December 17, 2022

Covid-19: Winter surge feared as China lurches away from zero covid



Covid-19: Winter surge feared as China lurches away from zero covid

Owen Dyer


On 8 December China’s central government lifted almost all of its rigid covid-19 pandemic restrictions, bending to popular discontent two weeks after protests sprang up around the country.

At train stations, workers were removing the QR health code signs that track and restrict movement. Chinese social media has told countless stories of people being “pop upped”—suddenly informed by their phone that they have lost their green health code and are now amber or red. Simply travelling through a district at the time a case was discovered there could bring an amber code, restricting access to public spaces. A red code, signalling close contact, usually meant a compulsory stay at an official quarantine site.

The codes remain, but will become far less significant, only affecting access to schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and clinics. Travel between regions and entry to most venues will no longer be restricted by health code or require proof of a recent negative test.

The relaxing of the health code system was one of 10 new prevention and control measures put forward by China’s government on 7 December. Presented as a “further optimisation” of policy, the announcement was seen as a climbdown from a “zero covid” approach that had become politically and economically untenable.

Local authorities should reduce the number of neighbours locked down when a case is discovered, the government decreed. All lockdowns should end after five days if no new cases emerge. People will no longer be subject to mass testing by region, and the overall frequency of testing will be reduced.

Those with mild or no symptoms may henceforth quarantine at home instead of at government centres. Most suspected disease contacts were allowed to quarantine at home from last month.

The relaxation comes four days after President Xi Jinping told European Council President Charles Michel at a Beijing meeting that protesters who took to China’s streets in late November were “mostly university students” who were “frustrated with covid restrictions.”

The nationwide unrest, which flared up after a deadly fire at a locked down apartment block in Xinjiang province, died out within days as police flooded the protest sites.

The end of zero covid was signalled by China’s vice premier Sun Chunlan on 30 November. “With the decreasing toxicity of the omicron variant, the increasing vaccination rate, and the accumulating experience of outbreak control and prevention, China’s pandemic containment faces a new stage and mission,” she said.

Only two days earlier, Sun had instructed authorities in Chongqing to “launch an all out attack” to “achieve zero covid.”

Since her speech, state media has driven home the message that omicron’s lower lethality justifies a new approach. But the political imperative to find a medical explanation for the sudden abandonment of zero covid conflicts with another goal of the new plan, which is to encourage more vaccination among the elderly.

Vaccine gap

China’s overall vaccination rate is high by global standards, but with underperforming domestically produced vaccines, a lack of focus on immunising the elderly, and the time elapsed since the average person’s last shot, real immunity is almost non-existent in the population.

The new policy proposes mobile vaccination units, but no mandates or incentives to boost uptake at a time when the government is downplaying the lethality of the virus.

There is broad consensus among experts that increased vaccination of the elderly, ideally with modern mRNA vaccines, is the best and probably only way that China can avert a surge.

Chinese scientists are working on several mRNA vaccines, but while one was approved by Indonesia in September,1 it is still at least six months away from entering the Chinese market. Negotiations for Moderna’s vaccine fell through last month as China insisted on obtaining the rights and producing it domestically.2

Models predict as many as 1.55 million deaths in a wave triggered by the lifting of restrictions. At its peak, demand for intensive care beds could outstrip supply by up to 15.6 times, one model predicted.3 Widespread treatment with antivirals could lower this burden, but most experts agree that China has not adequately stockpiled antivirals before reopening.

The timing is also bad, as flu season begins and the world faces a resurgence of respiratory syncytial virus. Both viruses could spike alongside covid-19 as the Chinese mix more freely.

For these reasons, experts are predicting a difficult winter. But already, a sharp reduction in government testing is making the course of infection in China harder to track and predict. Official numbers suggest that new cases have dropped in the past three days, after slowly declining through the preceding week. But a week ago, asymptomatic new cases were reported at nearly eight times the rate of symptomatic ones. The current ratio is only half that, suggesting that many asymptomatic cases are now being missed.

Rush to buy PPE

Anxious citizens and enterprising retailers rushed to stockpile drugs and personal protective equipment following the vice premier’s announcement, even before the formal lifting of restrictions. Sales of face masks were 682% higher in the first week of December 2022 than the same week a year earlier, according to online retail giant JD.com.

Sales of cough, cold, and fever drugs rose 18-fold. Many of these products had been restricted until this week as authorities feared they could be used to mask covid symptoms. The search volume for Lianhua Qingwen pills, a traditional Chinese medicine which the government has said is effective at treating covid-19, was 2000 times higher than a year ago.

Even as it downplays the severity of omicron, on 8 December state owned China Newsweek quoted government experts predicting a large scale outbreak in the next one to two months. Feng Zijian, a former official of China’s Centre for Disease Control, told the China Youth Daily that up to 60% of the population could catch covid-19 in that initial wave. “Ultimately, around 80% to 90% of people will be infected,” he said.

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After the uprising in China, they christened the Covid Flu (Video)

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Μετα την εξέγερση στην Κινα βάφτισαν τον Covid Γρίπη (Video)

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Toυς ειχαν σε συνεχή ΛΟΚ ΝΤΑΟΥΝ…μεσα στις πολυκατοικίες..Εξεργέθηκαν και τελικά η Κυβέρνηση της Κινας αποδέχθηκε οτι ο Κορονοιός είναι μια απλή γρίπη.

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Είναι αδίστακτοι δολοφόνοι: Η Μίνα Γκάγκα παροτρύνει να προχωρήσει ο κόσμος στον εμβολι@σμό για τη γρίπη χωρίς συνταγή γιατρού – Χτύπησαν κόκκινο τα κρούσματα με τη χρήση μάσκας δύο χρόνια


Στα φαρμακεία μπορούν να κάνουν φέτος το αντιγριπικό εμβ#λιο οι πολίτες, όπως τόνισε μιλώντας στον ΣΚΑΪ η αναπληρώτρια υπουργός Υγείας Μίνα Γκάγκα.

«Φέτος, επειδή υπήρξε μεγάλη ταλαιπωρία και αργούσε κάπως ο κόσμος να παραλάβει το εμβ#λιο της γρίπης, είπαμε να κάνουν το εμβ#λιο στα φαρμακεία και να μην χρειαστεί συνταγή γιατρού. Επειδή φέτος έχουμε μία πολύ βαριά σεζόν γρίπης, το βλέπουμε στα παιδιά και τους μεγάλους, είπαμε να εμβολι@στεί ο κόσμος χωρίς συνταγή γιατρού», ανέφερε χαρακτηριστικά και σημείωσε επιπλέον τις αλλαγές που προωθούνται στα Τμήματα Επειγόντων Περιστατικών μέσω του νομοσχεδίου για το ΕΣΥ.

«Με το καινούριο νομοσχέδιο που πέρασε στη Βουλή, αλλάζουμε τελείως τα ΤΕΠ. Οι ασθενείς μένουν στο κρεβάτι των ΤΕΠ και ο κάθε γιατρός που χρειάζεται τους βλέπει εκεί, χωρίς να μετακινηθεί ο ασθενής. Με τον τρόπο αυτό μειώνονται οι αναμονές και γίνονται πιο γρήγορα οι εισαγωγές στο νοσοκομείο. Θεωρούμε ότι τα ΤΕΠ είναι το πρώτο πράγμα που πονάει τους Έλληνες, είναι το πρώτο πράγμα που θέλουμε να φτιάξουμε», είπε η κ. Γκάγκα.

Is Ron DeSantis An Establishment Puppet?

Is Ron DeSantis An Establishment Puppet?



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From being a Yale graduate and being involved in secret societies there to his time in the Navy to his time as governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis is questionable as to whether or not he is an establishment puppet. We'll take a look at several questionable things that indicate that DeSantis is nothing more than a politician being used by the powers that be to advance an agenda and nothing more.


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December 16, 2022

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C-19 VACCINE IS A MILITARY PANDEMIC PROGRAM – TRUMP, FAUCI, PHARMA CLUELESS – DR. PETER MCCULLOUGH

C-19 VACCINE IS A MILITARY PANDEMIC PROGRAM – TRUMP, FAUCI, PHARMA CLUELESS – DR. PETER MCCULLOUGH



First published at 19:33 UTC on December 16th, 2022.

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Pharma is a Department of Defense contractor. They do not make the vaccines; only their names appear on the packaging. The Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics (ADEPT) program developed the mRNA vaccine and funded Pharma.
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Ron DeSantis' Mixed Messages On The Experimental COVID Shot

 

Ron DeSantis' Mixed Messages On The Experimental COVID Shot


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The European Union trembles and another scandal: The contracts signed for the Pfizer vaccines paid for gold by the member states of the Union

The European Union trembles and another scandal: The contracts signed for the Pfizer vaccines paid for gold by the member states of the Union

The case remains open and is being investigated by the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), as part of an investigation against corruption and financial crime within the EU. The European Court of Auditors has also been involved in the investigations, which is examining the financial details of the agreement, focusing on the EU paid Pfizer's vaccines too expensive compared to other companies' vaccine prices.

The biggest fear is that on the occasion of QatarGate, the scandalous case of the EU-Pfizer agreement for the supply of vaccines against Covi-d-19, worth several billions, may come back to the fore.

The case remains open and is being investigated by the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), as part of an investigation against corruption and financial crime within the EU. The European Court of Auditors has also been involved in the investigations, which is examining the financial details of the agreement, focusing on the EU paid Pfizer's vaccines too expensive compared to other companies' vaccine prices.

It should be noted that this agreement was hastily signed in the middle of summer vacations, when the Commission was closed. There had been an exchange of several text messages between der Leyen and the head of Pfizer Albert Burla, which saw the light of day, were discussed in the European Parliament and were considered at least "strange" - if not suspicious.

The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) is now investigating the role played by the president of the Commission in concluding this agreement, looking for evidence of "suspicious negotiations", which caused a huge financial loss to the EU - to the benefit of the American pharmaceutical giant.

Also, two independent EU audit agencies have already shown interest in Ms von der Leyen's "high-level" contacts with Pfizer over vaccine purchase deals.

Last week the CEO of Pfizer Albert Burla was called to testify on this subject to the special committee of the European Parliament. He refused to appear – as he did in October when he was asked to appear before the committee and explain how the secret vaccine deals were made.

In Brussels they fear that after QatarGate we will have a much bigger "earthquake", with accusations and suspicions of financing at the highest levels of the EU. It will be Pfizer-Gate and it will cause serious cracks in the European structure, with multiple side effects at the political level in all the member countries.

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