Year: 2020
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Preventing the next pandemic
A new report published by the United Nations Environment Program says that our responses to the coronavirus will not prevent the emergence of future pandemics as they are designed to address only the health and economic symptoms of the true problem. The report shows that even before COVID-19, zoonotic diseases already claim the lives of…
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No, there is no second wave
By looking at the COVID-19 death data in the United States, J.B. Handley shows us that there is no second wave of infections, and the coronavirus is in fact waning. Handley shows us the graph created by the CDC for the whole US and New York with shows an unmistakable trend – COVID-19 deaths are…
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Finland schools reopening a success
This article was written by Maria Jantunen, MA (Candidate), Educational Sciences.[efn_note]Degree to have been granted last June 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 measures.[/efn_note] Finland re-opened its schools on May 13. Almost two months later, there were no spikes in infection. The infection rate continued to decline as illustrated by the graphs in the article.…
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Finland schools reopen successfully
Re-Opening of Schools did not increase the Number of Infections In this article, I seek to analyze news and data regarding the situation of schools, how decisions have been and are made and what the legislators should consider when we approach Autumn and the end of summer holidays. I look at the Finnish situation and…
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RT-PCR tests are scientifically meaningless
In this article for Off Guardian, authors Torsten Engelbrecth and Konstantin Demeter take a closer look at the facts that explain why PCR tests are meaningless as diagnostic tools. According to the authors’ research, the RT-PCR test was meant by its inventor, Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis, to replicate and manufacture DNA sequences, not to diagnose…
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Liberating ourselves from Facebook: We are going to MeWe
When we published Nicanor’s Open Letter to President Rodrigo Duterte last April, our website received more than 100,000 page views from over 74,000 users over a few days. To get as many people are possible to pay attention to the letter, we used a variety of methods of distribution. Our stats showed that a large…
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Science has spoken: End the lockdown
We agree that the lockdown was a choice that could not be avoided at the beginning of the pandemic. But we knew from the very beginning that lockdown is temporary. It was never meant to eradicate the coronavirus, nor was it designed as a long-term approach. But here we are in the Philippines, three months…
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END THE LOCKDOWNS! Stop It Outside By Ending the Lockdowns Inside Us
AUTHORITIES REJECT SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE COVID-19 is not that deadly. The scientific evidence is clear. But many world leaders do not want to face the truth. Let us stop wasting our time appealing to ears that do not listen and eyes that refuse to see. Instead let us challenge ourselves to take action now to end…
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Google data showing Filipinos are staying at home
In this article by Ian Nicholas Cigaral for Philippine Star, he reports the data on the mobility of Filipinos during the community quarantine in the Philippines. Using mobility data collected by Google and Apple (this is collected from phones that had their location services turned on), Cigaral discovered that majority of Filipinos have opted to stay…
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Post-lockdown rules in Europe
The following article written by Cornelius Hirsch for Politico summarizes the reopening history of various European countries. It also tracks which countries require mandatory use of masks, as well as the length of each country’s lockdowns. For most European countries, face masks are no longer required outdoors, and the longest lockdown was that of the UK which…
