#155: Ivor Cummins – the COVID struggle between Honesty vs Hysteria

Hi Steve, and Ivor when you see him!, thank you for this!, I have been an avid follower of Ivor and his work for several months and nothing that he has said here alters my opinion!.
Many of the issues he refers to are ones that have troubled me for fifty five years!, one of my early experiences was at school when I was about thirteen!, I got caught up in passionate argument with some classmates who insisted that I was pro Russia, we were in the throws of the ‘cold war’ at the time!. I tried to convince them that just because I was there to challenge some of the anti-soviet propaganda did not mean that I was ‘on their side’, just that I wanted to keep an open mind. I was then very shocked to be told by one of them with the full support of the others that I had to take one side or the other!, there can be no neutrality!, the reason I was so shocked was that it had never occurred to me that such a concept was acceptable!.
From then on I knew that I was always going to be there out on my own and for a long time I was very angry, frustrated and lonely!. Gradually I learned to communicate better and stay with our common ground until a good relationship is established, always all I had to fall back on was my principles!, as for Ivor you can only guess how pleased I was to encounter the work of KRP, his books were not published in English until the early nineteen seventies!, ever since I have been saying that ‘the logic of scientific discovery’ should be compulsory reading in all secondary education!.
On the topic of trying to deal with the same natural weaknesses of human perception, confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance I am sure that I cannot trust myself!, everything that I come up with has to be peer reviewed. I have to communicate with others and actively seek constructive criticism!. This does become a habit and gets easier!, in fact when I want to say anything controversial it always goes over better if I preface my remarks with a request for challenge!, of course any rejections have to have some factual foundation!, I don’t abandon a hypothesis just because someone doesn’t like it!. Underlying this and absolutely fundamental to how it works is that while any refutation of the commonly held concepts have to be solid I do not need to assert that anything I say is true!, all I have to do is put it out there and see what I get!, I am not doing any of this to prove anything!, all I want to do pass on some of the advantages of clear thought and critical conversation.
The talk of the second wave issue is always very clouded!, in principle a second wave has to occur in exactly the same location or community!, even when the later outbreak is in a closely adjacent population it is still not a second wave!s. So far I have not been able to identify a real second wave anywhere!, all of the recent winter surges can be explained by the huge increases in PCR false positives! combined with a slight resurgence in seasonal infections, mostly due to climate and confinement!. The fundamental character of a second wave must display the same trajectory as the ‘first’ one!. The so called ‘second’ wave is just the mis-reading of seasonal increases and endemic disease!. Cheers, Richard.

I really appreciate the calm truthful data you give and find your videos a breath of fresh air from the propaganda on every channel every day.I have been interested to know where the UK govs borrow the debt ,but have been blocked when trying to research this unless on BBC and newspaper sites.I think it’s really important as each day we are billions more in debt and who our governments owe money to obviously hold incredible power and profit from the poverty and debt of the covid response lockdowns and restrictions.Do you know who the debt is owed to?