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Hugh McCarthy's avatar

Yes, I know. Dr Gerry Quinn whom you met in Belfast , has maybe a slightly different emphasis--i.e the policies did not work--rather than ....there was nothing there for them to work on.

There was also no moral case for locking up humanity--but mischievously-I might wonder-would the policies have worked IF there had been something to work on ! Still NO, but a different piece of research) Anyway when I met Gerry for coffee, he explained the 2 year process of getting his research published at all.

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Jonathan Engler's avatar

It’s a “problematic” paper, not least because the positions taken by some of the authors now directly contradict their views as stated since the paper was originally conceived.

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Hugh McCarthy's avatar

or was so written to get it published.

Fwisw--I subscribe to "there was no pandemic"

However, it remains vital to present evidence that rejects the concept of lockdowns as an acceptable and successful public health strategy--so against the day "they" try to do so again. Remember that the authorities are saying there was a covid pandemic--so it remains important to say to them that lockdowns don't work-and here is the evidence. Telling them there was no pandemic may fall at the first hurdle--it does with my friends!

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Jonathan Engler's avatar

Each to his own.

If everyone decided to just settle on “well, maybe there was something unusual around, but it was an overreaction which caused most of the harm” then the perpetrators have carte blanche to do it again.

Plant a rumor, a fraudulent test, some propaganda…..and away they go with another fake pandemic.

Personally, I’m sick of it and want them disarmed so they can’t launch reruns.

I don’t just want the authorities to “do better next time”.

I want them gone, out of my life, because global pandemics aren’t a biological thing. They are sociopolitical constructs.

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Jonathan Engler's avatar

Every single article (such as the Quinn et al paper) which promotes the notion that there was a novel virus which caused a global pandemic, or accepts the idea that the PCR tests they used were anything other than fraudulent, constitute weapons which the perpetrators can use to launch future fake pandemics.

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Hugh McCarthy's avatar

and well done TCW!

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Hugh McCarthy's avatar

Here is Martin's excellent presentation to the Scottish Covid enquiry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBjalO8b2EI&list=PLJW97KemLw8OhzJpGn-fma8uf1RwOfv0H&index=11

See also Dennis Rancourt's recent research

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202506.1240/v1

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Jonathan Engler's avatar

Thanks.

Rancourt’s theory differs from ours in that he works under the assumption that "official” all-cause mortality graphs are completely accurate and not manipulated.

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