Talk slides at: https://tinyurl.com/fearc19mm
Was Fear of Covid-19 Natural or Man-made?
For about 2.5 years, from April 2020 to about mid-2022, the primary emotion felt by most people on the planet has been fear. While surely many have lost their …
Talk slides at: https://tinyurl.com/fearc19mm
Was Fear of Covid-19 Natural or Man-made?
For about 2.5 years, from April 2020 to about mid-2022, the primary emotion felt by most people on the planet has been fear. While surely many have lost their near and dear ones, do the numbers behind Covid-19 justify the all-pervading fear? Let us begin with a couple of questions.
(Q1) The following three numbers represent the total deaths in the USA, in the first 10 months of the three years 2020, 2021, and 2022. The numbers are in jumbled order.
[2.64 million, 2.68 million, 2.83 million].
Match the mortality count with the year.
(Q2) The following three numbers are similar mortality numbers for a large set of European countries, again in jumbled order of years 2020, 2021, and 2022.
[3.17 million, 3.18 million, 3.23 million].
Match the mortality count with the year.
I strongly encourage the reader to make a genuine attempt to answer the two questions. One would think it must be easy to guess, given the extreme fear in 2020/2021, and lack of such fear in 2022. But if you guess the answer based on “news” for the last 2.5+ years, you would most likely get it wrong. To learn the right answer, and for more such elementary questions (and answers), I encourage the reader to attend the talk. The talk would present various easy-to-see data and statistics questioning various aspects of the mainstream Covid-19 narrative.
About the speaker:
Bhaskaran Raman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has a BTech in CSE from IIT Madras (1997), an MS+PhD in CS from U.C.Berkeley (2002). Since the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic, he has closely followed data and statistics related to Covid-19 and the world's response to the same. He has been vocal against extreme and harmful measures such as lockdowns, school closures, vaccine mandates, and inadequately tested jabs for children. He maintains the website "Understand, Unclog, Unpanic, Unscare, Unlock (U5) India" https://tinyurl.com/u5india . He has recently authored the book “Math Murder in Media Manufactured Madness”, documenting the absurdities and atrocities in the Covid-19 response (see: https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~br/).
