Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates is the first of a planned series of booklets about the wild panic-mongering surrounding the virus and initiating the lockdown. Berenson says he decided to publish this as a series of booklets because he wanted the information out now, and it takes time to compile and format it.
Short and sweet: buy this booklet now. Read it – it’s short. It’s the first part of all the data and analysis from which any functionally numerate and scientifically literate person can draw their own conclusions based on the publicly-available information and numbers,, assuming he can resist the insane levels of panic and disinformation. It’s got the links, to all the official sources and reports from the major players. No sources that should be in the slightest controversial.
Berenson starts out from the same position as most people: that news out of Wuhan and especially Italy was very concerning. I gather the pictures were even worse – I don’t consume news lest it consumes me, so I didn’t see them. Then, he saw the numbers on age distribution in the March 16 report from the Imperial College and had, as Agent Smith might say, a revelation: old people were about 100 times more likely to die of COVID 19 than young people. Yet, this stunning fact had been ignored by the media. What was going on?
So he dug through the numbers. He found what I and many other competent and disinterested people found: wildly overstated death rates, wildly inaccurate models, bait and switch on the lockdown, wildly uncertain, but almost certainly over-aggressive, counts of deaths and cases. And a psychotic resistance from the press to report on any of it.
Of course, he, like me, acknowledges that COVID 19 is a nasty bug for some people. An outbreak can be nasty to the old and frail. It’s not like it’s not a real disease or anything. Of course it is. It’s the wild, animal refusal of many terrified sheep to see any context that’s the worst feature, I won’t say of the disease, but of the panic surrounding it. That panic has already caused more harm than anything the virus could ever do.
The numbers are all there, in public, available to anyone. All it takes to see the lies is a willingness to look. The links are all there.
Berenson, a professional writer, presents the information in a pithy, readable way I can only aspire to. I’d say send copies to your panicked family and friends, but, alas! the panicked cannot be reasoned with.
I eagerly await part 2.
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No Excess. Brilliant Work.
Well researched and easy to read. Berenson leaves little in this booklet except the raw data with clear citations. I suggest purchasing both a physical copy and the e-book. The e-book offers links to open up the specific source he references, while the paperback allows for better retention but has lengthy URLs on most pages. Journalism of this quality is difficult to come by these days. Thank you, Alex!
