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Calgacus linked to this and I decided to post it in the spirit of considering all sides of the issue.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May 25, 2020 Sweden’s Covid-19 strategy has been lauded by anti-lockdown activists who favor herd immunity, but a prominent Swedish professor of epidemiology questions just how humane and trustworthy that strategy has been.  Sweden is among the leaders in Europe of deaths per coronavirus infections.  (Wikipedia) By  Marcello Ferrada de Noli  Special to Consortium News S ome media outlets have  mistakenly  reported that the World Health Organization has endorsed Sweden’s Covid-19 strategy.  In fact , WHO was referring to future pandemics in which new behavior is learned, not to the existing combat against this pandemic via a ‘ herd immunity ‘ model. Nonetheless, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell continues  boasting  that his untrustworthy Covid-19 model is the best in the worl...

Thanks to Calgacus for linking to this, which I think deserves its own thread ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lock Step: How the Rockefeller Foundation wants to implement its autocratic pandemic scenario May 28, 2020 njhaering Leave a comment Go to comments from  Norbert Häring Ten years ago, the rich and powerful Rockefeller Foundation played through and favorably described a scenario in which a pandemic would lead to autocratic forms of government with total surveillance and control of citizens. Now it has published a pandemic plan to make this scenario a reality. According to the preamble by the President of the Foundation, it took two weeks to set up and edit this plan, implicating a large number of “experts and decision-makers from academia, business, politics and government – across industries and political ideologies” and publish it in glossy on April 21, 2020, under the title “ National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan : Pragmatic steps to reopen our workpl...

Thanks to Mensch59 for contributing this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Horowitz: Bombshell study: Could half the uninfected population already be partially immune? Daniel Horowitz   ·  May 27, 2020        Font Size  A   A   A ArtistGNDphotography | Getty Images Could nearly half the population not already infected with SARS-CoV-2 be immune to it from having already contracted other forms of coronavirus in recent years? That is one implication of a major  study  conducted by over a dozen researchers from several microbiology and immunology institutions in the U.S. The purveyors of panic are warning of a second wave of the virus and that even if we are correct in asserting that the general fatality rate is extremely low for most people, it will still result in millions of deaths worldwide if we need 70 percent of the population to get the virus in order to achieve herd immunity. Putting aside the fact that their str...

Thanks to Mensch59 for contributing this article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The way ‘Covid deaths’ are being counted is a national scandal DR JOHN LEE   MAY 30, 2020 As a pathologist, I’m used to people thinking that my job mainly involves dealing with death. But nothing could be further from the truth. That is why I and many of my colleagues are so dismayed by changes introduced during the coronavirus epidemic which mean that pathology has not been able to play the role that it should have in helping to understand this new disease. The word ‘pathology’ tends to conjure up images of body bags, mortuaries and murder investigations. ‘Ho ho,’ people say, ‘your patients can’t answer back.’ They imagine days spent trudging across fields to reach murder scenes,  Silent Witness -style, and nights sifting through arcane evidence to catch the perpetrators. And a rare type of pathologist — the forensic pathologist — does indeed do that. Most pathologists, though, spend ...