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Making Sense of the Pandemic

Purpose: Investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic

Introduction

  • This site is full of opinion. We have collected a huge wide variety of items and we attempt to label these items as either True or False.
  • We document why it is our opinion, our group consensus, that these items are correctly tagged as either True or False.
  • Every item will be able to be tagged so you can either agree or disagree by you tagging the item yourself.
  • That feature is not yet ready but you can see we are attempting to make this a community-driven collective-knowledge resource.
  • This website will attempt to be kept up-to-date so you can learn what has changed since you last visited.

Who we are

  • link to contributors

How this site is organized

Useful charts when reviewing this pandemic

Flu vs. Covid 1916 to December 2020

Flu vs. Covid 1916 to December 2020

WHO 2020 Global flu counts

WHO 2020 Global flu counts

Deaths per week USA 2015-2020

Deaths per week USA 2015-2020

UK daily deaths 2015-2020

UK daily deaths 2015-2020

CDC survival rates by age September 2020

deaths-per-week-USA-2015-2020

Letter to the town of Brookine Massachusetts

FY2021 revised budget revised budget highlights


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Source: FY 2021 Revised Budget Presentation to the Select Board

FY2021 revised budget assumptions local receipts


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FY2021 Revised Budget: Departmental Reductions


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Brookline Health: Budget 2018-2021


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Source: Financial Plan - Live Tracking

Brookline Health: Salaries 2018-2021


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WHO official urges world leaders to stop using lockdowns as primary virus control method

The World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19 urged world leaders this week to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method.”
“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Dr. David Nabarro said to The Spectator’s Andrew Neil. “The 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’d rather not do it.”


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Source: MSN "WHO: stop using lockdowns as primary virus control method" October 10 2020

UK virus cases hospital ICU deaths


virus cases hospital ICU deaths

Source: Twitter Christina Pagel @chrischirp Jan 16, 2021

The WHO is recommending key changes to PCR testing.

The WHO is recommending some changes to PCR testing.

"PCR positive" is no longer a Covid "case"

You are not Covid "case" now unless you get a second test to confirm it, and are presenting clinical symptoms.
WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology.

WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity.


WHO Jan 20 2021 PCR changes

Source: WHO requests users to follow the instructions for use (IFU) when interpreting results for specimens tested using PCR methodology. January 20 2021

Public Health Department

How many staff

Total Spending

Activities Performed

Same for Economic Development Department

Comments about various suggested / recommended / not-recommended Covid virus treatments

Ivermectin

Ivermectin, the most promising COVID treatment to date, won its developers the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015 and a place on the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines. Since the 1980s, with billions of doses given
Source: Trial Site News, By Mary Beth Pfeiffer, December 27 2020 : In Far-Flung Places, COVID-19 Is Being Treated Early And Well. Here’s Why Americans Don’t Know This.

Cheap hair lice drug may cut the risk of hospitalised Covid patients dying by up to 80%, study finds
Ivermectin - which can cost as little as £1.50 per treatment- was also found to potentially halve the time those suffering from the virus were on the ward
Ivermectin was discovered in the 1970s and has fast become an essential medicine for a vast number of parasitic infections, such as head lice and scabies.

It is branded as Stromectol, an oral tablet for scabies and Soolantra, a skin cream for rosacea. It is branded as Sklice for treating head lice, which was approved in the US this year.

Today it is prescribed on the NHS and in the US for these conditions, but some scientists argue it could also be useful against Covid-19.
Source: UK Daily Mail, By Luke Andrews

The effect of early treatment with ivermectin on viral load, symptoms and humoral response in patients with non-severe COVID-19: A pilot, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial
Source: The Lancet: The effect of early treatment with ivermectin on viral load, symptoms and humoral response in patients with non-severe COVID-19: A pilot, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial Published: January 19, 2021

“Several studies show you can grow the virus in a test tube and then kill it off with high doses of various drugs we already have Innocuous FDA-approved drug like ivermectin at five or ten times the normal doses, of course you’re going to have toxicity”
Source:

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

What do we know?

  • A virus has been reported. The virus affects mainly old, infirm, and those with comorbidities - the people who typically die of the flu.
  • The virus also appears to affect PoC more severely

What do we not know?

What is issues with PCR testing and "cases"

  • PCR "cases" indicates the presence of old inert remnants of inactive pieces of virus
  • The PCR test replicates, amplifies, multiplies the sample X times. 30-35 cyles is good, above will give lots of false postive "cases" - but they are false positive - if the PCR test was re-run at 28 or 30 it will likely be negative.
  • PCR testing has an interesting side effect in that the testing organization obtains your full DNA profile

This is an excellent overview of the cases issue: "Case rate fallacy/false positive paradox" is derived from Bayes theorem. When the incidence of a disease in a population is low, unless the test used has very high specificity, more false positives will be determined than true positives. The difference in the numbers can be quite striking and certainly not inherently understandable." MedPageToday.com - Here's What's Wrong With COVID-19 Case Counts

What would a multi-year chart of "Deaths by Cause and Age" show us and where is that data?

  • The CDC last updated the data in 2018 - we have no data from 2019 or 2020 - no cause of death by age.
  • This is important because how will we know when the vaccines are effective?
  • Why is this simple data being withheld?

What are some simple questions that we think do not make any sense

  • Old infirm w/ comorbidity are dying. So Why inject young healthy of reproductive age?
  • If the supermarket and many stores and business can be open, why not the library?

What items do we consider true, and why?

  • It is completely unrealistic to believe a natural virus jumped out of a bush and caused this pandemic. This is a man-made virus.

What items do we consider false, and why?

  • The virus did not come from nature. It has too many advanced gain-of-function features that scientists recently proudly documented in published papers.

Who are the participants, the cast members in this story?

What are some historical events we might want to recall when considering this pandemic

What is pathogen research, who funds it and how much?

Why is Bill Gates seemingly involved in many parts of this story

What was Event 201, a multi-day multi-country pandemic preparedless simulation October 2019

What was Wuhan World Military Games, a multi-day 140+ multi-country sports games held at the Wulhan bio lab October 2019

What is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and what does it fund

Vaccines

What is the history of vaccines, how much money and what are they used for

What funding and research has been done with vaccines and fertility management

What funding and research has been done with vaccines and nano particles

What are nano particles

Who was Harvard Chemistry Department Chair and nano particle expert Charles Lieber and why was he arrested

What is the historical background and timeline of key participants of this pandemic

How is famous Jeffrey Epstein who flew famous people to have massages on islands - how is he involved?

Role of the Rockefeller Foundation - John D. Rockefeller owned Standard Oil and was/is as rich as Jeff Bezos.

Resources and additional background material

Knowledge vs Noise - our opinions about news and media sources

What are media sources that we try to check every day?

| News or Media Source | Comment |

What is narrative control and how is it used to shape public opinion

Government Monitoring and Control

Social Media

How to understand the ways Facebook filters, throttles and amplifies communications

How to understand the ways Twitter filters, throttles and amplifies communications

When I posted this:

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I am constantly shadowbanned on Twitter

twitter-shadowban-example

How to understand the ways Reddit filters, throttles and amplifies communications

Person, identity, and location tracking

How does ad tracking and cookies work across the web

What are the all-encompassing data vacuums by Palantir and Oracle and Cambridge Analytica

What is the Palantir dashboard and who in your local area is viewing it

What was Cambridge Analytica - what is that whole scandal about?

Current Events and their relationship to today's events

How to recognize typical Russian sabotage, cause confusion (Brexit etc)

How to understand Brexit

How to understand the Yellow Vests in France

How understand the anti-fracking and pipeline protests by young people and indigenous peoples

How to understand NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement and fossil fuel's effect on sustainable mexican agriculture

Economics, Fossil Fuels, Pharma, Money, Power

What are the economic effects of lockdowns

How does the lockdowns help and encourage large business but destroy small business

Here is a question I posted on Facebook, and also on Twitter

brookline-economic-development-GIS-public-health-storefronts

What is the WEF World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab

What is the WEF World Economic Forum and this proposed / planned Great Reset

What is the WEF World Economic Forum event at Davos, who goes, anyone from my area?

What is the WEF World Economic Forum relationship to vaccines

What is the WEF World Economic Forum relationship with Bill Gates

What is the WEF World Economic Forum relationship with fossil fuels

What is the role of local officials and public health in the lockdowns

What is fascism and what are examples of it in the past

What is Eugenics and who in history has involvement

Who is with us - who is against lockdowns and injections

Who are famous people who are questioning the whole narriative of lockdowns and injecting young healthy people

  • Ian Brown (British Rocker Stone Roses and solo)
  • Van Morrison (British Rocker 1960's to now)
  • Eric Clapton (British Rocker 1960's to now)

Who apparently is a fascist in favor of lockdowns and injections of young healthy of reproductive age

Who locally is now someone who has lost our trust

  • Healthcare providers - injecting young healthy to save old infirm? Really? Where is the logic in that?
  • Local officials and public health officials - lock down the library and withhold data of deaths by Cause by Age - why hide simple data?

Who are famous medical, research and data scientists people who appear to be supporting lockdowns and healhy young people being injected

  • Nate Silver - FiveThirtyEight.com

Who are news people who appear to be supporting lockdowns and healhy young people being injected

  • The Atlantic Monthly - Steve Jobs's wife Powell owns the Atlantic Monthly
  • Rachel Maddow
  • Young Turks
  • DailyKos
  • Huffington Post
  • Buzzfeed
  • Vice News
  • TMZ
  • Rolling Stone

Who are famous media and entertainment people who appear to be supporting lockdowns and healhy young people being injected

  • Madonna
  • AOC

What media sources are untrustworty because they are encouraging lockdowns and healthy young people to be injected

  • WBUR
  • WGBH
  • Boston Globe
  • New York Times
  • Washington Post
  • Local news
  • Local TV
  • Cable TV
  • Democrat channels - MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC
  • Republican channels - Fox News, Breitbart, Steve Bannon, Pat Buchanan
  • Politico, The Hill, Axios

What messages is the media sending that we feel are incorrect

How you can maintain stability and normalcy and your mental health during these trying times

Dystopian Books (and sometimes movies and TV series)

Book Author Relevant Lessons
Animal Farm name classic
Brave New World name classic
1984 name classic
The Handmaid's Tale name classic

Dystopian movies and TV series

Show Author relevance
12 Monkey's who why

Love, Death and Robots love-death-and-robots-zima-blueImage via Netflix Created by: Tim Miller

Executive produced by Tim Miller (Deadpool) and legendary filmmaker David Fincher, the animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots is kind of the perfect catch-all for sci-fi fans. Each episode hails from a different writer and director, and the theme holding them all together is the idea of sci-fi technology. As a result you get a wide range of tone from uber-violent to romantic to hysterically funny. All in all, though, there’s just some really great sci-fi storytelling in here. – Adam Chitwood

Watch Love, Death & Robots Here

What famous people had words of wisdom we might want to review today

How you can help

There are many ways you can continue your research and help out the community at the same time.
Here are some suggestions, please add to this list:

Join the discord community ()[]

How to upload content to be included in our research

Help us with research

Help us with software development

How to look at our project roadmap

How to help automate data collection

How to get your computer set up

How to install vscode on your computer

How to set up SSH keys on your computer with vscode

How to edit Markdown to format documents (Markdown-Cheatsheet)[https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet]

How do use branching in GitHub

How to submit a pull request for someone to accept your submission

How to use puppeteer to automatically scrape a web page to retrieve data

How to buy a $250 chromebook for an awesome development experience

How to know about how the government is monitoring your Apple computer via the M2 chip

How to know about how the government is monitoring your Chromebook

How another project 'Minimal Mistakes' guides contributors in their Pull Request process

("Contributing set up, create branch, Pull Requests, GitHub Flow")[https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes]
(Understanding the GitHub flow)[https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/]
GitHub flow is a lightweight, branch-based workflow that supports teams and projects where deployments are made regularly

This guide explains how and why GitHub flow works.

  • Main is deployable always
  • Create a branch & Commit work on it
  • Pull Request announces your work and opens discussion, even if you are nowhere near being ready to complete it
  • Discussions are in the activity, full markup capability
  • @mentions to alert others
  • a bot can do housekeeping tasks such as trim old dead stale branches
  • Discuss and review changes, ensure testing and style are adhered to
  • Deploy to pre-prod or prod
  • Merge with main branch

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Thomas Connors and contributors