"The rate of new infections had peaked before the imposition of the lockdown in March."
"It will be over by Christmas."
"There is no science to suggest a second wave should happen."
"South Dakota is the Sweden of the USA."
"Cases in Belgium already started to drop before the national lockdown on 2 Nov."
[Narrator: Belgium closed all bars and restaurants on 19 October and introduced a curfew between midnight and 5 am]
"Each part of the world offers a control in the lockdown experiment. To justify the lockdowns, those places wouldn't just have to lag behind this or that neighbour; they'd have to stick out like sore thumbs."
"Infections are going down, not up."
30 June 2020.
Fauci: "I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around, and so I am very concerned."
Trump: "He's a little bit of an alarmist."
"Lockdowns don't work."
"We should look at Sweden and learn from their experience."
"If Sweden succeeds, lockdowns will all have been for nothing."
"The peak of infections was two weeks before we locked down."
"There's always a surge in respiratory illnesses in Europe during autumn."
"European Countries are sadly getting clobbered by the China Virus."
"Switzerland is doing better than most."
"Respiratory deaths rise in Northern countries at this time of year."
"I'm going to go out on a limb and predict there will be no 'second spike' - not now, and not in autumn either. The virus has melted into thin air."
"Only a small increase in bed demand. No pandemic."
"Scotland is not doing better than the rest of the UK."
"The number is almost nothing. Because we’ve gotten control of this thing, we understand how it works. They have the therapeutics to be able to deal with this."
"Trust your eyes, not the fake news."
"It's called the autumn. Every autumn we see an increase in respiratory diseases. It happens every single year."
"It's called the autumn. Every autumn we see an increase in respiratory diseases. It happens every single year."
"Lockdowns don't work."
"In all of them the epidemic is now (in terms of positive test results) either in decline or plateauing."
"Switzerland and Austria - the new Swedens?"
"Sweden settled in for the long haul, and now doesn't need to worry about a second surge."
"There hasn’t been a 'second spike' anywhere. Not in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland... not in any US states… nowhere. Utter balls."
"I’ve asked so many people if they know anyone who has had Covid. Hardly anyone. Two people knew someone (not close) who’d died. Without daily news would we even know there was an epidemic?"
"General infection rates and respiratory diseases always go up in September and October. I've had a cold every September since my daughter started nursery."
"Vitally important that people understand that 'infections' (as BBC call them, actually positives, often without symptoms) are reflection of the number of tests done, not a measure of the level of illness."
"The other novel coronaviruses this millennium have not produced second waves and there's been no second wave of this novel coronavirus anywhere in the world."
"The other novel coronaviruses this millennium have not produced second waves and there's been no second wave of this novel coronavirus anywhere in the world."
"You’re unlikely to be killed by the coronavirus. Yes, the disease is unpleasant; and, yes, in some circumstances, it can cause complications that lead to fatalities."