Monthly Archives: July 2021

A History Of Social Distancing

According to Wikipedia: In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing,[2][3][4] is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number … Continue reading

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Where Do Public Health Officials Get The Authority To Lock Us Down?

From Michael Lewis’s superb 2021 book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story: * Charity had taken away other lessons from Dr. [Stephen] Hosea. The simplest explanation is usually the best. If the patient turns up with two separate symptoms—say, a fever … Continue reading

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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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