SHOW NOTES: LOCKDOWN ANNIVERSARY! Reviewing ALL the Lies and the Liars Who Told Them!
Brodigan - March 16, 2021 at 09:19AM
Happy anniversary! It's one year since Americans were told "15 days to flatten the curve," and we're taking a look back. We'll cover what we were told then and figure out what turned out to be true. HINT: Not much. It's a party! No masks or social distancing necessary.
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ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF FIFTEEN DAYS TO FLATTEN THE CURVE
CLAIM: 15 days to slow the spread! SOURCE: CBS Evening News
TRUTH: Over a year later, 60% of businesses open in April were closed by September, and at least 22 million jobs were lost. SOURCES: Marketwatch , CNBC
CLAIM: 2.2 million in the U.S. alone would be dead by October! SOURCES: ImperialCollege , White House , Joe Biden
TRUTH: By October it was 199,942, and today it's 535,227. SOURCES: NYT , CovidTracking
CLAIM: The mortality rate will be 3.4%. SOURCES: CNBC , WION , YouTube , Blomberg , Reuters , Hannity
TRUTH: It's actually turned out to be 1.8% in the United States, not including asymptomatic and undiagnosed cases. SOURCE: Worldometer
The death rate per capita in the United States is 0.162. SOURCE: CovidUSA
Remember, these doctors were BANNED from Facebook and removed from Youtube for saying exactly this. SOURCE: LwC
CLAIM: The virus can live in the air for days and on surfaces! SOURCES: Twitter , Twitter , Twitter
TRUTH: No. Surfaces and are not the main ways COVID is spread. It can only live on cardboard for a few hours. COVID is not airborne. SOURCES: WHO , New York Times
CLAIM: We need lockdowns! Lockdowns work! SOURCES: ABC News , CNN , CNN , Stephen Colbert
TRUTH: The countries with the top mortality rates had lockdowns and the states with the highest death rates had lockdowns. SOURCES: JohnsHopkins , Statista
In contrast, states like Florida that NEVER had a lockdown are doing well. And Texas, which had far stricter lockdowns, is still performing better than many of the aforementioned blue states.
Even the WHO said that lockdowns don't work. The Spectator
CLAIM: TRUST THE WHO! They are the most trusted organization in international health! SOURCES: New York Times , Time , Washington Post
TRUTH: The WHO praised China's response. SOURCES: STAT , Reuters , Twitter
The WHO covered up China's role in spreading COVID to the world.
They were against travel bans as an early mitigation method.
They praised China's COVID response and its "transparency" about the virus.
CLAIM: The WHO and China claimed that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission back in January 2020. SOURCES: WHO , USA Today , Bloomberg
TRUTH: Taiwan already had evidence of this back in December 2019! SOURCE: FinancialTimes
Not only did they deny human to human transmission, they spread conspiracies that COVID came from the American military! "It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!" SOURCE: Twitter
Why didn't the WHO acknowledge this? Because it does NOT recognize Taiwan as its own sovereign state due to the "One China" policy. SOURCE: ForeignPolicy
CLAIM: Sweden will die! SOURCES: CBS News , CNN
TRUTH: They're doing better than average. Their case fatality rate is 1.8%, the same as the U.S., except they didn't completely destroy their economy. SOURCE: WHO
CLAIM: A lot of children will die! It's deadly to kids! SOURCES: Science daily , FOX13 , FOX Seattle , Today , CNN
TRUTH: No children without pre-existing conditions have died. Child mortality rates are EXTREMELY low, at 3 per 100,000 for children ages 0-4 and 1 per 100,000 for children age 5-14. SOURCES: NBC , NBC , American Council on Science and Health
CLAIM: Operation Warp Speed will never work! There's no WAY we can have a vaccine within the year! SOURCES: ABC News , CNBC
TRUTH: The first COVID vaccine given outside of trials was in December SOURCE: Washington Post
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