Daily Derp: They're Blinding Us With Science

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when this blog has to provide people with scientific facts the government won''t.

Now the new shtick these shysters are peddling is 'cases rising among the youth'.

And?

This is what a virus does. This is precisely what protects the elderly and other people. A virus infecting the young and healthy means more robust immunity.

We already jeopardized our collective immunity through draconian lockdowns and measures. And they're about to repeat the same error again.....and probably again after that. Until the incompetents realize the damage they've caused.

They've already ruined the psyche of the elderly. Now the media, politicians and health officials want their pound of flesh by dragging the kids into this.

All to try and 'show' they know what they're doing.

Cases are ups. Whoopee! Hospitalizations are down and may increase but won't be extended. Deaths are hugging the X-axis.

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Mother Teresa comes in with her daily dose of dreary Doom: 

"The short-term forecasting models predict that there will be between 150,780 and 155,795 cases in Canada by Oct. 2, and between 9,220 and 9,300 deaths." 

She predicted there would be 22 000-40 000 deaths by April.

Tam is using, once again, these damn fucken models to make this projections.

And even if it hits those numbers, so what? AGAIN, if hospitalizations and deaths are low, this represents a tiny fraction of the population! With it, we may even get more immunity!

The incompetence is astonishing. 

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This may have something to do with it. Tam is a creature of the WHO.

"Since 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been actively promoting its ability to manage global health security. Recent events such as the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and the 2014 Ebola outbreak have, however, led to questions being raised about the WHO’s abilities and extensive calls for the organisation’s reform. This chapter examines a series of mistakes and the structural, cultural, political and epidemiological factors that contributed to the WHO’s mishandling of the first pandemic of the twenty-first century and the world’s largest ever outbreak of Ebola. The chapter then concludes by examining the reforms currently being implemented to strengthen the WHO’s global health security capabilities and what these signify for the future."

"...Collectively, these mistakes suggest a risk-averse, reactionary bureaucracy and one highly protective of the organisation’s reputation. To date, there is little indication that this mind-set has changed."

"....Within this context, it is also unreasonable to expect the WHO to never err again. The IO, ultimately, comprises individuals, and as Oestreich (2012b) observes, ‘[p]eople are quirky, unpredictable, and unique’. Events such as disease outbreaks are often permeated by pervasive uncertainty, and while they do oftentimes create political space for change, as Ottersen et al. (2016) have also noted, the ‘policy windows’ for implementing change can be brief. Converting the organisation’s culture to adopt an ‘emergency mind-set’ is unlikely to be accomplished quickly, principally as reforming bureaucracies can be a laborious, tedious process."

Nothing changed as we just witnessed.

And Tam brought this mayhem to Canada.

Worth a read. 

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The British have shown they're up to the task of dishonouring their proud scientific heritage by counting to insist on depraved and discredited lockdowns (every that occurs from now on, Johnson is responsible for) and other impractical measures that won't work. Now they're about to go into PCR testing overdrive.

BMJ warns this is a bad idea.

"False positives become a problem when individuals and their contacts have to self-isolate unnecessarily. Even with a specificity of 99%, proposals to do 10 million tests a day will generate many thousands of false positive results, causing unnecessary but legally enforced isolation of both cases and contacts with potentially damaging consequences for the UK economy and for civil liberties."

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Interesting finding on households in Scotland and SARS-Covd 2.

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No deaths on college campuses and hardly any hospitalizations.