17 (or so) responsible live visualizations about the coronavirus, for you to use
02 novembro 2020
How Spreading Covid-19 Hysteria Will Backfire for the Covid-19 Vaccine
How Spreading Covid-19 Hysteria Will Backfire for the Covid-19 Vaccine: Surveys have shown a continual decrease in enthusiasm for receiving
what eventually pops out the Covid-19 vaccine pipeline. Only about half
of Americans now say
they would definitely get the vaccine if it were available now, down
from almost three-fourths in May. The greatest concern: Potential side
effects.
Vaccines can be wonderful things, and if you know your diseases the successful campaign to wipe out smallpox must truly outweigh such technological advances as the Apollo program — unless you have moon rock fetish. Vaccines have saved an estimated 23.3 million deaths worldwide over the last decade, according to the CDC. Polio has almost disappeared worldwide through vaccination campaigns, although that program was paused by a shifting of resources to, yes, Covid-19. I waged a long battle against the “vaccines cause autism people” and have paid a terrible price in my profession for doing so.
But vaccines aren’t always safe and safety is especially important compared to treatments. Treatments are used to alleviate an illness that already exists (or is presumed to). Some like chemotherapy are literally poisons but delivered in hopes they will do more good than harm. Conversely, vaccines are given in the full knowledge that the recipient will probably never be exposed to people with the germ in question. Therefore, as a preventive measure vaccines require a much higher standard of safety and efficacy.
01 novembro 2020
‘The media are addicted to fear’
‘The media are addicted to fear’:
Ivor Cummins: I would worry about the lockdown ideology. We now have multiple published papers in major journals saying lockdowns are very ineffective, or possibly no good at all, in terms of impacting mortality. There is no credible published paper that claims lockdowns are effective. We know that they cause enormous damage to society – to cancer diagnoses, to the future of the youth and to myriad other things. The idea that lockdowns work has become an ideology – a belief system.
In March and April, there was censorship of epidemiologists. YouTube publicly censored anyone who went against the WHO. That’s a serious, frightening problem. And it went on for many, many months. As a result, we have no science. When there’s censorship of technical views, science is gone, and you go back to medieval times.
The media coverage has almost exclusively given one side of the story, using modelling which is out by a factor of 12. The media should be comparing the respiratory season in 2018 and 2020, and showing all the papers saying lockdown is very ineffective. Some outlets are, but the media is 99 per cent made up of modelling terror. It’s like it is addicted to fear.
The politicians seem to be wrapped up in it. Fear has got the best of them. The WHO has led from the top, and has been incorrect repeatedly.
Novas medidas para combater a pandemia
Novas medidas para combater a pandemia: Face à situação epidemiológica que se verifica em Portugal, o
Governo decidiu renovar o estado de calamidade em todo o território
nacional até às 23h59 do dia 15 de novembro de 2020 e alargar a outros
concelhos as medidas especiais que tinham sido estabelecidas para os
concelhos de Felgueiras, Lousada e Paços de Ferreira, introduzindo-se
ainda algumas alterações adicionais.
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