The people who said it was a "bad chest cold" were right.
This has been a brake-check on the West, and on Trump specifically.
While Hong Kong has been swallowed whole.
Please keep fighting the good fight, Mr. Schachtel.
There are a lot of bad actors on social media, whose comms history and connection to driving the panic in January, need to be sorted out and called out. I myself believed more than I should have believed, and am ashamed at my contributions to needless deaths in the US.
I will never forgive people like Eric Feigl-Ding and Scott Gottlieb, or Carl T. Bergstrom at UW who stomped all over Aaron Ginn at the same time the UW Covid Team was excited about HCQ, or even Yale's Nicholas Christakis musing about how the force needed to stop the spread of coronavirus in China (welding apartment doors shut) giving us actionable data on... the infectiousness? or the lethality? of coronavirus.
China never messed up. This is all an intentional psy-op run by the globalists and people like Gates. China is in on the game. It's an intentional ploy to reset the worlds economy and remove the US dollar from the world stage. Look at the big picture folks. Covid-19 is world war 3 is psyop form. And China won.
Even though they locked down Wuhan, they allowed international flights out. This had the effect of causing any foreigners to immediately flee, thereby ensuring that it would infect other countries.
This is likely one of the effects the Chinese authorities counted on.
It went exactly as planned, or rather, even better than they could have dreamed up in their wildest dreams.
They deliberately did it and subsequently faked their numbers to entice us to do the same and thereby ruin us, so that we would become financially, militarily and strategically very much weaker.
We not only fell for it and went along, we overdid it and are still overdoing it, can't find an exit and, above all, killed our democracies as well, which is of course also fully in China's interest.
Even though they locked down Wuhan, they allowed international flights out. This had the effect of causing any foreigners to immediately flee, thereby ensuring that it would infect other countries.
This is likely one of the effects the Chinese authorities counted on.
China messed up. to an immeasurable degree. i cant prove it but, here's the nutshell... They mistook C19 for something far far worse. Something much more 'potent' that they knew existed in the wuhan lab. their reaction was one of wild unbridled speculation that they were in big trouble. they pulled out all the stops , and it turned out to be just C19- that they knew or understood quickly was much less dangerous. so the images of death on the streets of wuhan could be a false attempt at covering up their over-reaction. again, i have very little doubt that they thought something much worse than c19 was released from the wuhan lab.
I'm still going with their MIIT's recording a loss of 21 million (or so) cell phone accounts during the period of 12/19-03/20 as being a truer reflection of their body count than the BS figures coming out of 'official' Beijing.
The CCP can hide a lot. I doubt, however, that even they could hide ~20 million COVID deaths. China isn't North Korea. China has too many connections to the outside world - Western business connections, to cite just one example - to keep deaths of that magnitude hidden. That's a number that's twice the typical number of annual deaths in China from all causes - https://knoema.com/atlas/China/topics/Demographics/Mortality/Number-of-deaths
That's not to say that I trust the Chinese numbers. I could easily imagine that, post-Wuhan, they cracked down on hospitals and have been hiding some number of COVID deaths by lumping them in with other respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia.
What I increasingly think, however, is that there's some sort of widespread cross-immunity in a lot of Asian countries as a result of exposure to similar viruses. I know that T-cell cross immunity from exposure to common cold coronaviruses has been found in the West. I'm thinking a better version of that sort of immunity is widespread in Asia from exposure to something - perhaps other similar bat coronaviruses that didn't spread as well.
Go to Worldometer's coronavirus page and look at COVID deaths per million in Asian countries. Get past the ones in the Middle East, and it's striking just how low all the numbers are. Various explanations are offered - the public health response in countries like South Korea and Taiwan, near universal mask-wearing - but it seems too universal across countries for those sorts of interventions to be a complete explanation. The list isn't just higher-income, well-governed states such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. It also includes middle to lower-income countries such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Pakistan. I think that at least one country would have "slipped up" and had per capita deaths equal to Western Europe or North America if the only difference was interventions.
The death toll in Wuhan/Hubei could be an argument against this idea, but perhaps that area is for some reason a bit more susceptible to this coronavirus than other parts of China. It's also worth noting that this virus spread there for at least a couple months prior to lockdowns and that the ultimate reported per capita death toll was still well below NYC.
The people who said it was a "bad chest cold" were right.
This has been a brake-check on the West, and on Trump specifically.
While Hong Kong has been swallowed whole.
Please keep fighting the good fight, Mr. Schachtel.
There are a lot of bad actors on social media, whose comms history and connection to driving the panic in January, need to be sorted out and called out. I myself believed more than I should have believed, and am ashamed at my contributions to needless deaths in the US.
I will never forgive people like Eric Feigl-Ding and Scott Gottlieb, or Carl T. Bergstrom at UW who stomped all over Aaron Ginn at the same time the UW Covid Team was excited about HCQ, or even Yale's Nicholas Christakis musing about how the force needed to stop the spread of coronavirus in China (welding apartment doors shut) giving us actionable data on... the infectiousness? or the lethality? of coronavirus.
Have you seen this that shows the role of hundreds of thousands of CCP Twitter accounts in pushing the lockdown narrative and panic on social media? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1270925788389486593.html?refreshed=1598261255
China never messed up. This is all an intentional psy-op run by the globalists and people like Gates. China is in on the game. It's an intentional ploy to reset the worlds economy and remove the US dollar from the world stage. Look at the big picture folks. Covid-19 is world war 3 is psyop form. And China won.
Most successful psychological operation in history.
Even though they locked down Wuhan, they allowed international flights out. This had the effect of causing any foreigners to immediately flee, thereby ensuring that it would infect other countries.
This is likely one of the effects the Chinese authorities counted on.
Excellent, informative essay. I just linked to it from mine, "Has New York City achieved herd immunity?" https://bit.ly/3jkrqgW
It was definetely not all for nothing!
It went exactly as planned, or rather, even better than they could have dreamed up in their wildest dreams.
They deliberately did it and subsequently faked their numbers to entice us to do the same and thereby ruin us, so that we would become financially, militarily and strategically very much weaker.
We not only fell for it and went along, we overdid it and are still overdoing it, can't find an exit and, above all, killed our democracies as well, which is of course also fully in China's interest.
The earlier biggest deception was by the USA depicting WMD in Iraq. Iran and Israel benefitted 😄
Even though they locked down Wuhan, they allowed international flights out. This had the effect of causing any foreigners to immediately flee, thereby ensuring that it would infect other countries.
This is likely one of the effects the Chinese authorities counted on.
China messed up. to an immeasurable degree. i cant prove it but, here's the nutshell... They mistook C19 for something far far worse. Something much more 'potent' that they knew existed in the wuhan lab. their reaction was one of wild unbridled speculation that they were in big trouble. they pulled out all the stops , and it turned out to be just C19- that they knew or understood quickly was much less dangerous. so the images of death on the streets of wuhan could be a false attempt at covering up their over-reaction. again, i have very little doubt that they thought something much worse than c19 was released from the wuhan lab.
The 21 million could NOT pay their cell phone bill!
Jordan, you make me laugh! WTF? Posting your M F shits here?
I'm still going with their MIIT's recording a loss of 21 million (or so) cell phone accounts during the period of 12/19-03/20 as being a truer reflection of their body count than the BS figures coming out of 'official' Beijing.
The CCP can hide a lot. I doubt, however, that even they could hide ~20 million COVID deaths. China isn't North Korea. China has too many connections to the outside world - Western business connections, to cite just one example - to keep deaths of that magnitude hidden. That's a number that's twice the typical number of annual deaths in China from all causes - https://knoema.com/atlas/China/topics/Demographics/Mortality/Number-of-deaths
That's not to say that I trust the Chinese numbers. I could easily imagine that, post-Wuhan, they cracked down on hospitals and have been hiding some number of COVID deaths by lumping them in with other respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia.
What I increasingly think, however, is that there's some sort of widespread cross-immunity in a lot of Asian countries as a result of exposure to similar viruses. I know that T-cell cross immunity from exposure to common cold coronaviruses has been found in the West. I'm thinking a better version of that sort of immunity is widespread in Asia from exposure to something - perhaps other similar bat coronaviruses that didn't spread as well.
Go to Worldometer's coronavirus page and look at COVID deaths per million in Asian countries. Get past the ones in the Middle East, and it's striking just how low all the numbers are. Various explanations are offered - the public health response in countries like South Korea and Taiwan, near universal mask-wearing - but it seems too universal across countries for those sorts of interventions to be a complete explanation. The list isn't just higher-income, well-governed states such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. It also includes middle to lower-income countries such as the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Pakistan. I think that at least one country would have "slipped up" and had per capita deaths equal to Western Europe or North America if the only difference was interventions.
The death toll in Wuhan/Hubei could be an argument against this idea, but perhaps that area is for some reason a bit more susceptible to this coronavirus than other parts of China. It's also worth noting that this virus spread there for at least a couple months prior to lockdowns and that the ultimate reported per capita death toll was still well below NYC.