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A PANDEMIC of PANDEMIC HYSTERIAS • Bogus Models, Worthless Tests, Misreporting the Cause of Death A PANDEMIC OF PANDEMIC HYSTERIAS • Bogus models, worthless tests, misreporting the cause of death. • A financial bonanza for the media and the pharma. • Unprecedented power for politicians. FREE OF COST IN PERPETUITY This is public domain project for the general education of the People BY Sanjeev Sabhlok, Ph.D. Economics (USA) Melbourne, Australia. Email: [email protected] • Resigned as Victorian Government economist in September 2020 to protest Police brutality and harmful policies. • Former senior civil servant in the Indian Government. • Author: The Great Hysteria and The Broken State – which describes the collapse of governance during this pandemic. With input from Irene Robinson (others are invited to help out) Please send any suggestions, corrections, improvements or other inputs to [email protected] PRELIMINARY SKETCH (NOT YET A DRAFT) 15 December 2020 1 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 5 1.1 WHY THIS BOOK .......................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 RULE NO. 1: REAL PANDEMIC MUST LEAVE ITS SIGNATURE IN TOTAL ANNUAL DEATHS ............................................... 5 1.3 THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC THAT NEVER WAS – LET’S JUST CALL IT A FAKE PANDEMIC ............................................... 6 1.3.1 The covid “pandemic” has left no signature in total annual deaths .................................................. 6 1.3.2 covid facts .......................................................................................................................................... 6 1.3.3 Failed modelling ................................................................................................................................. 6 2. THE LESSONS FROM THE SWINE FLU HYSTERIA THAT THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION PUBLISHED IN 2011 ...................................................................................................... 7 2.1 WHO’S 2011 PAPER: HEALTH IS MORE THAN INFLUENZA ................................................................................... 7 3. WAITING FOR THE SPANISH FLU – THERE’S BIG BUCKS IN THAT........................................ 8 3.1 ‘A WHOLE INDUSTRY IS WAITING FOR A PANDEMIC’, 2009 ............................................................................... 8 3.2 FAITH IN QUICK TEST LEADS TO EPIDEMIC THAT WASN’T - NY TIMES, 2007 ....................................................... 11 3.3 CORONAVIRUS OVERREACTION – RICHARD EPSTEIN, 23 MARCH 2020 ............................................................... 13 3.4 COVID-19 CONFUSION – BY RICHARD EBELING ............................................................................................. 16 PART I: THE INSTITUTIONS THAT SUPPORT PANDEMIC HYSTERIAS ......................................... 17 4. THE VACCINE AND DRUGS LOBBY ............................................................................................... 18 4.1 THE 'FALSE' PANDEMIC: DRUG FIRMS CASHED IN ON SCARE OVER SWINE FLU, CLAIMS EURO HEALTH CHIEF ................. 18 4.2 LEADING COVID VACCINE CANDIDATES PLAGUED BY SAFETY CONCERNS ............................................................. 19 4.2.1 Illegal to mandate vaccines under Emergency Use Authorization ................................................... 20 4.2.2 Settling for a ‘new normal’ .............................................................................................................. 20 4.2.3 Flawed trial design ........................................................................................................................... 21 4.2.4 Preventing severe symptoms? ......................................................................................................... 21 4.2.5 No blocking of transmission ............................................................................................................. 21 4.2.6 Lack of study power in groups most affected by COVID-19 ............................................................. 22 4.2.7 Adverse events and concerning vaccine ingredients ........................................................................ 22 4.2.8 Paused trials..................................................................................................................................... 22 4.2.9 Questionable efficacy ....................................................................................................................... 23 4.2.10 High systemic adverse events ...................................................................................................... 23 4.2.11 mRNA: unproven new vaccine technology .................................................................................. 23 4.2.12 Other concerning ingredients ...................................................................................................... 24 4.2.13 Meningitis vaccine ‘fauxcebo’ ..................................................................................................... 25 5. THE CAPTURE OF GOVERNMENT BY THE SCIENCE ESTABLISHMENT ........................... 28 6. ROLE OF THE MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA ................................................................................ 29 6.1 ROLE OF THE MEDIA ................................................................................................................................... 29 6.2 ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA............................................................................................................................... 30 PART II: THE TECHNIQUES OF PANDEMIC HYSTERIAS.................................................................. 31 7. CHANGING DEFINITIONS TO ALLOW FRAUDULENT PANDEMIC DECLARATIONS ....... 32 7.1 CHANGING THE DEFINITION OF A PANDEMIC TO MAKE EVERYTHING INTO ONE ....................................................... 32 7.2 CHANGING THE WAY DEATHS ARE COUNTED (FOR COVID) ................................................................................ 32 7.2.1 Very few deaths are “from covid”, most are “with covid” ............................................................... 33 7.2.2 Financial incentives to report cases and deaths as COVID ............................................................... 35 7.2.3 Flu deaths are almost certainly being counted as COVID-19 deaths ............................................... 36 7.3 FALSE AND MISLEADING NEWS REPORTING ..................................................................................................... 37 2 8. BLATANTLY FRAUDULENT EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELS .................................................... 39 8.1 MODELS, ALWAYS UNRELIABLE AND DISCREDITED, ARE THE BASIS OF THESE HYSTERIAS ............................................ 39 8.1.1 Chronic failure of modelers to understand the basics of the immune system ................................. 40 8.2 MODELLING IS DISCREDITED GLOBALLY; MODELERS WITH NO INFECTIOUS DISEASE BACKGROUND .............................. 40 8.3 WHY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELS CAN’T WORK ................................................................................................ 41 8.4 AN EPIDEMIC OF BAD EPIDEMIOLOGY – RONALD BAILEY, 23 DECEMBER 2016 .................................................... 41 8.5 AFTER REPEATED FAILURES, IT’S TIME TO PERMANENTLY DUMP EPIDEMIC MODELS, MICHAEL FUMENTO 18 APRIL 2020 43 8.6 MODELERS WERE ‘ASTRONOMICALLY WRONG’ IN COVID-19 PREDICTIONS, SAYS LEADING EPIDEMIOLOGIST—AND THE WORLD IS PAYING THE PRICE - JON MILTIMORE - 2 JULY 2020 ...................................................................................... 45 8.7 FORECASTING FOR COVID-19 HAS FAILED - JOHN P.A. IOANNIDIS ET. AL ............................................................ 46 8.8 ACADEMIC EVALUATION OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELS .................................................................................... 54 8.8.1 July 2020 review of model predictions ............................................................................................. 54 8.8.2 Nature magazine argued that it was necessary to prepare for the worst case scenario ................ 54 8.8.3 WHO initially objected to the charge of fake pandemic .................................................................. 55 9. BLATANTLY FRAUDULENT “SCIENTIFIC” STUDIES ............................................................... 56 10. BOGUS PCR TESTS ARE THE MAINSTAY OF FAKE PANDEMICS ........................................ 60 10.1.1 Long history of being unreliable and supporting hysterias.......................................................... 60 10.1.2 No proof that PCR tests are testing SARS-CoV-2 ......................................................................... 61 10.1.3 The Australian Government doesn’t consider these tests to be reliable ..................................... 62 10.1.4 Powerful reasons why PCR tests are not necessarily detecting COVID ........................................ 62 10.2 REVIEW REPORT CORMAN-DROSTEN ET AL. EUROSURVEILLANCE 2020 ............................................................... 63 PART III: THE STUDY OF INDIVDUAL PANDEMIC HYSTERIAS ..................................................... 66 11. THE BIRD FLU HOAX ................................................................................................................... 67 12. THE FAKE SWINE FLU (H1N1) PANDEMIC .............................................................................
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