COVID-19

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Hong Kong study confirms world’s first known hamster-to-human coronavirus transmissions

• The study, run as a preprint by The Lancet, determined there were two separate hamster-to-human transmissions, and that the pets contracted Covid-19 before arriving in the city
• Suspicions of hamster-to-human transmissions had prompted a massive cull of the rodents, sparking an outcry from animal lovers

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...3/hong-kong-study-confirms-worlds-first-known

 

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A Letter to Our Descendants, From 2022


Story at-a-glance

• What will our life today sound like to the future generations? Will they be able to understand how we agreed to this?
• In order to create massive confusion, those in power have constructed a massive tower of lies
• Yes, Fauci did compare COVID to influenza in a paper published in February 2020
• BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street own majority stakes in every big company in every major industry, including in the media
• The entire official COVID narrative of the past two years rests on a number of bold lies, and people are being medically murdered to justify corporate profits and a transition to the Great Reset

Tony Fauci in Early 2020

Lies, Lies, Lies

VAERS Is Junk Data

Who Owns the Media (and Everything Else)?

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/01/29/are-we-living-in-a-dystopian-reality/#more-258228

 

[Cuddles]

A LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ON
COVID-19 MORTALITY
RTALITY
SAE./No.200/January 2022
/October 2021
Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke

This s systematic review and meta-analysis are designed to determine whether there is empiricale vidence to support the belief that “lockdowns” reduce COVID-19 mortality. Lockdowns are defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI).NPIs are any government mandate that directly restrict peoples’ possibilities, such as policies that
limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel. This study employed a systematic search and screening procedure in which 18,590 studies are identified that could potentially address the belief posed. After three levels of screening, 34 studies ultimately qualified. Of those 34 eligible studies, 24 qualified for inclusion in the meta-analysis.

They were separated into three groups: lockdown stringency index studies, shelter-in-place-order (SIPO) studies, and specific NPI studies. An analysis of each of these three groups support the conclusion that lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. SIPOs were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.

While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy
instrument.

 

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A LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ON
COVID-19 MORTALITY
RTALITY
SAE./No.200/January 2022
/October 2021
Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke

This s systematic review and meta-analysis are designed to determine whether there is empiricale vidence to support the belief that “lockdowns” reduce COVID-19 mortality. Lockdowns are defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI).NPIs are any government mandate that directly restrict peoples’ possibilities, such as policies that
limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel. This study employed a systematic search and screening procedure in which 18,590 studies are identified that could potentially address the belief posed. After three levels of screening, 34 studies ultimately qualified. Of those 34 eligible studies, 24 qualified for inclusion in the meta-analysis.

They were separated into three groups: lockdown stringency index studies, shelter-in-place-order (SIPO) studies, and specific NPI studies. An analysis of each of these three groups support the conclusion that lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. SIPOs were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.

While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy
instrument.

This reminds me of the meta-studies performed on Ivermectin. Tell us how they turned out in hindsight.

Why don't you look at the history and information about the lead author at the right-wing Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics who funded this study. Of course the study has been hyped by Cato and all the other conservative websites.

Here is the bio of the lead author...

Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics and Founder & Co-Director of The Johns
Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. He
is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute, a
contributor at National Review, a well-known currency reformer, and a currency and commodity
trader. Prof. Hanke served on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, has been an
adviser to five foreign heads of state and five foreign cabinet ministers, and held a cabinet-level
rank in both Lithuania and Montenegro. He has been awarded seven honorary doctorate degrees
and is an Honorary Professor at four foreign institutions. He was President of Toronto Trust
Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1995, when it was the world’s best-performing mutual fund.
Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V.
in Amsterdam. In 1998, he was named one of the twenty-five most influential people in the world
by World Trade Magazine. In 2020, Prof. Hanke was named a Knight of the Order of the Flag.


We should also note the first thing they did was exclude any study from their meta-analysis that would not provide the pre-determined result they desired.

These "meta-analysis studies" have reached the point in the Covid era where they simply serve to abuse science, statistics, and rationality.

 

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[Cuddles]

This reminds me of the meta-studies performed on Ivermectin. Tell us how they turned out in hindsight.

Why don't you look at the history and information about the lead author at the right-wing Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics who funded this study. Of course the study has been hyped by Cato and all the other conservative websites.

Here is the bio of the lead author...

Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics and Founder & Co-Director of The Johns
Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. He
is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute, a
contributor at National Review, a well-known currency reformer, and a currency and commodity
trader. Prof. Hanke served on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, has been an
adviser to five foreign heads of state and five foreign cabinet ministers, and held a cabinet-level
rank in both Lithuania and Montenegro. He has been awarded seven honorary doctorate degrees
and is an Honorary Professor at four foreign institutions. He was President of Toronto Trust
Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1995, when it was the world’s best-performing mutual fund.
Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V.
in Amsterdam. In 1998, he was named one of the twenty-five most influential people in the world
by World Trade Magazine. In 2020, Prof. Hanke was named a Knight of the Order of the Flag.


We should also note the first thing they did was exclude any study from their meta-analysis that would not provide the pre-determined result they desired.

These "meta-analysis studies" have reached the point in the Covid era where they simply serve to abuse science, statistics, and rationality.

In more GWB news:

John Hopkins doesn't know how to peer review and is a crappy institution that hires shills.

Economists have an economics CV

CATO institute is no longer trusthworthy

PPP and Cato are considered the most accurate and in-depth polling entities in America.

....Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute wrote a nice piece on this topic back in January - but the common features go beyond their individual characteristics. Not only do Trump and the kaiser share some unfortunate personality traits, but there are also striking similarities between conditions in Wilhelmine Germany and the situation in the United States today.There are also some important differences, but they are not entirely reassuring."

(More at above url)

This has to be the STUPIDEST article ever written.....Cato Institute, ...

All of these conservative think tanks are focused on much more than global warming. In fact global warming is a minor side issue for all of them - which accounts for under 1% of their spending. To try to claim that every dollar spent funding these think tanks is a dollar spent "denying" global warming is absurd.

.... According to analysis by the libertarian Cato Institute using models created by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Clean Power Plan will only advert 0.019° Celsius of warming by the year 2100, an amount so small it can’t be detected....

https://www.cato.org/blog/was-hillary-clinton-fired-nixon-impeachment-inquiry

Here is information from CATO on the subject...

New Report on Illegal Immigrant Criminality Reveals Little & Admits Its Own Shortcomings

And science isn't science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis

 

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In more GWB news:

John Hopkins doesn't know how to peer review and is a crappy institution that hires shills.

Economists have an economics CV

CATO institute is no longer trusthworthy












And science isn't science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis

You do realize this research institute is separate than the university at John Hopkins.

Interesting to see you pushing non-peer reviewed studies by Cato advocates as your sources.

I suggest you go read the articles I posted on meta-analysis being used to undermine science — with the recent Ivermectin meta-analysis studies being a classic example of misinformation.

 

[Cuddles]

You do realize this research institute is separate than the university at John Hopkins.

Interesting to see you pushing non-peer reviewed studies by Cato advocates as your sources.

I suggest you go read the articles I posted on meta-analysis being used to undermine science — with the recent Ivermectin meta-analysis studies being a classic example of misinformation.

Study is literally hosted on their Krieger School of Arts and Sciences server:

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/f...ffects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

I'll patiently await peer review dissection of the study, I don't outright dismiss it just because it goes against held beliefs.

You did plenty of advocating for CATO yourself. Good to see CATO's good enough for your climate change & immigration skepticism but not for lockdown effectiveness skepticism.

 

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Study is literally hosted on their Krieger School of Arts and Sciences server:

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/f...ffects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

I'll patiently await peer review dissection of the study, I don't outright dismiss it just because it goes against held beliefs.

You did plenty of advocating for CATO yourself. Good to see CATO's good enough for your climate change & immigration skepticism but not for lockdown effectiveness skepticism.

You will probably only have to wait for a few days to get feedback from the scientific and economic community.

In the meantime you should look into the difference between the institute and the university — and where the institute gets its funding while being housed at John Hopkins. This is the same situation as the right-wing institute housed at Stanford which spread endless Covid misinformation while professors demanded it be given the boot.

Interesting to find out you are suddenly a fan of Cato — we will sure to direct you to their immigration and other studies in the future.

 

[Cuddles]

Interesting to find out you are suddenly a fan of Cato — we will sure to direct you to their immigration and other studies in the future.

I'll let the post history establish who's the CATO fan.