1. The documents underlying this Welt story, about how scientists, public health bureaucrats & German politicians collaborated to develop panic inducing models to justify extending the first German lockdown, have now been leaked. I'll be posting excerpts from them here all day.https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1370342426062295040 …
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2. Centralised disease statistics are propaganda. Page 1: "A central collection of all tests that have been carried out or will be, is essential." Citizens have to see the spread and the containment of the virus. Only then will they accept limitations on their freedoms.pic.twitter.com/NFoqojt3Sj
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3. Ridiculous exaggeration of the infection fatality rate. Page 3: The RKI estimate of 0,56% IFR is binned. Based on hocus pocus reasoning about South Korea, they come up with an age-adjusted IFR of 1,8% for Europe. The number that actually gets plugged into their model is 1,2%pic.twitter.com/IDNeN12DY9
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4. The "model" they developed was a low-res version of the Imperial College model from 16 March. Page 4: In their "Worst Case" scenario: One million Germany die, 80% of patients requiring intensive care must be turned away, 70% of entire population infected within months.pic.twitter.com/J5xhclQQ48
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5. ScaRY GrAphS Page 5: The "Worst Case" prophesied nearly 1,2 million dead by the end of May. Hundreds of thousands of patients requiring ventilation, wildly exceeding available capacity Ventilators were absolutely central to the justification of lockdowns in mid-March 2020pic.twitter.com/tL4v6Rk8VU
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6. Their best-case scenario is literally called "Hammer and Dance." This is the title of a Medium essay by Bay-Area thinkfluencer and entrepreneur and Corona propagandist Tomas Pueyo, whose mysteriously viral Medium articles drove lockdown policies in multiple countries.pic.twitter.com/47Ok5SItsG
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Replying to @eugyppius1
I remember reading that piece. Never heard of the guy before or since
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Replying to @VeloMontaigne
He used to be into "Storytelling" and wrote some eccentric book about narrative structure in Star Wars. With the coming of Corona he ditched that and has become a "data nerd."pic.twitter.com/Sgc5ZpPyGQ
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Replying to @eugyppius1
this has to be some oligarch's kid with a trust fund the question is whose
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My instinct is he's adjacent in some way to the Davos crowd. That's at least been the case in other instances I've noticed, where some journalist or author, making just the right arguments, comes out of nowhere & is heavily promoted in unison across the media.
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Replying to @eugyppius1
I think you're right. He's too young to have made it their through career, so it has to be some sort of familial connection
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