Welcome to Keith's night. Don't tread on anyone.
This is 12 times. The lock downers were wrong by
film Agnes of the American Institute for economic research
before getting into his 12. Let's just review the general
narrative that if they are our mask mandates, more people will
wear masks and this will lead to a decrease in cases.
Then we will eventually get rid of the virus.
That is not what has happened. Virtually anywhere.
If we look at all Austria where Mass were required we later saw
a drastic increase in cases. We saw the same thing in
Germany. If you look at the numbers, they
are again. These are per million.
Of course, there are differences in population.
In France. They had a mask requirement.
And later a significant increase in cases, Spain, same thing,
United Kingdom. Same thing, Belgium, same thing.
So, again, I'm not saying there is no virus.
I'm just saying the existence of a virus doesn't justify
lockdowns and doesn't justify an increase in state power anymore
than it. Justifies, you know what?
There's a terrible virus there for Russia has the right to rule
America. Well, no, just because there's a
virus in America doesn't mean the government has the right to
rule peaceful peaceful individuals, Italy.
Same thing. Even if you look within European
countries, come areas that required Mass versus no math
requirement. There was not a direct
correlation, which you'd think there would be if you listen to
fauci and the lock downers, even though you have very high mass.
In these areas, you can see the same thing with in America,
California requires, masks and later, season increase in cases,
Hawaii requires masks, both indoor and outdoor at different
periods in the year 2020. And there was still an increase.
If you look at Texas versus Georgia where there was a mass
requirement whereas in Georgia, there was not a match
requirement. You don't see the correlation.
We were promised. You can even look at cases per
million from Texas, Georgia, New York.
And Sweden. And you don't see the
correlation that they use as a justification for increasing
state. Power back to the article 12
times. The lockdown owners were wrong.
Number one. Anthony fauci says, lockdowns
are not possible in the United States.
January 24th. When asked about Mass quarantine
containment efforts underway in Wuhan China.
Back in January, fauci dismissed the prospect of lockdowns ever
coming to the United States. That's something that I don't
think we could. Possibly do in the United
States. I'm can imagine shutting down
New York or Los Angeles, but the judgment on the part of the
Chinese Health authorities is that given the fact that it's
spreading throughout the provinces.
It's their judgment. That this is something that in
fact is going to help in containing it whether or not it
does or does not is really open to question because
historically, when you shut things down, it doesn't have a
major effect less than two months later.
Later, 43 of 50, US states were under lockdown, a policy,
advocated by fauci himself. Number two, US government and
World Health Organization. Officials advise against mask,
use February and March. When mask sales Spike due to
widespread individual adoption in the early weeks of the
pandemic, numerous US government and World Health.
Organization officials took to the airwaves to describe masks
as ineffective and discourage their use Surgeon General Jerome
Adams tweeted against masks on February 29th.
Anthony fauci publicly discouraged mask.
Use it in. Nationally broadcast, 60 Minutes
interview on March 7th at in March 30th.
World, Health Organization briefing.
It's director-general supported mask use in medical settings,
but dissuaded the same in the general public, by mid-summer,
all had reverse course and encourage mask-wearing in the
general public as an essential tool for halting the pandemic
fauci. Essentially conceded that he
lied to the public in order to prevent a shortage of masks.
Whereas other health officials. Did an about-face on these
scientific claims around masking while mainstream epidemiology
literature stressed? The ambiguous nature of evidence
surrounding mass as recently as 2019 these scientists were
suddenly certain that masks were something of a Magic Bullet for
covid. It turns out that both positions
are likely wrong Mass appear to have marginal effect at
diminishing spread, especially in highly infectious settings
and around the vulnerable but their effectiveness at combating
covid. Also been grossly exaggerated as
illustrated by the fact that mask adoption reach near
Universal levels in the US, by the summer, with little
discernible effect, on the course of the pandemic.
Number three, Anthony fauci is decimal error.
In estimating covid fatality rates, March 11th, fauci
testified before Congress in early, March where he was asked
to estimate the severity of the disease.
In comparison to influenza his testimony, that covid-19 10
times more lethal than the seasonal, flu soaked.
Widespread alarm and provided a major impetus for the decision
to go into lockdown. The problem as Ronald Brown
documented and epidemiology Journal article.
That fauci based his estimates on a conflation of the infection
fatality rate and case fatality rate, for influenza leading him
to exaggerate the comparative danger of covid by an order of
magnitude Fouch. He's error, which he further
compounded. Compounded in a late February
article for the New England Journal of Medicine.
Help to convince Congress of the need for drastic lockdown
measures while also spreading panic in the media, and General
Public. As of writing fauci has not
acknowledged the magnitude of his error Norm, has the journal
corrected, his article. Number 42 weeks to flatten the
curve, March 16th, the lockdown or settled on a catchy slogan in
mid-march to justify their unprecedented.
Shuttering of economic and social life around the globe,
two weeks to flatten the curve, the White House covid.
Task force aggressively promoted.
This line as did the news media and much of the epidemiology
profession. The logic behind the slogan came
from the ubiquitous graph showing one a steep caseload
that would overwhelm our hospital system.
Or to a mitigated alternative, that would spread the caseload
out over several weeks, making it manageable to get to graph to
society, would need to buckle up for two weeks of shelter in
place. Orders until the capacity issue
could be managed indeed. We were told that if we did not
accept this solution, the hospital system would enter into
a catastrophic failure and only 10 days as former DHS.
Pandemic, adviser Tom, Bossard claimed in a widely circulated
interview and Post column on March 11th, two weeks came and
went. Then the rationale on which they
were sold to the public shifted hospitals, were no longer on the
verge of being overwhelmed. Indeed, most hospitals
Nationwide remained well under capacity with only a tiny number
of exceptions in the worst-hit neighborhoods of New York City.
A US Navy hospital, ship sent to relieve New York, departed a
month later after serving only. 182 patients and a pop-up
Hospital in the city's Javits Convention Center, sat mostly
empty, but the lockdowns remained in place as did the
emergency orders justifying them, two weeks became a month
which became two months which became almost a year.
We were no longer flattening the curve a strategy premised on
saving the hospital system from a threat that never manifested
but instead we focused on using lockdowns as a general
suppression strategy against the disease.
He's itself in short, the epidemiology profession sold us
a bill of goods. Number 5, Niall Ferguson
predicts, a best-case US scenario of 1.1 million deaths,
March 20th, the name, Neil Ferguson the lead modeler and
chief spokesman for Imperial College.
London has pandemic response team has become synonymous with
lockdown alarmism for a good reason.
Ferguson had a long track live record of making grossly
exaggerated predictions of catastrophic death tolls for
almost every single disease that comes along and Urging
aggressive policy responses to the same, including lockdowns,
covid-19 different, and Ferguson assumed Center Stage when he
released a highly influential model of the viruses, death toll
forecast for the US and UK Ferguson appeared.
With UK prime minister, Boris Johnson on March 16 to announce
the shift toward lockdowns, with no small irony.
He was coming down with covid himself at the time and may have
been the 80 of super spreader event that ran through Downing
Street and infected Johnson himself across the Atlantic,
Anthony fauci and Deborah brick cited.
Ferguson's model as a direct justification for locking down.
The u.s. There was a problem though,
Ferguson had a bad habit of dramatically.
Hyping his own predictions to political leaders and oppress
the Imperial College paper modeled a broad range of
scenarios including death tolls that ranged from Of thousands to
over two million but Ferguson's public statements, only
stressed. The latter, even though the
paper itself conceded, that such an extreme.
Worst case scenario was highly unrealistic.
A telling example came on March 20th.
When the New York Times Nicholas Kristoff contacted the Imperial
College modeler to, ask about the most likely scenario for the
United States as Christoph related to his readers.
I asked Ferguson for his best case about 1.1 million.
Ian deaths, he said, Number 6, researchers in Sweden, use the
Imperial College model to predict 95 thousand deaths,
April 10th after Neil Ferguson shocking death, toll predictions
for the US and UK captivated policymaker attention and drove
both governments into lockdown. Researchers.
In other countries began adopting.
The Imperial College model to their own circumstances.
Usually these models sought to reaffirm the decision of each
country to lock down the government.
Sweden, however, had decided to Buck the trend.
Setting the stage for a natural experiment to test.
The Imperial models performance in early, April a team of
researchers in Upsala University, adopted the Imperial
model to Sweden's population and demographics and ran its
projections that result if Sweden stayed the course and did
not lock down. It could expect a catastrophic
96 thousand deaths by early summer the Is of the study
recommended going into immediate lockdown butts and Sweden, lag
behind your up in adopting such measures.
They also predicted that this best-case option would reduce
deaths by only 30,000 in early June.
When the 96,000 prediction was supposed to come true.
Sweden had recorded four thousand six hundred deaths in
six months later. Sweden has about 8,000 a severe,
pandemic to be sure but in order of magnitude smaller than what
the modeler. Predicted fixing embarrassment
from these results Ferguson and Imperial College attempted to
distance themselves from the Swedish adaptation of their
model. In early, May yet Upsala steam
projections closely matched, Imperial Zone, UK, and US
predictions. When scaled to reflect their
population. Sizes, in short, the empirical
model catastrophically failed. One of the few clear natural
experiment tests of its predictive.
Ability. Seven scientists suggest that
Ocean Spray spreads covid, April 2nd.
In the 2nd week of the lockdown, several newspapers in California
promoter bizarre Theory covid could spread by Ocean Spray.
Although the paper later walked back, the headline, grabbing
claim. It is outlined here in the Los
Angeles Times. According to this Theory,
initially promoted by a group of biologists who study bacterial
infection connected to. Storm runoff, the covid virus
washed down storm, gutters and into the oceans, where the ocean
breeze would kick it up into the air and infect people on the
nearby beaches as silly. As this Theory sounds that
helped inform California's initially, Draconian enforcement
of lockdowns on its public beaches the same week that this
modern-day my aspect drift theory appeared police in Malibu
even arrested a loan. Order for going into the ocean
during the lockdown, all while citing the possibility that the
ocean breeze, carried covid with it.
Number 8 Niall Ferguson predicts catastrophic death tolls in u.s.
States. That reopen May 24th Fresh Off
Their exaggerated predictions from March to the Imperial
College team led by Neil Ferguson doubled down on
alarmist modeling as several. US states started to reopen in
late, April and May Ferguson. And his colleagues published a
new model, predicting. Another catastrophic wave of
deaths by mid-summer their model focused on five states with both
moderate and severe outbreaks. During the first wave if they
reopened according to the Imperial teams model, New York
could face up to three thousand deaths per day by July.
Florida could hit as high as 4,000 and California could hit
5000 daily deaths. Keeping in mind that these
projections were for each state alone.
They exceeded the daily death told Peaks for the entire
country in both the fall and spring showing just how bad the
Imperial model was the actual death told by mid-july in
several of the examine States even fell below the lower
confidence boundary of its projected count, while covid
remains a threat in all five states.
The post reopening explosion of death predicted by Imperial
College and used to argue for keeping the lockdowns in place,
never happened. Number nine, Anthony fauci.
Credits lockdowns for beating the virus in Europe, July 31st
in Late, July Anthony fauci, offered additional testimony to
Congress. His message, credited Europe's,
heavy lockdowns with defeating the virus.
Whereas he blamed the United States for reopening too early,
and for insufficient aggressiveness in the initial
lockdowns as fauci stated at the time.
If you look at what happened in Europe, when they shut down, or
lockdown or went to shelter in place, however, you want to
describe It, they really did it to the tune of about 95 percent
plus of the country did that the message was clear.
The United States should have followed your up, but failed to
do so. So and got a summer wave of
covid. Instead, now cheese, entire
argument. However, was based on a string
of falsehoods and errors, Mobility data from the US,
clearly showed that most Americans were staying home.
During the Spring outbreak with a recorded decline that match.
Germany, the Netherlands and several other European
countries. Contrary to Fouch.
He's claimed, the US was actually slower than most of
Europe to reopen. Furthermore, his praise of
Europe collapsed in early fall when almost all of the lockdown
countries in Europe, experienced severe, second waves, just like
the lockdown regions in the United States.
Number 10, New Zealand, and Australia, declare themselves,
covid, free August to the present New Zealand and
Australia have thus far whether the pandemic with extremely low
case, counsel leading, many epidemiologists and journalists
to conflate these results with evidence of their successful and
replicable mitigation policies in reality, New Zealand and
Australia. Opted, for the medieval Prince
Prospero strategy of attempting to wall themselves from the
world until the pandemic passes and a That is highly dependent
on their unique geographies as island nations with
comparatively lower international travel than North
America and Europe. Both countries.
Shut down their borders. Before, as of yet, undetected
virus became widespread and have remained closed.
Ever since it's a costly strategy in terms of its
economic impact and personal displacement, but it kept the
virus out mostly the problem with New Zealand and Australia
has Prince Prospero strategy is that it's inherently fragile.
All it takes to throw into chaos is for the virus to slip past
the Border, including by accident or human ever.
The heavy-handed lockdowns insu imposed with maximum disruption
at the spur of the moment in a frantic attempt to contain.
The breach the most famous example happened on August 9th.
When New Zealand prime minister's Jacinda Arden
declared that New Zealand had reached 100 days of In covid
free. Then, just two days.
Later, a breach happened sending Auckland into heavy lockdown.
It's a pattern that repeated itself.
Every few weeks in both countries in early December.
We saw a similar flurry of stories, from Australia
announcing that the country had beaten covid.
Two weeks later. Another breach occurred in the
suburbs around. Sydney, promoting prompting a
regional lockdown. There have been embarrassing
missteps as well in November the entire state of South Australia.
When into heavy lockdown, over a single misreported case of
covid, that was mistakenly attributed to a pizza, purchase
that did not exist. While both countries continue to
celebrate their low fatality rates.
They've also incurred some of the harshest and most disruptive
restrictions in the world as all the result of premature
Declarations of being covid. Free followed by an unexpected
preach and another frantic lockdown.
And Australia is where you can actually go to jail for making a
Facebook post posing the lockdowns, or government
measures. I am going to skip, number 11,
number 12, Anthony, fauci touts, New York as a model for covid,
containment June to December by all indicators.
New York state has suffered one of the worst Corona virus
outbreaks in the world. It's year and mortality rate of
almost 1,900 deaths, per million residents.
Exceeds every single country in the world, the state famously
bungled its nursing home response.
When Governor Andrew Cuomo Force.
These facilities to readmit covid, positive patients as a
way to relieve strains on hospitals.
The policy backfired as most hospitals, never reach capacity,
but the readmissions introduced, the virus into vulnerable
nursing home populations resulting in widespread
fatalities to this day. New York intentionally
undercounts. Nursing.
Home fatalities by excluding residents who are moved to a
hospital from its reported numbers further, obscuring, the
true toll of Cuomo's order. New York has also fared poorly
during the fall. Second wave, despite reimposing
harsh, restrictions and Regional lockdown measures by
mid-December. Its death rate shot far above
the, it mostly open State of Florida, which has the closest
comparable population size to New York.
All Things Considered New York's.
Weathering of the pandemic is an Exemplar of what not to do
Cuomo's policies. Not only failed to contain the
virus, they likely. Did far more deadly to
vulnerable populations enter Anthony fauci.
Who has been asked multiple times in the Press.
What a model covid response policy would look like he gave
his first answer on July 20th. We know that when you do it
properly, you bring down those cases.
We have done it. We have done it in New York.
Voucher was operating under the assumption that New York,
despite its bad run in the spring had successfully brought
the pandemic under control through its aggressive lockdown
and slow. Reopening one might think that
the fall will Rebound in New York despite locking down again
would call this conclusion into question, not so much for dr.
Fauci. Who told the Wall Street Journal
on? December 8th, New York got hit
really badly in the beginning but they did a really good job
of keeping things down and still their level is low compared to
the rest of the country. And if you diss honorable
mentions, dr. Fauci admits to misleading the
public on health information, White House, Wuhan coronavirus
Task Force member, dr. Fauci admitted in a recent New
York Times interview that he has been changing the numbers on
herd immunity for the public based on a gut feeling Americans
can now handle the truth from the story.
Building is mine recently. A figure to whom millions of
Americans look for guidance. Dr. Anthony s fauci and Sure to
both the Trump Administration and the incoming Biden.
Administration has begun incrementally.
Raising his herd immunity estimate in the pandemics early
days. Dr. Fauci tended to cite the
same sixty to seventy percent estimate.
That most experts did about a month ago.
He began saying 70 to 75 percent in television interviews.
And last week and interview with CNBC news.
He said, 75 80, 85 percent and 75 to 80 plus percent in A
telephone interview the next day.
Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been
moving the goalposts. He is doing.
So he said partly based on new science and partly on his gut
feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he
really thinks hard. As it may be to hear.
He said he believes that it may take close to 90% immunity to
bring the virus to a halt almost as much as is needed to.
Stop a measles outbreak. Dr. Fauci said that weeks ago.
He had hesitated to publicly raised his estimate because many
Americans seemed hesitant about vaccines, which they would need
to accept, almost universally in order for the country to achieve
herd. Immunity.
Here is the tweet from The New York Times account.
And a few more here is the Vox official Twitter account on
March, 2nd, 2000, 2000 and face masks.
You can pass on them. Mass are only useful.
If you have a respiratory infection already and want to
limit the risk of spreading or if you're working at a hospital
in direct contact with people who have respiratory illness and
the World Health Organization has now come out in opposition
to lockdowns USA Today. World Health Organization.
Urges lockdowns as us hospitalizations continue to
climb 11 states, that record for new covid-19 cases.
So again, just because there's a terrible virus does not mean
that lockdowns are Justified. We in the World Health
Organization, do not Advocate lockdowns as the primary means
of control of this virus. Nabarro told the Speculator.
Nabarro said, lockdowns can only be justified to buy you time to
reorganize regroup, rebalance, our resources, protect your
health workers who Are exhausted but by and large we'd rather not
do it. Also, the total numbers of
deaths, ninety-four percent of the deaths are of people who had
underlying medical conditions including things like diabetes,
the flu heart failure. Only six percent of deaths are
due to covid-19 solely. That is from the Center for
Disease Control. They also are counting.
Deaths of people that just have it even if it's not at all a
primary cause of death, the Toronto Public, Health official
Twitter account said individuals who have died with covid-19, but
not as a result of covid-19 are included in the case counts for
covid-19 deaths in Toronto. And that is the case pretty much
everywhere. You look, here is the US Surgeon
General official Twitter account.
Seriously, people stop buying masks.
They are not effective in preventing.
Ting general public from Catching hashtag coronavirus.
But if Health Care Providers can't get them to care for sick
patients. It puts them in our communities
at risk. Were they lying to us, then?
Are they lying to us now? No one knows.
The best way to protect yourself and your community is with
everyday preventive, actions, like staying home, and you are
sick and washing your hands with soap and water.
Why has this gone out the window?
Originally, it was everyone needs to wear gloves.
You got to wear gloves and don't touch your face.
Don't touch your eyes, your nose or your mouth.
But now this is not even being talked about to help slow the
spread of respiratory illness. Get your hashtag, flu shots
fewer, flu patients, equal more resources for covid-19.
There was also an NBC NBC News spent weeks reporting on a
contributors Journey battling of our coronavirus, but he never
had it. These are just constant lies
that they enter into the public Consciousness.
So they're just not a trustworthy method of acquiring
During information about the virus here, is the World Health
organization's official Twitter account, January 14th,
preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese
authorities have found? No clear.
Evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel.
Hashtag coronavirus, 2019, and Cove identified in hashtag Wuhan
hashtag China. So again, this is not to say
that there is no virus or you know, people aren't Getting sick
and that should just be taken as a joke.
It is to say that it is being used as a justification for
increased government measures, which are unjustified.
I mean, look, terrorism exists, but that doesn't justify the war
on terror or the lies told about Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Iran,
and Syria, and Libya, and everywhere else.
I'll end with this quote, from a PhD from Harvard and Columbia
University, Thomas E, Woods, Junior.
Referring to this Kentucky graph, which shows different
steps that the state government in Kentucky has taken from mask
mandates to extending the mandates.
He says, if this graph showed the opposite results, The Mask
Voodoo people would be shoving it in our faces.
Since it looks like this. They cry about how unfair it is.
No data changes. Their mind.
Thank you for watching Keith Knight.
Don't tread on anyone.