Richard Fusniak wrote:
… Neil Ferguson (who has retired as from today) …

Interesting timing!

Richard Fusniak wrote:
The UK now has the worst death toll rate in Europe and the figures are now in the order of 30K exceeding those of Italy as from yesterday.

To reply I will quote again from Jon Rappoport - this time from his article in Nexus 6th May 2020 - Covid the numbers game, the fraud, and the final answer – [www.nexusnewsfeed.com]

Start with Europe and just plain seasonal flu. Not COVID. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe, “During the winter months, influenza may infect up to 20% of the population…”
The population of Europe is 741 million people. This works out to 148 million cases of ordinary flu. Not once. Every year. EVERY YEAR.

As of May 2, 2020, the number of COVID cases in Europe is 1,361,853, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Suppose we multiply that number by 2, or 4, or 20, to arrive a yearly figure for COVID cases in Europe. Does it approach, even vaguely, 148 million cases of flu—year after year after year? …

Approximately 9% of the world’s population is affected [by flu] annually, with up to 1 billion infections, 3 to 5 million severe cases, and 300,000 to 500,000 deaths each year.”
However, WHO Europe pegs the death figure higher: “A recent study found that worldwide up to 650,000 people die of respiratory diseases linked to seasonal influenza each year…”

Right now, the COVID global death toll stands at 245,000. For roughly half a year. So, for 2020, COVID could approach the number of seasonal flu deaths. …

All right. Let me step outside the numbers game. I’ll take up a position far enough away to analyze its basis.

And I’ll simply say: ALL COVID-19 case numbers are meaningless.
Why?

ONE: Researchers never properly discovered a new virus in China in the first place. Their claim of having done so is false.

TWO: The widespread diagnostic test for the virus in a patient, the PCR, is riddled with irreparable flaws. It spits out false-positives, because the test reacts to the presence of irrelevant germs that have nothing to do with a purported COVID. Most importantly the test has never been vetted, in the real world, for its claimed ability to detect whether a patient is ill or is going to become ill.

THREE: Many diagnoses of COVID in patients are based on no tests at all, but rather eyeball assessment, guesswork, unproven assumptions, outright lying, or, in China, CT scans of the lungs, which prove nothing about the presence of COVID or any other supposedly causative virus. …

Therefore, again, ALL case numbers of COVID are meaningless. …

Richard Fusniak wrote:
There is no clear answer whether lockdown or not is the best strategy. The problem is how to climb out of lockdown ...

Quoting again from the article from Jon Pappoport cited above:

We know that people have been falling ill, for a long, long time, with respiratory problems of various kinds. The human race has survived, without a lockdown on the scale we have now, and without the deaths caused by economic devastation. If you wanted to enable general immunity (aka health), regardless of how you define and describe it, you would now promote people being in close contact with one another. If you wanted to postpone immunity/health, you would lock people up and separate them.

As for the true causes of illness and disease, I have commented on that subject in other places. It’s not the purpose of this article. I will say this: In modern times, we must never ignore poisonous vaccination campaigns; other toxic medical treatments, including many drugs; the insults delivered by pesticides, GMOs, industrial pollutants, and electromagnetic technologies; and the promotion of fear.