Hong Kong study confirms world’s first known hamster-to-human coronavirus transmissions The study, run as a preprint by The Lancet, determined there were two separate hamster-to-human transmissions, and that the pets contracted Covid-19 before arriving in the city Suspicions of hamster-to-human transmissions had prompted a massive cull of the rodents, sparking an outcry from animal lovers https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...3/hong-kong-study-confirms-worlds-first-known
A Letter to Our Descendants, From 2022 Story at-a-glance What will our life today sound like to the future generations? Will they be able to understand how we agreed to this? In order to create massive confusion, those in power have constructed a massive tower of lies Yes, Fauci did compare COVID to influenza in a paper published in February 2020 BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street own majority stakes in every big company in every major industry, including in the media The entire official COVID narrative of the past two years rests on a number of bold lies, and people are being medically murdered to justify corporate profits and a transition to the Great Reset Tony Fauci in Early 2020 Lies, Lies, Lies VAERS Is Junk Data Who Owns the Media (and Everything Else)? https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/01/29/are-we-living-in-a-dystopian-reality/#more-258228
A LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ON COVID-19 MORTALITY RTALITY SAE./No.200/January 2022 /October 2021 Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke This s systematic review and meta-analysis are designed to determine whether there is empiricale vidence to support the belief that “lockdowns” reduce COVID-19 mortality. Lockdowns are defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI).NPIs are any government mandate that directly restrict peoples’ possibilities, such as policies that limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel. This study employed a systematic search and screening procedure in which 18,590 studies are identified that could potentially address the belief posed. After three levels of screening, 34 studies ultimately qualified. Of those 34 eligible studies, 24 qualified for inclusion in the meta-analysis. They were separated into three groups: lockdown stringency index studies, shelter-in-place-order (SIPO) studies, and specific NPI studies. An analysis of each of these three groups support the conclusion that lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality. More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. SIPOs were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality. While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
This reminds me of the meta-studies performed on Ivermectin. Tell us how they turned out in hindsight. Why don't you look at the history and information about the lead author at the right-wing Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics who funded this study. Of course the study has been hyped by Cato and all the other conservative websites. Here is the bio of the lead author... Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics and Founder & Co-Director of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. He is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute, a contributor at National Review, a well-known currency reformer, and a currency and commodity trader. Prof. Hanke served on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, has been an adviser to five foreign heads of state and five foreign cabinet ministers, and held a cabinet-level rank in both Lithuania and Montenegro. He has been awarded seven honorary doctorate degrees and is an Honorary Professor at four foreign institutions. He was President of Toronto Trust Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1995, when it was the world’s best-performing mutual fund. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. in Amsterdam. In 1998, he was named one of the twenty-five most influential people in the world by World Trade Magazine. In 2020, Prof. Hanke was named a Knight of the Order of the Flag. We should also note the first thing they did was exclude any study from their meta-analysis that would not provide the pre-determined result they desired. These "meta-analysis studies" have reached the point in the Covid era where they simply serve to abuse science, statistics, and rationality.
In more GWB news: John Hopkins doesn't know how to peer review and is a crappy institution that hires shills. Economists have an economics CV CATO institute is no longer trusthworthy And science isn't science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis
You do realize this research institute is separate than the university at John Hopkins. Interesting to see you pushing non-peer reviewed studies by Cato advocates as your sources. I suggest you go read the articles I posted on meta-analysis being used to undermine science — with the recent Ivermectin meta-analysis studies being a classic example of misinformation.
Study is literally hosted on their Krieger School of Arts and Sciences server: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/f...ffects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf I'll patiently await peer review dissection of the study, I don't outright dismiss it just because it goes against held beliefs. You did plenty of advocating for CATO yourself. Good to see CATO's good enough for your climate change & immigration skepticism but not for lockdown effectiveness skepticism.
You will probably only have to wait for a few days to get feedback from the scientific and economic community. In the meantime you should look into the difference between the institute and the university — and where the institute gets its funding while being housed at John Hopkins. This is the same situation as the right-wing institute housed at Stanford which spread endless Covid misinformation while professors demanded it be given the boot. Interesting to find out you are suddenly a fan of Cato — we will sure to direct you to their immigration and other studies in the future.