Gov. Cuomo is wrong, covid-19 is anything but an equalizer (original) (raw)
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COVID-19: Facts Vs. Error. Truth Vs. Censorship. Natural scientist James DeMeo reviewed the CDC, WHO and medical arguments and data about the claimed USA Covid-19 pandemic, finding numerous serious problems in basic scientific methods and claimed causality: * Covid-19 deaths are 81% confined to elderly people over 65 nearing end-of-life, each of whom has an average of 4 pre-existing deadly comorbidities. * Excess Mortality due to claimed Covid-19 disease, without preexisting deadly comorbidities, is only around 5000 to 18,000 deaths for all of 2020. * Many of the elderly with those comorbidities were transferred out of hospitals into nursing homes, where other elderly with already weak immune systems succumbed to similar comorbidities, worsened by inhuman lockdown-masking-isolation policies. * PCR and antigen testing methods are wildly inaccurate, not specific to any corona virus, and cross-react with other DNA/RNA fragments from prior exposures. * “PCR Confirmed Cases” do not predict who will succumb to Covid-19 sickness or death. Most “positive” people are asymptomatic, non-infectious and never get sick. * Symptoms of Covid-19 are nearly indistinguishable from seasonal influenza or pneumonia, and they all have a seasonally variable incidence, with far more cases and deaths in wintertime than in summer. This undermines the viral pandemic theory. * Lockdowns, forced masking and anti-social distancing have protected nobody, and have instead dramatically increased human despair, misery, illness and deaths. The economic ruin and emotional anxiety from such inhuman, prison-like isolation of the elderly have killed most of the people claimed as due to “Covid-19”. * Hospitals and doctors were paid extra sums by government health agencies to lie and reclassify the many comorbidity deaths as “Covid-19”, to jack up the numbers. People died of their deadly pre-existing diseases and conditions, not Covid-19. * Ending of lockdowns, forced masking and isolation have not led to an increase in cases or deaths, just the opposite. The “New Normal” is iatrogenic murder. * Many ignorant or compromised physicians, mainstream media stars and internet billionaires have colluded with the worst of power-drunk government bureaucrats and pharmaceutical profiteers, to censor and criminalize scientific dissent. They systematically ignore the deadly consequences of totalitarian lockdowns, and scare the public into obedience to a growing Medical Police State. The unnecessary experimental mRNA vaccines have already killed more Americans than all post-1990 vaccination programs combined! They also push for Nazi-like “vaccine passports” and other inhuman segregationist policies. * All the above points are well-documented and fully referenced.
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