Xi Jinping’s Covid restrictions have stunted his country’s progress
With the benefit of hindsight, we can be certain that futurologists are often wrong. Contrary to the expectations of earlier decades, no one is living on Mars, nor do many of us commute to work in a flying car.
He is certain that Covid had zoonotic origins, but can’t recall a crucial day in the lead-up to him reaching that conclusion
Dr. Anthony Fauci sat for a seven-hour deposition last week as part of a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana. The suit claims that the Biden administration colluded with social media platforms to censor information surrounding the origins and circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as information that went against CDC guidelines and mandates around vaccines and efficacy masks.
Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee have issued a minority report that says there are “indications” that COVID-19 was part of a bioweapons program that “spilled over” to the general human population during an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Judicial Watch said that the records contained information…
…regarding data Moderna submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, which indicate a “statistically significant” number of rats were born with skeletal deformations after their mothers were injected with the vaccine. The documents also reveal Moderna elected not to conduct a number of standard pharmacological studies on the laboratory test animals.
We are experiencing a predictable perturbation in our ecological relationship with the organisms that are capable of causing serious disease
Fans of Little Women will know that Beth March died of the lingering complications of scarlet fever, but who would have thought that this bacterial disease would be in the headlines in 2022? Is this because we have left children who were born during, or just ahead of, the Covid pandemic with an “immunity debt”?
It is now widely acknowledged that lockdowns caused harm to our already stretched health service, with many of the direct consequences such as increased cancer and cardiovascular deaths being reported regularly. Most of these harms were entirely predictable. Less obvious was how some of the more indirect consequences of lockdown might play out, such as the effect on our relationship with other pathogens circulating within our communities.
Zero Covid experiment has ended in catastrophic failure.
In 2020, China was where the world’s Covid lockdowns began – today, they are finally ending there, too. Until recently, China had seemed committed to its draconian Zero Covid approach. In October, President Xi Jinping assured the Chinese Communist Party Congress: ‘We have adhered to the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life, adhered to dynamic Zero Covid, and achieved major positive results in the overall prevention and control of the epidemic, and economic and social development.’
Nobody thought it was going to be a humble shuffling off into anonymity.
And I suppose we cannot begrudge the most celebrated bureaucrat in the U.S. government a final retracing of his much-trodden path through the green rooms of New York and Washington, D.C.
Until recently, China, the world’s most populous nation, was also the world’s last Covid holdout. But in a matter of weeks it will be hit by a wave that a top health official predicts could infect many hundreds of millions of people.
This week, Beijing took its biggest step toward living with Covid, all but abandoning an unpopular and costly “zero Covid” policy of lockdowns and mass quarantines it had hoped would eliminate infections. The abrupt pivot has raised the specter of tremendous strain on a health care system that is overstretched even in normal times. That could get worse in a month, when people travel across the country to see their families during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Good.
While it has been mostly older people with comorbidities who have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, it has been younger Canadians who have experienced the highest percentage of excess mortality, according to data from Statistics Canada.
Excess mortality takes place when more people die during a given period than normally expected based on trends.
Data provided by Statistics Canada analyzed by The Epoch Times shows that since March 2020, there were on average 7 percent more deaths than expected for all ages.
GRIEVING for your old life is one of the hardest aspects about being vaccine-injured. It’s grieving for all the milestones that should have been met, the memories that should have been made, the dreams, shattered and stolen, in the blink of an eye.
Before the pandemic, I had just started university, excited to begin a life dedicated to the stage, a life that I had worked so hard for. There was nothing I wanted more than to be doing what I loved, to be singing my heart out every night.
Now, there is nothing I want more than my life back.
As Dr Paul Alexander notes the continued rollout of bivalent boosters will do nothing more than keep this pandemic going for many years.
It’s not just the negative efficacy there is also the danger of a more lethal strain developing.
An abject failure which must be stopped. pic.twitter.com/geKB4a2GX6
— Kat A 🌸 (@SaiKate108) December 8, 2022
h/t Mauser
As a physician who has watched the pandemic unfold on chest X-rays and CT scans, I’ve seen the many waves of COVID wreak havoc on my patients. I have tried my best to speak over the cacophony of misinformation on social media to paint a realistic picture of what’s been happening in our hospitals, in the hopes of encouraging vaccination and accurate risk assessment. But sadly, I’ve come to the realization that not even the unyielding reality of ebbing COVID cases will quiet the voices of committed alarmists on social media.
She gets to keep that “tarnished” badge after all.
Cripes, Mandel makes it sound like she bought sensitive communications equipment from the ChiComs!
h/t pmsTrudeau
IN early December 2019, in the midst of a measles outbreak, the South Pacific island nation of Samoa ordered a two-day countrywide lockdown to complete a compulsory mass vaccination programme. In a three-month period, nearly three-quarters of Samoa’s 200,000 people were inoculated.
The circumstances surrounding this vaccination campaign, in particular its timing and the use of a lockdown, have given rise to the speculation that SARS CoV-2 (coronavirus) was released during that outbreak using an experimental measles vector Covid vaccine. Measles vector vaccines are measles viruses genetically engineered to contain material from other pathogens.
