Posted on 01/03/2023 3:25:27 AM PST by blueplum
” what variant is predominant in PRC?”
the last article I read says it’s BF.7 - an omnicron variant that has pretty good immunity evasion against both vaccinated and acquired immunity.
It’s been around since 2021, but hasn’t really grabbed a foothold in the northern hem. Entered China allegedly thru Mongolia and has spread rapidly. BF.7 accounts for about 5% of the cases in the US.’
The US is focused on a different omnicron variant XBB.1.5 - now accounting for about 75% of the cases in the northeast region: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/health/covid-variant-xbb-explainer/index.html
They don’t all die and they don’t stay sick forever and maybe it’s the Chinese Communist Party’s vaccine that’s doing this
It seems China is suffering from it’s own biological war fare mistake and now wants the rest of the world to suffer like it did with their first Covid-119 release.
Don’t a much larger percentage of Chinese people smoke?
This could be a contributing factor. Just like asthma or other respiratory issues make covid worse.
If 70% of the population is infected, why are we messing around with covid tests? There should be a global ban on all flights out of China until they are out of the woods. They started this whole pandemic thing and now, apparently, they are trying to resurrect it.
Hong Kong had a wave of Covid last February with 1,200,000 cases and about 9500 deaths. That’s about a 0.8% mortality rate.
During the summer, there were about 600,000 more cases but only another 2000 deaths, for a 0.3% mortality rate.
It seems likely that the CCP has data to substantiate that they will lose a few million people to Covid before vaccines and herd immunity take effect, but that they will mainly be elderly and sickly people.
They probably judge that this will be accepted by the people, since they were becoming very opposed to lockdowns and other public health measures.
China has admitted their ‘death’ numbers are only those who die from covid pneumonia. They’re not counting sepsis, heart or renal failures.
Herd immunity works good against a stable virus or bacteria. One that’s constantly mutating, not so good, if achievable at all. Consider the flu - around every year for centuries, yet lots of people catch it every year because the flu strains keep changing
What goes around comes around.
Yes, exactly. Please continue to spread this truth.
I doubt that Covid will be as variable as the flu.
The introduction of new flu viruses from animal reservoirs such as swine and birds happens quite frequently.
New coronaviruses from bats and other hosts seem less frequent.
I suppose it depends on what strain you contract. I had it in March and April of 2020 and it took me weeks to get over it and my lungs burned for months. It was definitely worse than any cold for me.
See: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
Worldometer is even further flatfooted. Less than JHU.
See: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
So the question is one of "outbreaks" versus deaths. Time will tell, even though the Communists won't,
One also notes that Washington's IMHE projections show -- as they have for a couple of years now -- "tomorrows" being awful, but yesterday not so bad, Chinese style, excepting their site's statement "After December 16, 2022, IHME will pause its COVID-19 modeling for the foreseeable future." Who to believe?
See: https://covid19.healthdata.org/china?view=cumulative-deaths&tab=trend
LOL. China killing itself with it’s own bioweapon. Karma sometimes hits back pretty hard and fast.
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