Saturday, March 28, 2020

Evidence of COVID-19 Overreaction

Here is a list of links (which I will keep updating) that show why our reaction to COVID-19 is worrying, to put it very mildly, and also to demonstrate, for when this is all over, that the fact of our dangerous overreaction, with its likely immiserating and authoritarian consequences, was already known. If we don't acknowledge this, and instead choose to believe that our overreaction is what made COVID-19 a relatively mild pandemic, then we will have learnt nothing, and will readily surrender our liberties in the face of other fears and manipulations the government presents to us. We cannot and should not be persuaded by the post hoc fallacy that the government will have saved our lives by stripping us of our liberties. I will forever hold Boris Jong-son and his People's Government in utter and total contempt for what he and they have done.

Links (in no particular order):

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, on the flawed science that governments have been using to justify their radical COVID-19 measures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsExPrHCHbw&t=361s

And here is the text of the open letter he wrote to Chancellor Merkel:
https://swprs.org/open-letter-from-professor-sucharit-bhakdi-to-german-chancellor-dr-angela-merkel/

Lord Sumption on the legal perils of a 'lockdown' and the possible dangers to liberty: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/there-is-a-difference-between-the-law-and-official-instructions-j9tthqnrf

University of Oxford research suggesting that large minority of the country may already have been infected with COVID-19: https://www.ft.com/content/5ff6469a-6dd8-11ea-89df-41bea055720b

'John P.A. Ioannidis is 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.' He warns us that we are 'making decisions without reliable data':
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/

Virologist and infectious disease specialist Dr Pablo Goldschmidt:
https://www.clarin.com/buena-vida/coronavirus-panico-injustificado-dice-virologo-argentino-francia_0_yVcmJ4RM.html

Neil Ferguson, of Imperial study infamy (the study which seemed to frighten the government into taking these emergeny measures), criticised for flawed research:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/28/neil-ferguson-scientist-convinced-boris-johnson-uk-coronavirus-lockdown-criticised/

Retired professor of pathology and a former NHS consultant pathologist John Lee: 'How deadly is the coronavirus? It's still far from clear':
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/The-evidence-on-Covid-19-is-not-as-clear-as-we-think/amp

Government setting up an anti-'misinformation' 'specialist unit':

R.R. Reno is First Things questioning the shutdown:
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/03/questioning-the-shutdown

Evidence that Italy has recurring problems managing influenza outbreaks (particularly among elderly):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285

Professor Sucharit Bhakdi on the actual nature of the threat from COVID-19 and our hysterical and damaging response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBB9bA-gXL4&list=PLO8heR1nSoznRyBQSVD3LZ82iztFBismZ&index=9&t=8s

Simon Jenkins: 'Why I’m taking the coronavirus hype with a pinch of salt':
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/06/coronavirus-hype-crisis-predictions-sars-swine-flu-panics


Sweden taking a different and more sensible path:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-elderly-in-lockdown-and-children-in-school-help-sweden-pursue-herd-immunity-r705m76dd

Lord Sumption on our hysterical reaction to COVID-19:
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/03/lord-sumption-speaks-against-hysteria-driven-government-policy-.html

Brendan O'Neill: 'Dissent in a time of COVID':
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/23/dissent-in-a-time-of-covid/

Only 12% of corona-deaths in Italy were directly caused by COVID-19:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200324214448/https:/www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/have-many-coronavirus-patients-died-italy/

NYT: 'For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power':
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/europe/coronavirus-governments-power.html

Novelist Frederick Forsyth: Is the virus really as bad as we're being told?

Dr John Ioannidis interview:

Theodore Dalyrimple on the uselessness and indeed perils of modelling:

Coronovirus and the Cult of Expertise:
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/03/coronavirus-and-the-cult-of-expertise

Britain has “painted itself into a corner” with no clear exit strategy from the coronavirus epidemic and needs to reconsider herd immunity, according to a senior government adviser:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/boris-johnsons-coronavirus-adviser-calls-for-a-way-out-of-lockdown-rd58g6tc9

Simon Jenkins: Was I wrong about Coronavirus? Even the world's best scentists can't tell me:

COVID lockdown may cost the lives of cancer patients:

Lord Sumption: the cure is worse than the disease:

Government contemplates banning exercise (and Opposition Leader supports it):

Has Sweden found the right solution to coronavirus?

Nearly 3,000 influenza patients are admitted to ICUs in 2018/2019:

Past severe influenza outbreak:

One in five dental practises risk collapse, patients with serious problems not getting treated:
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