“Panic Porn Dressed Up As Science” – The Truth About The Delta Variant
Yesterday, we delved into the issue of the Delta variant as daily COVID cases reported in the US ticked higher after touching their lowest levels since the start of the pandemic. The data set off another round of warnings about the relatively large swath of Americans who refuse to get the vaccine.
On Wednesday, Bloomberg published the latest in a series of stories effectively re-stating the same facts: the vaccination rate in a handful of deep-red states has substantially lagged the rate in the rest of the country. The lead-in for Wednesday’s story was the fact that the gap between the most- and least-vaccinated states has continued to widen. Though even Bloomberg concedes that “on a national level, the news appears good…the country’s vaccination campaign is among the most successful in the world…”
One academic quoted in the Bloomberg story, Timothy Callaghan, who studies rural health at Texas A&M, warned that “we’re going to have counties where vaccination is rare and nowhere close to herd immunity, and others where it’s high. We could be headed toward a divided country of haves and have nots.”
They also warned that an analysis last week of COVID cases in 700 counties found that the new delta variant first identified in India (which, according to Bloomberg, is “far more contagious“) has been found more often in less-vaccinated US counties.
But is the Delta variant really “far more contagious” than earlier iterations of SARS-CoV-2?
In a recent piece published by the Blaze, writer Daniel Horowitz explains that the existing data suggests Delta isn’t any deadlier or more infectious than other strains. Horowitz described the warnings from epidemiologists and public health bureaucrats like Dr. Fauci as “panic porn dressed up as science.”
The implication from these headlines is that somehow this variant is truly more transmissible and deadly (as the previous variants were falsely portrayed to be), they escape natural immunity and possibly the vaccine — and therefore, paradoxically, you must get vaccinated and continue doing all the things that failed to work for the other variants!
After each city and country began getting ascribed its own “variant,” I think the panic merchants realized that the masses would catch on to the variant scam, so they decided to rename them Alpha (British), Beta (South African), Gamma (Brazilian), and Delta (Indian), which sounds more like a hierarchy of progression and severity rather than each region simply getting hit when it’s in season until the area reaches herd immunity.
However, if people would actually look at the data, they’d realize that the Delta variant is actually less deadly. These headlines are able to gain momentum only because of the absurd public perception that somehow India got hit worse than the rest of the world. In reality, India has one-seventh the death rate per capita of the U.S.; it’s just that India got the major winter wave later, when the Western countries were largely done with it, thereby giving the illusion that India somehow suffered worse. Now, the public health Nazis are transferring their first big lie about what happened in India back to the Western world.
Fortunately, the U.K. government has already exposed these headlines as a lie, for those willing to take notice. On June 18, Public Health England published its 16th report on “SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England,” this time grouping the variants by Greek letters.
As you can see, the Delta variant has a 0.1% case fatality rate (CFR) out of 31,132 Delta sequence infections confirmed by investigators. That is the same rate as the flu and is much lower than the CFR for the ancestral strain or any of the other variants. And as we know, the CFR is always higher than the infection fatality rate (IFR), because many of the mildest and asymptomatic infections go undocumented, while the confirmed cases tend to have a bias toward those who are more evidently symptomatic.
In other words, Delta is literally the flu with a CFR identical to it. This is exactly what every respiratory pandemic has done through history: morphed into more transmissible and less virulent form that forces the other mutations out since you get that one. Nothing about masks, lockdowns, or experimental shots did this. To the extent this really is more transmissible, it’s going to be less deadly, as is the case with the common cold.
To the extent that there are areas below the herd immunity threshold (for example, in Scotland and the northwestern parts of the U.K.) they will likely get the Delta variant (until something else supplants it), but fatalities will continue to go down.
According to the above-mentioned report, the Delta variant represented more than 75 percent of all cases in the U.K. since mid-May. If it really was that deadly, it should have been wreaking havoc over the past few weeks.
You can see almost a perfect inverse relationship between hospitalization rates throughout April and May plummeting as the Delta variant became the dominant strain of the virus in England. Some areas might see a slight oscillation from time to time as herd immunity fills in, regardless of which variant is floating around. However, the death burden is well below that of a flu season and is no longer an epidemic.
As for vaccines, there is no evidence that somehow they provide better protection than prior infection from any other strain of the virus, nor does the Delta variant justify further use of these experimental shots. If anything, the U.K. data show that, to the extent there were deaths due to the Delta variant, there were more fatalities among those already vaccinated relative to the number of confirmed cases by vaccination status.
Again, the numbers are low across the board and there is no evidence the Delta variant is anything but less deadly for anyone. But there is certainly no evidence that somehow the vaccine is a greater imperative because of this variant. India itself appears to have achieved herd immunity – with the WHO estimating infection rates between 60% and 75% in most places – with one-seventh the death rate of England, but with one-fourth the percentage of people who have receive one dose of the vaccine.
Thus, the good news is that now that most countries have reached a large degree of herd immunity, there is zero threat of hospitals being overrun by any seasonal increase in various areas, no matter the variant. The bad news is that after Delta, there are Epsilon and 19 other letters of the Greek alphabet, which will enable the circuitous cycle of misinformation, fear, panic, and control to continue. And remember, as there is already a “Delta+,” the options are endless until our society finally achieves immunity to COVID panic porn.
That being said, the US isn’t the only country falling victim to the Delta variant hysteria. Reports published Wednesday morning claimed EU leaders including Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron were planning to hold a call to discuss more potential travel restrictions.
It’s increasingly looking like anybody with international travel plans might see them dashed due to Delta paranoia. But there’s a reason why British PM Boris Johnson plans to lift the last remaining restrictions in England on July 19, when the recent extension is set to expire.
But not everybody has been fooled. As we pointed out yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul has been one of the most vocal critics of the “Delta” variant hysteria. In a tweet sent yesterday morning, he urged the public not to let the fearmongers win.
Though judging by the sea of red on Wall Street Wednesday morning, it looks like most haven’t taken his advice.
And don’t forget – like Horowitz pointed out – if this wave of fearmongering fizzles, there are still plenty of other letters in the Greek alphabet that can be used to provoke paranoia.
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SteveT
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…or is it a ploy to stop us all from travelling, and burning all that evil fossil fuel? It wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
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Shane
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Agreed, and jab the pilots to be doubly sure of it
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Mark Tapley
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This is more establishment disinformation. (((Bloomberg))) is a Zionist operative. Since the fake virus has not been purified, isolated, nor identified neither could any variants. Every tissue sample examined using the standard virology method of multiple protein sources and cellular contamination will yield a new variant from the previous contaminated sample.
Whenever the government runs a false flag operation there will be several fake stories put out in order to distract the goyim from the basic issue. They don;’t want people to think about the sudden appearance of a pathogen with no evidence to back it up and they especially don’t want people to consider the fake PCR test. Just focus their limited attention span on bat soup, Wuhan labs and new “variants.”
It is amazing that the goyim believe whatever the MSM tell them. There is nothing different now than before Gates held his pre pandemic meeting and our shabbas goy senators held their closed door meeting before tipping off their big donors. Makes no difference which side of the Zionist aisle they are on, they are all puppet actors. The Rockefeller (Levinson) founded CDC has always lied about everything from the start. They were lying about the “flu” cases for years before springing this latest medical fraud.
The fake virus is about more than conditioning and control of the herd but also rakes in big money for the insiders. As just one example, in the ten years since Gates has been involved in his great philanthropic mission of injecting blood toxin into everyone in the world, he and Melinda have selflessly donated so much money in this noble humanitarian vaccine effort that he has doubled his wealth to over 100 billion. It is truly amazing how charity works.
This medical scam was made possible as are all conspiracies by careful preparation. In 1980 the Bayh Dole Act was passed, granting patents to groups and individuals USING GOV. MONEY. Formerly these patents were retained by the government. Soon after this law was passed AIDS was invented and generated a multi billion dollar scam. Now after several fake viruses and fake vaccines we have arrived at the natural outcome of this criminal activity.
Does anyone know the Origen of the title for the so called 201 meeting? the only thing I find that may be related is that Katherine of Russia protected the 201 Jesuits (crypto Jews) and allowed them to continue their subversion after the Pope ordered their order abolished.
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Shane
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Been watching this obsession with Jews and Zionism for some months now and the blaming of every article in this site on these people, rather than solely discussing the facts/information presented.
This behaviour appears similar to a teenager who constantly blames their parent for all their problems or a Climate Cult member blaming everything on just the CO2.
This is a nice way of saying that this behaviour is pissing people off here.
Try and write a response without the words, goyim, jews or Zion. You may get a more endearing reaction.
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Mark Tapley
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Does no good to discuss problems unless the source is identified. None of this is by accident but all by carful design. It is like the lawyer Fulmrich stated as posted on PSI. About 3000 people were behind the whole fake covid scam. He just did not use the word Zionist.
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M
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I wish the Jew hater would sod of from this website. Always posting childish comments.
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dave jr
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As Pres. Biden sez, “you don’t have to be Jewish to be a Zionist”. If you are offended, simply skip over his comments. But please do not speak for me.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Dave:
Some commenters on this site are offended by the truth and those who expose the real origin of the fake virus and climate change fraud. They also don’t like exposure of the Zionist’s puppet actors such as Trump, Biden and our shabbas goy aIPAC congress of Israel boot lickers.
https://blackjunction.com/post/300266_joe-biden-i-am-a-zionist-you-don-t-have-to-a-jew-to-be-a-zionist.html?lang=spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1LmnQRnw8I
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Mark and PSI Readers,
Mark, you wrote: “Some commenters on this site are offended by the truth.”
The following is a brief portion of Richard Feynman’s public address (titled: The Value of Science) at the National Academy of Sciences’ autumn meeting in 1955. As published in his New York Times best seller “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” (1988) after he had died of cancer.
“I would now like to turn to a third value that science has. It is a little less direct, but not much. The scientists has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty—some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”
So Mark, according to this Jew, there is no TRUTH!!!
Have a good day Independence Day, Jerry
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Herb Rose
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Hi Jerry,
Feynman is not saying there is no truth. What he is saying is that you can never know if you’ve identified it. Implicit in science is that there is a truth but because of our limited information and wrong information we cannot be sure that what we accept as being true is accurate.
Herb
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Herb,
You just repeated what I understand that Feynman wrote: “because of our limited information and wrong information we cannot be sure that what we accept as being true is accurate.” Hence, you cannot state: “Implicit in science is that there is a truth.” By making this statement you are claiming something you do not know!!! And you expect me and others to accept your great KNOWLEDGE (WISDOM) about SCIENCE???
Feynman’s point, which I claim to understand, was that we (all people as well as SCIENTISTS are HUMAN BEINGS) SHOULD NEVER ACCEPT ANY IDEA AS BEING A ‘TRUTH’. Why accept anything that may not be a TRUTH as being the TRUTH???
Yes, what I just wrote is an argument and not a TRUTH.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Jerry:
Even in science are there not some things that are absolute certainties? It seems to me there must be some immutable laws at work or else this tiny planet covered by a thin layer of atmosphere hurtling through space while maintaining minute control over it’s biological systems would stop.
In human nature we must also discern the truth. Maybe not in a scientific sense but one that is beyond a reasonable doubt. We have to go by the evidence. Some evidence is what is termed primary and some is circumstantial (often the best kind). Do you really believe there is nothing absolute and therefore a truth? That seems like Buddhism. I think Patrick Henry was right:
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.”
The nefarious network now employing the fake virus and climate fraud through their controlled MSM and puppet actor politicians has a long history from which they can be judged. It is also not difficult to predict their future course (and ours) if they are not stopped.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Mark and PSI Readers,
Readers, when Mark wrote: “It seems to me there must be some immutable laws at work or else this tiny planet covered by a thin layer of atmosphere hurtling through space while maintaining minute control over it’s biological systems would stop.”; it seems he didn’t understand the TRUTH that this NATURAL SYSTEM could care less what it seemed to him.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Jerry:
I think you really meant could NOT care less. But in any case the truth is there are immutable laws that are absolute.
Best regards. Mark
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Mark and PSI Readers,
First, I consider “could NOT care less” to be a double negative which can cause confusion. So I did mean to write: could care less..
I have often quoted: “Intuitive knowledge keeps pace with accurate definition.” (Louis Elzevir, Dutch publisher). So would you please define “immutable laws”.
After you do this would you please answer this question which John Hill asked the non-science students using an earlier edition of his chemistry textbook—Chemistry For Changing Times—intended for non-science majors. For this question cannot be found in later editions.
What is the difference between a scientific law and a governmental law?
A problem is Hill only gave this definition of Scientific Laws. “Scientific Laws merely summarize experimental data.” And this example: “Lavoisier found that in each of the reactions he carried out, the total weight of products was equal to the total weight of reactants. He summarized these findings as the law ow conservation of mass. This law has been verified repeatedly through the years.”
Even though I regularly assigned this question as a homework assignment for my students; it took me several classes over two years time to discover what had to be Hill’s expected answer. Even reading other definitions and examples of the critical importance of SCIENTIFIC LAWS did not me to help me to quick discover the best, unquestionable answer. Yes, I did accept some student answer which I considered to be GOOD ACCEPTABLE answers.
However, once I discovered the BEST answer I immediately knew (saw) why Hill never offered the simple best answer which could easily be memorized without any understanding of its importance. Which deeper understanding requires ‘pondering’ which is a step beyond merely thinking. Check out the two definitions for these two words.
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Have a good day, Jerry
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Jerry:
To say “could care less” is a common mis statement since it is really stating that you could care less than you presently do. When you state that you could not care less, it is definitive. Immutable means “not subject to change.”
Government is a man-made construction although ordained by God. Scientific law such as gravity (as opposed to a theory) is an example of immutability.
Best Regards, Mark
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Tom
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Where is the test(s) and the firm results that show the delta variant exists or is more damaging than the parent…CoV-2? Where are the studies that prove the delta variant is spreading? You need an exact test to confirm there are rising cases…not the fake PCR testing that was used to deceive the the existence of covid-19.
This is another ruse to scare people into lining up for more injections. This is how big pharma sells its rotten and poisonous drugs…by creating the fear of death using lies, trickery, propaganda and endless marketing of its lies.
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