Articles – Brownstone Institute
Covid is Not a Specific Disease
When people say: “I had Covid,” what do they mean? They mean they had a positive test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Very often, they had no clinical symptoms whatsoever – they “had” asymptomatic Covid. They may have suffered from the well-known symptoms of a common cold...
Covid Vaccines Have Saved Millions of Lives…in Models
As more and more questions are being asked by more and more scientists, health professionals and journalists, the narrative of “safe and effective” Covid-19 vaccines is crumbling by the day, and scientific truth is slowly beginning to impose itself. The simple...
A Common Sense Look at 20 million Saved Lives
A mathematical modeling study from London’s Imperial College, recently published as a preprint in The LANCET, purports to demonstrate that the COVID vaccines saved roughly 15 to 20 million lives in 2021. The authors excluded China from their model,...
Quo usque tandem abutere, Corona, patientia nostra?
N.B.: I use the term “Covid-19” as synonymous with “infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” as this is now more or less standard practice. It was originally meant to only designate the atypical pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 (“severe form”). As such a specific name...
Another Look at Covid Vaccine Studies
From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the risk factors for severe forms and death from – or “with” – the respiratory virus called SARS-CoV-2 had been clearly identified: Advanced age, obesity, severe chronic comorbidities (other diseases, e.g. hypertension,...
A Closer look at US 2020 Mortality Data
According to the CDC, the United States of America lost 3,358,814 of its citizens in 2020, an age-adjusted increase of 15.9% compared to 2019. For the CDC, the reason for this increase is apparently self-evident and clear : COVID-19, which “has become the third...
A Closer Look at Germany’s Covid Mortality
When the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said in October 2020 that the median age of Covid fatalities was above life expectancy, he was clearly on to something. It is a pity, and a terrible mistake of historical dimensions, that he – and so many others – did...