{"id":52183,"date":"2020-04-05T07:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52183"},"modified":"2020-04-05T07:27:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T12:27:41","slug":"fooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52183","title":{"rendered":"Fooled."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@antonymueller\/fooled-9de24aa66227\">Fooled.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Gullible Politicians Promoted the Destruction of the Global Economy and Threw Us into the Abyss of Serfdom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1200\/1*NUwEtljf1jDgtEVL37zdCw.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/11\/10\/7157997\/everyone-is-selfish-when-it-comes-to-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/11\/10\/7157997\/everyone-is-selfish-when-it-comes-to-politics<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with some basic knowledge in mathematical modeling who had taken a look at the structure of the \u201cImperial College\u201d-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/03\/mathematics-life-and-death-how-disease-models-shape-national-shutdowns-and-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">model<\/a>&nbsp;would have noted the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/necsi.edu\/review-of-ferguson-et-al-impact-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions?fbclid=IwAR0LcM5h0pi4gps_nSfEiA6-Aa6G5Ooy_sOMTS9eEU0xeckGFsM1QP7EavY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">faults<\/a>&nbsp;of this approach and its exaggerations. The model\u2019s prognosis that the United Kingdom would have to count with more than half a million deaths and a complete overload of its health system&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-britain-research-f\/factbox-the-projection-that-changed-britains-coronavirus-policy-idUSKBN21415L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reversed<\/a>the British government\u2019s earlier decision to use prudential surveillance and specifically targeted intervention and to shift to the full-control strategy, which required massive intervention into the public and private life of the nation. The leaders of other countries that were somewhat still in doubt jumped on the bandwagon and the march into a tyrannical State was programmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was too late when the authors of the model finally revised their original estimate from 500 thousand to 20 thousand and later on lowered this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis\/COVID-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">number<\/a>&nbsp;even more. The governments had already set into motion their emergency plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After declaring the coronavirus a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/disease\/swineflu\/frequently_asked_questions\/pandemic\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pandemic<\/a>&nbsp;by the World Health Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WHO<\/a>), agendas that had been prepared years ago were set into motion and the state agencies followed the procedures that were prescribed by the International Health Regulations (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/globalhealth\/healthprotection\/ghs\/ihr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IHR<\/a>) as the international legal instrument that is binding on 196 countries across the globe, including all the Member States of WHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even now, months after the outbreak of the virus, the true size of the threat remains unclear. The quantitative basis is still too small to make a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/17\/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reliable projection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1920\/1*vS_y0akLcM-1zON6IkEFvQ.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If the modelers and the responsible government bodies had looked at the basic numbers instead of elaborating an apparently sophisticated model, they would have noticed that there has been no noticeable rise of the death rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fooled. How Gullible Politicians Promoted the Destruction of the Global Economy and Threw Us into the Abyss of Serfdom Anyone with some basic knowledge in mathematical modeling who had taken a look at the structure of the \u201cImperial College\u201d-model&nbsp;would have noted the&nbsp;faults&nbsp;of this approach and its exaggerations. The model\u2019s prognosis that the United Kingdom would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29316,24408,14273,2084,765,855],"class_list":["post-52183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-antony-mueller","tag-government-power","tag-medium","tag-statistics","tag-surveillance","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52184,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52183\/revisions\/52184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}