"there were people who were rightfully so keen to get rid of characters like Trump and Bolsenaro that they just decided to politicize this whole thing in a way that's been incredibly unhelpful and damaging to a lot of people. Basically the politicization of this scientific dialogue has been to the detriment. And when I say detriment, we're talking a serious detriment to many ordinary people." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford

"Cases rose because of seasonality without any doubt. And within that rising cases, so there's sudden expansion, the strain that was slightly more transmissible is very likely to expand more and take over very quickly. It doesn't serve, it does not merit or what it doesn't justify at all is the panic and the closure of borders surrounding that narrative. So I think the narrative is flawed and the worry - it doesn't matter - anyone can come up with narratives and narratives. They are all somewhat flawed, but when a flawed narrative is used or an improbable narrative is used to inflict these sorts of conditions, then one has to really think about how it needs to be questioned." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford)

✨Outdoor Masks - Dr. Battacharya & Dr. Atlas

"I think that vanishingly few cases, even in contact tracing that have identified outdoor spread at all" - Dr. Battacharya

"World Health Organization said specifically, it’s bad to wear a mask during exercise, yet where I’m from in California, the gyms that are open, they require you to wear a mask during exercise. It’s not just unnecessary, it’s harmful." - Dr. Atlas

(Gov. Ron DeSantis Public Health Roundtable, March 18)

👁 t.iss.one/dryburgh

UK Column News - 22nd March 2021 (FULL)

LBRY https://open.lbry.com/@Dryburgh:7/UK-Column-News-22nd-March-2021:d?r=GXeCW6HWaKb1wtFgfUW95qquG1m1SHiV

Minds https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1221074123587190784

Common sense again, we should only seek to vaccinate the vulnerable. But hey, governments are looking to vax those at no risk like babies.

"I think the way to use vaccines is to deliver focus protection. And I don't think we should be vaccinating everybody. I think we should rely on a combination of focused protection through vaccination and naturally acquired immunity" — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford)

"Where we end up is at that threshold, which is an equilibrium state where infections neither growth nor decline, except in some sort of seasonal way, which is just a sort of bobbing up and down around equilibrium." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford)

"So first of all, the data that have been misinterpreted and rather strangely by people who should be and are experts in the field, is that some of the variants, one of the one in Britain, for example, seems to be taking over from what was there before.

But as I explained, for something to take over, it doesn’t have to have hugely higher transmissibility. It’s just, you know, it’s a tug of war and, you know, you can attach a mouse to one end of the tug of war and pull the whole thing across to one side.

And that is more likely to be what happened then a large elephant having been attached to the other side. So there is no indicator… just because something is growing and taking over does not mean that it is hugely more transmissible and it’s sort of, it’s the inverse.

Cases rose because of seasonality without any doubt. And within that rising cases, so there’s sudden expansion, the strain that was slightly more transmissible is very likely to expand more and take over very quickly. It doesn’t serve, it..."

'The Battle of Hyde Park (London), 20 March, 2021'

Pubic health in 2021!!!

✨Jay Bhattachary (Prof. Medicine, Stanford) #immunity

"There’s a vast array of evidence in the scientific literature that shows definitively that if you’ve had COVID and recovered, the vast, vast majority of people have a durable immunity that it’s very unlikely that you’ll be reinfected and you’ll be protected from, from reinfection. Even if you do get reinfected at some later time, it’s very likely to be less severe than the first time. So, yeah, it’s just like the other coronaviruses; if you get infected, you get immunity and it lasts a while. Not forever, but it lasts a while."

(Gov. Ron DeSantis Public Health Roundtable, March 18)

Paper "COVID-19 Lockdown Policies: An Interdisciplinary Review"

*Psychological research supports the proposition that lengthy lockdowns may exacerbate stressors such as social isolation and unemployment that have been shown to be strong predictors of falling ill if exposed to a respiratory virus. Studies at the economic level of analysis points to the possibility that deaths associated with economic harms or underfunding of other health issues may outweigh the deaths that lockdowns save, and that the extremely high financial cost of lockdowns may have negative implications for overall population health in terms of diminished resources for treating other conditions. Research on ethics in relation to lockdowns points to the inevitability of value judgements in balancing different kinds of harms and benefits than lockdowns cause. *

https://dryburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/COVID-19-Lockdown-Policies_SSRN-id3782395.pdf

https://archive.is/TZ1aO

Public health 2020 ;-)

Merkel: “We basically have a new pandemic. Essentially we have a new virus, obviously of the same type but with completely different characteristics. Significantly more deadly, significantly more infectious, and infectious for longer.”

https://apnews.com/article/angela-merkel-europe-germany-coronavirus-pandemic-dff83a9caed765de74667a1ac28abb1f

Reminder, “The Lockdowns Are Creating a New Virus. Then We Have a New Epidemic.” — Epidemiologist Dr Wittkowski https://dryburgh.com/knut-wittkowski-lockdowns-are-creating-a-new-virus/

Added update to Knut https://dryburgh.com/knut-wittkowski-lockdowns-are-creating-a-new-virus/

My fear is that not only were lockdowns the worst public health decision in 100 years, but the course we are on, is rapidly growing to be a great danger to the public.

The "course" being lockdowns slowing spread amongst everyone (not just the vulnerable) mixed with leaky vaccination programs.

It's getting to the point that it's not lockdowns people will need to protest, but being injured (or their family) by what public health policies are breeding.

UK Column News - 24th March 2021 (FULL)

LBRY https://open.lbry.com/@Dryburgh:7/UK-Column-News-24th-March-2021:e?r=GXeCW6HWaKb1wtFgfUW95qquG1m1SHiV

Minds https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1221468937108189184?referrer=dryburgh

Seems that all-cause mortality, 2020 was a bad year in the USA, as bad as 2005 in fact and nearly as bad as 2003.

https://swprs.org/covid-versus-the-flu-revisited/