https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/youtube-censors-epidemiologist-knut-wittkowski-for-opposing-lockdown/https://www.aier.org/article/stand-up-for-your-rights-says-bio-statistican-knut-m-wittkowski/Includes transcipt and full video which Youtube deleted.
Who is Knut M. Wittkowski? He is among
the many, even many hundreds, of epidemiologists and other medical research professionals whose expertise was not consulted in
the frenzied weeks in which
the American political class at all levels chose panic and shutdown over rationality and rights.
Consider his bio: Dr. Wittkowski received his PhD in computer science from
the University of Stuttgart and his ScD (Habilitation) in Medical Biometry from
the Eberhard-Karls-University Tuüingen, both Germany. He worked for 15 years with Klaus Dietz, a leading epidemiologist who coined
the term “reproduction number”, on
the Epidemiology of HIV before heading for 20 years
the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at
The Rockefeller University, New York. Dr. Wittkowski is currently
the CEO of ASDERA LLC, a company discovering novel treatments for complex diseases from data of genome-wide association studies.
His work has been widely cited in
the technical/medical literature. So try to understand his frustration with everything going on
around him. A lifetime of work toward understanding diseases and their spread, and he has to watch all this unfold in
the most brutal way that contradicts everything he knows and has tried to teach.
At the last moments of this interview below (full transcript) he says the following: With all respiratory diseases,
the only thing that stops
the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of
the people need to have had contact with
the virus, and
the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep
the schools open and kids mingling to spread
the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then
the elderly people, who should be separated, and
the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when
the virus has been exterminated….
We are experiencing all sorts of counterproductive consequences of not well-thought-through policy….
Well, we will see maybe a total of fewer cases—that is possible. However, we will see more cases among
the elderly, because we have prevented
the school children from creating herd immunity. And so, in
the end, we will see more death because
the school children don’t die, it’s
the elderly people who die, we will see more death because of this social distancing….
If we had herd immunity now, there couldn’t be a second wave in autumn. Herd immunity lasts for a couple of years, typically, and that’s why
the last SARS epidemic we had in 2003, it lasted 15 years for enough people to become susceptible again so that a new epidemic could spread of a related virus. Because typically, there is something that requires cross-immunity, so if you were exposed to one of
the SARS viruses, you are less likely to fall ill with another SARS virus. So, if we had herd immunity, we wouldn’t have a second wave. However, if we are preventing herd immunity from developing, it is almost guaranteed that we have a second wave as soon as either we stop
the social distancing or
the climate changes with winter coming or something like that….
[Extreme reactions] cost
the US taxpayer $2 trillion, in addition to everything else that it costs, but it also has severe consequences for our social life, and depression is definitely something that we will be researching. I can say for myself, walking through New York City right now is depressing….
We should be resisting, and we should, at least, hold our politicians responsible. We should have a discussion with our politicians. One thing we definitely need to do, and that would be safe and effective, is opening schools. Let
the children spread
the virus among themselves, which is a necessity to get herd immunity. That was probably one of
the most destructive actions
the government has done. We should focus on
the elderly and separating them from
the population where
the virus is circulating. We should not prevent
the virus from circulating among school children, which is
the fastest way to create herd immunity….
And the final question and answer: “So, is there anything else you want to say about this that—what’s been aggravating you the most? Or what would you like people to know?” I think people in
the United States and maybe other countries as well are more docile than they should be. People should talk with their politicians, question them, ask them to explain, because if people don’t stand up to their rights, their rights will be forgotten. I’m Knut Wittkowski. I was at
the Rockefeller University, I have been an epidemiologist for 35 years, and I have been modeling epidemics for 35 years. It’s a pleasure to have
the ability to help people to understand, but it’s a struggle to get heard.
American Institute for Economic Research
https://www.aier.org/article/stand-up-for-your-rights-says-bio-statistican-knut-m-wittkowski/__________________________________
Smoke and mirrors
Thoughts and emotions create reality.
