Friday, December 03, 2021

The Facts About COVID-19: An interview with Alex Berenson

Recommendable! A lengthy interview with the author of the new book “Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives”. For my taste, Mr. Berenson talks too verbose!

He also confirms that SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 is a relative harmless disease, that the cure was worse than the disease and that the death toll is inflated!

"... In fact, the South Africans who’ve been treating people say it [omicron variant] appears to be as mild or milder than the delta variant or the earlier strains. And the fact is that none of the earlier strains have really been much more dangerous, including delta. There’s not a lot of evidence that their mortality was higher with delta. It’s more contagious. So the question is, is it more contagious? And the truth is, we don’t even know that either right now. ...
Lockdowns, there’s an argument about. You can argue, you can look, and you can say, “Well, if you go early enough—look at New Zealand. New Zealand did really well. They closed the country. They locked down. They didn’t have a lot of COVID.” OK. Masks there’s no argument about. Masks are useless. ...
When you try to demonstrate that standard cloth or surgical masks reduce infection, you can’t do it. And they tried last year with a big study in Denmark. It showed no efficacy of masks. That just confirmed previous studies of masks and the flu.
So they have this theory of source control that masks reduce transmission, which is effectively next to impossible to demonstrate epidemiologically.
And there’s good reason to think sort of on the biological, on the viral level, these particles [virus] are just too small for masks to do any good. ...
So, to be perfectly clear, COVID deaths probably have been overcounted. . ...
There was a small group of people who clearly didn’t die from COVID. The classic example is, yeah, the person who had COVID and got in a car accident, or the person who had COVID and died of a drug overdose. A lot of those deaths were counted as COVID.
The much bigger problem with the counting of COVID deaths ... is that most of the people who die from COVID are quite sick. They’re either extremely elderly and frail or they’re morbidly obese, or they have some other severe illness like uncontrolled diabetes, severe kidney disease. ...
And this is the thing, this is the original lie around COVID, is that we’re all at serious risk from it. That’s just not true. ...
The problem is that this illness on the whole is not serious enough to wreck society, to destroy the hospital system, or to merit the monstrous changes that we’ve made to our society in the last two years in terms of curtailing people’s freedoms, in terms of taking away school from kids for a year, in terms of now mandating that vaccine. ...
We have monstrously overreacted and the media has encouraged that rather than discouraged it. And the core way they’ve done that is to scare people who are very low risk from this, instead of saying, “Look, this is a problem and certainly, we don’t want people in nursing homes to die … we don’t want excess death of any kind, but we’re going to try to protect the people who are at risk from this to the extent we can. ...
And what I would say was “virus gonna virus,” meaning there’s just not much anybody can do. It’s an airborne respiratory virus. It’s just like the flu in that way. Virus gonna virus, and good luck trying to stop it. ..."

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