[Vision2020] Misleading, Inaccurate

[Tom Hansen]


Mask-up, Moscow!

Courtesy of today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News with special thanks to the Palouse Pundit, Nick Gier.

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Misleading, Inaccurate 

Shame on Daily News columnists Dale Courtney and Chuck Pezeshki as they continue to publish misleading and inaccurate information about the pandemic.
 
Courtney praises Sweden for avoiding lockdown, but Jan. 10, the government, facing the highest virus infection rate in Europe, did just that. It was so restrictive that only eight fans were allowed to watch a game in a soccer stadium.
 
Sweden’s virus performance should be compared to its Nordic neighbors. Its population is 37 percent of the total including Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Finland. It has, however, had 77 percent of the virus deaths, and its infection rate is 15.5 percent versus 3 percent for the rest of these nations.
 
Courtney and Pezeshki follow the now discredited Barrington Declaration, which recommends that we can reach herd immunity without vaccines by protecting the vulnerable, isolating the infected and keeping the economy open.
 
Sweden did not protect the vulnerable and its nursing homes, which a conservative government had placed in private hands, have been the source of 45 percent of the nation’s virus deaths. Government nursing homes in Denmark have had far fewer fatalities.
 
As infection rates rose to 25 percent in two major areas of Sweden, all nonemergency operations were canceled as hospitals reached full capacity with new virus cases.
 
In his most recent column (April 9), Pezeshki cites John Ioannidis, a Stanford epidemiologist who lent his authority to the Barrington Declaration. Here is a critical response to Ioannidis from “Science Based Medicine” at sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-heck-happened-to-john-ioannidis
 
Pezeshki destroys his own credibility by agreeing with Ioannidis that the coronavirus is only a “little worse” than the common flu. During the last decade the highest annual flu death toll was 61,000.
 
And why have there been so few flu cases this season? Of course, it’s wearing our masks.
 
Nick Gier
Moscow

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Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.moscowcares.com/

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”
- Roy E. Stolworthy
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