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A Comprehensive Failure: The Effectiveness of Lockdowns, Masks and Vaccination Programmes vis-à-vis Mitigating Covid-19
As the title implies, this book is effectively a trilogy, and considers the effectiveness of lockdowns, face masks and vaccination programmes vis-à-vis mitigating COVID-19.
Sewell considers the collateral damage caused by lockdowns, in terms of health, economic, social, political, legal, policing and transport issues, plus their impacts on children and the third world.
Sewell shows that the masking policy in England failed to mitigate COVID-19. Face masks can cause dyspnoea, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia, harbor pathogens, compromise communication, vision, exercise capacity, cognition and immunity, cause headaches, skin complaints, bad breath and particulate inhalation, facilitate crime and lead to pollution.
Sewell’s analysis suggests that the vaccination programmes lead to an overall increase in COVID-19 deaths and all-cause mortality in both the short term, and post-pandemic. Other data suggest that vaccination programmes were effective against severe COVID-19 for the elderly in 2021, but otherwise caused more harm than good, compromising natural immunity, decreasing herd immunity and leading to herd-level original antigenic sin.
A self-perpetuating cycle of fear and virtue signaling developed, spiraling from politicians to the media to the public. The primary factors that determine the rate of COVID-19 cases/deaths are the degree of pre-existing immunity within the community, the proportion of the community who have become immune, seasonality, mortality displacement (a function of the severity of recent flu seasons) and the nature and progression of the dominant variant of the virus. It seems likely that influenza all but vanished during the pandemic due to inter-virus competition.
Sewell considers the collateral damage caused by lockdowns, in terms of health, economic, social, political, legal, policing and transport issues, plus their impacts on children and the third world.
Sewell shows that the masking policy in England failed to mitigate COVID-19. Face masks can cause dyspnoea, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia, harbor pathogens, compromise communication, vision, exercise capacity, cognition and immunity, cause headaches, skin complaints, bad breath and particulate inhalation, facilitate crime and lead to pollution.
Sewell’s analysis suggests that the vaccination programmes lead to an overall increase in COVID-19 deaths and all-cause mortality in both the short term, and post-pandemic. Other data suggest that vaccination programmes were effective against severe COVID-19 for the elderly in 2021, but otherwise caused more harm than good, compromising natural immunity, decreasing herd immunity and leading to herd-level original antigenic sin.
A self-perpetuating cycle of fear and virtue signaling developed, spiraling from politicians to the media to the public. The primary factors that determine the rate of COVID-19 cases/deaths are the degree of pre-existing immunity within the community, the proportion of the community who have become immune, seasonality, mortality displacement (a function of the severity of recent flu seasons) and the nature and progression of the dominant variant of the virus. It seems likely that influenza all but vanished during the pandemic due to inter-virus competition.
1067 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 23, 2024
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