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by chedca21 1275 days ago
Ioannidis did a antigen survey and found the vast majority of cases were mild; https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/340124

A survey by the most cited epidemiologist alive is not a forecast for one. It is the best appeal to authority one can make. I've seen it shown that h1n1 in england in 2009 had a IFR of 0.05% which is greater than the revised figure for covid.

Amazing how all the proof in the world makes such little difference to the average Luddite who will just defer to authority regardless. Stanley Milgram was clearly right about everything he said.

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The vast majority of cases are mild, yes. This doesn’t change the fact that Ionnadis’ predictions of the severity of the pandemic were off by a factor of x100.

Here is a pretty good recap of his blundering walk through covid

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/10000-deaths/