| Herd Immunity is the Answer Now writing a book on the crisis with bestselling author Jay Richards, Briggs concludes: "Since pneumonia deaths are up, yet all deaths are down, it must mean people are being recorded as dying from other things at smaller rates than usual." Deaths from other causes are simply being ascribed to the coronavirus. As usual every year, deaths began trending downward in January. Since the lockdown began in mid–March, the politicians cannot claim that their policies had anything to do with the declining death rate. In fact, by impeding herd immunity, particularly among students and other young people, the lockdown has prolonged and exacerbated the medical problem. As Briggs concludes, "People need to get out into virus–killing sunshine and germicidal air." This flu like all previous viral flus will give way only to herd immunity, whether through natural propagation of an extremely infectious pathogen, or through the success of one of the hundreds of vaccine projects. No evidence indicates that this flu was exceptionally dangerous. On March 20, the French published a major controlled study that shows no excess mortality at all from coronavirus compared to other flus. SARS and MERS were both much more lethal and did not occasion what Briggs' reader "Uncle Dave" described as "taking a hammer and sickle to the economy." We now know that the crisis was a comedy of errors. The Chinese let it get going in the raw bats of Wuhan. But together with the Koreans, the Chinese delayed their panic and allowed six weeks of rampant propagation to create herd immunity before they began locking everyone up. Therefore, the Chinese and Koreans were among the first to recover. The Italians scared everybody with their haphazard health system. The Crammed together in subways and tenements, the New Yorkers registered a brief blip of extreme cases. Intubations and ventilators turned out not to help (80 percent died), sowing fear and frustration among medical personnel. The New York media piled on with panic, with bogus reports of rising deaths. Coronavirus deaths increased by assuming that people dying with the virus were dying from it and then by ascribing to the coronavirus other deaths among people with symptoms of pulmonary distress, even without being tested. Now jacking up the case rate will be further pointless testing. As Briggs points out, "Fauci is calling for 'tripling' of testing, which can only boost these dailies [case totals]. And make it seem like there's a genuine increase occurring." Oh my! The daily reported cases are up! It must mean the disease is spreading! "No. It could also mean, and probably does given all the other evidence we now have from sampling, that the disease was already there, and we just now have measured it." Today's Prophecy The death rate rises with further reclassification of pneumonia and other pulmonary deaths. When we reach herd immunity, and nearly everyone has the antigen, nearly all deaths can be chalked up to COVID-19. In a fascinating open letter to German Prime Minister Angela Merkel, epidemiologist Mihai Grigorius concludes that with the French study, corroborated by findings from a Stanford antibody seroprevalence study in Santa Clara county, "the case for extreme measures collapses like a house of cards." Grigorius says that since the virus has already spread widely in the general population, efforts to stop further spread are both futile and destructive. So, let's stop pretending that our policies have been rational and need to be phased out, as if they once had a purpose. They should be reversed summarily and acknowledged to be a mistake, perpetrated by statisticians with erroneous computer models. Perhaps then we can learn from this experience with the flaws of expertise not to shut down the economy again for the totally bogus "crisis" of climate change. Regards, 
George Gilder
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