Factual paranoia

Realising that immune systems flourish from exercise, Vitamin D is a primary COVID preventive treatment, the airborne pathogen is dispersed outdoors, and that masking is therefore also irrelevant there, why are we locked ‘in’ to prevent the spread in Sri Lanka? – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara  

Monday, 31 May 2021

There is a bizarre derangement in the land. You cite facts, easily corroborated, not controversial on the face of it, and if somehow ‘inconvenient’ to some outdated playbook we are still fetishising and unwilling to relinquish our death grip on, people’s eyes glaze as if you had somehow questioned an article of religious faith.

Indoors/outdoors

Simple example. One year ago, Knut Wittowski, eminent epidemiologist, pointed out self-evidently that fresh air and sunshine kill viruses, hence seasonal fluctuations, and that it’s insane to lock people ‘in.’ It fell on deaf ears and he was pilloried for stating established fact. 

Weeks ago, I reported that this has been reconfirmed, with even the New York Times confirming there is not ‘one recorded instance of outdoor transmission anywhere.’ Or certainly, even as per the US CDC, less than 1%. Ergo, realising that immune systems flourish from exercise, Vitamin D is a primary COVID preventive treatment, the airborne pathogen is dispersed outdoors, and that masking is therefore also irrelevant there, why are we locked ‘in’ to prevent the spread in Sri Lanka? 

We know 99% transmission happened indoors. So, eyes just glaze, and you are treated to a polite, baffled look when you point out what we are doing is anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-common sense, unless this was the black plague, and mercifully it’s not. 

Next up, we have had it confirmed, even WHO has finally accepted this, it’s an airborne virus. Ergo, we are told outdoors is the best place to be, well-ventilated indoor spaces without undue congestion are also fine. 

Can we pretend this describes the living conditions of most people in the country, or even urban Colombo? People packed in tight, told not to go out, uncertain ventilation…other than trauma and discomfort, what are we achieving? Why are we parading obliviousness to medical findings, broadcast by MIT no less, and reported here locally as well?

It’s spreading?

Well, when testing goes up four-fold, is it a shock that ‘positive tests’ will also multiply? Positivity has gone up, but not drastically (about 2%). As one leading researcher said, we globally have had a ‘test-demic’ as most have no symptoms.

Asking locally how many are asymptomatic (thankfully we’ve now said they can be treated at home), no information. When asked the amplification settings to ensure they are 30 or below for the PCR test in line with finally evident WHO guidelines, confirming norms established everywhere from Harvard to Oxford, no replies or confirmation seems forthcoming. 

The last tabulation of deaths finally clarifies the numbers that actually were reported to have passed away on that actual day. So, for 28 May, though the tally was 38, the number was actually three people sadly passing on that day. The others, many with substantial comorbidities, were aggregated between 27 April to 27 May. ‘3 deaths today’ does not seem a lockdown headline?

And with Colombo being the epicentre of GDP, when we hear that 2,584 ‘positive tests’ on the 27th, had a total of 42, you read that right, 42, from Colombo MC areas, you have to wonder why with inter-district travel restricted, shutting down Colombo to amplify the seismic economic shock on these numbers makes sense?

We are organising a podcast presentation for policymakers, with some of the most eminent doctors from overseas sharing their front-line experience in successfully treating C-19. They asked me re Sri Lanka’s numbers. When I mentioned the mortality rate, stunned silence. Their comment, “The real danger will be when they open up fully, they need to let his move through more of the population not at risk.”

As reported last time, and as these doctors will explain in greater detail, there are many treatments that substantially reduce the risk of hospitalisation and death for those who do get infected. Vaccines or not, with mild lethality and high treatability, economic suicide once more, is not called for, natural immunity is. Even the New York Times, bastion of panic porn, has reported yet another study confirming that natural immunity lasts ‘at least’ a year, likely longer, perhaps forever. 

In an Open Letter to Prime Minister Modhi, 161 Indian doctors have written saying there is ‘no evidence to prove deaths due to the novel coronavirus.’ This sounds absurd, until you read the medical calibre of the signatories. This was issued 24 May by N.I.C.E. (Network of Influenza Care Experts), with medical references galore. Their argument again points out the same PCR test issues highlighted above, but goes further, citing US government references, that seem to be shunned due to their conclusions being inconvenient. Updated 16 April 2021, the CDC document states, ‘This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.’ Everyone’s collective jaw should drop. 

So, on top of amplification issues, the identity of the pathogen, from the test alone cannot be confirmed. This is why WHO also now says it is not ‘diagnostic’ in and of itself – and why are we selectively turning a blind eye to WHO guidance now? 

To partially comfort us that we are not alone with death certificate anomalies, joining the completely distorting practices in both the US and UK, in this same letter, these Indian doctors refer to the Indian Council of Medical Research guidelines established in May 2020, whereby if there is a positive test, even if the patient died of suicide/accident/other ailment, C-19 should be listed as the cause of death! In the US, there were insurance incentives for doing so. 

For more evidence they invite us to visit www.biswaroop.com/covidcourt.

Lockdown is truly a nonsense

In my last article, I provided a link with excerpts from over 30 papers based on global data that demonstrate from lived experience that ‘lockdowns’ had no positive correlation to flattening curves or on mortality overall. Just in case as it was embedded in a paragraph, here it is again. This again is one of those things I share with people, and you get those same glazed eyes, the addled indulgent look that Copernicus probably got from flat earthers when trying to explain that really was the science! 

For our collective edification as it certainly opened my eyes: https://inproportion2.talkigy.com/do_lockdowns_work_2021-01-15.html

To say that you believe lockdowns are necessary, without consulting or being aware of this evidence, is committing intellectual malpractice. 

But there are simpler decisive demonstrations. The graph of Germany’s results vs those of Sweden since November 2020 is abundantly clear. For May 2021, Sweden in terms of deaths per million has come down relative to many other countries that are locked and masked by 30%. Not only has Sweden’s economy contracted less, but the usual rejoinder is to say Norway, Finland and Denmark did so much better. Yes, and Germany, Italy, UK, France did worse. 

And Sweden has greater density than even the UK, Norway and Finland certainly don’t. Denmark is the only one that makes for a viable comparison. 

However, if you take 2019 and 2020 together in terms of mortality, Sweden does as well if not slightly better than even Denmark. Sweden had a very mild influenza/flu season in 2019, the other countries had a far more severe one. Hence it is likely there were considerably more susceptible people going into 2020 for Sweden, and then they fell afoul of the nursing home mistake made in many parts of the world which was not replicated in the other three Nordic countries. And yet over this period, Sweden still matches the results, while having a functioning society.

20+ US States, have been open for months, open schools, no masks, no lockdowns, full sporting events…no spikes, and plummeting COVID numbers. And these improvements were well ahead of the vaccination curve, and Texas even today, has only 35% of the population vaccinated, and far outperforms massively vaccinated New Jersey, New York and so many others. This simply should not be possible if lockdown is inescapable. And when that’s ‘possible’ surely, we should be studying that, rather than being on the edge of our chairs to demand another destructive, ravaging, society, economy and frankly health undermining ‘lockdown.’ 

Bulgaria is another marvellous testament, 13% vaccination, plunging COVID cases and deaths, sustained open society, thousands thronging, maskless football (soccer) finals, associating COVID with Orwell’s masterpiece of thought policing, ‘1984’ on their placards, as a snub to the orthodoxy.

Straightforwardly, here are 15 simple reasons to wean ourselves from this disastrous lockdown playbook:

1. Evidence was poor that C-19 was doomsday in the first place (low IFR as per CEBM.net and Stanford’s John Ioannidis, far safer for the young than the flu, C-19 mortality rate based on antibody prevalence is similar to flu for people under 50, even for ages 45-64 C-19 is 0.14% vs. flu 0.05% – which in turn is the same as C-19 mortality in Asia and Africa!).

2. Such shutdowns were opposed in all public health literature until 2020. No new science emerged to contradict this, only media alarmism, and clearly contrived Chinese videos of people dying in the street, never seen anywhere since. 

3. No awareness of the impact on civil rights, as if emergency declaration, suspension of rights, house arrest, mass unemployment and business shutdowns are just something that democratic governments sometimes do to deal with a virus. 

4. No historical precedent for putting entire, healthy population in ‘quarantine.’ Never before! Now, suddenly new ‘common sense’?

5. Many clearly effective treatments exist that have been stifled or fraudulently attacked; there are also broad classes of physical distancing to protect the vulnerable. None of these ever debated or assessed compared to blowing up society, on a cost benefit basis.

6. Even if lockdowns worked short term, they cannot be a solution, be sustained, or continually applied unless paralysis and poverty are the aims. Imagine if applied for every serious contagion as a new default playbook. 

7. Was the infection originally or subsequently even discovered early enough that any attempt at lockdown would make much of a difference? Dr. Risch of Yale, one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, says it is utter nonsense once it’s already spread. Has been confirmed to be an airborne virus so personal transmission not necessarily even the primary mode. So, we are ‘rain dancing’ here.

8. Lockdowns will likely handicap society on reaching natural immunity which has been our deliverance for millions of years as we co-evolved with viruses over that time. This not only perpetuates the problem but encourages variants. 

9. Lockdowns become incoherent when economic consequences are included. These consequences are devastating, including the practical ability to look after everyone’s health and all aspects of quality of life, or indeed even viability of life. 

10. Lockdown measures keep other crucial vaccinations from happening, have people not seeking other medical attention, raising mortality in other areas both now and in the foreseeable future. Is that even factored in?

11. The resulting economic downturn has led to imposed loneliness globally, to documented depression, opioid use, greater domestic abuse, suicides. How is it obvious that these are all worth it? 

12. Lockdowns lower everyone’s immune system. When we come out, we are likely more prone to this pathogen and likely any other infection now or in the near future. We are undermining our natural first line of defence.

13. Almost all infections have been shown to take place when people are confined together, not from grocery stores, restaurants, parks, etc. As per published data, reproduction number in such confined, poorly ventilated spaces is much higher. 

14. The fear narrative has shut down education, destroying life prospects in ways we cannot fathom. Tomorrow’s functioning adults are being destroyed along with today’s children. 

15. Historically the greatest unexpected dangers for humans have been unexpected consequences from things such as riots, revolutions, wars, human induced famine and so on. Playing with people’s rights in a society en masse while devastating lives and livelihoods…what could possibly go wrong?

Another ‘implosion’ for asymptomatic claims

I have previously reported on the British Medical Journal, JAMA Meta-analysis, 10 million strong study in Wuhan, now even the US CDC insisting only to look for post-vaccination examples of re-infection scrupulously on the basis of ‘symptoms.’ No credible instance of any meaningful asymptomatic spread has been established. It conflicts with all medical nostrums until 2020 where ‘symptoms’ were needed for a ‘case.’

Another nail in the coffin of this ‘non-science’ comes to us courtesy of the UK, where officials staged and monitored nine large-scale events, including an FA Cup final football match, and the Brit Awards – all of which were kept exempt from the normal COVID rules. Except for those invested in this bankrupt narrative, the results are immensely encouraging. It’s a meltdown of the evangel, as little to no ‘cases’ turned up at all.

15 alleged cases were desperately scraped up of ‘infections’ from a single positive test, out of some 60,000 total attendees. This deals a crushing blow to the central myth on which this serious virus spun into a ridiculous global panic porn fiasco has been built. And these were surely ‘superspreader’ environments!

 In Allahabad, India, the Times of India reports the teeming religious festival Magh-Mela still took place, with over 20,000 people, mostly seniors at this major religious festival, meeting and camping in truly bustling intimacy for 4-6 weeks with Ivermectin, one of the treatment wonder drugs I showcased in my last article being used in so many global breakthroughs (including Mexico most recently) as a prophylaxis. Result? Out of 20,000, 32 ‘asymptomatic people’ only, which is a 0.16% infection rate out of 20,000. 

So not only is the asymptomatic demon largely a dud, but we can make sure of that, and far improve our odds, as demonstrated here by early preventive treatment. As a sidebar, despite all the media hullabaloo, and the clearly serious crisis they faced, Indian deaths per million are 229 per million still, less than Oregon with all its wide-open spaces! However much ‘undercounting’ they may purportedly have done cannot bridge that gap. Bangladesh has 75 per million (also used Ivermectin and similar treatment protocols).

We have to jolt ourselves awake

A few points:

*We have to get our communication act together. We are told several times, ‘no island-wide curfew.’ Then we impose ‘travel restrictions’. Then induced by the completely non-evidence-based panic of medical groups, we toss our assurances away, further injure our credibility, and open up only for ‘essentials’ but with no vehicles, with a day’s notice? This is clearly not tenable as the next ‘open’ day is to be six days hence, and people are to walk several kilometres and one household member is to somehow carry a week’s produce and essentials on their head? 

There were jokes of wheelbarrows and an actual wheelbarrow man arrested for not having a mask as he’s heaving his necessities home. This is stopping viral spread? Or catching people via drones playing cricket (one of the healthiest things they probably could be doing) and arresting them? We seem to exult in displaying martial imagery and color-coded charts showing the three days you can buy food, and then broadcasting multiple arrests while people try to survive and eke out a semblance of life. 

And as usual, then even those days are suddenly removed, and the blame goes to the ‘conduct of the public’ on the one day they desperately had, when the playing field was completely changed on them, on the basis of no data, and a clearly plateauing situation, with the facts showing up the moronic ‘modelling’ alleging all kinds of mushrooming mortalities. How can we expect desperate people not to do what they have to? Allowing for daily provisioning with distancing would have resolved it. Now they have to hope essentials somehow reach them as even those ‘colour coded’ days were whisked away. 

Crisis requires credible communication. It requires the courage to balance risks and rewards. There is no risk-free leadership or life, and again this is a middling influenza strain in this region in terms of mortalities. Right now, no one can plan for post the 7th, any announcements re Port City or future economic plans sound surreal. After all, one variant, one spike, and the panic spasms begin anew, with no sense of how to pay for this obscene ‘remedy’ and how to survive as we sink further into economic quicksand.

Again, please explain, why one source of harm, based on unverified tests, trumps every other medical, social, economic and cultural consideration. Why ordered bankruptcy is okay, why destroyed education is okay, why interrupted medical care, cancelled weddings, aborted life milestones, destroying our hospitality industry is okay.

You see there is no endgame if this is the playbook. Next public crisis, with a threshold for risk avoidance this frenzied and fevered, we’re out of the game. We can never open to tourism, unless we go the route of prudent natural immunity, with the wonderful, demonstrated treatments clearly available to us. We just have to take economic suicide off the table.

Unless someone can explain why this one COVID consideration transcends every other aspect of life, we have to do this. 

Announce this or denounce the future. Maybe instead, we can manage to believe in what we’ve always counted on. Our immune systems, real medical care, consulting fresh data and findings, rallying our fighting spirit, getting at the forefront of abundantly available early treatments, and using that to be able to be open for business, for tourism, for life. Sri Lanka still has a chance to lead and not follow…and if we do, we can flourish!