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<\/p>\nBY JOHN RUBINO
\nDollarCollapse.com<\/p>\n
Early in the pandemic, \u201ctrust the science!\u201d could actually be used in a debate without attracting derisive laughter. But as the flip-flops, mistakes and, yes, lies have accumulated, a consensus seems to be forming that the health care authorities are no more trustworthy than the people running Congress or the Fed.<\/p>\n
For proof, let\u2019s start with vitamin D, which sure seems to lessen the severity of coronavirus infections. As the chart below illustrates (couldn\u2019t find the source, but google \u201ccovid vitamin D\u201d and you\u2019ll find lots of studies that track with this data), people with higher levels of vitamin D in their bloodstream tend to experience covid-19 as a non-event while people low levels found the infection life-threatening.<\/p>\n
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There are obvious questions about causality here, so calling vitamin D a \u201ccure\u201d is going way too far. But if it has even a marginal effect \u2013 and the data suggest considerably more \u2014 a rational government would, you\u2019d think, be handing out vitamin D like Halloween candy. In fact, since we\u2019re mandating\/prohibiting all kinds of other behaviors, we might expect vitamin D consumption to be\u00a0required<\/em>\u00a0along with masks and social distancing.<\/p>\n Even covid-czar Anthony Fauci recently said: \u201cIf you are deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection. So I would not mind recommending \u2014 and I do it myself \u2014 taking vitamin D supplements.\u201d<\/p>\n So why aren\u2019t family-sized bottles of vitamin D arriving in the mail from the CDC? A cynic might wonder if the fact that Big Pharma doesn\u2019t make much money from cheap, widely available supplements plays a role in the government\u2019s apparent lack of interest.<\/p>\n Now about those lockdowns.\u00a0Tom Woods<\/a>\u00a0has been producing charts that appear to show virtually no difference in virus outcomes between US states with aggressive lockdown policies and those without. California, for instance, has shuttered most of its small businesses and imposed widespread curfews, while Florida hasn\u2019t. Here\u2019s the result:<\/p>\n As for the rest of the world \u2013 where they\u2019re supposedly doing better than the US \u2013 the pattern of zero correlation between lockdowns and virus spread seems to be holding. France imposed a full national lockdown in March \u2013 after which the virus spiked. Then they added mask mandates (indoor\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0outdoor), with fines attached. And daily new cases soared.<\/p>\n Then of course there\u2019s the lying. Dr. Fauci first claimed that masks don\u2019t help \u2013 when he believed they did help \u2014 because he feared mask shortages for health care workers. He also admits to changing the official line on herd immunity according to what he thinks we\u2019re ready to hear.<\/p>\n And, in what sounds more like incompetence than dishonesty, he\u2019s apparently been answering the question \u201cwhen will life go back to normal?\u201d with whatever pops into his head at the time. In early 2020, it was the coming Autumn. In July, it was \u201ca year or so.\u201d More recently it\u2019s \u201cwell into 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n But the biggest and by far the most outrageous reason for this growing mistrust has to be the World Health Organization which, well, read for yourself:<\/p>\n The World Health Organization\u2019s special envoy on COVID-19 urged world leaders this week to stop \u201cusing lockdowns as your primary control method.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,\u201d Dr. David Nabarro said to The Spectator\u2019s Andrew Neil. \u201cThe only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we\u2019d rather not do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Nabarro went on to point out several of the negative consequences lockdowns have caused across the world, including devastating tourism industries and increased hunger and poverty.<\/p>\n \u201cJust look at what\u2019s happened to the tourism industry in the Caribbean, for example, or in the Pacific because people aren\u2019t taking their holidays,\u201d he said. \u201cLook what\u2019s happened to smallholder farmers all over the world. \u2026 Look what\u2019s happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition.\u201d<\/p>\n In the United States, lockdowns have been tied to increased thoughts of suicide from children, a surge in drug overdoses, an uptick in domestic violence, and a study conducted in May concluded that stress and anxiety from lockdowns could destroy seven times the years of life that lockdowns potentially save.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The health care establishment could have saved a lot of time \u2014 and embarrassment \u2014 by just asking regular people about this stuff.\u00a0 But then they would have made a lot less money.<\/p>\n![\"covid](\"https:\/\/www.dollarcollapse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/California-vs-Florida-covid.jpg\")
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WHO official urges world leaders to stop using lockdowns as primary virus control method<\/a><\/h2>\n