tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post3435681586623658694..comments2024-03-29T09:09:46.823+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : Knut Wittkowski: social distancing and lockdown are counter-productiveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-26902884585129653432022-09-26T14:27:11.598+03:002022-09-26T14:27:11.598+03:00My original post was very much more pro Wittkovski...My original post was very much more pro Wittkovski. After some time I archived it, for fear it would mislead people into ignoring restictions, then un-archived it but very much toned down. So I was originally anti-lockdown but then cowed by pro-lockdown people on Facebook.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-48079174959615111072020-05-16T21:30:59.003+03:002020-05-16T21:30:59.003+03:00Knut Wittkowski has told the New York Times that Y...Knut Wittkowski has told the New York Times that YouTube removed a video of him expressing his views about the virus which had achieved more than 1.3 million views. <br />“Anything that goes against [World Health Organization] recommendations would be a violation of our policy and so removal is another really important part of our policy,” <br /><br />CEO Susan Wojcicki has told CNN.<br /><br />Facebook has been working with state governments in California, New Jersey and Nebraska to remove pages for anti-quarantine events. Twitter removed two tweets by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-52366098347528937492020-05-06T23:54:05.825+03:002020-05-06T23:54:05.825+03:00I heard that hospitals receive $13k for labeling c...I heard that hospitals receive $13k for labeling coronavirus deaths. I think I saw that in the Plandemic video<br />helarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015657781477906052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-66214744142938862502020-05-03T10:31:13.920+03:002020-05-03T10:31:13.920+03:00This is his reply. https://21stcenturywire.com/202...This is his reply. https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/05/01/coronavirus-epidemiologist-dr-knut-wittkowski-lockdown-has-no-benefit-only-negative-effects/Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-67607776529851154242020-05-03T10:30:36.707+03:002020-05-03T10:30:36.707+03:00https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/05/01/coronavirus...https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/05/01/coronavirus-epidemiologist-dr-knut-wittkowski-lockdown-has-no-benefit-only-negative-effects/Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-57399633467216115102020-05-02T19:07:49.681+03:002020-05-02T19:07:49.681+03:00https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/05/01/coronavirus...https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/05/01/coronavirus-epidemiologist-dr-knut-wittkowski-lockdown-has-no-benefit-only-negative-effects/<br /><br /><br />Epidemiologist Dr Knut Wittkowski: ‘Lockdown Has No Benefit, Only Negative Effects’<br /><br /><br />So, three weeks ago, I was sitting here and had already published the manuscript showing that the epidemic would be over soon, that this was just a regular flu, and no reason—that there was no reason whatsoever to close schools, and in particular, not to run the whole economy against the wall. The damage that was done to the economy is immense. And even if there had been a few more deaths than in a regular flu, which it wasn’t, but even then, the huge damage done to the economy could not be justified by whatever was known, even at the time when people started with the so-called social distancing or the second prohibition, exactly 100 years after the first prohibition, and we already knew how effective the first prohibition was.<br /><br />[00:06:42.02] KIRBY: Yeah, no, no, no, it’s okay. So, tell us about some of the numbers. What have you seen that bolsters your view?<br /><br />[00:06:54.02] WITTKOWSKI: It is simply that the number of cases, even with a very liberal definition of what constitutes a case, is now dropping all over the world: in Europe and, well, it’s over in China; it is over in Korea, and in most countries in Europe, it’s also dropping; in others it’s leveling, and will be dropping soon. It is dropping in the United States, so there is no indication anywhere this would get worse than a flu during the flu season. It happens that flus are during the flu season.<br /><br />Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-86624203046341734502020-04-22T20:44:11.342+03:002020-04-22T20:44:11.342+03:00https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.28...https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.28.20036715v4Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-63767694658752189522020-04-21T08:29:07.801+03:002020-04-21T08:29:07.801+03:00Good point.Good point.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-15804264202664255592020-04-21T08:28:28.092+03:002020-04-21T08:28:28.092+03:00Thank you. There is no doubt that he is an authori...Thank you. There is no doubt that he is an authority.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-14616680068056621852020-04-20T20:51:01.598+03:002020-04-20T20:51:01.598+03:00He definitely has a PhD - I think they did that di...He definitely has a PhD - I think they did that disclaimer worded like that to make people think he is NOT as credentialed and experienced as he really is! <br /><br />This is from an article about him in aier dot org, American Institute for Economic Policy: <br />Consider his bio:<br /><br />Dr. Wittkowski received his PhD in computer science from the University of Stuttgart and his ScD (Habilitation) in Medical Biometry from the Eberhard-Karls-University Tuüingen, both Germany. He worked for 15 years with Klaus Dietz, a leading epidemiologist who coined the term “reproduction number”, on the Epidemiology of HIV before heading for 20 years the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at The Rockefeller University, New York. Dr. Wittkowski is currently the CEO of ASDERA LLC, a company discovering novel treatments for complex diseases from data of genome-wide association studies.<br /><br />His work has been widely cited in the technical/medical literature. So try to understand his frustration with everything going on around him. A lifetime of work toward understanding diseases and their spread, and he has to watch all this unfold in the most brutal way that contradicts everything he knows and has tried to teach.Debteehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04197703432632549237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-68376421252554397072020-04-20T20:47:40.303+03:002020-04-20T20:47:40.303+03:00Well, federal money to hospitals will probably be ...Well, federal money to hospitals will probably be based on NUMBERS, so there is definitely financial gain to inflating them. <br />Debteehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04197703432632549237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-1711258705054765742020-04-20T20:38:52.327+03:002020-04-20T20:38:52.327+03:00Do you comprehend what the word "most" m...Do you comprehend what the word "most" means? <br />Hint: it does NOT mean "all".Debteehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04197703432632549237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-43999313705432486532020-04-20T14:16:51.962+03:002020-04-20T14:16:51.962+03:00Dominic Johnson comments: I agree with most of wha...Dominic Johnson comments: I agree with most of what the Knut said. A compelling woman on the radio the other day suggested that the acute phase of the pandemic will pass and lockdown will end but that there will be a long term shift towards social distancing, extra washing of hands, getting out of the habit of touching your face until a reliable vaccine is, if ever, manufactured.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-12713591547357444922020-04-20T12:53:42.683+03:002020-04-20T12:53:42.683+03:00Here is an article from College Fix saying the vie...Here is an article from College Fix saying the views of Knut Wittkowski are dangerous.<br /><br />https://www.thecollegefix.com/think-inside-the-box-keep-socially-distancing/Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-41160441613131994002020-04-20T12:46:33.329+03:002020-04-20T12:46:33.329+03:00Left-of-centre Buzzfeed on the article which inspi...Left-of-centre Buzzfeed on the article which inspired mine, in the libertarian College Fix:<br /><br />"A website with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s son on its board of directors published a viral article that claims the coronavirus would be “exterminated” if lockdowns were lifted.<br /><br />"On April 7, the College Fix, a news and opinion website that normally publishes stories about politics and college life, ran a story titled “Epidemiologist: Coronavirus Could Be ‘Exterminated’ If Lockdowns Were Lifted.” The most popular story ever published by the College Fix, it received over 1.7 million Facebook likes, shares, and comments, according to social media tracking tool BuzzSumo."<br /><br />"Daniel Payne, the author of the article, said the College Fix didn’t identify Wittkowski as a professor and used the same credentials as what he stated in the video. Payne’s story was a news article, and the associate editor told BuzzFeed News that the College Fix does not have a wider editorial stance on social distancing."<br /><br />Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-50034134537327727662020-04-20T12:25:40.118+03:002020-04-20T12:25:40.118+03:00On his LinkedIn account Knut Wittkowski does not c...On his LinkedIn account Knut Wittkowski does not claim to have been a professor but to have two doctorates and to have been for twenty years a Senior Research Associate at Rockefeller University and to have headed its Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design,Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-214292023584193812020-04-20T12:20:09.257+03:002020-04-20T12:20:09.257+03:00I just saw this. I shall take out the title Profes...I just saw this. I shall take out the title Professor from my article.<br /><br />The Rockefeller University releases statement concerning Knut Wittkowski<br />April 13, 2020<br />The opinions that have been expressed by Knut Wittkowski, discouraging social distancing in order to hasten the development of herd immunity to the novel coronavirus, do not represent the views of The Rockefeller University, its leadership, or its faculty.<br /><br />Wittkowski was previously employed by Rockefeller as a biostatistician. He has never held the title of professor at Rockefeller.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-66990587243802953312020-04-15T07:54:17.575+03:002020-04-15T07:54:17.575+03:00It's like Sir Winston Churchill's descript...It's like Sir Winston Churchill's description of Russia. 'It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma'.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-1499240989053314652020-04-15T00:36:36.761+03:002020-04-15T00:36:36.761+03:00"(1) They are misusing the codes on death cer..."(1) They are misusing the codes on death certificates. Any person who tested positive, even if they died of a car crash, is getting mislabeled as coronavirus complications."<br /><br />The mayor of New York says that New York has undercounted coronavirus deaths because people dying in their apartments have not been tested and are not counted. I sincerely doubt that medical professionals are frivolously labeling car crash victims and suicides who blew their heads off as coronavirus victims, particularly at responsible, renowned hospitals like Sloane Kettering with reputations to protect.<br />carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01134221554348743714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-21545908534570053702020-04-13T10:02:18.845+03:002020-04-13T10:02:18.845+03:00There is quite a bit of truth in 1 and 2. I do not...There is quite a bit of truth in 1 and 2. I do not have information about 3, though I saw the idea before.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-13030220604052229452020-04-13T09:38:30.518+03:002020-04-13T09:38:30.518+03:00In the United States, we're doing all the wron...In the United States, we're doing all the wrong things. Death by hospital (not death by coronavirus).<br /><br />(1) They are misusing the codes on death certificates. Any person who tested positive, even if they died of a car crash, is getting mislabeled as coronavirus complications.<br /><br /><br />(2) We're putting people on ventilators, instead of just giving them oxygen. Ventilators are likely killing people:<br /><br />https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928156<br /><br />https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8204459/Are-doctors-HARMING-coronavirus-patients-putting-ventilators-early.html<br /><br />(3) We're giving people the flu shot. The flu shot may have some efficacy against the particular strain that's in the shot, but it makes you much more susceptible to coronavirus and other epidemics:<br /><br />In this pilot study, flu shot increased chance of children contracting coronavirus by 491%:<br /><br />https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m810/rr-0<br /><br />Large Canadian Study, flu shot made H1N1 up to 250% worse, turning mild mild symptoms into severe symptoms:<br /><br />https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2010/04/new-canadian-studies-suggest-seasonal-flu-shot-increased-h1n1-risk<br /><br />US Study, flu shot increases coronavirus risk:<br /><br />https://www.disabledveterans.org/2020/03/11/flu-vaccine-increases-coronavirus-risk/<br /><br />...and there's more. Antibiotics are being used, and they shouldn't, this is a virus not a bacteria. Tylenol and Ibuprofen are being used, and they shouldn't, they make symptoms worse.Warehouse Staffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10481876195066908270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-14152648826307148282020-04-09T04:11:03.504+03:002020-04-09T04:11:03.504+03:00430,000 as of today, 2000 deaths a day.
When'...430,000 as of today, 2000 deaths a day.<br /><br />When's that herd immunity kicking in again??NDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08739530218069045584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-74638095003064556972020-04-08T21:23:39.799+03:002020-04-08T21:23:39.799+03:00👍👍Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09586211007728445918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-11272447909856436072020-04-08T14:36:37.361+03:002020-04-08T14:36:37.361+03:00Finaly an expert making sense of this, another f...Finaly an expert making sense of this, another flu comes along and the world shuts down! I guess for whatever reasons you need to follow the money, how the hell are we to get imunity unless we re allowed to catch this damn virus,Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15234442530262857913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-45637922150459561972020-04-08T09:39:18.801+03:002020-04-08T09:39:18.801+03:00I hope this person gets his jollies from putting a...I hope this person gets his jollies from putting away clandestine veal cheek dinners on the Upper East Side. Boris Johnson, now gasping for air, will be glad to hear Dr Wittkowski's assertion that most people who get coronavirus don't come down with any symptoms. carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01134221554348743714noreply@blogger.com