Why Lockdowns Spread Bugs Faster Than Liberty: Coronavirus Update XLVI

Covid apparently doesn’t work like chicken pox or whooping cough. Parents were used to their kids all having the disease at one time (virtually) and getting it over with. Covid would be more like FLU, where you get it over and over. Meaning the Covid vaccination is garbage and we’re all prisoners forever. If no group rises up, you can expect hell on earth from here on out and I have little hope of any group with courage or sense still existing out there.

If we used the old west “quarantine” (or the NK method), people were shot for trying to get into or out of a town. Food could be left at a line at the side of the town, etc, but crossing the line meant death. China actually reportedly used this method. No one left home. The Army brought food. NO shopping, grocery buying, nothing. Only ONE family member was allowed to drag the meal out of the hallway outside the apartment into the inside. If this is true (and with the Chinese, lies are as common as Democrats and the MSM here—as in virtually all the time), that may explain why their quarantine worked and everyone else’s lockdowns failed and destroyed their countries. I guess we know who the smartest people out there are and it ain’t us. Of course, massive mistreatment and owning of humans has always won out for the dictators throughout history. China should be no different. An owned population is an obedient one.

Models work because Fauci is one of the world’s best LIARS and idiot Trump did not fire him. And because people are ignorant and love their condition and make sure it stays that way. (Yes, one models to make their hypothesis “true”. No proof is involved. It’s not science. Models are propaganda through and through now.)

“Lockdown” — the term origin is in prison. Prisoners would get locked into their cells when the wardens needed to control them. The Overlords see us as prisoners and they are the wardens. Because they have the all-important money, and thus, power. We are the Overlord’s prisoners, to be tagged, chipped, jabbed, culled, taxed, punished, masked, humiliated, indoctrinated, debauched, and locked down. This sadistic control makes the Overlords feel powerful, and their lives worth living. Seeing the poor, foolish people wearing their slave muzzles gives the Overlords a sick thrill. And it whets their appetite for more power. They need more powerful thrills, more and more.

These sociopaths find one another and build organizations to gratify their powerlust. The World Economic Forum is one such and the scope of their power-mongering is vast. These are men whose every waking moment is devoted to scheming, plotting, and organizing for more control over the prisoners. James Corbett at Corbettreport.com does a great job highlighting their plots. Power-hungry men have always afflicted this fallen world. The American Founders knew their type well, and devised a power structure resistant to their schemes. But, alas, no castle is impregnable, especially when enemy sappers are given liberty to undermine.

So here we are, fighting for our nation, and indeed our civilization, against demonic foes who hate us, and seek our enslavement and destruction, while, incredibly, half the country thinks this pitiless enemy is their savior! Oh, foolish people! God help us.

“Then came 2020 and the “expert” idea of lockdowns would do the opposite of what everybody had always known they would do.”

Lots of things claimed by so-called “experts” this year that are the precise opposite of standard medical or scientific practice because this one virus apparently behaves opposite to every other virus known to man. Any positive PCR test is a “case” even if not accompanied by actual symptoms of any illness whatsoever. And just recently the WHO, for example, changed its definition of herd immunity to define it solely as a certain percentage of the population being vaccinated (natural herd immunity as a result of enough people simply having become infected or exposed to the actual virus – or having latent immunity from prior infections, such as T-cell immunity – apparently is no longer a thing, because Covid of course!).

Same with masks. Plenty of evidence long before even the Danish study that they don’t work to slow spread of viruses in a community setting (CDC and WHO recommended against such use, as well as people like Fauci and the Surgeon General as late as May or June), yet suddenly for political reasons it was decided that masks are “the best defense we have” and they’ve become an object of cult-like worship. Yesterday I saw reports of a major study which demonstrated that asymptomatic or “pre-symptomatic” spreading of the virus is almost non-existent. Alleged aymptomatic or “pre-symptomtic spread was one of the major claims used to justify the face muzzle regime. This study along with the Danish mask study should be enough to put an end to the face muzzle regime. But, like the Danish mask study a couple months ago, this new study will be ignored by the tyrants and alleged “experts” in charge to keep the tyranny going forever. It will never end because people don’t seem to want to wake up and realize or admit that they’ve been living an absolute lie for the past 10 months for a virus in reality barely more serious than flu (and less deadly than past pandemics like Asian flu in 1959 or Hong Kong flu in 1968).

“The (infectious) are quarantined, kept entirely separate from the healthy until they are dead or no longer communicable.”

The crack in this otherwise entirely-reasonable policy, through which all the current outrages have slipped, is simply this: What do you do when you cannot tell the infectious from the healthy, save by a test which (a) most people will not get unless compelled or they are already showing symptoms, in which case their infectiousness has already reached their community, and (b) has been set, through official panic, at a sensitivity level so high the false-positive error margin is nearly equal to the real positivity rate? Every lockdown policy out there is justified on the basis that the truly dangerous transmission vectors are the asymptomatic and presymptomatic infected, who can’t be identified so as to be quarantined.

I do not ask this to justify current policy (which I agree does not work) but to find the best answer to this against lockdown defenders, and unfortunately pointing to the increasing number of studies which fail to validate asymptomatic transmission to any measurable degree doesn’t work — nobody now believes statistics unless they already agree with their conclusions.

Hello Briggs! A few weeks ago, you showed the excess mortality for Canada and it looked like there were fewer overall deaths in 2020 than in any of the past few years. On Christmas Eve, StatsCan released an updated version which shows much excess death where previously there was none: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020017-eng.htm. The provinces with the most excess death throughout the year seem to be British Colombia, Alberta, and Ontario. I’m wondering how much of this excess death is due to lockdown. For instance, in Alberta, week 44 shows 605 deaths this year, as opposed to 500 last year, but the Alberta government recorded only 27 deaths from Covid. Evidently, over 60% of that week’s excess death was not from Covid! I can’t seem to find any charts of weekly coronadoom deaths for Canada as a whole (and am too lazy to add up the daily numbers manually), but I very much suspect that the same trend will be evident. Thanks for trying to keep us all sane!

There are several studies prior to 2010 that describe the utter futility and horror
any generalized lockdown would entail, specifically in terms of job losses and
suicidal despair. The utter futility and ineffectualness of lockdowns to combat a virus
was well known in epidemiological circles as far back as the 1800’s. You quarantine
the sick and not the healthy in order to achieve herd immunity. Having been duped
into calling this a ‘pandemic’, people who should know better have succumb to the
linguistic double speak sleight of hand and unwittingly reinforce the narrative. Be that
as it may it is now important to focus on ‘phase two’ of this psy-op which is the inoculation
of everyone on the planet with an untested RNA vectored vaccine.

‘THE BIGGEST EXPERIMENT EVER DONE’
https://thehighwire.com/videos/the-biggest-experiment-ever-done/

My father recently had a one day flu type illness. Only overlap with COVID was a fever, all the other symptoms were different (in particular a very phlemgy cough but no trouble breathing). Out of an abundance of caution he got tested. Initially it came up negative. Then in the afternoon he got a call saying that he definitely did have COVID and would have to quarantine for two weeks. When he asked about the discrepancy in the early results he was told that the database had never shown a record of a negative test. But he has a printout that he was going to use to justify returning to work which very definitely does say the test was negative.

Very suspicious.

Normie sites are now pumping out hysterical junk articles claiming that violent hallucinations months after getting over WuFlu are a, “horrifying Cv19 symptom.”

https://www.eatthis.com/news-covid-psychiatric-symptom/

C’mon man!

Fine work, Briggs. Little doubt lock-downs do not work in any positive way. Little doubt that they actually make things worse in a number of ways, as you show. I will go you one better. Basically, almost *everything* the control-freak-assholes (CFA) have done in response to SARS-COV2 has made things worse. If I did not know better, I would swear they were picking approaches off the “Top Ten Things to NEVER Do During a Pandemic” and deploying them first! This, while disappointing, is not unusual, particularly for losers like Emperor Cuomo. What is unusual, at least I hope, is the number of otherwise intelligent people who are buying into the B.S. I realized, after a while, that lock-downs were a luxury item, but I did not realize the bourgeoisie were both gullible *and* in control. How wrong I was…

Rudolph: Those kinds of testing “errors” seem all too common, and happen too often to be just “errors.” The entire testing regime is suspect and being manipulated to nefarious ends to cook the books on “cases.”

California is still locking elders into Covid-swamped nursing homes without tests of any kind. If a senior citizen goes to the hospital for any reason, they never come home again. It’s a death sentence for the crime of being old.

Harris getting a fake vax shot:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/29/i-trust-the-scientists-kamala-harris-injected-with-coronavirus-vaccine/

Having the shirtsleeve resting on the needle is not proper protocol.

awildgoose: I am suspicious of the whole “vaccinated on TV” thing. As far as the shirt sleeve, Kamala could have dropped that down after the nurse stuck here. I also read Fauci can’t remember which arm he had the shot in. It’s an IM shot, like tetnus. Most people remember, often for an entire week. What IS fake is the shot starting with the plunger down (which was admitted to being a “mistake” but they really, really did vaccinate him later, sure….), no one getting sick from the vaccine in spite of warnings that these things pack a punch, and my favorite, Netanyahu whose doctor has his fingers on the needle and appears to be an insulin syringe, which CANNOT be used for IM shots because the needle is too short. Most photos show the plunger down, but it could have been up when the person started. It’s all very stupid since there are many, many diabetics and others who take shots daily, multiple times, who recognize how very fake this is. It’s driving people away, at least the smart ones.

Early on, experts admitted that lock-downs would kill more people in the long run, but it was imperative that we “flatten the curve” to avoid overwhelming the ICU’s. Early on, experts admitted that the coronavirus would mutate quickly, and that the mutated strains would be more contagious but less virulent. Despite seeing no pronouncements that these experts were actually wrong, we are still acting as if lock-downs don’t cost lives, and more recently, we are acting as if the more contagious mutated strains are just as virulent.

When it comes to this virus, is seems there is simply no such thing as good news. Seems like a ‘happy’ convergence of the media bias towards negative news and the increasing fascination with socialism on the left.

Admittedly it takes some minimal amount of numeracy to understand how the risks from this virus compare to the risks we have always accepted in day-to-day living, and even minimal numeracy seems to be an increasingly rare commodity.

Sheri-

I received monthly seasonal allergy shots for almost two decades.

I ALWAYS had my shirtsleeve rolled up over my shoulder, several inches from the needle. If that was not possible, I took my shirt off prior to the shot.

I believe her lowered shirtsleeve was to conceal something odd about the syringe needle.

I have also seen the clips of vax shots with the plunger already down, which are also obviously fake.

awildgoose: Since the only doctor-administered shots I have are tetnus and are 10 years apart, I cannot remember exactly how it went. I give myself shots 3 or more times a day and I guess I’m tacky about whether or not the clothing is fully out of the way. It is apparently different when a professional gives the shots.

I looked through as many videos as I could find of the televised shots. Some pull the sleeve all the way up, some do not. It appeared AOC pulled the shoulder of her blouse down. Of all the shots given, I only saw one doctor pull back on the syringe (not vital with IM shots, I am told). With Pence and his wife, the doctors put a bandaid half on first, then gave the shot and pushed the bandaid down afterward. One doctor’s hands were shaking. These are doctors and nurses performing on TV for the masses. It’s not going to look natural. We can analyze forever. Bottom line, either you trust the vaccine and claims or you don’t. I’m not lining up for a shot–even though I am in a very high risk group. What you do is up to you. Unless the government decides to mandatory, but at the rate the vaccine is being rolled out, we’ll be well past 2024 by then and who knows?

@Sheri,
Unless something has changed, any injection that isn’t subcutaneous should be checked for placement by pulling back on it. If you want an IV injection, you must be sure that you are in a vein. If you want an IM injection, you must be sure you are not in any larger vessel; whether venous or arterial (that is, arterioles, venules and capillaries will not matter as much). Not doing so increases the risks of adverse events.

“All tests are COVID” – not true. They are still testing for influenza, and they just aren’t finding it – they are finding the Wuhan virus – SARS-CoV-2 – which causes COVID19. In fact, if someone shows up with influenza-like illness, they will test for influenza and COVID. I’d bet that more, not fewer people are being tested in the US this year for influenza than in past years.

Influenza usually has a substantially lower R0 value than SARS-CoV-2. In an active epidemic, the real R value (Rt) will likely be lower because people will take precautions.

Since cases per generation are proportional to Rt, the dynamics of an epidemic are very sensitive to R0 (and it’s circumstance varying friend Rt, which is R0 adjusted for different spreading circumstances). If Rt is greater than 1.0, any outbreak will grow exponentially until some factor, such as immunity, slows it down*. If Rt is less than 1.0, any outbreak will fade away in exponential decline.

R0 for influenza is around 1.1-1.4. R0 for COVID19 is 2.0-4.5, with many using 2.5.

Mitigation measures – social distancing, masks, and masks – lower Rt significantly. We are seeing Rt for COVID19 in the US at around 1.2. When you lower it that much, influenza’s Rt will become less than 1.0 (since influenza spreads the same way as SARS-COV-2). With Rt < 1.0, any outbreak will die out, while COVID keeps on marching along.

And that's a pretty good explanation for why we see so few influenza cases. It doesn't require postulating a lack of influenza testing.

*Technical note: the growth isn't quite exponential, because with each generation, more are immune, which has the effect of reducing Rt. But until quite a few are immune, that effect is pretty minor. The expression for the number of cases N(t) at generation t is N(t) = N(t-1)*Rt*(#immune/#population).