1/Time to dissect https://www.pandata.org/a-critical-analysis-of-the-covid-response/

* "All prior knowledge indicates that epidemics are not driven by asymptomatic individuals"

A: Polio has a 95% asymptomatic incidence. Virtually everyone who catches polio catches it from someone who has no symptoms

2/* "Cross-immunity is a well-known fact. It is not reasonable to assume that the entire population is immunologically susceptible to SARS-CoV-2"

A: Explain the manifold incidences of 90-100% infection rates (ships, nursing homes, factories, prisons, etc.) then

3/* "There are several studies showing that individuals have immunity to SARS-CoV-2 by T-Cell mediated mechanisms"

A: There are, in fact, no such studies

4/* "There is no historical precedent for defining a symptomless infection with a respiratory virus as a medical case."

A: Influenza is ca. 50-90% asymptomatic. Nevertheless any laboratory-confirmed influenza infection is counted as a case irrespective of clinical symptoms

5/* "There are serious problems with the use of the PCR test on asymptomatic individuals"

A: PCR tests are routinely used to test asymptomatic individuals, as well as the blood supply in general, for HIV infection

6/* "In the United States, anyone who dies with a recent positive PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 (up to 30 days prior to death) is counted as a COVID-19 death. "

The United States has nearly a million excess deaths over baseline for 2020. If not COVID, what are they?

7/* "These measures were theorised to be effective without any evidence, "

65% of Florida counties with mask mandates have a lower COVID death rate than those without.

75% of Florida counties without mask mandates have a higher COVID death rate than those without

8/* "However, decision-makers relentlessly promoted the idea that children, although they rarely get sick, are capable of infecting others."

Over 70,000 children in the United States have become orphans as the result of losing a parent to COVID

9/* "There are many studies that show that masking is not effective in preventing infection transmission"

US counties that voted for Biden (i.e. high mask use counties) have a 30% lower COVID death rate than those counties that voted for Trump (lower mask use counties).

10/* "lockdowns cause unintended negative consequences to social well-being, mental health, physical health, mobility, employment, education, and the economy at large "

Suicide, bankruptcy and foreclosure rates are down throughout the World. Stocks @ record highs

H/T @AndyNeilWhite