Amici,
During
the Vietnam War (notice how it is never called the "Kennedy War" or
more apropos, "The Lyndon Johnson War"?) Walter Cronkite, the main CBS
News evening news anchor (remember this was in the day when the MSM -- MainStream Media
-- dominated all the news Americans got), supported the war, till one
night Cronkite began to turn against it. Lyndon Johnson is reported to
have said, "When you've lost Cronkite, you've lost America."
The
same might apply to Tucker Carlson and the "narrative" about SARS
COVID-19. Last night, April 2rd, at 16:46 into his broadcast, Carlson
interviewed Alex Berenson, a former NY Times reporter and author of the
book, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, a book that impressed Carlson deeply.
Berenson's
not being a scientist or epidemiologist will automatically turn off
some. But as Carlson says, Berenson is a very informed layman, a good
journalist, and someone who can point that the computer models telling
us X-facts are not actually factual. (See further below for some
examples of this non-factual info.) "Informed Laymen" reviewing such
published facts are not idiots speaking ignorantly; instead, they act as
an audit on people who are supposed to audit themselves, via
"peer-reviewed" literature and "clinical tests", etc. In a crisis
situation, as now, we need all the "audit" we can get.
Now, Berenson's book, Tell Your Children, is described as "An
eye-opening report from an award-winning author and former New York
Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental
illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug—facts the
media have ignored as the United States rushes to legalize cannabis." A
quick search online shows endless links just howling bloody murder
about how such a proposition is not true. Haha, yeah, right. Making Pot
legal is a big movement, lots of money is involved, and of course they'd hide its downsides to the fullest extent they could, just like the tobacco companies hid tobacco's.
Anyway,
Carlson's interview and over-all "beginning to question the narrative"
is a major "sea-change" event. Carlson has been promoting
(over-promoting, some say) the COVID virus for a couple of months. So
for him to begin to "question the narrative" is one of those "signs of
the times" we need to be on the lookout for.
If
interested, at 16:44 on his April 2 interview, Carlson begins
interviewing Berenson, after an interview with Dr. Lipkin, who came down
with the virus and is now recovering (I wrote about Lipkin earlier; he
traveled to China I believe after the outbreak). Lipkin gave a
reasonable, calm argument for the standard national lockdown to "bend
the curve." The following is a transcript of the first section of
Carlson's interview with Berenson.
Berenson:
And unfortunately, what we’re seeing and what we have been
seeing for the past couple of weeks, is that the models that predicted really
apocalyptic things in places like New York City and nationally and in the UK
don’t seem to be matching what’s going on in reality. And in some cases, these epidemiological
models are extremely new. They’ve gone extremely “south” in a matter of days
and so I think we really have to ask what’s going on here, and whether or not there are strategies that might be less
damaging to the economy that would do just as well because we’ve taken huge steps,
we’ve put ten million people out of work – more actually, because that’s the official
numbers – in just a couple of weeks, we’ve caused real societal real societal
harm and disruption, and we’ve done it on the basis of models that don’t seem
to line up with reality in real time.”
This
interview, perhaps, will be a turning point. President Trump listens to
Carlson. Trump is said to have called off a strike in Syria because of
an impassioned Carlson on-air plea. Also, Carlson has been saying -- as
have a growing number of others, and the list keeps growing -- that the
medical professionals can't be allowed to determine policy. Politics, as
the old saying has it, is the art of the possible. We cannot maintain
the quickly mounting unemployment and coming economic catastrophe that
is looming.
Berenson
also points out that the currently popular model is from Washington
State, but notes that Oregon has a new model too, and it shows that
things would not be much different had more normal protocols been put in
place, such as sequestering/quarantining old folks and those with
pre-conditions (people like me, for example, with my COPD) rather than
locking everyone down.
I'm
interested in Sweden. Sweden is not doing a lockdown, and apparently is
doing no worse than Denmark, which is under lockdown.
I
would be that a week from today, we'll be hearing a LOT more about
this, and "President Fauci" & Co. (Fauci seem to say yesterday we
can't let up the lockdown until there are no more deaths!) will be out
of favor.
Meanwhile, other indicators are significant. This report shows how people most seriously affected by the disease have
preconditions, and thus are more targeted approach is both reasonable
and necessary.
An excerpt:
Why is this significant?
Two reasons:
- The government and media campaign to SCARE US ALL TO DEATH is being exposed by the truth. Yes, this is a serious disease. And yes, many people will die. But the average healthy person has A VERY, VERY SMALL CHANCE OF DYING from this coronavirus.
Also, see:
This is most interesting, isn't it?
Also:
(These details are what Berenson was talking about in Carlson's interview.)
IMHE Coronavirus Model the White House is Relying on ... It Predicted 121,000 Americans Hospitalized by Yesterday; Actual Number?... 31,142
The IMHE (Institute for
Health Metrics and Evaluation) model for the Coronavirus the White House is
relying on is complete garbage.
The US economy has been
virtually shut down, unemployment spiked and small businesses are on the verge of shuttering
based on faulty projections.
The IMHE model is using
New York and New Jersey data and applying it to the rest of the US.
·
It predicted that
over 121,000 Americans would be hospitalized yesterday (Wednesday) over
the Coronavirus, Sean Davis of The Federalist said. The actual number? 31,142.
·
For example, the
IMHE model predicted 1,716 people in Texas would be hospitalized
yesterday from the Coronavirus, but the actual number of Texans hospitalized is
196.
·
In Georgia, the
IMHE model predicted that as of yesterday, 2,777 people would have been
hospitalized due to the Coronavirus. The actual number of people hospitalized
in Georgia? 952.
·
In Virginia, the
IMHE model predicted that 607 Virginians would have been hospitalized as
of yesterday due to the Coronavirus.
·
In Tennessee, the
IMHE model predicted that 2,214 people in Tennessee would have been
hospitalized by yesterday due to the Coronavirus. The actual number? 200.
·
In New York, the
IMHE model predicted that as of yesterday, 50,962 people would have been
hospitalized due to the Coronavirus. The actual number? 18,368.
·
As of Wednesday
there were over 200,000 confirmed Coronavirus cases in the US and approximately
4,400 deaths.
Top White House officials
scaled back their predictions and said between 100,000 and 200,000 Americans
are projected to die from the Coronavirus.
This is down from the 1.7
million American deaths predicted by a key UK scientist which sent the entire
country into panic mode.
Millions and millions of
Americans are going to lose their jobs, their homes and their savings.
These so-called “experts”
owe the American public an explanation and not just ever-changing models to
terrify the masses.
And of those 200,000 confirmed cases, we know there's been many, many time that who weren't tested, etc.
On top of all that, and very significantly, mental health issues the quarantine raise is getting ever more attention, as here:
(My wife is especially keeping track of these sorts of articles.)
I could go on and on, but you get the gist.
Last
week, I wrote that it would be very, very interesting to see where we
were today, Friday, April 3rd. I note that Hydroxychloroquine is now
being "mainstreamed" https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/2/hydroxychloroquine-rated-most-effective-therapy-do/ and see also this:
Anyway, I will be very interested to see where we are next
Friday, Good Friday, in fact. At the rate of "narrative collapse
cascade" that is showing indications of developing, I wouldn't be
surprise if on Easter, President Trump at least announces the end of the
national quarantine is in sight, if not imminent.
An Préachán
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