You decide!
Posted on 01/18/2022 7:12:45 AM PST by blam
Is the COVID pandemic really reaching its final stretch? That’s what Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla would like the public to believe – he said during a recent series of interviews with the French media that life on earth should “return to normal” in the coming months. Of course, the “experts” said the same thing last winter.
But the reality on the ground shows that we’re a long way away. Globally, the number of new COVID cases has declined from a single-day peak reached earlier this month. Meanwhile, a growing number of governments are taking extreme measures to try and crack down on the virus. Japan is set to grant permission to the governors of Tokyo and 12 other prefectures to tighten restrictions on social activities as COVID-19 cases hit a daily record. Japan reported more than 27K new cases, broadcaster TBS said, exceeding the previous high seen in August shortly after Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics.
Elsewhere in Asia, authorities in Hong Kong have arrested two Cathay Pacific flight attendants for violating the city’s strict anti-pandemic policies. The government confirmed their arrests on Monday, claiming that the two flight attendants had violated quarantine policies.
In recent days, a growing number of countries have imposed vaccine requirements on their citizens. Austria has just imposed Europe’s first vaccine mandate on its roughly 9MM citizens. Italy imposed a similar mandate on all citizens over 50 years of age earlier this month.
Meanwhile, over in Israel, the government has decided to continue offering a second booster to Israeli citizens, despite new research showing that people will remain vulnerable to COVID no matter how many shots they receive.
Israel started offering a fourth shot to its most vulnerable and high-risk groups last month, but it has held off on expanding the offer to the wider population.
The preliminary study data mentioned above was published by Israel’s Sheba Medical Center on Monday, and it found that the fourth shot increases antibodies to even higher levels than the third, but still probably not high enough.
The Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general Nachman Ash described those findings as “unsurprising, to a degree” as Omicron infections had been logged in some people after they received fourth doses.
But “protection from serious morbidity, especially for the elderly population and at-risk population, is still afforded by this vaccine (dose), and therefore I call on people to keep coming to get vaccinated,” he told Army Radio.
Finally, in Beijing, authorities are seeing signs of both omicron and delta, a dual-variant threat that is unfurling less than three weeks before the Winter Olympic Games. According to Bloomberg, Beijing’s first omicron-infected patient has passed the virus to at least two close contacts, according to China’s national health commission. Separately, a person in a different part of the capital tested preliminary positive for delta, a city spokesperson said during a Tuesday briefing.
Covid 19 was never ever so nearly as bad a thing as government reactions to it.
The plandemic is over for me. I just don’t care anymore. If it’s deadly, ok. If it’s going away, ok. I want to go about my business and what happens, happens.
ONE person tests positive in Beijing and it’s news.
Pretty much where I’m at also. Thus it has ever been.
“The plandemic is over for me. I just don’t care anymore.....”
I could not have said it better. Call me when the rest of the world figures it out.
You decide!
Never let a crisis that you can use to enslave people go to waste, even if you have to manufacture a crisis yourself.
Speaking of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, have you seen that video in which his neck inflates and deflates? Very odd.
I have natural immunity.
I can’t get it.
I can’t spread it.
My interactions with the virus are over. The only interactions I have to be afraid of now are between me and governments.
The Winter Olympics is going to be a financial blood bath for the CCP.
I do remember flying Cathay Pacific a number of years ago. Seeing the flight attendants for the first time was an “Oh my!” moment.
Unless you’re a lizard.
Oriental women are usually very attractive. They are rarely overweight unless they have been westernized. There is a case to be made for limiting foreign culture influence into society such as Japan not allowing its culture to be replaced.
I’ll help the Chicomms out and take custody of a couple of them.
He’s a Reptilian. Sometimes the body suit has trouble.
It will be one for the history books, like the 1936 Nazi Olympics. Expect to see PLA troops goosestepping, and 10,000 gold medals won by China compared to 100 for the USA. Taiwan will be nonexistent.
All of the manipulations, mandates, controls, fearmongering ... all of that did nothing more than lengthen the time (the x-axis of the infection curve) to an extraordinary extent; it did nothing to change the area under the curve.
Even with the variants -- most of which are a natural progression of a virus -- we should have achieved this a year ago!
SO not guilty.
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