I have a hunch one day all the corporate media news cum propaganda material on COVID-19 will be reborn as the basis for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. As news, as narrative, and even as propaganda, it's that bad. It's not even good fear porn, yet it refuses to die.
Our latest installment of COVID-19 fear porn concerns the Omicron BA.2 subvariant, which we are now being told is 1.4 times as scary as the original Omicron subvariant BA.1.
Eric Feigl-Ding, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist who was among the first researchers to sound the alarm about the seriousness of Covid-19, wrote that the subvariant — BA.2 — is “seriously bad news”.
“Even the World Health Organisation is getting very concerned about BA.2 variant outcompeting and displacing old Omicron,” he wrote on social media.
He wrote that news out of Denmark, where the subvariant represents 90 per cent of all new cases, suggests it is having significant health impacts.
“Here is what is happening in the country with the most BA.2 variant so far. (Denmark) has been BA.2 dominant for weeks and have now almost no mitigations either … now their excess deaths are spiking again.”
Yikes! Break out the N95 respirators and lock down the world, Omicron BA.2 is causing a surge of death in Denmark!
With the effective reproduction rate below 1 since February 13, the expected trend in Denmark is for continued decline.
Where the metrics show decline, a surge is mathematically impossible.
What Feigl-Ding is doing is artlessly conflating excess deaths with actual deaths. His “surge" is that more people are dying from COVID-19 in Denmark than expected. While excess deaths are a common modality for expressing the severity of an health condition, by definition excess deaths cannot measure whether that condition is becoming more or less prevalent—the proper metric for determining what is a concern for the public health.
More of his peers need to call him out for his incomprehensible graphs and charts. The ones he did to Tweet his usual case of the vapors over the Japanese study were garbled gobbledygook.
With charts like his I'm surprised he isn't moonlighting at BLS showing all the ways 2+2=5.
It was with great restraint that I avoided the Twitter epithet I applied to him in 2020 when the "Harvard educated epidemiologist" managed to forget one of the long standing tools of epidemiology, syndromic surveillance. That bit of self lobotomization earned him the name Feigl-Dingbat.
He's nothing but a corporate media drama queen, frankly.
Das Corona-Virus muss auch das Gehirn angreifen, weil die Gedanken vieler Menschen, Wissenschaftler, Politiker und Experten den Menschen eine neue Kultur geben......
I think you like writing the name Feigl-Ding. ;-)) Here's more on the fearmongering clown:
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/dr-eric-ding-called-out-for-spreading-misinformation-by-denmark-officials-77729/
More of his peers need to call him out for his incomprehensible graphs and charts. The ones he did to Tweet his usual case of the vapors over the Japanese study were garbled gobbledygook.
With charts like his I'm surprised he isn't moonlighting at BLS showing all the ways 2+2=5.
It was with great restraint that I avoided the Twitter epithet I applied to him in 2020 when the "Harvard educated epidemiologist" managed to forget one of the long standing tools of epidemiology, syndromic surveillance. That bit of self lobotomization earned him the name Feigl-Dingbat.
He's nothing but a corporate media drama queen, frankly.
Angst und Panikmacher schreien sehnsüchtig:
„die neuen, leichter übertragbaren Virusvarianten BA.2“
Das Corona-Virus muss auch das Gehirn angreifen, weil die Gedanken vieler Menschen, Wissenschaftler, Politiker und Experten den Menschen eine neue Kultur geben......
"Kultur der Angst"
Tatsächlich scheint es unter den sogenannten "Experten" eine Pandemie des Dummen zu geben.
Was ist damit passiert, auf die Realität direkt vor uns zu achten?
"Pandemie des Dummen" Pandemic of Stupidity. Good one!
(Aside: I don't speak German, but the Vivaldi browser has an incredibly useful feature that allows me to highlight text and translate with a click.)
I use the Google translate app myself. Handy tools to have when you have an international audience!