A Partial List of Things the Medical Community got Wrong That were Obviously Wrong Based on the Contemporaneously Available Evidence, Written in June 2020
It's important to remember in detail how indefensibly wrong and negligent they were from day 1
I wrote this in June 2020 as part of a response to a ridiculous article that appeared in Mishpacha Magazine that was comically entitled “Just the Facts” (irony has indeed been brutally murdered). It’s worth remembering how corrupt and incompetent the medical community and the “experts” were from Day 1, which is something easily lost to the mists of time, especially when aided by a Soviet-style rewriting of reality. I made a few minor grammatical and stylistic edits to adapt it as a standalone article, but the substance is exactly as it was. Judge for yourself how well this has aged:
1. Mortality Rate:
Right off the bat, the WHO, and then everyone else, announced that the IFR was – as a factual matter, and that is critical – somewhere between 2 and 4+ percent (depending on who was talking, in which country, etc). This number was calculated by literally dividing the number of reported cases in China by the number of reported deaths. This is rank deception, because it was guaranteed that initially, only the most severe cases were publicly visible, which in turn meant that the actual numerator - the total number of infections – was a virtual lock to be orders of magnitude higher than the pathetically small numerator used to calculate the fraudulent 2-4+% figure being bandied about. Furthermore, this failed to consider any relevant characteristics of the Chinese population profile that were presumably impactful, specifically that the majority of males in China are smokers, and in most cases heavy smokers, which is about as textbook an aggravating factor for a respiratory virus as anything. I remember distinctly listening to videos made by various Jewish doctors that were going around the chat groups that my mother brought to my attention and being shocked by the bold assertions being made that were definitely untrue. At the time, I told my mother with absolute confidence that the mortality rate was considerably overstated and was likely, following the historical patterns of viral outbreaks, to in reality be orders of magnitude lower, and almost definitely below 1% overall. (This was when the first US cases were “discovered” and the only place that was experiencing mass deaths was Wuhan.)
2. Mortality Stratification by Age and Comorbidities:
When Italy started experiencing their peak crisis with thousands of deaths, a very early on analysis of approximately 18% of the fatalities taken at random showed that 99.9% were old and/or had severe co-morbidities. This highly relevant fact was ignored by the entire medical and scientific establishment, (and therefore absent from the media, which then ensured that every mother would cling tightly to her children in abject terror, thinking the impending menacing bubonic plague poised just outside her door to cruelly snatch them away).
3. The Infamous Imperial College Doomsday Model
This was a colossal exercise in authentic scientific quackery, without exaggeration. Yet, it was immediately embraced as authoritative, and was the lynchpin in convincing the world at large to implement the most destructive and evil set of policies ever willingly implemented by a civilized society. (This is a thorough analysis of the IC model that exposes the shocking and depraved extent of its fraudulence.) And this was despite almost instantaneous, strongly worded pushback by Oxford and Stanford universities. (I never thought I would see the day when two of the world’s leading and most prestigious universities published brutally scathing critiques implicating an impending policy choice, on a matter whose import is difficult to overstate with millions of lives in the balance, and be… ignored.)
4. Neil Ferguson:
The IC model requires another appearance to point out the inherent lack of any credibility of its creator, the now-disgraced professor Neil Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson has a long history of utterly delusional epidemiological predictions:
a. [Imperial College epidemiologist Neil] Ferguson was behind the disputed research that sparked the mass culling of eleven million sheep and cattle during the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. (Sheep genocide!!) He also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die. There were fewer than 200 deaths. . . .
b. In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. In the U.K., there were only 177 deaths from BSE.
c. In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu. (And then he said maybe 200,000,000!) In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.
d. In 2009, a government estimate, based on Ferguson’s advice, said a “reasonable worst-case scenario” was that the swine flu would lead to 65,000 British deaths. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people (at most) in the U.K.
It is scandalous, indeed, that the word of a known hoax-peddling narcissist was deemed authoritative by the medical/scientific community at large, and even despite the immediate rebukes of Oxford & Stanford universities etc. It’s almost as if there were a lot of people who were determined to successfully instigate a societal shutdown no matter what…
5. Covid Morbidity and Mortality for Kids:
Young people are at serious risk of being killed by covid. The data was there from the beginning that this was utterly false, starting with Italy, and every other country following suit. (even Ferguson’s pathetic IC model, on page 5 of its paper, said that the super vast majority were old sickly, and the majority were going to die within the next 12 months anyway).
6. Outdoor Transmission:
Outdoor Transmission is a significant transmission vector for covid. Previous research on SARS-CoV-1 was that outdoor transmission was not a significant vector, and there was never any data that supported this theory, and contact tracing cast serious doubt upon this claim this from the beginning; yet it was constantly repeated, and formed the theoretical basis to impose social distancing measures on the entire population, something that was once considered too radical and destructive to ever be credibly entertained as a policy option. (John Hopkins University ridiculed it as “causing the potential for a ‘serious adverse outcome,’” thereby ensuring that “a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.”)
7. “Flatten the Curve!”
Flatten the curve… that allegedly started in early March. This was always a ridiculous assertion. Around 3,000,000 travelers come to the US from China annually, which comes out to almost 300,000 a month. That means that more than half a million travelers came from China, where one of the major international airports is Wuhan, from the time that covid broke out in China until then. This meant that covid had been let loose, if it was anywhere remotely close to how infectious it was being made out to be. Which meant in turn that the curve had started months earlier, and would therefore resist being “flattened”. This misguided premise was also a critical basis for much of the adventurous policy voyeurism that ensued.
8. Lockdowns slowed the spread:
They most certainly did not, something that one can easily see by mere eyeballing of the basic covid metrics and lockdown existence/ intensity of various jurisdictions - there is no positive effect generally whatsoever. They are quite destructive though.
9. Shifting goal posts to define the objective of the lockdowns:
This is a particularly insidious and evil one, because by original objective of the lockdowns was achieved by early April (not because of the lockdowns though). This was further exacerbated by the constant “recalibration” of what metrics would indicate the successful implementation of the lockdown, until it reached the point where there was no articulable “exit strategy” at all. (Thankfully, we had Europe, and a few gutsy conservative governors, who bucked the trend.) That means that all of the torment, destruction, suffering, and loss of life that accrued with the ever-lengthening lockdowns lacked justifying predication, and ultimately was for naught.
10. The IHME models:
These were so comically wretched that even Dr. Fauci publicly renounced them as being fundamentally unable to prognosticate with a credible degree of precision, yet were somehow the basis of much of the hysteria, and the impelling cause of the barbaric policies of the sadistic governors forcibly redeploying covid positive patients back to their nursing homes, which caused perhaps 20,000-40,000 needless covid deaths. (The endless, constant litany of energetic overshooting by such comically large margins stands as one of the enduring symbols of the covid-19 pandemic, emblematic of all the characteristic missteps and malevolence that defined the policy debates and decisions at almost every level.)
11. The constantly shifting positions on wearing masks, especially outdoors:
Masks aren’t exactly a recent medical invention, and the political idolatry of wearing them outdoors is quite remarkable. This one has demonstrated unexpected durability to resolutely persevere in the face of such an overwhelming evidentiary onslaught - that there is absolutely no meaningful outdoor transmission, plus the feeble and thinly reasoned evidentiary foundation for public masking in the first place.
12. The Ballooning Covid Death Count:
Every statement about the number of deaths, which were and are so overinflated that the current death count can be accurately described as “morbidly obese”.
13. Florida was going to be a disaster:
It wasn’t. Nor, more importantly, did there exist any reason to assume that it would be. Governor Ron DeSantis simply followed the actual data (per his own explanation of his administration’s policies), that indicated that the risk stratification was severely lopsided, et al. And he had the fortitude to maintain course despite the unimaginable level of invective and slander from the rest of the country, which also goes to show the firm evidentiary basis substantially grounded in readily available data at the time for resisting locking down society at large. The sheer magnitude by which the experts’ judgement was farcically flawed, if not altogether delusional, is compellingly illustrated by Florida’s having been precariously situated facing covid more so than any other state (except - possibly - New York), holding the largest senior citizen population of any state, the highest concentration of seniors per capita, one of the highest population densities, plus accepting thousands of people fleeing NYC, the hottest of the hot spots worldwide; yet Florida ranked well below every remotely similarly situated state in every covid statistic. (The lack of apologies by almost all of the medical professionals who accused DeSantis of playing Russian Roulette is particularly egregious, and revealing about the character of the experts as well.)
14. Sweden:
Pretty much everything said about Sweden was either a bald-faced lie or deceptive cherry-picking of selected data points to distort the lockdown-busting implications of the underlying data.
15. Hydroxychloroquine:
Very safe, very effective, and very maligned (super link to twenty different papers about HCQ).
16. The deliberate and malicious disregarding of the massive lockdown costs:
Representative Andy Biggs (one of the few good ones) stated that on a conference call with members of congress, he asked Dr. Fauci if the government had modeled the costs of the lockdown, particularly the excess deaths that would occur. Fauci responded “No. That’s a good point. We’ll think about it.” There was no subsequent modeling done by any government agency in the US, a streak yet to be broken. That should truly shock the conscience of any sentient person with a heart. This certainly fits the legal category of “depraved indifference”, and is chillingly evil.
17. Kawasaki Disease Mania!
And the subsequent invention of a new “syndrome” - MIS - overnight for political expediency. (Editors note: This was when the media and establishment made a big deal of a few Kawasaki cases in kids and falsely without any credible basis tried to attribute them to covid. Even now the CDC still acknowledges that the link in kids cannot be proven.)
18. Camps/schools are dangerous and risky:
One need only look at schools up until the lockdowns, all research on schools since then, and the countries that left schools open not experiencing any sort of surge on account of that. Oh, and the current policy of pretty much every European country at this point.
19. We need massive amounts of contact tracing in order to reopen safely:
Um, we don’t. Just look at Sweden or Florida.
This was before the case the scaling up of testing to millions of tests per day, which introduced all kinds of insanity to the covid numbers, and before Ivermectin, and before the vaccines, and before variants!, etc. The political and medical establishments have only gotten worse since…..