The organization PANDA (Pandemics Data and Analytics) was established in April 2020 to holistically analyze the unprecedented events taking shape during the pandemic. Immediately, the group was against the use of lockdowns as a major policy tool, recognizing the global reaction to COVID as "overwrought and damaging to the point of causing a great tear in the fabric of society." Founded by experts with roots firmly planted around the globe, PANDA is a collective of leading scientists, actuaries, economists, medical professionals, data scientists, statisticians, engineers, business people, and lawyers.
"PANDA aims to promote open science, human agency, and courageous societies. We aim to empower the public with accurate information, thereby enabling individuals to exercise freedom of choice and preserve human liberties and free societies."
Screenshot / www.swprs.org / Vaccine protection symptomatic infection and severe disease (Nordström et al.)
Politically and economically independent, the organization proclaims that managing any pandemic calls for multiple treatment approaches, including Ivermectin, with open thought towards those with a track record. PANDA joins an expanding list of experts—like Front Line Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) and America's Front Line Doctors (AFLDS), Dr. Peter McCullough, and Dr. Robert Malone—that uphold continued reliance on one course of treatment (such as an experimental vaccine), despite mounting evidence of serious adverse events, is blatantly irresponsible.
PANDA advises that adverse events reporting platforms are intended to serve as a warning system "so immediate action can be taken to prevent greater harm." Presently, there are enough strong warnings to merit prompt investigation, yet—in contrast with the Hippocratic duty of "first do no harm"—the push remains for mandatory vaccination.
The group's widespread affiliations offer perspectives from multiple professional organizations, like Global Collateral, where Great Barrington Declaration author and Stanford Professor Jay Bhattacharya serves on the Scientific Advisory and Editorial Boards. Likewise, PANDA's website links to Swiss Policy Research, offers easy-to-read and "fully referenced facts about COVID-19." It includes a detailed overview of adverse events following receipt of COVID-19 "vaccines" and insight into the role of obesity in coronavirus disease and transmission, as well as the World Economic Forum's (WEF) "involvement in the coronavirus pandemic."
Along with often quoting Dr. McCullough and FLCCC President Dr. Pierre Kory, additional associations are linked by PANDA. They include Australia-based COVID-19 Medical Network (CMN) and the HART group (Health Advisory & Recovery Team) out of the UK, which speaks loudly about COVID policies and the harm they inflict on children.
PANDA, which declares the next generation is in peril with evidence indicating severe damage to the physical, mental, and social well-being of children, has written a "Declaration for the Protection of Children & Young People from the COVID-19 Response." The group advocates for the end to COVID testing of infants, children, and young people. They also maintain all COVID mandates—particularly masks and social distancing—should be lifted. The group states:
"Stop the COVID-19 vaccine rollout to children and young people. They do not benefit from these vaccines as their risk from the disease is almost nil. Mass vaccination and vaccine trials on healthy children are therefore unethical. Vaccinating this population diverts resources away from the vulnerable and other more pertinent health issues (such as child starvation or routine pediatric vaccination). Families of children and young people with severe comorbidities should consult their physician for guidance. High-risk staff are free to opt for the COVID-19 vaccines."
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COVID-19 Myths and Realities
With a "Protocol for Reopening Society," published on its website, a recent PANDA article from late December written by Nick Hudson highlights 20 of the "most pervasive" COVID myths, along with PANDA's explanation of the reality of each of them. They are:
Myth #1: The virus is new. Reality: The virus is closely related to widely circulating betacoronaviruses, sharing 65-70% common genetic material.
Myth #2: Everyone is susceptible (immunologically naive). Reality: Pre-existing or cross-immunity is widespread, and moreover, children almost universally enjoy robust innate immunity.
Myth #3: The virus is deadly. Recent polls revealed that the average member of the public believes the infection fatality rate (IFR) is 20 to 38%. Reality: Ioannidis' study, the most comprehensive to date, reveals the global IFR for under 70s to be 0.05%, with almost all fatalities involving serious comorbidities. For the median risk member of the population, the IFR is less than 0.01%, meaning that for most people, risk is negligible.
Myth #4: Lockdowns are effective at reducing deaths. Reality: More than 50 studies have shown that lockdowns have no material beneficial effect on COVID mortality and that they worsen overall mortality outcomes when non-COVID collateral harms are factored in. Lockdown had no place in prior public health or pandemic respiratory virus guidelines, existing as a fringe idea among people who advocated militarized approaches to pandemics that completely contradicted public health and epidemiological practice and theory.
Myth #5: Cloth mask mandates are effective. Reality: The most comprehensive study to date, by the European CDC, demonstrated that almost all papers supporting cloth mask use were of low evidentiary value, and most exhibited signs of bias. The WHO admitted that its reversal on mask efficacy was politically motivated. There is no sign in the international epidemic data of mask efficacy. Behavioral science teams have been revealed to have deployed masks as a tool of psychological warfare (to increase compliance with public health measures). Masking as source control is inconsistent with aerosol transmission.
Myth #6: Transmission is by droplets and fomites, so masks, sanitizers, stickers, social distancing, and perspex screens are effective. Reality: The most comprehensive study to date, by the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, found no evidence supporting droplet and fomite transmission. Airborne aerosol transmission has the most evidentiary support, as for other respiratory viruses. Almost all the countermeasures deployed at great cost have no basis in science.
Myth #7: Asymptomatic transmission is a driver of the pandemic. Reality: Primary evidence suggests the opposite is the case—that asymptomatic infected people share small inocula, acting beneficially to spread and boost immune recognition. Asymptomatic cases are very rarely index cases in disease transmission and somewhat less rarely of infection transmission.
Myth #8: PCR testing at high cycle thresholds is appropriate. A positive result proves a case of disease or causality in a death. Reality: PCR testing is not competent for diagnosis of COVID or detection of "cases," infections or infectedness. In particular, when deployed at high "cycle thresholds," it is prone to generating epidemiological false positives with severe economic consequences.
Myth #9: COVID is untreatable. Nothing can be done until a patient arrives at hospital, at which point they should be put on a ventilator and put on Remdesivir. Reality: Early intervention in the 6-8 day window when the disease enters its inflammatory phase has been shown to be remarkably effective, drastically reducing deaths. Remdesivir and early ventilation have killed many. Off-label drugs have shown efficacy in many studies, yet are the targets of obvious propaganda by pharmaceutical companies and captured media.
Myth #10: The vaccines materially prevent transmission. Reality: By their very mechanism of action, injectable vaccines cannot and do not materially prevent transmission. This is not even a claim made by their manufacturers, but by politicians and conflicted scientists. There is no evidence for transmission reduction in the international epidemic data. The "greater good" argument is wrong.
Myth #11: The vaccines are 95% effective. Reality: Manipulation of the trials to hide pronounced initial negative efficacy owing to immunosuppression has been ubiquitous. Actual efficacy is lower than indicated and apparently also negative after 20 weeks or so. "Real-world studies" double up this error by treating the recently vaccinated as unvaccinated, a move that represents nothing less than a gross scientific fraud.
Myth #12: The vaccines are so safe that nobody should hesitate to take one. Reality: The vaccines have triggered unprecedented levels of adverse events in multiple countries. The mechanisms of action for these adverse events are known. We field continuous reports of wilful and draconian suppression of adverse event reporting in South Africa and elsewhere and of an omerta in the halls of public health. There may be a group of people for whom benefits exceed harms, but until our requests for data transparency are complied with, it is difficult to tell how big this group is.
Myth #13: Everybody will benefit from vaccination. Reality: The current vaccines may pass the hurdle for net benefit for the vulnerable, non-recovered minority. The majority of the population, including the young and the recovered, suffer net harms from vaccination.
Myth #14: Natural immunity is less broad, durable and strong than synthetic immunity. Reality: By its very mechanisms of action, synthetic immunity is much narrower than natural. Natural immunity confers medium-term sterilizing immunity, while synthetic immunity cannot. By invoking a greater range of immune response, natural immunity can be assumed to provide more durable and flexible (against variants) protection than synthetic.
Myth #15: Science is an institution and its authorities' perspectives are infallible and final. Reality: Science is a process that only proceeds by robust conjecture and criticism.
Myth #16: Long COVID is an unusual and dangerous component of the epidemic. Reality: Sequelae appear to be no more common for COVID than for other respiratory viruses. Where Long COVID clinics have been established, they have quietly been closed, unutilized.
Myth #17: Containment is possible for contagious respiratory viruses. Reality: Zero-COVID policies have failed wherever they have been attempted. Animal reservoirs make them futile.
Myth #18: "Pandemicity." Pandemics are going to occur more often because there is more contact between humans and animals and because humans are more connected. Reality: Urbanisation and commercial farming practices have reduced human-animal contact. Interconnectedness of humans means that many mild viruses are distributed worldwide, ensuring that immune systems recognize more deadly variants that may emerge. Contrast this with the fate of the indigenous peoples of South America when they were first exposed to European diseases.
Myth #19: Reducing spread reduces death. Reality: Reducing spread by restricting the mobility of the non-vulnerable shifts disease burden onto the vulnerable, causing more of them to be struck down before endemicity is attained.
Myth #20: Escalation of perceived threat is in the interests of public health. Reality: Perceived threat drives hysteria, leading to pronounced and deadly nocebo effects (effects of negative expectations on outcomes, the opposite of placebo effects).
