Coronavirus: Thread

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Fauci is but one Actor and Fall Guy for CoverUp, Controlled
by much higher and much more Guilty Parties than himself...


Fauci Fibbed On The Day Everything Changed

https://brownstone.org/articles/fauci-fibbed-on-day-everything-changed/

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20200312/110713/HHRG-116-GO00-Transcript-20200312.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512201982X

Anthony Fauci is finally gone from his government perch. Let us recall
that it was he who set this calamity in motion, squandering his
credibility, while taking down public health and much else with it.
More than anyone, he bears responsibility, even if he was acting on
others’ behalf. That is especially true if he was carrying out a
hidden agenda (take your pick of theories).

There was already growing political and societal panic on March 11,
2020, when the House Oversight and Reform Committee convened a hearing
on the new virus circulating. Fauci was the key witness. The only
question on everyone’s mind came down to the most primal fear: am I
going to die from this thing, like in the movies?

This was one day before Trump’s announcement of the travel ban from
Europe, the UK, and Australia, essentially sealing the borders of the
US to an extent never before attempted, thus separating families and
loved ones and trapping billions of people in their nation states. It
was five days before the evil declaration by all health authorities to
immediately shut down all places where people could congregate.

These few days will remain a case study in irrationality and crowd
madness. Fauci, on the day of his testimony, however, seemed like a
paragon of stability. He was calm and clear, nearly bloodness in his
tone. The substance of what he said, at the same time, was clearly
designed to generate panic and create the conditions for a full
lockdown.

He had the countenance of a doctor who was telling the family that a
beloved father was terminally ill with 30 days to live.

In particular, and in contrast to the testimony prepared by CDC/NIH,
Fauci spoke to the severity of the virus. To the average member of
Congress, the answer here was crucial because it addressed the only
two serious issues: “Am I going to die?” and “Will I be blamed and
politically punished if my constituents die?”

To this, he responded with what seemed like science but was actually
completely wrong, dreadfully wrong, catastrophically wrong. He claimed
that we knew for sure that at best Covid was 10 times deadlier than
the flu. In fact, he threw around so much data confetti that a person
could have easily believed that he was downplaying the severity to
promote calm. His intention was the opposite.

Here is what he said, and please read carefully to catch the implications:

    SARS was also a Coronavirus in 2002. It infected 8,000 people and
it killed about 775. It had a mortality of about 9 to 10 percent. So,
that is only 8,000 people in about a year. In the two-and-a-half
months that we have had this Coronavirus, as you know, we now have
multiple multiples of that.

    So, it clearly is not as lethal, and I will get to the lethality
in a moment, but it certainly spreads better. Probably for the
practical understanding of the American people, the seasonal flu that
we deal with every year has a mortality of 0.1 percent. The stated
mortality over all of this when you look at all the data including
China is about three percent. It first started off as two and now
three.

    I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or
asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down
to somewhere around one percent, which means it is 10 times more
lethal than the seasonal flu. I think that is something that people
can get their arms around and understand….

    I think the gauge is that this is a really serious problem that we
have to take seriously. I mean people always say, well the flu, you
know, the flu does this, the does that. The flu has immortality of 0.1
percent. This has mortality of ten times that, and that is the reason
why I want to emphasize, we have to stay ahead of the game in
preventing this.

Just think through the flim-flam here. He begins with the figure of a
10 percent case fatality rate from a similar virus. The thinking in
the room is already stuck on 10. Then he says this virus has killed
more in a shorter period of time, which implies more severity. He
quickly dials that back but warns that this is more easily spread,
which suggests that perhaps it is even higher. Then he dials that back
and says that so far the mortality rate is 3 percent.

But then he quickly adds in “minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic
infection” and comes to a rough number of 1 percent, thus failing
completely here to distinguish between cases and infections, which
used to be a core metric that he and so many others completely
obliterated.

That’s a side point but an important one. The distinction between
cases and infections has been crushed, leaving us utter data chaos.

Fauci spoke this final number with so many other numbers before it
that no one could figure out which way was up. The main takeaway
anyone would have is that there is going to be vast bloodshed.

It’s best to watch this. You can almost feel the fear in the room as
he blinds these political critters with fake science.

So what do we do? Fauci here was quick with the answer:

    How much worse it will get will depend on our ability to do two
things, to contain the influx in people who are infected coming from
the outside and the ability to contain and mitigate within our own
country.

In other words: lockdown.

Thus was the stage set. To be sure, there is some mental connection
between severity and policy response but there probably should not be.
Even if this virus had a 10 percent fatality rate, what does locking
down achieve? It was never even clear what the point was. The “spread”
could not be stopped forever. The hospitals weren’t really
overcrowded, as we seen. There was never a chance for Zero Covid, as
the catastrophic experience of China and New Zealand has shown.

In the end, the pandemic of a respiratory virus is solved through
exposure, upgraded immune systems, and herd immunity, regardless of
severity. And again, please recall that biological evolution has made
such pandemics self-limiting: there is a trade between severity and
prevalence subject to latency. Latency here was never a factor,
contrary to the lies in the early weeks. So the more infectious this
virus would be, the less severe it would be, nearly by definition.

Fauci could have used his time in Congress to give a basic
explanation. He did not. He chose to spread irrational fear instead.

So how can we evaluate Fauci’s murky suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 will
have a 1 percent fatality rate? What actually happened? These data are
pretty settled by now.

    0-19 years: 0.0003%

    20-29 years: 0.002%

    40-49 years: 0.035%

    50-59 years: 0.123% (flu)

    60-69 years: 0.506% (bad flu)

In other words, for the most affected demographic, he was off by two
times. For youth, he was off by 3,333 times – an exaggeration of more
than 300,000 percent! And he did it with a straight face. The rest of
the population falls between there for a total of 0.095 percent. So in
general for the whole population he was off by 10 times, meaning that
the actual infection fatality rate is just slightly less (if this is
right) than the seasonal flu.

Throughout the entire pandemic, from the beginning to now, the average
age of the 0.09 percent of infected people who died remained at the
medium age of death in absence of the pandemic. If this same virus
arrived decades early, it would have hardly been noticed at all.

Which is to say: Fauci was correct on February 28, 2020, when he wrote
that this is more or less the flu, except with a large age gradient.
His change of mind in the course of two weeks prior to this testimony
is based on absolutely no evidence. What changed was his tactics but
why?

We mapped out many times already that there was plenty of information
available, even in the popular press, that this bug would be
more-or-less like the flu, except with an extreme age gradient – which
we knew already in mid-February. All the misinformation that followed
was just that. And they knew it. Certainly Fauci knew it. No doubt
about it.

So why? Here we get into interesting theorizing. Brownstone has done a
lot of this for the better part of 18 months, and we will continue to
do so. We can talk all evening about this. We already do. And we
continue to collect evidence too.

The point is that the world is not the same. Fauci pulled the lever on
the wall that set this in motion. He never should have been given that
deference, that power, that influence. There should have been a check
on him. And some people tried but the censors then flew into action.

The entire mess began not just with a bad prediction but an
outrageously bad falsehood – spoken in front of deeply ignorant and
terrified politicians – one that was followed by an egregious demand
that we get rid of normal social and market functioning. The
consequences are for the ages. Fauci had his own masters and minions
but it is impossible to avoid the reality that he bears primary
responsibility as the voice of panic that shut down freedoms hard won
over a millennium.