Wow, People Really Have A Handle On This Coronavirus Thing

 And by handle, I mean they never let a good crisis go to waste:

Ronald B. Brown, Ph.D., from the School of Public health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo, Canada, recently stated that the COVID-19 fatality rate is the “worst miscalculation in the history of humanity.” Brown is currently completing his second doctorate degree this time in epidemiology at the University of Waterloo.

Not long ago, Brown published a paper in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, titled “Public health lessons learned from biases in coronavirus mortality overestimation.”

In the paper he provides data and information he collected from his research, he compared informational texts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to data from independent scientists and Congressional testimony. He states that “Results of this critical appraisal reveal information bias and selection bias in coronavirus mortality overestimation, most likely caused by misclassifying an influenza infection fatality rate as a case fatality rate.”

Below is a statement Brown recently gave to John C. A. Manley, a journalist who was the first to cover the story:

The subject of this article is disruptive, to say the least, although it is not as obvious from the title. The manuscript cites the smoking-gun, documented evidence showing that the public’s overreaction to the coronavirus pandemic was based on the worst miscalculation in the history of humanity, in my opinion. My manuscript underwent an intensive peer-review process. You are the first media guy who has responded to my invitation.

Dr. Brown added that CDC and WHO documents show that the case fatality rate for influenza was similar to the coronavirus, implying that the lockdowns were pointless. His paper questions why the 2017-2018 influenza season in the United States did not “receive the same intensive media coverage as COVID-19.”

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(Merci)

 

Do not mistake my intentions here.

I am not suggesting that this virus is not a serious matter nor am I suggesting that caution should not be used when dealing with a virus we don't completely understand.

My argument is that the same people who refused to take this virus seriously in the first place because they did not want to anger China or are simply quacks who deserve to lose their medical licenses so that they can no longer inflict harm on others are the same people who insist that they were right to shut down economies and cannot be blamed for their outright failure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus China is responsible for.

Whether it is idiots who make people wear masks now even though they initially did not believe in them or singling out an arguably culpable party or strong-arming pregnant women (this is the same country that screwed up on Cardinal Pell, so there's that), governments have been gifted a rare opportunity to exercise a great amount of control over a gullible population under the illusion that it is all for the greater good. Conventional wisdom would dictate that First World Western governments would have contingency plans in place for national medical emergencies which would include having medicine and equipment, restricting travel from affected areas, plans for keeping services and businesses open and the courage to hold guilty parties to account.

Well, none of that really occurred but keeping people frightened enough to wear masks everywhere and keeping their children at home to avoid rubbing elbows with the newly inflicted normalcy did.

More:

Two midtown apartment buildings currently being utilized as emergency homeless housing will be vacated this week, the City of Toronto confirmed.

The complexes have been used to house up to 150 homeless residents since May, as part of the city's plan to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in homeless shelters.

According to CP24, the buildings will be demolished due to a leasing agreement with the developer.

Residents of the area are reportedly frustrated and fear an uptick in crime, and although Toronto police have not confirmed or denied an uptick in crime in the area, police have confirmed that used heroin needles have been found in the area.

The city has since brought forward measures in an attempt to reduce any potential crime, including addiction supports and round-the-clock security.

 

(Sidebar: when will the gated Liberals put drug sites in their neighbourhoods?)