Along with Humanity and Human Dignity Covid-19 Has Destroyed Medicine, Science, and Academia
I’m going to submit this to Value in Health; I welcome comments.
Along with Humanity and Human Dignity Covid-19 Has Destroyed Medicine, Science, and Academia
In 1998 when I named and founded what became the second most highly cited peer-reviewed economics journal, Value in Health, as Editor-in-Chief along with the other ISPOR Board of Directors I had one overriding mission for the journal, “Tell the Truth.” In the past three decades ISPOR became a vital and dynamic scientific organization precisely because it brings diverse clinical, economic, epidemiologic, statistical, psychological, and quality of life experts together from all over the globe, from a wide diversity of stakeholders, including academics, pharmaceutical and other biomedical companies, government agencies, non-profits, patients, providers, and payers. For the kinds of research reported in Value in Health it would have been very easy to fall into the trap that one’s science and research findings are automatically biased by one’s funding sources. This ad hominem approach to science is a convenient short-cut that we are all somewhat guilty of, often subconsciously. For example, if all the authors on a paper are employees of a specific drug company what are the chances that the paper concludes that the drug is worthless? We are more likely to read the paper skeptically than if all the authors work at an Ivy League university or non-profit research center. But we shouldn’t. We should be equally skeptical regardless of the source of funding and authorship.
The essence of the scientific process requires that research be judged on its technical merits: the logic of its assertions, the validity and reliability of its evidence and the transparency and reproducibility of its methods. In fact, a key motivation for establishing Value in Health was precisely because clinical journals, including the most prestigious medical journal at the time, the New England Journal of Medicine, had singled out health economics as the unique research field where only those who worked for academia and other non-profit organizations would be allowed to submit manuscripts for consideration because corporate or for-profit researchers were automatically and uniquely incapable of conducting valid and unbiased research in health economics. Why the New England Journal editors said that corporate researchers could be allowed to report on clinical trials of their own drugs but not health economic studies of their own drugs escaped me then and still does now. It is a baseless ad hominem attack on the scientific method. One judges the merits of a scientific manuscript based on its content, not the color of its authors.
What we have seen with the Covid-19 hysteria pandemic and the lockdown policies followed by all countries in the world with only one brave exception, Sweden, is that almost no scientific expert in a position of power has done anything except use alarmist lies, distortions and untruths about all aspects of the virus, its infectivity, its transmissibility, its disease-making capacity, its treatment and its prevention. Scientific experts that, like me, have spoken out about the criminal, deadly and devastating impacts of the totally unnecessary lockdown measures have been silenced, cancelled, blocked, censored and de-platformed. I have challenged every colleague I know to explain how Sweden has less than a dozen dead children despite NEVER locking down schools, mandating masks or vaccines or social distancing. Not one of them can. The overall covid death rate in Sweden, which actually followed the available science in March of 2020 and never mandated lockdowns, social distancing, school or business closures, and yet has a Covid death rate about half that of the United States.
The lockdowns and masks and then mandatory vaccines were first imposed on us following an authoritarian pandemic game-plan that the Gates Foundation, WHO, NIAID and the World Economic Forum had been working on for over a decade before Fauci and his minions released Covid-19 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (RFK Jr). The unprecedented Covid-19 lockdowns were first implemented in March 2020 in the US by California Governor Gavin Newsom and quickly followed by all other federal, state, and territorial executives without scientific evidence, legislative, public or media discussion. They were based not on any data or evidence that lockdowns would prevent the spread of Covid-19 but rather on two Gates Foundation-funded alarmist mathematical models from the Univ. of Washington and Imperial College London that simply assumed, again without any scientific evidence or citations, that lockdown measures would stop Covid-19 in its tracks and that hundreds of millions of global deaths would result if lockdowns weren’t implemented. The UW model literally says if you take any one of the following lockdown measures you will reduce the transmission and the impact of Covid-19 by 1/3. If you do two of these measures you will get a 2/3 reduction in Covid-19 impact, and if you do three or more, you will get 100% reduction in Covid-19. You will stop Covid in its tracks within 3 weeks!
1. shutting schools and businesses,
2. shutting transportation,
3. masks,
4. social distancing
It was very clear in the first few weeks of the lockdowns, when cases were exploding in the locked down US at the same rate as the unlocked down Sweden that this was nonsense, but the “experts” refused to observe the empirical data and retreated to their math models.
These phony models predicted orders of magnitude more Covid deaths from Sweden’s “irresponsible” lack of social distancing, failure to close schools and failure to lock down their citizens than has actually occurred. Indeed, Ferguson’s Imperial College model projected Sweden paying a huge price for no lockdown, with 40,000 COVID deaths by May 1, 2020 and 100,000 by June 2020. However, two years into the pandemic the US has nearly 1 million Covid deaths and Sweden has had less than 20,000 Covid deaths. Ironically Ferguson and UW are still putting out their highly flawed modeling predictions after being completely discredited by the facts.
Certainly, by May 2020 it was obvious that there was no scientific basis or empirical evidence for any of the lockdown measures. The world could see that the lockdowns were NOT WORKING, and yet they doubled down on lockdown measures, implementing actual Covid gulags and prisons in Australia, Hong Kong and the entire country of New Zealand, all of which are experiencing the highest rates of Covid-19 in the world and demonstrating the absurdity and crushing futility of Covid lockdowns.
Essentially all public-facing epidemiologists and virologists, whether working for public health agencies such as CDC or academic institutions like mine have spent the past two years parroting the Fauci-Gates propaganda, lies and disinformation about the epidemic. The first casualty of this war, as with all wars, was the truth. Everyone in the epidemiology science community should know Farr’s Law--lethality and transmissibility of an infectious disease are inversely proportional. Covid-19 was one of the most infectious and transmissible viruses ever experienced. It originally had a reproducibility rate, Ro, of 6. This means that months before the lockdowns Covid was already fully seeded in every country, city, village, and hamlet in the world. Airplanes didn’t stop flying from Wuhan to LA, New York, San Francisco, and Milan for months after Covid had been identified in China. With a reproducibility rate of six by six by six, each connecting passenger in all global airports between September 2019 and March 2020 was carrying Covid to the bloodstreams of essentially every human being in the world and NO ONE NOTICED IT! What that tells you, logically, is that Covid cannot be that lethal, because we would have been observing people dropping like flies from deadly Covid everywhere in the winter of ‘19-20 and no one reported any Covid deaths until February 2020.
Something else has been logically obvious since the day Fauci and Colins invented their story that Covid mutated in the Wuhan wet market down the street from the Fauci-financed Gain of Function Research Center where they were redesigning and weaponizing Covid viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci’s illegal financing of this research his perjury about that fact to the US Senate is one of the biggest open scandals of the Pandemic. Covid is a family of viruses that is endemic to most animal species. Many forms of the common cold are covid viruses and it is well-known that all Covid viruses including Covid-19 jump from humans to animals back to humans again. That makes it a tempting target for biowarfare research. It also means that vaccines, masks and lockdown measures are totally useless for a virus that mutates as rapidly as Covid, since there will always be numerous animal reservoirs of the rapidly mutating virus that will jump back to the human population. What every public health official and government decision maker fails to think through is that if Covid jumps across geographical and species barriers so easily you can never vax and mask your way out of the problem. Covid is endemic and will always be a threat to humans as long as cats, bats, rats, gnats, hamsters and deer can carry and transmit back to humans. It is both pathetic and tragic that Hong Kong has decided to euthanize all its hamsters and many other pets because they test C-19 positive.
The virus that causes Covid-19 is about 0.1 micrometer in diameter. (A micrometer (µm) is one one-thousandth of a millimeter.) The holes in woven cloth are visible to the naked eye and may be five to 200 micrometers in diameter. The notion that masks, with holes 50 to 2,000 times larger than the Covid virus made as much logical sense as putting a screen door on a submarine. Nevertheless, and despite overwhelming evidence before and during the Covid-19 pandemic that masks have proven totally useless in preventing transmission or disease severity and have produced numerous serious side effects, particularly in young children and school students, including physical deformities, lagging social, emotional mental and physical development, airway disruption and reduced quality of life.
The Covid vaccine mandates are even more damaging and destructive than the mask mandates. As a mandatory public health measure vaccines have failed at every level. They do not prevent virus transmission; they do not reduce Covid deaths; countries with extremely high rates of vaccination like Israel, Hong Kong and Australia have higher Covid death rates than countries with much lower rates of vaccination like India and Brazil. States like Missouri, Florida and Texas, with low vaccination rates have Covid death rates lower than many states like, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey with high vaccination rates.
Even Pfizer’s “long term” reporting of vaccine outcomes shows no all-cause mortality benefits after 6 months. It is now understood that the vaccine efficacy against serious disease wanes to almost nothing after 6 months, which is why booster shots were rushed into production and mandatory use. There is no vaccine efficacy against Covid infection or transmission, which is the only public health justification for mandating novel vaccine technologies that have never before been used in humans or studied for more than several months in the most outrageous global medical experiment on billions of people before anything about the vaccine efficacy and side effects was understood. The only way to get people to use these experimental vaccines was to de-platform all opponents, fire them and keep them out of schools, restaurants, public spaces, public transportation, first responders, or medical facilities. governments have violated the human rights, due process, privacy and dignity of billions of their citizens.
In an 1 in 3 trillion chance of sheer coincidence it has been shown that the Covid-19 virus contains gene fragments that were patented by Moderna three years before the pandemic. The vaccine contains HIV fragments in multiple spike protein locations and reports of HIV and other autoimmune reactions have been documented. An HIV superstrain has been reported in 70% of vaccinated Dutch people tested.
The evidence is now becoming overwhelmingly clear that the serious and fatal side effects associated with the Covid vaccines are destroying orders of magnitude more lives than they are saving. Not a single parent or patient is allowed to sue manufacturers for vaccine-caused injury or death in any legal jurisdiction on the planet, despite being fired for refusal to be vaccinated. Governments and media are keeping a tight lid on vaccine-caused deaths and injuries and censoring all evidence of these AEs as quickly as they can.
A recently-suppressed Swedish in-vitro study found that the mRNA vaccines may damage the nuclear DNA in cells raising risks of cancers and immune system dysregulation. Another suppressed US study of vaccine side effects in active-duty military. The authors of this study have been granted whistle-blower status by the U.S Senate. which has been suppressed and blocked by the US Dept. of Defense, shows that the vaccines cause rates of mental illness, nervous system disorders, infertility, blood disorders, cancers, heart attacks, myocarditis and many other serious conditions to rise by 2-20 times. Pfizer admits that its Covid vaccine is responsible for nearly 1,300 separate diagnoses of Adverse Events.
But the biggest long-term damage caused by the pandemic lockdowns is the unprecedented censoring, canceling and de-platforming of any influential policy maker, politician, media figure, entertainer, business leader, clinician or scientist who questions the ever-changing narrative as to what everyone must say and do to defeat Covid. Big tech and media platforms have been shaping this propaganda since before the lockdowns. Facebook is still open about the fact that it censors truth if such truth might promote vaccine hesitancy.
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The so-called top scientific and medical journals have been co-opted by big Pharma and the Fauci-Gates “follow the science” narrative and thus censor anything critical of the official Covid “science,” the lockdown policies, the vaccine and mask mandates, and the actual evidence in each of these categories. When one Googles Robert Malone, MD the inventor of the very mRNA vaccines that he now criticizes, one gets not only his personal website but also totally non-factual propaganda and outlandish criticism of his views in the Atlantic, the Washington Post and other so-called major media outlets. Malone’s views are evidently so terrifying to the mainstream and social media that not only has he been de-platformed and censored but the mere act of interviewing him on a podcast has led to the de-platforming of entertainer Joe Rogan, a celebrity with over 11 million listeners. The mainstream media actively suppresses unfavorable information about Covid treatments and policies.
If the government, mainstream media, research centers, academia and scientific establishment actively censors, blocks and de-platforms opposing views and refuses to release crucial information about Covid-19, the most important health policy issue of the century, then they can never be trusted with anything ever again. The scientific enterprise is no longer based on a search for truth but rather has been co-opted by big Pharma and the Fauci hangers-on. “Follow the Science” has been distorted into continuous flip-flop justifications for all the failed Covid prevention and treatment measures. I was de-platformed from LinkedIn and other sites for merely suggesting that Vietnamese rats, which have a very high rate of Covid infection, may have transferred some immunity to Vietnamese people who eat these rats and had a very low Covid death rate, at least until many Vietnamese got vaccinated. Rather than investigating my hypothesis, which might have saved millions of lives if true, I was silenced and kicked off LinkedIn without any avenue for appeal.
Why is all this happening? I don’t have the final answers but as an economist I know that the first step in any investigation is not to “follow the science” but to “follow the money.” When I read RFK Jr’s book, “The Real Anthony Fauci” the puzzle pieces finally all fit together. We are experiencing an actual conspiracy by Gates, Fauci, Xi and the New World Order to depopulate the planet and leave it for the scions of trillionaires. The plot was predicted early in the lockdown by Ed Dowd. It has been carefully reviewed and deconstructed by many, including Roger Koops.
Gates and the New World Order are using every method of influence including the surveillance state, global corporations, autocratic governments, biowarfare agencies to concentrate wealth into a handful of trillionaires who have made more money during the Covid lockdowns than all the wealth created in prior human history. At this point, if you believe that science and transparency are the way to improve humanity then you have to stand up for the truth and boycott all institutions that are actively or passively participating in this global holocaust to end all holocausts.
Laura Englander (Basecamp) <notifications@3.basecamp.com> wrote: