6 Solid, Scientific Reasons to Assuage Your Coronavirus Panic

With coronavirus panic around, it’s time to take stock of the situation. Here are 6 solid, scientific reasons to calm your fear and to be aware not scared.

2. COVID-19 Worldwide Death Count is FAR BELOW Annual Death Count in US for Ordinary Flu

At the time of writing, the worldwide death count attributed to COVID-19 is under 25,000 (according to the Johns Hopkins CSSE stats). To put this in perspective, the number of people who die in the US alone (which has around only 5% of the world population) from the ordinary seasonal flu ever year is between 12,000 and 61,000. Yet, our entire society is being put on lockdown, the economy brought to a halt and we are being subjected to draconian regulations all because of a virus which is not worse than a normal cold or flu – with which we have to live all the time. Why?

Some people are stoking coronavirus panic by pointing to Italy’s death rate. However, there are massive problems with the numbers here. People already sick with other diseases are being counted as a COVID-19 victim or COVID-19 death just because the virus was present in their bodies, even if they would have died anyway and even if the virus did not medically contribute to their death in any way! RT reports in the article How lethal is Covid-19 REALLY? Why massive fatality rates from Italy are MISLEADING:

“You do not need to be an expert to calculate the mortality rate. It is one number divided by another — the number of people who have died from the virus divided by the total number of confirmed cases. In the case of Italy, 7,503 dead divided by 74,386 infected gives a mortality rate of roughly 10 percent. But that does not mean that one in ten people who contract the virus will die, despite what the scaremongering media would have you believe … the larger number, the confirmed cases, must by definition be an underestimate. It would be impossible for every person in a country positive for the coronavirus to have been already tested and added to the confirmed cases. The virus can be dormant in people for up to two weeks, and young people can experience very mild or even no symptoms at all, and still be positive for the virus. Since that figure is by definition too low, the mortality rates being reported are by definition too high.”

Italy has also been counting people with other conditions, sometime 2-3 other serious diseases:

According to Professor Walter Ricciardi, the scientific advisor to Italy’s Minister of Health, Italy’s death rate or mortality rate is so high due to demographics (it has the 2nd oldest population in the world) and the manner in which hospitals record deaths.

4. The Flawed PCR Test: The Virus May Not Be Causing the Symptoms or Disease

There are some serious problems with the generally accepted method of testing for a virus. It’s called the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) test. The PCR test amplifies a specific region of a DNA strand (the DNA target). It is qualitative not quantitative; in other words, it can tell you if a virus is present or not, but it can’t tell you in what quantities, and it can’t make any accurate assessment about whether the presence of that virus or not is enough to cause disease. The CDC itself admits that a positive coronavirus COVID-19 test (using the PCR method) doesn’t mean the virus is causing the disease/symptoms you may have:

“Positive [test] results are indicative of active infection with 2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease.”

This is a serious problem for those promoting coronavirus panic. If the scientific golden benchmark test (the PCR) doesn’t even provide proof that the virus causes the disease, why is everyone rushing around like a headless chicken instead of questioning the base foundations – which are actually assumptions not facts?

5. Study Finds 80% False Positive Test Results for COVID-19 Cases

A study published this month on March 5th 2020 (then retracted) on the NIH (National Institute of Health)’s PubMed website concluded that there have been a very high number of false positive results for people being tested for COVID-19 – potentially as high as 80%! This means a vast number of people who get this result are deemed “positive” or to have the virus when in fact they do not. The study entitled Potential False-Positive Rate Among the ‘Asymptomatic Infected Individuals’ in Close Contacts of COVID-19 Patients concluded:

“When the infection rate of the close contacts and the sensitivity and specificity of reported results were taken as the point estimates, the positive predictive value of the active screening was only 19.67%, in contrast, the false-positive rate of positive results was 80.33%. The multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analysis results supported the base-case findings, with a 75% probability for the false-positive rate of positive results over 47%. Conclusions: In the close contacts of COVID-19 patients, nearly half or even more of the ‘asymptomatic infected individuals’ reported in the active nucleic acid test screening might be false positives.”

Was the study retracted for political reasons?

6. Unjustified Coronavirus Panic: Viruses are Not What You Think

On top of all this, there are many assumptions that are being presented as fact when it comes to viruses. What are viruses? Can they exist outside the body? Can they really be transferred from person to person? Is it 100% proven that viruses cause disease? Is it 100% proven that the presence of a virus in your body means that that virus is causing you disease? German biologist and virologist Dr. Stefan Lanka offered a reward of €100,000 for anyone who could scientifically prove that measles was a virus. That case that went all the way to the German Supreme Court where he won, showing that there was no scientific proof. In a similar vein, there are many prominent scientists who question the mainstream definition of viruses. Professor Peter Duesberg stated with solid evidence that HIV did not cause AIDS. How much can we trust mainstream science to tell us the truth about these epidemics?