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After less than a year of spreading disinformation, science journalist Maarten Keulemans still does not apologize.
In his piece, Keulemans uses phrases such as "in the meantime scientific insight has progressed" and words such as "in the meantime". He may not even realize that now, in February 2021, he is strolling with scientific knowledge from March/April 2020. His pieces will fit well with the message that the Volkskrant wants to convey, otherwise I don't understand it from such a newspaper (NRC, AD and Trouw are not much better).
In March 2020, we already knew that a number of drastic and particularly harmful measures would have hardly any health effects because air transmission was (and is) systematically ignored. The 'fomites' are a good example of the inveterate dogmas that are still used today by some state virologists.
Keulemans pretends that it was a surprise from Covid-19 that those contact infections, specifically in Sars-CoV-2, were of minor importance. That is not true either. It has long been known from other viruses of flu-like diseases, well scientifically proven, also through experiments on laboratory animals and humans (with the cold virus). There was no reason to assume that this virus would behave differently.
Where is the (dis)information?
In the media, especially at media tables, experts are concerned about disinformation. The obvious starting point: the major broadcasters and newspapers bring the 'correct' information and the social media spread 'disinformation'.
If only it were that simple. In the media I follow, both MSM and social, it is rather the opposite.
It remains miraculous that in the severe flu season 2017/2018 there was an excess mortality of 9,500 and that this did not cause anything at all. Not in terms of care capacity, not in terms of prevention. The right prevention could have prevented the current misery.
We are now, while the second corona season is running, looking at an excess mortality of 13,000 (which is also negotiable: population structure and a mild previous year) and now the country is being brought to the edge of the abyss. With measures that have almost no effect, because the development of science is not closely followed and the media just keep honking around.
An acquaintance of mine used to do letter pooping. If you want to read Maarten's wet fart: https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/we-hebben-winkelwagentjes-en-volleyballen-voor-niets-lopen-schrobben~b8319430/
