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The media in India is as full of it as ours
Israeli News Anchor Wields Gun Live On Air Amid Fear Of Another Attack...
"appeared on air Tuesday with a gun tucked inside her pants".
This is wielding:
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
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Monday, November 15, 2021
LOL India, home of the Delta variant, has as few daily new cases per million with 26.6% of its population fully jabbed as it did when fewer than 0.1% were back in February
But Eric Topol doesn't want to talk about that, because it doesn't fit the narrative.
He'd rather talk about Japan, which made "full return to baseline after their worst outbreak, by the combination of high level of vaccination and the continued use of masks and mitigation measures."
How did India do it, Eric?
Friday, October 1, 2021
For the six months Apr-Sep 2021 the combined UK/India variants produced 83% more cases compared with the same six months in 2020, despite Fauci's claims that mass vaccination would cause a steep downturn in cases
Cases and deaths Apr-Sep 2020 were 7.074m and 0.2025m respectively, for a cfr of 2.863%.
Cases and deaths Apr-Sep 2021 were 12.979m and 0.1463m respectively, for a cfr of 1.127%.
The C19 case fatality rate year over year Apr-Sep 2021 was therefore down over 60%. Total deaths period over period were down almost 28%. The theory that the so-called Delta is more transmissible yet less deadly seems to hold up. The virus has evolved to spread, at the expense of its ability to kill.
That there were comparatively FAR more cases in the 2021 period, nearly 6 million more cases, despite a mass vaccination effort is remarkable. How could that be?
The powers that be are blaming the unvaccinated.
But the timeline of events indicates that the vaccinated are implicated in the latest surge in cases, and therefore also in the deaths, which at over 57k in September are almost as bad as in April 2020.
CDC removed its mask guidance for the vaccinated in mid-May, which the president and vice-president both lauded with great enthusiasm.
And by June 1, 50% of the US population had received at least one dose of a C19 vaccine.
Vaccinated people took off their masks and enjoyed their summer.
Meanwhile Anthony Fauci had indicated on at least two occasions, in December 2020 and again in April 2021, that we would start to witness a decline in cases after achieving that level. But daily new cases just seemed to shrug their shoulders for a month instead, skipping along in a tight range for all of June. Then in July they began to soar, just as the India variant became dominant.
It's important to emphasize how fantastically wrong Fauci was about this.
In December 2020 Fauci had merely said a 50% vaccination level would need to be reached before an impact on the infection numbers would be observed, but by late April, with cases in another steep decline, he really doubled down on his claim and amplified it:
"When you get to somewhere between 40 -50%, I believe you’re going to start seeing real change, the start of a precipitous drop in cases .”
Instead of that precipitous drop he was about to get 9.8 million new cases in Jul-Sep vs. 3.1 million in Apr-Jun.
The dirty truth in all this is that the wildly growing numbers in the vaccinated population unknowingly spread the virus for 2.5 months, from mid-May through July, before the CDC reversed itself on mask guidance at the end of July after the Provincetown, MA, study showed that the virus was spreading like wildfire among vaccinated people. A Texas prison inmate study has shown the same thing since then.
Many vaccinated people have continued to spread the disease since the CDC reversed itself, however, as numerous incidents of masklessness involving celebrities and government officials demonstrate. My own veterinarians saw no need to wear masks when I took my cats in for appointments in early and late August. The late August one even asked if that was OK with me, which was hardly part of the new guidance. Mask wearing by vaccinated people, especially professionals, should have been de rigueur in close quarters in public by then.
With Pfizer vaccine effectiveness falling off to undetectable levels by month seven, we have an awful lot of people walking around who think they are bulletproof when they are not. They are instead dangerous to public health.
The surge in cases beginning in the seventh month of the year proves it.
Monday, September 27, 2021
The India variant never matched the UK variant globally, which peaked in April, despite people like Anthony Fauci falsely claiming the level of Delta in the airways was 1,000 times higher
The CDC's own data showed it was 10 times higher, but even at that Delta cases per million measured globally peaked way below "alpha" from April, already a month ago now, on Aug 26.
How did this supposedly super-virulent Delta come up so short, eh Antnee?
And Delta hardly matched the 2020 strains for reach on top of that.
What will they come up with next to scare you into getting vaccinated?
Monday, August 30, 2021
Globally speaking, the India variant wave appears already to have peaked both in respect of cases/million and deaths/million
It also looks as if the India variant has been not only less deadly, but less infectious as well, not more as most experts had been saying.
The January outbreak remains the dominant one of all the waves so far as to cases, but as to deaths we are clearly seeing a step down in severity.
I'm sure vaccine advocates will chalk it all up to the success of the vaccines, ignoring that the latest wave began on the first day of summer, fully six months into the mass vaccination effort, which most certainly did not prevent infection and transmission as the US CDC continues to say to this day. Pointing this out on Twitter a few days ago got Alex Berenson finally and permanently banned.
The Vaccine Church wants to credit the dramatic decline in cases since January to the vaccines, but refuses to own the wave of July and August. Instead it blames the unvaccinated at the same time it admits that vaccinated people get infected and spread the disease, as was proven by the dramatic Provincetown, Massachusetts, incident. Conveniently for the investors in big pharma, the CDC doesn't count breakthrough cases unless they end up in hospital or die, excluding from the statistics an entire class of superspreaders. There are literally hundreds of millions of them.
Meanwhile as to deaths few will consider that the easy fruit had already been harvested by the Grim Reaper before the India variant even arrived, that as to cases prior infection immunized millions while millions more who were vaccinated relaxed masking and social distancing, with official encouragement, spreading the virus.
There is also the simple fact of seasonality, which may loom larger than we know.
No one can really say.
There isn't just one variable to blame or credit, but that is what tired, frightened, small, greedy, and often hysterical minds end up doing.
It's human nature.
The virus may or may not peter out, but we'll always have human nature.
Saturday, August 7, 2021
Coronavirus virulence since the India variant became dominant in the US is actually running below the first year average
News reports in early July declared the India variant to be dominant in the United States.
Saturday, July 31, 2021
LOL, CNBC a week ago said vaccinations in India, home of the Delta variant, helped to bring about the decline in cases
Public health experts told the Financial Times in late May that regional lockdowns, reduced social interaction and an increasing number of antibodies against Covid among the general population were helping to bring down the infection rate in India. Vaccinations too have helped to continue the downward trend in cases.
More.
Cases per million plummeted 91% between May 7 and July 23, at which point just 7% of India's massive population of 1.3 billion had been fully vaccinated.
The vaccines had nothing to do with the crash in cases, but they may have helped cause this debacle in India.
Vaccination temporarily weakens the immune system, making it more vulnerable to infection, which is why it is inadvisable to vaccinate en masse when infections are raging around you. Mind you, in India on February 18th they were not. It would have been as safe a time as any to start vaccinating.
Yet is it mere coincidence that the massive explosion in cases in India after the approximate bottom around February 18th dovetails perfectly with the commencement of mass vaccinations in India around February 13th?
Well?
I think Nottle.
As for the antibody hypothesis, the faith placed in it after all this time is quite simply precious.
Antibody tests can miss previous COVID-19 infection
Antibody tests do not reliably confirm that someone has had COVID-19, which means global estimates of infection rates are likely inaccurate, according to researchers. "We studied the blood of over 120 people with confirmed COVID-19 and measured levels of antibodies ... using 14 different tests" up to three months after diagnosis, said Michael Peluso of the University of California, San Francisco. "All of these people definitely had COVID-19, but not all of them had positive COVID-19 blood tests." The accuracy of the tests at confirming prior COVID-19 varied by how sick the person had been, how much time had passed since the illness and which test had been used. "People who were less sick and in whom more time had passed were less likely to test positive using certain tests," Peluso said. "Since most people have mild (or even asymptomatic) infection with SARS-CoV-2, this study has important implications for our interpretation of several of the large studies that have been done ... to try to estimate the number of people who have had COVID-19." In a report published on Friday in the journal Science Advances, his team advises, "Individual patients or providers using these assays to assess the presence or absence of prior infection and/or immune status should take these considerations into account, given the poor negative predictive value of some tests."
Monday, June 21, 2021
Let's compare what happened to cases in India after vaccinating just 3.6% of its population against C19 with what happened in the US with just 3.6% vaccinated
TL;dr : The same thing.
India reached 3.6% fully vaccinated against C19 on about June 19th.
India's cases per million metric fell 83% from its May 8th peak to June 18th (from 283.5 to 48.07).
Vaccines had nothing to do with the drop.
The US reached 3.6% fully vaccinated against C19 way back on Feb 12th.
US peak cases per million occurred about a month before that, on about Jan 8th, at 758.56.
On Feb 12th cases per million had fallen to 293.61, or by 61%.
Vaccines had nothing to do with it.
Virus gonna virus.
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