How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns


In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked.

That is the story of what may eventually be known as one of the biggest medical and economic blunders of all time. The collective failure of every Western nation, except one, to question groupthink will surely be studied by economists, doctors, and psychologists for decades to come.

To put things in perspective, the virus is now known to have an infection fatality rate for most people under 65 that is no more dangerous than driving 13 to 101 miles per day. Even by conservative estimates, the odds of COVID-19 death are roughly in line with existing baseline odds of dying in any given year...



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I wonder how many of the PCR tests are false positives due to overamplification and how many are positive antibody tests?

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That Fauxi- a real genius.

Flaw in Manufacturer’s Testing System For Coronavirus Used by Labs Across the US Causing False Positives

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According to DPH scientists, the affected patients were tested between July 15 to July 17 and out of a total of 144 ‘positive’ tests, 90 were false positives!

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Flaw in Manufacturer’s Testing System For Coronavirus Used by Labs Across the US Causing False Positives

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According to DPH scientists, the affected patients were tested between July 15 to July 17 and out of a total of 144 ‘positive’ tests, 90 were false positives!

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I've read articles by true scientists that state the false positives on rt-PCR can be as high as 70%. I posted an article somewhere here that has that information. Using PCR for disease diagnosis is ridiculous.

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Flaw in Manufacturer’s Testing System For Coronavirus Used by Labs Across the US Causing False Positives

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According to DPH scientists, the affected patients were tested between July 15 to July 17 and out of a total of 144 ‘positive’ tests, 90 were false positives!

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I've read articles by true scientists that state the false positives on rt-PCR can be as high as 70%. I posted an article somewhere here that has that information. Using PCR for disease diagnosis is ridiculous.

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We can't be letting little stuff like that get in the way of the agenda! /s

Tens of thousands of coronavirus tests have been double-counted, officials admit

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DID LOCKDOWNS WORK? EVIDENCE SAYS NO

This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from COVID.

That's 9,210 deaths. That's it.

We are muzzling our children, going full commie, and headed into a world depression where millions will die from starvation or worse. All for this.

Death is apart of life. And what's the point of trying to save life if we can't even live our lives?

The other 94% had 2 to 3 other serious illnesses and the overwhelming majority were of very advanced age; 90% in nursing homes.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm