Early in the pandemic, health officials told us the "novel coronavirus" was extremely dangerous, declaring a large portion of the world's population would be infected and killed very quickly. They demanded we lock down, shut businesses, isolate from each other, wear masks, close borders, silence opposition, and then take rushed experimental mRNA injections. It was all based on the belief that Covid was extremely deadly. Dubious videos went viral, showing crowds of people falling down in the street, twitching on the ground, and supposedly dying. Experts were trotted out to instill fear, using models to show how billions were at risk if we did not shut down the economy and obey their orders. We now have even more conclusive proof they were lying, incompetent, or both.
The researchers, including the esteemed Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University, published their study on ScienceDirect.com where it is available in full to the public. It contains far more data and analysis than can be reproduced here, but I invite you to have a look.
The data was from early in the so-called pandemic, long before milder variants like Delta and Omicron replaced the more-dangerous original strain. There were no treatments yet developed, and "vaccines" were not available, meaning infected people were essentially doing their best to survive on their own. The results generated would be even less dramatic if repeated today - after 3 years of research has been done, treatments have been deployed, and most of us have some degree of natural immunity from previous infection.
Findings estimate an IFR for 0-69 year olds of only 0.07%, and for 0-59 year olds of just 0.03%! For reference, the Ebola virus had an infection fatality rate of more than 50%. Even at its most-dangerous point, almost everyone who got Covid survived. Those who were young and healthy had essentially zero chance of dying from a Covid infection, and many of them didn't even know they had it.
Researchers broke down the IFR by age. "The median IFR was 0.0003% at 0–19 years, 0.002% at 20–29 years, 0.011% at 30–39 years, 0.035% at 40–49 years, 0.123% at 50–59 years, and 0.506% at 60–69 years." So even in people of retirement age, including the obese with multiple comorbidities, only 1 in 200 had serious problems with Covid, without any treatment. For babies, children, teens, and young adults - and this includes countries without access to healthcare - there was no significant risk.
These results indicate Covid's IFR in the pre-vaccine era was lower than previously calculated, and MUCH lower than estimated by government health officials early on. We now know that Covid was about as deadly as a cold or flu, and never justified the designation "pandemic".
Getting Covid wasn't a substantial risk to anyone but the extremely unhealthy elderly, who are at more risk from every cold going around. Masking society was never justified - even if doing so prevented infection, which it doesn't. The mRNA injections, which have killed and injured millions, were never warranted - even if they prevented transmission, which they don't. Lockdowns, restrictions, closures, health passports, mandates... none of it should ever have happened. We won't hear this from the lying/incompetent experts and officials that brought it all about, of course, since that would mean they would be charged with crimes against humanity. They have no option other than to hope this information doesn't become common knowledge, and double down on their deception.
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