Coronavirus A War Against Humanity?

Let's look at the extent to which this statement could be interpreted as meaningful. Here's Lucy Tompkins talking at Stanford in November 2009. Note the bit at 26 minutes 43 seconds about what it is that creates a pandemic. It is the almost complete absence of immunity in the majority of the population. Not also that the most recent influenza pandemic was in 1968. See 29 minutes 44 seconds and Hannah Arendt on Pathological Political Associations.

On the WHO's role in producing vaccines, at 36 minutes, see World Bank's Global Pandemic Casino.

At 1 hour 11 minutes 37 seconds reconstruction of the 1918 Spanish Flu virus from sequenced material recovered from an Inuit corpse buried in Alaskan permafrost.

At 1 hour 25 minutes 42 seconds it is not clear exactly what are the factors in the east-west seasonal variation of the incidences of influenza.

At 1 hour 28 minutes 56 seconds a woman who sounds a bit like Jodie Foster asks a question which suggests some part of the explanation of the seasonal variation as well as a reason why the 1918 pandemic was so severe. Migratory birds carry bird-forms of the virus around the world in seasonal cycles, so there will likely be an effect on the immune antibody spectra in populations connected by migratory bird communities: for example, Canada/Alaska and Europe would be connected this way.


Very interesting Yale lecture from 2010.


Here's Julia Gog from Cambridge, talking in 2014:


Here's Julia again, talking in 2017 about the BBC Pandemic project to model patterns of contact between individuals in large populations by using  mobile phone apps to collect data.


Here's Hannah Fry talking about a trial the BBC were going to do in Haslemere in October 2017.


But YouTube doesn't show me any other results for BBC Pandemic, apart from a 2017 program on viruses. It turns out that they changed the name to Contagion! See BBC Four experiment uses smart phone technology to investigate the spread of a fatal flu pandemic across the UK.
Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry, who co-presents the BBC Four documentary with Ebola physician Dr Javid Abdelmoneim, needed to secure 10,000 downloads of the purpose-built app but the response by the public was extraordinary: nearly 30,000 volunteers nationwide took part in the experiment. But it’s not too late - the app will be available until the end of 2018, and the programme invites more viewers to download the app and contribute their data.
The only YouTube reference I can find is this trailer from march 2018, shown on the BBC Four website:


Here is a reference Hannah Fry tweeted a week or so ago. It's all about getting people to wash their hands five to ten times per day to limit the speed of the spreading, apparently.
See from 5 minutes 23 seconds:


Here is a paper written in early 2018, and published in March of that year: Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic – The model behind the documentary.

A lot of people called experts are saying things which desperately need rational justification.


For example, how do they know that quarantine does not affect the way in which the population as a whole recovers natural immunity? They don't know! The most basic research simply has not been done, or if it has been done, then it hasn't been published. See my YouTube comments here


Now listen to Hannah Fry at 4 minutes 32 seconds talking about her book here, and ask yourself why the data collected from the whole population invariably ends up under the control of some particular group or other.

Oh boy!


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