Wuhan virus 2020

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The Achse des Guten writes, admittedly very smugly:
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Officially, every tenth "Corona death" worldwide is now reported from Germany. That's what happens when you don't want to let go of the dubious body count.

At present, 7.98 billion people live in the world, 84 million of them in Germany, i.e. about one in a hundred. The other 99 do not make any more fuss about the "pandemic", which turned out more and more to be a completely overestimated or rather, without evidence, dramatized danger. While the governments of the world proclaimed the end of the madness, abolished the measures one by one and were happy not to be prosecuted for their authoritarian and enormously damaging actions, our health minister Karl Lauterbach, who is obsessed with the virus, made sure that we continue to be led to believe that there is a danger situation that is obvious to everyone - but that does not exist. "After the autumn vacations, a marathon against the virus begins," announced Seuchen-Karl a few days ago, and already incidences are being counted again, a mask requirement indoors is being demanded, the FDP2 mask must be worn on long-distance trains, with the threat of being kicked off the train if not. Another half year won the Endemieleugner Lauterbach so once again.

"We must not get used to the fact that, as now, 100 people die every day," cries the minister, who, of course, continues to sell us every person who died in a car accident, from cancer or a heart attack with a positive snuff test as a "Corona dead person." He never wanted to know exactly who died from the virus and who died with it, because that would have brought his whole strategy crashing down. And so Berlin diligently reports 100, 200 or more of these mysterious "corona deaths" every day.

But now, according to Our World in Data (source: the Johns Hopkins University), it looks like about the day before yesterday, October 25, 2022, there were officially 2,017 new confirmed Covid 19 deaths reported worldwide - and a whopping 242 of them from Germany alone. In other words, the country, home to about one percent of the global population, now accounts for a good one in ten pandemic victims worldwide. The global average is 0.26 covid deaths per million inhabitants, and 2.90 in Germany.

Since the virus is not ten times more deadly between Flensburg and Passau than in the rest of the world, and no matter how often the health minister warns against "killer variants," the solution to this riddle must lie elsewhere. We will find out when Karl Lauterbach stops testing as if he were senseless, spreading panic with useless incidence figures, and tying a piece of paper with the inscription "Covid-19 dead" around the big toe of every deceased person who tests positive for a cold virus. He'll have to do that someday, otherwise they'll be saying in New York, Rio, Tokyo: "Germans die ten times as often from corona as other people. What kind of health minister do they have?"
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Dozens of cities across China, including Wuhan where the coronavirus was first recorded, have gone into lockdown - as the country pursues leader Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy.

More than 800,000 people in one district in Wuhan were told to stay at home until 30 October.

"We feel numb to it all. We feel more and more numb," one local told Reuters.

The city of Zhengzhou, home to the world's largest iPhone manufacturing plant, was also affected.

It comes as China reported a third straight day of more than 1,000 cases.

Earlier this month Mr Xi signalled that there would be no easing up of the zero-Covid policy, calling it a "people's war to stop the spread of the virus".

As of Oct 24, some 28 cities across the country were implementing some degree of lockdown measures, analysts Nomura told news agency Reuters - with around 207 million people affected in regions responsible for almost a quarter of China's GDP, it added.

Across the country, around 200 lockdowns have been implemented in recent days - the majority of this affecting communities that have been marked as high or medium risk. Residents in different areas are subject to different rules, depending on whether they are in a low, medium or high-risk zone.

Wuhan reported up to 25 new infections a day this week, with more than 200 cases over the past two weeks.

In Zhengzhou, a "small number of employees" from Foxconn - a major manufacturer for Apple - have been "affected by the pandemic", the manufacturer told the BBC, adding that quarantined employees were being provided with "material supplies, psychological comfort and responsive feedback". It comes at a critical period for Apple - which is now making the new iPhone 14.

Earlier this week, in-person schooling and dining in at restaurants were suspended in the southern Chinese hub of Guangzhou - which on Thursday reported 19 new virus cases, Some neighbourhoods in the city also remain subject to various control measures.

Even further-flung regions such as Tibet have been affected, after footage emerged earlier this week showing rare large-scale protests against strict zero-Covid measures in the regional capital Lhasa.

The city has been under lockdown for nearly three months as it battles the virus - local officials on Thursday had said eight new Covid cases were reported in Lhasa.

Multiple videos on social media showed hundreds demonstrating and clashing with police. They were said to be mostly ethnic Han Chinese migrant workers. A Lhasa resident confirmed to the BBC that the demonstration had taken place in the city on Wednesday.

Though seen as relatively small outbreaks in other parts of the world, China adheres to a strict zero-Covid policy, where authorities try to wipe out outbreaks.

The adherence to the policy comes despite increasing public fatigue and anger over lockdowns and travel restrictions. The country's economy has also taken a hit as a result - with GDP falling by 2.6% in the three months to the end of June from the previous quarter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-63410341

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Got my 4th Moderna jab today. Moderna was my only choice, I'd have preferred to mix it up this time. Had to delay until now because they didn't have anything available a month ago because of the hurricane supposedly. Got the flu shot too.

Wondering if I should get the Shingles series of two shots also. Two people in close proximity to me have had shingles in the past few years. Shingles isn't contagious, but the virus that makes you susceptible to shingles is. If you've got a shingles blister that's busted you can transfer the virus. Seems like it's kind of splitting hairs to not call that contagious.

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Originally Posted by em2nought

Got my 4th Moderna jab today. Moderna was my only choice, I'd have preferred to mix it up this time. Had to delay until now because they didn't have anything available a month ago because of the hurricane supposedly. Got the flu shot too.

Wondering if I should get the Shingles series of two shots also. Two people in close proximity to me have had shingles in the past few years. Shingles isn't contagious, but the virus that makes you susceptible to shingles is. If you've got a shingles blister that's busted you can transfer the virus. Seems like it's kind of splitting hairs to not call that contagious.

I thought that shingles was a result of having had the chickenpox at some point in the past. So anyone who once had it could someday develop shingles unless they got the vaccine to prevent it.

On the other hand I also heard that taking the vaccine without having had CP could actually cause a case of the shingles.

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Covid lockdown: No police action over Shaun Bailey Tory event

Scotland Yard is taking no action against former London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey nor other people who attended a gathering at Conservative Party HQ during a Covid lockdown.

Mr Bailey and Tory aides were seen posing for a photo, raising glasses besides buffet food while London was under restrictions in December 2020.

Socialising indoors was banned.

But the Met said it found "insufficient evidence to disprove the version of events provided by attendees".

Fresh questions about the event at Conservative Campaign Headquarters in Westminster were raised after it was reported that former prime minister Boris Johnson had put Mr Bailey forward for a peerage in his resignation honours list.

After the Daily Mirror published a picture of the gathering in December 2021, the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation.

Then-Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, who is now business secretary, said "that scene is absolutely unacceptable".

Before the photo was published, the Times had reported that a "raucous" party took place in the basement while Covid restrictions were in place.

The Met concluded the "photo by itself is not sufficient evidence on which to assess that an offence had been committed".

Officers issued attendees with questionnaires to decide whether breaches of the rules were committed and fines should be issued.

"The investigation reviewed all the material thoroughly and after careful consideration, it was determined that there was insufficient evidence to disprove the version of events provided by attendees to a standard that would meet the threshold required," the Met said.

"As a result, a decision was made that no further action should be taken."

Mr Bailey, who remains a London Assembly Member, resigned as chairman of the governing body's Police and Crime Committee after the picture emerged.

Scotland Yard issued a total of 126 fines over rule breaches in Whitehall and Downing Street while Mr Johnson was prime minister, in a scandal that helped end his tenure in No 10.

Mr Johnson and his then-chancellor Rishi Sunak paid fixed-penalty notices over a gathering held for Mr Johnson's 56th birthday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63596886