By Joe Hoft, GATEWAY PUNDIT
Sorry America. We hate to break it to you but you’ve been had. Those horrible projections made about the coronavirus, were wrong – way wrong.
We’re not saying that the elderly were not at risk. We never did. If New York, New Jersey, Michigan and other Democrat led states would have protected their elderly in the same manner as Republican-led Florida, then you would never had seen the death tolls in those states that you did. By forcing coronavirus infected individuals into the elderly homes, the leaders of states like New York murdered the elderly in those institutions.
What we are saying is that the leader of the WHO and Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx scared the hell out of the American people, created a panic and pushed for lockdowns and social distancing that saved little if any life but killed the US economy.
The WHO
We were first to report that the Director General of the WHO on March 3, 2020 a set off the panic with his highly flawed statement:
While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.
Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.
This statement caused a global panic. We, however, knew it was wrong and we wrote about it on March 17, 2020. Here is the video of Dr. Ghebreyesus’s remarks.
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We were the first to report that the WHO leader’s coronavirus death rate number of 3.4% was false.
It was not accurate! Here is a summary of what we reported:
The Gateway Pundit reported, that the coronavirus fatality rate reported by the liberal mainstream media was completely inaccurate and the actual rate more like a typical seasonal flu – the media was lying again.
The false reporting of the coronavirus fatality rate at 3.4% by the media started with the statements made by the WHO in early March.
Here’s a summary of our analysis proving the Director General’s statement was very misleading and materially false:
Jim Hoft has been doing an excellent job exposing the discrepancies in the numbers floated around about coronavirus.
Even more telling is an article by Sarah Westall (sarahwestall.com) documenting the descrepancy between the total increase in U.S. deaths through the second week of May compared to the same time in 2019 (41,000) and the figures issued by the CDC, WHO and John Hopkins University for coronavirus deaths alone during this same time interval in 2020. When I compared the total increase in deaths that Westall discovered on the weekly reports of the CDC with the total number of deaths from COVID-19 reported by Johns Hopkins University through May 14 of this year, I discovered that it was 87,000, or more than twice the total number of deaths during this period. (I got the precise number of supposed COVID-19 deaths claimed by Johns Hopkins from the very helpful corona.help web site). Since as Sarah Westall points out, deaths from other causes are actually likely have gone up, not down, during the first four and a half months of this year, the actual number of people who died as a result of contracting the novel coronavirus is almost certainly less than half of the numbers claimed by Johns Hopkins–about 30,000 as opposed to the “official” number of 87,000. This means that the actual number of deaths from COVID-19 is only slightly more than one-third the number that the health bureaucracies, the press and everyone else have told us have died of this illness.
As of yesterday the press and the health bureaucracies were reporting 108,000 deaths from CV-2. Since the number of new deaths associated with this illness has been steadily declining for the past two weeks, the gap between the reported and the actual number of deaths has almost certainly grown even wider–only about a third or less of 108,000.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics. CV-2 was never such a terrible menace as to justify a worldwide lockdown, including the one in the U.S.