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German Retirement Insurance Expects Surprising Surplus in 2022

The surplus is in large part explained by the high excess mortality, which officials chalk up to COVID. But statisticians say the numbers don’t add up.

Germany’s statutory retirement insurance expects a surplus of €2.1 billion at the end of 2022, its president, Gundula Roßbach, told the German news agency DPA. “A year ago, a deficit of €6.5 billion had been predicted,” Roßbach said. The surplus can be explained by a surprisingly stable job market in Germany alongside a surprisingly high excess-mortality rate.

Despite multiple crises, the labor market in Germany is sturdy, according to Roßbach. This led to a good revenue situation for retirement insurance.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2022December 30, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

Job Loss From Feds’ Vaccine Mandate Being Fought in Polish Court

The federal government suspended its vaccine requirement to work in the public service in June 2022 but is nonetheless facing legal action over the measure at home and also abroad, with a former employee of the Canadian embassy in Poland seeking compensation over how she was treated.

“The vaccine mandate was truly unfortunate for Canadians but of no relevance whatsoever for Polish staff of the Embassy,” Karolina Janiak told The Epoch Times in an interview.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2022December 29, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Poland

How Bad Is China’s Covid Outbreak? It’s a Scientific Guessing Game.

In the absence of credible information from the Chinese government, researchers around the world are looking for any clues to determine the size and severity of the surge.

As Covid barrels through China, scientists around the world are searching for clues about an outbreak with sprawling consequences — for the health of hundreds of millions of Chinese people, the global economy and the future of the pandemic.

But in the absence of credible information from the Chinese government, it is a big scientific guessing game to determine the size and severity of the surge in the world’s most populous country.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2022December 29, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

How an Occupied Twitter Ruined Countless Lives

From the beginning of the COVID panic, it felt that something was very wrong. Never had a pandemic, much less a seasonal pathogenic wave, been treated as a quasi-military emergency requiring the upending of all freedoms and rights.

What made it more bizarre was how alone those of us who objected felt until very recently when Elon Musk finally bought the platform Twitter, fired all the embedded federal agents, and has started to release the files.

by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2022December 29, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Twitter

COVID only accelerated the blue state exodus

Where are Americans moving? And where, to make things more specific, have Americans been moving since the sudden onset of COVID lockdowns? Answers to these questions come from the annual Christmastime release of the Census Bureau’s estimates of the population of the 50 states and the District of Columbia as of last July.

Comparing those numbers to the decennial census count of April 1, 2020, just when COVID restrictions were put in place, provides a view of how Americans moved, or didn’t, during the pandemic and post-pandemic 27 months.

by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2022December 29, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", USA

Trudeau Allowing Wuhan Flu Infected ChiComs Full No-Test Access Unlike Countries Without Idiot Drama Teacher Leaders

Canada ‘monitoring’ as other countries implement COVID-19 testing policies for travellers from China

Following a surge of infections, the U.S. announced new COVID-19 testing requirements for all travellers entering from China – but Canada has not said whether it will be imposing a similar policy.

“Travellers continue to be advised to maintain enhanced health precautions and follow public health measures at their ports of entry,” said a spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in an email to CTVNews.ca Wednesday. “Any other updates will be communicated to travellers through a travel health notice.”

Canada’s China Class must have some real sick pornos of Justin.

by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2022December 29, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada

US to require arrivals from China to provide negative Covid test

The US has announced all travellers from China must provide a negative Covid-19 test to enter the country, joining other nations imposing restrictions because of a surge of infections.

The increase in cases across China follows the rollback of the nation’s strict anti-virus controls. Beijing’s “zero Covid” policies had kept the country’s infection rate low but fuelled public frustration and crushed economic growth.

From 5 January, all travellers to the US from China will be required to take a Covid test no more than two days before travel and provide a negative test before boarding their flight. The testing applies to anyone two years and older.

by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2022December 28, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", USA

The whistleblower who could blow open the Covid lab leak theory in 2023

Gene therapy and cell engineering specialist Dr Alina Chan has doggedly pursued an investigation into the origins of the pandemic

If you haven’t heard of the whistleblowing scientist Dr Alina Chan, then you almost certainly will in 2023.

The gene therapy and cell engineering specialist at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was one of the first experts to question whether Covid leaked from a lab in Wuhan, and has doggedly pursued an investigation into the origins of the pandemic.

In the coming year, it is possible that evidence will finally emerge proving that experiments to soup-up coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) led to the accidental release of Covid. ‘Right now it’s not safe for people who know about the origin of the pandemic to come forward,’ she told MPs at a session of the Science and Technology Select Committee in 2021. ‘But we live in an era where there is so much information being stored that it will eventually come out.’

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2022December 28, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

How COVID lockdowns messed with our brains, increasing anxiety and depression

Israeli neuroscientist Alon Chen can change the mood, the “mental state” of an animal. “We can make a mouse more or less anxious, more or less depressed-like, by changing the activity of specific brain areas or nerve cells,” says Chen, president of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2022December 28, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Canadians fined at least $15M for breaking COVID quarantine rules in 2022, data shows

OTTAWA – Canadians who were caught violating federal COVID-19 quarantine rules racked up at least $15 million in fines this year, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, but it’s not clear how much of that will actually be paid.

The agency provided data to the House of Commons in the fall in response to a request from Conservative MP Eric Duncan.

Duncan did not respond to a request for comment.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2022December 27, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Churches Still Haven’t Recovered From Pandemic Anti-Christian Discrimination

They’re picking up the pieces from disproportionate restrictions.

Americans are increasingly coming to the conclusion that Democrats irreversibly damaged the nation through their pandemic restrictions.

Nowhere is this more true than in the decline of American churches, which were gutted by onerous rules and outright bans that stretched for months on end. In many instances, such restrictions remained in place much longer than those on shopping malls and movie productions, driving questions about why Democrats were incommensurately tough on churches.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2022December 26, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Christian Persecution

How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

The platform suppressed true information from doctors and public-health experts that was at odds with U.S. government policy.

I had always thought a primary job of the press was to be skeptical of power—especially the power of the government. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, I and so many others found that the legacy media had shown itself to largely operate as a messaging platform for our public health institutions. Those institutions operated in near total lockstep, in part by purging internal dissidents and discrediting outside experts.

Twitter became an essential alternative. It was a place where those with public health expertise and perspectives at odds with official policy could air their views—and where curious citizens could find such information. This often included other countries’ responses to Covid that differed dramatically from our own.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2022December 26, 2022•0•"Big Tech Oligopoly", "China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", "extremists", "Surveillance Society", Twitter

When it comes to COVID and China, it’s déjà vu all over again

As Tucker Carlson frequently says, because of the establishment’s response to COVID in 2020, the America we knew has been irrevocably changed, and not for the better. All of us can remember what led to that change: News out of China that hospitals were overrun and people dying in the streets because of a strange infection.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2022December 25, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Biden Forced to Retreat as Military Troops Who Opposed Covid Vaccine Mandate Get Major Victory

The U.S. Department of Defense is halting all actions relating to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate after President Joe Biden signed a bill—the Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—that includes an end to the mandate, the department said on Dec. 23.

“The NDAA requires that, not later than 30 days after enactment, the Secretary of Defense rescind the mandate that members of the Armed Forces be vaccinated against COVID-19. As a result, the Department will rescind the mandate and is currently in the process of developing further guidance. During this process, we are pausing all actions related to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate,” a Pentagon spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2022December 24, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

WHO calls vaccine skeptics a “major killing force”

The WHO doesn’t mess around. At least when it comes to spreading propaganda.

I will assume for the sake of civility that the WHO genuinely believes that the COVID vaccine is safe and effective. I will even assume that for most people the vaccine is safe, and at least somewhat effective in reducing the likelihood of severe disease in people likely to become deadly ill from COVID, such as the very old and very sick.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2022December 23, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease"