Hong Kong learns the hard way: Virus gonna virus, and Zero Covid just makes it virus harder
alexberenson.substack.com
Zero Covid now equals more Covid later.
The clearest proof yet of the failure of lockdowns and Zero Covid as a long-term strategy against the coronavirus is now unfolding in Hong Kong. The territory is suffering the worst coronavirus epidemic anywhere since New York City in April 2020. For two weeks straight Hong Kong has had the equivalent of 10,000 American deaths a day.
The breakdown comes after almost two years when Hong Kong tried everything possible to keep Covid out, including aggressive contact tracing, border controls, and rules on gatherings. It damaged its economy, made residents miserable, and drove away expatriates.
And it succeeded. As of late 2021, Sars-Cov-2 had infected barely 1 out of every 1,000 Hong Kong residents, a peer-reviewed study revealed.
Now Sars-Cov-2 is catching up, all at once - even though Hong Kong is highly vaccinated. Since the beginning of March, the city, which has 7.4 million residents, has had over 3,500 Covid deaths. That figure would translate into over 150,000 Covid deaths in the United States - in two weeks.
When Zero Covid goes bad:
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The crisis in Hong Kong carries serious implications for China, which after two years of chasing zero Covid is seeing the start of an outbreak that it may not be able to control no matter how hard it locks down.
The spiraling death toll also proves - again - the limits of vaccines against Covid. More than 80 percent of adults in Hong Kong have received either mRNA or Chinese vaccines, though the city’s eldest residents are bizarrely enough the least likely to be vaccinated.
The crisis is unlikely to ease soon. After falling last week, new infections rose again Monday, to 26,000 - the equivalent of more than 1 million in the United States. Authorities predict thousands more deaths through April.
The death toll is especially stunning because the cases are essentially all Omicron, which is milder that earlier variants. Also, Hong Kong has almost no obesity, which trails only age as a risk factor for Covid. About 3 percent of adults in Hong Kong are obese, compared to 40 percent of Americans.
Further, physicians have the benefit of two years of treating Covid cases. They are no longer killing patients by putting them on ventilators too aggressively, a mistake that significantly increased the death total in New York in 2020.
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Western media outlets have written only sporadically about the crisis in Hong Kong, and when they have they have generally put the blame on the fact that elderly residents in the territory have much lower vaccination rates than younger adults.
Those stories are accurate.
The rates of vaccination in people over 80 in Hong Kong have been bizarrely low - only about 35 percent of have received two vaccine doses - and it is not clear why. Hong Kong is now an authoritarian state and under increasingly strict and direct Chinese control.
Along with its strict anti-Covid rules, the territory has reported arresting more than 10,000 people for anti-government protests and prosecuted at least 2,500 of them. So why Hong Kong’s public health authorities were unable or unwilling to vaccinate elderly people - who have successfully been the focus of vaccination everywhere else in the world - remains a mystery.
Now Hong Kong is struggling to vaccinate people 80 and over. But in the short run its efforts may only be making matters worse, because of the fact that the first Covid vaccine dose actually raises infection risk - an effect seen in Britain and elsewhere more than a year ago. Meanwhile, with so many people being infected so quickly, a relatively high number of vaccinated people are also dying.
Meanwhile, across the border in China, Covid infections are accelerating.
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The sudden surge may be both a medical and political problem for the People’s Republic.
Medical because China’s hospitals are less advanced than Hong Kong’s and may have even more trouble coping with an Omicron wave in a population that has no natural immunity to slow the spread. And political because China has leaned hard on its success against Covid as yet more evidence that freedom is overrated and Xi is the best Supreme Leader in the history of Supreme Leaders.
China has - inevitably - responded with another wave of lockdowns. But it may be about to learn that Zero Covid - like the fentanyl its factories export to the United States - is easy to start and hard to quit.
It is very important now to dominate the dialogue that the government utterly failed in its Covid response. Nothing they did worked; and much of it made things worse. The lockdowns, the masks, the social distancing, and the so-called "vaccines". It was all an abysmal failure, and must, under no circumstances, be repeated.
If this ground is lost, the lunatics will be back to masks in eight weeks.
The researchers of the MRNA technology told us that an auto immune response AFTER vaccination, if the virus was contracted, could lead to deaths, as it did in the animal studies. Alex, you need to research if the dying and vaccinated are having this happen. Also, are the unVaxxed elderly dying the most? My mom's 97 and lived to tell the tale of her mild Covid, and she's non Vaxed. Why is the "mild Omicron" killing people? I think it's killing those who are Vaxxed because of the inherent dangers?
You didn't address the biggest unspoken question that many of us have noticed and said would be an issue going forward: how many of the vaccinated are dying due to their natural immune system being unable to function correctly now that they took the jab and short circuited the body's natural response?
You don't understand why an authoritarian communist tyranny turns a blind eye and doesn't care if age 80+ year olds die? Because individual human life has no worth to communists and that government WANTS them to die because they are a drag on the collective. Really a no-brainer.
Something about this doesn't smell right. I mean the CCP pretty much controls Hong Kong now. Anyone else not exactly trusting this narrative being so closely tied with the CCP?
In other COVID news, I saw today that everyone's favorite veterinarian is now openly, one might say gleefully, talking about not only fourth vaccine shots, but annual COVID booster shots for everyone. When it comes to being fully vaccinated, you're only as good as your last booster.
For those of you with a little extra cash sitting around, ticker symbol PFE.
Omicron is a mild form of C19 with little death rate yet there are many body bags in Hong Kong? Something stinks here. Where's the Ivermectin/HCL? This story makes no sense. This looks like the opening for November C19 voting rules used in the fake 2020 election.
I would be wary of trusting any health data that comes out of China/Hong Kong. China has been manipulating its Covid data from the very start. The deaths in Hong Kong may not be real. We need to consider the possibility that China is using a covid "outbreak" as a pretext to shut down Hong Kong and stifle dissent. In addition, China wants to sustain the global lockdown policies and they need a new scare to keep the global lockdowns in place. And a Hong Kong "outbreak" might be just the thing to give the world another scare.
I highly recommend Michael Senger's book Snake Oil about the Chinese role in pushing the fear and global lockdowns. No understanding of the pandemic is complete without a deep understanding of China's role in promoting the pandemic and the global response. Twitter just banned Michael Senger if you want an endorsement.
So please be cautious when interpreting the new data coming out from Hong Kong. It may not be what it seems.
Evil PSYOP continues as planned. Meanwhile in Canada:
Canada Is a Partner in the “Known Traveller Digital Identity” Project, a World Economic Forum Initiative. If you wonder why the travel restrictions were not lifted, wonder no more.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal minority government is quietly fast-tracking labour code regulations requiring COVID-19 vaccination for all federal employees and federally regulated industries.
If you look at China's vaccine strategy, they state only ages 18 to 59. I am wondering if these are the people China deems healthy enough to vaccine? Tacitly acknowledging that vaccination carries risks... http://en.nhc.gov.cn/2021-01/08/c_82699.htm
My patent lawyer living in Hong Kong states the information is more propaganda. He states doctors are implying the death numbers are manipulated (His wife is a doctor). Alex, I'm not suggesting the points you've made are aren't relevant but rather question the authorities. Lastly when you posted weeks ago the end of COVID was upon us I cautioned noting more propaganda would find it's way to our inbox very soon. Please forgive grammatical errors I currently endure ocular issues.
I said this long ago, and I will say this again there is no such thing as zero covid period. This is a pipe dream for some who believe in rabbits foot science and fairytales. 2nd this is why the elite media is 24/7 WW3 look over there and not dealing with all of their lies for well over 2 years now. They are sending medical supplies over to Russia when we have had very serious medical supplies and medication shortages for more than 14 months. Nice country we live in when we hide the truth and let the lies continue 90% on Twitter was wrong and never seen nor treated a covid patient.
Alex, my wife and I recommend IVM, Vit D3, quercetin, Zinc and other immune boosting supplements that we have been on through the Omicron outbreak and the two years before. We circulate a lot in public without masks. No Covid yet! Viruses may virus but they don't like us.
I signed the Barrington Declaration as soon as it came out. It just seemed like common sense. That it became controversial shows how corrupt all governments and media were. When New Zealand lockdown and was hailed as 'a model' of what to do, I thought they were just delaying the inevitable. As Alex details so well, not only do the vaxxes not work, they seem to make things worse. Considering many didn't have a choice in getting the jab, it makes all that much worse.
Three things: 1) I strongly suspect a change in policy is a part, possibly a large part, of this apparent uptick in deaths;
2) This upsurge in deaths may also be related to the vaccination campaign, as most of these deaths recently have been occurring in elderly and in nursing homes where vaccination rates are low, but increasing. The correlation in time is strong and highly suggestive. Hong Kong's vaccination rate did increase in the last few months, in general, but not massively, and I suspect that what happened is that the vaccination of elderly increased dramtically and resulted in a lot of deaths that are being called Covid deaths. https://www.dropbox.com/s/y10np96xb3w4tia/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-14%20at%201.05.26%20PM.png?dl=0.
3) Last, and perhaps most important, as with all public Covid stats and particularly for deaths attributed to Covid, it's important to take all of this data with a huge grain of salt b/c it's so politicized in every country, is based on panic and government policies urging a "sweep it all in" kind of approach, and leads to massive exaggeration of the harm from the virus itself -- and equal diminution of the harm from the vaccines due to very different causal linkage standards being applied in the case of vaccine harms.
Vaccine mandates mostly effect those under 65. The US has high vaccines rates among elderly because most of them wanted the vaccine. Everyone I know who got the vaccine because of mandates was young and healthy. All the old, retired people I know who don't want the vaccine are untouched by mandates, and are still unvaccinated.
Ian Miller, author of "Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates," mentioned on Twitter recently the skyrocketing rates in many Asian countries; Thailand, Vietnam, S. Korea, etc. All very mask compliant societies, and highly vexxed.
This is beginning to sound as if Geert Vandenbosch's predictions are coming true. “Mass vaccination of those at minimal risk, with a vaccine that does not reduce transmission, is poor public health practice.” It’s ADE that is going to tip the balance in the wrong and irreversible direction. ADE in vaccinees will provide the virus with exceptional virulence and make it resemble Marek in unvaccinated…this means natural selection against all those whose innate immunity got messed up. (GVB Dec 19 2021)
I'm no epidemiologist but I was telling my family that was all about the lockdowns early on that we would come out of this with worse immune systems if we hid indoors forever and would really be sick.
So what’s next? I think I saw a report of something called deltacron in commiefornia. Lookout! the new shutdowns are a coming. To much freedoms leads to mass infections. And of course you won’t have natural antibodies and the jab will save us all. Until it doesn’t.
Rather strange that Hong Kong should be suffering such high Omicron death numbers when the variant was considered a low level lethality in the rest of the world. And I don't think we can cite as a cause the relatively low level of innoculation of the elderly there, as we have observed that Covid injections have not performed against Omicron any better than if no treatment was given.
I am reminded by the words of Dr Vanden Bossche a year ago who stressed that one of the drawbacks of lockdowns in combatting Covid is that they prevent the "exercise" the immune system needs to work properly, much like other human body systems. A poorly exercised immune system reacts slowly to invaders attacking its body, where as an immune system that frequently exercises against an array of different invaders works faster and more effectively. This is not a novel concept by any means, its why we want young children to be exposed to germs at rather young ages, so as to develop the flexibility of an adaptive immune response.
Indeed, we have seen in places that imposed harsh lockdowns that once the lockdowns were lifted, there was an inevitable spike in new cases and deaths. Britain was a good example of this phenomenon last summer when they relaxed their lockdown regimen. And of course, in a population where everyone's immune systems slowly came out of hibernation and were called into action, the most vulnerable suffered the most when confronted by pathogens their immune systems were not prepared to tackle. The same happened in Australia at the turn of the past year as they relaxed their draconian and long term lockdowns, new cases spiked by 7 times what they had been.
So if there is anything to be learned from the present Covid problems in Hong Kong which apparently are spreading to the immediate northern provinces of China, its another indictment of the foolish government lockdown policies. People cannot run nor hide from airborne pathogens, and the more government tries to reduce transmission and death from pathogens by promoting hiding from them, the higher the cost in terms of new cases and death that will be suffered once the lockdowns are relaxed.
What Hong Kong is proving - as if anymore proof is requireded at thios point - is that science always wins, even over Grand High Exalted Mystic Leaders and their allegedly infallible dictates.
I don't understand. Omicron is killing people? I'm fully UNVACCINATED and just had Omicron, whole family did and whilst I had perhaps 36 hours of bed ridden rankness, this was far from any killer disease. Norovirus ten fold worse. Twenty-fold. Make that one hundred fold worse.
So what's killing people in Hong Kong and why is Shenzhen shut down?
With the Hong Kong life expectancy the highest in the world, so lots of octogenarians.
Younger cohorts are disproportionally highly vaccinated, counter-intuitively. Hence high mortality among them, it seems, compared to other countries. More to come?
Perhaps obesity will be less of a clear co-morbidity in the US, too? That is, perhaps we have lots of fat people dying because so much of our population is fat to begin with, and age will remain the biggest risk factor for reasons of less robust immune responses in the elderly.
Is it hitting so hard because it's all at once and overwhelming and there are few people with natural immunity around to act as "fire breaks" so it just races through the population?
With all the vaxed having circulating spike proteins, of course they will test positive! Conveniently creating another "wave" excusing, yet another booster..... and on and on, it goes..
My sarcasm plummets to new depths....... . Let's see......... having worked the masses into a frenzy, we'll bang out these mRNA vaccines into as many arms as possible. No worries about compliance for most, given the sheer terror created, despite a greater than 99.8% survival rate (see Prof John Ioannidis) Outcomes - with short, medium and long term unknown. With no known "off" switch — are we not then made into perpetual walking, talking spike protein factories ??? How does that possibly help when we KNEW that the TOXIC part of the virus was the spike protein?
Immune systems are not meant to be all "lights and sirens" 24 hours a day.....Immunity exhaustion kicks in. Oh sick again are we? Really? Here's another booster for you......... and another, and another, and another..........
South Korea an example of a highly mask compliant and vaccine compliant nation … yet now cases are skyrocketing . Vaxxholes don’t have an answer when I ask them to explain that.
It is very important now to dominate the dialogue that the government utterly failed in its Covid response. Nothing they did worked; and much of it made things worse. The lockdowns, the masks, the social distancing, and the so-called "vaccines". It was all an abysmal failure, and must, under no circumstances, be repeated.
If this ground is lost, the lunatics will be back to masks in eight weeks.
The researchers of the MRNA technology told us that an auto immune response AFTER vaccination, if the virus was contracted, could lead to deaths, as it did in the animal studies. Alex, you need to research if the dying and vaccinated are having this happen. Also, are the unVaxxed elderly dying the most? My mom's 97 and lived to tell the tale of her mild Covid, and she's non Vaxed. Why is the "mild Omicron" killing people? I think it's killing those who are Vaxxed because of the inherent dangers?
You didn't address the biggest unspoken question that many of us have noticed and said would be an issue going forward: how many of the vaccinated are dying due to their natural immune system being unable to function correctly now that they took the jab and short circuited the body's natural response?
The only time my wife and I socially distance is when we see someone in a mask.
You don't understand why an authoritarian communist tyranny turns a blind eye and doesn't care if age 80+ year olds die? Because individual human life has no worth to communists and that government WANTS them to die because they are a drag on the collective. Really a no-brainer.
# 1 Natural Immunity wins
# 2 proof vaccine doesn’t help transmissions
#3 When government is your god your god is deaf, dumb and blind
Something about this doesn't smell right. I mean the CCP pretty much controls Hong Kong now. Anyone else not exactly trusting this narrative being so closely tied with the CCP?
They still think more lockdowns will help?
What's that definition of insanity again?...
Damn. You went hard with that last statement about fentanyl.
Vaccine Enhanced Disease
They should’ve been using ivermectin!
https://youtu.be/Gz4adJXLHgA
Would be great to see rates by vax/unvax and by age. The mortality rates here seem higher than prior experience with omicron
In other COVID news, I saw today that everyone's favorite veterinarian is now openly, one might say gleefully, talking about not only fourth vaccine shots, but annual COVID booster shots for everyone. When it comes to being fully vaccinated, you're only as good as your last booster.
For those of you with a little extra cash sitting around, ticker symbol PFE.
I wonder if people are dropping dead in the streets like last time.
There are vax cards coming up. This has not gone away. Pfizer just said a 4th booster is absolutely necessary.
Damn shame whoever complies to this shit again.
Omicron is a mild form of C19 with little death rate yet there are many body bags in Hong Kong? Something stinks here. Where's the Ivermectin/HCL? This story makes no sense. This looks like the opening for November C19 voting rules used in the fake 2020 election.
I would be wary of trusting any health data that comes out of China/Hong Kong. China has been manipulating its Covid data from the very start. The deaths in Hong Kong may not be real. We need to consider the possibility that China is using a covid "outbreak" as a pretext to shut down Hong Kong and stifle dissent. In addition, China wants to sustain the global lockdown policies and they need a new scare to keep the global lockdowns in place. And a Hong Kong "outbreak" might be just the thing to give the world another scare.
I highly recommend Michael Senger's book Snake Oil about the Chinese role in pushing the fear and global lockdowns. No understanding of the pandemic is complete without a deep understanding of China's role in promoting the pandemic and the global response. Twitter just banned Michael Senger if you want an endorsement.
So please be cautious when interpreting the new data coming out from Hong Kong. It may not be what it seems.
Many bureaucrats & politicians revealed a Kathy Bates from Misery vibe.
Evil PSYOP continues as planned. Meanwhile in Canada:
Canada Is a Partner in the “Known Traveller Digital Identity” Project, a World Economic Forum Initiative. If you wonder why the travel restrictions were not lifted, wonder no more.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/canada-is-a-partner-in-the-known
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal minority government is quietly fast-tracking labour code regulations requiring COVID-19 vaccination for all federal employees and federally regulated industries.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/national-regulations-requiring-vaccination
If you look at China's vaccine strategy, they state only ages 18 to 59. I am wondering if these are the people China deems healthy enough to vaccine? Tacitly acknowledging that vaccination carries risks... http://en.nhc.gov.cn/2021-01/08/c_82699.htm
My patent lawyer living in Hong Kong states the information is more propaganda. He states doctors are implying the death numbers are manipulated (His wife is a doctor). Alex, I'm not suggesting the points you've made are aren't relevant but rather question the authorities. Lastly when you posted weeks ago the end of COVID was upon us I cautioned noting more propaganda would find it's way to our inbox very soon. Please forgive grammatical errors I currently endure ocular issues.
I said this long ago, and I will say this again there is no such thing as zero covid period. This is a pipe dream for some who believe in rabbits foot science and fairytales. 2nd this is why the elite media is 24/7 WW3 look over there and not dealing with all of their lies for well over 2 years now. They are sending medical supplies over to Russia when we have had very serious medical supplies and medication shortages for more than 14 months. Nice country we live in when we hide the truth and let the lies continue 90% on Twitter was wrong and never seen nor treated a covid patient.
Ya know this might interrupt the supply chain a bit.
Alex, my wife and I recommend IVM, Vit D3, quercetin, Zinc and other immune boosting supplements that we have been on through the Omicron outbreak and the two years before. We circulate a lot in public without masks. No Covid yet! Viruses may virus but they don't like us.
I signed the Barrington Declaration as soon as it came out. It just seemed like common sense. That it became controversial shows how corrupt all governments and media were. When New Zealand lockdown and was hailed as 'a model' of what to do, I thought they were just delaying the inevitable. As Alex details so well, not only do the vaxxes not work, they seem to make things worse. Considering many didn't have a choice in getting the jab, it makes all that much worse.
Three things: 1) I strongly suspect a change in policy is a part, possibly a large part, of this apparent uptick in deaths;
2) This upsurge in deaths may also be related to the vaccination campaign, as most of these deaths recently have been occurring in elderly and in nursing homes where vaccination rates are low, but increasing. The correlation in time is strong and highly suggestive. Hong Kong's vaccination rate did increase in the last few months, in general, but not massively, and I suspect that what happened is that the vaccination of elderly increased dramtically and resulted in a lot of deaths that are being called Covid deaths. https://www.dropbox.com/s/y10np96xb3w4tia/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-14%20at%201.05.26%20PM.png?dl=0.
In fact, I just looked a bit deeper and indeed the vaccination rate among 70 and older did go up far faster than the general population in Hong Kong in the last few months. Correlation is not causation but correlation close in time is highly suggestive of causation. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vt5vyg8vp2uvb40/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-14%20at%201.08.56%20PM.png?dl=0
3) Last, and perhaps most important, as with all public Covid stats and particularly for deaths attributed to Covid, it's important to take all of this data with a huge grain of salt b/c it's so politicized in every country, is based on panic and government policies urging a "sweep it all in" kind of approach, and leads to massive exaggeration of the harm from the virus itself -- and equal diminution of the harm from the vaccines due to very different causal linkage standards being applied in the case of vaccine harms.
Vaccine mandates mostly effect those under 65. The US has high vaccines rates among elderly because most of them wanted the vaccine. Everyone I know who got the vaccine because of mandates was young and healthy. All the old, retired people I know who don't want the vaccine are untouched by mandates, and are still unvaccinated.
Perhaps the elderly Chinese are least vaxxed because they have the most memories of a catastrophically inept government.
Perth, Australia is also finding out the hard way.
Kept borders etc closed for far longer than other states, premier McGowan talked tough and now they’re experiencing an explosion in cases.
Was it worth it? I think not.
Don’t care about any Covid News as it’s all BS. How are you even reporting cases when the testing is so flawed?
Ian Miller, author of "Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates," mentioned on Twitter recently the skyrocketing rates in many Asian countries; Thailand, Vietnam, S. Korea, etc. All very mask compliant societies, and highly vexxed.
https://twitter.com/ianmSC
haha, these deaths are being CAUSED by the vaxx cult and their precious "vaccine" that doesn't work
I see another wave coming:(
This is beginning to sound as if Geert Vandenbosch's predictions are coming true. “Mass vaccination of those at minimal risk, with a vaccine that does not reduce transmission, is poor public health practice.” It’s ADE that is going to tip the balance in the wrong and irreversible direction. ADE in vaccinees will provide the virus with exceptional virulence and make it resemble Marek in unvaccinated…this means natural selection against all those whose innate immunity got messed up. (GVB Dec 19 2021)
I'm no epidemiologist but I was telling my family that was all about the lockdowns early on that we would come out of this with worse immune systems if we hid indoors forever and would really be sick.
Nelly Korda, World’s #2 LPGA Golfer, Goes to Emergency Room Due to Blood Clot
https://welovetrump.com/2022/03/14/nelly-korda-worlds-2-lpga-golfer-goes-to-emergency-room-due-to-blood-clot/
So what’s next? I think I saw a report of something called deltacron in commiefornia. Lookout! the new shutdowns are a coming. To much freedoms leads to mass infections. And of course you won’t have natural antibodies and the jab will save us all. Until it doesn’t.
Rather strange that Hong Kong should be suffering such high Omicron death numbers when the variant was considered a low level lethality in the rest of the world. And I don't think we can cite as a cause the relatively low level of innoculation of the elderly there, as we have observed that Covid injections have not performed against Omicron any better than if no treatment was given.
I am reminded by the words of Dr Vanden Bossche a year ago who stressed that one of the drawbacks of lockdowns in combatting Covid is that they prevent the "exercise" the immune system needs to work properly, much like other human body systems. A poorly exercised immune system reacts slowly to invaders attacking its body, where as an immune system that frequently exercises against an array of different invaders works faster and more effectively. This is not a novel concept by any means, its why we want young children to be exposed to germs at rather young ages, so as to develop the flexibility of an adaptive immune response.
Indeed, we have seen in places that imposed harsh lockdowns that once the lockdowns were lifted, there was an inevitable spike in new cases and deaths. Britain was a good example of this phenomenon last summer when they relaxed their lockdown regimen. And of course, in a population where everyone's immune systems slowly came out of hibernation and were called into action, the most vulnerable suffered the most when confronted by pathogens their immune systems were not prepared to tackle. The same happened in Australia at the turn of the past year as they relaxed their draconian and long term lockdowns, new cases spiked by 7 times what they had been.
So if there is anything to be learned from the present Covid problems in Hong Kong which apparently are spreading to the immediate northern provinces of China, its another indictment of the foolish government lockdown policies. People cannot run nor hide from airborne pathogens, and the more government tries to reduce transmission and death from pathogens by promoting hiding from them, the higher the cost in terms of new cases and death that will be suffered once the lockdowns are relaxed.
What Hong Kong is proving - as if anymore proof is requireded at thios point - is that science always wins, even over Grand High Exalted Mystic Leaders and their allegedly infallible dictates.
I don't understand. Omicron is killing people? I'm fully UNVACCINATED and just had Omicron, whole family did and whilst I had perhaps 36 hours of bed ridden rankness, this was far from any killer disease. Norovirus ten fold worse. Twenty-fold. Make that one hundred fold worse.
So what's killing people in Hong Kong and why is Shenzhen shut down?
When did Ron Desantis move to Hong Kong?
Do we know deaths by age? Who's dying? I could find the overall stats:
Death rate by gender and age group, Hong Kong SAR, 2019
(number of registered deaths per 100 000 population of respective sex and age group)
Age group Male Female
14 and below 18.2 13.7
15-24 27.4 15.5
25-34 51.1 20.5
35-44 107.7 47.3
45-54 269.6 144.3
55-64 617.1 308.2
65-74 1498.2 689.8
75 and above 6323.2 4785.3
Sources: Census and Statistics Department, Department of Health
Kinda a lot of deaths in younger age cohorts, even in 14- age bracket. Wow!
Just found out the reason (https://todayuknews.com/economy/hong-kongs-elderly-vaccine-refuseniks-unmoved-by-soaring-covid-deaths/). Vaccination rates by age group in Hong Kong:
12-19 65%
20-29 81%
30-39 82%
40-49 89%
50-59 84%
60-69 73%
70-79 59%
80+ 29%
With the Hong Kong life expectancy the highest in the world, so lots of octogenarians.
Younger cohorts are disproportionally highly vaccinated, counter-intuitively. Hence high mortality among them, it seems, compared to other countries. More to come?
Perhaps obesity will be less of a clear co-morbidity in the US, too? That is, perhaps we have lots of fat people dying because so much of our population is fat to begin with, and age will remain the biggest risk factor for reasons of less robust immune responses in the elderly.
China sucks.
Is it hitting so hard because it's all at once and overwhelming and there are few people with natural immunity around to act as "fire breaks" so it just races through the population?
The lockdowns are deadly.
With all the vaxed having circulating spike proteins, of course they will test positive! Conveniently creating another "wave" excusing, yet another booster..... and on and on, it goes..
My sarcasm plummets to new depths....... . Let's see......... having worked the masses into a frenzy, we'll bang out these mRNA vaccines into as many arms as possible. No worries about compliance for most, given the sheer terror created, despite a greater than 99.8% survival rate (see Prof John Ioannidis) Outcomes - with short, medium and long term unknown. With no known "off" switch — are we not then made into perpetual walking, talking spike protein factories ??? How does that possibly help when we KNEW that the TOXIC part of the virus was the spike protein?
Immune systems are not meant to be all "lights and sirens" 24 hours a day.....Immunity exhaustion kicks in. Oh sick again are we? Really? Here's another booster for you......... and another, and another, and another..........
What could possibly go wrong?
Something smells funny about this.
I wonder if mass vaccinations have made things a bit worse than they would have been otherwise.
Would like to see how they come up with a “vaccine” for a variant that has yet to emerge.
South Korea an example of a highly mask compliant and vaccine compliant nation … yet now cases are skyrocketing . Vaxxholes don’t have an answer when I ask them to explain that.