Comment on Covid vaccines.	These are aimed at reducing the severity of the disease. This has clearly been demonstrated by the drop in ICU and ventilator cases and the drop in deaths. Case rates overall are still high when new variants of concern crop up.
Vaccine myths and outright lies.	It is biologically impossible for mRNA to alter DNA as it is incapable of entering the nucleus. The vaccines do NOT contain Graphene Oxide. The vaccines do NOT make arms magnetic. The vaccines do NOT contain anything which can be controlled or triggered by 5G signals.

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Misuse of VAERS Data. Sponheim is fond of misusing this and other data by stating or suggesting that VAERS says all the reported deaths are vaccine related.
Take note of the words in bold.	Take note of the words in bold.
UPDATE #2: As of 6:30 PM CT on July 21, 2021, the CDC's website stated through July 19, 2021, VAERS had received 6,207 reports of death (0.0018%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC's webpage's Last Update date reflects July 21, 2021. Since more than 338 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the USA, this data reflects a vaccination-death ratio of 0.0018%.	The CDC’s website says, ‘Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem. This is because the U.S. FDA requires healthcare providers to report any death after a COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS, even if it’s unclear whether the vaccine was the cause.

Furthermore, a review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records, has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines, says the CDC.	Additionally, VAERS had received 1,148 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis among people ages 30 and younger who received a COVID-19 vaccine as of July 19th. The CDC and its partners are investigating these reports to assess whether there is a relationship to COVID-19 vaccination.
Through follow-up, including medical record reviews, the CDC and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have confirmed 674 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis. In both cases, the body’s immune system causes inflammation in response to an infection or some other trigger.	Most of these heart inflammation cases have been reported to the CDC after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Comirnaty or SpikeVax), particularly in male adolescents and young adults.

	This, as you see, shows a considerable drop in daily cases over earlier in 2022 - after the post holiday season peak.
	This also shows a drop in cases post holiday.

The USA population is 4.88 times bigger than the UK. A comparable death rate is therefore 221x4.88 or 1078. That is less than half the current USA average of 2,600.	Death rates are still ahead of the late 2021 rates. This probably reflects a lower overall vaccine takeup rate. Total U.S. population as of Dec. 1, 2021 was estimated at 331,893,745, making it the third most populated country in the world. that is 4.88 times the UK population
	The rate on mondays is always lower. Check the 7 day average. The current population of United Kingdom is 68,374,386 based on projections of the latest United Nations data

The "Spanish Flu"

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.

Sponheim

He claims it was caused "by a vaccine". He also confuses the data."500 million deaths", not 50 million, the actual number.

#SocialDistancing = It’s not about YOU! #WearAMask = It's not about YOU! #StayHome = It's not about YOU! #GetTested = It's not about YOU! #MaskItOrCasket = It's not about YOU!

Let's say you woke up with a terrible cough, a fever, and severe body aches. Immediately, you rush to the doctor and unfortunately, you’re diagnosed with COVID-19. For the last two weeks, you’ve been unaware that you were infected and you’ve ignored "the rules." You've gotten together with some close friends for pizza, had a few people over, even visited a park and a beach. You figured, “I don’t feel sick. I have the right to keep living my normal life. No one can tell me what to do." With your diagnosis, you spend the next few days at home on the couch, feeling pretty crappy; but then you’re well again because you’re young, healthy and strong. Lucky you. But your best friend caught it from you during a visit to your house, and because she didn't know she was contagious, she visited her 82-year-old grandfather, who uses oxygen tanks daily to help him breathe because he has COPD and heart failure. Now, he’s dead. Your co-worker, who has asthma, caught it too, during your little pizza get-together. Now, he’s in the ICU, and he's spread it to a few others in his family, too--but they won't know that for another couple of weeks yet. The cashier at the restaurant where you picked up the pizza carried the infection home to his wife, who has MS, which makes her immunosuppressed. She’s not as lucky as you, so she’s admitted to the hospital because she’s having trouble breathing. She may need to be placed in a medically-induced coma and intubated; she may not get to say goodbye to her loved ones. She may die surrounded by machines, with no family at her bedside. All because you couldn't stand the inconvenience of a mask; of staying home; of changing your familiar routines for just a little while. Because you have the right, above all others rights, to continue living your normal life and no one, I mean no one, has the right to tell you what to do. Copied from a friend and shared. Please do the same ??

	New York ER Doctor on Ventilator use. He argues convincingly that intubation-ventilation is not the correct approach. See also here. coronavirus-hospital-cuts-covid-19-death-rates- with-black-boxes-for-sleep-disorder.
Recoverytrial Website with links.	Apr/17/world-biggest-drug-trial-covid-19-uk Biggest trial up to that date gets under way.

Right wing comment.	This was posted on a right wing site as a comment on postal voting. They say that covid_19 is being used by Democrats to push postal voting, which they claim Democrats have used to defraud.
Right wing bullshit on "herd immunity." FAKE NEWS AT ITS WORST.	That means that eventually, enough people have caught the disease that it can’t keep spreading as fast as it used to.  That is the point where we get past the peak we’ve been discussing, and for the most infectious kinds of diseases  (which COVID is), this peak usually happens when somewhere between 10 and 30 percent of a total population has been infected.
It should be emphasised here that "The Peaks" referred to have been under conditions of mitigation. Hasty removal of this mitigation is likely, (without genuine herd immunity) to cause a second wave of infection to occur. Some parts of American states have seen almost no outbreaks. That means they will have NO "herd immunity" at all. As the virus is still present elsewhere in the state, they are open to new infection.
The actual FACTS Case in point. Where measles outbreaks have risen as a result of fake MMR propaganda reducing vaccination rate.	For some diseases, herd immunity can go into effect when 40 percent of the people in a population become immune to the disease, such as through vaccination. But in most cases, 80 to 95 percent of the population must be immune to the disease to stop its spread.

UK Covid data Posted on Sky News 30th April 2020 Note the cases at the time of the chart were 7346 Washington Post repeats Sky News Report on UK deaths with other conditions. This would be the data Sponheim uses to discredit Covid-19 reasons for deaths. He banned me for saying that the virus is being the last straw effectively.

This chart compares Sweden, where there is no lockdown and minimum mitigation measures, with the data for its immediate neighbours. It does not show totals. It is not clear what percentage of the total population has been infected.

American views on the crisis.
Not possible nationwide.	Apr/17/far-right-coronavirus-protests-restrictions
Sorry - That was a crazy idea!	Trump-was-right-again-we-should-have-reopened-by-easter This would have been a total disaster.
This is not likely.	New-york-is-cooking-their-coronavirus-numbers Claimed by various deniers.
Donald the denier passes the buck.	Apr/15/trump-turns-against-who-to-mask-his-own-stark-failings-on-covid-19-crisis However much he blusters and attacks, HE made numerous miscalculations both before and during the crisis. You are NOT perfect by a long way Donald.
Denier Donald is riled.	2020/04/14/donald-trump-huge-meltdown-reporter-refuses-let-talk

Dateline 3rd May 2020 * = May 15th.	My reasoned comments, as a scientist, on responses to the coronavirus pandemic. The left hand column is the countries in question. From the initial reaction in China.
6th May General comment.	It would seem, from the demographic data that there is a case for treating different age groups differently. This is, actually part of UK policy in that over 70's were advised to isolate for 12 weeks, as were other vulnerable groups. Sadly this has not been managed well in many care homes. Death rates there are too high. The argument is that under 50's could be less restricted and return to work. As senior staff tend to be older this could be difficult to organise in practice. To remove all restrictions too soon could be counter productive, indeed fatal for many. Some American states are playing with fire.
China - Hubei Province.	There is no question that the outbreak initiated in the Wuhan area. The authorities were faced with a rapidly growing outbreak of a virus which was previously totally unknown in every respect. The reaction was to totally lock down both the city and the entire province. There was no surface or air movement from the area to the rest of China. They did NOT close off international access for some time. That should NOT have happened. They built emergency hospital capacity in Wuhan, a practice which has been followed in many other countries. At the time there was little clear evidence of the numbers with minor or asymptomatic infections, or the succeeding immunity levels.Or for that matter the degree and duration of immunity. The effect of this rigid quarantine has reduced fatalities, (there is more than a little doubt of data validity) and has allowed the area to reopen with use of masks and strict ongoing monitoring. The inherent immunity rate is unknown, but is unlikely to be at "HERD IMMUNITY" levels. *There is a plan to test everybody for the antigen, which will indicate if they are close to herd immunity.
The rest of China.	In this case, lock down was also imposed, as was the wearing of masks. Cases were followed up (track and trace) and close contacts were quarantined. The effect has been to drastically cut back on cases outside Hubei, but again there may be doubts about the actual figures. *This means, however that the main body of China DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING CLOSE TO "HERD IMMUNITY". That implies that STRICT border controls are essential and that internal measures are still needed.
Taiwan, New Zealand, South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore.	Here the initial reaction was to emulate Hubei province and close borders. In the case of New Zealand all flights were stopped and any sea arrivals had a full quarantine. The same was also true of Taiwan, who warned the WHO very early on. China has blocked their membership of WHO. South Korea and Vietnam have also been very efficient at control measures. South Korea had the infrastructure needed already in place. As an aside, it will be interesting to see what the effects of the mitigation methods have on other viral diseases like the flu in New Zealand. *Unfortunately this will also mean that they are currently nowhere near HERD IMMUNITY. The consequence of that being that border controls MUST stay in place for a considerable time.
UK, USA, Most of Europe. Some localities in these countries may be close to HERD IMMUNITY levels, but that is very unlikely in many areas of the USA for instance. It could be possible in London.	Here contact with Wuhan has been a major factor. This is most evident in Italy and Spain. It also soon became evident, especially in Italy that the virus was striking different parts of the demographic very differently, as well as the earlier observations where testing had revealed there were asymptomatic infections as well. The cases in the Washington care home should have triggered measures to protect such facilities more, including here in the UK. Even now in the UK, care home residents are making up a high percentage of mortalities. That is avoidable. In the USA the state and City of New York, with a high population density has by far the biggest case and death numbers. Several other City regions, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans are also bad. Rural America is also showing high mortality rates based on demography. In some states (Wisconsin for one) right wing agitators are protesting about the lockdown. Some in USA argue that a 10 to 30% infection rate was the peak and that 40% is enough for HERD IMMUNITY. That is totally wrong. *In EVERY case only very high levels of testing throughout a country can prove potential HERD IMMUNITY.
Sweden *There should be a full scale antibody testing program and careful isolation of vulnerable groups.	Sweden is the only country to let the virus more or less run its natural course. It is probable that parts of the country, beginning with Stockholm are close to HERD IMMUNITY levels. With the facts now clearer about mortality rates in different age groups,the fact that children are almost unaffected (there is now clear proof of a related condition which affects a small number of children some time after the Covid-19 infection.), the fact that many show almost no symptoms or only minor ones (as did Matt Hancock) and the fact that people over pension age are most at risk could mean that Sweden almost has it right. However if only some age groups build up HERD IMMUNITY it leaves the rest open to infection and maybe early death. Seniors need protection.

UK is also not perfect! Far from it in several respects!
UK Care homes tragic situation.	UK fails to address the dire situation in care homes for all age groups. This is desperate and needs to be resolved NOW! Fatalities in these sectors are keeping UK death rates high.
Testing.	Early decisions did not help here and progress has been somewhat erratic. Full testing for antibodies is essential
Nightingale hospitals.	It appears to me that these were set up as a reserve, but there is a case for using some of the capacity to assist and remedy the sad situation in care homes. Persons with the virus should not be kept in the care homes.