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Articles & AnalysisFacts -not fear- will stop the pandemic
The media relish negative news. “If it bleeds it leads” still holds, and perhaps it’s never been truer than in the COVID-19 era. Every day the news highlights the spread of the virus and tells the sad stories of some of its victims.
COVID-19, The Vaccine and the Betrayal of Sub-Saharan Africa
The ‘Global Health Community’ that previously prioritised diseases such as HIV, TB and the big child killer, malaria, implicitly considers avoidable deaths due to interrupted healthcare an acceptable cost in the attempt to reduce transmission of SARS-COV-2.
A Miscarriage of Diagnosis
PCR testing for COVID-19 aims to detect individuals with a high likelihood of being infectious. However, false positive test results lead to false diagnoses, unnecessary measures and distort the overall picture of the pandemic.
Lockdowns don’t work – why?
Lockdowns’ massive collateral damage is for naught. At first blush, this seems to defy laws of nature and physics, so we must ask why this is the case.
The PHE data that goes against the narrative – Hunting down symptomatic COVID-19
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A ‘fake news’ boomerang – Daily Friend
PANDA believes that the people of South Africa will do the right thing if they are empowered with accurate information. This team’s purpose has been to consider all of the science and to separate the good science from the bad and promote the former.
Biznews: Busting Myths about Cases
We must all be wary of a second wave being manufactured by increases in testing that are presented to us as an increase in cases. It is foolhardy to focus our attention on one disease alone instead of the overall impact of policy choices we make. When we do focus on one disease alone, we should certainly not focus on positive tests but rather on death and hospitalisation data.
BizNews: Long Covid, Vaccines, Lockdown, Masks
The Covid Narrative has many elements. Every single one is bogus. Long Covid, Vaccines, Lockdown, Masks: At stake is nothing less than truth.
Examining Excess Deaths Reporting
There is a persistent narrative that South Africa’s official COVID-19 death tally is significantly undercounted because reported excess deaths are higher than the official COVID-19 death toll. It is time to dispel the three most prominent myths around South Africa’s excess death reporting.
Five reasons people stopped listening to Covid-19 modellers
Epidemiological modellers have made themselves irrelevant by producing work that failed to align with reality and they remain unrepentant in the face of overwhelming evidence of their failings. They made themselves irrelevant by choosing to support the hand that feeds them and allowing their work to be used to justify violations of our constitutional rights through illegal lockdowns that destroy lives and livelihoods on a daily basis.