Category Archives: Corona Virus

Julius Ruechel: The Lies Exposed by the Numbers: Fear, Misdirection, & Institutional Deaths (An Investigative Report)

One thing that intrigued me from a deep Google search of Julius Ruechel is that nobody has bothered to critique his work. How important is it if nobody has bothered to push against it? A friend sent me this link … Continue reading

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Where Did The Social Distancing Strategy Come From?

I just read Michael Lewis’s superb 2021 book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story. He writes: * The problem, as he [Richard Hatchett in 2005] framed it for the Pentagon, was how to slow the spread of a communicable disease until … Continue reading

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Average COVID death costs 16 years of life (7-28-21)

01:00 Are US flu death figures more PR than science? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141529 03:00 Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges — The former are actual numbers; the latter are inflated statistical estimates, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141527 05:00 What are … Continue reading

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Are US flu death figures more PR than science?

From the British Medical Journal, Dec. 10, 2005: US data on influenza deaths are a mess. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges a difference between flu death and flu associated death yet uses the terms interchangeably. Additionally, … Continue reading

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Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges — The former are actual numbers; the latter are inflated statistical estimates

Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust writes April 28, 2020 for Scientific American: When reports about the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 began circulating earlier this year and questions were being raised about how the illness it causes, COVID-19, compared to the flu, it … Continue reading

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