“China eats weird animals disease”

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.

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.

But still …

My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022

h/t Mauser

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

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. 

Many of those now praising the anti-lockdown protesters in China were all too quick to demonise those in the UK.