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(06-02-2020 08:42 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(06-02-2020 08:19 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(06-02-2020 06:53 PM)ODUCoach Wrote:  Adopted, did you write this?

How Fear Caused the Global Lockdowns

That piece is really well done, and we will see a lot more like it. They are a bit ahead of us in Europe on asking these questions, but we'll get there.

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I agree. Interesting article.

I just skimmed it tonight, but I will read it more carefully tomorrow.

This article should be required reading for every gov't official and every media flack that had any hand in pushing this destructive and unnecessary lockdown upon us. If any poster has not read through it, please do so.

Just two selected snippets:

Quote:[W]e put billions of young healthy people under house arrest, stopped cancer screenings, and sunk ourselves into the worst level of unemployment since the Great Depression. This from a virus that bears a survival rate of 99.99% if you are a healthy individual under 50 years old.

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There were, of course, people warning us all along. Among them was as John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University School of Medicine, who ranks among the world’s 100 most-cited scientists on Google Scholar. On that pivotal day of March 17 he released an essay titled “A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data” — but it got little attention. Mainstream media was not interested in good news stories or dissenting views. The world instead marched lock step into its man-made calamity.

Thanks for posting, Coach. It unfortunately will be a very long road back to recovery from this mostly self-inflicted mess.