Here are the double-vaccination rates in South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong, plus New Zealand, with the U.K. included for comparison.
In mainland China, which is still reportedly aiming for Zero Covid and putting cities of millions under lockdown, daily reported infections on Monday reached their highest level since the original Hubei outbreak, albeit with only 526 reported. However, these reflect outbreaks emerging in dozens of cities including Shanghai, the northern port city of Qingdao and the southern city of Dongguan. Will China (whose Covid data, we should note, have not been deemed trustworthy by many observers) finally have full scale outbreaks as seen across most of the globe over the past two years?
Why South East Asia had largely escaped the worst of the pandemic until Omicron (Singapore and Thailand had moderate Delta waves) has been something of a mystery. Early claims that they were aces at Test and Trace didn't really stack up as the reason for their success (though led many countries to believe such a containment strategy should be achievable), as while South Korea's efforts were heroic Japan's were ordinary and there was no real difference in outcomes. Are there genetic, physiological or cultural reasons for the differences across world regions?
There are many unanswered questions in the pandemic. But that many countries would be having their deadliest waves after double and triple vaccinating their populations, and with what is supposed to be the mildest variant so far, was, I imagine, not part of anyone's plan.
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I made a rhyme years ago:
Computer game geek 1: Yo, you are slow, you ain't got smarts, you got a couple RAM and your ping is off the charts.
#2: Well you, n00b, you think you're such a hero, but when you play on god mode, you still just score a zero.
I've always, personally, felt crowded places to be the worst place to be.
But if we all carry fire extinguishers and wear our gas masks and other protective apparel, it should be good. We can -uhh- all get used to it, the crowding, the management, the herding. The dissonance.
WE CAN GET ALONG.
The other thing is, there really isn't any place left on earth that used to be reasonably habitable and friendly, that isn't crowded anymore.
So, wear your gear and follow all the rules, so you don't hit or hurt anybody in your mad dash to escape....
The flames.
NO, WE CAN'T.
ned,
out
Really? The “doctors” and “scientists” there didn’t hear about ADE? Some “mystery”. The cruel irony of the jabs is exactly as described: a mild strain that would be normally harmless wrecks a havoc in a primed person.
In my personal circle, all thoes who tested positive in the last two months were jabbed. And most of them called in sick at least once this season.
100 per cent correlation is very likely to be not coincidence ...
The entire history of vaccines has been a disaster for human health. A better soft kill weapon could not be imagined. All vaccines lead to is disease, suffering, and death. Not a single good result has come from any vaccine given in the history of humankind.
The real kicker of course is the narrative writers' ability to mask real infection, disease state and death by conflating it with other causes. They are the masters of doing this.
Only one family we know did a triple-stabbed fat and alcoholic 53 year old father end up in the ICU with low o2 sats (he recovered with highflow o2, no vent). All the rest were flu-like lasting a week or so.
Our completely unstabbed family ended up taking care of things for stabbed and sick families....