Hahahhahahahaha. There’s literally zero statistically significant evidence of this. ZERO. Your vaccine is a dud and is killing more people than it saves. Guess the J&J brothers gave your wife a good rogering, I mean bonus.
4 ways the world messed up its pandemic response — and 3 fixes to do better next time NPR - https://tinyurl.com/rcn4k5at A new report issued by the Lancet Commission looks at the first two years of the pandemic to consider what the world did right (spoiler: not much), what the world got wrong, and how we can end this public health emergency and prepare for future ones. According to the commission, the failures cost us 17.7 million unnecessary deaths globally — a figure that includes some 6 million reported deaths plus an estimate of unreported deaths. (Not to mention the many people still struggling with the long-term consequences of a prior infection with COVID-19.) Here are four ways the world messed things up: Countries failed to coordinate and cooperate. One of the central findings of the commission's report was the lack of coordination among governments. Nations didn't consult with one another, for instance, as they locked down and reopened in a seemingly random manner. "We saw seesaw swings across countries, which gave the virus and the variants a superhighway for transmission into areas where previously it had not entered," says Dr. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and a co-author of the report. Instead of a coherent global strategy, each country took care of itself "in an incredibly haphazard way," says Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and chair of the commission. Nations didn't do their homework. Before COVID-19, the Global Health Security Index assembled rankings on which countries would be best and worst prepared for a hypothetical pandemic. "They proved to be very misleading," says Sachs. Many of the nations at the top of those lists, he explains, ended up with high death rates and difficulties countering the virus. (In case you were wondering, the U.S. ranked first in terms of "preparedness for pandemics and epidemics.") The one region of the world that punched above its weight was the Western Pacific. "There wasn't confusion, consternation or deep public debate about basic public hygienic measures of wearing face masks, social distancing, [and] avoiding potential super spreader events," says Sachs. The result was that the Western Pacific had some of the lowest mortality rates globally and, he says, "did not suffer worse outcomes in economic terms than other regions of the world." Inequity was a "wicked accomplice" of the virus. In other words, we didn't share! The commission commended the rapid development of vaccines but faulted the nations that developed and acquired these highly effective tools for focusing on their profitability at the expense of not sharing them more widely. "While immunity is the splendid armor that protects us against the virus," says Reddy, "inequity is the wicked accomplice of the virus." In other words, lack of widespread, aggressive vaccination has allowed COVID-19 to evolve, evade and persist. When it came to an array of possible medical responses, "global and national decisions didn't consider the less vocal voices of our communities," says Gabriela Cuevas Barron, honorary president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and co-author of the report. She's referring to immigrants, refugees, the elderly, Indigenous populations, women and children, prisoners, and those with disabilities, fewer resources and reduced access to health care. The public was infected by a plague of resistance. The commission noted widespread public resistance to basic prevention and safety measures. This was due, in part, to confusing and conflicting government messages. But misinformation and disinformation campaigns aimed at the very heart of public health science were also responsible, amplified and further distorted on social media. "We must actually ensure that people's confidence in science grows," says Reddy, "and we counter the anti-science movements that pose a serious public health threat all across the world. And the political compulsions that sometimes drive policymakers to perpetuate such movements must also be called out." To address these failures going forward, the commission laid out a handful of fixes. Among them: People of the world, let's cooperate! Despite a widespread feeling in many parts of the world that the pandemic is behind us, Sachs assures us it most certainly is not — "New variants, hugely uneven vaccine coverage, and quite possibly serious surprises still to come. In other words, we are not prepared for ending this pandemic." The commission urges strong international cooperation to finish this thing off. Create a combo platter of preventive and curative measures: Vaccination-plus! According to the report, the optimal strategy for bringing the pandemic to an end involves a combination of mass vaccination, testing, treatment for both new infections and long COVID, installing public health measures like face masks and social distancing, and financial and social supports to ease periods of isolation and quarantine for individuals. "We have to be prepared and make sure that we will leave no one behind in the future," says Cuevas Barron. Expand the World Health Organization The commission believes the WHO should enlarge its Science Council, a body of scientific leadership that directly consults with the director-general about "high-priority scientific issues and advances in science and technology that could directly impact global health." Their hope is that growing this group with diverse representation will help address future emerging infectious diseases, with a special focus on understanding "exposure routes and the highest-risk environments for transmission." A response from WHO The World Health Organization welcomed the report but felt it didn't fully characterize the global health body's role in addressing the pandemic. The day after the report was published, the World Health Organization expressed appreciation for the work of the Lancet Commission and underscored its endorsement of strengthening the WHO and increasing its budget. It agreed with the Commission that the pandemic is not yet over, "though the end is in sight." To that end, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Wednesday that the WHO has released "six short policy briefs that outline the key actions that all governments must take now to finish the race." However, the global health body took exception with what it felt were "key omissions and misinterpretations" by the Commission of the WHO's response to the pandemic, which it considered to be "immediate, multi-year, [and] life-saving." A last word about lessons learned Reddy says the lesson of the pandemic and the essence of the report is that global trust is needed to respond to a global threat. "Global health might have derived its initial impetus from a sense of shared vulnerability," he says, "but now it must draw momentum from a sense of shared values. We must actually stand and work together."
"Massive Societal Failure" Seen During World's COVID Response, Says Report https://www.iflscience.com/-massive...ring-world-s-covid-response-says-report-65350 The shockingly high death toll from COVID-19 is "both a profound tragedy and a massive global failure at multiple levels," says a new report by the Lancet COVID-19 Commission. A huge interdisciplinary team of researchers reviewed evidence from the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic to see what could have been done better and how we can better prepare for the next global disease outbreak. According to the report, there have been 6.9 million confirmed deaths and 17.2 million estimated deaths from COVID-19. They argue that this enormous death toll is the result of multiple failures at pretty much every level of society, from international authorities right down to the general public. "The staggering human toll of the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic is a profound tragedy and a massive societal failure at multiple levels," said Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Chair of the Commission, in a statement sent to IFLScience. “We must face hard truths—too many governments have failed to adhere to basic norms of institutional rationality and transparency; too many people have protested basic public health precautions, often influenced by misinformation; and too many nations have failed to promote global collaboration to control the pandemic." The report highlights 10 of the biggest failures seen during the international community's response to COVID-19: The lack of timely notification of the initial outbreak of COVID-19 The failure to promptly and clearly acknowledge the airborne exposure pathway of SARS-CoV-2. The lack of coordination among countries regarding suppression strategies The failure of governments to manage economic and social spillovers The shortfall of global funding for low-income and middle-income countries The failure to secure and fairly distribute key commodities, including protective gear, diagnostics, medicines, medical devices, and vaccines.; The lack of timely and accurate data on infections, deaths, viral variants, health system responses, and indirect health consequences. The poor enforcement of biosafety regulations in the lead-up to the pandemic, raising the possibility of a laboratory-related outbreak. The failure to combat disinformation. The lack of global and national safety nets to protect populations experiencing vulnerability. It isn’t all bad news. The report does highlight some things the world got right, primarily the rapid development of numerous effective and safe vaccines. However, the continued failure to fairly distribute vaccines across the world has somewhat taken the shine off this achievement. “Over a year and a half since the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered, global vaccine equity has not been achieved. In high-income countries, three in four people have been fully vaccinated, but in low-income countries, only one in seven,” said Commission co-author Maria Fernanda Espinosa, former President of the UN General Assembly and former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence, Ecuador. “All countries remain increasingly vulnerable to new COVID-19 outbreaks and future pandemics if we do not share vaccine patents and technology with vaccine manufacturers in less wealthy countries and strengthen multilateral initiatives that aim to boost global vaccine equity." The Lancet COVID-19 Commission aims a few blows at the World Health Organization (WHO) for its role in the misfiring. While they believe the WHO should maintain its central role in global public health, they say the pandemic highlighted the need for reform within the agency and a “substantial increase of its core budget.” The WHO has responded to the report saying it “welcomes the overarching recommendations” but it fails to account for the WHO’s successes, such as its prompt response and early acknowledgment of asymptomatic spreading.
Stephen King knows that the U.S. response to Covid is basically a horror movie thanks to Trump and his MAGA followers. He's outlining the next chapter...
Remember all the clowns trying to claim that Africa had a low Covid death rate because the continent was using hydroxy and ivermectin -- plus many other false claims. The reality is that Covid deaths were greatly undercounted in Africa; some African countries did no reporting whatsoever. Coupled with poor medical systems, inadequate testing and lack of access to vaccines, the Covid death rate in Africa was astronomical. Covid deaths were undercounted by an order of magnitude across Africa - this study demonstrates one example. Morgue Data Reveal Africa’s High COVID-19 Death Toll A new study led by Christopher Gill and Lawrence Mwananyanda found that nearly 90 percent of deceased individuals at a Zambian morgue were infected with COVID-19, but only 10 percent tested positive while alive. https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/morgue-data-reveals-true-covid-19-death-toll-in-africa/
China is turning into a fiasco. Basically their home-grown vaccines are not effective and the country was unwilling to import western mRNA vaccines. Coupled with the reality that most people in China have not been boosted. The expected death toll will be in the millions but we will never get the real figures out of China. Keep in mind -- what occurs in China is not contained in China. This type of breakout is a breeding ground for new variants. Lengthy Twitter thread of 28 posts -
More info... Crematoriums in China struggle as COVID spreads Cities across China also scrambling to install hospital beds and build fever-screening clinics amid a widening COVID-19 outbreak. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/20/crematoriums-in-china-struggle-as-covid-spreads
Imagine still being a delusional COVID retard after seeing all the failures from origin to lockdowns to masks to vaccines…???? It takes a special kind of cognitive dissonance and groupthink to be this dumb. WAKE THE FUCK UP IDIOT!