This article from the AUSTRALIAN August 16, summed up the situation beautifully. Well done Steve Waterson. There is INTELLIGENCE on Planet Earth after all but getting very hard to find these days.
On the ABC this morning Fran Kelly interviewed a lady near the SA border and she has a three year old with cancer and needs to go the the Adelaide Hospital for regular treatment. 300 km one way. 600 km to Melbourne but we are in lock-down. She cant cross the border and there is no virus in the area any way and the Adelaide wankers don’t want to see her just because she is from Victoria. Each day we are getting closer to a BARBARIC SOCIETY. LORD OF THE FLIES SYNDROME for sure. Is there hope for us? mmmm We must call on the PM to over ride these little STATE DICTATORS AND RESTORE ORDER. We are destroying our selves and please note this:
EVEN IF WE HAD 1000 CASES A DAY IT WOULD TAKE 18 YEARS TO TAKE US ALL WITH THE VIRUS…and reports indicate that most cases have no symptoms any way so it is a misleading statistic. We need to know HOW MANY ARE ACTUALLY GETTING SICK..AND HOW MANY NEED TO SEE A DOCTOR?..Most are over 80 that pass from this world and it would be interesting to know the chronic conditions of these dear folk. Just about any sickness would send them to the next world as it is TIME any way. The authorities have failed to protect them and we the general population are paying a very dear price indeed for their failure.
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The Covid-Plan / Rockefeller Lockstep 2010
They hypothesize a simulated global outbreak required steps, various phases, overall timelines, and expected outcomes. This was posited in the Rockefeller Lockstep 2010: Create a very contagious but super low mortality rate virus to fit the needed plan. Using SARS, HIV, Hybrid Research Strain created at Fort Dietrich Class 4 lab from 2008 to 2013 as part of a research project to find out why corona viruses spread like wildfire in bats but have an extremely hard time infecting humans. To counteract that, they added 4 HIV inserts into the virus. The missing key to infect the human is the Ace-2-Receptor. Create a weaponized version of the virus with a much higher mortality rate as a backup plan. Ready to be released in Phase 3, but only if needed. SARS, HIV, MERS, Weaponized Tribit Strain created at Fort Dietrich Class 4 lab in 2015. Transport the Research Strain to different Class 4 lab, the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg Canada, and have it “stolen and smuggled out by China”, Xi Jang Lee, on purpose and taken to China’s only Class 4 lab which is Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan China. For added plausible deniability and to help cement the wanted backup public script as something to fall back on if needed. The primary script being its natural. Backup script being that China created it and released it by accident. Fund all the talking heads: Fauci, Birx, Tedros and agencies, World Health Organization, NIAID, the CDC and also the UN, that would be involved with pandemic response prior to the planned release of the Research Strain to control the wanted script throughout the operation. Create and fund the vaccination development and roll out plan so it’s capable of being rolled out on a global scale. Gates: A Decade of Vaccines and the Global Action Vaccine action plan, 2010 to 2020. Create and fund the vaccination, verification and certification protocols, Digital ID, to enforce/confirm the vaccination program after the mandatory roll out is enacted. Gates: ID2020. Simulate the lockstep hypothesis just prior to the planned Research Strain release using a real-world exercise as a final war game to determine expected response, timelines, and outcomes, Event 201 in Oct 2019. Release the Research Strain at the Wuhan Institute of Virology itself and then blame its release on a natural scapegoat as the wanted primary script. Wuhan wet market, Nov 2019. Exactly the same as the simulation. Downplay the human-to-human transmission for as long as possible to allow the Research Strain to spread on a global scale before any country can lock down respond to avoid initial infection. Once a country has seen infection in place, lock down incoming/outgoing travel. Keep the transmission within the country spreading for as long as possible. Once enough people in a country/ region are infected, enact forced quarantines/isolation for that area and expand the lockdown regions slowly over time Overhype the mortality rate by tying the Research Strain to deaths that have little to nothing to do with the actual virus to keep the fear and compliance at a maximum. If anyone dies for any reason and is found to have Covid, consider it a Covid death. And if anyone is thought to of maybe had symptoms of Covid, assume they have Covid, and consider it as a Covid death.
Keep the public quarantines for as long as possible to destroy the region’s economy, create civil unrest, break down the supply chain, and cause the start of mass food shortages. As well as cause people’s immune system to weaken due to a lack of interaction with other people’s bacteria, the outside world, aka the things that keep our immune systems alert and active. Downplay and attack any potential treatments and continue to echo that the only cure that is viable to fight this virus is the vaccine. Continue to drag out the quarantine over and over again in “two-week intervals” [There is that two weeks spell casting again. It is a CIA program.] causing more and more people to eventually stand up and protest. Defy them. [And here is the key part to now:] Eventually end Phase 1 quarantine once they get enough public push back, expected June 2020, and publicly state that they think it’s “too early to end the isolation, but I’m going to do it anyways.” Once the public go back to normal, wait a few weeks and continue to overhype the Research Strain mortality rate, Aug to Sept 2020, and combine it with the increase in deaths due to people dying from standard illnesses at a higher rate than normal due to having highly weakened immune systems from months of being in isolation [Which backs up what I said: you should social-distance people who wear masks regular. That’s what they’ve just told you. They have highly weakened immune systems.] to help further pad the mortality rate and also hype the up and coming Phase 2 lockdown. Eventually, enact Phase 2 quarantines, Oct through Nov 2020, on an even more extreme level and blame the protesters, mostly people who don’t trust their governments already, as the cause of the largest second wave whereby the media will say ‘we told you so. It was too early. It’s all your own fault because you needed a haircut. Your freedoms have consequences.’ [Should this all unfold in this manner, the US election will be cancelled delayed or suspended. My opinion. How can you vote with Phase 2 quarantines? You can’t.] Enforce the Phase 2 quarantines at a much more extreme level increasing the penalty for defiance. Replace fines with jail time. Deem all travel as non-essential. Increase checkpoints, including military assistance. Increase tracking/tracing after population via mandatory app. Take over control of food, gas, and create large scale shortages so that people can only get access to essential products or services if they are first given permission. Keep the Phase 2 lockdown in place for a much longer period of time than the Phase 1 lockdown, continuing to destroy the global economy. Further degrade the supply chain and further amplify the food shortages and the like. Quell any public outrage using extreme actions or force and make anyone who defies them appear as public enemy #1 to those who are willing to submit. After a rather long Phase 2 lockdown of 6 months plus, roll out the vaccination program and the vaccine certification and make it mandatory for everyone, giving priority access to those that submitted from the start and have those that are for it attack those that are against it, saying ‘they are a threat and the cause of all the problems’ by using words like “We can’t go back to normal until everyone takes the vaccine.” And people defying them are “hurting our way of life and therefore are the enemy.” [In other words they are going to turn the people against each other.] If the majority of people go along with the agenda, then let those people enter the new system, the new normal, while limiting the minority that defied the agenda’s ability to work, travel and live.
If the majority of people go against the agenda, then release the Weaponized SARS/HIV/MERS Tribit Strain as a Phase 3 operation. A virus with a 30+% mortality rate as a final scare to punish the minority to quickly become the majority and give a final “We told you so” to those that didn’t listen. Enact the new economy model. Microsoft patent 060606 crypto currency system using body activity data which is based on human behavior and willingness to submit. It is a tweaked version of the black mirrors 15 million merits program using food, water, shelter, and other essentials as a weapon of enforcement of the new economic system. Basically, do what we want and get rewarded. Gain credits score and gain more access to things you need to survive. Or go against what we want and get penalized. Lose credits score and lose access to things you need to survive. And that is your New World Order: technology on steroids where you have no option but to comply. And if anyone thinks that this isn’t true, then go and check out some parts of China because they’ve already started some of the crypto currencies system in place in certain areas. So, this is the outline of their plan. And what we have to stop by outing it in as many places as possible. And also calling out Q and Trump and asking them: Are you going to stop this? Mass arrests are irrelevant. This is essential and this has to be blocked.
Disclaimer: The Editor has posted this article as a public matter of public interest and does not necessarily reflect the views of this Editor. I cannot validate the truth or otherwise of the matters discussed. Indeed it is my hope that none of this eventuates either because it is fantasy or the it is not found to be acceptable in the USA or here in Australia or any where. Only time will tell.
If only we all had this burning passion at what is going on now. …look what it is doing to us even though he is not Victorian…we are now barbaric and cruel society where we don’t let loved ones comfort the dying, what have we become? We have failed to look after and protect the elderly people we love and care for…..there is no people’s voice….I know you may pass this guy off as nuts but look at the stress here and the passion
I am sure we all have similar feelings of despair and hopelessness…none of the leaders have a plan but total destruction…even dear Pauline is silenced…the oppositions is dead…no voice anywhere and this guy is expressing how we all feel…then listen to him the next day…his listeners were concerned for him but he is voicing for his sister’s death but hear his story.
Does any one see all this air traffic going on..I do see planes going over…..gee the Chinese do have huge air strips in the desert if you remember the Palmer ads of the last election..indeed we have forgotten why our sons died so long ago..we do need to sack Dan and have a new strategy. We need a new direction urgently…They all lauded New Zealand but look now…this Lockdown strategy is not the way to go. See Covid Challenge He says he snapped on his youtube and a lot of us are all feeling like that…Hope you listen even if you disagree….it is the hopelessness we all feel…expressed so well regardless of the facts be it true or otherwise. ( sorry for bad language) we need an eye on what is going on… Calm chat the next day he explains his feelings…..it makes me cry for we feel the same…how do we change this path to destruction. The leaders of this once great country no longer represent us. IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE…WAKE UP OR GO DOWN THE SEWER
Rita hit the nail on the head today..Indeed we have lost it and now a BARBARIC SOCIETY – Lord forgive us for we know not what we do!!!
Was the lockdown worth it? Economist Gigi Foster and infectious diseases expert Bill Bowtell have their say — how do we protect ourselves from a virus that is ravaging other countries, while working to overcome what could be the worst economic downturn since the great depression? READ ON HERE
We are killing more people because of lockdown than we are saving While it’s tempting, and even invigorating, to experience a shiver of schadenfreude at the resurgence of COVID-19 in Victoria on the watch of Australia’s most punitive premier, you should let the sensation pass quickly. The fact is theCOVID-19 is a feature of our lives now and we need to learn to live with it. Even if a vaccine is found, it is unlikely that it will be 100% effective, so, like the flu, it will be an ongoing risk in what is intrinsically a risky business – living. Read on
THE ECONOMIST – RADIO NATIONAL Presented by Peter Martin is economy editor at The Conversation and a visiting fellow at the Crawford at the ANU. A former economics editor of The Age, he has reported economics since 1985.
Gigi Fosteris one of Australia’s leading economics communicators and a Professor at the UNSW School of Economics. She was named 2019 Young Economist of the Year by the Economic Society of Austral
The corona cost-benefit analyses of Richard Holden, Bruce Preston and Neil Bailey: ooops! The economic and social damage of lock downs in Australia is starting to get noticed so much that even academic economists are paying attention. After months of resisting actual data, some Australian economists who previously refused to even contemplate the idea that an economic collapse would also cost lives are finally trying their hands at data and have produced cost-benefit analyses for the corona crisis. Unfortunately, it is clearly novel territory for them and they have made basic, yet grave mistakes. Let me dissect their writings. CLICK LINK TO READ FULL STORY
Run the Numbers, Survey the Folly – As of May 22, Australia had suffered 7,088 cases of COVID-19 and 102 people who died with the virus, the majority were males between 70 and 89. A sizeable proportion of those admitted to hospitals’ intensive care unitss were suffering from comorbidity issues such as cardiac disease and diabetes. Australia’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) has told a Senate Inquiry that the Australian government’s actions in locking down the economy saved 14,000 lives. In the meantime, Camilla Stoltenberg, director of Norway’s public health agency, has confessed: Our assessment now, and I find that there is a broad consensus in relation to the reopening, was that one could probably achieve the same effect – and avoid part of the unfortunate repercussions – by not closing. But, instead, staying open with precautions to stop the spread. The cost to the Australian economy of the global pandemic could be as high as one thousand billion dollars with an additional direct cost to the taxpayer of $260 billion this year alone. It will be a while before our Prime Minister and the premiers admit the lockdown was entirely unnecessary and unjustified. READ FULL STORY
The future will now be worse because the flawed pandemic health projections didn’t correctly calculate their effects on economic welfare.Gigi FosterContributorMay 25, 2020 – 2.44pmSaveShare. Australia’s economic policies in response to the coronavirus threat have been driven in the main by projections of death and infection rates, produced by epidemiological modelling, that since have been proven to be orders of magnitude above what any country anywhere in the world, regardless of policy, has experienced. READ MORE
Gigi Foster Professor, School of Economics UNSW has some unpopular views on COVID-19, seen recently on Q&A. We drill down on her opinion and to understand her views on the lockdown. LISTEN HERE TO PROFF GIGI FOSTER INTERVIEW
Hi E…… I think your AVI below is a really good, very clear overview of the struggle taking place between Trump and the powers driving for a N-e-w W-o-r-l-d O-r-d-e-r, a battle largely unbeknown to the masses due to an unrelenting “smoke screen” of misinformation aided and abetted by the mainstream media (MSM). Here’s your link repeated from below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=94&v=sb9jRqgDOJ8&feature=emb_logo The B-e-i-r-u-t explosion/bombing really does appear to be another false flag event designed to send strong messages on numerous levels of understanding and being. There are likely to be further significant destabilising events taking place leading up to the US Federal election with one major intention in mind: destroy Trump’s chances of re-election! Only time will tell how well Trump “weathers the storm”. It’s a winner takes all scenario i.e. either Trump wins setting back the N-W-O agenda by a decade or Trump loses which opens the door for all of us to be engulfed and impoverished under N-W-O control very very soon perhaps as early as next year 2021. In addition to warning messages highlighted in the avi, Trump received another warning message earlier today when a rifle-toting “crazy (-man)” was gunned down within the vicinity of one of his presentations. It’s events like this that help explain Trump’s reason for recalling 10,000 troops from Germany and 2,500 troops from Afghanistan. Who knows what will happen next? If “their” real aspiration is a-s-s-a-s-s-i-n-a-t-i-o-n, then much sophistication will be apparent in future attempts. Here’s a few links supporting your avi and possible causes for the explosion: BEIRUT BOMBING: A CLASSIC FALSE FLAG TERRORIST OPERATIONhttp://stateofthenation.co/?p=23536 FALSE FLAG OPERATION: Beirut Targeted By Devastating Terrorist Attack—Who did it and Why?http://stateofthenation.co/?p=23382 There is one major action that will significantly undermine the N-W-O agenda: An imminent remedy for the current ‘planned-demic’ that is paralysing the world economy as we know it. Apart from clearly effective alternative medicine treatments that will never see the light of day anytime soon, there are at least three and possibly four very cheap, disruptive candidates available right now and used safely for decades by mainstream medicine to resolve numerous inflammatory conditions:
Budesonide (Pulmicort), a mild asthma medication recently publicised by Dr. Richard Bartlett – mentioned in more detail via links in your message below. He discovered Budesonide’s high effectiveness against CoVID-19;
Dexamethasone, a medication for severe asthma and many other conditions such as severe allergies, some types of nausea and vomiting, arthritis, swelling of the brain and spinal cord and for breathing difficulties in newborn babies;
Hydroxychloroquine – a malaria medication which has been absolutely pilloried through the MSM ever since the day Trump mentioned it. The doctor, Stella Immanuel, reporting 100% success with Hydroxychloroquine has been discredited i.e. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/28/stella-immanuel-hydroxychloroquine-video-trump-americas-frontline-doctors/ So, the truth is anyone’s guess until categorical, unbiased, double-blind tests are performed that simulate the same successful conditions reported by the doctor. Obfuscation and delay is just another means for keeping treatments out of the hands of the public. Here’s a link to the original controversial avi that attracted 14 million views: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/28/stella-immanuel-hydroxychloroquine-video-trump-americas-frontline-doctors/. You be the judge on whether this group of doctors are believable or not. One only has to ask: Why would these doctors destroy their reputations and lively-hoods by making supposedly outlandish claims if the claims were not true? Sadly, doctors Gold and Immanuel have been fired from their jobs: “ER doctor FIRED (& coworkers THREATENED!?) for sharing COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine facts”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gxh6a4qUaU ……..and…..”This Is Sad & Unfortunate!!! U.S Doctor Sacked For Appearing On Video With Dr Stella Immanuel”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YzgghPKAzI
HOT OFF THE PRESS – PROFESSOR THOMAS BORODY, SYDNEY AUSTRALIA – “IVERMECTIN” 100% EFFECTIVE AGAINST COVID-19 WITHIN 6 TO 8 DAYS – VERY FEW SIDE AFFECTS. Testing and refinement of the treatment was performed on patients in the USA. Dr Borody is amazed with the effectiveness and safety of the treatment. His job entails repurposing safe drugs for application to and treatment of other medical conditions. He takes the medication himself as a preventative treatment for CoVID-19. In his expert opinion, the outbreak in Victoria can be brought under control very quickly with his discovery which is ready and safe to use NOW. He challenges government to take responsibility and start immediately. In the following avi towards the end of the interview, Professor Thomas Borody also advises that vaccinations for Covid-19 are in allot of trouble! i.e. don’t bet on a safe and effective CoVID-19 vaccination anytime soon. “Doctor claims Ivermectin triple therapy is ‘amazingly effective’ in treating COVID-19”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93jI7Gl3yic Doctor claims Ivermectin triple therapy is ‘amazingly effective’ in treating COVID-19Gastroenterologist Professor Thomas Borody says the Australian government should allow the clinical trials of a drug he says is “amazingly effective” in treating the deadly coronavirus COVID-19. Professor Borody says Ivermectin, used in conjunction with two other drugs, has so-far been extremely successful in treating the deadly pathogen …www.youtube.comAgain, you be the judge on whether this treatment should be rolled out immediately or not.
Both Budesonide and Dexamethasone belong to a class of drugs known as ‘corticosteroids’ which are used to treat a range of conditions related to inflammation. There are likely to be further corticosteroid drugs being suitable CoVID-19 remedies too. It’s worth noting both Budesonide and Dexamethasone are gaining traction and most importantly, being tested for efficacy right now. Ever heard medications such as these mentioned in the MSM as potential remedies? Yet we hear ad-nauseum about vaccinations being ready just around the corner! In reality, truly safe and effective vaccinations are unlikely to happen anytime soon and the Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr. Tedros, has finally admitted this too, in recent days, saying: “However, there’s no silver bullet at the moment — and there might never be.” Refer to Tedros’s statement in the following AVI:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-04/who-warns-there-may-never-be-covid-19-silver-bullet-coronavirus/12521004 Refer to Budesonide and Dexamethasone testing underway mentioned at the following links: Budesonide – Queensland University of Technology (QUT Brisbane, Australia) and the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK):https://www.hospimedica.com/covid-19/articles/294783429/asthma-medicine-hailed-as-effective-treatment-for-covid-19.htmlBudesonide – PARI Nebulizer Used in New Study with Pulmotect’s Inhaled PUL-042 for COVID-19: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pari-nebulizer-used-in-new-study-with-pulmotects-inhaled-pul-042-for-covid-19-301054444.html
An Essential poll of 1010 people found 32 per cent said the disease – which has killed 733,000 people worldwide – was no more dangerous than the flu.
Almost one in 10 say they’ll never be vaccinated against the virus if a drug is developed.
While 56 per cent of respondents say they’ll get the jab straight away, 35 per cent of people agree to being vaccinated but not immediately.
One fifth believe unproven malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been shown to be a safe and effective treatment.
About 10 per cent of Greens voters would refuse a vaccine, with the figure rising to 21 per cent among other minor party supporters.
Just half of respondents trust the media to provide honest and objective information about coronavirus, while two-thirds trust the government to do the same.
The level of people very concerned about the disease has reached a new record at 50 per cent, with 40 per cent quite concerned.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s approval rating has also reached a new high of 66 per cent, with 23 per cent saying they disapproved of his performance. full channel 7 article
There are some early signs the United Kingdom could be approaching coronavirus herd immunity, which may shine a spotlight on Australia’s commitment to a suppression strategy.A leading epidemiologist, Professor John Mathews from University of Melbourne, said the latest British data would need to be assessed in about a fortnight in “the cold light of day” but herd immunity may be occurring.Official statistics from NHS England pointed to a huge drop in the number of coronavirus patients being treated in hospitals now compared to mid-April, during the height of the pandemic.
Doctors in England are today treating around 700 patients daily, down from approximately 17,000 four months ago.The 96 percent drop has led to suggestions herd immunity could be close.Prof. Mathews, a former head of Australia’s National Centre for Disease Control and ex-Federal Government Deputy Chief Medical Officer, said the UK’s delayed lockdown measures may ultimately prove advantageous.The UK waited longer than many European countries to enforce strict lockdowns.
During a media briefing in early March, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said banning major public events would have little effect on the spread of the virus.”Because they missed the bus, a larger, much larger, proportion of the population was infected,” Prof. Mathews said.”The only caveat I’d make is we probably need to wait another couple of weeks to make sure the curve in the UK doesn’t go up again.”But [the data] is suggesting that a larger proportion of people were infected without getting symptoms and that a proportion of them have now got immunity.”[This] is a plausible explanation for why the rates in the UK have gone down so dramatically recently.”Prof. Matthews said it was uncertain how long people who contracted the virus but were asymptomatic might retain immunity.
People in England enjoy the hot weather on Durley and Alum Chine beaches. England, last weekend. (PA / Andrew Matthews)
“It is important that we look at all the evidence and reassess the British experience over the next few weeks and compare it with what’s happening in Victoria and what happened in New South Wales and other parts of Australia to help us to decide precisely what should be done, given where we are at the moment,” he said.After the initial national lockdown, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s public strategy has been aggressive suppression.But Prof. Mathews questioned whether suppression was a viable long-term strategy because so few Australians have been infected with the virus.”The prime minister in particular keeps emphasising suppression – not elimination – because he thinks the economic costs of going for elimination will be too great,” he said.”But the economic cost of continuing with suppression without an endpoint is also going to be very great.”If we suppress now, we still haven’t got an immune population.”So the end game is either a vaccine – or becoming immune if enough of the population get infected, and at the moment we’re trying to avoid that.”Prof. Mathews called it a “catch-22” that the highest levels of government have known about for a long time.Sunetra Gupta, a professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford University, has criticised the Australian strategy of suppression.She is an advocate of lifting lockdowns to enable the spread of the virus.While the validity of herd immunity is in question, the death rate per capita in the UK is certain and ranked the third worst in the world.For every 100,000 people in the UK, there have been 70.18 deaths. The per capita death rate in Australia is just 1.25.Sweden, the most high-profile nation to pursue herd immunity, has world’s eighth worst death per capita statistics, according to Johns Hopkins University data.”[The UK] suffered economically with the shutdown. But if they really have got the herd immunity now and the virus is not going to have another wave then, in a sense, the economic costs for Britain are more or less over,” Prof. Mathews said.”Whereas in Australia, while we have still got the virus and we’re striving for suppression, we’re nowhere near having enough people infected to generate herd immunity.”So we’ve got to keep the lockdown at a level to keep the suppression going.” READ ORIGINAL CHANNEL 9 NEWS ITEM WITH MORE INFO
Two opportunities in the near future, described below, allow public voicing of arguments against wholesale lockdown of the populations in Australia and Victoria as a response against Covid-19.
I plan to use my five-minute statement to highlight first the biggest costs that are most solidly tethered to lockdowns per se and have the strongest evidence basis – specifically, mental health deterioration and increased domestic violence due to people being locked away from the broader social sphere, and costs from children being kept home from school. I plan to mention briefly the myriad other costs that some might claim would have been incurred to some extent even without wholesale lockdowns in a fearful environment – including crowded-out healthcare for non-Covid problems and falls in GDP, resulting in fewer resources being devoted into everything that supports human wellbeing into the future. I plan to briefly put the projected possible deaths into context and estimate based on other countries’ data how bad the death count might have been for Australia in the first wave, contra initial modelling. I plan to report an upper-end estimate for welfare saved and compare that to estimated welfare lost from lockdowns, referring the committee to a short written document presenting a back-of-the-envelope cost-benefit analysis that I will prepare over the next two days and send to the Committee under separate cover, and then to end with “what should the government have done”: it should have controlled fear, directed resources and attention towards protecting the most vulnerable, and generated evidence based on a wide range of expertise (not only from health experts) of the likely impact of any policy choices on total human welfare – evidence that we still await – noting that all of this policy advice is still applicable.
Depending on the volume of responses to this email, I may also compile a brief document to share with PAEC that collates the most convincing arguments and ideas contributed by other people, whether going further in-depth on any aspects above or discussing other relevant aspects of the problem. The brief given to me is quite broad: to “contribute” to the hearing. If you would like to contribute any thoughts or data to what I will be preparing for the PAEC testimony, please email me within 24 hours with no more than half a page of information, including links; please type your name in the document if you desire not to be anonymous.
The second opportunity is that a legal challenge is being proposed against the Victorian Government’s declaration of a State of Disaster, and a second legal challenge against the Commonwealth Government’s declaration of a State of Emergency, in response to the novel coronavirus. The law firm pursuing these class action lawsuits, Advocateme.com, is searching for expert witnesses to speak to a number of aspects of the situation. I will be speaking in my capacity as an economist, and according to Serene Teffaha, the lawyer organising this case at Advocateme.com, the following expert witness positions are still unfilled (lifting her text here verbatim):
Infectious disease expert who can assess the actual risks with COVID-19- the substantive analysis of isolating the virus, the testing issues and problems with RT PCR tests, clinical diagnosis based on the tests alone rather than actual diagnosis of symptoms, the causal fatality rate being so small and whether it justifies lockdown, whether there is any benefit in herd immunity thinking, whether appropriate measures would have been sufficient to those that are vulnerable versus everyone who is healthy and any long term effects, including whether there are any genuine risks with people who are asymptomatic being infectious.
Pathology including the merits of the RT PCR tests, serology tests, how are they unreliable and any other issues.
Data collection and Statistician in relation to COVID-19 codifications and recording Deaths.
Vaccine and related experts in relation to criticising the tests and trials taking place and alternative medical alternatives like hydroxychloroquine.
