patrick.net

Ah yes, Mr. Vandervelde, but that’s not the point is it. They needed a quick and easy way to fake an election, create inflation, destroy small businesses and spoil the education of a generation of innocent children. Oh and let’s not forget mandate biological terrorism. Yeah, they created perhaps the biggest hoax in human history (so far). Now I do believe that the virus is real, and some people did die from their infections, but it was not a level of virility that required extraordinary measures. In fact the places that locked down the strictest are now seeing surges in cases proving that lockdowns only delay the inevitable. The virus was endemic by spring/summer of 2020 and should have been managed like any endemic infectious disease, with reasonable precautions and targeted quarantines of the infected and vulnerable.

https://off-guardian.org/2022/04/12/was-covid19-a-re-branded-flu/?source=patrick.net

PeopleUnited says

Ah yes, Mr. Vandervelde, but that’s not the point is it.

I'd check his numbers on the number of people that died on pneumonia and influenza in 2018. Not saying they are wrong, but to me they seem to be wrong.

https://doctors4covidethics.org/the-covid-lies/?source=patrick.net

By Dr. Michael Yeadon via Doctors for Covid Ethics

The Covid Lies – Doctors for COVID Ethics (doctors4covidethics.org)

In this comprehensive review, Dr. Yeadon argues that all the main narratives about SARS-CoV-2 and imposed “measures” are lies.

In the first part of the article (The Covid Lies), Dr. Yeadon counters the 12 widespread Covid narratives with the following arguments:

The infection fatality rate of SARS-CoV-2 is 0.1 – 0.3%, which is not significantly different from some seasonal influenza epidemics.
Based on the peer-reviewed articles, at least 30 to 50% of the population has prior cross-immunity.
SARS-CoV-2 does discriminate. “The lethality of this virus, as is common with respiratory viruses, is 1000X less in young, healthy people than in elderly people with multiple comorbidities.”
Asymptomatic transmission is the “central conceptual deceit” used to “underscore almost every intrusion: masking, mass testing, lockdowns, border restrictions, school closures, even vaccine passports.”
PCR test is “the central operational deceit.”
Neither cloth nor surgical masks prevent respiratory virus transmission.
Lockdown is “epidemiologically irrelevant” and never works. “Only “stay home if you’re sick” works.“
“Covid-19 is the most treatable respiratory viral illness ever”. Safe and effective early treatments are available.
Based on the peer-reviewed articles, very few clinically significant reinfections of SARS-Cov-2 have ever been confirmed.
SARS-CoV-2 mutates slowly, and no variant is even close to escaping naturally-acquired immunity. However, there is the possibility that the so-called vaccines prevent the establishment of immune memory, leading to the repeated infections, which would be a form of acquired immune deficiency.
Safety is the top priority in a public health mass intervention, even more than effectiveness. “It was NEVER appropriate to attempt to “end the pandemic” with a novel technology vaccine.”
The four gene-based “vaccines” are toxic. The basic rules of selecting vaccine candidates are: 1) the agent has no inherent biological action (non-toxic); 2) the agent should be the genetically most stable part of the virus; 3) the agent should be most different from human proteins. Spike protein as the vaccine does not fit any of the above criteria.

Yes, the standard of excellence is "not getting caught."

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/just-a-reminder?s=r&source=patrick.net

these are the people whose covid responses the whole world threw away 100 years of evidence based pandemic guidelines to copy and cheer-lead for in 2020.

still feeling good about that decision?

He's right, the Chinese response was STUPID in the extreme, but his sentence construction is awful. Should be more like this:

"The whole world threw away 100 years of evidence-based pandemic guidelines to copy and cheer-lead for the covid responses of these people."

from collegemandates@unite.standupcalifornia.com

UCSD Is Sending Positive Tested Students To Quarantine Facilites

This is happening now

https://returntolearn.ucsd.edu/campus-guidelines/latest-updates/index.html?source=patrick.net


https://returntolearn.ucsd.edu/campus-guidelines/testing-and-screening/student-screening-and-testing/index.html?source=patrick.net#quarantine-isolation-housing

mell says

Fuck Hawaii!

Remain calm. They have been fully open for business since March.
Proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test won’t be needed for domestic travelers as of March 26 to enter the state, Gov. David Ige announced March 1. The quarantine requirement is also ending for travelers without vaccine proof or a negative test.

I got it a couple of weeks ago. It was the 5th or 6th worse cold I ever had.

It started with weakness. I had a date with the wife but cancelled. The next morning I had a splitting headache, tinnitus, burning eyes and no energy. Day two was almost as bad. I tested positive with an at home rapid test and was barred from work for the week. I slept in the guest room to protect my wife who has not got it, yet.

By day four I could have gone back to work with DayQuil, even though it no longer contains pseudoephedrine. I took the week off.

The Wuhan was different from any cold I ever had before. Mostly in my head but I did have congestion and diarrhea. Everything tasted bad.

In my opinion it was not worth shutting the world over this lab created disease. The perpetrators need to be prosecuted.

Heraclitusstudent says

Anyone wants to risk a bet on the eventual number of sick people? Dead people?

@Heraclitusstudent Are you still with us?

The Wuhan is a killer. Hope it did not get you.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/sars-2-surges-only-in-the-winter?s=r

SARS-2 surges only in the winter, goes endemic after two waves, is impervious to vaccination, and has become harmless with Omicron
A brief look at the Corona pandemic in Europe from the perspective of excess mortality

A lot of the Corona data we’re fed is essentially meaningless propaganda, and it has obscured crucial patterns. Here, I want to look at the only metric that really matters, namely excess mortality, to make some basic points about what has happened to us since 2020, and what is happening now.

To date, the pandemicists have counted five or six waves of infection. If you ignore the case statistics, though, and look at nothing but European excess mortality, you see a totally different picture. Corona only has one deadly season a year, namely the winter, and no European country has seen more than two winter mortality spikes. ...

It’s definitely Omicron, and not the vaccines, that stopped the deaths. The same pattern exists in Austria, which is slightly less heavily vaccinated than Germany; and also in Hungary and Slovenia, which are substantially less vaccinated. ...

In Europe, Corona kills people for two seasons, and then it becomes a nothingburger, no worse than seasonal influenza in a bad year. You see exactly the same picture in England – two mortality waves, and then it’s over...

In most countries, the two-wave mortality surge was over by the time the vaccines were rolled out; in central Europe, it was still raging, but it was Omicron and not the vaccines that stopped the deaths.

Patrick says

has become harmless with Omicron

I conjecture that it was never deadly unless you were old and/or sick. I suppose it was the Omicron variant I caught. I do believe it might have been deadly if I were weak or had other comorbidities.

Even the common cold can bump off people are are very weak.

My mother in law (The 92 year old woman we shut the country down for) got the Wuhan. She was sick for a couple of days but is improving now.

This disease killed the old AND sick, had to be both, or just really sick. Being jabbed could also result in your demise. The rest was political theatre.

When will the pandemic officially be over?

https://brownstone.org/articles/at-the-military-olympics-october-2019-wuhan-china-athletes-caught-covid/

This fits with everyone at my workplace getting the same "cold" on November 26th of 2019.

I remember it was very odd, with a metallic smell I had never experienced before.

Of course no one died, or even got all that sick.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/towards-a-general-theory-of-corona

Towards a General Theory of Corona and Why No Interventions Ever Seem to Work As Intended

Why have lockdowns and other containment measures proven so generally ineffective against SARS-2? What causes waves of infection to begin, and why do they collapse long before all the susceptible have been infected? What is the significance of asymptomatic infection? Why do the vaccines seem to boost infections for a few weeks after the first and third doses? Why did the SARS-2 spike protein begin to experience heavy selection pressure in the latter half of 2020, giving rise to variants like Alpha and Delta? How did these variants manage so completely to replace prior lineages?

Increasingly, I wonder whether all of these questions aren’t just facets of the same phenomenon – one that was first described by R. Edgar Hope Simpson in his fascinating book on The Transmission of Epidemic Influenza (New York, 1992). As I said on Twitter, Hope-Simpson is one of the only people to have attempted what might be called a zoology of viruses. That is to say, he tried to analyse and explain how influenza interacted with its human hosts more broadly, and not just how it infected cells and responded to antibodies. This is precisely where modern epidemiology and virology are most deficient, with extremely simplistic understandings of how viruses behave across the population. ...

Hope-Simpson therefore concluded that influenza transmission was a far more subtle matter, than sick people infecting the healthy.

He proposed instead a two-phase process:

1) Acute infection, lasting a week or two, during which influenza is only transmitted very rarely.

2) Latency, whereby a subset of recovered people fail to clear the virus completely, and instead become asymptomatic carriers for many months, until seasonal factors correlated with latitude cause them to become infectious once again, generally without any noticeable recurrence of illness.

Alpha might have spread faster than wild-type SARS-2, but how did it actually succeed in wiping out these wild-type strains? Hope-Simpson calls this the “disappearing act,” as it is also observed with successive strains of influenza, and is very hard to account for.

Hope-Simpson finds the beginning of an answer in old influenza A antibody experiments:

During the great influenza A epidemic of the 1950–51 season, Isaacs in London, England and independently Archetti and Horsfall in the United States made a seminal observation. Two minor variants of the A (H1N1) subtype, “Scandinavian” and “Liverpool,” were co-circulating in many parts of the world. In both laboratories it was discovered that if the Scandinavian strain were made to infect a fertilized chicken egg in the presence of Scandinavian antibody, the strain harvested a few days later would turn out to be Liverpool. Vice versa, an appropriate dose of homologous antibody induced Liverpool virus-infected eggs to yield a harvest of Scandinavian virus.

The findings have been repeated with other strains of influenza virus in many laboratories throughout the world. (p. 99)

Some influenza strains, in other words, emerge spontaneously, via mutation, as a response or solution to the antibodies generated against other strains. Thus Hope-Simpson held that selection for new influenza strains happened primarily in the latent carriers of the virus, after acute infection.

Over months, the virus that lurked in carrier tissues was able to train itself against their immune response. Various mutant strains arose, and when the carriers became infectious again, the most contagious of these mutants went on to infect other people as the new influenza strain. Because the set of optimal solutions was in every case limited, all the latent carriers infected with the prior strain ended up incubating the same set of successor strains.

Curious if someone has done research on no of dead people due to covid and how many were dem vs republican, vs independent