June 16, 2023
As often happens here, in this blog, the ultimate objective is a message, which usually does not fit with the common narrative, BUT is based on objective, verifiable facts and numbers. By following this path, there is no risk of making mistakes even in a minefield, where technical issues play a major role and any pseudo-scientist can easily silence skeptical voices by claiming that there is no point in listening to people who have no knowledge of the subject at hand.
As a general rule, when facts and numbers are considered, the scenario is completely different: for instance, in the hypothetical case of some specific smartphones or computers or televisions which are likely to break down after a few months, no special skills are needed to look at statistical data and understand that it is not wise to buy those smartphones or computers or televisions. Of course, even if we do not have the slightest idea about how and why an electronic equipment can actually work, we will be able to realize that those devices are not reliable, if we have access to objective information about their poor performance. Furthermore, we would probably hate our employer, if she/he were determined to fire us, unless we buy one of those smartphones or computers or televisions!
We can start our chat with a statement that is found (e.g.) in a report issued in March 2020 by the institution usually known through the acronym WHO:
For persons without symptoms, wearing a mask of any type is not recommended. Wearing medical masks when they are not indicated may cause unnecessary cost and a procurement burden and create a false sense of security that can lead to the neglect of other essential preventive measures.
Surely, everything can be justified, but this fact does not necessarily mean that other facts (real facts) should be ignored. Here follows a short list of events and opinions, which can be downplayed or dismissed as worthless, but appear to be legitimate.
1. The salvific effect of gag mandates
When "authorities were trying to prevent a mask shortage for health workers", if they were really aware of the benign effect of gagging acts, it would have been possible to establish priorities and ban the sale of the alleged life-saving devices to "the general public" for some time, without downplaying their salvific role. After all, this is exactly what happened some months later, as soon as the first batches of concoctions (i.e., the well-known thaumaturgic serums) became available: myriads of desperate people (including wealthy persons who were probably ready to shell out thousands of dollars for an immediate dose of the magic fluid) were forced to patiently wait because of precedence rules.
2. Unexpected mishaps
According to the common narrative, it is not crystal clear if the real problem was due to the "mask shortage for health workers" or to a mental blindness, which had not allowed so many inventive minds to perceive "the impact of face masks", since (unfortunately) there were initial doubts over "the extent of asymptomatic spread". Then, IF the actual problem was a little initial accident, it is legit to state that any mishap might have been followed by another mishap. In practice, what was usually depicted as scientific knowledge often appeared to be a set of ideas that were in a development phase. So, wherever and whenever gag mandates were put in place, it might have been more appropriate to recommend, not enforce the use of the alleged life-saving gadgets.
3. The "100 Days Masking Challenge"
- the main guest of the White House[cf. https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/biden-other-politicians-chided-for-lapses-in-mask-protocols-2468448/]
- a former main guest of the White House
[cf. https://nypost.com/2021/08/09/private-jets-and-no-masks-how-obamas-party-was-height-of-elite-hypocrisy/]- the Governor of California and some Party comrades
[cf. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/gavin-newsom-eric-garcetti-london-breed-maskless-rams-game/index.html]- a very important lady "at a prestigious wedding" in California, a State where even children were "forced to wear masks at state schools" at the time when that wedding took place
[cf. https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/pelosi-seen-maskless-at-billionaire-california-wedding]4. China and Italy
What happened in the United States is certainly enlightening, but probably the best picture of the practical efficiency of gag mandates came from China a few months ago, when the rest of the world (especially the Western world) got crazy about the spike in infections that occurred as soon as the caging policy was abandoned. Since the Chinese people were extremely fond of gag mandates (before, during and after the age of the house arrests), the logical consequence should have been a limited number of cases, IF the message spread by the worldwide propaganda machine had been reasonably correct.
Mind you, I am not implying that all the experimental tests and the very interesting academic studies on the alleged life-saving devices were full of mistakes: I simply mean that the real world is often very different from the ideal situation that might be considered while working in a laboratory or with a computer model. That's why I have just mentioned the concept of "practical efficiency" and I like the term "rags": pieces of fabric, which can be dirty, are always filled with particles expelled from the mouth and certainly cannot seal the face (or lots of people would have died of choking to save their lives from a virus).
Just to clarify the concept, it would be surely possible to evacuate a large plane very quickly, if the aircraft were on an airfield and the people on board were thoroughly instructed, but the situation would be much different after an emergency landing in a moment of panic...
Another example comes from a Country that was praised by the WHO in March 2020 for its crusade against the infamous virus: Italy.[cf., e.g., https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/03/11/coronavirus-who-praises-italy-as-it-declares-pandemic_15477ab6-7116-4361-8168-08159471d30f.html]Incidentally, note that Italy has always been near the top of the statistics tables, when it comes to the number of deaths due to Covid-19...
Anyway, no effort was spared to fight the coronavirus and, in the early stages of its activity, even latex gloves were imposed in shopping centers.[cf. https://www.lavoro.gov.it/documenti-e-norme/normative/Documents/2020/DPCM-26-aprile-2020.pdf]However, that mandate was lifted a few months later, probably because the local experts came to the conclusion that it was too bizarre to be sustainable.[cf., e.g., https://www.uab.edu/news/youcanuse/item/11867-double-masking-and-glove-wearing-is-it-necessary]Instead, after a relatively quiet summer, in October 2020 the alleged life-saving devices were again elevated to the rank of idols.[cf. https://www.lavoro.gov.it/documenti-e-norme/normative/Documents/2020/DPCM-13102020.pdf]Next, the cult continued to be promoted for about eighteen months, albeit with some modifications.
Now, should gag mandates really have worked, what would you expect? An almost Covid-free country, I guess. Well, if you look at statistical data, you will find that Italy is the sixth country in the world when you consider the "Deaths per 100,000 population".[cf., e.g., https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality]
5. China's 20th Communist Party national congress
Perhaps, some of the most exhilarating moments in the history of the cult of gag mandates came together with China's 20th Communist Party national congress in October 2022. As shown in the pictures on the right, all the yes-women and yes-men of the Party had clearly been encouraged to wear their life-saving gadgets (A). Instead, the lion-hearted Party leaders were quietly sitting one close to the other (B), gallantly challenging the ghost of death, while the Boss at the top of the pyramid even dared to gently tap the jacket of a former President (C).
[Pictures taken from https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202210/1277680.shtml
and https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196017/chinas-20th-communist-party-national-congress-opens-beijing]Of course, I am not aware of the most recent scientific advances in the field of the alleged life-saving devices in the People's Republic of China, but I am pretty sure that the top brass would have never forgotten the salvific equipment, if they had really believed that some pieces of fabric could make the difference between life and death!6. The Final of 2020 UEFA European Football Championship
In the early days of July 2021 the scenario was dramatic. The end of 2020 UEFA European Football Championship was behind the door. The Final hours, the doomsday, July 11th, was approaching and the chronicles of that horrible time were the mirror of the imminent calamity: "Covid infections in England have been surging, driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant and the lifting of restrictions".
Yes, it really was a hellish experience. Believe it or not, "almost all remaining restrictions" were tragically "set to be lifted, including mask-wearing and social distancing mandates". Death and destruction seemed to be inevitable.
The atmosphere in London was shocking and, as reasonably expected, a "WHO scientist" did not hesitate to come clean about the dire truth (presumably, in the name of science): "DeltaVariant will take advantage of unvaccinated people, in crowded settings, unmasked, screaming/shouting/singing. Devastating."[cf. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/12/devastating-who-scientist-condemns-euro-2020-final]As also expected, the appalling events in England were very well known in Italy: the careful, attentive Country that had been eulogized by the WHO community one year before. By pure chance, on July 3rd, Rome had to host the quarter-final between England and Ukraine.
No panic!!! The emergency control room in Italy was ready to create an insurmountable barrier against the virus. On July 1st a new rule was announced: "Anybody who has been in the UK in the previous 14 days, irrespective of their nationality or residency will not be admitted to the stadium, even if they have a ticket".[cf. https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-warns-uk-fans-do-not-travel-rome-euro-2020-game-no-england-allowed/]
Italy had been saved and, indeed, its population was not annihilated.INSTEAD, something unexpected happened eight days after the quarter-final match in Rome (eight days, NOT eight months!)
When the "devastating" final between England and Italy took place at Wembley Stadium, the Italian President was right there! Probably He did not scream or shout or sing, but there are pictures that show the President in the stadium while the match was in progress, during a good talk with then Prime Minister Boris Johnson and when He posed for a snap behind an Italian flag, with a Wimbledon finalist and a former fencing champion, both from Italy. Most unexpectedly, although the President never failed to use his life-saving equipment whenever and wherever He turned up in Italy, the pictures taken while He was in that English hell absolutely prove that He was definitely "maskless"—definitely without the alleged life-saving device on His face.
As in the case of China, I am not aware of the scientific advances in the field of the alleged life-saving device in Italy at that time, but I am pretty sure that its President would have never forgotten that precious equipment, IF [... same conclusion as above].
In addition, I can hardly believe that He would have ever traveled to a Country with over 56 million English inhabitants who had been there at least "in the previous 14 days", IF a few thousand English fans in Rome had really been enough to pose a lethal threat!
To be fair, however, it cannot be ruled out that some scientists had found that the virus was terrible for Italian citizens in Italy, was catastrophic for Britons in the UK, was deadly if imported into Italy from the UK, BUT was absolutely harmless for Italian people in the UK...
It might be amusing to end this chat on gag mandates by telling an almost unknown story, which clearly shows how easy it is to blast someone for an alleged fault and pretend to ignore much more serious blunders. This typically happens when a system is biased and there is a serious risk that an innocent or almost innocent individual is severely punished, while a selected number of bureaucrats are always praised and glorified, because they serve special interests. As usual, if a restricted number of people control the flow of information, they have the power to determine what content is supposed to enter into the minds of those who have access to radios, televisions, social networks and platforms developed by high-tech companies.
The "almost unknown story" took place at the end of 2020 in Italy, where a regional commissioner, who was supposed to take care of the local fight against the coronavirus, was fired a few days after his appointment. It all happened because a video had emerged, in which he had claimed (several months before) that rags were actually useless rags—well, don't take me so seriously! While writing, I was a bit absent-minded: surely, he didn't speak of "rags", but gently made reference to the so-called "face masks". Anyway, no matter how gentle he was, the end result was that he was sacked.[cf., e.g., https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/calabria-arriva-super-commissario-zuccatelli-risolvere-sfascio-sanita-e-positivo-covid-AD1Jy40]Of course, in principle everything was in line with the standards which were in vogue at the time. As I said before, the alleged life-saving devices had become the object of a cult and their desecration was a serious felony in those days.
However, some details should not be downplayed. INSTEAD, no one showed any interest in the wider picture. No one felt the need to expose much more serious (and, in some way, much more toxic) wrongdoings.
No problem! We'll try to patch things up. We will not hesitate to say some words about a subject that has always been deliberately ignored by the mainstream media and, perhaps, even censored (as regularly happens in the case of undesirable stories that should never be told: e.g., stories about particular laptop computers and/or Chinese connections and/or unclaimed daughters).
Here, ON THE CONTRARY, we will pay attention to something that is closely related to the topic we are talking about.
First of all, the video had been recorded secretly, in an office, where the culprit was talking privately to a couple of people. Second, in spring 2020, the entire Country (especially in public buildings) had been filled with a Decalogue, in which it was claimed that the NOT-YET life-saving devices were practically useless for most citizens: at that time, they were only needed for persons with respiratory symptoms or those caring for sick people. The third and most important point is that the Decalogue came together with the logos of what were known as Ministry of Health and National Institute of Health.
At this point, what is the logical conclusion? Definitely, whoever had been involved in the Decalogue, no matter his/her position in the administration and/or self-proclaimed technical committees, should have been fired immediately. No doubt, the key role of an (alleged) life-saving device had been openly, publicly, officially ridiculed (as well as had been privately ridiculed by the unfortunate commissioner) and the spread of (allegedly) false information in public areas might have caused the death (or the murder?) of thousands of people.
Truth is evident: IF "face masks" were NOT rags, BUT (AS CLAIMED by the common narrative) were to be considered life-saving equipment, perhaps lots of people could have saved their lives, if they hadn't been fooled by misleading/deceiving information provided by official institutions!!!
The next topic we are going to talk about is the worldwide strategic use of the caging policy. As before, we will NOT mention any scientific or pseudo-scientific work against that strategy, because any dissenting voices in this area are probably disputable—as well as whatever has been said/claimed/stated to promote and support the diktats of the world-saving scheme imposed by the global health tyranny is probably disputable, anyway.
Incidentally, it is worth noting that all the articles cited so far were concerned with verifiable facts and numbers. No emphasis was put on any technical issue, perhaps with the exception of the comments on "medical grade gloves" reported in the website of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In this case, however, the relevant conclusions (to the best of the writer's knowledge) have always been almost universally accepted, excluding isolated bureaucrats and would-be experts, who even imposed glove mandates.
In Spring 2020, in the earliest stage of the (Mengele-engineered?!?!?, who knows!!!!!) virus, after the construction of the first Chinese great wall against the spread of infections in Wuhan, the caging policy was soon implemented in several countries, without major protests. Just a small, insignificant number of people dared to wonder why states like Sweden or Switzerland (whose response, in my view, was reasonably reasonable) were not devastated by dreadful slaughters.
Especially in the so-called advanced countries, almost everyone was glad to be caged, was ready to undertake a test after a cough and was hanging on the lips of health pundits, who were engaged full-time in a systematic effort to spread terror.
Mainstream media and internet search engines were organized in such a way that uncomfortable questions were methodically ignored or destined to an ill-fated end.
No one seemed to wonder why so many people were dying in his/her neighbor in spite of the caging policy, while the situation was fairly quiet not only in Sweden or Switzerland, but also in countries like Egypt or Indonesia, which also had the potential problem posed by large and populous cities.
No one seemed interested in investigating whether home therapies and proper treatments, maybe combined with the spread of natural antibodies (at least among young people), could have saved thousands or perhaps millions of lives. The sole message was that infections would be lethal, effective drugs for personal use were not available and home care physicians were mostly charlatans (particularly when they claimed that they had been able to prevent hospitalizations by means of cheap drugs).
No one seemed to think that the caging policy might cause serious mental problems (in first place to the youngest part of the population) and even death as a result of drug abuse or missed medical care (above all, in the case of elderly people affected by serious illnesses).
No one seemed to care that an economic system was being destroyed by individuals and companies, who had nothing to lose, but were often likely to make big profits: bureaucrats, alleged scientists, high-tech groups and health gurus of any kind.
As for the lucky winners who succeeded in increasing their wealth, I do not know if the caging policy has really "wiped out the middle class" in the United States and has "shifted $4 trillion in wealth from the American middle class to this new aristocracy of billionaires", as recently claimed, BUT it is out of question that many people/organizations (starting with the most enthusiastic supporters of the diktats of the world-saving scheme) made a lot of money, while many more individuals/businesses were badly crushed all over the world.[cf. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-argues-american-middle-class-systematically-wiped-covid-19-lockdowns]
Rain or shine, in Fall 2020, a few months after the first season of house arrests, someone might have felt that most of the world was being hit by a tidal wave of generalized madness.
Others might have rather thought that a large-scale operation had been scientifically planned and was launched with the aim of creating a perfect culture broth for the formation of a new state of mind. According to this assumption, after suffering terrible hardships, most people would be ready to accept the upcoming mystical fluids, in the hope that something could change—in the hope that the continuous explosion of house arrests would come to an end under the magic spell of thaumaturgic serums.
Surely, this hypothesis can be easily dismissed as a silly, unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. However, something DID change. Just to mention a minor issue, there were countries in which ALL POSITIVE PATIENTS USED TO DIE OF COVID until Spring/Summer 2021, even in the case of people with severe illnesses... then, OUT OF THE BLUE, different stories started to emerge. The mainstream media were quick to discover that the people who had died of Covid AND had been treated with mystical fluids were mostly affected by COMPLEX CONDITIONS, often characterized by PLURI-MORBIDITY, and even associated with AGING! It was a symptom that a brand new era had begun!
In practice, it was finally suggested that the death of some people who had officially died of Covid was probably inevitable...
Anyway, between the end of October and the beginning of November 2020, when the people who officially died of Covid had certainly died of Covid, once again the caging policy leaped to the fore in many parts of the world.
In the next paragraphs, we will start to focus on its strategic importance by reflecting on four European countries, just to point out a few facts: France (where it all began on October 28), Germany (November 2), Italy (November 5) and the United Kingdom (November 5).
As usual, the mainstream media welcomed the alleged universal solution with joy and pleasure. Fuelling the terror machine, most networks were eager to highlight the numbers of daily cases and ignored (or pretended to ignore) other numbers, which could have given a better picture of what was really going on—and these numbers could have been easily obtained by anyone every day in real time.
I am referring to the weekly percentage change in the number of cases (and, if you prefer, in the number of deaths or in the number of hospitalizations or in the number of whatever you wish).
Any time, it was easily possible to consider the total number of infections during the last seven days (say n), subtract the total number of cases during the previous seven days (say m) and divide the difference by m. Next, we just needed to set p=100(n-m)/m in order to obtain the percentage change p concerned with the last week.
Obviously, a positive percentage would imply an increasing spread of infections, a negative number a decreasing spread.
It is also obvious that this percentage appears much less impressive and much less scientifically exciting than the terrific Rt or RDt indexes, but it immediately gives a real, objective picture of what is actually happening or what actually happened during a given lapse of time.
Well, if you look at the relevant graphs obtained for France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom by using the daily cases reported in the ourworldindata website, you will notice two major facts.
First, when the local authorities took the decision to enforce the caging policy, the percentage was indeed positive in all four countries, BUT, clearly, its value was already moving downward.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, after some weeks, there were ups and downs, while you would have probably expected a continuous decrease, if the caging policy had really been a problem solver.
Note that, for the sake of mercy, the graphs are only concerned with the period September 1 - December 31, 2020. They do not give any information about what happened during the first months in 2021, especially in the case of the United Kingdom, where the mystical fluid campaign had started on December 10, 2020. Anyway, what actually happened after the beginning of the new year is that the diabolical virus, again and again, seemed to do what he wanted, when he wanted, openly mocking the caging policy.
Of course, each growth of cases was followed by a drop and someone might claim that this drop was due to the house arrests. That would be absolutely legitimate, BUT someone might also wonder why the number of infections had increased (before the drop AND after months of house arrests!), ALTHOUGH the caging policy was supposed to be so effective!
Most of the readers will certainly remember the media hype about reports claiming that the caging policy had saved thousands, millions, myriads of people around the world.
No doubt, there were/are reasonable assumptions to make this claim, but it should also be remembered that numerical models can give any result you wish: you just need to introduce convenient parameters and you could prove that a thin bridge made of plastic would be fine even for large trucks!
If you like, we can also consider a completely different context and look at a dire warning of "green campaigners" in June 2009: "a new international deal on global warming" was labeled as "the last chance to save the planet from severe and dangerous levels of warming".[cf. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jun/26/brown-miliband-global-warming-plan]Next, in March 2023, we learnt that, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we had a (NEW) "last chance to save the planet".[cf. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/20/the-guardian-view-on-the-ipcc-warning-a-last-chance-to-save-the-planet]What would you think about these claims? Was there a bug in the model used by the "green campaigners"? Or was there a bug in the model used by IPCC? Or both of them were wrong?
Well, coming back to the caging policy, there are some objective data systematically forgotten/ignored/censored by the mainstream media, which might cast some doubts on the effective efficiency of one of the most favorite instruments in the hands of the bureaucrats involved in the diktats of the world-saving scheme:1. What about the implications of excess mortality?!?
New light is cast upon what actually happened around the world, if we focus on excess-mortality. To this aim, we can have a look at a WHO article titled Global excess deaths associated with COVID-19, January 2020 - December 2021 and dated May 2022. Here, it is suggested that a "baseline of zero" can be considered, which represents "the number of deaths that should be expected based on existing average mortality data from 2015 to 2019".
[cf. https://www.who.int/data/stories/global-excess-deaths-associated-with-covid-19-january-2020-december-2021]By applying this procedure to the countries where the caging policy was enforced, we usually find that more/many more people lost their lives than those who officially died of Covid. The obvious consequence is that some measures adopted by the administrations involved in the diktats of the world-saving scheme may have been responsible for a significant number of deaths...2. The case of New Zealand
New Zealand has always been hailed as a shining example of virtue in view of its rigorous approach and the very limited number of Covid victims, thanks to the caging policy. However, in 2022, there was roughly a 10 percent increase in the number of deaths, if we make a comparison with the 2021 statistics.
[cf., e.g., https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/300811491/deaths-in-new-zealand-up-by-10-in-2022-impacted-by-covid19]Never mind: allegedly, everything was in control. It is true that it was even possible to come across an article with a frightening title ("New Zealand records biggest increase in registered deaths in 100 years"), BUT the same article also reported the encouraging statements of an "epidemiologist". He clearly explained why the "elimination strategy" adopted in New Zealand had been so successful—why the "relevant measures" had been "so effective". The meaning of his comments is self-evident:
"The two benefits of the elimination strategy were very few New Zealanders got infected in the first two years of the pandemic and that meant excess mortality went way negative. The measures were so effective at stopping circulating viruses we avoided the excess winter deaths from flu and other respiratory infections."
Nonetheless, it is also evident that something eventually went (slightly?!?) wrong:
"Of course, we are seeing excess mortality last year, the virus infected the majority of New Zealanders and it did result in death in one in a thousand people, based on reported numbers. That's given us our excess mortality."[cf. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zealand-records-biggest-increase-in-registered-deaths-in-100-years/BQERSTKIANCKRNNA7IL42RD52U/]
After reading the article, I got curious and had a look at the websites of the New Zealand Ministry of Health and of New Zealand's official data agency Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa. So, I found the numbers reported in the figure on the right and it did turn out that "excess mortality went way negative" in 2020, when some 1600 lives were spared, if we consider what happened in 2019.
However, not so fast... that is not the end of the story. Some aspects should not be forgotten:- Given the fact that the drop is negligible if we focus on the average number of deaths during the period 2015-2019 (as suggested by the WHO), is the desire for a normal life a sign of insanity? Are we absolutely sure that the majority of people would be really happy to save some lives thanks to the caging policy and/or continuous bans on travelling, which avoid "the excess winter deaths from flu and other respiratory infections"?
- The great advantages given by the caging policy during one year might imply a cost to be paid sooner or later: NOT ONLY in terms of school teaching, social relations, economic issues, BUT ALSO in terms of human lives (as a consequence, e.g., of mental health, alcoholism, drug consumption, interruption of treatments and so on).
- Indeed, 38,574 deaths in 2022 may not be alarming, since they simply mean that about 3,500 more lives were lost in 2022 than in 2021 and this figure practically coincides with the total number of Covid victims till December 2022. In spite of this incontestable fact, it should be noted that the comparison with 2021 might be deceiving, since something had already gone awry during this year, when the number of deaths was definitely higher than anything seen before.New and more interesting details come to light, if we focus on the excess mortality, as determined according to the WHO article cited above. Thus, we come up with an average number of deaths equal to 32,760 for the period 2015-2019 and equal to 35,373 for the period 2020-2022. Clearly, this means an average of 2,613 more deaths each year or, if you prefer, 7,839 more deaths in three years!!!
Of course, it can be claimed that the population had significantly increased and that there was a significant number of elderly people, BUT... I am afraid that someone may be induced to think that certain "benefits", in actual fact, were not so beneficial and that the local version of the diktats of the world-saving scheme may have caused a non-negligible number of excess deaths: definitely more deaths (about 4,300) than the official number of Covid victims (about 3,500, according to the data reported in the worldometer website, which were used throughout this text, when it was necessary to mention the number of Covid deaths in a country during a given time interval).
It is also worth noting that (for example) in Switzerland (with about 8.7 million citizens) there were about sixty deaths officially caused by Covid from January to March 2023 (i.e., in winter), while New Zealand (with about 5.1 million inhabitants) registered about 450 fatalities during the same period of time (i.e., in summer).
And what about April and May 2023? No Covid deaths in Switzerland and almost 400 fatalities in New Zealand according to the official data!!! Incidentally, I chose Switzerland for a comparison, since the number of inhabitants is not much higher, the population density is about ten times greater (which, in principle, should be a disadvantage) and, most of all, I am convinced that Switzerland is a country where the diktats of the world-saving scheme did play some role, but without exceeding a reasonable threshold. Thus, the virus might have had a reasonable chance to circulate...
BEWARE: I was just joking... don't even think that today's good health state in Switzerland is due to a high number of infections and a consequent spread of natural antibodies—that would be an unsubstantiated claim or, more exactly, a blasphemous heresy!
So, I DO acknowledge that the above remarks are politically/scientifically incorrect and I fully understand that it is quite natural to talk of "benefits" due to the caging policy, which (according to the most common beliefs) must necessarily be a precious asset.
Yet, it might be conceded that I was kind enough to mention Switzerland instead of Sweden, a Country where the diktats of the world-saving scheme were mostly ignored and the average excess mortality was about 4.4 per cent during the period 2020-2022, if we make a comparison with the previous five years.
Indeed, according to the data reported in the statista website, the average numbers of total deaths were 90,962 for the period 2015-2019 and 94,940 for the period 2020-2022, which imply an average number of less than 4,000 excess deaths in a Country with about 10.4 million inhabitants.[cf. https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/]Therefore, in Sweden the number of Covid victims (just over 22,000 by the end of December 2022, according to the official data) was greater than the corresponding number of excess deaths.
As for Switzerland, there were just over 14,000 Covid victims by the end of December 2022 (according to the worldometer website) and the average excess mortality was about 7,000 deaths each year in 2020, 2021 and 2022 (in accordance with the data reported in the Swiss Federal Statistical Office website). In consequence, as happened in most countries, the number of excess deaths was greater than the official number of Covid victims. However, if we assume that all Covid victims contributed to excess mortality, their official number WAS HIGHER than the number of excess deaths due to other reasons—while in New Zealand WAS LOWER.
In any case, New Zealand should be highly praised for its low mortality rate: no doubt, the average number of 32,760 deaths during the period 2015-2019 reflects excellent health conditions, if we think of the 90,962 deaths in Sweden and the 66,882 deaths in Switzerland in the same time interval. Of course, the number of inhabitants is lower in New Zealand, but the number of total deaths is comparatively much lower!3. The case of Australia
By pure chance, similar comments can be made in the case of a relatively close Country, which, according to the common narrative, was another wonderful example of austerity, caging policy and success: Australia. Nonetheless, we may start to feel a bit confused, if we introduce the concept of excess mortality or excess deaths.
You won't believe it, but, in spite of the caging policy, "almost 20,000 more people died" in 2022: it was "the highest excess death rate since WWII".[cf. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/almost-20-000-more-people-died-in-australia-last-year-than-anticipated-20230303-p5cp64.html]It goes without saying that 20,000 excess deaths in Australia mean a 12 per cent spike (12 per cent more than in 2021) and a 12 per cent spike means a percentage, which is quite similar to the miserable percentage of many miserable countries, whose policies had not been so virtuous!
However, it is much more interesting to focus on the mortality rates during the periods 2015-2019 and 2020-2022, as we did with New Zealand. Thus, we can look at the table on the right hand side, where we find the numbers we need, made public by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. In view of this table, we can easily derive an average number of deaths equal to 161,252 for the period 2015-2019 and equal to 174,515 for the period 2020-2022. This means an average of over 13,000 excess deaths each year!!!
Note that the total number of official of Covid victims in Australia was about 17,000 until December 2022, while over 2,700 Covid deaths were registered between January and March 2023 (i.e., in summer). And don't forget that there were over 1,100 fatalities in April and May 2023 according to the official data...
Of course, despite the official number of deaths in 2023, the total number of Covid victims in Australia remains relatively low. Hence, there must have been another cause for so many fatalities till the end of 2022. As far as I know, someone has even dared to suggest that the mystical fluids played a major role, but this hypothesis might be completely wrong.
What about the caging policy and/or other actions, which were in line with the diktats of the world-saving scheme?!? Of course, this hypothesis, too, might be completely wrong...
Still, it is a fact that the official number of Covid deaths from 2020 to 2022 WAS LOWER than the number of excess deaths due to other reasons...
In any event, it must be acknowledged that Australia is a Country where health conditions appear to be excellent (as well as in New Zealand), since an average number of 161,252 deaths each year during the period 2015-2019 is definitely low, if we remember that there are more than 25 million Aussie citizens.4. The case of Africa
Since the very beginning, since March 2020, many people were pretty sure that the coronavirus had to be the cause of a planetary disaster. For instance, it was possible to read statements of this kind: "as governments in Europe and the US pump billions of dollars into overstretched health systems, and trillions into economic support, Africa is drifting towards a human catastrophe that could dwarf what we have seen in Europe and North America - and the world is watching".
[cf. https://www.ft.com/content/d8891a18-6fbf-4462-9b9c-4aefe20733e9]Surely, the world has been watching with blinded eyes, without realizing that "billions of dollars" have probably been wasted or might even have caused serious damages in the so-called advanced countries. Indeed, the African "catastrophe" has been dwarfed by "what we have seen in Europe and North America", despite poor hygienic conditions, lack of thaumaturgic serums, less efficient health posts and large communities, where the caging policy was impractical or even impracticable. Thus, someone might start to wonder if the negligible effect of house arrests in Africa has led to the development of a sort of herd immunity...5. The case of China
If we think back to what happened in China a few months ago, we certainly remember that, after three years of failure, the local health tyranny decided to put an end to its devastating caging policy. What happened next? The new course put an end to the virus emergency (maybe thanks to herd immunity?!?!?), even though would-be experts and would-be scientists around the world had predicted a cataclysmic outcome, while inspired Western politicians had practically banned Chinese visitors.
6. The case of North Korea
Something similar might have happened in North Korea, whose leadership refused any kind of thaumaturgic serums until the second half of 2022 (when the emergency was practically over) and eventually felt that "a five-day lockdown" (!!!!!) in Pyongyang would be enough to fight "an unspecified respiratory illness" in January 2023.[cf., e.g., https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/25/five-day-covid-19-lockdown-imposed-in-pyongyang]Of course, the mild response in the capital city in early 2023 was quite different from what had been going on for a long time. As reported by the media, the Communist health tyranny had caused severe suffering: the autocratic regime had officially closed the border (and stopped the trade!!!) with China for a couple of years, while a strict policy of house arrests had been officially implemented. YET, it is likely that someone was working and/or collecting food and/or delivering basic services. No doubt, in spite of the caging policy and reduced military activity, (fortunately?!?!?) there were outbreaks of fever (perhaps with a consequent development of antibodies?!?!?), possibly because a good number of people were allowed to move around the country—at the very least, in order to build new infrastructures along the northern border and, maybe, make it more difficult for would-be escapees to leave the North Korean paradise!
Surely, on one side the establishment did not want to lose control of the nation, on the other no citizen was willing to starve to death!
A turning point probably occurred when a "massive military parade" (or, if you prefer, a "superspreader military parade") was held in April 2022, with no rags and no social distance. As expected, the event was (fortunately?!?!?) followed by a massive outbreak of fever.[cf. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3177889/coronavirus-superspreader-military-parade-blamed-deadly-north?campaign=3177889&module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article]Apparently, it was the beginning of the end: as well as the People's Republic of China seemed to bloom again when the caging policy was lifted, the fever did not take long to become less and less aggressive in North Korea, where the local health gurus continued to be more and more reasonable, as proven by relaxed measures, including the "five-day lockdown" in Pyongyang.
Anyway, it is evident that the North Korean population was not annihilated after the "superspreader military parade", the relaxed measures and the short "lockdown": undeniably, in March 2023, it was claimed that about 800,000 citizens were sturdy enough to join or reenlist in the nation's military for a possible war against the United States!
The age of the caging policy was also characterized by funny episodes.
For instance, in the United Kingdom there were amusing events that involved a caging enthusiast, a minister and even the prime minister. While the (common) Britons were forced to stay at home and avoid contacts even with family members, the caging enthusiast met a married lady, apparently while "her husband had COVID-19 symptoms" [cf., e.g., https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-scientist-health-secretary-speechless-coronavirus-tryst], the Health Minister kissed his lover and the Prime Minister took part in nice Downing Street parties.
Now, after recalling what happened some time ago, I would also like to remark that, in my opinion, the caging enthusiast, the now former Health Minister and the now former Prime Minister are/were well aware, for example, that methyl alcohol is toxic. Hence, I am absolutely sure that they would strongly encourage anyone NOT to drink it AND would never drink it themselves.
The moral of the story is that, no matter how much supporters and promoters of the diktats of the world-saving scheme tried to glorify the need for social distancing, it would not be surprising if someone argued that many of them might have always thought that the caging policy was no more than... [the choice is yours]
Just one more detail: whenever I think back on these escapades, I must confess I feel particularly sorry for the fate of the former British Prime Minister, who had the courage to talk of herd immunity when it all began, in the early months of 2020. Then (unfortunately?) he changed his mind (or was somehow forced to change his mind). Had he stood his ground, his Government might have saved many lives and some Downing Street parties would have never been a reason for the end of his political career.
Besides, it would be nice IF some scientists could (scientifically, NOT through tarot cards) explain why the hell the United Kingdom was doomed to "see 500,000 deaths if it didn't implement mass self-isolation", while NO MASS SLAUGHTERS took place in cities like Stockholm or Zurich, as well as in so many megacities and favelas and shantytowns around the world.[cf., e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8292249/Scientist-Neil-Fergusons-lover-said-lockdown-strained-marriage.html]
Another comic page of history can be found in the transcript of a COVID-19 Virtual Press conference held on November 16, 2020.
Suddenly, there seemed to be a diabolical doubt:
It's just a follow-up of one question that was asked before by my colleague. It was just to know if Dr Tedros has tested negative to come back to the headquarters. Maybe I didn't hear the answer but sorry. Thank you.
The answer was immediate and very clear:
Thank you. First of all, glad to be back and second, working from home is very tough. Of course I work on weekends and evenings even before COVID, during COVID but when you do it during the working days, working hours from home it's very, very difficult; especially co-ordinating, running an Assembly while under quarantine is very, very tough, as you can see; the busiest two weeks while I was under quarantine because of the Assembly but at the same time the most difficult.[cf. https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/covid-19-virtual-press-conference-transcript---16-november-2020]It was certainly "very, very difficult" and "very, very tough" to be forced to stay at home for all common people, who had lost their jobs because of the caging policy. Similarly, it was "very, very difficult" and "very, very tough" even for those who still had a job, but could not go to work, because they had been found to be positive and the diktats of the world-saving scheme had imposed one or perhaps two negative tests before leaving home. Therefore, it might sound a bit confusing that a negative test was NOT necessary for a person who had given "a simple message to all countries - test, test, test" a few months before.[cf. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-who-idUSKBN2132S4]That was "WHO chief's coronavirus message to world" and, by the way, I firmly believe that the "WHO chief" is/was well aware that methyl alcohol is toxic—and, of course, I firmly believe that the "WHO chief"... [same as above]
More importantly, it would not be surprising if someone argued that the "WHO chief" might have always thought that the caging policy was no more than... [the choice is yours]
As for the WHO "test, test, test" mantra, it seemed to be essentially addressed to entities (administrations and private citizens) who had plenty of money—maybe plenty of money to waste. Sure enough, there were countries where tests were able to give plenty of money to manufacturers/sellers of test kits, but (as for the people involved) tests could only give pictures of what was going on at a given instant, without any guarantee on future developments and (perhaps) without any scientifically proven guarantee that a fast propagation of the virus (with a consequent fast spread of natural antibodies) would not save many lives...
Anyway, just to give an idea of the practical efficiency of the "test, test, test" mantra, it might be interesting to remember what happened in an Italian Province in November 2020, when the local administration decided to roll out a mass test.
The popular response was fantastic, almost devotional: nearly 62 per cent of the population was glad to take part in the epochal event and 0.9 per cent of the tested people turned out to be positive.
The atmosphere was filled with a sense of joy and happiness. The active participation of the citizens had been great and the result even greater: everyone had to be "proud", "the epidemiological situation was under control", "economic and commercial activities would gradually resume"...[cf. https://www.quotidianosanita.it/regioni-e-asl/articolo.php?articolo_id=90208]Unfortunately, one small detail was missing: if 99.1 per cent of the tested people had been sealed somewhere, they would have never been attacked by the disgraceful virus, BUT... the reality was different, much different. On November 24, two days after the end of the mass test, that Province was classified as a high-risk "red zone" (the worst of the worst in view of the parameters that were utilized in Italy to implement the caging policy).
And the next few months were not very bright either. For instance, looking at old chronicles, that very Province was still a "red zone" on January 17, 2021 and it was not enough: at the end of January 2021, it was still a "dark red zone" according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control!
Someone, however, might observe that a region was not necessarily as bad as painted.
For example, take Sweden, which has certainly been one of the best performing countries in the world in terms of excess mortality: it was completely red or dark red at the end of January 2021 according to same European Agency...
With reference to colored maps, it may be interesting to make a comparison with a bordering Country, Norway. This is another nation, which performed quite well. By the end of 2022, there were just over 4,800 Covid victims (according to the official data) and it seemed to be quite virtuous also according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: at the end of January 2021, while Sweden was red/dark red (as well as most of Europe), Norway was depicted with nice orange/green colors.
Yet, when we investigate the number of total deaths as reported in the statista website, we find an average of 40,750 deceases for the period 2015-2019 and an average of 42,796 deceases over the following three years, owing to a sudden jump in 2022 (45,775 deaths, i.e. 3,774 more than in 2021). Of course, "one possible explanation behind the high number of deaths that year is that the average age of the population is increasing, meaning that there are more elderly among the population". Don't even dare to think about collateral effects of the caging policy, which was more vigorous than in Sweden!!! As happened in Australia and New Zealand, the main cause must have necessarily been "the average age of the population"!!![cf. https://www.statista.com/statistics/611743/number-of-deaths-in-norway/]No matter what we believe, the above figures imply an average of about 2,000 excess deaths in 2020, 2021 and 2022, which mean about 5 per cent more deaths if we consider what happened in Norway from 2015 to 2019: don't forget that red/dark red Sweden had registered a 4.4 per cent increase!
Perhaps more important is what we find if we compare the official number of Covid-19 victims from 2020 to 2022 in Sweden (just over 22,000) with the number of excess deaths (a little less than 12,000). Clearly, it turns out that about 10,000 people who officially died of Covid-19 would have statistically died of something else in any case.
I gather that the number of excess deaths is quite a success for the Swedish approach, since it is inexorably small: as already pointed out, this number tends to be greater/much greater than the number of Covid-19 victims in almost every country (see, e.g., Australia, New Zealand, Norway), EVEN IF flu (with its burden of fatalities) vanished into thin air in 2020 and, hence, the people who should have statistically died of flu during that year must have lost their lives because of something else!!!
It might also be noted that the number of tests per million in Norway (almost 200,000), as reported in the worldometer website, was greater than the number of tests per million in Sweden.
Needless to say, the number of tests per million population becomes very low (and probably much more reasonable!), when we consider African Countries: Countries where many people unfortunately lost their lives because of Covid-19, but well below the terrifying levels predicted by so many would-be experts and scientists.
Remarkably, on May 7, 2020, some "new WHO estimates" came to light. The study was "based on prediction modelling" and the outcome of the "research" was apparently dramatic: "eighty-three thousand to 190 000 people in Africa could die of COVID-19". This would happen "in the first year of the pandemic", IF "containment measures" were condemned to failure. Life-saving "measures" included "contact tracing, isolation, improved personal hygiene practices and physical distancing". Their objective was "to slow down the transmission of the virus so its effects happen at a rate manageable by the health system".[cf. https://www.afro.who.int/news/new-who-estimates-190-000-people-could-die-covid-19-africa-if-not-controlled]Honestly, those 190,000 potential victims sound like a gimmick to spread terror among people who were likely to be scared to death by an impressive number and (above all) were likely to ignore what was really happening around them—were likely to never realize how curious and singular that statement was.
Should you have any doubts, let's have a closer look at some dates and some numbers. As reported in an article mentioned above and published on March 11, 2020, the WHO had praised Italy (a Country with a population of around 60 million people) as an outstanding example of excellence. Yet, by that time, over 800 people had already died of Covid-19 (a few weeks after the first registered case) according to the official data.
As certainly obvious, in those days of compliments, the Organization was "encouraged by the aggressive measures adopted by Italy".
Next, on May 7, 2020, when the WHO decided to play its African cards, about 30,000 people had already died of Covid-19 in Italy, despite its bionic measures.
Now, don't forget that Africa was a continent with a population of over 1.3 billion people in 2020! Therefore, if "up to 190 000 people could die of COVID-19 in Africa if not controlled" just "in the first year of the pandemic", that was very sad, BUT could also be an extraordinary result, since the WHO had enthusiastically appreciated the "aggressive measures" adopted by a Country of 60 million people, which had already registered some 30,000 Covid deaths in about three months.
Incidentally, in virtue (?!?) of those amazing "aggressive measures", which had sent the WHO into raptures, over 74,000 people lost their lives in Italy because of Covid-19 by the end of 2020. Had Africa suffered a similar fate, over 1.6 million people would have died of Covid-19 that year!!!
To be fair, the "new study" had been carried out by observing "slower rate of transmission, lower age of people with severe disease and lower mortality rates compared to what is seen in the most affected countries in the rest of the world". Apparently, this favorable situation was "largely driven by social and environmental factors slowing the transmission". In addition, the population was younger and had "benefitted from the control of communicable diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis to reduce possible vulnerabilities".
However, in spite of this clarification, a pessimistic estimate of 190,000 deaths caused by an unfortunate failure of "containment measures" seemed to be much more encouraging than 1.6 million deaths in an imaginary country with a population of over 1.3 billion people, characterized by unfavorable "social and environmental factors", located "in the rest of the world" and subjected to "aggressive measures"...
Incidentally, I remember reading a comment by a corona-pundit, who was quite excited about tests. In order to highlight their importance, he started to observe that no infections would have been registered in the hypothetical case of a country where no tests were being carried out. Then he asked a rhetorical question: "Would it mean that the coronavirus has disappeared?" His reply was pretty obvious: "No! It would spread undisturbed, without our knowledge."
Well, truly speaking, I believe that it would have been really marvelous, IF the virus had spread undisturbed, without our knowledge! In fact, in that case, the logical conclusion is that there would have been no hospitalizations and no fatalities caused by Covid-19!
[Alternatively, it must be assumed that hospitals should have been filled with incompetent physicians, who might have been treating dying patients without understanding what was going on!]
This is why I like to refer to cities like Abidjan or Cairo or Johannesburg or Lagos or Luanda or Nairobi, where large-scale Covid deaths were not reported and the number of cases was certainly underestimated for at least two reasons: the (wise!?!) practice of avoiding the waste of money on test kits and the impossibility of enforcing social distancing in high density areas with large families and (in all likelihood) non-affordable or non-existent home delivery services—not to mention sanitary and hygienic problems.
Now, if we think back to the countless Covid-gurus, who insisted on the fatal consequences of failed caging policies and, hence, of many infections, we ought to concede that the inevitable high number of deaths would have NOT gone unnoticed in cities like Abidjan or Cairo or Johannesburg or Lagos or Luanda or Nairobi, IF a small portion of those claims had been partially true. Therefore, it is plausible that the virus has spread undisturbed, without our knowledge AND without causing major disruption in many densely populated areas.
Anyway, everybody knows that Africa eventually turned out to be a most successful continent, in spite of over one billion citizens, overpopulated districts and people who needed to move out of home to get their food. In this context, it is hard to deny that social distancing was just a chimera—NOT a feasible objective.
In actual fact, even the WHO appeared to be cautious: "physical distancing" was "not about the confinement of people but rather avoiding unnecessary contacts as people live, work and socialize as a means to interrupt transmission".
It seems that the otherwise commendable "aggressive measures" did NOT necessarily need to be too aggressive in the case of Africa... and someone might question if "aggressive measures" were really so exciting, so encouraging and, above all, so useful "in the rest of the world".
Clearly, the African experience had a favorable outcome and it cannot be assumed that the positive result was a consequence of widespread mass screenings and tough caging policies!
Therefore, keeping in mind the WHO "test, test, test" mantra and other strange/funny/disputable episodes, it would probably not be surprising to learn, perchance, that, maybe, someone might have been induced, perhaps, to start wondering WHAT the letter H stands for...
It is possible that you have some brilliant ideas, BUT... be careful! This is no kidding.
As you know, you are free to criticize/lambast/censor/castigate certain people and certain institutions, especially in the free world, in the name of freedom of speech—ONLY certain people and certain institutions. No mistakes are allowed!
Africa seems to be the right place to start with, in order to say a few words about the substances, which are usually referred to as "vaccines". Personally, however, I prefer terms like concoctions (my favorite one) or mystical fluids or thaumaturgic serums.
Please note that I am NOT an anti-vaxxer. For instance, apart from classical anti-flu vaccines, I did not hesitate to be vaccinated against typhus or cholera or yellow fever, when I (freely) thought that proper vaccines might be helpful in certain regions. And when I was vaccinated, no physician told me that I had to avoid any trip to potentially dangerous countries until a good percentage of the local population had been vaccinated. No medical practitioner warned me that I could not feel safe in case I met people who were still refusing to get vaccinated.
In addition, as far as I know, when mass vaccinations were carried out against measles and poliomyelitis, these diseases practically disappeared, even though undesired effects were probably reported.
Instead, in the case of the substances produced to "protect" from Covid-19, the situation was completely different. After been vaccinated, everyone had to be careful. Unvaccinated people had to be avoided like the plague and, to this aim, even a sort of nazipass was deemed to be necessary, while the performance of the inoculations seemed to rely upon Divine Providence, as proven by the initial panegyric of the wannabe "full vaccination" and the subsequent propaganda in favor of a first, second, third booster shot. In the meantime, almost everywhere in the world, the so-called vaccination campaigns had come together with impressive spikes in cases.
Thus, in what follows, I will generically talk of fluids or serums, since these terms appear to be much more appropriate and correct.
After this brief digression from the main subject, we can go back to Africa, in 2021, at the end August, when the supply of the famous fluids was causing quite a headache for the WHO community. It is true that the injections had recently "tripled", but were "still low".
For instance, the "WHO Director-General" went straight to the point: it was "unconscionable" that some countries were offering booster shots "while so many people" continued to "remain unprotected".[cf. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/26/who-covid-19-vaccination-triples-in-africa-but-still-low]
Frankly speaking, it seemed much more "unconscionable" that some governments were NOT "offering", BUT WERE IMPOSING "booster shots" even to young people (for instance to use public transport or enter hotels), while a Country like Egypt had registered less than 17,000 Covid victims by the end of August 2021, even though the so-called "full vaccination rate" was about 3 per cent! Note that we are talking of a Country with a population of over 100 million citizens and a metropolitan area like Greater Cairo with more than 20 million people!
Of course, it can be claimed that some deaths, probably, went uncounted. YET, it is hard to believe that "the rest of the world" would have been destroyed without house arrests and mystical fluids, while the streets of Cairo were not paved with corpses.
Probably, a common popular belief is that Egypt (as well as all African countries) had been saved by "social and environmental factors". However, no one, apparently, has found out (or, maybe, has seriously tried to investigate) which "social and environmental factors", exactly, were so important and why they were extremely aggressive in some regions (e.g. in the Americas), but extremely mild elsewhere (e.g. in Africa).
Surely, those who were controlling the mainstream media never gave a hint that, perhaps, a widespread circulation of the coronavirus and, in consequence, of natural antibodies might have accidentally had some positive effects...
Necessarily, a (ridiculous?!?) hypothesis of this kind had to lack scientificity.
Nevertheless, something strange was going on. As a general rule, negative "social and environmental factors" had waged a war on states, which had enforced strict social distancing and could afford the famous fluids, while positive "social and environmental factors" were relentlessly helping other countries—even countries, which were not part of Africa and did not belong to "the rest of the world" that was being saved by the magical fluids.
Take the case of Indonesia, where you can find 270 million citizens and a capital like Jakarta, whose population is over 10 million inhabitants and whose density is almost 40,000 people per square mile! By the end of August 2021, the "full vaccination rate" was about 13 per cent and the official number of Covid victims was just over 130,000. Once again, we can assume that some deaths might have gone uncounted... YET, it is hard to believe that "the rest of the world" had a desperate need of booster shots for its survival, while the squares of Jakarta were not filled with piles of corpses.
Probably, Indonesia, too, had been really saved by mysterious "social and environmental factors". INSTEAD, there seemed to be no chance that, perhaps, many infections and, hence, many natural antibodies might have accidentally made a positive contribution. As already acknowledged, a (ridiculous?!?) hypothesis of this kind would lack scientificity.
It might be wise to remember that the concept of "social and environmental factors" often appears to be associated to the presence of a younger population (more specifically, a "younger population that has benefitted from the control of communicable diseases" and a "lower age of people with severe disease and lower mortality rates").
Then, it should have been absolutely necessary to offer special protection to elderly people and frail patients. However, it would have also been worth investigating why Cairo and Jakarta were still there, with a relatively low number of official Covid victims. After all, Egypt and Indonesia are countries whose life expectancy is well over 50 years (an age for which some Western bureaucrats suddenly had the smart idea of imposing a booster shot requirement!!!) and most elderly people were obviously able to cope with Covid-19, from the Mediterranean coast to the Sudanese border, as well as across the Indonesian Archipelago—while the Western world felt a strong need to inoculate even children!!!
Similarly, it might have been instructive to wonder why the population of North Korea was not disappearing from the face of the Earth, even though its leadership had NOT accepted any type of fluids until June 2022.
INSTEAD, where plenty of money was available, a completely different route was taken in the name of the diktats of the world-saving scheme. In several countries, basic liberties (freedom to move, freedom to study, freedom to work and even freedom to play tennis) were denied to people of any age. Their fault? They had not accepted an offer they could not refuse: a certificate (i.e., the above mentioned nazipass) to prove that the "booster shot" had been administered or, in the most benevolent countries, that at least two doses of serum had been injected!!!
Probably, the main excuse was that the charming fluids were so magical that they even had the ability to protect the people who had not been injected, as often suggested by the mainstream media and the only articles, which could be easily found in the internet.[cf., e.g., https://www.afro.who.int/countries/nigeria/news/vaccination-against-covid-19-protects-other-people-survivor]In this context, undoubtedly, it is of paramount importance to learn that some study results provided "observational evidence that vaccination not only protects individuals who have been vaccinated but also provides cross-protection to unvaccinated individuals in the community".[cf. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/high-covid-vaccine-uptake-may-protect-unvaccinated]
However, someone might wish to waste some time to consider a few official numbers and some real, verifiable facts:- Whenever and wherever a good percentage of people had taken the (often almost compulsory) jabs, there was a spike in infections, from the United Kingdom to Cambodia, from Germany to Vietnam, from Italy to Australia, from Israel to New Zealand. Of course, the mainstream media were ready to let us know that most of the people who were hospitalized in critical condition or died had not been jabbed, BUT...
- ...something odd seemed to happen in practically every country. For instance, take the case of the United States. On January 11, 2022, at a Senate hearing, the top of the top health apparatchiks "said that unvaccinated people are 20 times likelier to die, 17 times likelier to be hospitalized and 10 times likelier to be infected than the vaccinated".[cf., e.g., https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/12/covid-omicron-variant-live-updates/]Well, let's have a look at some interesting figures:
1. the number of official Covid victims in the United States a few weeks before, in December 2021: over 41,000 (say 41,391, a number that can be divided by 21)
2. the number of official Covid victims in the United States in December 2020: about 88,000
3. the percentage of people who (according to the official definitions) were "vaccinated" (72 per cent of the population) or "fully vaccinated" (61 per cent) on December 16, i.e., at the middle of the month
These figures imply that about 1,971 Covid victims in December 2021 were somehow "vaccinated", while 39,420 had not taken any serum. Now, if we consider the percentage of the so-called "vaccinated" (72 per cent), it turns out that 28 per cent of the population had been hit by 39,420 fatalities. This means that (all other things being equal) over 140,000 people would have died if the entire population had not been jabbed!!! Thus, a comparison with the events of December 2020 does not seem to suggest that the "unvaccinated individuals" had been protected, especially if we remember what happened at the time of the infamous Spanish flu, which apparently caused at least 25 million fatalities, when there was a world war, hygienic conditions were precarious, no thaumaturgic serums were available and the world population totaled roughly 1.5 billion people: the world practically started to coexist with the virus some thirty months after the first outbreak.- Similar remarks can be made by investigating the fate of the "unvaccinated" in many more countries. Indeed, another good example came from Italy, were mortality was much higher among "unvaccinated individuals": for instance, from December 17, 2021 to January 16, 2022, it was 8 times greater, according to official data, if we make a comparison with the so-called "fully vaccinated".
[cf. https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2022/02/05/news/covid_iss_i_non_vaccinati_finiscono_in_ospedale_10_volte_di_piu_di_chi_ha_fatto_la_dose_booster-336533984/]During the same period, there were about 5,900 Covid victims (say 5,895, a number that can be divided by 9), which means that about 5,320 "unvaccinated individuals" died of Covid-19. Note that the percentage of the "fully vaccinated" was about 74 per cent at the end of 2021. In consequence, about 20,000 people should have died if the jab situation of the year before (no "full vaccination") had not changed. Instead, from December 17, 2020 to January 16, 2021 about 16,000 people had officially died of Covid-19. Definitely, the protective effect of the powerful fluids did not seem to be very encouraging for the "unvaccinated"—maybe owing to some "social and environmental factors"...- To be honest, it must be admitted that the general picture, in the United States, appeared to be much more encouraging some months before. In fact, in early July 2021, it was even possible to claim that "99.2 per cent of US Covid deaths in June were unvaccinated".
[cf. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/08/fears-of-new-us-covid-surge-as-delta-spreads-and-many-remain-unvaccinated]More importantly, roughly 10,000 Covid deaths were registered, about 11,000 less than the year before. Hence, no one can deny that there were good reasons to celebrate a "cross-protection to unvaccinated individuals in the community" on this occasion. In fact, at that time, about 49 per cent of the population did not belong to the fraternity of the "vaccinated". So, the number of Covid deaths would have been about 20,000 in an imaginary, hypothetical nation with no jabs. Instead, in June 2020, when no-one was "vaccinated", roughly 21,000 people died of Covid-19 according to the official data. Beyond any doubt, June 2021 could be hailed as a successful month, since the situation seemed a little better even for the "unvaccinated"—yet, I wonder if some boogeyman might make the unsubstantiated claim that the "unvaccinated individuals" had somehow benefited from natural antibodies against the original virus, without any major external interference, since the percentage of the "vaccinated" and "fully vaccinated" was still relatively low "in early July 2021"...- Regardless of what happened in the United States, summer 2021 turned out to be quite rough for many countries in the northern hemisphere. It all happened in the face of the worldwide use of the nazipass, which transformed the "unvaccinated individuals" into a crowd of pariahs—and in the face of the fact that summer, traditionally, is a season in which respiratory diseases tend to become less aggressive. BUT, of course, "social and environmental factors" should never be underestimated...
No matter what you feel, here follow some figures related to geographical areas with a high/very high percentage of "fully vaccinated" people: in France there were about 3,200 Covid deaths from June to September 2020 and about 7,000 from June to August 2021, in Germany about 1,000 and 5,000, in Israel about 1,300 and 1,400, in Italy about 2,350 and 4,700, in Japan about 700 and 4,600, in the United Kingdom about 6,300 and 9,700!!!
Clearly, those 7,000, 5,000, 1,400, 4,700, 4,600 and 9,700 fatalities will look more amazing than ever, if we remember that most of them belonged to a subset of the population of each country: the subset of the "unvaccinated".The disputable protective effects of the famous fluids might have been one of the main reasons behind a widespread skepticism.
When it all started, most of the people were hypnotized by the media hype and mesmerized by the compulsive desire to get the miraculous, salvific jab. According to some fairy tales that had come into vogue, the magic concoctions were so terrific that, apparently, even a single dose could perform the miracle.[cf., e.g., https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/26/health/pfizer-vaccine-covid-19-one-dose-uk-study-wellness/index.html]
Quite soon, it seemed to be clear that the miracle was not so miraculous. Also in the case of a product for which a single dose should have been enough (according to the initial instructions), a second shot was eventually required... BUT, do not panic. Allegedly, people who were "fully vaccinated" could sleep well. They could even "drop mask recommendations". And it was not enough. Apparently, the bewitching double jabs had completely changed the rules of the game:
"Fully vaccinated people can go without masks even if they have an asymptomatic case of COVID-19 because the level of virus is much lower in their nasopharynx, the top part of their throat that lies behind the nose, than it is in someone who is unvaccinated".
It was like living in an earthly paradise:
"When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community".
Isn't it clear enough? Do you need a more thorough explanation? Here it is:
"In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that's when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community."[cf. https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-vaccinated-people-become-dead-ends-for-the-coronavirus/]
That was in May 2021, but pretty soon, in July, the time was ripe to pull an implicit warning out of the hat: "Americans who are fully vaccinated do not need booster shots at this time". "At this time"!!![cf. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/11/politics/fauci-booster-shots-sotu-cnntv/index.html]
In actual fact, a few months later, by the middle of August, the message was quite different: "everybody will likely need a Covid vaccine booster shot eventually".[cf. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/covid-booster-shot-fauci-says-it-is-likely-everybody-will-eventually-need-a-third-vaccine.html]
As proven by the evidence, the concept of "dead end to the virus" was doomed to become another poor illusion for quite a time in many countries, where the so-called "vaccination rate" was high/relatively high.
Of course, it could be claimed that the fault was of the "unvaccinated", who had not allowed the US (and other countries) to have a sufficient number of "dead ends around". For instance, in July 2021, in someone's opinion, it was "inexplicable" and "very, very frustrating" that a relatively small number of Americans were inclined to take the life-saving serums.[cf. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccines-fauci-data/]Note that over 45 per cent of the US citizens had already been double jabbed by the end of June...
HOWEVER, looking at what happened (e.g.) in Egypt, Indonesia and, above all, North Korea, someone might wonder if a higher percentage of "vaccinated" was really crucial to solve the problem in the US... and elsewhere in the world.
Indeed, it might be worth focusing on India, a Country with high population (about 1.4 billion inhabitants) and high density. In July 2021 there was an insignificant percentage of jabbed people and, perhaps more importantly, there were crowded areas all around the nation (e.g., crowded markets, since no one was willing to die of starvation in the hope of reducing the risk of infections).[cf., e.g., a picture on the web page https://thewire.in/health/international-flights-lockdown-covid-scenario-experts]I must acknowledge that most of the people in the picture had a piece of fabric on their face, BUT I also dare to imagine that its (alleged) contribution was minimal.
Nor did the caging policy seem to be a problem solver, when it was implemented (e.g., in March 2020).
IF the main objective was to maintain social distancing, we can't forget huge crowds, endless lines and enormous gatherings of desperate people (especially migrant workers), who were mostly unemployed and tried to reach their homes in Spring 2020.[cf., e.g., https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/31/822642382/coronavirus-lockdown-sends-migrant-workers-on-a-long-and-risky-trip-home]
Thus, there are reasons to suspect that, in those circumstances, neither the personal (allegedly) protective equipment, nor the caging policy succeeded in stopping the infections. YET, this does not necessarily mean that the outcome was catastrophic, as far as the coronavirus was concerned—and, perhaps, someone even dares to make the unsubstantiated claim that huge crowds, endless lines and enormous gatherings might have given an important contribution to the fight against the coronavirus thanks to the spread of natural antibodies.
Of course, a hypothesis of this kind is likely to be sheer madness. Unquestionably, it seems much more reasonable to suppose that "social and environmental factors" were somehow able to give a hand not only to Africa, Indonesia and North Korea, but also to India...
In fact, if we have a look at the data reported in the worldometer website, we find that there were about 245,000 victims in India during the worst period (which lasted three months, from April to June 2021) and less than 112,000 deaths during the next nine months(!!!), from July 2021 to March 2022. Clearly, the death rate had remarkably changed, becoming much lower!
Meanwhile, less that 0.7 per cent of the population belonged to the upper caste of the so-called "fully vaccinated" at the end of March 2021, just over 4 per cent at the end of June 2021 (WHEN THE DEATH RATE CLEARLY STARTED TO DECREASE) and about 60 per cent at the end of March 2022 (when the death rate had already become almost negliglible).[cf., e.g., https://ycharts.com/indicators/india_coronavirus_full_vaccination_rate]What about the US? According to the official data, almost 50,000 people died of Covid-19 during the period April-June 2021 and about 390,000 during the period July 2021-March 2022. Instead, the percentages of the so-called "fully vaccinated" were about 16.8, 46.6 and 65.7 per cent at the end of March 2021, June 2021 and March 2022.[cf., e.g., https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_coronavirus_full_vaccination_rate]
Without fail, it is possible to insist that many Covid victims in India went uncounted.
NONETHELESS, even if this assumption may be true, there are issues that should not be forgotten and need to be addressed for the sake of fairness:
- In India there are cities like Bangalore (with a population of around 11 million), Chennai (almost 5 million), Delhi (over 32 million), Kolkata (roughly 15 million), and Mumbai (about 21 million), where the potential efficacy of any caging policy seems to be arguable—and if someone feels that the official number of deaths is completely wrong, he also ought to explain how the local authorities were able to hide the enormous number of people who should have died, since social distancing and life-saving fluids were supposed to be absolutely indispensable to prevent a massacre, as claimed by the common narrative
- Even if the actual number of Covid victims in India was underestimated, it can be reasonably assumed that the percentage errors remained basically unchanged over the years. In other words, the impressive decrease in the death rate that occurred after June 2021 (according to the official data) is unlikely to be an irrational fruit of imagination
- Since the new trend in the death rate came together with a very low percentage of so-called "fully vaccinated" and just a few people have died of Covid-19 in India since March 2022, there must have been something different from the life-saving fluids, which was able to create "a lot of dead ends around"!!!
- Meanwhile, in the US, where the so-called "vaccination rate" did not meet the expectations of the health apparatchiks, but (as a consolation prize) the percentage of the so-called "fully vaccinated" was well over 45 per cent at the end of June 2021, about 390,000 people officially died of Covid-19 from July 2021 to March 2022. In consequence, since the United States had a population of around 330 million, at least 1.6 million people should have lost their lives in India during the same time interval (instead of 112,000), IF at least 46.6 per cent of the population had belonged to the caste of the so-called "fully vaccinated" and the immune system of most Indians (jabbed and unjabbed) had been similar to the immune system of most Americans
- Keeping in mind what really happened, many more people should have died of Covid-19 in India from July 2021 to March 2022, IF its citizens had been as unlucky as the unjabbed Americans. In fact, most of the Covid victims in the US had not taken any serum. Hence, the Americans who were most likely to die of Covid-19 were far less than 330 million and their conditions (in terms of life-saving fluids) were exactly the same as the conditions of the large majority of Indians in July 2021
- In view of the figures involved, it would be great if someone could explain why a nightmare future was waiting for 53 per cent of the Americans after June 2021, while the coexistence with the coronavirus was not too bad for 96 per cent of the Indians!!!
Perhaps, however, the well-documented floods of people of biblical proportions, the huge communities living in high density areas and the very low percentage of so-called "fully-vaccinated" when it all started to get better and better might suggest a cautious approach. After some careful thinking, maybe someone is inclined to suppose that it is hard to blindly believe in the legend of caging policies and the myth of life-saving fluids, which were supposed to bring about "a lot of dead ends" to the coronavirus.
Come what may, the thesis that the puissant serums could make "you become a dead end to the virus" seemed to be based on a wishful thinking approach. Without question, it was inconsistent with the cruel reality—and even with a CDC web page updated on September 15, 2021, where an interesting, enlightening claim was reported: "Infections with the Delta variant in vaccinated persons potentially have reduced transmissibility than infections in unvaccinated persons, although additional studies are needed".[cf. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/fully-vaccinated-people.html]Hence, apart from the need of "additional studies" and the great news that the magic fluids were "potentially" able to provide "reduced transmissibility", it is definitely impossible to deny that there was, at the very least, some sort of "transmissibility".
Furthermore, it is hard to understand (and, maybe, hard to explain without a cause-effect relation) why the inoculation campaigns had systematically been followed by a spike in infections, from the United Kingdom to Cambodia, from Germany to Vietnam, from Italy to Australia, from Israel to New Zealand, as already said above.
Meanwhile, the only science, which deserved to be called science according to the diktats of the world-saving scheme imposed by the global health tyranny, was evolving and the locution "fully vaccinated" had to be properly interpreted. Of course, it was NOT a hoax, BUT it did NOT absolutely mean "best protected":
"The definition of fully vaccinated does not include a COVID-19 booster. Fully vaccinated, however, is not the same as having the best protection. People are best protected when they stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccinations, which includes getting a booster when eligible."[cf. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html]
Perhaps, you also remember the case of a treatment for which the optimal age range was not very clear for some time and, in spite of the involvement of alleged experts, it was quite natural for several disbelievers to suggest that the entire process might have been based on the use of the wheel of fortune—and, for pity's sake, we will not delve into the number of deaths that might have been caused by misjudgment and/or distraction.
Probably, the fate and the efficacy of the mighty fluids became evident (at least for a good number of skeptics) during the period from August 2022 (when the terror machine was put to work again) to March 2023. It was no laughing matter. The alarm bells started to ring under the sign of Leo: If you aren't up-to-date on Covid vaccines and boosters, you're 'going to get into trouble'.[cf. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/03/fauci-not-being-up-to-date-on-covid-vaccines-boosters-means-trouble.html]Actually, at the beginning of August 2022, a worldwide campaign was launched to brainwash as many people as possible with the aim of establishing the cult of the second booster shot.
Why was the cult of the second booster shot so important? Obviously because the "fully vaccinated" and even those who had taken the first booster shot were NOT "best protected".
Why were so many people poorly protected after the first booster shot? Obviously because the (alleged) beneficial effect of the potent fluids did not last very long.
Fairly speaking, that miraculous effect DID seem to last very little, since a third booster shot came into fashion by the end of 2022. Thus, some believers could end up with an average of one shot every few months, because the people who were eligible for the third booster shot might have begun the jabbing process in summer 2021!!!
Undeniably, it was an epical and epochal event: these devotees were likely to have broken a world record!!!
For some (fortunate!?!) reason, the cult of the second booster shot (to the best of the writer's knowledge) remained optional all around the world and in consequence, as expected, was a failure. INSTEAD, everywhere, the overall situation became better and better—of course, in terms of Covid victims, NOT necessarily in terms of excess mortality and infections.
The long-held axiom many Covid cases imply many Covid deaths seemed to be flawed and the number of infections did not appear to be automatically proportional to the number of Covid victims—as well as it may NOT have been automatically proportional in Africa, India, Indonesia and so on.
To put it straight, the world DID NOT "get into trouble" and succeeded in creating a "dead end to the virus", JUST WHILE a small (perhaps negligible) number of believers were disposed to "stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccinations, which includes getting a booster when eligible"... JUST WHILE the alleged protection provided by the thaumaturgic serums was minimal, IF the message spread by the terror machine about the indispensable second booster shot was reasonably correct and not a consequence of lobbying by special interests.
If the world, positively, DID NOT "get into trouble", what does it mean? Perhaps, it can be humbly insinuated that the second booster shot was not the tool that was needed to save the world.
If the second booster shot was not the tool that was needed to save the world, what can be silently assumed next? Hard to say... but, maybe, the first booster shot, too, had not saved the world.
If someone dares to think that the first booster shot might NOT have saved the world, what is the next heresy?
I don't know... all I can say is that the survival of Egypt (together with all African Countries), India, Indonesia and, above all, North Korea seems to suggest that the Armageddon scenario, which should have followed without the lusty serums, may have been the fruit of disputable assumptions.
Alternatively, a bunch of renegades might be brave enough to hint that the alleged salvific effects of the charming fluids have possibly been the fruit of disputable assumptions. No matter what was claimed by so many health gurus, with the unconditional support of the media hype...
Er... sorry! I made a mistake. Instead of "media hype", I should have said "media bias"! Just think of the war that was waged on politicians and/or physicians, who ventured to express positive opinions about drugs like Hydroxychloroquine and/or Ivermectin! INSTEAD, the mainstream media never blasted a prime minister, who made the blatantly false claim that the nazipass would give "the guarantee to be amongst people who are not contagious"!!![cf., e.g., https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2021/07/22/draghi-green-pass-e-garanzia-di-tranquillita_e7c97abf-b797-4495-b31f-cb5452c2cab1.html]Or, perhaps, all the corona-experts who used to work for the mainstream media had been ensnared by the magic of the "dead end" fancy and were absolutely convinced that the nazipass could really give "the guarantee to be amongst people who are not contagious"...
The theory or, if you prefer, the false theory that the diktats of the world-saving scheme may have been based on disputable assumptions has probably found further support from recent events in China, as soon as the local health tyranny gave up its ruinous dynamic zero Covid-19 strategy.
Western governments were quick to tackle the inevitable doomsday scenario (no doubt, in the name of the so-called science) and closed their doors to Chinese tourists.[cf., e.g., https://time.com/6243967/covid-travel-restrictions-china/]Many health pundits were quick to claim that most of the problems were caused by the Chinese fluids, which were NOT as miraculous as the more powerful stuff that was produced in the West.[cf., e.g., https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/china-should-set-aside-political-issues-on-vaccine-imports-ceo-says.html]The European Union was quick to offer "free Covid-19 vaccines to China to help Beijing contain a mass outbreak of the illness". The Chinese leaders declined the generous offer and, as well-known, the Celestial Empire is still alive and looks perfectly fit.[cf., e.g., https://www.ft.com/content/db9d8080-472c-419b-858f-07799849c5db]
At this stage, let's go back to the theory or, if you prefer, the false theory that the diktats of the world-saving scheme may have been based on disputable assumptions.
Surely, there are some facts, which can hardly be denied:- The dynamic zero Covid-19 strategy in China ended in failure and the problem was essentially solved in a few weeks, when the virus was free to circulate and (possibly?!?!?) gave way to the spread of natural antibodies... BUT such an outcome would have been impossible, IF the diktats of the world-saving scheme (starting with the caging policy) had really been an indispensable resource to save the world
- Many health gurus believed that the Chinese fluids were actually rubbish and only the Western super-serums could save China, while eventually this Country saved itself without external aid... BUT such an outcome would have been impossible, IF the Western super-serums had really been an indispensable resource to save the world
- Countries like Egypt, India, Indonesia and, most notably, North Korea were quite successful in spite of "vaccination rates" which were negligible or even equal to zero, just while the nazipass was becoming a worldwide icon... BUT such an outcome would have been impossible, IF the nazipass (i.e., the mystical fluids) had really been an indispensable resource to save the world
- The number of Covid victims in countries with high/relatively high "vaccination rates" started to significantly decrease when a high percentage of the population had already been infected, including the "vaccinated", sometimes referred to as the immune—even if this term might be a little misleading, because it hints at the idea that the people belonging to the golden elite of the immune cannot be affected by Covid-19...
- It was claimed that even the "vaccinated" would "get into trouble", IF they did not keep "up-to-date on Covid vaccines and boosters"; HOWEVER, eventually, there were NO major troubles after the downfall of the second booster shot
- To be more precise, the failure of the second booster shot signaled the end of the cult of the thaumaturgic serums and the beginning of a pacific coexistence with the coronavirus... BUT such an outcome would have been impossible, IF the mighty serums had really been an indispensable resource to save the world
- The alleged efficacy of the mystical fluids had severe time limits, because a second dose, a first booster shot, a second booster shot, a third booster shot were claimed to be needed... AND, in any case, IT IS QUESTIONABLE WHETHER the first, second, third shot (or first booster shot) had really been an indispensable resource to save the world, SINCE it is undeniable that the fourth shot was (for the believers) and would have been (for the disbelievers) PRACTICALLY useless, as implicitly confirmed even by the WHO, when it was PRACTICALLY forced to declare an end to Covid-19 as a public health emergency last May!!!
- Apart from the already mentioned case of North Korea, the end of the dynamic zero Covid-19 strategy in China had similarities, at least in some sense, with what happened in the United Kingdom after July 2021, when "almost all remaining restrictions" were "lifted, including mask-wearing and social distancing mandates": the UK, too, was NOT transformed into a death camp, in spite of a capital like London, which is not exactly a small village in a deserted area... BUT such an outcome would have been impossible, IF the diktats of the world-saving scheme (starting with the caging policy) had really been an indispensable resource to save the world
Alas, it frequently happens that predictions turn out to be wrong. For instance, let's have a quick look at some issues related to the Russian economy:
1. According to some estimates, "Russia's economy shrank 2.1% in 2022 under the pressure of Western sanctions, but it was able to sell oil, metals and other natural resources to global markets, in particular to China, India and the Middle East".
In addition, the International Monetary Fund has recently "raised its forecast for Russian growth in 2023 to 0.7% from 0.3%, but lowered its 2024 forecast to 1.3% from 2.1%".[cf. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russian-billionaires-see-wealth-rise-over-half-trillion-dollars-forbes-2023-04-22/]2. Of course, the above figures about "Russia's economy" and "Russian growth" may not be correct, BUT, if they indeed reflect the truth, there clearly was something faulty and misleading in what was proudly stated by the White House press secretary on March 10, 2022: "We have basically crushed the Russian economy".[cf. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-sanctions-crushed-russia-b2033267.html]In the end, no matter who is right or wrong, there must have been a mistake in the recent estimates and/or last year's assessment of the sanctions' impact.
Unfortunately, it may well happen...
What has been written here (i.e., a sequence of numbers and facts, which may be considered ridiculous), is obviously aimed at raising some (unreasonable?!?) doubts about the (surely well-motivated?!?) need to destroy a successful economic system, cause huge social disruption and devastate the lives of millions of families (mainly in developing countries, highly dependent on tourism) under the pretext of (really?!?) protecting the health of humanity.
Personally, however, I unshakably believe that the most intriguing aspect of the whole saga was the unrestrained and uninhibited use of terms like science, scientists and scientific as part of the propaganda machine, with the unhinged support of the mainstream media.
Mind you... I have nothing against these terms, when they refer to the science and the scientific knowledge, which play a fundamental role in the activity of the scientists who are able to investigate the features of a virus, understand its nature and, maybe, enhance its biological functions through genetic changes.
INSTEAD, I am left extremely puzzled, when the word science comes together with the strategies adopted to manage the coronavirus. In this context, I am inclined to think that the term science should be accepted IF AND ONLY IF it were absolutely clear that this word denotes the science of the times of Galileo.
As a matter of fact, Galileo was blackmailed and forced to reject the heliocentric model in the name of a science, which could not prove the geocentric theory, BUT had to be right because it had to be right.
Don't forget that the recent blackmail process did not involve ignorant, illiterate individuals, BUT medicine doctors (including epidemiologists) and even physicians, who had been considered distinguished scientists until they started raising doubts about house arrests and/or more or less magical fluids. As was the case of Galileo, they were censored and/or intimidated—forced to shut up or pay the consequences.
Just to make it clearer how things (in my opinion) should work in an unbiased world, I suggest to take the hypothetical case of an academic (e.g., in the field of mathematics), who suddenly claims that Pythagoras' theorem is wrong. Come hell or high water, a statement of this kind would certainly be comparable to a verbal attack on house arrests and/or so-called "vaccines". HOWEVER, there would be no need to censor or blackmail that imaginary academic. Even a young student would be able to prove that Pythagoras' theorem holds true and it would be obvious for everyone to boot that bizarre academic out of any university because of indisputable and scientifically proven evidence.
INSTEAD, the need to blackmail, intimidate, censor reminds of the times of Galileo and DOES show a complete LACK of indisputable and scientifically proven evidence.
In actual fact, some truths are emerging. For instance, even though the mainstream media have devoutly ignored the issue, the chief of a well-known social technology company has recently admitted that the "establishment" did not hesitate to ask "for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true".[cf. https://www.foxnews.com/media/zuckerberg-says-establishment-asked-facebook-censor-covid-misinfo-ended-true-undermines-trust]In addition, as euphemistically stated according to the same article, "he believes the requests made to him by the scientific community hurt their credibility with the public"!!!
Of course, in Jihad Al-Kuffar, published over ten years ago, there is nothing at all about pandemics and major disease outbreaks. Yet, Chapter 8 focuses on a special fight that was waged in Afghanistan in March 2001, in the Province of Bamiyan. It all happened in an atmosphere characterized by indisputable truths—and animosity was at its peak.
Inspired by his dreams and his faith, the alleged writer (a radical militant) talks about his enthusiastic desire to defend the interests of "true believers", by destroying the Bamiyan statues.
Here follow some of his comments about an unusual plan to guarantee a bright future for the people he is supposed to help: One of the men in my team was an old friend, Saad, the militant with whom I had shared heady days of conquest in the District of Yakaolang. Again, two months later, faith and devotion had brought us together to fight in the Province of Bamiyan. As everyone else, that mujahid was looking forward to the demolition of the vicious sculptures. He knew we were in the Province of Bamiyan to enhance religious freedom, basic liberties, and inalienable rights of true believers.
Before closing, I would like to say a word about the surname Mengele and the term nazipass, which appear in this text—and, in passing, I can even add that I wouldn't mind if new Nuremberg trials were held with the aim of investigating the diktats of the world-saving scheme and their motivations.
No doubt, I am well aware that many institutions and individuals have negative reactions to whatever reminds of the Nazi horrors and does not explicitly refer to the Holocaust. - Similar remarks can be made by investigating the fate of the "unvaccinated" in many more countries. Indeed, another good example came from Italy, were mortality was much higher among "unvaccinated individuals": for instance, from December 17, 2021 to January 16, 2022, it was 8 times greater, according to official data, if we make a comparison with the so-called "fully vaccinated".
- a former main guest of the White House