Professor Sucharit Bakdi, microbiologist: WHO now acknowledges that covid-19 is not a dangerous virus and the pandemic is over.

my government disagrees

This is great to hear but the "long term effects" some people are experiencing is still a concern (at least to me). Nevertheless, hopefully this article will dissuade a lockdown and convince officials to open up schools and businesses.

Hopefully just three more months of this crap.

So why does every country in the world not believe it. Give me a rational, believable answer.

Ohhhh, so you are really are this dumb. Makes sense.

coach wrote:

This is great to hear but the "long term effects" some people are experiencing is still a concern (at least to me). Nevertheless, hopefully this article will dissuade a lockdown and convince officials to open up schools and businesses.

Hopefully just three more months of this crap.

This is hypothetical but plausible:

explainame wrote:

So why does every country in the world not believe it. Give me a rational, believable answer.

Every country has these elements:

Media-Needs eyeballs and clicks

Politicians- Need levers to exert power

Pharma/Medical corporations- Need $$

In the initial months, everyone could plead ignorance (except a few scientists who knew better), but by this summer the fix was in, the profit motive (and election madness) had seized control.

The PCR test applied without symptoms is criminal.

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Ohhhh, so you are really are this dumb. Makes sense.

How does the sand taste today, Mr. Ostrich?

explainame wrote:

So why does every country in the world not believe it. Give me a rational, believable answer.

you're responsible for your own belief. I can't force that upon you.

This is the German "scientist" who predicted that COVID would kill only 30 per day for 100 days (=3,000 deaths). But even though Germany handled the virus very, very well compared to its neighbors in Western Europe, they are at 14,343 deaths. Had their case fatality rate been anywhere near France, Italy, Spain, and the UK, that number would have been a lot more (ratio of cases to deaths in Germany is 65:1, whereas it is 27:1 and 37:1 in the UK and Spain). Even so, his prediction missed by 378% already. So, he's not a credible source. But then too you can just judge his claim that it isn't dangerous and has past its peak by its high ranking in world pandemics over the last one hundred years (1.4 million deaths puts it up at the 1957-58 Asian Flu level) and by the actual world confirmed deaths, which has risen consistently over 10,000 per day for the first time in the past week. The previous highs of 7500 per day had been in April-May. So, he is wrong, wrong, wrong.

"passed its peak"

Every intuitive economic incentive was to deny COVID and carry on business as usual, but you say that the public health scientists and pharmaceutical companies and hospitals' economic incentive, which is not even real, as many of them have had huge losses and been forced to close from the paucity of routine procedures and elective procedures, outweighed the 80-95% of the economic interests in each country? That makes no sense. And of course the actual economic incentives required that we get over the pandemic before people would be willing on their own to conduct business as usual. You can see what happens when they try. Dozens of Trump administration members got COVID. Any organization that tries becomes a superspreader and has to shut down for a time.

But R0 is much higher than flu, leading to far more deaths.

You're just discovering these charlatans in November? These quacks have been pushing their crap science since March. At this point, they have no credibility left. As do you.

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If you were to actually watch the entire video, you would have the opportunity to understand why those numbers are meaningless. I have no time for people with closed minds and refuse to take in the facts....facts that are now accepted by the W.H.O..

This entire narrative has been dictated and dominated by politicians, media and pharma. Nothing else comes close to challenging their collective power, certainly not the small businesses and individuals who have been buried, literally and figuratively, by this.

All of this is about to change. It is up to us to restore humanity to an inhumane lie.

Don't even waste your time. I've had this argument ad nauseam, these people feel entitled to discard the facts and believe whatever they want from any source even if it's some moron that literally bought a bogus degree from Touro College. Everything you wrote will not affect them, they know the information is legit and willfully turn away. This country has a serious problem with anti science people and I really don't see how we're going to fix it in the next 30 years.

If you don't watch the video, you have no idea what the real science says about this virus which has coevolved with humans since our origin as a species.

The side effects of vaccines are almost certainly going to be much more lethal than the effects of this virus, which has an IFR of <0.05% for the vast majority of people.

Well, you and you fellow brainwashed are quite nauseating. You feel entitled and you feel righteous and you think because you're hand fed this information by a think tank that you know some stuff. That you know better than others. Well, let me bring you up to speed. Your science is an anti-science. Your science is all politically driven. Your science is a fraud and has been corrupted for quite some time. Your science is a figment of your imagination and has little to do with real science. The sad thing is, and what is the real problem is that your science is now a religion. A vile one at that. You want to use this to harm others and this is a problem. We are going to have problems if you don't pull your heads out of you know what.

Stop being a tool. Start being a real thinking person. Stop ignoring your fellow man. Start ignoring unknown, conflicted interest, shady figures hidden in the halls of DC.

Don't get me started about those "fact checkers" either. OMG.

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Weird old man touts fringe conspiracy theory.

Sad.

Should we talk about fringe conspiracy theory? Don't even like Trump but hearing you tweedledums harping on about Russian collusion/influence from day 1 was let's just say ridiculous.

And I'm really interested by your conspiracy theory in which everybody is racist.

Do you people really believe all this crap your fed??

I’m not going to watch some garbage YouTube, but I did read most of the article/study and while I did see a couple small issues (that I’m sure will also be pointed out on peer review) the part that I found super interesting is where they identified “hygiene etiquette (mask usage/compliance?)” as one of the key differentiators between countries with low vs high fatality rates. Also, points to overwhelmed healthcare systems as significantly contributing to higher fatality rates.

Also, didn’t really see flu data cited in the study, but pretty sure the flu typify has a fatality rate well below 0.23%. No real comment in the study on R0 either.

Regardless it’s not really saying much. It’s just making a case that slightly more people have already been infected. Nothing remotely groundbreaking.