Dr. Lee, emeritus professor of pathology, explains it all

May 1, 2021 brings a breath of fresh air with this clear, direct and scientific rebuttal of most of the social policies adapted and enforced during the time of the Covid 'pandemic.'

Here is Dr John Lee explaining the panic, fear and bad policies that led to a massive, global social experiment, policies that probably made things worse than the virus did. Basically, political 'leaders' commandeered liberal democracy and ignored real science, while prescribing a public treatment that violated principle of medicine, i.e., "First, do no harm."

This has never been a real pandemic, and death rates have not come anywhere close to the predictions of the 'experts.' Instead of 3.5% mortality, the infection fatality rate is about 0.15% in western countries. and even lower elsewhere. Global life expectancy is about 81 years; the average age of a Covid death has been 82. Try and find a pandemic politician who can interpret that, or Dr Fauci.

The original Imperial College pf London estimates of 2.2 million American dead even acknowledged that two thirds of these deaths were going to occur, with or without Covid or with or without lockdowns. The predicted mortality rates pre-Covid have not produced the 'excess death' counts that experts claim. England's 'excess deaths' figure came from an unusually low five-year average preceding 2020; using a five-year average is a bad way to estimate expected deaths. This 'harvesting' phenomenon -- very elderly VERY vulnerable people who enjoyed longer than expected lives only to have a delayed surge in mortality -- is real. And this ignores deaths that resulted from lockdowns, from ignoring co-morbidities, and incentives to classify deaths as Covid-caused, even without hard evidence of the virus. Today I saw one person claim as 'excess deaths' every death that was accompanied by Covid; the data clearly show this to be a gross exaggeration, not only of the number of excess deaths, but also the number of Covid-caused deaths. The number of deaths from Covid alone is a small fraction, between 5% and 10% of the numbers assigned to the 'Covid' death toll. And, as Ivor Cummins has shown, the cumulative death count for the first time included not one but two seasonal peaks.

When surveyed, English respondents estimated that 10% of the population -- 6.5 million --had died from Covid, when the 'real' figure was 126,000 which itself is an overestimate and "cannot be taken at face value." It remains me of a poll of Democrats as to how many African-American males are killed by police each year, with many estimating over 10,000 when the actual figure is less than twenty.

Since Covid can not be diagnosed, only tested, this requires very accurate tests. And a positive PCR test does not establish a case. In fact, a positive test, due to the amplification process used, can better establish a person's immunity rather than likelihood of becoming a true case. A 'positive' PCR test is as likely to be a measure of immunity.

As with climate alarmism, precautionary approaches almost always use worst-case scenarios, and this can make things worse, as in the case with nursing home deaths, where hospitals emptied out of the belief in a surge of Covid patients, sending tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of elderly, hospitalized patients to their deaths back in the worst super spreader location of all -- a nursing home. Mario Cuomo is a textbook case of a misguided preventive strategy that actually caused many more deaths than it saved. The argument, "we can't wait to find out what works," was a death sentence for many elderly. Again the high average age of Covid deaths is good evidence of this foolishness.

Along with this preventive approach, elderly were advised to stay home, not visit their doctor or the hospital, even for critical treatment. This increased the home death toll, many of the deaths attributed to Covid when, in fact, they were best attributed to this deadly, 'preventive' bad policy and advice. Instead of cancer treatment, cancer patients stayed home and died of a variety of reasons, including cancer.

Children were the least vulnerable yet the people whose lives were most disrupted by Covid policies, and perhaps an entire year of education lost.

Lockdowns, social distancing and masks have been used ruthlessly to 'control' the spread of the virus, starting with false stories as to the right social distance or the permeability of masks. There is no science to show the efficacy of any of these control efforts. And claims that lockdowns reduced cases and deaths failed to recognize that the trends were falling before the lockdown and the decline continued, not proven to be caused by the lockdown.

Take forty-five minutes and watch the entire video. You will come away with a healthy distrust of the mainstream, progressive narrative on Covid. And you will realize that the pandemic is not as bad as politicians claim, and most of the damage came from the political regulations and policies than from the virus.