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Excess deaths, if any, are largely due to lockdowns, not this damned virus. "COVID Death" figures are misleading/inflated due to highly dubious criteria for defining a 'covid death', not to mention monetary incentives in place for hospitals to reach a certain covid death threshold.
The lies being told are egregious. But those following official tallies won't see it that way.
There's nothing more for me to contribute here on this. One either subscribes to the media/govt storylines regarding this 'pandemic', or they don't. Lives will continue to be lost in the meantime.
[minor thought exercise: what would we be experiencing in this world today if this virus occurred without the existence of the internet or cable TV? Answer: a slightly-more-serious-than-average flu season, at best.]
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigatio ... e/2376796/Stanford Professor Warns COVID Shelter-in-Place Orders Are ‘Killing People'
Infectious disease experts and epidemiologists from universities like Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Oxford say current shelter-in-place policies are not effectively protecting vulnerable people from COVID-19, while devastating public health in ways that will lead to irreparable harm for years to come.
Published October 7, 2020 • Updated on October 19, 2020 at 1:41 pm
Dr. John Ioannidis is among a growing number of scientists who believe the current shelter-in-place orders in California continue to impose excessive and potentially harmful measures on most of the population, while failing to adopt strong enough restrictions to adequately protect those who are most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Ioannidis believes the initial lockdown was the right approach in March, when little was known about COVID-19. Now, however, that more data is available, he is calling for more extreme protections for people who are at high risk of infection, including the elderly and those with heart disease, diabetes and pulmonary disorders.
Vulnerable people, he believes, should continue to shelter in place, and anyone living or working in a high risk setting should receive weekly COVID-19 testing and careful contact tracing. He recommends similar measures for meat packing plants, prisons and especially nursing homes, where Centers for Disease Control data shows about one-third of all deaths have occurred.
At the same time, Ioannidis is convinced that shelter in place orders are doing great harm to the rest of society.
“We know that 95% of the population has practically minimal risk,” he said, adding “It's unlikely that in the current situation we are really saving lives. I think that probably we're killing people by following some of these measures for forever.”
According to the American College of Emergency Physicians, 29% of Americans are avoiding or delaying medical care due to fear of catching the coronavirus.
Dominic Battel, a 38-year-old father of two, put off going to the hospital after feeling chest pains. It was a Sunday in April and he spent the day working on his house and playing with his kids. His wife, Cortney, said Dominic was afraid if he went to the hospital he would catch the coronavirus.
“We felt the messaging was that if you really are, you know, in severe having severe symptoms related to COVID and if you're unable to breathe, then that's really when you should go and kind of otherwise manage the symptoms on your own at home. And I do think that messaging played into that fear and the reluctancy,” said Cortney.
By nightfall, Cortney could see her husband was in serious pain and called 911. As the paramedics arrived and prepared to take Dominic to the hospital, he collapsed.
“We kissed, and to say goodbye - and he said, I love you. And then he went down,” said Cortney.
Dominic died of a heart attack at his home.
“This shouldn’t have happened. He was 38 years old and our story wasn’t over,” said Cortney.
“Shortly after the shelter in place order came in, we saw a fairly significant decline in people seeking medical attention,” said Dr.Chris Colwell, Chief of Emergency Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital.
“We've had patients die in the emergency department, and shortly thereafter, having experienced the complications of not seeing medical care earlier, said Colwell, adding that in some cases, people who avoided care, particularly stroke victims, will face longer or less complete recovery because they delayed seeking medical attention.
“At least every week we are seeing somebody who is going to suffer and is suffering severe consequences from having delayed care for fear of coming to the hospital,” said Colwell, who stresses that he’s convinced hospitals today are safe environments.
“If you're having severe symptoms like chest pain, like numbness or weakness in extremities, things where you're worried about heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, come to the emergency department. You can absolutely do that safely,” he said.
Aside from delayed medical care, Dr. David Katz, a Yale-trained specialist in preventive medicine and public health, testified before Congress that prolonged shelter-in-place orders can also lead to unemployment, financial hardship, poverty, food insecurity, depression, anxiety, addiction, and suicide.
