Michael wrote:Extensive collection of facts and sources on covid.
https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/1. According to data from the best-studied countries and regions, the lethality of Covid19 is on average about 0.2%, which is in the range of a severe influenza (flu) and about twenty times lower than originally assumed by the WHO.
2. Even in the global “hotspots”, the risk of death for the general population of school and working age is typically in the range of a daily car ride to work. The risk was initially overestimated because many people with only mild or no symptoms were not taken into account.
3. Up to 80% of all test-positive persons remain symptom-free. Even among 70-79 year olds, about 60% remain symptom-free. Over 97% of all persons develop mild symptoms at most.
And 23 more.
I'm going to spare you all a point-by-point analysis of the text and statements posted on this website
. Some of them (some) are well-founded, but others are clearly skewed or false. As regards the source itself, here's a translation from the German-language Wikipedia article on the website "Swiss Policy Research":"Swiss Policy Research (SPR) was known until its renaming in May 2020 as Swiss Propaganda Research [1]. It has been a website without an imprint since 2016, which describes itself as a "research and information project on geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media". [ 2] The publishers are anonymous, the funding unknown."
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Propaganda_Research
The Wikipedia entry then lists a lot of criticism from various sources in Switzerland about specific issues SPR has falsely reported on.
The English-language Wikipedia presents a shorter article, also indicating that much of the 'scientific' information presented on SPR is "pseudo-scientific" and driven by other (political) agendas.
Read it for yourself if you like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Propaganda_Research
So: I'm not saying that all the information and arguments in the list referred to by Michael are hence, by definition, wrong. But some of them are contradicted by current medical/scientific consensus and the website as a whole is anonymous and has a very dubious track record. The confidence-inspiring name of the website would indicate an established, if not indeed respectable institute of some sort. But in fact it's a 'dark' set-up that could be someone in a cellar somewhere, or another larger player with a specific non-scientific agenda.
(And a few specific linguistic issues indicate it is probably not Swiss, either.)
...am I going to far in this direction? Probably one minor symptom of my own coronacrisis (and EVERYONE has their own version of coronacrisis, whatever their personality, ideology or politics). And I'll be honest, when I see significantly more people than before all over the world, both 'high-placed' and not so 'high', starting to go kinda seriously pre-Enlightenment in their thought processes and actions... well, it scares me on one level. Don't be scared, Giles, just breath deeply and do more tai chi... 
