1. Would anyone who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, or from the Soviet Union care to comment on the mayor of Chicago’s speech, reasoning and measures?

(The huddle they have at 48:25 kinda raises questions though)

2. Boris Johnson has the flu.

3. A comment came in with a lot of links suggesting that the danger might be overestimated in some ways and that the current model has been revised downwards given more and better data. Below is the entire comment. But be advised we have not checked any of the links except the last one, which is the White House Corona spokeswoman, Deborah Birx. What was interesting and caught our attention immediately, was that the C-Span link led to this:

That’s curious isn’t it?

Thanks to friends who actually understand the internet, the missing clip was found and restored and is below:

The following links we have not checked but here is the comment from JB.

Like I said on the 25th, this Wuhan Flu/CV-19 is a little hyped- “never let a good crisis go to waste” (Rahm Emmanuel) and all that …

We may be at the end of the emergency rather than the beginning because of the high existing antibody rates among the general population in many countries (eg Japan, South Korea, Iceland, UK).

 

https://vladtepesblog.com/2020/03/25/readers-links-for-march-25-2020/comment-page-1/#comment-528337

 

Here are new links:

“British epidemiologist who predicted over 2 million Americans — and 500k Brits — would die from coronavirus now says his model, which went viral, is wrong. Says England is unlikely to have more than 20k deaths & potentially much less. Whoops.”

 

https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1243160548423991296

 

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/26/the-scientist-whose-doomsday-pandemic-model-predicted-armageddon-just-walked-back-the-apocalyptic-predictions/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/epidemiologist-behind-highly-cited-coronavirus-model-admits-he-was-wrong-drastically-revises-model

 

https://www.scotsman.com/read-this/covid-19-not-considered-high-consequence-infectious-disease-it-still-vital-observe-lockdown-2519188

 

Updated every day, warning the same thing (hyped)

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

 

From 17th March:

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/

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-proximitypoll/how-many-americans-have-coronavirus-new-reuters-poll-might-offer-a-hint-idUSKBN21D2XJ?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

 

https://forward.com/news/national/442285/coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-trump-doctor/

 

And finally, Dr Birx admits that “The predictions of the models don’t match the reality on the ground”,

 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4864096/dr-deborah-birx-modeling

JB

4. Here is a link to a Zero Hedge article showing the UK numbers Deborah mentioned in her presser.

Click through and give it a read. It almost feels like Global warming was taking too long because the public was getting hip to its nonsense and so it was losing effectiveness as a means towards global governance. So now we have a new hockey stick graph showing  that Corona gonna kill everyone if we don’t act now to sacrifice all self governance and personal freedoms and individual rights.

To be clear, I am not saying this is all BS. However, when personal freedoms are taken away all of a sudden, when mayor’s of cities (see item 1) start to turn police into monitors of movements of free peoples everywhere now from Chicago to Hull Quebec to France, when advice for personal safety becomes crimes while criminals are being released from jails and police openly say they will no longer enforce the laws for property rights (as an aside, communists do not believe that personal property exists, do I have that right?), and when suddenly shutting down the whole world’s economy to save lives with no concern about the lives being lost due to the shut down, then I’m not saying this is overblown or that wrong measures are taken, or this is a commie plot but….

it is really starting to feel like it.

Eeyore for VladTepesBlog.

PS. Richard explains that the hockey stick graph is from the massive number of new testing which shows of course, more infections but does not show necessarily more disease.

Infection and disease are different things, although one can be caused by the other. But several thousand tests of healthy people or people with mild flu or cold symptoms are now showing that the lethality rate is dramatically lower than what was thought, and the Italian, Chinese and Iranian numbers may mean something other than a plague as well. It may be related to air quality and 40 years or more of lung damage from living in the most air polluted countries on Earth.