All of us owe Scott Johnson at Powerline a debt of gratitude for championing the cause of Dr. Jonathan Geach, a Tennessee physician who has been waging a lonely battle against internet censorship. Dr. Geach’s article “Eight reasons to end the [COVID-19] lockdown now” was recently published on the Medium website. In it, he explained why the lockdown was medically unnecessary and counterproductive. But, after the article began to – pardon the expression – go “viral”, Medium took it down and posted this helpful notice:
Hello,
Due to elevated risk of potential harm to persons or public health, Medium’s Trust & Safety team has removed the following content under its rules here:
Due to current heightened global public health concerns, we’re giving careful scrutiny to coronavirus-related content on Medium to help stem misinformation that could be detrimental to public safety. We will remove content which is determined in our analysis to be likely to increase the risk of potential harm to persons or public health.
In the interest of transparency, this includes, but is not limited to, the following prohibited claims: – Health claims or advice which, if acted on, are likely to have detrimental health effects on persons or public safety.
Prohibited Health claims: • Denial of effectiveness of social distancing or quarantine for COVID-19, or calls encouraging people to suspend these practices before official determinations have been made public
Thank you. Medium Trust & Safety
Well, thank you, Medium Trust & Safety team for protecting us from unauthorized ideas! Who are we to actually read an article and decide for ourselves whether or not it makes sense? Obviously allowing purportedly free citizens to consider ideas not sanctioned by government-run public health authorities is an unsafe practice. If we were to allow that sort of craziness to continue, no telling where things might end up. People might even start to wonder why the Medium Trust & Safety team or some similar force for good hasn’t censored and suppressed what we now know to have been the wildly erroneous, calamitous and catastrophic pandemic predictions by Neil “Off by a Factor of Ten” Ferguson of the Imperial College, London and the Etch-a-Sketch-like, ever-shifting guesswork modeling by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Thanks to them and those who have uncritically acted on their faulty information, the United States appears to have wrecked its economy in order to prevent a body count that – regardless of social distancing and other mitigation measures – will closely approximate that of the seasonal influenza A.
So, while our ever-inventive plaintiffs’ bar ponders suing the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Communist Party for money damages (what’s a one-third contingent fee on a fifty trillion dollar judgment?), maybe they should consider naming as co-defendants Ferguson, the Imperial College, the University of Washington and its IHME as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which supports the IHME. Maybe they could all be sued jointly and severally for causing and risking a catastrophe. Are you ambulance chasers listening?
Anyhow, Dr. Geach has returned to the fray with a new analysis that he has co-authored with Ankur J. Patel, M.D., Knut M. Wittkowski, PhD, ScD, Lacy Windham, M.D., Ashkan Attaran, M.D., and Jason Friday, M.D.. Since this latest article is posted on Medium, I copied and reproduced it below just in case the Trust and Safety team decides we need further protection from dangerous and unauthorized ideas.
As you will see Dr. Geach and his colleagues make a compelling case for immediately reopening America.
Moving the Goalposts— Four Reasons it is Safe to Open America
The curve of new infections is declining and we do not need to wait for additional testing or a surveillance apparatus to be in place to reopen America.
In response to warnings that millions of Americans could die and the carnage COVID-19 created in Italy, state and local governments instituted drastic social distancing in America. In the meantime, the epidemiological curve in the US has followed the trend seen in Europe and is well past its peak.
George Parry is a former federal and state prosecutor who is a regular contributor to The American Spectator. He may be reached by email at kignet@outlook.com.
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