COVID-19: Scientist Denis Rancourt discusses his reports on face masks and the unnatural mortality peaks in some areas
ANTI-MASKERS: RIGHT OR SELFISH? | The HighWire with Del BigTree | June 25, 2020
As Americans turn against each other over mask mandates, many scientists are speaking out, including former professor of physics at the University of Ottawa, Denis Rancourt, PhD, who just released a paper compiling seven studies on the science surrounding the effectiveness of masks.
The first part of the video is this subject. In the video he explains why viruses spread more easily in mid-winter in temperate climates.
Masks Don’t Work: A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy
Denis G. Rancourt, PhD
Researcher, Ontario Civil Liberties Association (ocla.ca)
Working report, published at Research Gate(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/D_Rancourt)
April 2020
Summary / Abstract
Masks and respirators do not work.
There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.
Furthermore, the relevant known physics and biology, which I review, are such that masks and respirators should not work. It would be a paradox if masks and respirators worked, given what we know about viral respiratory diseases: The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles(<2.5μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than one aerosol particle.
The present paper about masks illustrates the degree to which governments, the mainstream media, and institutional propagandists can decide to operate in a science vacuum, or select only incomplete science that serves their interests. Such recklessness is also certainly the case with the current global lockdown of over 1 billion people, an unprecedented experiment in medical and political history.
In the second part of the above video, they discuss the subject this other report. He explains in the interview that the total mortality is the same as past years, but there is a very noticeable peak for some jurisdictions where it appears that policies of emptying the hospitals (as directed by the WHO) and using ventilators (instead of providing proper treatment):
All-cause mortality during COVID-19: No plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response
Denis G. Rancourt, PhD
Researcher, Ontario Civil Liberties Association (ocla.ca)
Working report (not submitted for journal publication), published at Research Gate
(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/D_Rancourt)
2 June 2020
(Full article is here: https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=9&name=2020_06_02_all_cause_mortality_during_covid_19_no_plague_and_a_likely_signature_of_mass_homicide_by_government_response)
Summary / Abstract
The latest data of all-cause mortality by week does not show a winter-burden mortality that is statistically larger than for past winters. There was no plague. However, a sharp “COVID peak” is present in the data, for several jurisdictions in Europe and the USA.
This all-cause-mortality “COVID peak” has unique characteristics:
• Its sharpness, with a full-width at half-maximum of only approximately 4 weeks;
• Its lateness in the infectious-season cycle, surging after week-11 of 2020, which is unprecedented for any large sharp-peak feature;
• The synchronicity of the onset of its surge, across continents, and immediately following the WHO declaration of the pandemic; and
• Its USA state-to-state absence or presence for the same viral ecology on the same territory, being correlated with nursing home events and government actions rather than any known viral strain discernment.
These “COVID peak” characteristics, and a review of the epidemiological history, and of relevant knowledge about viral respiratory diseases, lead me to postulate that the “COVID peak” results from an accelerated mass homicide of immune-vulnerable individuals, and individuals made more immune-vulnerable, by government and institutional actions, rather than being an epidemiological signature of a novel virus, irrespective of the degree to which the virus is novel from the perspective of viral speciation.
At the end of the video, he explains that it makes no sense for public policy to focus on vaccines because the total mortality was not higher than in past years, and also because these viruses mutate rapidly, humans have been living with them for a long time, and it can be dangerous to go to vaccines. Instead public policy should focus on the science of how to assist those who are immune-vulnerable.
Another report he wrote on COVID-19:
OCLA Report 2020-1: Criticism of Government Response to COVID-19 in Canada | April 18, 2020
(full article is here: https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=16&name=2020_04_18_report_criticism_of_government_response_to_covid_19_in_canada)
His research papers and other articles can be found at his main site and/or blog:
denisrancourt.ca
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