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Originally Posted by GoodLife
This is not hindsight for everybody. Meet Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, PhD, ScD, who headed the Department Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Research Design at Rockefeller University in New York for 20 years. He looked into the claim that people were making that in China and in South Korea, social distancing had successfully helped to control the epidemic. He went through the data and found out that social distancing, isolation and lockdown measures were not put in place until well after the peak of the epidemic in those countries.
This hinted to the idea that herd immunity, not lockdown, was responsible for the already declining number of cases and deaths in those countries.
Dr Wittkowski emphasized that social distancing and lockdown measures were preventing herd immunity in the United States, and as a result there might be a ‘second wave’ that will come not long after lockdown measures ease. Of course, this second wave will mostly likely be attributed to lifting lockdown measures, when, according to Wittkowski, it will be a result of preventing herd immunity due to lockdown measures.
According to Wittkowski, lockdown measures should have never been put in place and isolation and quarantine measures should have only been put into place among the elderly, in long term care facilities and among people who are immune compromised while others ‘work’ to kill the virus by creating herd immunity. According to him, by doing what we have been doing we’re actually putting the elderly, and have put the elderly, in a worse off position.
Sweden is an example of this approach.
Dr Wittkowski was saying this in March, when lockdowns were first being considered. He had a video on all this on YouTube, watched by millions, which was censored and removed by YouTube, no reason given but probably because they thought it was misinformation.
It's pretty sad when one of the few scientists who actually had it right gets censored.
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Seems there is a great amount of self appointed experts on this virus, and the results of the world wide pandemic. Experts pick and choose what to post,
AND believe.
They are lacking context and some are just not true.
Not noted in this post is that Rockefeller Univ has disowned his statements, and that YouTube issued clear statements on why the video was taken down..
I offer no oipinion because I know nothing about the medical field, but each post, including those ipuntrue are investigated by me and if you follow closely....there is an overriding motivation for this stuff, and it is not based on the Corona Virus, but on a subject we cannot discuss on this forum.
All can certainly have an opinion, but be honest about the motivation and source of information.
Frankly, there have been a few very false claims about Dr Fauci for example on this forum, and again let the P arena out of this.
There are things that can be discussed, and hopefully WILL be discussed once our country
hopefully rebounds from this thing.
Usually, in our country, when we are under duress we gather
together to solidify our resolve to fight whatever the foe might be. In this case, we are being
forced to pick sides for all the wrong reasons.