pamelagellerreport--2020-04-27--World’s leading Stanford scientist under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdown

World’s leading Stanford scientist under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdowns

Everything we have been told about Coronavirus has been inaccurate and untrue .
The projected millions dead , overwhelmed hospitals , the lack of hospital beds etc never happened .
Those of us who reported on the actuals and questioned the panic and overreacion were designated fake news and tin foil hatters .
Stanford scientist John Ioannidis finds himself under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdowns .
Stanford scientist John Ioannidis finds himself under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdowns .
Defenders of coronavirus lockdown mandates keep talking about science .
“ We are going to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by politics , not judge by protests , but by science , ” California ’ s Gov .
Gavin Newsom said this week .
Michigan Gov .
Gretchen Whitmer defended an order that , among other things , banned the sale of paint and vegetable seeds but not liquor or lottery tickets .
“ Each action has been informed by the best science and epidemiology counsel there is , ” she wrote in an op-ed .
But scientists are almost never unanimous , and many appeals to “ science ” are transparently political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ John Ioannidis , a professor at Stanford ’ s School of Medicine .
His expertise is wide-ranging—he juggles appointments in statistics , biomedical data , prevention research and health research and policy .
Google Scholar ranks him among the world ’ s 100 most-cited scientists .
He has published more than 1,000 papers , many of them meta-analyses—reviews of other studies .
Yet he ’ s now found himself pilloried because he dissents from the theories behind the lockdowns—because he ’ s looked at the data and found good news .
In a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ioannidis argued that Covid-19 is far less deadly than modelers were assuming .
He considered the experience of the Diamond Princess cruise ship , which was quarantined Feb. 4 in Japan .
Nine of 700 infected passengers and crew died .
Based on the demographics of the ship ’ s population , Dr. Ioannidis estimated that the U.S. fatality rate could be as low as 0.025 % to 0.625 % and put the upper bound at 0.05 % to 1 % —comparable to that of seasonal flu .
“ If that is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational .
It ’ s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat .
Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat , the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies.
” Dr. Ioannidis , 54 , likes metaphors .
A New York native who grew up in Athens , he also teaches comparative literature and has published seven literary works—poetry and fiction , the latest being an epistolary novel—in Greek .
In his spare time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hike and play basketball .
Early in his career , he realized that “ the common denominator for everything that I was doing was that I was very interested in the methods—not necessarily the results but how exactly you do that , how exactly you try to avoid bias , how you avoid error.
” When he began examining studies , he discovered that few headline-grabbing findings could be replicated , and many were later contradicted by new evidence .
Scientific studies are often infected by biases .
“ Several years ago , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we had mapped 235 biases across science .
And maybe the biggest cluster is biases that are trying to generate significant , spectacular , fascinating , extraordinary results , ” he says .
“ Early results tend to be inflated .
Claims for significance tend to be exaggerated.
” An example is a 2012 meta-analysis on nutritional research , in which he randomly selected 50 common cooking ingredients , such as sugar , flour and milk .
Eighty percent of them had been studied for links to cancer , and 72 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ higher or lower risk .
Yet three-quarters of the findings were weak or statistically insignificant .
Dr. Ioannidis calls the coronavirus pandemic “ the perfect storm of that quest for very urgent , spectacular , exciting , apocalyptic results .
And as you see , apparently our early estimates seem to have been tremendously exaggerated in many fronts.
” Chief among them was a study by modelers at Imperial College London , which predicted more than 2.2 million coronavirus deaths in the U.S. absent “ any control measures or spontaneous changes in individual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 16—the same day the Trump administration released its “ 15 Days to Slow the Spread ” initiative , which included strict social-distancing guidelines .
Dr. Ioannidis says the Imperial projection now appears to be a gross overestimate .
“ They used inputs that were completely off in some of their calculation , ” he says .
“ If data are limited or flawed , their errors are being propagated through the model .
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.
.
So if you have a small error , and you exponentiate that error , the magnitude of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whatever can be astronomical.
” “ I love models , ” he adds .
“ I do a lot of mathematical modeling myself .
But I think we need to recognize that they ’ re very , very low in terms of how much weight we can place on them and how much we can trust them .
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.
.
They can give you a very first kind of mathematical justification to a gut feeling , but beyond that point , depending on models for evidence , I think it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ refuse to disclose their assumptions or data , so their errors go undetected .
Los Angeles County predicted last week that 95.6 % of its population would be infected by August if social distancing orders were relaxed .
( Confirmed cases were 0.17 % of the population as of Thursday . )
But the basis for this projection is unclear .
“ At a minimum , we need openness and transparency in order to be able to say anything , ” Dr. Ioannidis says .
Most important , “ what we need is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We need data on how many people are infected so far , how many people are actively infected , what is really the death rate , how many beds do we have to spare , how has this changed.
” That will require more testing .
Dr. Ioannidis and colleagues at Stanford last week published a study on the prevalence of coronavirus antibodies in Santa Clara County .
Based on blood tests of 3,300 volunteers in the county—which includes San Jose , California ’ s third-largest city—during the first week of April , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 4.16 % of the county population had been infected .
That ’ s 50 to 85 times the number of confirmed cases and implies a fatality rate between 0.12 % and 0.2 % , consistent with that of the Diamond Princess .
The study immediately came under attack .
Some statisticians questioned its methods .
Critics noted the study sample was not randomly selected , and white women under 64 were disproportionately represented .
The Stanford team adjusted for the sampling bias by weighting the results by sex , race and ZIP Code @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other biases , such as bias favoring individuals in good health capable of attending our testing sites , or bias favoring those with prior Covid-like illnesses seeking antibody confirmation are also possible .
The overall effect of such biases is hard to ascertain.
” Dr. Ioannidis admits his study isn ’ t “ bulletproof ” and says he welcomes scrutiny .
But he ’ s confident the findings will hold up , and he says antibody studies from around the world will yield more data .
A study published this week by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Angeles County Department of Public Health estimated that the virus is 28 to 55 times as prevalent in that county as confirmed cases are .
A New York study released Thursday estimated that 13.9 % of the state and 21.2 % of the city had been infected , more than 10 times the confirmed cases .
Yet most criticism of the Stanford study has been aimed at defending the lockdown mandates against the implication that they ’ re an overreaction .
“ There ’ s some sort of mob mentality here operating that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be the end of the world , and it has to be that the sky is falling .
It ’ s attacking studies with data based on speculation and science fiction , ” he says .
“ But dismissing real data in favor of mathematical speculation is mind-boggling.
” In part he blames the media : “ We have some evidence that bad news , negative news [ stories ] , are more attractive than positive news—they lead to more clicks , they lead to people being more engaged .
And of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than true news .
So in the current environment , unfortunately , we have generated a very heavily panic-driven , horror-driven , death-reality-show type of situation.
” The news is filled with stories of healthy young people who die of coronavirus .
But Dr. Ioannidis recently published a paper with his wife , Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis , an infectious-disease specialist at Stanford , that showed this to be a classic man-bites-dog story .
The couple found that people under 65 without underlying conditions accounted for only 0.7 % of coronavirus deaths in Italy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Compared to almost any other cause of disease that I can think of , it ’ s really sparing young people .
I ’ m not saying that the lives of 80-year-olds do not have value—they do , ” he says .
“ But there ’ s far , far , far more .
.
.
young people who commit suicide.
” If the panic and attendant disruption continue , he says , “ we will see many young people committing suicide .
.
.
just because we are spreading horror stories @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , far more young people who get cancer and will not be treated , because again , they will not go to the hospital to get treated because of Covid-19 .
There ’ s far , far more people whose mental health will collapse.
” He argues that public officials need to weigh these factors when making public-health decisions , and more hard data from antibody and other studies will help .
“ I think that we should just take everything that we know , put it on the table , and try @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s the next step , and see what happens when we take the next step .
I think this sort of data-driven feedback will be the best .
So you start opening , you start opening your schools .
You can see what happens , ” he says .
“ We need to be open minded , we need to just be calm , allow for some error , it ’ s unavoidable .
We started knowing nothing .
We know a lot now , but we still don ’ t know everything.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the efficacy of lockdowns based on national infection and fatality rates .
“ It ’ s not that we have randomized 10 countries to go into lockdown and another 10 countries to remain relatively open and see what happens , and do that randomly .
Different prime ministers , different presidents , different task forces make decisions , they implement them in different sequences , at different times , in different phases of the epidemic .
And then people start looking at this data and they say , ‘ Oh look at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Why ?
Oh , because of this measure.
’ This is completely , completely opinion-based.
” People are making “ big statements about ‘ lockdowns save the world.
’ I think that they ’ re immature .
They ’ re tremendously immature .
They may have worked in some cases , they may have had no effect in others , and they may have been damaging still in others.
” Most disagreements among scientists , he notes , reflect differences in perspective , not facts .
Some find the Stanford study worrisome @ @ @ @ @ @ @ easily transmitted , while others are hopeful because it suggests the virus is far less lethal .
“ It ’ s basically an issue of whether you ’ re an optimist or a pessimist .
Even scientists can be optimists and pessimists .
Probably usually I ’ m a pessimist , but in this case , I ’ m probably an optimist .
”

Everything we have been told about Coronavirus has been inaccurate and untrue. The projected millions dead, overwhelmed hospitals, the lack of hospital beds etc never happened. Those of us who reported on the actuals and questioned the panic and overreacion were designated fake news and tin foil hatters.
The Bearer of Good Coronavirus News
Stanford scientist John Ioannidis finds himself under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdowns.
The Wall Street, April 27, 2020:
Stanford scientist John Ioannidis finds himself under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdowns.
Defenders of coronavirus lockdown mandates keep talking about science. “We are going to do the right thing, not judge by politics, not judge by protests, but by science,” California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer defended an order that, among other things, banned the sale of paint and vegetable seeds but not liquor or lottery tickets. “Each action has been informed by the best science and epidemiology counsel there is,” she wrote in an op-ed.
But scientists are almost never unanimous, and many appeals to “science” are transparently political or ideological. Consider the story of John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford’s School of Medicine. His expertise is wide-ranging—he juggles appointments in statistics, biomedical data, prevention research and health research and policy. Google Scholar ranks him among the world’s 100 most-cited scientists. He has published more than 1,000 papers, many of them meta-analyses—reviews of other studies. Yet he’s now found himself pilloried because he dissents from the theories behind the lockdowns—because he’s looked at the data and found good news.
In a March article for Stat News, Dr. Ioannidis argued that Covid-19 is far less deadly than modelers were assuming. He considered the experience of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined Feb. 4 in Japan. Nine of 700 infected passengers and crew died. Based on the demographics of the ship’s population, Dr. Ioannidis estimated that the U.S. fatality rate could be as low as 0.025% to 0.625% and put the upper bound at 0.05% to 1%—comparable to that of seasonal flu.
“If that is the true rate,” he wrote, “locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It’s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies.”
Dr. Ioannidis, 54, likes metaphors. A New York native who grew up in Athens, he also teaches comparative literature and has published seven literary works—poetry and fiction, the latest being an epistolary novel—in Greek. In his spare time, he likes to fence, swim, hike and play basketball.
Early in his career, he realized that “the common denominator for everything that I was doing was that I was very interested in the methods—not necessarily the results but how exactly you do that, how exactly you try to avoid bias, how you avoid error.” When he began examining studies, he discovered that few headline-grabbing findings could be replicated, and many were later contradicted by new evidence.
Scientific studies are often infected by biases. “Several years ago, along with one of my colleagues, we had mapped 235 biases across science. And maybe the biggest cluster is biases that are trying to generate significant, spectacular, fascinating, extraordinary results,” he says. “Early results tend to be inflated. Claims for significance tend to be exaggerated.”
An example is a 2012 meta-analysis on nutritional research, in which he randomly selected 50 common cooking ingredients, such as sugar, flour and milk. Eighty percent of them had been studied for links to cancer, and 72% of the studies linked an ingredient to a higher or lower risk. Yet three-quarters of the findings were weak or statistically insignificant.
Dr. Ioannidis calls the coronavirus pandemic “the perfect storm of that quest for very urgent, spectacular, exciting, apocalyptic results. And as you see, apparently our early estimates seem to have been tremendously exaggerated in many fronts.”
Chief among them was a study by modelers at Imperial College London, which predicted more than 2.2 million coronavirus deaths in the U.S. absent “any control measures or spontaneous changes in individual behaviour.” The study was published March 16—the same day the Trump administration released its “15 Days to Slow the Spread” initiative, which included strict social-distancing guidelines.
Dr. Ioannidis says the Imperial projection now appears to be a gross overestimate. “They used inputs that were completely off in some of their calculation,” he says. “If data are limited or flawed, their errors are being propagated through the model. . . . So if you have a small error, and you exponentiate that error, the magnitude of the final error in the prediction or whatever can be astronomical.”
“I love models,” he adds. “I do a lot of mathematical modeling myself. But I think we need to recognize that they’re very, very low in terms of how much weight we can place on them and how much we can trust them. . . . They can give you a very first kind of mathematical justification to a gut feeling, but beyond that point, depending on models for evidence, I think it’s a very bad recipe.”
Modelers sometimes refuse to disclose their assumptions or data, so their errors go undetected. Los Angeles County predicted last week that 95.6% of its population would be infected by August if social distancing orders were relaxed. (Confirmed cases were 0.17% of the population as of Thursday.) But the basis for this projection is unclear. “At a minimum, we need openness and transparency in order to be able to say anything,” Dr. Ioannidis says.
Most important, “what we need is data. We need real data. We need data on how many people are infected so far, how many people are actively infected, what is really the death rate, how many beds do we have to spare, how has this changed.”
That will require more testing. Dr. Ioannidis and colleagues at Stanford last week published a study on the prevalence of coronavirus antibodies in Santa Clara County. Based on blood tests of 3,300 volunteers in the county—which includes San Jose, California’s third-largest city—during the first week of April, they estimated that between 2.49% and 4.16% of the county population had been infected. That’s 50 to 85 times the number of confirmed cases and implies a fatality rate between 0.12% and 0.2%, consistent with that of the Diamond Princess.
The study immediately came under attack. Some statisticians questioned its methods. Critics noted the study sample was not randomly selected, and white women under 64 were disproportionately represented. The Stanford team adjusted for the sampling bias by weighting the results by sex, race and ZIP Code, but the study acknowledges that “other biases, such as bias favoring individuals in good health capable of attending our testing sites, or bias favoring those with prior Covid-like illnesses seeking antibody confirmation are also possible. The overall effect of such biases is hard to ascertain.”
Dr. Ioannidis admits his study isn’t “bulletproof” and says he welcomes scrutiny. But he’s confident the findings will hold up, and he says antibody studies from around the world will yield more data. A study published this week by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health estimated that the virus is 28 to 55 times as prevalent in that county as confirmed cases are. A New York study released Thursday estimated that 13.9% of the state and 21.2% of the city had been infected, more than 10 times the confirmed cases.
Yet most criticism of the Stanford study has been aimed at defending the lockdown mandates against the implication that they’re an overreaction. “There’s some sort of mob mentality here operating that they just insist that this has to be the end of the world, and it has to be that the sky is falling. It’s attacking studies with data based on speculation and science fiction,” he says. “But dismissing real data in favor of mathematical speculation is mind-boggling.”
In part he blames the media: “We have some evidence that bad news, negative news [stories], are more attractive than positive news—they lead to more clicks, they lead to people being more engaged. And of course we know that fake news travels faster than true news. So in the current environment, unfortunately, we have generated a very heavily panic-driven, horror-driven, death-reality-show type of situation.”
The news is filled with stories of healthy young people who die of coronavirus. But Dr. Ioannidis recently published a paper with his wife, Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis, an infectious-disease specialist at Stanford, that showed this to be a classic man-bites-dog story. The couple found that people under 65 without underlying conditions accounted for only 0.7% of coronavirus deaths in Italy and 1.8% in New York City.
“Compared to almost any other cause of disease that I can think of, it’s really sparing young people. I’m not saying that the lives of 80-year-olds do not have value—they do,” he says. “But there’s far, far, far more . . . young people who commit suicide.” If the panic and attendant disruption continue, he says, “we will see many young people committing suicide . . . just because we are spreading horror stories with Covid-19. There’s far, far more young people who get cancer and will not be treated, because again, they will not go to the hospital to get treated because of Covid-19. There’s far, far more people whose mental health will collapse.”
He argues that public officials need to weigh these factors when making public-health decisions, and more hard data from antibody and other studies will help. “I think that we should just take everything that we know, put it on the table, and try to see, OK, what’s the next step, and see what happens when we take the next step. I think this sort of data-driven feedback will be the best. So you start opening, you start opening your schools. You can see what happens,” he says. “We need to be open minded, we need to just be calm, allow for some error, it’s unavoidable. We started knowing nothing. We know a lot now, but we still don’t know everything.”
He cautions against drawing broad conclusions about the efficacy of lockdowns based on national infection and fatality rates. “It’s not that we have randomized 10 countries to go into lockdown and another 10 countries to remain relatively open and see what happens, and do that randomly. Different prime ministers, different presidents, different task forces make decisions, they implement them in different sequences, at different times, in different phases of the epidemic. And then people start looking at this data and they say, ‘Oh look at that, this place did very well. Why? Oh, because of this measure.’ This is completely, completely opinion-based.”
People are making “big statements about ‘lockdowns save the world.’ I think that they’re immature. They’re tremendously immature. They may have worked in some cases, they may have had no effect in others, and they may have been damaging still in others.”
Most disagreements among scientists, he notes, reflect differences in perspective, not facts. Some find the Stanford study worrisome because it suggests the virus is more easily transmitted, while others are hopeful because it suggests the virus is far less lethal. “It’s basically an issue of whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist. Even scientists can be optimists and pessimists. Probably usually I’m a pessimist, but in this case, I’m probably an optimist.”


pamelagellerreport--2020-04-27--Antisemitic Jihad-Terror Spox Linda Sasour and Boycott-The-Jews Haters Push Blood Libel That The Jew

Antisemitic Jihad-Terror Spox Linda Sasour and Boycott-The-Jews Haters Push Blood Libel That The Jews Are Behind The Coronavirus Pandemic

Linda Sarsour incites to hatred and genocide .
The notorious Muslim Jew-hater is given cover and sanction by the Democrat left .
Anti-Zionists are exploiting COVID-19 for their anti-Israel agenda , rather than prioritizing Palestinian welfare .
While much of the world languishes in coronavirus quarantine , anti-Israel forces around the globe scheme to exploit the crisis to attack the world ’ s only Jewish state .
From official Palestinian media to American Islamist activists and their enablers on the radical left , illiberal propagandists have come together to exploit the pandemic panic .
Those allied with the BDS movement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rhetorical cudgel to delegitimize the Middle East ’ s only thriving democracy .
After spending years bashing the Jewish national home and hoping to force the Jews who live there to subsist as a defenseless minority , BDS proponents have predictably turned their attention to the coronavirus , seeking to manufacture links between the pandemic and Israel .
They have adapted the current crisis to the standard BDS narrative : exceptional Palestinian victimhood and complete lack of agency .
And their messaging gains credibility from the influential voices that spew it , unfazed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their conspiracy theories .
Linda Sarsour , former co-chair of the Women ’ s March and a surrogate for Bernie Sanders ’ s now ended presidential campaign , served as the keynote speaker for a Zoom meeting hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace , a group that , despite its name , is widely documented as anti-Jewish and anti-Israel .
In her remarks , she portended Gaza ’ s COVID-wrought demise , calling the virus a potential “ entire death sentence for over 2 million people.
” “ That blood , ” she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hands of the American people … and Israel.
” Photo from Wikimedia Commons.Several anti-Israel writers , like Ben Norton , have echoed Sarsour .
Complaining that Israel has “ bombed to pieces ” Gaza ’ s “ health infrastructure ” , Norton recently tweeted , “ Every Palestinian death caused by COVID-19 is blood on Israel ’ s hands.
” Naturally , Norton did not acknowledge Israel ’ s considerable efforts in transferring medical supplies to Gaza , nor did he mention Israel ’ s productive partnerships with Palestinian health-care providers , despite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , hardly a friend of Israel , has applauded the “ excellent ” Israeli-Palestinian cooperation in fighting the pandemic .
No facts about how Israel ’ s humanitarian aid has slowed the conflation of COVID-19 .
Israel ’ s detractors justify their disregard of Israeli-related suffering by drawing an equivalence between new lockdowns and the conditions of Palestinian daily life .
In a March 14 tweet , freelance writer Mairav Zonszein insinuated that Israeli distress at being under quarantine is well-deserved karmic kickback : “ Jewish Israelis … will now get a taste @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Palestinians living under occupation have experienced for over half a century.
” Former Human Rights Watch official Sarah Whitson agreed , adding , “ Such a tiny taste .
Missing a tablespoon of blood.
” Perhaps Whitson regretted her outburst of what seems to be a combination of Schadenfreude and an accusation of Israeli bloodletting , because she later deleted the tweet .
While such anti-Israel propagandists may seem like outliers , they are actually often considered influencers among the modern American left , rising to high positions in media and politics , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the geopolitical boogeyman is normalized by mainstream leftists .
Unsurprisingly , their human-rights and public-health concerns remain focused acutely on cherry-picking problems they can blame on Israel while they turn a blind eye to Palestinians flouting scientific direction on confronting the pandemic .
As the rest of the world responsibly hunkered down , a March 30 tweet from an official Palestinian news agency showed photos of a crowded “ press conference ” officially marking “ Palestine Land Day ” in Gaza , an annual hate-fest surrounding the Great Return March , in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Hamas , Palestinian Islamic Jihad or other terror groups , rush Israel ’ s borders .
The photos show dozens of people gathered shoulder-to-shoulder—none of whom are wearing masks or gloves .
Two snapshots show a woman in a leg cast and crutches stepping on a large Israeli flag , which would later be set on fire .
The demonstration proceeded despite reports that Gaza ’ s Hamas-controlled government had earlier announced new social-distancing protocols .
The same activists who insist that they are motivated only by the well-being of the Palestinian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flagrant disregard for public-health guidance that mitigates spread of the coronavirus pandemic .
Meanwhile , BDS supporters often refuse to condemn Hamas ’ s well-documented habit of using Gaza ’ s “ health infrastructure ” for weapons storage , rocket-launching pads or insurgent headquarters .
And they have long overlooked or excused Hamas ’ s choice to build attack tunnels over improved healthcare facilities and other civil infrastructure that could now be useful in mitigating the coronavirus risk .
BDS activists should spend less time on propaganda theatrics and more time urging Palestinians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ care , emulating Israel ’ s continued medical innovations that have saved lives across the globe .
But these enthusiasts are so blinded by their hatred of Jews that they refuse to acknowledge these dangerously misplaced priorities .
Indeed , by blaming Israel for present and future coronavirus cases among Palestinians , regardless of the circumstances of those infections , BDS effectively absolves the Palestinian regimes ( Hamas and the Palestinian Authority ) of responsibility for their own people .
In an ironic twist , longtime BDS propagandist Omar Barghouti recently conceded that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his followers would be allowed to receive it to safeguard themselves from the deadly virus .
“ Saving lives is more important than anything else , ” he said .
If that ’ s really true for Barghouti and Co. , then they should spend less time exploiting COVID-19 for their anti-Israel agenda and more time pressuring the Palestinian regimes to prioritize Palestinian welfare .
That ’ s not too much to ask , is it ?

Linda Sarsour incites to hatred and genocide. The notorious Muslim Jew-hater is given cover and sanction by the Democrat left.
Anti-Zionists are exploiting COVID-19 for their anti-Israel agenda, rather than prioritizing Palestinian welfare.
By: Jewish Journal, April 25, 2020
While much of the world languishes in coronavirus quarantine, anti-Israel forces around the globe scheme to exploit the crisis to attack the world’s only Jewish state. From official Palestinian media to American Islamist activists and their enablers on the radical left, illiberal propagandists have come together to exploit the pandemic panic.
Those allied with the BDS movement against Israel are using COVID-19 as a rhetorical cudgel to delegitimize the Middle East’s only thriving democracy. After spending years bashing the Jewish national home and hoping to force the Jews who live there to subsist as a defenseless minority, BDS proponents have predictably turned their attention to the coronavirus, seeking to manufacture links between the pandemic and Israel.
They have adapted the current crisis to the standard BDS narrative: exceptional Palestinian victimhood and complete lack of agency. And their messaging gains credibility from the influential voices that spew it, unfazed by the meritless and anti-Semitic origins of their conspiracy theories.
Their messaging gains credibility from the influential voices that spew it, unfazed by the meritless and anti-Semitic origins of their conspiracy theories.
Linda Sarsour, former co-chair of the Women’s March and a surrogate for Bernie Sanders’s now ended presidential campaign, served as the keynote speaker for a Zoom meeting hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace, a group that, despite its name, is widely documented as anti-Jewish and anti-Israel. In her remarks, she portended Gaza’s COVID-wrought demise, calling the virus a potential “entire death sentence for over 2 million people.”
“That blood,” she continued, “will be on the hands of the American people … and Israel.”
Photo from Wikimedia Commons.Several anti-Israel writers, like Ben Norton, have echoed Sarsour. Complaining that Israel has “bombed to pieces” Gaza’s “health infrastructure”, Norton recently tweeted, “Every Palestinian death caused by COVID-19 is blood on Israel’s hands.”
Naturally, Norton did not acknowledge Israel’s considerable efforts in transferring medical supplies to Gaza, nor did he mention Israel’s productive partnerships with Palestinian health-care providers, despite the fact that even the United Nations, hardly a friend of Israel, has applauded the “excellent” Israeli-Palestinian cooperation in fighting the pandemic.
No facts about how Israel’s humanitarian aid has slowed the conflation of COVID-19. Israel’s detractors justify their disregard of Israeli-related suffering by drawing an equivalence between new lockdowns and the conditions of Palestinian daily life.
In a March 14 tweet, freelance writer Mairav Zonszein insinuated that Israeli distress at being under quarantine is well-deserved karmic kickback: “Jewish Israelis … will now get a taste of what around the same number of Palestinians living under occupation have experienced for over half a century.” Former Human Rights Watch official Sarah Whitson agreed, adding, “Such a tiny taste. Missing a tablespoon of blood.”
Freelance writer Mairav Zonszein insinuated that Israeli distress at being under quarantine is well-deserved karmic kickback: “Jewish Israelis … will now get a taste of what around the same number of Palestinians living under occupation have experienced for over half a century.”
Perhaps Whitson regretted her outburst of what seems to be a combination of Schadenfreude and an accusation of Israeli bloodletting, because she later deleted the tweet.
While such anti-Israel propagandists may seem like outliers, they are actually often considered influencers among the modern American left, rising to high positions in media and politics, where their preoccupation with casting Israel as the geopolitical boogeyman is normalized by mainstream leftists. Unsurprisingly, their human-rights and public-health concerns remain focused acutely on cherry-picking problems they can blame on Israel while they turn a blind eye to Palestinians flouting scientific direction on confronting the pandemic.
As the rest of the world responsibly hunkered down, a March 30 tweet from an official Palestinian news agency showed photos of a crowded “press conference” officially marking “Palestine Land Day” in Gaza, an annual hate-fest surrounding the Great Return March, in which hundreds of Palestinians, including armed members of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad or other terror groups, rush Israel’s borders.
The photos show dozens of people gathered shoulder-to-shoulder—none of whom are wearing masks or gloves. Two snapshots show a woman in a leg cast and crutches stepping on a large Israeli flag, which would later be set on fire. The demonstration proceeded despite reports that Gaza’s Hamas-controlled government had earlier announced new social-distancing protocols. The same activists who insist that they are motivated only by the well-being of the Palestinian people seemed totally unbothered by such a flagrant disregard for public-health guidance that mitigates spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
BDS supporters often refuse to condemn Hamas’s well-documented habit of using Gaza’s “health infrastructure” for weapons storage, rocket-launching pads or insurgent headquarters.
Meanwhile, BDS supporters often refuse to condemn Hamas’s well-documented habit of using Gaza’s “health infrastructure” for weapons storage, rocket-launching pads or insurgent headquarters. And they have long overlooked or excused Hamas’s choice to build attack tunnels over improved healthcare facilities and other civil infrastructure that could now be useful in mitigating the coronavirus risk.
BDS activists should spend less time on propaganda theatrics and more time urging Palestinians to improve Gazans’ access to health care, emulating Israel’s continued medical innovations that have saved lives across the globe. But these enthusiasts are so blinded by their hatred of Jews that they refuse to acknowledge these dangerously misplaced priorities.
Indeed, by blaming Israel for present and future coronavirus cases among Palestinians, regardless of the circumstances of those infections, BDS effectively absolves the Palestinian regimes (Hamas and the Palestinian Authority) of responsibility for their own people.
By blaming Israel for present and future coronavirus cases among Palestinians, regardless of the circumstances of those infections, BDS effectively absolves the Palestinian regimes (Hamas and the Palestinian Authority) of responsibility for their own people.
In an ironic twist, longtime BDS propagandist Omar Barghouti recently conceded that should Israel develop a coronavirus vaccine, his followers would be allowed to receive it to safeguard themselves from the deadly virus. “Saving lives is more important than anything else,” he said.
If that’s really true for Barghouti and Co., then they should spend less time exploiting COVID-19 for their anti-Israel agenda and more time pressuring the Palestinian regimes to prioritize Palestinian welfare. That’s not too much to ask, is it?


pamelagellerreport--2020-04-27--STUDY: Corrupt and Biased Washington Post Bashes Trump Virus Response with 25-to-1 Negative Headline

STUDY: Corrupt and Biased Washington Post Bashes Trump Virus Response with 25-to-1 Negative Headlines

Absolutely despicable .
President Trump is 100 percent correct : the MSM is the enemy of the people .
Never has the MSM represented such a danger to America .
President Trump is right to stop communicating with these vicious propagandists .
What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions , & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately .
They get record ratings , & the American people get nothing but Fake News .
Not worth the time & effort !
I never said the pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such a thing ?
I said that the Do Nothing Democrats , together with their Mainstream Media partners , are the Hoax .
They have been called out & embarrassed on this , even admitting they were wrong , but continue to spread the lie !
As the leading newspaper in the nation ’ s capital , the editors of The Washington Post know much of their influence comes from their ability to set an agenda for the many powerful political and media people who read it on a daily basis .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every morning are the big headlines on The Post ’ s front page , framing the news the way The Post ’ s editors want them to see it .
( Click on image to expand . )
In the 100 days since the coronavirus epidemic began to receive significant news coverage , The Post has used its front page to undermine the administration ’ s response to the unprecedented crisis , with dozens of headlines flagrantly editorializing against the President and nearly everyone on his team .
The Media Research Center reviewed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ front-page news stories about the U.S. government ’ s response to the coronavirus from January 17 through April 25 .
None of these articles was labeled as an editorial or an opinion piece , but many of the headlines employed heavy-handed rhetoric to slam the administration , from the President and the White House down to departments and agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) and the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ) .
Our analysts tallied 53 obviously negative headlines during this 100 day period @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clearly positive , a greater than 25-to-1 disparity .
( The remaining 81 headlines were neutral , although that does not mean that the articles did not convey an obvious slant . )
Most of The Post ’ s venom was directed at President Trump himself , with highly-opinionated language such as : “ A confused effort to show calm control ” ( March 1 ) ; “ Trump ’ s error-filled speech rattled rather than reassured ” ( March 13 ) ; “ White House ’ s chaotic response evokes Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) ; “ 70 days of denial , delays and dysfunction ” ( April 5 ) ; and “ Hostility to criticism , hunger for praise are central to his response ” ( April 9 ) .
Neither of the two positive headlines were about Trump : “ Reliable Fauci has everyone ’ s ear — even Trump ’ s ” ( March 21 ) and “ Mnuchin emerges as able dealmaker in stimulus talks ” ( March 28 ) .
The Trump team ’ s many accomplishments — assistance deployed to hard-hit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deals struck to build ventilators , and the dramatic lowering of fatality estimates as Americans implemented the administration ’ s strategy to “ flatten the curve ” — were either ignored , buried inside the newspaper , or relayed with neutral headlines that refused to celebrate good news .
Strung together , The Post ’ s headlines read like a dismal daily diary of dysfunction , all aimed at conveying that agenda to its elite readership who would multiply their negative take throughout the political establishment .
Here are each of The Post @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administration ’ s response to the coronavirus as they appeared in the local print editions of The Post over the last 100 days ( click “ Expand ” to read them all ) :

Absolutely despicable. President Trump is 100 percent correct: the MSM is the enemy of the people. Never has the MSM represented such a danger to America. President Trump is right to stop communicating with these vicious propagandists.
What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately. They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time & effort! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2020
I never said the pandemic was a Hoax! Who would say such a thing? I said that the Do Nothing Democrats, together with their Mainstream Media partners, are the Hoax. They have been called out & embarrassed on this, even admitting they were wrong, but continue to spread the lie! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2020
STUDY: Washington Post Bashes Trump Virus Response with 25-to-1 Negative Headlines By News Busters, April 26, 2020 As the leading newspaper in the nation’s capital, the editors of The Washington Post know much of their influence comes from their ability to set an agenda for the many powerful political and media people who read it on a daily basis. And the first thing those powerful readers see every morning are the big headlines on The Post’s front page, framing the news the way The Post’s editors want them to see it. (Click on image to expand.) In the 100 days since the coronavirus epidemic began to receive significant news coverage, The Post has used its front page to undermine the administration’s response to the unprecedented crisis, with dozens of headlines flagrantly editorializing against the President and nearly everyone on his team. The Media Research Center reviewed the headlines of all 136 Washington Post front-page news stories about the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus from January 17 through April 25. None of these articles was labeled as an editorial or an opinion piece, but many of the headlines employed heavy-handed rhetoric to slam the administration, from the President and the White House down to departments and agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Our analysts tallied 53 obviously negative headlines during this 100 day period, compared with just two that were clearly positive, a greater than 25-to-1 disparity. (The remaining 81 headlines were neutral, although that does not mean that the articles did not convey an obvious slant.) Most of The Post’s venom was directed at President Trump himself, with highly-opinionated language such as: “A confused effort to show calm control” (March 1); “Trump’s error-filled speech rattled rather than reassured” (March 13); “White House’s chaotic response evokes Trump’s early days” (March 15); “70 days of denial, delays and dysfunction” (April 5); and “Hostility to criticism, hunger for praise are central to his response” (April 9). Neither of the two positive headlines were about Trump: “Reliable Fauci has everyone’s ear — even Trump’s” (March 21) and “Mnuchin emerges as able dealmaker in stimulus talks” (March 28). The Trump team’s many accomplishments — assistance deployed to hard-hit areas, millions of tests administered, deals struck to build ventilators, and the dramatic lowering of fatality estimates as Americans implemented the administration’s strategy to “flatten the curve” — were either ignored, buried inside the newspaper, or relayed with neutral headlines that refused to celebrate good news. Strung together, The Post’s headlines read like a dismal daily diary of dysfunction, all aimed at conveying that agenda to its elite readership who would multiply their negative take throughout the political establishment. Here are each of The Post’s hostile headlines about the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus as they appeared in the local print editions of The Post over the last 100 days (click “Expand” to read them all):
■ Feb 4: “A scramble to execute U.S. order on travel.” From inside the article: “…the order came Friday with no advance notice and little planning.” ■ Feb 17: “Trump’s praise of Xi alarms advisers.” ■ Feb 27: “Experts contradict president’s upbeat assessment.” ■ Feb 28: “Complaint: Workers not trained in virus aid.” Story accuses HHS of sending workers with insufficient training and protective gear to attend evacuees from Wuhan. ■ March 1: “A confused effort to show calm control.” ■ March 4: “Messaging undermines U.S. efforts on virus.” ■ March 8: “How the Trump administration squandered its response time.” ■ March 10: “From tweet eruptions to economic steps, Trump struggles for calm.” ■ March 11: “Trump’s pitch for payroll-tax cut faces bipartisan skepticism.” ■ March 13: “Trump’s error-filled speech rattled rather than reassured.” ■ March 15: “White House’s chaotic response evokes Trump’s early days.” ■ March 15: “Trump tears up CDC’s playbook on health crisis.” From inside the article: “But the Trump administration’s zigzagging, defensive, inconsistent messages about the novel coronavirus continued Friday, breaking almost every rule in the book and eroding the most powerful weapon officials possess: public trust.” ■ March 17: “Governors led as president minimized pandemic.” ■ March 21: “Intelligence officials’ early alarms about possible pandemic went unheeded.” ■ March 23: “Trump’s lagging response widens rift with city and state leaders.” ■ March 24: “Trump may ditch safety guidelines to jolt economy.” From inside the article: “…defying public health experts who have warned that doing so risks accelerating the spread of the novel coronavirus or even allowing it to rebound.” ■ March 25: “PRESIDENT WANTS U.S. ‘OPENED’ SOON; Others warn that would fuel pandemic, deaths.” ■ March 25: “Cuomo assails federal response as he warns of hospital onslaught.” ■ March 27: “Governors frustrated with offer of ‘backup.’” ■ March 27: “Self-isolation leaves U.S. out of customary leadership position.” ■ March 29: “States’ needs overwhelm unprepared stockpile.” ■ March 30: “‘They didn’t move fast enough’; Frustrated by the federal government’s response to the outbreak, local officials acted on their own.” ■ April 1: “States grapple with uneven distribution of equipment.” ■ April 3: “Trump’s crisis response short on consistency, long on blame.” ■ April 3: “Inside the mask crunch: Federal hesitation, industry fears.” ■ April 4: “Trump tightens restrictions at Mexican border; SOME MIGRANT PROTECTIONS SUSPENDED.” ■ April 4: “For weeks, scientists’ alarm over flawed test grew; Bureaucratic demands, administration’s refusal to pivot fast led to dismay.” ■ April 4: “Millions spent on mask readiness yield no help now.” ■ April 4: “U.S.’s scramble to scoop up supplies rankles allies.” ■ April 5: “70 days of denial, delays and dysfunction; From the White House to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded as the virus spread. Despite being better prepared than many countries, the U.S. saw opportunities to mitigate the crisis slip away.” ■ April 5: “Once again, government is caught unprepared.” ■ April 6: “Snags in disbursing federal relief worry firms, individuals.” ■ April 7: “Trump relies on impulse in push for unproven drug.” ■ April 8: “Stimulus watchdog removed as Trump subverts oversight.” ■ April 9: “President’s ethos in sharp relief amid crisis; Hostility to criticism, hunger for praise are central to his response.” ■ April 10: “White House seeks easing of shutdown in May, but some fear 2nd viral wave.” ■ April 10: “Nearly 10,000 ‘expulsions’ of migrants over 3 weeks.” ■ April 11: “Plans to contain virus emerge in bottom-up effort.” From inside the article: “A national plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and return America to jobs and classrooms is emerging — but not from the White House.” ■ April 11: “Small-business relief hurt by a rocky rollout.” ■ April 12: “Lots of players, but no consensus on a game plan.” ■ April 13: “GOP touts mail voting as Trump attacks it.” ■ April 15: “President’s name to be printed on relief checks; Unprecedented move injects partisanship into stimulus, critics say.” ■ April 16: “Executives paint push to reopen nation as haphazard; Trump’s efforts to enlist industry leaders have gotten off to rocky start.” ■ April 17: “Slow pace of federal aid is worsening downtown.” ■ April 18: “Trump fomenting defiance of strictures.” ■ April 18: “Staffing, antiquated technology slow the delivery of virus relief.” ■ April 19: “Contamination at CDC lab delayed testing rollout.” ■ April 20: “U.S. experts at WHO chronicled virus’s rise; Real-time stream of data undercuts Trump claim of information withheld.” ■ April 20: “FDA never vetted dozens of for-sale antibody tests.” ■ April 22: “As U.S. deports infected migrants, worries grow.” ■ April 22: “Testing gap shows limit to state-by-state approach.” ■ April 23: “Scientists at Trump’s side have to toe a difficult line.” ■ April 25: “Outcry, warnings over Trump’s new cure idea.”
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End Catastrophic Lockdowns

The current coronavirus lockdowns , forced isolation and resulting catastrophic damage to the U.S. and world economies are based on faulty data and assumptions , according to a growing number of noted researchers .
“ We need some straight talk , straight thinking and political courage to prevent another Great Depression , ” said James L. Tobin , economist and president of Taxpayers United of America ( TUA ) .
Joseph C. Sternberg , writing in the April 24 , 2020 edition of the Wall Street Journal , explained that the “ experts ” were probably correct when they initially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to vanquish the virus but merely to try to control its spread so as not to overwhelm health-care systems.
” In other words , they realized that “ we can ’ t stop the virus , we can only slow it.
” Now this view is attacked .
“ This is the biggest fact about the pandemic that remains politically impossible to say , ” said Sternberg .
Scott W. Atlas , MD , the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at Stanford University ’ s Hoover Institution , writing in the April @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , points out that the overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19 .
The recent Stanford University antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate of infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent , a risk far lower than previous World Health Organization estimates that were 20 to 30 times higher and that motivated isolation policies .
Furthermore , Dr. Atlas reveals that vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies , prolonging the problem .
The coronavirus is so mild that half of infected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been falsely portrayed as a problem requiring mass isolation .
In fact , infected people without severe illness are the immediately-available vehicle for establishing widespread immunity .
Additionally , people are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections .
“ Critical health care for millions of Americans is being ignored and people are dying to accommodate ‘ potential ’ COVID-19 patients and for fear of spreading the disease , ” says Dr. Atlas .
“ Most states and many hospitals abruptly stopped ‘ nonessential ’ procedures and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diseases , like cancer screening , biopsies of tumors now undiscovered and potentially deadly brain aneurysms .
“ It is a scandal , and really tragic , that this pandemic has become a political football that has put our entire economy at risk , ” said Tobin .
“ Bureaucrat fear mongers such as Doctors Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx are doing our country a great disservice by perpetuating fear and dread .
And some politicians want to keep our economy shut down until there is no more coronavirus .
By that time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the stone age .
“ Stop forced isolation and keep it voluntary only for vulnerable persons such as the elderly and pregnant women .
Let our stores and restaurants open again .
Now is the time to stop this drift toward fascism .
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STOP LOCKDOWNS, ISOLATION AND ECONOMIC CARNAGE
By: Dennis Constant
The current coronavirus lockdowns, forced isolation and resulting catastrophic damage to the U.S. and world economies are based on faulty data and assumptions, according to a growing number of noted researchers.
“We need some straight talk, straight thinking and political courage to prevent another Great Depression,” said James L. Tobin, economist and president of Taxpayers United of America (TUA).
Joseph C. Sternberg, writing in the April 24, 2020 edition of the Wall Street Journal, explained that the “experts” were probably correct when they initially stated that the goal “was not to vanquish the virus but merely to try to control its spread so as not to overwhelm health-care systems.” In other words, they realized that “we can’t stop the virus, we can only slow it.” Now this view is attacked. “This is the biggest fact about the pandemic that remains politically impossible to say,” said Sternberg.
Scott W. Atlas, MD, the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, writing in the April 22, 2020 edition of The Hill, points out that the overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19. The recent Stanford University antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate of infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent, a risk far lower than previous World Health Organization estimates that were 20 to 30 times higher and that motivated isolation policies.
Furthermore, Dr. Atlas reveals that vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem. The coronavirus is so mild that half of infected people are asymptomatic. The pandemic has been falsely portrayed as a problem requiring mass isolation. In fact, infected people without severe illness are the immediately-available vehicle for establishing widespread immunity.
Additionally, people are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections.
“Critical health care for millions of Americans is being ignored and people are dying to accommodate ‘potential’ COVID-19 patients and for fear of spreading the disease,” says Dr. Atlas. “Most states and many hospitals abruptly stopped ‘nonessential’ procedures and surgery. That prevented diagnoses of life-threatening diseases, like cancer screening, biopsies of tumors now undiscovered and potentially deadly brain aneurysms.
“It is a scandal, and really tragic, that this pandemic has become a political football that has put our entire economy at risk,” said Tobin. “Bureaucrat fear mongers such as Doctors Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx are doing our country a great disservice by perpetuating fear and dread. And some politicians want to keep our economy shut down until there is no more coronavirus. By that time, the U.S. will have gone back to the stone age.
“Stop forced isolation and keep it voluntary only for vulnerable persons such as the elderly and pregnant women. Let our stores and restaurants open again. Now is the time to stop this drift toward fascism.
The Source: The Hill
Dennis Constant
Taxpayers United of America
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