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AIER – Lockdowns are no substitute for focused protection
The most vulnerable groups in the US, have been devastated by unscientific ineffective policies and have been hardest hit by Covid-19. The health of a nation is directly tied to the socioeconomic health of the nation, and the socioeconomic drivers that played a role in Covid-19’s severity cannot be ignored. Focused protection would have performed far better than lockdowns.
COVID-19 Epidemiology: Evidence, risk and misconceptions
John Ioannidis, is a Professor of medicine, epidemiology and population health. He discusses the expertise needed to manage a pandemic, including the limitations of computer modelling versus the unpredictable behaviour of infections. Hosted by IHU Méditerranée-Infection on YouTube.
Multiple leading scientists call for an end to ALL Covid restrictions
Multiple leading scientists call for an end to ALL Covid restrictions in the United Kingdom as they hit out at ‘confused and contradictory directions’
The dangers of pausing the J&J vaccine
Professor Martin Kulldorff writes for The Hill
The Federalist: Media Hungry Health Advisers Now Support The Same Masking Policies That Scott Atlas Was Ousted For Promoting
“Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN last weekend that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to release new guidance suggesting relaxed outdoor mask policies.”
AIER | Why Are We Vaccinating Children Against Covid-19?
The acute focus in this writing is on the vaccination of children under 12 years of age with the Covid-19 vaccines as this raises very serious and urgent issues that must be confronted by societies in terms of possible unnecessary harms to our children.
Rational Ground | Indignation in a Polarized State
Florida is both a lockdown and a free state, where crossing invisible lines leads you either to counties governed by arbitrary rules created by power-hungry representatives with no background in disaster mitigation (hopefully no future in it either) or free townships and cities.
Wall Street Journal | We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April
Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks in the United States. Experts should level with the public about the good news.
Lockdown: Global Conditioning | The Very Opinionated Kate Wand Show
Lockdown: Global Conditioning, is a video produced by Kate Wand. In it, she compares lockdowns to operant conditioning experiments conducted by B.F Skinner.
Lockdown: The New Tribalism |The Very Opinionated Kate Wand Show
Kate explores the ritualistic nature of lockdowns and draws parallels between significant events in history and emerging lockdown patterns.
Lockdown: The Dark Side of History | The Very Opinionated Kate Wand Show
Kate is a member of PANDA. The video, Lockdown: The Dark Side of History, is about the psychology of lockdowns.
Over 100 Scientists, Doctors, & Leading Authorities Call For Increased Vitamin D Use To Combat COVID-19
Over 100 Scientists, Doctors, & Leading Authorities Call For Increased Vitamin D Use To Combat COVID-19
Scientific evidence indicates vitamin D reduces infections & deaths
Doctor Yeadon Debunks Second Lockdown
Doctor Yeadon debunks the second lockdoown and explains the facts behind his conclusion. In a very...
COVID-19 Test Methodology and Lockdown Devastation
talkRADIO in discussion with Prof. Sunetra Gupta, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, on test and trace methodology, lockdown devastation and scientific debate, or the lack thereof.
Lockdown TV: I’m dismayed and disgusted – Scott Atlas
Freddie Sayers caught up with Scott Atlas, a healthcare policy academic from the Hoover Institute at Stanford, who has become the latest lightning rod for the controversy around Covid-19 policy.
Covid Experts: There is another way – UnHerd TV
Three eminent epidemiologists met in Massachusetts to plan a better response to the pandemic.
“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical, and mental health impacts of prevailing COVID-19 policies.”
Interview of Harvard & Standford Professors of Medicine
Governor Ron DeSantis holds virtual round table with leading experts on Covid-19.
His guests are Stanford Professors Michael Levitt and Jay Battacharya, as well as Professor Martin Kulldorff from Harvard Medical School.
Summary: Virtual Roundtable with Harvard & Stanford Professors of Medicine
The interview of Harvard & Standford Professors Martin Kulldorff, Jay Battacharya & Michael Levitt is the sanest appraisal of the C-19 situation I’ve heard. I know many won’t have 2 hours to watch, so here’s a summary.
Why the WHO was wrong about global death predictions
What is the difference between Case Fatality Rate and the Infection Fatality Rate? Which WHO data sent the world into Covid-19 lockdown? How accurate were governments’ models predicting COVID deaths? PANDA takes a look at the current statistics for C-19 mortality.
Interview with Scott Atlas
Scott Atlas discusses the human and economic costs of the lockdown, as well as the failure to model the impacts of the lockdown in advance of implementation.
Correspondence
Dr Roy Breeds wrote to us recently voicing his concerns over group-think within the medical scientific community. When dogma and orthodoxy trump objectivity in science, we are in a very dangerous place indeed.
Economist Mike Schussler predicts the SA economy will take 11-14 years to reach 2014 levels
A bleak picture is emerging of the long term economic damage caused by lockdown policies.
Schussler said South Africa can expect one of the worst GDP per capita declines in the world.
PandaCast | Cases vs DPM
If South Africa is 5th in the world for cases, what does that mean for us? A quick guide to cases, deaths per million & causes of death in RSA.
Study suggests Covid-19 has wiped out a third of South Africa’s middle class
While the poorest in South Africa are the main victims of the country’s disastrous lockdown, a large swathe of middle income earners have also been pushed into povery.
The Tyranny of Coronaphobia
“The extent to which…peoples in countries with universal literacy can be successfully terrified into surrendering their civil liberties and individual freedoms has come as a frightening shock.”
Former UN Under-Secretary General Ramesh Thakur on the damage Covid hysteria is inflicting on the world.
Coronavirus: a look at the numbers that matter
Australian government statistics show the average age of deaths with Covid-19 is 81.1 for men and 85.2 for women. Astonishingly, this compares to life expectancy in Australia of 80.7 for men and 84.9 for women.
“Consequently, it is a factual statement to say that in Australia, whether or not you have Covid-19 has as much effect on your mortality as your preference for chocolate or strawberry ice cream.”
Professor Sunetra Gupta on herd immunity and social costs of lockdown
A fascinating discussion with Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford on herd immunity, the life-risk balance in society and what we can learn from the epidemics of the past.
Lockdown-SA
Lockdown-SA was meant to flatten the curve, but mainly flattened the economy, our lifeline. Where to from here?
Health discussion on managing COVID-19 and flattening the curve
Prof Guy Richards – Emeritus Prof critical care Wits University – is part of a panel discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic and flattening the curve.
Fred Bohasu’s Top 10 Corona Questions Answered
@FredBohasu sent us a list of questions via Twitter – here are PANDA’s answers.