Summarised by Centrist
The handling of the COVID pandemic was flawed from the start, argues Dr Andrew Bamji, a retired consultant rheumatologist. Lockdowns, masks, and vaccines, he says, were unnecessary and ineffective measures. He notes that repeat vaccinations might even increase the risk of serious side effects.
Instead, he suggests that early and proper treatment for the few who were seriously ill was the only intervention needed from the beginning.
Bamji criticises “flawed science and statistics” behind COVID, writing that “perhaps the most egregious flaw in vaccination has been to categorise subjects as unvaccinated until 14 days after receiving the vaccine.”
Adverse events resulting from the vaccine often develop in the minutes, hours and days after vaccination. Many would have been wrongly classified as unvaccinated. Thereby “significantly distorting the risk-benefit conclusions of the trials and rendering them useless.”
According to Bamji, an “upside” to COVID was bringing more scrutiny to scientific papers. Many of which, “have been found wanting.”
“But it remains true that research contradicting ‘settled science’ (an oxymoron if ever there was) remains under significant and often irresistible pressure for it to be retracted,” he writes.
Ultimately, Bamji believes that if clinicians, not experts without clinical experience, had led the pandemic response, they would have focused on treating the seriously ill. This could have prevented unnecessary lockdowns, reduced deaths, and avoided vaccine-related complications.
