I’d love to ask him how he gathers his stats. with such accuracy and confidence. Some critical questions there… But still, only honest to include all arguments about the matter, and Eric is hardly a dismissable loony, or an axe-grinder; on the contrary, a meticulous researcher, in my experience, and awkwardly honest with it 
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https://theduran.com/where-covid-19-has-already-killed-more-than-one-person-per-thousand/
I have to compliment Zuesse for writing a great piece on the killing of AHT, but I totally disagree with his conclusions on what should be done about the Virus! It seems to happen over and over again, that people who share views on almost everything can still be divided by this wretched scheme.
Basically I think his argument is flawed - in comparing apples and oranges and assuming that one country has a low death toll because of its handling of the plague. Perhaps conditions are quite different; perhaps infections didn’t spread in the same way; perhaps the high death tolls were in places where aged care homes were infected. Perhaps high death tolls were in places with lots of rather ill old people who succumbed easily when infected. And of course he makes the fatal mistake - for me - of suggesting that places were masks were worn did better.
I increasingly think that this virus is predominantly spread by close contact infection - on hands and keyboards and door knobs (!) and hardly ever in the air, even in hospitals but certainly never outside - like at rallies.
A few people in charge have said recently that aerial transmission is not significant, and admitted that in most cases where it is assumed, contact transmission could also have taken place.
Can’t say I disagree, David. I just put it up because Eric is usually a pretty savvy commentator and an old hand at digging out evidence. However, there does seem to be a fundamental psychological split between those who are temperamentally inclined to believe ‘official’ offerings of facts and stats unless they’re proven unmistakably to be a cheat (and living in the Permanent Bullshit Blizzard, as we do, how do we pick out the truth from the multi-current, wilfully-perpetrated lie-stream?), and those who are temperamentally inclined to disbelieve anything until it’s been officially denied; the Claud Cockburn principle. Obvious which camp we’re in David…
Such cautions I’m now observing as South Australia has just had a sudden outbreak after months without cases, and has gone into a hard lockdown for SIX days only. The infection came from someone returned from the UK in hotel quarantine from whom a cleaner or security guard caught the infection but which wasn’t discovered till an 80 year old was diagnosed in hospital. There were at least 15 out of 18 cases “in one family” - they said, but the initial infection was up to two weeks ago. Now thousands of people were tested, but they only found 3 positives! But this is so contagious and spreads so rapidly… an immediate lockdown means all restaurants etc have to toss out food, and people aren’t even allowed to walk their dogs. 4000 people are in self-isolation, and the other million in the state all at home.
What is their game here? We virtually declared war on China yesterday, and today there is a report about Australian war crimes in Afghanistan due out, and our dear friends the Israelis are on a rampage, and Trump is thinking of bombing Iran… 