The effects of the lockdown “have been absolutely deleterious. They did not save the lives they had announced they could be able to save ... It is a weapon of mass destruction and we see its health ... social ... economic effects ... which form the real second wave.”
Prof. Jean-François Toussaint, 24 September 2020
“The anti-corona measures have caused and continue to cause such devastating damage to the world's population's health and economy that the crimes committed (...) must be legally qualified as actual crimes against humanity as defined in section 7 of the international criminal code”
German lawyer Reiner Fuellmich, 1 October 2020
« The COVID-19 infection is a normal infection. 85 to 90% of people are witnessing normal symptoms...There is no need to panic...We need to understand that it is a mild disease and only 10 to 15 % cases
get severe »
Dr Randeep Guleria : pulmonologist and director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (25 April 2021)
"We must stop dramatising this epidemic, we must calm down! I'm very surprised to see this agitation, this generalized fear... We must not live in terror... I'm part of the risk groups; I'm over 65. And I'm not afraid, not for a second!"
Prof. Didier Raoult, November 17, 2020 (in a video called: "we must stop having fear !")
« The natural history of the virus [the coronavirus] is not influenced by social measures [lockdown, face masks, closure of restaurants, curfew, etc.]...The lockdown did not trigger the decrease in cases...As for the closure of restaurants which had very strict health protocols in place...of course, I have no way of defending it...it has not influenced the epidemic at all...The lockdown has not changed anything…»
Prof. Philippe Parola, December 3, 2020
« The world went mad » with coronavirus lockdowns which « fly in the face of what is known about handling virus pandemics »
Dr Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist, June 24, 2020
« The infection fatality rate seems to be about the same as for influenza, but we have never introduced these drastic measures before, when we had influenza pandemics. And we cannot live with them for years to come »
Prof. Peter Gøtzsche, December 1, 2020
« There is no scientific evidence to support the disastrous two-metre rule. Poor quality research is being used to justify a policy with enormous consequences for us all »
Professors Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, June 19, 2020
« The decision of lockdown as the decision of wearing masks…are not based on scientific data…»
Prof. Didier Raoult, June 24, 2020
« Grotesque, absurd and very dangerous measures...a horrible impact on the world economy...self-destruction and collective suicide... »
Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, March 2020. He also sent, at the time, a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel
« Dictatorship of masks totally unfounded »
Prof. Christian Perronne, September 22, 2020
« In none of the two waves,...were all ICUs saturated. It is false ! [That all the ICUs were saturated] »
Prof. Michaël Peyromaure, January 18, 2021
« Every winter in Paris, the ICU beds are totally saturated. We transfer patients…every winter, in normal circumstances »
Prof. Bruno Mégarbane, anesthesiologist and intensive care physician, September 27, 2020
« We say : STOP to all crazy and disproportionate measures that have been taken since the beginning to fight SARS-CoV-2 (lockdown, blocking the economy and education, social distancing, wearing of masks for all, etc.) because they are totally unjustified, are not based on any scientific evidence and violate the basic principles of evidence-based medicine. However, we of course support reasonable measures such as recommendations of washing hands, sneezing or coughing in elbow, using a disposable tissue, etc »
The United Health Professionals international collective, August 26, 2020
« When the state knows best and violates human rights, we are on a dangerous course. The pandemic has led to the violation of basic human rights…There has not been the slightest ethical analysis of whether this was justified. It is not »
Prof. Peter Gøtzsche, December 4, 2020
« The curfew...was used during the German occupation when the militia and the Gestapo went to the houses. And now we'll have the police making visits to see if there are more than six people at the table ! What is this madness ?! »