Day: 18 September 2020

by Manfred Horst Ophelia (1851) by John Everett Millais. Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.Shakespeare, Hamlet II,2 Perhaps we should consider it a privilege to live one of the absurdest and grotesquest episodes of recent world history. Perhaps we should consider it a privilege to witness how easily scientific and democratic control mechanisms can be overwhelmed by a global panic disorder. Perhaps we should consider it a privilege to be merely publicly and socially ostracised if we dare utter a dissenting opinion to the uniform mainstream madness and hysteria. Perhaps we should consider it a privilege to only be fined or imprisoned (not eliminated) if we dare disobey ridiculous and inhuman governmental orders. Certainly, in the developed West, we must also consider it a privilege to still be living quite well. Any one of the hundreds of subtypes of common cold/bronchitis viruses which assail our immune systems every year would produce the same clinical and epidemiological features as SARS-CoV-2 – if we decide to test and look for it: Non-specific symptoms - fever, cough, headaches, muscle aching, diarrhea etc.If we look very closely, perhaps we’ll find something a little more exotic (but still not truly specific), e.g. anosmia and ageusiaA generally benign and transitory illnessIn some rare cases, longer-lasting sequelaePossible severe complications in elderly, frail and ...

The Care Home Scandal – A Call For Evidence Lockdown Sceptics has asked an award-winning investigative journalist, David Rose, to investigate the high death toll in Britain's care homes. Did 20,000+ elderly people really die of COVID-19 between March and July or were many of them just collateral lockdown damage? With lots of care homes short-staffed because employees were self-isolating at home, and with relatives and partners unable to visit to check up on their loved ones because of restrictions, how many elderly residents died of neglect, not Covid? How many succumbed to other conditions, untreated because they weren't able to access hospitals or their local GP? After doctors were told by care home managers that the cause of death of a deceased resident was "novel coronavirus", how many bothered to check before signing the death certificate? The risk of doctors misdiagnosing the cause of death is particularly high, given that various safeguards to minimise the risk of that happening were suspended in March. David Rose would like Lockdown Sceptics readers to share any information they have that could help in this investigation. Here is his request: We are receiving reports that some residents of care homes who died from causes other than Covid may have had their deaths ascribed to it – even though they never had the disease ...