Kevin Bass, MD, PhD student: If Kevin Bass, medical 'doctor in waiting', thinks this is a mea culpa, that this is another version of AMNESTY by Emily Oster, take this & shove it! Props for this BUT
Kevin Bass, MD, PhD student: If Kevin Bass, medical 'doctor in waiting', thinks this is a mea culpa, that this is another version of AMNESTY by Emily Oster, take this & shove it! Props for this BUT
we want justice & accountability and where we can get it, deep jail time for all who did wrong including your colleague doctors, all & we want death penalty on the table if courts & judges rule such
Justice: necessary. Because this was not about physicians 'being mistaken'. Let's remember that every physician is taught how to calculate the positive predictive value of a test. As soon as the govt. began mass testing of healthy persons, every MD in the country ought to have known this was a scam.
Very glad to see Newsweek publishing something other than pablum. Let's see if they will publish an editorial by Dr. Alexander.
I read with interest the piece you chose to publish by Kevin Bass, MD PhD. I found it very interesting that Newsweek chose a student’s essay to publish during this time when the majoritarian narrative is crumbling. Dr. Bass likely holds an academic position from which he can muse about the ‘mistakes’ that were made.
While it was very refreshing to see Newsweek publish something other than the scripted pablum that has been served up to the public by every news entity the last three years, Dr. Bass fails to perceive that physicians are responsible for the lives of their patients. It is this point of accountability that Americans are waiting for you to press in upon.
The last three years was not an academic exercise for the thousands of patients who could have been treated appropriately for COVID19. Any life threatening illness requires the earliest intervention possible. Against all norms in medicine, our government shaped a message to Americans, (which most physicians failed to resist), that people with COVID like symptoms ought to stay home until they turned blue--and then present to an emergency room after becoming hypoxic. Upon arrival, many people ill with respiratory symptoms were given Remdesivir; a failed and fatal drug from the ebola crisis that the WHO removed from their COVID protocol roughly two years ago. Yet in the US somehow it still remains a treatment of choice. How hard is it for Newsweek to follow the money on this one?
You wish the public to view Newsweek as independent and not compromised from the whole mess with Olivet. It appears that you have had to navigate very troubled waters at Newsweek in these last years, reporting adversely about those who sign your paycheck. That is admirable. This gives me hope that you might be the kind of person who is able to break through the national veil of silence that shrouds us all with the 'safe and effective' products.
Have you reported on the excess all-cause mortality documented by Denis Rancourt, et al. and most recently by Ed Dowd, formerly of BlackRock? The significant excess all cause mortality and the excess morbidity that has occurred in the world post distribution of the injectable products will have a deep impact upon us all for the next several foreseeable generations. Mortality data is normally very stable and even a few percentage points increase is cause for investigation. This excess all cause mortality signal however is so great it is being described as a six sigma + event among work young people. Certainly it is newsworthy.
Are you reporting for Americans the decision made in the UK to cease the distribution of the COVID19 injectable products among many subsets of their populations? I am not sure, because I ceased reading Newsweek quite some time ago. Substack has come my preferred news outlet and that of so many others, because we are interested to perspectives that are uncensored.
I imagine that you entered journalism with a desire to help your fellow citizens through investigative journalism; journalism that is curious, asks hard questions, and persists to gain answers that make sense. We are in need of that right now in this country. I hope you and your team rise to the occasion, because it will put your magazine back into the hands of thousands of people who are looking for some straight answers.
We will no longer remain a free people, without access to information from a free press. It remains to be seen whether or not we want to be free any more. To remain free, we must exercise courage. I cannot imagine that you and your colleagues really want to live in a world in which the news is controlled by government and corporate interests. What kind of future does that bring to us? I think it brings a future controlled by those with the most power.
You have the power of the pen, do you have the courage?
It is well past time that our national conversation move beyond the mantra of ‘safe and effective’ and more detailed, nuanced reporting begin within the national news outlets. I commend to you Paul Alexander, PhD, and pharmacologist David Wiseman, PhD, as persons capable of enriching the reporting at Newsweek. They have been deeply involved in the analysis of COVID19 therapeutics, gene therapy products and epidemiology over the last three years. Please consider publishing editorials from these scientists which the American public can view within your publication.
Reiner Fuellmich last year proposed the alias, better causal label of "testdemic" for application to the present epidem scam. Even PCR's Nobel Prize-winning inventor, Karry Mullis (before he suddenly expired), called out Fauci's indecorous pseudoscience in claiming the untranslatable SARS-Cov-2 "tests" were valid and reliable. Moreover, and worse, Rochelle Walensky (MD, MPH-- who wuda thought?) allowed* those "testing positive" to be counted as "cases". (Speaking of the need for a recount . . . "Whoops, too late," some infamous banter with chuckles might run, around an upper-level water-cooler at CDC.
(You're probably aware of these items of *hopefully later, prosecutorial relevance, but just wanted to add my consonance to your great case -- opposing the jabs and stimulating a louder, more robust, overall medical response.)
As a "medical student," I don't think he holds any such graduate credential yet. He's still in a combined-degree program, we're told, so he won't graduate and have his double-doctorate conferred until after "the ink dries" on his dissertation, which he's probably close to submitting. I think he'll be all done this spring or summer.
Anyway, nice (for him and his bros/sisses in "medicine": hopefully and measurably exculpatory) work to appear on his application to wherever after graduation, no?)
Who determines what is "misinformation?" That's been my conundrum throughout this whole scam. How can you determine something is right or wrong if you REFUSE TO DEBATE THE ISSUES?
The people in charge of the military, along with the senior officers, view us as cannon fodder for the Washington/Pentagon Military Industrial Complex.
Yes, we were. We now present a consolidated danger to those who sent us to bleed for Israel. Hail victory. I have removed my Death Before Dishonor and American flag tattoos. I regret my service (although in Angola, we did fire at 15 year old communists). I have lived long enough to bleed for, and then DESPISE my feminist, jewish, corrupt Nation.
Aye. Well, there is some aggregation and experience gained, although IQ is fairly sacrosanct throughout our days. But, my pattern recognition has been well honed!
Even as a young, Cherubic, anti-communist officer, I surmised something was not quite right. Now, all the dots are connected.
Did you notice how in that Newsweek article nearly everything about the disaster of the past few years was on the table....with one extremely notable omission.
Unbelievably, he actually claims that "distrust of vaccines" (linking to some BS confounded study) resulting in under-vaccination was one of the causes of the huge excess in mortality!
The smoctor (smart ass doctor) needs to take a look at Japan, the most shot nation ion the planet. If “distrust of vaccines” and “:under-vaccination” is a cause of huge excess in mortality, how does he explain Japan?
It is because of him and people like him that I distrust the entire medical profession. They have given up the practice of medicine to become nothing more than government compliance officers with the power to kill or let die those who refuse to comply. They must be treated accordingly.
A tell he was BSing all along his present trail of self-claimed confessory enlightenment. He's a condescending phony, another supercilious, scientistic sociopath awaiting his turn to unleash all the noxious pseudoscience he's capable of ginning up in his future lab or studies.
He can't fool genuine, scrupulous people who work honestly for a decent living.
True contrition offers a sincere, heartfelt and guilt admitting apology. Plus a willingness to listen to the impact of the wrongdoing on the aggrieved.
What’s also needed is the humbleness of spirit to willingly submit to the Rule of Law. Seeing he was part of a mass weaponized Crime Against Humanity, the punishment must correlate to the offense. A piece of writing ultimately holds little real value to the world’s Victims.
Words alone will not suffice. An untold number of innocent Human Beings are left injured or dead. Justice demands more than he appears ready to give.
But it will eventually catch up to him and his kind. He can write as many essays as he wants, though he and the rest of them still must pay.
Leftists and associated Authoritarians are never contrite. They get off on misery, and the destruction of happy, free human beings. They can not be reasoned with, or ever appeased. ONLY, removed.
I lost my job in August 2021 for refusing to wear a mask. As Solzhenitsyn said, "Live not by lies" and as a Christian, I am called to walk in truth. Not to mention, I refused to promote or encourage something I knew was harming people, *especially* children! (The job loss was no big deal ... a couple months later, I got a better job. Father God looks out for His own.)
My direct supervisor at that job had been advised by her doctor repeatedly not to get the Covid shots because her health conditions made them too risky for her. But when the company made a "vaccination" policy, and she went to that same doctor to get a medical exemption, he refused to sign it. The bastard was worried about his own sorry ass if she were to get Covid and die. But he didn't give a damn if the shot killed her, as long as he kept his job. Diabolical POS.
NO DEAL!! Forgive and forget? Never again! Isn't that what the jews say? Well, I'm a white, unvaxxed woman who is so angry that I want to take people and smack the stupid out of them!! But because I feel sorry for humanity because they were bamboozled and bullied into this death shot, I want to help wake people up, not beat the crap outta them!! I'm afraid tho that it's not going to be a choice. Whomever took this poison has engaged in a lethal game of Russian roulette and with the law of "eventuality", eventually they're going to bite the bullet. May God have mercy on their souls and show some mercy to the perps who foisted this upon us. This is "their" plan; unfortunately, I'm not allowed to speak "their" name lest I am an -ist of some sort. But you know who you are and you will be judged. I only hope I'm alive to see it🙏🏼 Thank you for your reportage; you are one of the heroes🤩
Yes. I wholeheartedly agree. This post is a perfect example of why I love Dr. Alexander. Perfectly said with all its raw emotion, not "prettied up" and stripped of its impact.
These articles are sanctioned by TPTB and they are testing the waters. If you read the comments under the article, many commenters believe he is wrong and has no facts.
You are right, Alex. This guy is trying to seek amnesty instead of accountability.
What was wrong, however, his sole admission, is that “expert” judgement failed.
Unfortunately, it’s the system that failed. As you put it, the incentives, the lies, the bullying, the censorship. The coercion.
The problem is that it is not one sector or one group but many groups intertwined. Several systems (not just medical) have colluded to trample over decentralized individual freedom and promote centralized obedience, each taking a cut of the pie (medical/hospital machinery, political authorities, regulatory beaurocracy, academic institutions, big Pharma, silicon valley billionaires, media fearmongers, intelligence deep state)
The practical problem now is that so many parties are compromised that full accountability through courts, while ideal, means dire consequences for hoards of people in power in the public but also private sectors. They will band together and resist and claim error, bad luck, etc.
At least if The top heads rolling would of course help to reset incentives for the bad behavior.
But I would ask: is the judiciary system robust enough to deliver this ? The most recent example does not bode well. In the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 big banks had to pay fines or close doors. But CEOs of big banks left with golden parachutes. If courts do not hold people in Power personally and individually accountable and decide to just fine big Pharma, that “justice” becomes a cost of doing business.
If examples are to be made of those who pushed society into the current crisis there needs to be real people, not corporations, feeling the penalties. Let’s hope that happens but it will not be easy.
Thailand is an interesting case to follow. There the “elite” of the monarchy was a victim of unnecessary vaccine injury. They did not take a saline solution. Let’s see if as they realize that they have been had they throw the weight of power and justice against the perpetrators, in their jurisdiction. Let’s see if main stream media in the USA allow that story to offer a benchmark for US courts. Or if they keep people in The dark.
They system did NOT fail. We are living through the result they planned for. The “system” wanted this. It’s just a few cogs in the wheel are uncomfortable with their malfeasance becoming known. He is not sorry for what he did, only sorry he is on the verge of getting caught, so he attempted to “come clean”.
You raise truly challenging and interesting points. If only they were less formidable.
Given the considerable facts you make clear, I think the Empire, if you will, is neither weakening nor retreating, but doubling down in their transformational efforts, including -- not in the least, I suspect, to be sure -- the culling, as they would put it, of the population. Agenda 2030's stated goal, I understand, is to whittle it down to a (10-% or greater) fraction -- 500,000-800,000 -- of the current global count of 8 billion.
If this isn't dramatic, "High Noon" on steroids, I couldn't tell you what is.
"No Deal!"
🎯
The murderers need to be disciplined like any other murderer
Yes, and like any other mass murders in particular.
Justice: necessary. Because this was not about physicians 'being mistaken'. Let's remember that every physician is taught how to calculate the positive predictive value of a test. As soon as the govt. began mass testing of healthy persons, every MD in the country ought to have known this was a scam.
Very glad to see Newsweek publishing something other than pablum. Let's see if they will publish an editorial by Dr. Alexander.
they always reject it. ha ha ha
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Dear Ms. Cooper,
I read with interest the piece you chose to publish by Kevin Bass, MD PhD. I found it very interesting that Newsweek chose a student’s essay to publish during this time when the majoritarian narrative is crumbling. Dr. Bass likely holds an academic position from which he can muse about the ‘mistakes’ that were made.
While it was very refreshing to see Newsweek publish something other than the scripted pablum that has been served up to the public by every news entity the last three years, Dr. Bass fails to perceive that physicians are responsible for the lives of their patients. It is this point of accountability that Americans are waiting for you to press in upon.
The last three years was not an academic exercise for the thousands of patients who could have been treated appropriately for COVID19. Any life threatening illness requires the earliest intervention possible. Against all norms in medicine, our government shaped a message to Americans, (which most physicians failed to resist), that people with COVID like symptoms ought to stay home until they turned blue--and then present to an emergency room after becoming hypoxic. Upon arrival, many people ill with respiratory symptoms were given Remdesivir; a failed and fatal drug from the ebola crisis that the WHO removed from their COVID protocol roughly two years ago. Yet in the US somehow it still remains a treatment of choice. How hard is it for Newsweek to follow the money on this one?
You wish the public to view Newsweek as independent and not compromised from the whole mess with Olivet. It appears that you have had to navigate very troubled waters at Newsweek in these last years, reporting adversely about those who sign your paycheck. That is admirable. This gives me hope that you might be the kind of person who is able to break through the national veil of silence that shrouds us all with the 'safe and effective' products.
Have you reported on the excess all-cause mortality documented by Denis Rancourt, et al. and most recently by Ed Dowd, formerly of BlackRock? The significant excess all cause mortality and the excess morbidity that has occurred in the world post distribution of the injectable products will have a deep impact upon us all for the next several foreseeable generations. Mortality data is normally very stable and even a few percentage points increase is cause for investigation. This excess all cause mortality signal however is so great it is being described as a six sigma + event among work young people. Certainly it is newsworthy.
Are you reporting for Americans the decision made in the UK to cease the distribution of the COVID19 injectable products among many subsets of their populations? I am not sure, because I ceased reading Newsweek quite some time ago. Substack has come my preferred news outlet and that of so many others, because we are interested to perspectives that are uncensored.
I imagine that you entered journalism with a desire to help your fellow citizens through investigative journalism; journalism that is curious, asks hard questions, and persists to gain answers that make sense. We are in need of that right now in this country. I hope you and your team rise to the occasion, because it will put your magazine back into the hands of thousands of people who are looking for some straight answers.
We will no longer remain a free people, without access to information from a free press. It remains to be seen whether or not we want to be free any more. To remain free, we must exercise courage. I cannot imagine that you and your colleagues really want to live in a world in which the news is controlled by government and corporate interests. What kind of future does that bring to us? I think it brings a future controlled by those with the most power.
You have the power of the pen, do you have the courage?
It is well past time that our national conversation move beyond the mantra of ‘safe and effective’ and more detailed, nuanced reporting begin within the national news outlets. I commend to you Paul Alexander, PhD, and pharmacologist David Wiseman, PhD, as persons capable of enriching the reporting at Newsweek. They have been deeply involved in the analysis of COVID19 therapeutics, gene therapy products and epidemiology over the last three years. Please consider publishing editorials from these scientists which the American public can view within your publication.
Carol Crevier, RN MPH
Chicago, Illinois
Your integrity and reasoning are STELLAR. Thank you.
Great job, Carol. Thanks.
A practicing, public health-oriented nurse and real-life angel who pitches as well as she exists: phenomenally.
Bless you, Carol. You rock!
Awesome letter. You are a rare MPH. Thank you nurse Crevier.
Welll done, Carol. Superlative! Please update us when you receive a reply from Newsweek.
Reiner Fuellmich last year proposed the alias, better causal label of "testdemic" for application to the present epidem scam. Even PCR's Nobel Prize-winning inventor, Karry Mullis (before he suddenly expired), called out Fauci's indecorous pseudoscience in claiming the untranslatable SARS-Cov-2 "tests" were valid and reliable. Moreover, and worse, Rochelle Walensky (MD, MPH-- who wuda thought?) allowed* those "testing positive" to be counted as "cases". (Speaking of the need for a recount . . . "Whoops, too late," some infamous banter with chuckles might run, around an upper-level water-cooler at CDC.
(You're probably aware of these items of *hopefully later, prosecutorial relevance, but just wanted to add my consonance to your great case -- opposing the jabs and stimulating a louder, more robust, overall medical response.)
Excellent response to Kevin Bass. (I can’t refer to him as a Dr. or any of his complicit colleagues).
As a "medical student," I don't think he holds any such graduate credential yet. He's still in a combined-degree program, we're told, so he won't graduate and have his double-doctorate conferred until after "the ink dries" on his dissertation, which he's probably close to submitting. I think he'll be all done this spring or summer.
Anyway, nice (for him and his bros/sisses in "medicine": hopefully and measurably exculpatory) work to appear on his application to wherever after graduation, no?)
No forgiveness. They have to pay for the lives lost and those in pain.
We need help in chinada!!
In British Columbia: they passed a bill 36
1. you can vax by force a health care worker
2. take their property for misinformation;
3. put them in jail for 2 years.
4. fine them 200k;
when mayors tried to have this repealed the Ministry of HEALTH (sic) said they needed the mandates and (this legislation by implication) for SAFETY.
this draconian Bill needs everyone's shame and attention Bill 36. It catches all types of health sector workers.
Who determines what is "misinformation?" That's been my conundrum throughout this whole scam. How can you determine something is right or wrong if you REFUSE TO DEBATE THE ISSUES?
100% accurate. its been interpreted what the state wants at that point in time. Totally doesn't meet the Rule of law for knowing what the law is.
A lot of damage can be inflicted with vehicles, scissors, hammers. We know this, as the filthy left employs these tactics. An Eye for an Eye. FIGHT!
I'm with you, "sorry" doesn't cut it!
VA will deny medical care to veterans if they are not wearing a mask.
VA still pushing covid death shots and boosters.
VA: Giving veterans one more chance to die for their country.
If people only knew what the military REALLY thinks of them, we'd have no military.
The people in charge of the military, along with the senior officers, view us as cannon fodder for the Washington/Pentagon Military Industrial Complex.
Yes, we were. We now present a consolidated danger to those who sent us to bleed for Israel. Hail victory. I have removed my Death Before Dishonor and American flag tattoos. I regret my service (although in Angola, we did fire at 15 year old communists). I have lived long enough to bleed for, and then DESPISE my feminist, jewish, corrupt Nation.
We get smarter as we get older.
Aye. Well, there is some aggregation and experience gained, although IQ is fairly sacrosanct throughout our days. But, my pattern recognition has been well honed!
Even as a young, Cherubic, anti-communist officer, I surmised something was not quite right. Now, all the dots are connected.
Did you notice how in that Newsweek article nearly everything about the disaster of the past few years was on the table....with one extremely notable omission.
Unbelievably, he actually claims that "distrust of vaccines" (linking to some BS confounded study) resulting in under-vaccination was one of the causes of the huge excess in mortality!
I will include that.
The smoctor (smart ass doctor) needs to take a look at Japan, the most shot nation ion the planet. If “distrust of vaccines” and “:under-vaccination” is a cause of huge excess in mortality, how does he explain Japan?
It is because of him and people like him that I distrust the entire medical profession. They have given up the practice of medicine to become nothing more than government compliance officers with the power to kill or let die those who refuse to comply. They must be treated accordingly.
A tell he was BSing all along his present trail of self-claimed confessory enlightenment. He's a condescending phony, another supercilious, scientistic sociopath awaiting his turn to unleash all the noxious pseudoscience he's capable of ginning up in his future lab or studies.
He can't fool genuine, scrupulous people who work honestly for a decent living.
Bottom line, If an MD prescribed the Covid vaccine for healthy children then they should do jail time. No exceptions and no excuses.
And if even one Child dies, Capital Punishment.
True contrition offers a sincere, heartfelt and guilt admitting apology. Plus a willingness to listen to the impact of the wrongdoing on the aggrieved.
What’s also needed is the humbleness of spirit to willingly submit to the Rule of Law. Seeing he was part of a mass weaponized Crime Against Humanity, the punishment must correlate to the offense. A piece of writing ultimately holds little real value to the world’s Victims.
Words alone will not suffice. An untold number of innocent Human Beings are left injured or dead. Justice demands more than he appears ready to give.
But it will eventually catch up to him and his kind. He can write as many essays as he wants, though he and the rest of them still must pay.
Leftists and associated Authoritarians are never contrite. They get off on misery, and the destruction of happy, free human beings. They can not be reasoned with, or ever appeased. ONLY, removed.
Agreed.
I lost my job in August 2021 for refusing to wear a mask. As Solzhenitsyn said, "Live not by lies" and as a Christian, I am called to walk in truth. Not to mention, I refused to promote or encourage something I knew was harming people, *especially* children! (The job loss was no big deal ... a couple months later, I got a better job. Father God looks out for His own.)
My direct supervisor at that job had been advised by her doctor repeatedly not to get the Covid shots because her health conditions made them too risky for her. But when the company made a "vaccination" policy, and she went to that same doctor to get a medical exemption, he refused to sign it. The bastard was worried about his own sorry ass if she were to get Covid and die. But he didn't give a damn if the shot killed her, as long as he kept his job. Diabolical POS.
NO DEAL!! Forgive and forget? Never again! Isn't that what the jews say? Well, I'm a white, unvaxxed woman who is so angry that I want to take people and smack the stupid out of them!! But because I feel sorry for humanity because they were bamboozled and bullied into this death shot, I want to help wake people up, not beat the crap outta them!! I'm afraid tho that it's not going to be a choice. Whomever took this poison has engaged in a lethal game of Russian roulette and with the law of "eventuality", eventually they're going to bite the bullet. May God have mercy on their souls and show some mercy to the perps who foisted this upon us. This is "their" plan; unfortunately, I'm not allowed to speak "their" name lest I am an -ist of some sort. But you know who you are and you will be judged. I only hope I'm alive to see it🙏🏼 Thank you for your reportage; you are one of the heroes🤩
Yes. I wholeheartedly agree. This post is a perfect example of why I love Dr. Alexander. Perfectly said with all its raw emotion, not "prettied up" and stripped of its impact.
These articles are sanctioned by TPTB and they are testing the waters. If you read the comments under the article, many commenters believe he is wrong and has no facts.
You are right, Alex. This guy is trying to seek amnesty instead of accountability.
What was wrong, however, his sole admission, is that “expert” judgement failed.
Unfortunately, it’s the system that failed. As you put it, the incentives, the lies, the bullying, the censorship. The coercion.
The problem is that it is not one sector or one group but many groups intertwined. Several systems (not just medical) have colluded to trample over decentralized individual freedom and promote centralized obedience, each taking a cut of the pie (medical/hospital machinery, political authorities, regulatory beaurocracy, academic institutions, big Pharma, silicon valley billionaires, media fearmongers, intelligence deep state)
The practical problem now is that so many parties are compromised that full accountability through courts, while ideal, means dire consequences for hoards of people in power in the public but also private sectors. They will band together and resist and claim error, bad luck, etc.
At least if The top heads rolling would of course help to reset incentives for the bad behavior.
But I would ask: is the judiciary system robust enough to deliver this ? The most recent example does not bode well. In the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 big banks had to pay fines or close doors. But CEOs of big banks left with golden parachutes. If courts do not hold people in Power personally and individually accountable and decide to just fine big Pharma, that “justice” becomes a cost of doing business.
If examples are to be made of those who pushed society into the current crisis there needs to be real people, not corporations, feeling the penalties. Let’s hope that happens but it will not be easy.
Thailand is an interesting case to follow. There the “elite” of the monarchy was a victim of unnecessary vaccine injury. They did not take a saline solution. Let’s see if as they realize that they have been had they throw the weight of power and justice against the perpetrators, in their jurisdiction. Let’s see if main stream media in the USA allow that story to offer a benchmark for US courts. Or if they keep people in The dark.
They system did NOT fail. We are living through the result they planned for. The “system” wanted this. It’s just a few cogs in the wheel are uncomfortable with their malfeasance becoming known. He is not sorry for what he did, only sorry he is on the verge of getting caught, so he attempted to “come clean”.
You raise truly challenging and interesting points. If only they were less formidable.
Given the considerable facts you make clear, I think the Empire, if you will, is neither weakening nor retreating, but doubling down in their transformational efforts, including -- not in the least, I suspect, to be sure -- the culling, as they would put it, of the population. Agenda 2030's stated goal, I understand, is to whittle it down to a (10-% or greater) fraction -- 500,000-800,000 -- of the current global count of 8 billion.
If this isn't dramatic, "High Noon" on steroids, I couldn't tell you what is.