Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 108/2020: Autoriza
a realização da despesa referente à participação portuguesa do
Instrumento de Apoio a Emergências, para efeito da estratégia europeia
de vacinas no âmbito do combate à COVID-19
Conselho de Ministros resolve:
1 - Autorizar a Administração
Central do Sistema de Saúde, I. P. (ACSS, I. P.), a realizar a despesa
referente à participação portuguesa no top-up do Instrumento de Apoio a
Emergências, para efeito da estratégia europeia de vacinas no âmbito do
combate à COVID-19, até ao montante global de (euro) 11 209 005.
2
- Determinar que os encargos financeiros referidos no número anterior
são integralmente pagos em 2020, por verbas inscritas no orçamento da
ACSS, I. P.
3 - Estabelecer que a despesa a que se refere o n.º 1 é
objeto de financiamento ou refinanciamento integral através do REACT-EU
(Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and theTerritories of Europe).
Essential Facts About Covid-19 | Watts Up With That? Given the spread of misinformation about Covid-19, Just Facts
is providing a trove of rigorously documented facts about this disease
and its impacts. These include some essential facts that have been
absent or misreported in much of the media’s coverage of this issue.
This research also includes a groundbreaking study to determine the
lethality of Covid-19 based on the most comprehensive available measure:
the total years of life that it will rob from all people. This accords
with the CDC’s tenet
that “the allocation of health resources must consider not only the
number of deaths by cause” but also the “years of potential life lost.”
On one hand, these facts show that:
the average death rate for people who contract Covid-19 is well
below 1% and is much closer to that of the seasonal flu than figures
that were commonly reported by the press.
the average years of
life lost from each Covid-19 death are significantly fewer than from
common causes of untimely death like accidents and suicides.
the
virus that causes Covid-19 is “very vulnerable to antibody
neutralization” and has very limited ability to mutate, which make it
unlikely to take masses of lives year after year like the flu and other
recurring scourges.
if 500,000 Covid-19 deaths ultimately occur
in the United States—or more than twice the level of a prominent
projection—the disease will rob about 6.8 million years of life from all
Americans who were alive at the outset of 2020. In contrast:
the flu will rob them of about 35 million years.
suicides will rob them of 132 million years.
accidents will rob them of 409 million years.
On the other hand, elderly people and those with chronic
ailments are extremely vulnerable to Covid-19, and the disease is highly
transmissible, which means it could spread like wildfire and overwhelm
hospitals without extraordinary measures to contain it. This would
greatly increase its death toll.
However, measures to limit the spread of C-19 sometimes
involve fatal tradeoffs, and thus, overreactions can destroy more years
of life than they save. ...
Conclusion
During a March 14th press conference, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams asserted
that “this situation will last longer, and more people will be hurt” if
“we are complacent, selfish, uninformed,” and if “we spread fear,
distrust, and misinformation.” Yet, that is exactly what many media
outlets, governments, and big tech companies have done.
Conversely, Adams said that “we will overcome this situation” if we
“pitch in” and “share the facts.” The essential facts above confirm the
wisdom of his words.
Why this campaign of terror? Never outside war time have populations been subjected to such outrageous assault and battery by government propaganda machines
In a genuine pandemic, this constant mental battering would be
superfluous. If the Black Death were raging outside my door,
government would know full well that they didn’t have to fork out
millions to convince me to stay inside; more likely, they would have to
pay me to leave the house.
Yet this government has bought the mass media lock, stock and barrel,
at vast expense, with the sole purpose, it seems, of hammering home a
message of impending doom. Instead of calming our fears with facts and
rational arguments, they have seen fit to flood the airwaves with
slogans calculated to maintain panic; with disingenuous appeals to the emotions; with out-of-context death counts, wilful obfuscation of the difference between cases and infections, a criminally dodgy PCR test and graphs and computer models (rubbish in, rubbish out) carefully selected to emphasise the worst possible eventualities.
As of 14 December 2020, 15 083 443 cases have been
reported in the EU/EEA and the UK: Portugal (348 744). As of 14 December 2020, 375 147 deaths have been
reported in the EU/EEA and the UK: Portugal (5 559)
Re-open EU: Os países da UE chegaram a acordo quanto a uma abordagem coordenada da
restrição da livre circulação em resposta à pandemia de coronavírus.
Inclui um código de cores para as classificações das regiões — verde,
laranja, amarelo e cinzento — com base na situação epidemiológica.
Chegaram também a acordo sobre critérios comuns a aplicar ao decidir
sobre a introdução de restrições de viagem, uma abordagem comum para os
viajantes a partir de «zonas vermelhas» (testes e autoquarentena), bem
como sobre a prestação de informações mais claras e atempadas ao
público.
The “Expert Consensus” Also Favored Alcohol Prohibition: Most people today regard America’s experiment with alcohol
prohibition as a national embarrassment, rightly repealed in 1933. So it
will be with the closures and lockdowns of 2020, someday.
In 1920, however, to be for the repeal of the prohibition that was
passed took courage. You were arguing against prevailing opinion backed
by celebratory scientists and exalted social thinkers. What you were
saying flew in the face of “expert consensus.”
