Doctors Stupidity in Science and Mathematics Caused Pandemic Disaster
"The Lancet review included estimated deaths in Africa and Southeast Asia that were not accounted for by the WHO.
The outbreak, which was declared a pandemic in June 2009 and considered over by August 2010, turned out to be not as deadly as first feared.
Vaccines were rushed out, but in hindsight, the West, particularly Europe, and the WHO were criticised for overreacting at a time when annual influenza epidemics every year killed between 250,000 and 500,000 people, according to WHO."
The above comments were the real reasons why there are so much deaths caused by Wuhan Virus. Renaming it to Covid19 made it even worse because it underate the dangers of any pandemic. For safety readons, it is always better to be more cautious than reckless.
In Science, it is compulsory that we compare apples with apples. This may sound like pure common sense but doctors keep on ignoring this simple common sense.
For example, when you take body temperature to detect fever, it must be taken before any fever reducing drug. To take body temperature after taking medicine to reduce fever is just ridicilous but is always done. That is why I do not take sny fever drug before I see a doctor. Otherwise the doctor will make a conclusion that I do not have any fever at all. Explaining that you had taken medicine before does not help most of the time because the doctor only believes in what he sees.
You may argue that it only occurs at GP clinics but it also occurred most of time in medical reports and even in the above article.
There was a Covid19 case which spread despite having no symptoms, and reported in a journal. Further investigation pointed out that she took drugs to remove her pain thus masking the Covid19 symptoms. It is not that Covid19 can spread without symptoms but the symptoms were mild and easily masked. Still very dangerous and for all practical purposes, can still be considered asymptomatic.
The most common and most dangerous is to compare case-fatality of a pandemic with real fatality of common diseases like flu. Case-fatality is the number of cases detected, divided by the deaths on the day that the cases are detected. This is not the true fatality rate, because it will take 4 weeks for a Covid19 case to die. This simple observation seem lost to many doctors and even convinced Elon Musk that Covid19 is less severe than Flu.
Ignoring vaccine or the availability of treatment in comparing severity of a pandemic. We were fortunate that early on antiviral drugs were found to be effective against Swine Flu. But you cannot conclude than Swine Flu is less severe than Flu Also, Swine Flu was widely detected, even mild cases, unlike Flu. Only severe cases of Flu were counted, thus making it appear as though Flu has such high fatality rate. 0.3,% in Malaysia.
You may say that this is a stupid conclusion but it decided on the policy of a nation. For example, only case-fatality of 0.4% were deemed to warrant more aggressive response to a pandemic in Malaysia. Despite the proven fatality of 1% in China, case-fatality in Malaysia never exceed 0.4%. But the sufferings at ICU are real, just like during the Swine Flu pandemic.
Doctors also ignore completely the role of vaccines. Removing any mention of it in reports as though no vaccine was ever produced or taken. Vaccine was in fact the most important tool to stop any pandemic, even the Swine Flu. The moment the vaccine was rolled out in USA, the cases of Swine Flu dropped dramatically, starting from USA. No need to reach more than 30% because community cases were so low during the Swine Flu pandemic because authorities over react, by aggressive testing and contact tracing, which were not done to Flu, that killed more people. Not telling that Flu vaccine is available all the time.
During Covid19, despite no treatment and no vaccine, worst, completely novel that our immune systems cannot defend ourselves, no aggressive treatments were done. No quarantine at the early stages until it is too late. Except New Zealand. Worst, they never want to believe the sufferings that Wuhan had to endure. Repeated in Milan then New York. Even the entire UK.
Counting deaths by the number of confirmed deaths is just stupid. Many deaths were not counted or mis diagnosed. The best indicator is just the extra number of deaths above the normal deaths. UK started correcting their death figures. A Latin American nation started doing the same thing.
Overstating the dangers of a pandemic is prudent and saved lives. Just look at Swine Flu. WHO renamed it as H1N1, just a number. Luckily Rais Yatim stick to the Swine Flu which instill fear in Muslims. They do not eat port after all. Unlike Covid19. Despite it originating from bats, it is relabellef as meaningless Covid19. At least Wuhan Virus instill fear in Muslims because Chinese eat a lot of non-halal food. Now Muslims do not fear Covid19 because they think it can be easily cured. If non-halal, they will avoid it at all costs. It may be stupid, but it saved lives. Unlike stupidities that cost lives.
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