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    About a week or two ago I came across this essay by a guy called Angelo Codevilla who is professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University.

    I've read a lot of stuff about the pan/plan/scamdemic - whatever you want to call it - over the last few months but this piece of work blew me away for its lucidity, comprehensiveness and clarity of political appraisal.

    It charts in quite a bit of detail how the course of events diverged almost completely from any adherence (or pretence of adherence) to scientific rigour and political integrity into an all-out fraudulent and corrupt juggernaut which amounts to a planetary coup.

    Everytime a thought floated into my head regarding something I wanted to express, it seemed to be expressed for me in the very next paragraph except far more eloquently than I could have even thought it.

    If the Ickey stuff is too far down the rabbit hole for you and you're looking for some "normie digestible" material that's still hard hitting, then this is for you !

    ....enjoy :-)

    (Suggest: switch your browser into "Reader Mode", dump to PDF and print. Read with morning coffee, by your multi-million dollar pool or in the park with the dog, as appropriate)

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    Default Re: The Covid Coup - And How to Unlock Ourselves

    Great find. I just needed something "normie digestable" for loved ones that need to get another perspective.

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    Default Re: The Covid Coup - And How to Unlock Ourselves

    I'll just add this in here as technical background to some of the points made in the article above. Another great one for "normies"....

    Lets just remind ourselves that this guy is advocating for exactly the same message as these frontline doctors who got instantly banished from the media.


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    Default Re: The Covid Coup - And How to Unlock Ourselves

    The 'normie' case for resistance of the COVID19 related legislation in the UK doesn't really come any better presented than here by Lord Jonathan Sumption, British author, medieval historian and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

    I like the tone of this conversation a lot but it's headbangingly frustrating to hear such finely trained minds spinning their wheels in the mud world of unreliable facts and data. If we are going to 'think the best' of others we should really be doing it with our hearts and keep our real thinking matter free to think the worst. Now THAT would have been an amazing conversation between these two English gentlemen.

    The conversation does drift away from strictly the covid lockdown and ranges around his general view of law and how reasonable people live with it.

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    https://www.sott.net/article/441024-...rder-lockdowns

    In February, US Covid guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus was 'akin to a severe flu' and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people. Then fatality rate predictions were somehow mixed up to make it look ten times WORSE.

    When you strip everything else out, the reason for lockdown comes from a single figure: one percent. This was the prediction that Covid, if left unchecked, would kill around one percent of us.

    You may not think that percentage is enormous, but one percent of the population of the world is 70 million people - and that's a lot. It would mean 3.2 million Americans dead, and 670,000 Britons.

    But where did this one percent figure come from? You may find this hard to believe, but this figure emerged by mistake. A pretty major thing to make a mistake about, but that's what happened.
    With Covid, a similar mistake happened. One type of fatality rate was substituted for another. The wrong rate was then used to predict the likely death rate - and, as with NASA, no-one picked up the error.

    In order to understand what happened, you have to understand the difference between two medical terms that sound the same - but are completely different. Rather like a pound second or a Newton second.

    Which fatality rate, did you say?

    First, there's the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR). This is the total number of people who are infected by a disease and the number of them who die. This figure includes those who have no symptoms at all, or only very mild symptoms - those who stayed at home, coughed a bit and watched Outbreak.

    Then there's the Case Fatality Rate (CFR). This is the number of people suffering serious symptoms, who are probably ill enough to be in hospital. Clearly, people who are seriously ill - the "cases" - are going to have a higher mortality rate than those who are infected, many of whom don't have symptoms. Put simply - all cases are infections, but not all infections are cases.

    Which means that the CFR will always be far higher than the IFR. With influenza, the CFR is around ten times as high as the IFR. Covid seems to have a similar proportion.

    Now, clearly, you do not want to get these figures mixed up. By doing so you would either wildly overestimate, or wildly underestimate, the impact of Covid. But mix these figures up, they did.

    The error started in America, but didn't end there. In healthcare, the US is very much the dog that wags the tail. The figures they come up with are used globally.

    On February 28, 2020, an editorial was released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the editorial stated: "... the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza."

    They added that influenza has a CFR of approximately 0.1 percent. One person in a thousand who gets it badly, dies.

    But that quoted CFR for influenza was ten times too low - they meant to say the IFR, the Infection Fatality Rate, for influenza was 0.1 percent. This was their fatal - quite literally - mistake.

    Comment: A more skeptical mind might think that this was no mere mistake, but deliberate.

    The mistake was compounded. On March 11, the same experts testified to Congress, stating that Covid's CFR was likely to be about one percent, so one person dying from a hundred who fell seriously ill. Which, as time has passed, has proved to be pretty accurate.

    At this meeting, they compared the likely impact of Covid to flu. But they used the wrong CFR for influenza, the one stated in the previous NEJM editorial. 0.1 percent, or one in a thousand. The one that was ten times too low.

    Flu toll 1,000 - Covid toll 10,000

    So, they matched up the one percent CFR of Covid with the incorrect 0.1 percent CFR of flu. Suddenly, Covid was going to be ten times as deadly.

    If influenza killed 50, Covid was going to kill 500. If influenza killed a million, Covid was going to get 10 million. No wonder Congress, then the world, panicked. Because they were told Covid was going to be ten times worse than influenza. They could see three million deaths in the US alone, and 70 million around the world.

    I don't expect you or I to get this sort of thing right. But I bloody well expect the experts to do so. They didn't. They got their IFR and CFR mixed up and multiplied the likely impact of Covid by a factor of ten.

    Here's what the paper, "Public health lessons learned from biases in coronavirus mortality overestimation",says: "On March 11, 2020,... based on the data available at the time, Congress was informed that the estimated mortality rate for the coronavirus was ten-times higher than for seasonal influenza, which helped launch a campaign of social distancing, organizational and business lockdowns, and shelter-in-place orders."

    On February 28 it was estimated that Covid was going to have about the same impact as a bad influenza season - almost certainly correct. Eleven days later, the same group of experts predicted that the mortality rate was going to be ten times as high. This was horribly, catastrophically, running-into-Mars-at-5,000-miles-an-hour wrong.

    Enter the Mad Modellers of Lockdown

    In the UK, the group I call the Mad Modellers of lockdown, the Imperial College experts, created the same panic. On March 16, they used an estimated IFR of 0.9 percent to predict that, without lockdown, Covid would kill around 500,000 in the UK.

    Is this prediction anywhere close?

    So far, the UK has had around 40,000 Covid deaths. Significantly less than 0.1 percent, but not that far off. Of course, people will say... "We had lockdown... without it so many more would have died. Most people have not been infected..." etc.

    To answer this, we need to know the true IFR. Is it a 0.1 percent, or one percent? If it is one percent, we have more than 400,000 deaths to go. If it is 0.1 percent, this epidemic has run its course. For this year, at least.

    With swine flu, remember that the IFR started at around two percent. In the end, it was 0.02 percent, which was five times lower than the lowest estimate during the outbreak. The more you test, the lower the IFR will fall.

    So where can we look to get the current figures on the IFR? The best place to look is at the country that has tested more people than anywhere else as a proportion of their population: Iceland.

    As of last week, Iceland's IFR stood at 0.16 per cent. It cannot go up from here. It can only fall. People can't start dying of a disease they haven't got.

    This means that we'll probably end up with an IFR of about 0.1 percent, maybe less. Not the 0.02 percent of Swine Flu - somewhere between the two, perhaps. In short, the 0.1 percent prophecy has proved to be pretty much bang on.

    Which means that we've had all the deaths we were ever going to get. And which also means that the lockdown achieved almost precisely nothing with regard to Covid. No deaths were prevented.

    Mangled beyond recognition

    Yes, we are testing and testing, and finding more so-called cases. As you will. But the hospitals and ICUs are virtually empty. Almost no-one is dying of Covid anymore, and most of those who do were otherwise very ill.

    Instead of celebrating that, we've artificially created a whole new thing to scare ourselves with. We now call a positive test a Covid "case." This is not medicine. A "case" is someone who has symptoms. A case is not someone carrying tiny amounts of virus in their nose.

    Now, however, you test positive, and you're a "case." Never in history has medical terminology been so badly mangled. Never have statistics been so badly mangled.

    When researchers look back at this pandemic, they'll have absolutely no idea who died because of Covid, or who died -coincidentally- with it. Everything's been mashed together in a determined effort to make the virus look as deadly as possible.

    Lockdown happened because we were told that Coivid could kill one percent. But Covid was never going to kill more than about 0.1 percent - max.

    That's the figure estimated back in February, by the major players in viral epidemiology. A figure that has turned out to be remarkably accurate. Bright guys... bad mistake.

    We've killed tens of thousands - for nothing

    But because we panicked, we've added hugely to the toll. Excess mortality between March and May was around 70,000, not the 40,000 who died of/with Covid. Which means 30,000 may have died directly as a result of the actions we took.

    We protected the young, the children, who are at zero risk of Covid. But we threw our elderly and vulnerable under a bus. The very group who should have been shielded. Instead, we caused 20,000 excess deaths in care homes.

    It was government policy to clear out hospitals, and stuff care homes with patients carrying Covid, or discharge them back to their own homes, to infect their nearest and dearest. Or any community care staff who visited them.

    We threw - to use health secretary Matt Hancock's ridiculous phrase - a ring of steel around care homes. As it turned out, this was not to protect them, but to trap the residents, as we turned their buildings into Covid incubators. Anyone working in care homes, as I do, knows why we got 20,000 excess deaths. Government policy did this.

    That is far from all the damage. On top of care homes, the ONS estimates that 16,000 excess deaths were caused by lockdown. The heart attacks and strokes that were not treated. The empty, echoing hospitals and A&E units. The cancer treatments stopped entirely.

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    For those who wish to keep abreast of the global statistics on the devastation wrought by the Coronavirus, here's a link to the section of Worldometer that deals with it specifically...

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    The Worldometer site overall is a terrific source of information for the state of our planet. Highly recommended. Here's the link to the main page:

    https://www.worldometers.info/

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    I have not done a deep dive into this story, but it is being reported that the Michigan Supreme Court ruled against the Michigan Governor's CV-19 dictates:

    https://newswithviews.com/burn-your-...tchen-whitmer/

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    For those of us who are concerned with the truths about the pandemic, here's a report in The New York Times, published today. It is now one day since the final debate, in which President Trump insisted, yet again, that the country has "turned the corner" and that the pandemic will soon just "go away". It will certainly go away, but not any time soon, and not before thousands more Americans die from it. In fact, as the report makes very clear, the disease is picking up speed and dimension.

    The worst is what is waiting around the corner.

    If only the populace would do the simple things that could stop this disaster: wear a mask (properly), distance from others and avoid gatherings that are inside. But that prospect looks like a distant mirage.

    By Campbell Robertson, Edgar Sandoval, Lucy Tompkins and Simon Romero

    Oct. 23, 2020Updated 9:13 p.m. ET


    The United States is in the midst of one of the most severe surges of the coronavirus to date, with more new cases reported across the country on Friday than on any other single day since the pandemic began.

    Since the start of October, the rise in cases has been steady and inexorable, with no plateau in sight. By Friday evening, more than 82,000 cases had been reported across the country, breaking a single-day record set on July 16 by more than 6,000 cases.

    By that measure, Friday was the worst day of the pandemic, and health experts warned of a further surge as cold weather sets in. The number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 has already risen 40 percent in the past month. Deaths have remained relatively flat but are often a lagging indicator.

    The latest outbreaks, tracked by The New York Times using reports from state and local health departments, are scattered across the country, in states like Illinois and Rhode Island, which are experiencing a second upswing, and in places like Montana and South Dakota, which are still enduring a first flood of cases.

    Thirteen states have added more new confirmed coronavirus cases in the past week than in any other seven-day stretch. As of Friday, six states had set or tied weekly records for new deaths. Wisconsin had its deadliest day of the pandemic on Wednesday, with 47 total deaths announced.

    The geography of the pandemic has constantly changed since the coronavirus reached the United States last winter. Outbreaks struck the Northeast in the spring, the Sun Belt in the summer and now the states of the Midwest and the West, which hold the 10 counties in the country with the most recent cases per capita.

    “It’s been rise after rise after rise, week after week,” said Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Nothing has been added to the mix that’s going to make things slow down.”

    For many, the soaring numbers brought back ragged memories of what it was like in mid-July, when the virus was raging through the Sun Belt.

    Raymond Embry saw the worst of it up close. His small Arizona medical clinic had been giving about five coronavirus tests a day. That grew to dozens a day, and then came the surge on July 16, with 4,192 people lined up for tests to find out if they had the coronavirus.

    That day, arguably the worst of the pandemic in the United States to that point, set records nationwide. By the end of that 24-hour period, a staggering 75,687 new cases had been reported around the country, and Arizona led the nation in deaths per capita.

    “It was just overwhelming trying to find gloves and masks, when especially back then people are telling you P.P.E. is widely available and that’s just a lie,” Mr. Embry said, referring to shortages of the personal protective equipment that health workers need to safely do testing.
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    I would like to respectfully disagree with your post, Fellow Aspirant. The New York Times is not, in my opinion, a credible news source. Nor do I believe the data and numbers coming out of our government agencies . Sorry.
    Sweden is down to nearly zero deaths from Covid. I believe their numbers. There is NO incentive in Sweden to cook the books and get $$ from Covid deaths. The actual death rate from Covid is going down in the US. The number of cases can be manipulated, especially if the amplification cycle of the test is increased. Many places with the strictest mask requirements and lockdowns (Spain, for example) have not contained the virus ( which can easily infect through a cloth mask). So I feel many of your conclusions are erroneous. There is room here for disagreement, as you can tell from the various threads!

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    Quote Posted by Deborah (ahamkara) (here)
    I would like to respectfully disagree with your post, Fellow Aspirant. The New York Times is not, in my opinion, a credible news source. Nor do I believe the data and numbers coming out of our government agencies . Sorry.
    Sweden is down to nearly zero deaths from Covid. I believe their numbers. There is NO incentive in Sweden to cook the books and get $$ from Covid deaths. The actual death rate from Covid is going down in the US. The number of cases can be manipulated, especially if the amplification cycle of the test is increased. Many places with the strictest mask requirements and lockdowns (Spain, for example) have not contained the virus ( which can easily infect through a cloth mask). So I feel many of your conclusions are erroneous. There is room here for disagreement, as you can tell from the various threads!
    Agreed but what I find missing in most analysis is the reality of many babyboomers who are sitting ducks to die from all kind of civilization diseases. Because of years of unhealthy lifestyle they have different intoxications and are poisoned by industrial food and beverages. They have little or no knowledge of holistic solutions that could heal and safe them. None of the draconic measures will save them from falling over from even a rhinovirus. It is sad but was to be expected. And these bad figures will be abused . Only the different truths can unlock society. It is happening.

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    https://www.sott.net/article/441024-...rder-lockdowns

    In February, US Covid guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus was 'akin to a severe flu' and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people. Then fatality rate predictions were somehow mixed up to make it look ten times WORSE.

    When you strip everything else out, the reason for lockdown comes from a single figure: one percent. This was the prediction that Covid, if left unchecked, would kill around one percent of us.

    You may not think that percentage is enormous, but one percent of the population of the world is 70 million people - and that's a lot. It would mean 3.2 million Americans dead, and 670,000 Britons.

    But where did this one percent figure come from? You may find this hard to believe, but this figure emerged by mistake. A pretty major thing to make a mistake about, but that's what happened.
    With Covid, a similar mistake happened. One type of fatality rate was substituted for another. The wrong rate was then used to predict the likely death rate - and, as with NASA, no-one picked up the error.

    In order to understand what happened, you have to understand the difference between two medical terms that sound the same - but are completely different. Rather like a pound second or a Newton second.

    Which fatality rate, did you say?

    First, there's the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR). This is the total number of people who are infected by a disease and the number of them who die. This figure includes those who have no symptoms at all, or only very mild symptoms - those who stayed at home, coughed a bit and watched Outbreak.

    Then there's the Case Fatality Rate (CFR). This is the number of people suffering serious symptoms, who are probably ill enough to be in hospital. Clearly, people who are seriously ill - the "cases" - are going to have a higher mortality rate than those who are infected, many of whom don't have symptoms. Put simply - all cases are infections, but not all infections are cases.

    Which means that the CFR will always be far higher than the IFR. With influenza, the CFR is around ten times as high as the IFR. Covid seems to have a similar proportion.

    Now, clearly, you do not want to get these figures mixed up. By doing so you would either wildly overestimate, or wildly underestimate, the impact of Covid. But mix these figures up, they did.

    The error started in America, but didn't end there. In healthcare, the US is very much the dog that wags the tail. The figures they come up with are used globally.

    On February 28, 2020, an editorial was released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the editorial stated: "... the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza."

    They added that influenza has a CFR of approximately 0.1 percent. One person in a thousand who gets it badly, dies.

    But that quoted CFR for influenza was ten times too low - they meant to say the IFR, the Infection Fatality Rate, for influenza was 0.1 percent. This was their fatal - quite literally - mistake.

    Comment: A more skeptical mind might think that this was no mere mistake, but deliberate.

    The mistake was compounded. On March 11, the same experts testified to Congress, stating that Covid's CFR was likely to be about one percent, so one person dying from a hundred who fell seriously ill. Which, as time has passed, has proved to be pretty accurate.

    At this meeting, they compared the likely impact of Covid to flu. But they used the wrong CFR for influenza, the one stated in the previous NEJM editorial. 0.1 percent, or one in a thousand. The one that was ten times too low.

    Flu toll 1,000 - Covid toll 10,000

    So, they matched up the one percent CFR of Covid with the incorrect 0.1 percent CFR of flu. Suddenly, Covid was going to be ten times as deadly.

    If influenza killed 50, Covid was going to kill 500. If influenza killed a million, Covid was going to get 10 million. No wonder Congress, then the world, panicked. Because they were told Covid was going to be ten times worse than influenza. They could see three million deaths in the US alone, and 70 million around the world.

    I don't expect you or I to get this sort of thing right. But I bloody well expect the experts to do so. They didn't. They got their IFR and CFR mixed up and multiplied the likely impact of Covid by a factor of ten.

    Here's what the paper, "Public health lessons learned from biases in coronavirus mortality overestimation",says: "On March 11, 2020,... based on the data available at the time, Congress was informed that the estimated mortality rate for the coronavirus was ten-times higher than for seasonal influenza, which helped launch a campaign of social distancing, organizational and business lockdowns, and shelter-in-place orders."

    On February 28 it was estimated that Covid was going to have about the same impact as a bad influenza season - almost certainly correct. Eleven days later, the same group of experts predicted that the mortality rate was going to be ten times as high. This was horribly, catastrophically, running-into-Mars-at-5,000-miles-an-hour wrong.

    Enter the Mad Modellers of Lockdown

    In the UK, the group I call the Mad Modellers of lockdown, the Imperial College experts, created the same panic. On March 16, they used an estimated IFR of 0.9 percent to predict that, without lockdown, Covid would kill around 500,000 in the UK.

    Is this prediction anywhere close?

    So far, the UK has had around 40,000 Covid deaths. Significantly less than 0.1 percent, but not that far off. Of course, people will say... "We had lockdown... without it so many more would have died. Most people have not been infected..." etc.

    To answer this, we need to know the true IFR. Is it a 0.1 percent, or one percent? If it is one percent, we have more than 400,000 deaths to go. If it is 0.1 percent, this epidemic has run its course. For this year, at least.

    With swine flu, remember that the IFR started at around two percent. In the end, it was 0.02 percent, which was five times lower than the lowest estimate during the outbreak. The more you test, the lower the IFR will fall.

    So where can we look to get the current figures on the IFR? The best place to look is at the country that has tested more people than anywhere else as a proportion of their population: Iceland.

    As of last week, Iceland's IFR stood at 0.16 per cent. It cannot go up from here. It can only fall. People can't start dying of a disease they haven't got.

    This means that we'll probably end up with an IFR of about 0.1 percent, maybe less. Not the 0.02 percent of Swine Flu - somewhere between the two, perhaps. In short, the 0.1 percent prophecy has proved to be pretty much bang on.

    Which means that we've had all the deaths we were ever going to get. And which also means that the lockdown achieved almost precisely nothing with regard to Covid. No deaths were prevented.

    Mangled beyond recognition

    Yes, we are testing and testing, and finding more so-called cases. As you will. But the hospitals and ICUs are virtually empty. Almost no-one is dying of Covid anymore, and most of those who do were otherwise very ill.

    Instead of celebrating that, we've artificially created a whole new thing to scare ourselves with. We now call a positive test a Covid "case." This is not medicine. A "case" is someone who has symptoms. A case is not someone carrying tiny amounts of virus in their nose.

    Now, however, you test positive, and you're a "case." Never in history has medical terminology been so badly mangled. Never have statistics been so badly mangled.

    When researchers look back at this pandemic, they'll have absolutely no idea who died because of Covid, or who died -coincidentally- with it. Everything's been mashed together in a determined effort to make the virus look as deadly as possible.

    Lockdown happened because we were told that Coivid could kill one percent. But Covid was never going to kill more than about 0.1 percent - max.

    That's the figure estimated back in February, by the major players in viral epidemiology. A figure that has turned out to be remarkably accurate. Bright guys... bad mistake.

    We've killed tens of thousands - for nothing

    But because we panicked, we've added hugely to the toll. Excess mortality between March and May was around 70,000, not the 40,000 who died of/with Covid. Which means 30,000 may have died directly as a result of the actions we took.

    We protected the young, the children, who are at zero risk of Covid. But we threw our elderly and vulnerable under a bus. The very group who should have been shielded. Instead, we caused 20,000 excess deaths in care homes.

    It was government policy to clear out hospitals, and stuff care homes with patients carrying Covid, or discharge them back to their own homes, to infect their nearest and dearest. Or any community care staff who visited them.

    We threw - to use health secretary Matt Hancock's ridiculous phrase - a ring of steel around care homes. As it turned out, this was not to protect them, but to trap the residents, as we turned their buildings into Covid incubators. Anyone working in care homes, as I do, knows why we got 20,000 excess deaths. Government policy did this.

    That is far from all the damage. On top of care homes, the ONS estimates that 16,000 excess deaths were caused by lockdown. The heart attacks and strokes that were not treated. The empty, echoing hospitals and A&E units. The cancer treatments stopped entirely.
    Thank you for that very clear explanation of the IFR vs CFR and one of the many ways we've been duped over this whole thing. I should add to your list from your last paragraph, the enormous increase (verified to me by a hospital working friend) in domestic abuse cases. The A&E's are empty because people are 'afraid' to go to hospital. But there's still the women and children that are abused coming in escalating numbers.

    Very little mention of this in the msm of course. The figures are entirely mangled as you say, skewed. Including the so called research into an effective treatment with Hydroxychloroquine. It's diabolical.

    What are we going to do with this information?

    I noted, said NHS friend & partner, were planning to trot off for their flu vaccines - I didn't hold back my views, and they took what I had to say in considerate silence, will they act on it, do their own research? So many still asleep.

    Keep sharing the information.

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    All the above is all and only my opinion - all subject to change and not meant to be true for anyone else regardless of how I phrase it.

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    For those of us concerned about the truth of how this pandemic is affecting the United States, I am posting the words of Doctor Larry Bright.

    On 14 May of this year, Dr. Larry Bright was called to testify, under oath, before the U.S. Congress. Below is a copy of a partial transcript of his testimony.
    I apologize for the "ALL CAPS" formatting, but the C-Span transcription service printed it that way, and allowed for no format changes. I have inserted spaces where I deemed it appropriate, and to make it slightly easier to read. The emboldened text is my decision.

    The prelude to this gives some background on Dr. Bright's professional history:

    In 2010, Bright joined the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) governmental agency Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). He was the program lead of BARDA International Programs, then in June 2011 became acting chief of the influenza antiviral drug advanced development program, a position he held until December 2011. From June 2011 to December 2015, he was both deputy director and acting director of BARDA's Influenza and Emerging Diseases Division, eventually serving as director of the division from December 2014 to November 2016. From February 2016 to November 2016, he was an incident commander in the ASPR/BARDA Zika Response.[8][17]

    On November 15, 2016, after a competitive selection process, President Obama appointed Bright to the position of director of BARDA.[11][18][19] Bright succeeded founding director Robin Robinson. In addition to his role as director of BARDA, Bright was also deputy assistant secretary for Preparedness and Response in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).[15][20]

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    00:31:28

    GOOD MORNING CHAIRWOMAN, ESHOO, RANKING MEMBER BURGESS AND DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE.

    I AM DR. RICK BRIGHT, A CAREER PUBLIC SERVANT AND A SCIENTIST WHO HAS SPENT 25 YEARS OF MY CAREER FOCUSED ON ADDRESSING PANDEMIC OUTBREAKS.

    I RECEIVED MY BACHELOR'S DEGREE WITH HONORS IN BOTH BIOLOGY AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND A PH.D. IN IMMUNOLOGY MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS. I JOINED BARDA IN 2010. UNTIL APRIL 21 OF THIS YEAR, I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS ITS DIRECTOR. BARDA PARTNERS WITH PRIVATE INDUSTRY TO ADDRESS NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY THREATS.

    TODAY THE WORLD IS CONFRONTING A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY UNLIKE WE HAVE NOT SEEN IN OVER A CENTURY. WE ARE FACING A TRANSMISIBLE AND DEADLY VIRUS THAT DISRUPTS THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF OUR SOCIETY. THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS BEING TAXED TO THE LIMIT. OUR ECONOMY IS SPIRALING DOWN-WARD AND OUR POPULATION IS BEING PARALYZED BY FEAR, STEMMING FROM A LACK OF A COORDINATED RESPONSE AND A DEARTH OF ACCURATE, CLEAR INDICATIONS ABOUT THE PATH FORWARD.

    AMERICANS YEARN TO GET BACK TO WORK, TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILIES. I GET THAT. HOWEVER, WHAT WE DO MUST BE DONE FAIRLY AND WITH GUIDANCE FROM THE BEST SCIENTIFIC MINDS.

    OUR WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY IS CLOSING. IF WE FAIL TO IMPROVE OUR RESPONSE NOW, B B B B B SCIENCE, I FEAR THE PANDEMIC WILL GET WORSE AND BE PROLONGED. THERE WILL LIKELY BE A RESURGENCE OF COVID-19 THIS FALL AND BE GREATLY COMPOUNDED ABOUT THE CHALLENGES OF SEASONAL INFLUENZA. WITHOUT BETTER PLANNING, 2020 COULD BE THE DARKEST WINTER IN MODERN HISTORY.

    FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE NEED TO BE TRUTHFUL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. AMERICANS DESERVE THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH MUST BE BASED ON SCIENCE. WE HAVE THE WORLD'S GREATEST SCIENTISTS. LET US LEAD. LET US SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR OF RETRIBUTION. WE MUST LISTEN. EACH OF US CAN AND MUST DO OUR PART NOW.

    ON TUESDAY, DR. FAUCI DELIVERED A MESSAGE IN A VOICE THAT'S CLEAR AND TRUSTWORTHY AS HE ENCOURAGED US TO ACT WITH CAUTION AS WE RETURN TO OUR DAILY LIVES. WE SHOULD LISTEN TO HIM AND OTHER SCIENTISTS SHARING THEIR EXPERTISE.

    WHILE WAITING FOR A CURE AND A VACCINE, WHICH I BELIEVE WILL COME, THERE ARE THINGS WE MUST DO IMMEDIATELY. WE MUST INCREASE THE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT THE BASICS -- WASHING HANDS, SOCIAL DISTANCING, APPROPRIATE FACE COVERING. THEY ARE SIMPLE BUT CRITICAL STEPS THAT BUY A VALUABLE TIME UNTIL THERE IS A VACCINE. WE NEED TO RAMP UP PRODUCTION OF ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, INCLUDING RAW MATERIALS AND CRITICAL COMPONENTS. SHORTAGES OF THESE INCREASE THE RISK OF OUR FRONTLINE HEALTH CARE WORKERS. THEY DESERVE THE BEST EQUIPMENT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. WE NEED TO FACILITATE THE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF SUPPLIES.

    FINALLY, WE NEED A NATIONAL TESTING STRATEGY. THE VIRUS IS HERE. IT'S EVERYWHERE. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO FIND IT, ISOLATE IT, AND STOP IT. WE NEED TO HAVE THE RIGHT TESTING FOR EVERYONE WHO NEEDS IT. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO TRACE CONTACT, ISOLATE, QUARANTINE, AND APPROPRIATELY WHILE STRIVING TO DEVELOP A CURE.

    INITIALLY, OUR NATION WAS NOT AS PREPARED AS WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN. AS WE COULD HAVE BEEN. SOME SCIENTISTS RAISED EARLY WARNING SIGNALS THAT WERE OVERLOOKED. AND PAGES FROM OUR PANDEMIC PLAYBOOK WERE IGNORED BY SOME IN LEADERSHIP. THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF TIME TO LOOK BACK TO ASSESS WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO WE CAN IMPROVE, BUT RIGHT NOW, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON GETTING THINGS RIGHT GOING FORWARD. WE NEED A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THAT EVERYONE KNOWS AND EVERYONE PARTICIPATES IN. CONGRESS HAS TAKEN IMPORTANT STEPS TO SUPPORT THE RESPONSE AND THERE'S MUCH MORE WE CAN DO. WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS CRISIS. WORKING COOPERATIVELY WITH OUR GLOBAL PARTNERS, WE CAN AND WILL SUCCEED IN FINDING A CURE FOR COVID-19. THAT SUCCESS DEPENDS ON WHAT WE DO TODAY. WE WILL EITHER BE REMEMBERED FOR WHAT WE DID OR WHAT WE FAILED TO DO TO ADDRESS THIS CRISIS. I CALL ON ALL OF US TO ACT. TO ENSURE THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND PROSPERITY OF ALL AMERICANS.

    YOU CAN COUNT ON ME TO DO MY PART.

    THANK YOU.

    https://www.c-span.org/video/?471986...demic-response
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    Quote Posted by Fellow Aspirant (here)
    For those of us concerned about the truth of how this pandemic is affecting the United States, I am posting the words of Doctor Larry Bright.

    On 14 May of this year, Dr. Larry Bright was called to testify, under oath, before the U.S. Congress. Below is a copy of a partial transcript of his testimony.
    I apologize for the "ALL CAPS" formatting, but the C-Span transcription service printed it that way, and allowed for no format changes. I have inserted spaces where I deemed it appropriate, and to make it slightly easier to read. The emboldened text is my decision.

    The prelude to this gives some background on Dr. Bright's professional history:

    In 2010, Bright joined the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) governmental agency Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). He was the program lead of BARDA International Programs, then in June 2011 became acting chief of the influenza antiviral drug advanced development program, a position he held until December 2011. From June 2011 to December 2015, he was both deputy director and acting director of BARDA's Influenza and Emerging Diseases Division, eventually serving as director of the division from December 2014 to November 2016. From February 2016 to November 2016, he was an incident commander in the ASPR/BARDA Zika Response.[8][17]...


    https://www.c-span.org/video/?471986...demic-response
    With all due respect, how can you with a straight face, post testimony made almost half a year ago about details of this pandemic, when we now are light years ahead in our knowledge of the virus and the scam?

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