{"id":168073,"date":"2020-09-07T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=168073"},"modified":"2020-09-06T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T08:37:07","slug":"what-is-covid-19-sars-2-how-is-it-tested-how-is-it-measured-the-fear-campaign-has-no-scientific-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/09\/what-is-covid-19-sars-2-how-is-it-tested-how-is-it-measured-the-fear-campaign-has-no-scientific-basis\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Covid-19, SARS-2? How Is It Tested? How Is It Measured? The Fear Campaign Has No Scientific Basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><em>\u00a0If the public had been informed that Covid-19 is \u201csimilar to Influenza\u201d, the fear campaign would have fallen flat. <strong>Covid-19 <\/strong>is a public health concern but<strong> it is NOT a dangerous virus.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>2 Sep 2020 &#8211; <\/em>The data and concepts have been manipulated with a view to sustaining the fear campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The estimates are meaningless. The figures have been hyped to justify the lockdown and the closure of the national economy, with devastating economic and social consequences. The Virus is held responsible for poverty and mass unemployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Confirmed by prominent\u00a0scientists as well as by official public health bodies including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<strong> Covid-19 <\/strong>is a public health concern but<strong> it is NOT a dangerous virus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 crisis is\u00a0marked\u00a0by a public health \u201cemergency\u201d under WHO auspices which is being used as a pretext and a \u00a0justification to trigger a Worldwide process of economic, social and political restructuring.\u00a0Social engineering is being applied. Governments are pressured into extending the lockdown, despite its devastating economic and social consequences.<\/p>\n<p>There is no scientific basis for implementing the closing\u00a0down of the global economy as a means to resolving a public health crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Both the media and the governments are involved in spreading disinformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The fear campaign has no scientific basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Our objective is to reassure people Worldwide. Your governments are LYING. \u00a0In fact they are lying to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>We start by defining the virus and the tests which are being used to \u201cidentify the virus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 \u00a0What is Covid-19, SARS-COV-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Below is the official WHO definition of Covid-19:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong>Coronaviruses<\/strong> are a large family of viruses which may cause illness in animals or humans. \u00a0In humans, several coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The most recently discovered coronavirus causes coronavirus disease COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The most common symptoms of <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> are fever, dry cough, and tiredness. \u2026 These symptoms are usually mild and begin gradually. Some people become infected but only <strong>have very mild symptoms<\/strong>.\u00a0Most people (about 80%) recover from the disease without needing hospital treatment. Around 1 out of every 5 people who gets COVID-19 becomes seriously ill and develops difficulty breathing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cCOVID-19 is similar to SARS-1\u2033: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/fake-coronavirus-data-fear-campaign-spread-of-the-covid-19-infection\/5708643\" >According to <\/a>\u00a0<strong>Dr. Wolfgang\u00a0Wodarg,\u00a0<\/strong>pneumonia is \u201cregularly caused or accompanied by corona viruses\u201d.\u00a0Immunologists broadly confirm the CDC definition. COVID-19 has similar features to a seasonal influenza coupled with pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According to <strong>Anthony Fauci<\/strong> (Head of NIAID), <strong>H. Clifford Lane<\/strong> and <strong>Robert R. Redfield<\/strong> (Head of CDC) in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMe2002387#\" >the New England Journal of Medicine\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2026the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be <strong>more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza<\/strong> (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong>Dr. Anthony Fauci<\/strong>\u00a0 is lying to himself. In his public statements he says that Covid is \u201cTen Times Worse than Seasonal Flu\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He\u00a0refutes his peer reviewed report quoted above.\u00a0From the outset, Fauci has been\u00a0instrumental in waging the fear and panic campaign across America:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/what-is-covid-19-sars-2-how-is-it-tested-how-is-it-measured-the-fear-campaign-has-no-scientific-basis\/5722566\" >TO READ FULL ARTICLE Go to Original &#8211; globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Michel-Chossudovsky.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-143077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Michel-Chossudovsky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research.\u00a0 He has taught as visiting professor in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Latin America. He has served as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has acted as a consultant for several international organizations. He is the author of eleven books including\u00a0<\/em>The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order\u00a0(<em>2003<\/em>),\u00a0America\u2019s \u201cWar on Terrorism\u201d\u00a0(<em>2005<\/em>),\u00a0The Global Economic Crisis, The Great Depression of the Twenty-first Century\u00a0(<em>2009<\/em>) (<em>Editor<\/em>),\u00a0Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War\u00a0(<em>2011<\/em>), The Globalization of War, America&#8217;s Long War against Humanity (<em>2015<\/em>). <em>He is a contributor to the<\/em> Encyclopaedia Britannica.\u00a0 <em>His writings have been published in more than twenty languages.\u00a0In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on NATO&#8217;s war of aggression against Yugoslavia. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:crgeditor@yahoo.com\">crgeditor@yahoo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a9 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/michel-chossudovsky\" title=\"Posts by Prof Michel Chossudovsky\" >Prof Michel Chossudovsky<\/a>, Global Research, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Sep 2020 &#8211; \u00a0If the public had been informed that Covid-19 is \u201csimilar to Influenza\u201d, the fear campaign would have fallen flat. Covid-19 is a public health concern but it is NOT a dangerous virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":143077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2124],"tags":[1913,1385,1829,1868,289,555,401,710,1937,613,1864,1102,723,1447,888,1836,75],"class_list":["post-168073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debates-on-covid-vaccines","tag-bill-gates","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-economy","tag-elites","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-lockdown","tag-new-world-order","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health","tag-research","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-vaccines","tag-who","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}