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A global study published in Israel by Professor Isaac Ben-Israel,
chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and Council on Research and
Development, shows that “the spread of the coronavirus declines to
almost zero after 70 days—no matter where it strikes, and no matter what
measures governments impose to try to thwart it.”
In fact, by impeding herd immunity, particularly among students and
other non-susceptible young people, the lockdown in the U.S. has
prolonged and exacerbated the medical problem. As Briggs concludes,
“People need to get out into virus-killing sunshine and germicidal air.”
This flu like all previous viral flues will give way only to herd
immunity, whether through natural propagation of an extremely infectious
pathogen, or through the success of one of the hundreds of vaccine
projects. No evidence indicates that this flu was exceptionally dangerous. On March 20th,
the French published a major controlled study that shows no excess
mortality at all from coronavirus compared to other flues. SARS and Mers
were both much more lethal and did not occasion what Briggs’ reader
“Uncle Dave” described as “taking a hammer and sickle to the economy.”
We now know that the crisis was a comedy of errors. The Chinese let
it get going in the raw bat markets of Wuhan. But together with the
Koreans, the Chinese dithered and demurred and allowed six weeks of
rampant propagation to create herd immunity before they began locking
everyone up. Therefore, the Chinese and Koreans were among the first to
recover.
The Italians scared everybody with their haphazard health system and
smoking fogies. Crammed together in subways and tenements, the New
Yorkers registered a brief blip of extreme cases. Intubations and
ventilators turned out not to help (80 percent died). This sowed fear
and frustration among medical personnel slow to see that the problem was
impaired hemogloblin in the blood rather than lung damage.
The New York media piled on with panic, with bogus reports of rising
deaths. “Coronavirus deaths” soared by assuming that people dying with
the virus were dying from it and then by ascribing to the coronavirus
other deaths among people with symptoms of pulmonary distress, even
without being tested. (Read more.)
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