Friday, January 15, 2021

What They Said about Lockdowns before 2020


January 13, 2021
 

In 2020, beliefs about how to handle a new virus shifted massively. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, mainstream epidemiology and public health entities doubted – or even rejected – the efficacy of lockdowns and mass quarantines because they were considered ineffective. This all changed in March 2020, when sentiment flipped in support of lockdown measures. Still, there is a vast body of evidence explaining their original stance and why these mandates do not work. 

[Edit-links to original stories embedded  in sub headlines- VBL]

  1. Fauci said that shutting down the country does not work. (January 24, 2020)

Early into 2020, Fauci spoke to reporters saying, “That’s something that I don’t think we could possibly do in the United States, I can’t imagine shutting down New York or Los Angeles, but the judgement on the part of the Chinese health authorities is that given the fact that it’s spreading throughout the provinces… it’s their judgement 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.”

  1. World Health Organization Report discusses NPIs and why quarantine is ineffective. (2019)

In a table, WHO lists their recommendations of NPIs depending on severity level. Quarantine of exposed individuals is categorized as “not recommended in any circumstances.” The report explains that “home quarantine of exposed individuals to reduce transmission is not recommended because there is no obvious rationale for this measure, and there would be considerable difficulties in implementing it.”

  1. WHO acknowledges social-distancing did not stop or dramatically reduce transmission during the 1918 influenza pandemic. (2006)

The WHO authors ultimately conclude that NPIs, including quarantining, require better and more focused methods to make them more effective and less “burdensome.” “Ill persons,” the authors assert, “should remain home when they first become symptomatic, but forced isolation and quarantine are ineffective and impractical.” Summarizing reports from the 1918 influenza pandemic the WHO cites Lomé (British-occupied Togo) and Edmonton (Canada) as places where “isolation and quarantine were instituted; public meetings were banned; schools, churches, colleges, theaters, and other public gathering places were closed.” Yet, despite additional measures (Lomé halted traffic, and Edmonton restricted business hours) in both cases “social-distancing measures did not stop or appear to dramatically reduce transmission.” A United States, comprehensive report on the 1918 pandemic also concluded that closures “[were] not demonstrably effective in urban areas but might be effective in smaller towns and rural districts, where group contacts are less numerous.” 

  1. A study in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology regarding the 1918 influenza pandemic in Canada also concluded quarantines do not work. (2003)

The study simulated different levels of travel and found that travel limits could be effective but “that a policy of introducing quarantine at the earliest possible time may not always lead to the greatest reduction in cases of a disease.” The authors conclude that, “quarantine measures limiting intercommunity travel are probably never 100% effective, and simulation results suggest that such a situation may actually make things worse, especially in the absence of strong efforts to keep infectious individuals isolated from the rest of the population.”

  1. Popular author and Tulane adjunct professor John M. Barry, a strong opponent of the Great Barrington Declaration, argued that quarantines do not work in the case of the Spanish Flu. (2009)

Over a decade ago, Barry found that historically quarantines have been unsuccessful: “This author supports most proposed NPIs except for quarantine, which historical evidence strongly suggests is ineffective, and possibly school closing, pending analysis of recent events.” And instead promotes commonly touted measures, such as remaining home when unwell (and isolating from family members while doing so), frequently washing hands, and wearing a mask if you are sick. On the latter point he warns against healthy people wearing masks, noting: “Evidence from the SARS outbreak suggests that most health care workers infected themselves while removing protective equipment.”

  1. Seton Hall’s Center for Global Health Studies Director says travel restrictions did not delay the transmission of SARS. (2009)

Yanzhong Huang acknowledges that “travel restrictions and quarantine measures have limited benefit in stopping the spread of disease […] affecting travel and trade, dissuading the very kind of transparency and openness essential for a global response to disease outbreaks.” These measures ultimately undermine a country’s surveillance capacity because “people who show symptoms might choose to shun public health authorities for fear of quarantine or stigmatization [and squander] limited health resources […] Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations [noted] by July signs of fatigue and resource depletion had already set in most of the world.

  1. A study from Wake Forest University encounters ‘self-protection fatigue’ in simulated epidemic. (2013)

Study uses a multiplayer online game to simulate the spread of an infectious disease through a population composed of the players. The authors find that “people’s willingness to engage in safe behavior waxes or wanes over time, depending on the severity of an epidemic […] as time goes by; when prevalence is low, a ‘self-protection fatigue’ effect sets in whereby individuals are less willing to engage in safe behavior over time.” They say this is “reminiscent of condom fatigue—the declining use of condom as a preventive measure—in the context of HIV/AIDS prevention.”

  1. In Biosecurity and Bioterrorism journal, Johns Hopkins epidemiologists reject quarantines outright. (2006)

In an article titled, “Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza,” JHU epidemiologists note problems with lockdowns: “As experience shows, there is no basis for recommending quarantine either of groups or individuals. The problems in implementing such measures are formidable, and secondary effects of absenteeism and community disruption as well as possible adverse consequences, such as loss of public trust in government and stigmatization of quarantined people and groups, are likely to be considerable.” Their concluding remark emphasized, “experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted.”

  1. In a top journal, American Journal of Epidemiology, authors explain the conditions when quarantine would be effective, which do not align with the characteristics of Covid-19. (2006)

Specifically, they note that quarantines will only be effective when: (1) isolation is not possible; and (2) asymptomatic spread is significant and timed in a narrow way (none of which is the case for Covid). They conclude that “the number of infections averted through the use of quarantine is expected to be very low provided that isolation is effective.” And if isolation is ineffective? Then it will only be beneficial “when there is significant asymptomatic transmission and if the asymptomatic period is neither very long nor very short.” But, should mass quarantine be used it would “inflict significant social, psychological, and economic costs without resulting in the detection of many infected individuals.”

  1. In the Epidemiology Journal, Harvard and Yale professors Marc Lipsitch and Ted Cohen say delaying infection can leave the elderly worse off. (2008)

They explain how delaying the risk of infection can work counterintuitively when the pathogen is more lethal for older populations. They say, “Reducing the risk that each member of a community will be exposed to a pathogen has the attendant effect of increasing the average age at which infections occur. For pathogens that inflict greater morbidity at older ages, interventions that reduce but do not eliminate exposure can paradoxically increase the number of cases of severe disease by shifting the burden of infection toward older individuals.” Based on this analysis, Covid-19, which disproportionately harms the older more than the young, is better handled by allowing the community to be exposed, whether through natural infection or vaccination.

  1. A team of Johns Hopkins scholars say quarantines don’t work but are pursued for political reasons. (September 2019)

In the report, they explain how quarantine is more political than related to public health: “During an emergency, it should be expected that implementation of some NPIs, such as travel restrictions and quarantine, might be pursued for social or political purposes by political leaders, rather than pursued because of public health evidence.” Later on, they explain the ineffectiveness of quarantine: “In the context of a high-impact respiratory pathogen, quarantine may be the least likely NPI to be effective in controlling the spread due to high transmissibility.”

In March 2020, Michael Osterholm – now Biden’s Covid-19 advisor – also argued that lockdowns are not a “cure” for the pandemic, listing multiple costs from a lockdown. Yet, Osterholm’s New York Times article in August reveals a contrasting viewpoint, stating that “we gave up on our lockdown efforts to control virus transmission well before the virus was under control” by opening “too quickly.” Osterholm and (Neel) Kashkari promote a mandatory shelter-in-place “for everyone but the truly essential workers.”

Also in March 2020, these findings from the listed works and many others culminated in an open letter to vice-president Mike Pence signed by 800 medical specialists from numerous universities throughout the country which pointed out: “Mandatory quarantine, regional lockdowns, and travel bans[…] are difficult to implement, can undermine public trust, have large societal costs and, importantly, disproportionately affect the most vulnerable segments in our communities.”

While expert consensus regarding the ineffectiveness of mass quarantine of previous years has recently been challenged, significant present-day evidence continuously demonstrates that mass quarantine is both ineffectual at preventing disease spread as well as harmful to individuals. Learning the wrong lesson – assuming that mass quarantines are both good and effective – sets a dangerous precedent for future pandemics.

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Saturday, January 9, 2021

Italygate: is the Italian government directly involved in the US election fraud against Trump? 2


by Cesare Sacchetti

Apparently, Switzerland is not the only country that played a major role in the international hacking operation against the US election.

In the latest article published on this blog, the Swiss-American author and researcher Neal Sutz has explained how Switzerland has had a fundamental part in the international coup against Trump

Switzerland has recently bought the sole rights of Scytl, the company tied to Dominion Voting System which, according to several statistical analyses, had switched hundreds of thousands of votes from Trump to Biden.

Switzerland perfectly knew about the structural flaws of Scytl but it failed to warn the Trump administration about the technical malfunctioning of this software.

However, there is another country that could have had an even more crucial role in this story and that country is Italy.

In this regard, there is an interesting and sensational version of the fraud’s plot provided by Bradley Johnson, a former CIA agent and chief of one of the agency stations.

Brad Johnson explains the hacking scheme

According to Johnson, basically Italy was directly involved in the manipulation of votes in the US elections.

The intelligence analyst partially confirms the story regarding the US special forces raid to recover Dominion’s servers hosted in the CIA Frankfurt station.

Other sources confirmed the authenticity of the story and apparently the raid was successful in retrieving the servers, which constitute an irrefutable evidence of the fraud.

General Thomas McInerney claimed that after the raid a violent fight had ensued between the CIA paramilitary called in from Afghanistan to defend the station and the US special forces group.

Five military members would lose their lives in the harsh battle.

Johnson offers another version, even more shocking if possible. The former CIA agent doesn’t deny this operation but he claims that the hacked data had been moved from Frankfurt to Rome, in the US embassy located in the central street of via Veneto.

According to Johnson, Frankfurt servers only hosted partial tracks of the hacking, but the real main protagonist of the attack would have been Rome.

During the election day, something unprecedented in the history of US election occurred.

Suddenly, the vote counting in the key states was simultaneously halted in the middle of the night, when in Italy was already morning.

The hacking operation was in course, but the perpetrators realized that there was something wrong.

“Trump was taking a record number of votes” says Johnson, and the switching of votes from Trump to Biden was not enough to definitely deliver the “victory” to the democratic candidate.

The US embassy in Rome allegedly involved in the hacking attack

At that point, Rome went on stage by receiving the data from Frankfurt, but a new elaboration of algorithms was necessary to finally change the outcome in favor of Biden.

Therefore, the operation to recalibrate the hacking attack would have taken place in via Veneto, and if this fact were to be confirmed the American embassy in Rome would be directly involved in an attempt to overthrow its President.

In this scenario, the subversive powers infiltrated in the US government, the deep state, had planned a coup d’état against their commander in chief.

At this moment, the US ambassador in Italy is Lewis Eisenberg, former member of Goldman Sachs and contributor to the first Trump campaign but at the same time close to the neocon Zionist lobbies which are bitter enemies of the President for his ongoing plan to withdraw the US military in the Middle East.

Johnson claims that during the election night in the US Rome embassy there was a man from the US department of State.

The former CIA agent shows in the video the picture of this man, apparently taken by the Italian authorities which were conducting a surveillance operation focused on this official.

This official would have been directly involved in the coordination of the hacking attack.

The role of Leonardo and the Italian government in the fraud

At this point, Johnson offers a revelation even more shocking.

There is another actor that played a crucial role in this operation and it is Leonardo, an Italian government company leader in the aerospace and defense sector.

Once that the hackers created the new algorithms to switch more votes from Trump to Biden,  they sent “these new numbers back up to a Italian military satellite operated by Leonardo” claims Mr. Johnson.

After been doing this, the new manipulated data were sent back to the Dominion voting machines in the US.

Therefore, if this version is correct, the Italian government would be directly involved in this attack.

Leonardo’s largest shareholder is the Italian government, because the Italian ministry of Economy owns 30% of this company.

Leonardo CEO, Alessandro Profumo, was appointed in 2017 by the former Italian PM Gentiloni, apparently involved in the Spygate as will be mentioned later, and confirmed in 2020 by Conte’s incumbent government.

Mr. Profumo was also recently found guily for committing fraud by an Italian court and he received a six-year jail sentence.

Therefore, Conte’s government would have played a decisive role in the hacking operation because it would have allegedly provided Leonardo’s technology to perpetrate a direct attack against the US sovereignity.

In this regard, it is important to mention that Conte’s government was among the first international executives which forwarded their congratulations to Joe Biden, when there was no , and there is still not , official confirmation of his alleged victory.

Italy in direct violation of the 2018 EO

If Mr. Johnson’s statements are true, Italy would be in direct violation of the 2018 Executive Order against foreign election interference signed by President Trump.

The President was not unprepared before the eventuality that foreign countries and internal forces within the US would have tried to meddle in the election.

The executive order clearly states after 45 days since the election day, a detailed report on this interference  has to be delivered to the President.

By postponing the delivering of the report to Trump, the US intelligence community put in place a sabotage.

However, it seems that the DNI director, Ratcliffe, could have delivered to Trump some parts of the report and that Trump would offer the position of special counsel to Sidney Powell.

The special counsel would have relevant powers with which it could impound the voting machines, especially the ones of Dominion, indict the authors of the fraud and seize the properties of the companies directly involved in the hacking attack.

The EO was clearly conceived to sanction foreign and domestic actors who had a part in the interference, and Italy, if Johnson’s version is accurate, would be in direct violation of this order by having perpetrated a direct attack against US national sovereignity.

If these shocking allegations were to be confirmed, an unprecedented diplomatic crisis could open between Italy and the US.

The US government could heavily sanction Italy for this meddling.

The Italian deep state has been planning a permanent coup d’état against Trump

It turns out that the Italian deep state could be the key element to solve the crime of the electoral fraud against Trump, but it would be also fundamental to figure Spygate,  the first international sabotage against the President.

Spygate is the illegal espionage operation conceived against Trump in 2016 and Italy had a major part in it, because the Italian secret services, under the Renzi and Gentiloni administrations, would have aided their US counterpart in an attempt to falsely depict Trump as a “Russian agent”.

Therefore, there’s a red thread that ties the first sabotage against Trump and the second one, and this red thread is Italy and its subversive structure infiltrated in the heart of the Italian institutions.

In Italy, there’s a cover up on the Spygate because apparently even the so-called “opposition” doesn’t have a particular interest in shedding any light on this case.

Raffaele Volpi, a League Senator and President of Copasir, the Italian institution that supervises the Italian secret services, stated that Spygate is a story inflated by the media, unlike the Trump administration that defined it as a coup attempt.

Apparently, the first opposition party in Italy, the League, doesn’t have an interest in talking of Spygate, probably because Salvini, the leader of the League, seems quite close to Renzi, one of the alleged major figures in this scandal.

It is interesting to notice how both Renzi and Salvini have created a sort of alliance to pave the way to Mario Draghi as Italy’s next PM, and Draghi would be the man sent by globalism to trigger the Great Reset and give the coup de grace to Italy.

The Italian deep state is a swamp where the highest ranks of the State are deeply intertwined with the majority and the opposition.

This subversive power within the Italian institutions was used to perpetrate a permanent coup d’état against Trump.

The Italian media have no interest in exposing these powers because they are tied to them.

Therefore, a new disturbing chapter opens in the story of the international coup against Trump.

This chapter seems revealing that all the roads the US electoral fraud do indeed lead to Rome. 

https://lacrunadellago.net/2020/12/29/italygate-is-the-italian-government-directly-involved-in-the-us-election-fraud-against-trump/?lang=en

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