Does the plague of Wuhan portend the end of Xi Jinping’s mandate of heaven? - "In a twist of history, Wuhan was where the first shots were fired in the 1911 revolution that toppled the last emperor of the Qing dynasty... Li’s story is so powerful in part because it fits neatly into another ancient archetype in Chinese history. The incorruptible Confucian scholar who speaks truth to the emperor but is persecuted, and ultimately dies for his honesty, holds a special place in China’s scholarly tradition. Li fits the role perfectly."
Part 1: Beijing Is Intentionally Underreporting China’s Covid Death Rate - "The U.S. is apparently “guilty” of underreporting. According to the New York Times study, we probably undercount the prevalence of Covid deaths by about 17%. The Economist found a 7% discrepancy. They later increased their estimate of U.S. under-reporting to 30%. China is another story. Its official statistics understate the Chinese Covid death rate by 17,000% (according to The Economist’s model). In fact, based on excess mortality calculations, The Economist estimates that the true number of Covid deaths in China is not 4,636 – but something like 1.7 million... It is becoming clear that the suppression or deletion of data related to excess deaths in China began shortly after the pandemic started. As a result, most multi-country studies of Covid prevalence and outcomes are forced to omit China from their analyses... All of the reported deaths in Wuhan/Hubei occurred between Jan 1 and March 31 of 2020. After that, all reporting ceased... Even the data that “escaped” in this brief window show a puzzling degree of instability. The extreme geographical and temporal concentration of the disease outbreak, affecting just a single major urban center, during a short period, under almost total lockdown, ought to have simplified the task of data collection (compared to the difficulties of collating reports from hundreds or thousands of reporting sites spread across an entire country)."
Part 2: Beijing Is Intentionally Underreporting China’s Covid Death Rate - "China’s cities match up with those in its rich neighbors. But there are more than half a billion people in rural China, with incomes about 1/3rd of the average income of the urban Chinese population. Living conditions and health care deficits are common. Many rural Chinese are still unvaccinated. Socially and economically, rural China looks more like some of its developing Asian neighbors. Yet, China claims a Covid mortality rate up to 300 times lower than these other Asian nations... South Korea does not have the exposure to the many porous land borders with other countries that China has. That has certainly helped with the isolation measures, and no doubt kept mortality rates down. Experientially, the Korean Covid regime was similar to the Chinese, except for the city-wide lockdowns. “Korea required all travelers to quarantine in a hotel for 14 days. They had rigorous testing. They had rigorous contact-tracing. They mask up.” [A comment from a Korean colleague.] Korea, unlike China, has excellent Covid-related data. There are no unexplained gaps, and the registration of cases seems to be very thorough. According to The Economist’s study cited below, Korea’s reported death toll conforms almost exactly to the predicted mortality rate. Given all that, we would expect a similar public health outcome. Korea’s mortality rate is among the lowest in the world, at 108 deaths per 1,000,000 population. Nevertheless, China’s reported death rate is said to be 34 times lower than Korea’s... As a result of these natural advantages and smart policies, New Zealand achieved an extraordinarily low mortality rate of just 10.3 deaths per million – the lowest of any developed country by far. (Australia, with similarly stringent policies had a rate 8 times higher; most European countries were at least 100 times higher.) Still – Still! – China claims an overall Covid mortality rate three times lower than New Zealand... In any data analysis project, when a discrepancy in the data becomes “too large,” one must entertain the possibility that there is either a measurement problem, or a bias in the reporting, or outright falsification... No other major country is even close to this discrepancy. The only comparably large figures come from countries that are currently involved in war or large-scale civil unrest, such as South Sudan, Chad, the Congo, Burkina Faso, where it is understandable that public health records may not be in good order. Even some of the most unsettled countries in the world currently, such as Libya (400%), Iraq (900%), Iran (100%), and Afghanistan (900%), Venezuela (1100%) – while they have large discrepancies and are clearly undercounting their Covid deaths – they are no where near China’s ratio of 17,000%."
Sinopharm's COVID-19 shot offers weaker protection among elderly - study
No wonder they're still pursuing zero Covid - they know their vaccines don't work, particularly in the population which needs them most
They Relied on Chinese Vaccines. Now They’re Battling Outbreaks. - The New York Times - "[These countries may be] contending with rolling lockdowns, testing and limits on day-to-day life for months or years to come. Economies could remain held back. And as more citizens question the efficacy of Chinese doses, persuading unvaccinated people to line up for shots may also become more difficult... A representative from Sinopharm hung up the phone when reached for comment. Sinovac did not respond to a request for comment."
Time to memory hole this article, since it comes from a time when we were told that MRNA vaccines were effective against infection and transmission.
Imagine how much less effective the Chinese vaccines are given their lower base
Rate of breakthrough infections demonstrates effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines - " Most of the breakthrough infections that led to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission and fatalities occurred among Sinovac vaccine recipients, the study revealed. While 0.011 per cent of Sinovac vaccine recipients required treatment at ICU after developing breakthrough infections, the study found only 0.002 per cent of Pfizer vaccine recipients and 0.001 per cent of AstraZeneca vaccine recipients with similar conditions were admitted to ICU wards."
How much longer can China keep up its zero-Covid strategy? - "Desperate residents in China’s western Xi’an city are running out of food after they were barred from grocery shopping in a fierce lockdown. In the southern province of Guangxi, people who broke Covid laws were recently publicly shamed by being paraded through the streets in Hazmat suits with placards round their necks... Inside China, some senior scientists and officials have also taken the political risk of calling for similar reopening, in recognition of a world where it seems Covid will become endemic. Gao Fu, head of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, suggested recently that the country could be ready when vaccination rates pass 85%, perhaps early in 2022. Others have joined scientists abroad, warning that even Beijing’s autocratic powers and popular support for lockdowns and other control measures may not be enough to keep highly transmissible new variants out... The health risks of opening China up to Covid are likely to be higher than in countries that abandoned their zero Covid policies... “China has a high population density and lower herd immunity in the population due to limited exposure to the virus and less-effective vaccines. “The health system is also relatively weak in much of the country and could easily be overwhelmed. And even if vaccines provide good protection against severe cases, patients with less-severe illness are more likely to be hospitalised in China.” The country’s hospitals are also manned by doctors who have little clinical experience of treating Covid, while professionals elsewhere now have two years’ painfully earned understanding of its development and how best to control it. The possible human cost of opening up also has a political dimension. Government and state media have seized on how the virus spread in other countries as evidence of poor leadership and bad decision-making. Abandoning zero Covid could potentially trigger a crisis in hospitals and healthcare that would open the Chinese government to similar criticism... “China’s zero-Covid policy is driven primarily by social stability concerns. The regime sees Covid, Sars and other epidemics or pandemics as a health crisis that has the potential to evolve into a social crisis,” said Lynette Ong, associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. “With that in mind, it is not hard to understand why they are willing to defend it at all cost. But the costs are high. As the rest of world learns how to live with it, China will find itself alone, with few coping mechanisms.” A key sign to watch for, she added is whether the approach to Covid shifts after the leadership decisions are made at the Communist Party Congress... Strict new lockdown and quarantine rules are affecting everything from global supply chains – as sailors wanting to return home must spend weeks in isolation – to factory output. Trade partners are angry at the impact of suddenly imposed new border controls, with more than 6,000 Vietnamese trucks suddenly stranded at one border in late December. If other markets continue to ease Covid-related controls on movement while China remains shuttered, they may be forced to look elsewhere for trade partners.. If Beijing remains sealed off from the world, this may also diminish China’s efforts to project its influence worldwide. This has been a high profile feature of Xi Jinping’s increasingly assertive rule, including his flagship “Belt and Road” initiative, offering investment and aid around the world... “The government’s statements since the emergence of Omicron –which have touted the present strategy as a success – suggest that the point of transition (away from zero Covid) is not close, despite some discussion of this in the Chinese media. “Moreover, when it does come, the transition may not be easy because Chinese society has gotten quite used to a low level of transmission.”"
Covid zero fits their political aims:
- Maintain and expand a totalitarian surveillance state where citizens are helpless and rules change all the time so there's no certainty
- Cut the country off from foreigners and foreign ideas
- Slander the rest of the world and champion Middle Kingdom exceptionalism
Desperation as China’s locked down cities pay price of zero-Covid strategy - "Strict lockdowns in the Chinese cities of Xi’an and Yuzhou are taking their toll on the population and healthcare systems, according to residents, with complaints of food shortages and dangerous delays in accessing medical care... A screenshot of one post which went viral before being deleted claimed a man and his sick father were turned away from a Xi’an hospital because they were from an area designated as higher risk. The post said the man’s father was having a heart attack but died by the time he was admitted for treatment. In another account posted to social media, a woman in labour lost her baby after she was prevented from entering a Xi’an hospital. In a since-deleted post, a relative described calling emergency services on the night of 1 January for their aunt after she started feeling pain, but the phone rang out. Instead they sent her to hospital at around 8pm but “the front door security wouldn’t let us in, because the nucleic acid test result had been more than four hours ago”, they said. “While she was waiting outside, I saw the video her husband sent me, she was holding the chair, struggling to sit on it, and her blood streamed down the chair and her pants.” They said hospital staff saw and brought her inside and to the operating room, but the child died... Local officials are often punished or fired for alleged failures in outbreak prevention, including two senior Communist party officials in Xi’an who were removed from their posts over their “insufficient rigour in preventing and controlling the outbreak”."
China: Xi'an residents in lockdown trade goods for food amid shortage - "Authorities in Xi'an have been providing free food to households, but there have been numerous complaints on social media. Some residents said their supplies were running low or that they had yet to receive aid. Videos and photos on social media site Weibo showed people exchanging cigarettes for cabbage, dishwashing liquid for apples, and sanitary pads for a small pile of vegetables. One video showed a resident appearing to trade his Nintendo Switch console for a packet of instant noodles and two steamed buns. "People are swapping stuff with others in the same building, because they no longer have enough food to eat," a resident surnamed Wang told Radio Free Asia. The news outlet also reported that another man had wanted to trade a smartphone and tablet for rice. "Helpless citizens have arrived at the era of bartering - potatoes are exchanged for cotton swabs," one Weibo user said, while another described it as a "return to primitive society"."
China locks down over 1 million people in Yuzhou after finding 3 asymptomatic Covid-19 cases - "[In Xi'an] one resident claimed that they had to "sneak out at night" to buy food. "Buying food is like being a thief," the resident added. A video circulating on Twitter showed a man arguing with the police, claiming that his family had "nothing to eat". In the video, another woman can be heard saying, "We've been locked down for 13 days. Residents' basic life can't go on. We queued for three to four hours (to buy vegetables). But they don't allow it to be sold anymore"."
China's zero-Covid policy put to the test by Xi'an lockdown outcry - "The lockdown is the strictest and largest since Wuhan, which sealed off 11 million people in early 2020. But it is also among the most chaotic, leaving residents short of food and other essential supplies and affecting access to medical services... the outcry in Xi'an raises the question of just how long zero-Covid can be sustained before public support begins to taper off, with millions of residents trapped in an seemingly endless cycle of lockdowns. Over the past week, Chinese social media was inundated with cries for help and criticism over perceived incompetence of the local Xi'an government. Residents flooded a livestream of a government Covid news conference with demands for groceries -- prompting embarrassed officials to disable all comments. Despite some censorship, the issue has continued to gain traction. On Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform, the hashtag "Grocery shopping in Xi'an is difficult" has been viewed 380 million times as of Monday. Many expressed frustration they hadn't hoarded food in advance because local authorities had repeatedly reassured them food supplies were abundant and there was no need for panic buying. In the first few days of the lockdown, each household was allowed to send one designated person out to buy groceries every two days. But as cases continued to rise, Xi'an further tightened lockdown measures, requiring all residents to stay at home unless permitted to go outside for mass testing. "Previously I thought those panic buying folks were stupid. Now I've realized I am the stupid one," said a comment on Weibo. Faced with the public outcry, local officials pledged steady deliveries of groceries to residents, with state media carrying footage of food arriving at residential compounds. While the supply shortage was eased in some neighborhoods, other residents complained on social media -- including in comments below state media posts -- that they had not received such deliveries in their communities. Meanwhile, the heavy-handed approach adopted in some areas to enforce the lockdown has fueled further outrage. On Friday, footage emerged on Weibo of a man being beaten by Covid prevention workers at the gates of a residential compound when he tried to enter with a bag of steamed buns. The video, which immediately went viral, showed the buns scattered on the ground as the man tumbled. The ensuing outcry prompted a statement from police, which said the two attackers were punished with a seven-day detention and a fine of 200 yuan (about $30). For some, the cost of the lockdown was just too high. Last week, state media reported on two incidents of individuals going to extreme lengths to escape from Xi'an before restrictions kicked in. A man trekked for 100 kilometers (62 miles) across the Qinling mountain range from the Xi'an airport, avoiding multiple village checkpoints on the way before he was finally spotted and taken into quarantine on December 24, eight days into his journey, according to a statement from the Ningshan county police. In the other incident, a man cycled for 10 hours overnight in close to freezing temperatures in an attempt to return to his hometown, after he learned Xi'an would be locked down the next day. He was taken into quarantine and fined 200 yuan, according to a statement from the Chunhua county police. Despite the difficulties, Xi'an officials have repeatedly pledged their resolve to contain the outbreak in public.""
Of course, according to lockdown fanatics, China is doing extremely well and any failures are only because of covidiots and an insufficiently strict lockdown - so China needs to double down and enforce lockdown even more
Failed China 'zero-COVID' policy tops list of 2022 geopolitical risks: Eurasia Group - "They predicted China’s zero-COVID policy, running up against a much more transmissible omicron variant with vaccines that are only marginally effective, will fail to contain infections in 2022. That will lead to larger outbreaks and more severe lockdowns “and greater economic disruptions in a nation that has long been the world’s primary engine for growth.”... The policy looked incredibly successful in 2020, but now has become a fight against a much more transmissible variant with broader lockdowns and vaccines with limited effectiveness, Bremmer and Kupchan wrote. “And the population has virtually no antibodies against Omicron. Keeping the country locked down for two years has now made it more risky to open it back up.” That’s the opposite of where China’s leader, Xi Jinping, wants the country to be in the runup to his third term, but there’s nothing he can do about it, they said, arguing that the initial success of the zero-COVID policy and Xi’s personal attachment to it now makes it impossible to change course. For the world, that means more supply-chain disruptions. “Shipping constraints, COVID-19 outbreaks, and shortages of staff, raw material, and equipment — all more acute because of China’s zero-Covid policy — will make goods less available,” they wrote. “High prices for shipping will also hurt small- and medium-sized businesses that don’t have the resources to book containers, let alone their own ships. Supply constraints should recede over the course of 2022, but disruptions will persist in many sectors. Midyear contract negotiations at major U.S. ports and related slowdowns will add to the difficulties.” High inflation, breeding inequality, feeding economic insecurity and public discontent, will be exacerbated and remain an overarching economic and political challenge, they said, noting emerging market central banks are being pressed to raise interest rates to contain inflation while developed market central banks pivot toward tighter policies."
China locks down 3rd city, raising affected to 20 million - "A third Chinese city has locked down its residents because of a COVID-19 outbreak, raising the number confined to their homes in China to about 20 million people. The lockdown of Anyang, home to 5.5 million people, was announced late Monday after two cases of the omicron variant were reported... The Anyang omicron cases are believed to be linked to two other cases found Saturday in Tianjin. It appears to be the first time omicron has spread in mainland China beyond people who arrived from abroad and their immediate contacts."
Soon the whole of China will be locked down
Covid-19: Chinese woman stuck in lockdown with blind date - "A woman, only identified as Ms Wang, posted on Chinese social media platform WeChat last week that she had got locked down with her date after visiting his house for a meal. In the post, she said that she had recently returned to the city of Zhengzhou from Guangzhou ahead of the Lunar New Year. "I'm getting quite old, so my parents arranged more than 10 blind dates for me," she said in this post. She wrote that her fifth date had said "he was good at cooking, and invited me to his house so he could cook a meal". However, during the meal, she discovered that her date's community had gone into swift lockdown due to cases of Covid-19, and ended up being unable to leave his house for several days... her date had cooked every day for her while they were stranded together... Ms Wang is not the only person in recent weeks who has found herself caught unawares amid lockdown measures being swiftly enforced. Last month, a man found himself locked down in the middle of a house move in the northern city of Xi'an. He told media he hadn't even been allowed to finish collecting luggage from his car, and so had had to ask neighbours if he could borrow a duvet."
Lockdown Made Their Second Date Last Weeks. Would Romance Bloom? - The New York Times - "for nearly four weeks, Zhao Xiaoqing has lived in the city of Xianyang, in Shaanxi Province, with the family of Zhao Fei, a man she had barely known. (They share a last name but are not related.)... He said that because circumstances forced them to spend time together, they got to know each other better. “We were able to move forward in a speedy fashion,” he said... She announced that they planned to get engaged in two weeks and hoped to marry in the summer"
China claims Canada the source for first Beijing Omicron case, sent via mail - "Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a University of Ottawa China expert who spent more than three decades in the federal public service working on China issues, says it is ludicrous to suggest it could have survived on an envelope or a package that had travelled such a distance through international mail. She says the Chinese allegation shows that its leadership is still targeting Canada after its long-running dispute over the arrest of high-tech executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018, an extradition case that was dropped late last year, which allowed her to return to China... Throughout 2021, Chinese authorities have reported that COVID-19 was found on contaminated imports such as frozen foods, although the virus does not survive on surfaces for prolonged periods of time according to medical experts abroad."
When you need a scapegoat for your failed, unscientific covid policies
Covid: Beijing city urges end to overseas deliveries over Omicron
When your political objectives cohere with your insane strategies
Beijing locks down office building weeks before Olympics over single Omicron case - "The snap lockdown meant the building in the west of the city was sealed off without advance warning, with everybody inside unable to leave and subject to compulsory Covid testing. The decision to lock the office down came after an employee tested positive for Omicron on Saturday -- the city's first recorded case of the highly transmissible variant... The residential compound where the confirmed case lives is just 15 minutes' drive from Olympic Park. The entire community has since been sealed off while people get tested and authorities conduct environmental sampling. CNN staff who drove past the complex over the weekend saw large barriers in place to prevent anybody from coming or going. The residents inside are allowed fresh air, in contrast to stricter lockdowns in other parts of the country that confine people to their apartments -- but they can't leave the community limits. Trash is beginning to pile up inside the complex, with only specially-designated disposal teams permitted to handle it. Many nearby businesses are closed... In addition to Beijing, a growing list of cities across China are also struggling to tamp down Covid outbreaks and the Omicron threat. The variant was first detected in the community in Tianjin on January 8 and has since been found in seven other cities, including Beijing. Many cities are now imposing restrictions such as shutting down public spaces and banning dine-in services at restaurants, as well as suspending air travel to the capital. Posts and videos on Chinese social media show several targeted snap lockdowns in Shanghai last week, trapping whoever was unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity. In one mall, shoppers were stuck for two days, with officials testing everybody inside and ordering a deep clean before reopening. One video posted on social media showed a woman outside the mall, crying and reaching out to a small toddler staring back from behind its glass doors."
Why the World's Doing a Double-Take on China's No-New-Infections Claim - "On the very days when the national health authority was announcing that there were no new local infections, social media accounts in China were circulating photographs of “urgent notices” put up in residential areas announcing new cases and warning people to stay home... the reporter had accompanied a friend who was seeking care for his sick mother, but the hospital, while allowing patients to stay in the waiting area, was refusing to admit any of them. When the reporter asked the reason, a health worker at the hospital told him the hospital was under pressure from the central government to report no new cases... one commentator on Taiwan television speculated that, if there is a new surge of infections, the propaganda machine will put the blame on the United States and Europe, saying the new infections were the result of their failure to follow the Chinese example."
From March 2020. Prescient
Foreigners in China in the Time of Coronavirus: "See the Whole as Well as the Parts" - "concerns in China over a potential second wave caused by “imported” new cases have devolved into vile hostility against foreigners, on account of their foreignness"
In Hunt for Coronavirus Source, W.H.O. Let China Take Charge - The New York Times - "What the team members did not know was that they would not be allowed to investigate the source at all. Despite Dr. Ryan’s pronouncements, and over the advice of its emergency committee, the organization’s leadership had quietly negotiated terms that sidelined its own experts. They would not question China’s initial response or even visit the live-animal market in the city of Wuhan where the outbreak seemed to have originated."
Can we trust the WHO on COVID-19 origins? The serious flaws behind its China report - "no interview occurred without several representative of the Chinese government at the table... one of the few definitive conclusions of the joint report is that the likelihood of a lab escape is so “extremely unlikely” that it isn’t worth studying further . This conclusion was reached by the team after only a cursory examination of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Despite being the most controversial origin story for the virus (and one whose possibility has received tacit endorsement by the U.S. state department), the theory occupies a relatively small share of the final report... China refused a request to turn over 174 health records from COVID-19’s first patients in Wuhan... What this means is that there was no reliable way to determine how early COVID-19 was spreading through Wuhan, and whether it had a single point of origin. A mysterious flu-like illness swept through staff at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the autumn of 2019 , according to WHO team member Marion Koopman. The new WHO report found 92 cases of Wuhan patients with COVID-19-like symptoms in October 2019, weeks before the first cases officially recognized by the Chinese government. In both instances, investigators had to rely on Chinese assurances that serological tests had shown no link to COVID-19."
WHO Chief: China Not Sharing Critical Data In Covid Origins Probe
China Rejects WHO Call for More Transparency on Origins Probe - "Zhao Lijian re-emphasized China’s preference for the next steps of the investigation to focus on “further research around earlier cases globally and further understanding the role of cold chains and frozen foods in the transmission of the virus.”... Responding to the mention of laboratory audits, Zhao sidestepped the question by demanding the United States open its labs up for investigation. He pointed to a public letter, published by the Chinese-language edition of Global Times, that calls for a “thorough investigation” into the U.S. Army biolab at Fort Detrick. Zhao said that “over 750,000 Chinese netizens have signed the letter, calling for a thorough probe into Fort Detrick lab to find the truth of coronavirus. The number of co-signers is soaring as we speak.”... experts agreed it was extremely unlikely that the virus originated anywhere except for Wuhan, given the rapid pace of infections. That said, Dr. Gigi Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, suggested that the United States could set a positive example by agreeing to allow international access to its own labs. That would, in effect, call China’s bluff and remove one of the excuses Beijing uses to avoid releasing more information... Given that it is vanishingly unlikely the virus originated anywhere except for Wuhan, where it first overwhelmed hospitals, China’s recalcitrance makes it very unlikely we will ever know the truth about the virus."
IMF warns China over cost of Covid lockdowns
Facing uncertainties, sticking to zero-COVID policy remains China’s best strategy: epidemiologists - Global Times - "Chen Xi pointed out that comparing the psychological enduring capacity to the overall medical capacity, China still sees a huge gap with the US. In America, the number of nurses per 1,000 people is about seven times higher than in China, he told the Global Times. "In a developing country like China, a sudden lifting of strict measures will cause huge pressure on the medical system," he said... Experts dismissed the impact of zero-COVID policy on the economy, saying that China's strategy helps its society get back to normal, return population mobility, and stimulate consumption at a minimum cost, so that they won't be caught in a long period... Lashing out at Western countries' irresponsibility, Zeng said that as China still adheres to its dynamic zero-tolerance policy, the level of infections in China has always been low while the US and some European countries are engulfed in surging infections amid the Delta and Omicron rampage."
Maybe besides having no confidence in their vaccines, China has no confidence in their medical system
Weird how China still isn't back to normal and looks like it will never be for as long as zero Covid is policy
Coronavirus could have leaked from Chinese lab, claims US intelligence - "Coronavirus was not designed as a biological weapon but could have leaked from a Chinese lab, according to a declassified report from US intelligence. The Office of the US Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said the lab leak or animal-to-human transmission were both plausible explanations for how coronavirus first infected humans."
Covid-19 may have evolved nine years ago in a Chinese mineworker, US expert claims - "Crucially, samples of the puzzling miner’s disease were sent to viral researchers in Wuhan for study, from where they may have escaped into the population, he argues. Dr Latham says the emergence of the Alpha variant in Kent last Autumn proves that the virus can make "strange evolutionary leaps" and quickly develop large numbers of mutations when inside an individual for a long time. Earlier this year, Cambridge University concluded that the super-infectious Alpha variant probably evolved in a single immunocompromised patient who had the disease for many months... Back in 2012, six miners who were shovelling bat guano in the Tongguan mineshaft in Mojiang, Yunnan, became seriously ill with a pneumonia-like illness that bore a striking similarity to Covid-19. Three of them died and the others were hospitalised for up to six months. A Chinese researcher who investigated the deaths for his master’s thesis concluded they were probably infected by a Sars-like coronavirus originating in horseshoe bats. Just a year after the deaths, Wuhan scientists discovered a virus named RaTG13 in the same caves, which was later found to be a 96 per cent match for Covid-19, but must have diverged 40 years earlier. However, the new theory suggests that the evolution from a virus such as RaTG13 could have occurred far more quickly inside the body of a miner... Scientists investigating the origin of the pandemic have repeatedly asked for details of virus sequences housed and studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But a database containing details of the samples was taken offline shortly before the pandemic began. Alison Young, the Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism, also told the webinar that lab leaks of dangerous viruses were common throughout the world, and had previously led to outbreaks. “One of the arguments is that lab experiments are extremely rare events,” she said. “Lab accidents are not rare. In the US in 2020 there were 134 reported lab exposure incidences of viruses, bacteria and toxins that the US government regulates. “Lab accidents and exposures happen frequently.”"
The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Lockdown Fraud | by The CCP's Global Lockdown Fraud | Medium - "1. Lockdowns Originated on the Order of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and Were Propagated Into Global Policy by the World Health Organization With Little Analysis or Logic
2. The Most Influential Institution for Covid-19 Models, Self-Described as “China’s Best Academic Partner in the West,” Has Been by Far the Most Alarmist and Inaccurate Covid-19 Modeler...
A study by researchers at UCLA and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) compared the accuracy of various institutions’ models predicting COVID-19 mortality. Across all time periods, the models produced by Imperial College were measured to have far higher rates of error than the others — always erring on the side of being too high... Imperial’s inaccuracy continued unabated. In October 2020, Imperial College’s model predicted the U.K. would experience 2,000 deaths per day by mid-December. In fact, deaths per day in the U.K. never reached 400, per NHS...
3. Deadly Recommendations for Early Mechanical Ventilation Came from China...
The guidance recommended escalating quickly to mechanical ventilation as an early intervention for treating COVID-19 patients, a departure from past experience during respiratory-virus epidemics... By May 2020, it was common knowledge in the medical community that early ventilator use was hurting, not helping, COVID-19 patients, and that less invasive measures were in fact very effective in assisting recoveries...
5. Predominant, Excessive PCR Testing Protocols Came from China
7. The CCP Engaged in an Early, Broad, Systematic, and Global Propaganda Campaign to Promote Its Lockdown Response
8. Many Prominent Pro-Lockdown Scientists Show Conspicuous Pro-China Bias
9. Many Other Influential Lockdown Supporters Are Both Woefully Unqualified to Be Advising World Leaders on Pandemic Policy and Often Show Conspicuous Pro-China Bias
10. Several Top National Health Officials Among the Nations Are Woefully Unqualified and Show Conspicuous Pro-China Bias
11. Prominent Lockdown Supporters Have Proven Unusually Indifferent to the Devastating Consequences of Their Policies"
