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Godfree Roberts's avatar

"It seems unavoidable that those advocating the current pandemic and preparedness agenda are intentionally misleading the public in order to achieve their aims. Cost-benefit analyses are essential for any large-scale intervention, and their absence reflects either incompetence or malfeasance". David Bell.

Our media have always been hostile to cost-benefit analyses of government policies, partly because they involve numbers, which are hard, and also because those who hate our freedoms might compare compare our results to others.

Our Covid policy outcomes, however, are so awful that our media ignore them, preferring to imagine awful outcomes for others' policies.

Thus, China's Dynamic Covid Zero became ‘Covid Zero,' "a costly, draconian failure that might end up toppling Xi’. When Xi lifted Covid restrictions, he would open the gates of Hell:

* CNN, Dec. 7: Dark days ahead as China moves away from zero-Covid policy.

* Bloomberg, Dec. 9: China abandoning Covid policies. Deaths may reach 2.1 million.

* NYT, Dec. 10: Tsunami of Covid Cases Will Test China’s Hospitals.

* Japan Times, Dec. 17: China deaths through 2023.

In real life, China handled Covid well, thanks to four thousands of years of well-documented public health experience.

Well before the 12th. century, neighborhood lockdowns and hygiene, combined with herbs and exercise, were standard anti-epidemic measures. No wonder China suffered few Black Death fatalities.

Today, the Chinese live longer, healthier lives than Americans, despite spending 90% less on health. By the time Covid hit Wuhan in 2019, life expectancy was rising fast (winter sports became a half-trillion dollar industry) and, above all, the government was well prepared.

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William Hunter Duncan's avatar

If it is not a controlled depopulation plan by way of isolating and getting rid of free thinkers, the neoliberal leadership of the West sure is not doing anything to disabuse me of that.

Word is the Biden Admin is about to "pivot" on messaging, blaming stubborn excess deaths on long covid, to justify their own doubling down on jabs and all the law that made Covid Policy possible.

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