitchens.
The New Culture Forum speaks to Hitchens who directly challenges the UK government’s mass-panic Coronavirus lockdown policy and explains why its enthusiastic embrace by the British public disturbs him greatly. Hitchens also maintained that restricting civil liberties, locking down a healthy population, and stalling a healthy economy is extremely dangerous – and even reckless – activities that risk irreparable harm to individuals, society and the nation, and will ultimately threaten our very way of life. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-22--Pittsburgh ‘LGBTQ-friendly’ Bar Owners Slammed for Joining Anti-Lockdown Rally

Members of Pittsburgh ’ s LGBTQ community slammed the owners of two local nightclubs on social media for attending Monday ’ s “ Take Back Control ” anti-lockdown rally , according to Pittsburgh City Paper .
The husband and wife bar owners , Paul and Leah Martinez , co-own the CAVO and Cake establishments which have been frequent supporters and hosts of LGBTQ-friendly events at their venues in the Steel City .
Online attacks of the couple alleged they openly promoted the rally and attended it armed , based on photos taken during the event held in downtown Pittsburgh , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some brief video footage captured from the rally : A drag queen who performs under the name “ Lucille Lovegood ” posted to Facebook : “ The owners of Cavo/Cake feel the need to brandish their guns because they don ’ t understand how viruses work .
And to think they own lgbtq+ friendly spaces ” “ I ’ ve heard from friends on my timeline that [ Paul and Leah ] are [ Trump ] supporters .
After Trump ’ s calls to ‘ liberate ’ states , I can only imagine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weapons.
” In response to the attacks , which also included associating the business owners with a ‘ white nationalist ’ group that attended the protest , Mr. Martinez provided this statement : “ My wife and I attended a protest yesterday .
As you can see from the screenshots ( see below ) from the last week , I have been trying to get people from all sides to come together and stand against our government .
This wasn ’ t about us .
We own a large capacity venue , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any time soon due to social distancing and safety .
What it ’ s about is our government forcefully shutting down small businesses while letting huge corporations like Walmart , Home Depot/ Lowe ’ s and others operate while not allowing the same type of business owned by the little guy .
The government said they would help small businesses and their employees , but so many small places are closing their doors for good because the help never came .
We aren ’ t saying the virus isn ’ t real or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ others .
Everyone does .
And we certainly aren ’ t ‘ white supremacists ’ .
That is just silly .
And yes to answer your question , we have been doing LGBTQ events for almost 12 years .
We support LGBTQ community and will continue to do so .
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Slowly but surely, America is coming unglued over the indefinite nature of Central Government’s ‘lockdown’ policies…
“Take Back Control” rally in Pittsburgh on Monday. (Photo credit: Andrew Rush/AP)
Members of Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ community slammed the owners of two local nightclubs on social media for attending Monday’s “Take Back Control” anti-lockdown rally, according to Pittsburgh City Paper.
The husband and wife bar owners, Paul and Leah Martinez, co-own the CAVO and Cake establishments and have been frequent supporters and hosts of LGBTQ-friendly events at their venues in the Steel City.
Online attacks of the couple alleged they openly promoted the rally and attended it armed, based on photos taken during the event held in downtown Pittsburgh, an open carry city.
Here is some brief video footage captured at the rally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_FBxWkQ-Ic
A drag queen who performs under the name “Lucille Lovegood” posted to Facebook:
“The owners of Cavo/Cake feel the need to brandish their guns because they don’t understand how viruses work. And to think they own lgbtq+ friendly spaces” “I’ve heard from friends on my timeline that [Paul and Leah] are [Trump] supporters. After Trump’s calls to ‘liberate’ states, I can only imagine what their intentions are when carrying around weapons.”
In response to the attacks, which also included associating the business owners with a ‘white nationalist’ group that attended the protest, Mr. Martinez provided this statement:
“My wife and I attended a protest yesterday. As you can see from the screenshots (see below) from the last week, I have been trying to get people from all sides to come together and stand against our government. This wasn’t about us. We own a large capacity venue, we already know we aren’t opening any time soon due to social distancing and safety.
What it’s about is our government forcefully shutting down small businesses while letting huge corporations like Walmart, Home Depot/ Lowe’s and others operate while not allowing the same type of business owned by the little guy.
The government said they would help small businesses and their employees, but so many small places are closing their doors for good because the help never came. We aren’t saying the virus isn’t real or that we don’t care about others. Everyone does.
And we certainly aren’t ‘white supremacists’. That is just silly.
And yes to answer your question, we have been doing LGBTQ events for almost 12 years. We support LGBTQ community and will continue to do so.”
Governor Tom Wolf recently extended Pennsylvania’s statewide coronavirus lockdown order to May 8th.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-22--FLU WORLD ORDER: Trump Hires Thiel’s Palantir to Track Americans with Chinese-Style Surveillance App

IMAGE : US President Donald Trump together with Silicon Valley scion and top Bilderberg Steering Committee member Peter Thiel .
As 21WIRE has pointed out in previous reports , in their response to the coronavirus , Western governments have consistently looked to and copied almost all of the authoritarian measures and tactics employed by the Chinese state .
Amid this global panic atmosphere , Western governments seem as keen as ever to show their public and the international community that they have the crisis ‘ under control ’ .
However , few politicians or media pundits have bothered to stop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social control grid is both appropriate and practical for western democracies .
Is this system really necessary considering that real epidemiological science says that populations will normally be protected by achieving natural herd immunity ?
How will a total surveillance state imposed on citizens via a ‘ virus ’ tracking app ’ impact the rights and civil liberties of individuals and families ?
Will this system be used to activate digital ID ‘ immunity passports ’ and be used to exclude and segregate people ?
Clearly , political leaders are not asking any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Leading the way in copying the Chinese system is US President Donald Trump , who has just hired the shadowy artificial intelligence firm Palantir in order to design and implement the ‘ big data backbone ’ for a new total surveillance tracking system and COVID-19 ‘ contact tracing ’ app which provides a convenient platform for other ‘ one size fits all ’ programs such as government mandated mass-vaccinations , and Microsoft and Bill Gates ’ GAVI ( Global Vaccine Alliance ) who are pushing for ID 2020 ‘ digital ID ’ to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ passports ‘ which will be used to restrict a person ’ s travel based on their vaccine history stored on a person ’ s body or phone .
Governments are now cynically dangling the prospect of immunity passports as a ‘ solution ’ which will “ safely allow people to re-enter society and go back to work.
” The Hill reports : “ A few countries have started considering issuing “ immunity passports ” or some kind of certificates indicating a person has immunity to COVID-19 .
Although in theory this is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relies on several factors for it to work properly and safely.
” In this way , by using Peter Thiel and Palantir to supply this A.I.-led infrastructure , Donald Trump and his federal government will be able to plug into Bill Gates , W.H.O .
and the pharmaceutical industry ’ s global vaccine plan using big government and big pharma to force through their own theory of ‘ synthetic immunity ’ by vaccinating every man , woman and child on the planet , as Gates himself stated publicly that he plans to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and brutality of this Chinese-style system which the US and allied countries are currently attempting to rush through into implementation without any judicial review – please watch this harrowing WSJ report ( March 2020 ) from inside China which accurately depicts how invasive and restrictive this new technocracy actually is : .
Make no mistake .
These are the foundations of a new technocracy , anchored by a Chinese-style , digitally-driven system of ‘ medical martial law ‘ which is already being officially rolled-out in parts of the United States… A Silicon Valley @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Donald Trump will play a major new role in helping the government track the spread of the coronavirus , pulling information that is being used by top administration officials , including the president himself .
Palantir , the data-mining firm created by investor Peter Thiel , is best known for its work with global intelligence , military , and law enforcement agencies .
Now , the company has a contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help the federal government create a new data platform called HHS Protect Now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Palantir will provide a major aspect of the analytics platform .
Sources familiar told The Daily Beast that Palantir ’ s data suites will be a primary contributor to HHS Protect Now , if not the core element of the tool .
Palantir ’ s involvement in the creation of a new government coronavirus data platform system underscores the Trump administration ’ s reliance on close political allies of the president to respond to the global pandemic .
Thiel was Trump ’ s earliest and highest-profile backer in Silicon Valley , and delivered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National Convention .
A top donor to conservative causes and the first outside investor in Facebook , Thiel was , according to The Wall Street Journal , instrumental in pushing the social networking giant to allow politicians to lie in advertisements on the platform .
It ’ s a policy that many outside observers believe will help the Trump campaign—which Thiel has again pledged to support .
Palantir , which Thiel helped found—and still retains a sizeable stake in —has watched its already-lucrative government business skyrocket in the Trump era .
Palantir “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Customs Enforcement “ as it carried out President Trump ’ s increasingly controversial policies for apprehending and deporting undocumented immigrants , ” according to The Washington Post .
The firm had anticipated going public , although the coronavirus may have delayed plans for an IPO .
The HHS Protect Now platform , which is set to be unveiled later this week , pulls data from across the federal government , state and local governments , healthcare facilities , and colleges , to help administration officials determine how to “ mitigate and prevent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a spokesperson for the department… See more on this story at The Daily Beast

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IMAGE: US President Donald Trump together with Silicon Valley scion and top Bilderberg Steering Committee member Peter Thiel.
As 21WIRE has pointed out in previous reports, in their response to the coronavirus, Western governments have consistently looked to and copied almost all of the authoritarian measures and tactics employed by the Chinese state. Amid this global panic atmosphere, Western governments seem as keen as ever to show their public and the international community that they have the crisis ‘under control’. However, few politicians or media pundits have bothered to stop and consider whether China’s authoritarian social control grid is both appropriate and practical for western democracies. Is this system really necessary considering that real epidemiological science says that populations will normally be protected by achieving natural herd immunity? How will a total surveillance state imposed on citizens via a ‘virus’ tracking app’ impact the rights and civil liberties of individuals and families? Will this system be used to activate digital ID ‘immunity passports’ and be used to exclude and segregate people?
Clearly, political leaders are not asking any of these important questions right now. Leading the way in copying the Chinese system is US President Donald Trump, who has just hired the shadowy artificial intelligence firm Palantir in order to design and implement the ‘big data backbone’ for a new total surveillance tracking system and COVID-19 ‘contact tracing’ app which provides a convenient platform for other ‘one size fits all’ programs such as government mandated mass-vaccinations, and Microsoft and Bill Gates’ GAVI (Global Vaccine Alliance) who are pushing for ID 2020 ‘digital ID’ to activate a technocratic system of ‘immunity passports‘ which will be used to restrict a person’s travel based on their vaccine history stored on a person’s body or phone.
Governments are now cynically dangling the prospect of immunity passports as a ‘solution’ which will “safely allow people to re-enter society and go back to work.” The Hill reports:
“A few countries have started considering issuing “immunity passports” or some kind of certificates indicating a person has immunity to COVID-19. Although in theory this is a strategy that could work, it still relies on several factors for it to work properly and safely.”
In this way, by using Peter Thiel and Palantir to supply this A.I.-led infrastructure, Donald Trump and his federal government will be able to plug into Bill Gates, W.H.O. and the pharmaceutical industry’s global vaccine plan using big government and big pharma to force through their own theory of ‘synthetic immunity’ by vaccinating every man, woman and child on the planet, as Gates himself stated publicly that he plans to do.
To fully understand the impersonal nature and brutality of this Chinese-style system which the US and allied countries are currently attempting to rush through into implementation without any judicial review – please watch this harrowing WSJ report (March 2020) from inside China which accurately depicts how invasive and restrictive this new technocracy actually is:
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Make no mistake. These are the foundations of a new technocracy, anchored by a Chinese-style, digitally-driven system of ‘medical martial law‘ which is already being officially rolled-out in parts of the United States…
The Daily Beast reports…
A Silicon Valley company co-founded by a close ally of President Donald Trump will play a major new role in helping the government track the spread of the coronavirus, pulling information that is being used by top administration officials, including the president himself.
Palantir, the data-mining firm created by investor Peter Thiel, is best known for its work with global intelligence, military, and law enforcement agencies. Now, the company has a contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help the federal government create a new data platform called HHS Protect Now.
The Daily Beast has confirmed that Palantir will provide a major aspect of the analytics platform. Sources familiar told The Daily Beast that Palantir’s data suites will be a primary contributor to HHS Protect Now, if not the core element of the tool.
Palantir’s involvement in the creation of a new government coronavirus data platform system underscores the Trump administration’s reliance on close political allies of the president to respond to the global pandemic. Thiel was Trump’s earliest and highest-profile backer in Silicon Valley, and delivered a prime-time speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention. A top donor to conservative causes and the first outside investor in Facebook, Thiel was, according to The Wall Street Journal, instrumental in pushing the social networking giant to allow politicians to lie in advertisements on the platform. It’s a policy that many outside observers believe will help the Trump campaign—which Thiel has again pledged to support.
Palantir, which Thiel helped found—and still retains a sizeable stake in —has watched its already-lucrative government business skyrocket in the Trump era. Palantir “provided digital profiling tools” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement “as it carried out President Trump’s increasingly controversial policies for apprehending and deporting undocumented immigrants,” according to The Washington Post. The firm had anticipated going public, although the coronavirus may have delayed plans for an IPO.
The HHS Protect Now platform, which is set to be unveiled later this week, pulls data from across the federal government, state and local governments, healthcare facilities, and colleges, to help administration officials determine how to “mitigate and prevent spread” of the coronavirus, according to a spokesperson for the department…
See more on this story at The Daily Beast
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-22--COVID-19: Comparing Results of LOCKDOWN vs NON-LOCKDOWN States

Since the Coronavirus crisis began , western politicians looked to China for nearly all of their response policies , including the reactionary decision to impose a Medieval-style ‘ Lockdown ’ – effectively shutting down their economies and societies in order to try and contain the novel coronavirus .
After some weeks into this crisis , we are now able to begin the analysis of comparing these two policies and their results – between Lockdown and Non-Lockdown countries .
The results seem crystal clear already : the Non-Lockdown countries , as well as Non-Lockdown states within the USA , have generally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of lower deaths per millions .
But that ’ s not all .
All of this should beg the question : why did governments from Lockdown states ignore the real science and opt instead for an experimental medieval-style universal-national quarantine approach ?
Is it possible that mass-panic and rushed Lockdown polices have actually contributed to more unnecessary deaths and collateral damage that could have otherwise been avoided by adopted a more cool , calm and intelligent science-based approach taken by Non-Lockdown countries like Sweden , Japan , Iceland , Belarus , South Korea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Non-Lockdown countries and states have achieved much more favorable results without having to ruin their economies and societies by voluntarily initiating a downward spiral that could end up being hundreds of millions of lives , families , businesses and communities in the process .
Lockdown governments may have also put their own populations at a great long-term risk by denying their own populations the opportunity of achieving natural ‘ herd immunity ’ , thus putting them at greater risk to a ‘ second wave ’ of COVD-19 infections .
Indeed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then clearly thus was an epic fail for panic-driven , reactionary Pro-Lockdown governments .
UKC News co-hosts Patrick Henningsen and Mike Robinson analyze this important issue and ask the crucial questions which the mainstream media have refused to do throughout the duration of this global crisis .
The following is an edited segment from a live news program broadcast from April 17 , 2020 .
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Since the Coronavirus crisis began, western politicians looked to China for nearly all of their response policies, including the reactionary decision to impose a Medieval-style ‘Lockdown’ – effectively shutting down their economies and societies in order to try and contain the novel coronavirus. After some weeks into this crisis, we are now able to begin the analysis of comparing these two policies and their results – between Lockdown and Non-Lockdown countries. The results seem crystal clear already: the Non-Lockdown countries, as well as Non-Lockdown states within the USA, have generally out-performed the Lockdown states by the metric of lower deaths per millions. But that’s not all.
All of this should beg the question: why did governments from Lockdown states ignore the real science and opt instead for an experimental medieval-style universal-national quarantine approach? Is it possible that mass-panic and rushed Lockdown polices have actually contributed to more unnecessary deaths and collateral damage that could have otherwise been avoided by adopting a more cool, calm and intelligent science-based approach taken by Non-Lockdown countries like Sweden, Japan, Iceland, Belarus, South Korea and Taiwan? What’s more, the Non-Lockdown countries and states have achieved much more favorable results without having to ruin their economies and societies by voluntarily initiating a downward spiral that could end up destroying hundreds of millions of lives, families, businesses and communities in the process. Lockdown governments may have also put their own populations at a great long-term risk by denying their own populations the opportunity of achieving natural ‘herd immunity’, thus putting them at greater risk to a ‘second wave’ of COVD-19 infections. Indeed, if this was a government IQ test, then clearly this was an epic fail for panic-driven, reactionary Pro-Lockdown governments.
UKC News co-hosts Patrick Henningsen and Mike Robinson analyze this important issue and ask the crucial questions which the mainstream media have refused to do throughout the duration of this global crisis. The following is an edited segment from a live news program broadcast from April 17, 2020. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-23--Hitchens: ‘Coronavirus Lockdown is Like a National Heart Attack’

As 21WIRE has pointed out main times previously , Lockdown governments are now faced with the horrific conundrum of not @ @ @ @ @ own fatal policy decisions .
Journalist Peter Hitchens tells Talk Radio host Mike Graham that @ @ @ @ @ sustainable “ for very much longer .
People have put up with it … but @ @ @ @ @ If the government don ’ t act there will be a unilateral undermining of the @ @ @ @ @ there not seem to be any government action or radical intervention in the world that @ @ @ @ @ of deaths and infections , and that until there is a general debate on whether @ @ @ @ @ approach is correct or not on factual grounds , we are “ unlikely to get @ @ @ @ @ likened coronavirus to something “ like a national heart attack ” – where there is @ @ @ @ @ economic damage if we let the current situation go on too long .
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As 21WIRE has pointed out many
times previously, Lockdown governments are now faced with the horrific conundrum of not being able to exit their own fatal policy decisions.
Journalist Peter Hitchens tells Talk Radio host Mike Graham that the coronavirus lockdown is not sustainable “for very much longer. People have put up with it … but there is a limit. If the government don’t act there will be a unilateral undermining of the lockdown.” He maintains that there does not seem to be any government action or radical intervention in the world that has materially altered the numbers of deaths and infections, and that until there is a general debate on whether the government’s policy approach is correct or not on factual grounds, we are “unlikely to get anywhere”.
Hitchens has likened coronavirus to something “like a national heart attack” – where there is a risk of long term economic damage if we let the current situation go on too long. Listen:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-23--‘Similar to Flu’ – Dr. Ioannidis explains why COVID-19 isn’t as deadly as previously thought

In this follow-up interview with Stanford University ’ s Dr John Ioannidis , he explain the findings from three preliminary studies , ( including his latest , which shows a drastically reduced infection fatality rate ) ; the negative health and economic effects of draconian ‘ lockdown ’ policies , as well as Sweden ’ s non-lockdown approach , Italian data , the pro ’ s and cons of testing and finally the feasibility of much touted ‘ contact tracing ’ , and much more .
According to their new findings , the infection fatality rate for COVID-19 is significantly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you take these new numbers into account , they suggest that the fatality rate for this new coronavirus is likely to be “ in same the ballpark of seasonal influenza , ” says Dr Ioannidis .
Dr John P.A .
Ioannidis is a professor of medicine and professor of epidemiology and population health , as well as professor by courtesy of biomedical data science at Stanford University School of Medicine , professor by courtesy of statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences , and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Interview by John Kirby from Press & The Public Project with Dr. Ioannidis .
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In this follow-up interview with Stanford University’s Dr John Ioannidis, he explains the findings from three preliminary studies, (including his latest, which shows a drastically reduced infection fatality rate); the negative health and economic effects of draconian ‘lockdown’ policies, as well as Sweden’s non-lockdown approach, Italian data, the pros and cons of testing and finally the feasibility of much touted ‘contact tracing’, and much more.
According to their new findings, the infection fatality rate for COVID-19 is significantly lower than previously assumed. “If you take these new numbers into account, they suggest that the fatality rate for this new coronavirus is likely to be “in same the ballpark of seasonal influenza,” says Dr Ioannidis.
Dr John P.A. Ioannidis is a professor of medicine and professor of epidemiology and population health, as well as professor by courtesy of biomedical data science at Stanford University School of Medicine, professor by courtesy of statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) at Stanford University.
Interview by John Kirby from Press & The Public Project with Dr. Ioannidis. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-23--California: New Study Shows Higher COVID-19 Cases, With Much Lower Death Rate

How prevalent is the coronavirus in California and if the case fatality rate as high as previously thought ?
As the real data comes in , experts are asking whether California ’ s ‘ Shelter-in Place ’ aka lockdown orders , really justified ?
According to this latest study , prevalence of the virus is between 50 to 85 times higher than previously thought .
“ It ’ s probably as deadly as the flu , or a little bit worse , ” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford University .
“ A month ago , we interviewed Dr. Jay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shuttering the economy and governments were ordering citizens to shelter at home .
In that interview , Dr. Bhattacharya mentioned that he himself would soon be conducting tests for COVID-19 in Santa Clara County , California , one of the most active hotspots in the country .
Today Dr. Bhattacharya returns to discuss the results of that study and one currently under way in partnership with Major League Baseball .
We also discuss some signs of hope , and specifics about how the economy can be restarted safely and efficiently .
Dr. Bhattacharya @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Dr. Anthony Fauci , California governor Gavin Newsom , and president Donald Trump.
” Dr. Bhattacharya discusses his findings with Peter Robinson from Hoover Institution at Stanford University .
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How prevalent is the coronavirus in California and is the case fatality rate as high as previously thought? As the real data comes in, experts are asking whether California’s ‘Shelter-in Place’ aka lockdown orders, are really justified? According to this latest study, prevalence of the virus is between 50 to 85 times higher than previously thought. “It’s probably as deadly as the flu, or a little bit worse,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford University.
“A month ago, we interviewed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya just as the COVID-19 crisis was shuttering the economy and governments were ordering citizens to shelter at home. In that interview, Dr. Bhattacharya mentioned that he himself would soon be conducting tests for COVID-19 in Santa Clara County, California, one of the most active hotspots in the country. Today Dr. Bhattacharya returns to discuss the results of that study and one currently under way in partnership with Major League Baseball. We also discuss some signs of hope, and specifics about how the economy can be restarted safely and efficiently. Dr. Bhattacharya also gives some (unsolicited) advice to Dr. Anthony Fauci, California governor Gavin Newsom, and president Donald Trump.”
Dr. Bhattacharya discusses his findings with Peter Robinson from Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-24--UKC News: Are ‘Lockdown’ Policies Increasing Casualties Numbers?

Was the ‘ Lockdown ’ justified ?
On what basis were such risky policy decisions taken ?
New data seems @ @ @ @ @ was it not justified , but Lockdown policies appear to be driving-up casualty numbers .
@ @ @ @ @ allies attempt to blame China for the coronavirus and all of the economic damage suffered @ @ @ @ @ lockdown policies , incredibly , the US , UK , Spain and others seem to @ @ @ @ @ ’ s grandiose and authoritarian reactions and measures to ‘ tackle the pandemic ’ .
@ @ @ @ @ has tasked the British Army ’ s online troll division , Brigade 77 , to @ @ @ @ @ the public conversation on social media back in favour of Central Government .
Again , @ @ @ @ @ copy China ’ s model of state-sponsored censorship .
Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen @ @ @ @ @ updates and discussion .
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Was the ‘Lockdown’ justified? On what basis were such risky policy decisions taken? New data seems to suggest that not only was it not justified, but Lockdown policies appear to be driving-up casualty numbers. While the US and its allies attempt to blame China for the coronavirus and all of the economic damage suffered from the West’s lockdown policies, incredibly, the US, UK, Spain and others seem to be emulating all of China’s grandiose and authoritarian reactions and measures to ‘tackle the pandemic’. Also, the UK government has tasked the British Army’s online troll division, Brigade 77, to try and ‘influence’ the public conversation on social media back in favour of Central Government. Again, the Western powers continue to copy China’s model of state-sponsored censorship.
Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen bringing you the latest Coronavirus updates and discussion. Watch:
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