LOCKDOWN COST

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by Morley Evans

The virus is not doing much. Only octogenarians with multiple life-threatening diseases are at risk. Many treatments are available. They do not cost a fortune. A vaccine is not required. Fear-mongering and unwarranted reactions are the problem. Here are some observations. - ed

COVID-19 Could Kill More People Through Hunger than the Disease Itself, Warns Oxfam
By Oxfam International, July 09, 2020

The report, The Hunger Virus, reveals how an estimated 122 million more people could be pushed to the brink of starvation this year as a result of the social and economic fallout from the pandemic including through mass unemployment, disruption to food production and supplies, and declining aid. This equates to as many as 12,000 people dying every day while the global mortality rate for COVID-19 reached a peak of 10,000 deaths per day in April 2020.


COVID-19 Cases in Africa Rising Sharply
By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 09, 2020

Concerns are mounting across the African continent and internationally over the exponential growth in COVID-19 infections. At the time of this writing the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDC) reported a total of 508,584 cases resulting in 12,000 deaths. This same source says that 247,207 of those previously diagnosed as positive are now considered fully recovered.


The “Second Wave”: Politics Influences the “Science” of COVID-19. Flawed Data, Flawed Models
By Josh Mitteldorf, July 09, 2020

The global death rate from COVID-19 is down to about 4,000 per day. It is not even among the top ten causes. COVID is lower than traffic deaths, lower than diarrhoea. Even compared to other respiratory infections, COVID is now a minority. In the US, daily COVID deaths peaked in April, and are now down to 1/10 the peak rate, at about 400/day. COVID is now the sixth leading cause of death in America, but it no longer registers as a bump in total mortality.


120 Covid-19 Vaccine Projects are Underway
By Stephen Lendman, July 08, 2020

Vaccines affects human health — notably when development is rushed like now. Instead of providing protection as claimed, vaccines time and again cause diseases they’re supposed to prevent. Around 120 COVID-19 vaccine development projects are underway. Either in pre-clinical or human trials, Big Pharma firms and their foreign counterparts are racing to develop and market what no one should touch when one or more vaccines become available — possibly later this year or in early 2021.


Coronavirus: Why Everyone Was Wrong. It is Not a “New Virus”. “The Fairy Tale of No Immunity”
By Beda M Stadler, July 08, 2020

At the end of 2019 a coronavirus, which was considered novel, was detected in China. When the gene sequence, i.e. the blueprint of this virus, was identified and was given a similar name to 2002 identified Sars, i.e. Sars-CoV-2, we should have already asked ourselves then how far [this virus] is related to other coronaviri, which can make human beings sick. Now that we’re talking about developing a vaccine against the virus, we suddenly see studies which show that this so-called novel virus is very strongly related to Sars-1 as well as other beta-coronaviri which make us suffer every year in the form of a cold. Apart from the pure homologies in the sequence between the various coronaviri which can make people sick, [scientists] currently working on identifying a number of areas on the virus in the same way as human immune cells identify them. This is no longer about the genetic relationship, but about how our immune system sees this virus, i.e. which parts of other coronaviri could potentially be used in a vaccine.


The National Institute of Health (NIH) Owns Half of Moderna Vaccine: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr, July 08, 2020

New documents obtained by Axios and Public Citizen suggest that the National Institute of Health (NIH) owns half the key patent for Moderna’s controversial COVID vaccine and could collect half the royalties. In addition, four NIH scientists have filed their own provisional patent application as co-inventors. Little known NIH regulations let agency scientists collect up to $150,000.00 annually in royalties from vaccines upon which they worked.


The Impacts of the Draconian Lockdowns: 1.1 Billion People At Risk of Starvation. Dr John Ioannidis
By Dr John P.A. Ioannidis and Patricia Claus, July 07, 2020

We have learned a lot within a short period of time about the prevalence of the infection worldwide. There are already more than 50 studies that have presented results on how many people in different countries and locations have developed antibodies to the virus. These numbers are anywhere between 5 times (e.g. Gangelt in Germany) and 600 times (e.g. Japan) more compared to the documented cases, depending on whether a lot or limited testing was already performed in different locations. We know that the prevalence of the infection varies tremendously across countries, but also within countries, within states, and even within population groups in the same location.