At a press conference last week, PDJT announced that Dr. Scott Atlas is joining the Covid Task Force. It would be hard to overstate how good this news is, particularly in view of how embarrassingly wrong that Dr. Fauci, head of the NIH, has been.
Dr. Atlas currently serves as the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank. From 1998 to 2012, he was Professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center.
In health policy work at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, Atlas has been a leading researcher in health care systems. Atlas’s research interests are domestic and global health care policy, particularly the role of government and the free market in pricing, quality, access, and technology innovation.
Dr. Atlas has written extensively on the evidence about single payer health care compared with the health care system of the United States, and how to reform the United States’ health care system to improve access and quality particularly for lower-income groups using a competition-based system to reduce costs, rather than an expansion of government programs. Most recently, Atlas has been a prominent voice in discussing the scientific issues and policy impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has authored more than 170 policy essays.
During the last few weeks more and more evidence has emerged that lockdowns, untargeted social distancing, and forcing everyone to wear masks are neither effective nor necessary responses to COVID-19 and, in fact, are a much greater menace than the virus itself.
COVID-19 has been used to obliterate America’s commitment to individual liberty. It has been used to drive the country to the brink of economic and spiritual ruin. I have seen and heard from highly educated acquaintances whose tunnel vision is so bad that they cannot understand why a “rising militant faction believe their civil rights are being infringed on.”
People need to earn a livelihood. They need to be able to feed and provide for their families. Human beings, by and large, thrive on social contact. These learned acquaintances of mine remind me of those in Nazi Germany in the 1930’s who turned a blind eye to the atrocities the Nazis were committing until it was too late.
Dr. Fauci’s and others projections about COVID-19 have turned out to be as accurate as those worthless reports of Iraqi WMDs from a couple of decades back. And the idea that Dr. Fauci is speaking “truth to power” is hysterical. Dr. Fauci is backed by one of the most powerful lobbies in the country, Big Pharma. People who stand up against Big Pharma are truly “speaking truth to power.”
We have been witnessing a sick, savage and vicious assault on the American people en masse. Democratic governors are not only complicit in this assault on our individual liberties but are leading the charge. Hitler, Stalin and Mao would be proud of how these so-called leaders have bamboozled their constituencies. However, more and more of Americans are waking up to these lunacies every day.
Recently President Trump noted this about lockdowns.
The President is right. America has responded as it always has. Americans have jumped in and did what needed to be done. Capacity has been built. Almost all states have a COVID-19 hospital load that is less than 20%. This includes the so-called hotspots like Florida and South Carolina.
Lockdowns and social distancing, at best, slow down the rate at which the COVID-19 virus spreads. The virus will do what the virus will do. These mitigation measures will not decrease the number of people who will ultimately get sick.
Even the Washington Post, while bowing down to the magic of social distancing, admitted this. WaPo said, “…the reason [to engage in social distancing] isn’t that it will stop the virus; it’s likely the same number of people will ultimately still get sick.” Of course, this was before the media realized that keeping the country shut down might help the Democrats win the White House.
The President also took a major step to correct the absolutely false idea that COVID-19 is a mortal threat to young and healthy Americans. Many of us have seen the fear spread by the media when they interview a 20-something year old teacher who, with tears streaming down her face, says that she is terrified to return to the classroom.
The median age is even higher, just over 80 in the US. In Sweden, who had no mask mandate, the median age is 86. That’s higher than the life expectancy there.
The hysterical state of fear many Americans have been driven to is completely unjustified. A ton of data proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that COVID-19 is less deadly to the young and healthy than the seasonal flu. Remember Dr. Fauci’s statement that the virus was “10 times more lethal than the flu?” This is just one of the many horrendously wrong “facts” to come from the so-called experts.
COVID-19’s relatively high death rate in America among the elderly is largely a result of the idiotic decision by multiple Democratic governors (Cuomo-NY, Murphy-NJ, Whitmer-Mich, etc.) to force infected patients into nursing homes. Without this decision America probably would not have reached the CDC’s threshold for an epidemic. Imagine that! Just what were these governors thinking? Could most of the suffering the country has experienced been avoided if these governors were even marginally capable of leading a state?
So, where does Dr. Scott Atlas fit into the current picture? Aside from his considerable credentials, Dr. Atlas is one of thousands of medical experts the Democrats and their complicit media allies don’t want you to hear from. Why? Because these people have been trying to put the brakes on the suicidal, anti-science response to COVID-19.
Michael Thau reports on Dr. Atlas:
Way back on April 22, Dr. Atlas penned an op-ed in The Hill whose title couldn’t have been clearer:
The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation.
He explained five facts about COVID-19 that were already apparent from the data we had a month after lockdowns started. But most Americans were totally unaware and, thanks to our corrupt and incompetent national press, still are.
- Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19.
- Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.
- Fact 3: Vital herd immunity is actually PREVENTED by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem.
- Fact 4: People are dying from being denied other medical care due to hypothetical COVID-19 fatality projections that turned out to be garbage.
- Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures.
Countless lives would’ve been saved and a heartbreaking amount of needless hardship and misery averted if more people had been aware of Dr. Atlas’s article back in April when it first appeared.
Dr. Atlas appears to be a much-needed counterweight to the abysmally short-sighted Dr. Fauci. Perhaps now a science-based message can be delivered to the American public. Perhaps real science data can start to seep into the public consciousness. Perhaps more Americans will wake up to the fact that we have been lied to over and over. And perhaps the nightmare inflicted on America by the Democrats and the media can begin to end.