"The most restrictive non‐pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for controlling the spread of COVID‐19 are mandatory stay‐at‐home and business closures..we do not find significant benefits on case growth of more restrictive NPIs."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13484
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13484
Wiley Online Library
Assessing mandatory stay‐at‐home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID‐19
Background and Aims
The most restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for controlling the spread of COVID-19 are mandatory stay-at-home and business closures. Given the consequences of the...
The most restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for controlling the spread of COVID-19 are mandatory stay-at-home and business closures. Given the consequences of the...
Chinese health experts called on Norway and other countries to suspend the use of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by companies such as Pfizer, especially among elderly people, due to the vaccines' safety uncertainties following the deaths of 23 elderly Norwegian people who received the vaccine.
The new mRNA vaccine was developed in haste and had never been used on a large scale for the prevention of infectious disease, and its safety had not been confirmed for large-scale use in humans, a Chinese immunologist said.
The death incidents in Norway also proved that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines' efficacy was not as good as expected, experts said.
As of Thursday, Norway has reported 23 deaths in connection with vaccination.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212915.shtml
The new mRNA vaccine was developed in haste and had never been used on a large scale for the prevention of infectious disease, and its safety had not been confirmed for large-scale use in humans, a Chinese immunologist said.
The death incidents in Norway also proved that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines' efficacy was not as good as expected, experts said.
As of Thursday, Norway has reported 23 deaths in connection with vaccination.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212915.shtml
www.globaltimes.cn
Chinese health experts call to suspend Pfizer's mRNA vaccine for elderly after Norwegian deaths
Chinese health experts called on Norway and other countries to suspend the use of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by companies such as Pfizer, especially among elderly people, due to the vaccines' safety uncertainties following the deaths of 23 elderly…
COVID lockdowns have no clear benefit vs other voluntary measures, international study shows
https://www.newsweek.com/covid-lockdowns-have-no-clear-benefit-vs-other-voluntary-measures-international-study-shows-1561656
https://www.newsweek.com/covid-lockdowns-have-no-clear-benefit-vs-other-voluntary-measures-international-study-shows-1561656
Newsweek
COVID Closures May Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures: Study
The peer reviewed study, which was conducted by a group of Stanford researchers and published in the Wiley Online Library on January 5, analyzed coronavirus case growth in 10 countries in early 2020.
Swiss campaigners have triggered a referendum to strip the government of new legal powers to impose lockdowns and curtail public life
https://ft.com/content/7eb3feec-1b8d-4637-b6e1-cf072b379216
https://ft.com/content/7eb3feec-1b8d-4637-b6e1-cf072b379216
Ft
Swiss to vote in referendum on government’s Covid restrictions
Bern’s power to impose lockdowns increasingly seen at odds with the rights of individuals
FIRST FACE MASK DISCRIMINATION CASE NETS £7,000
on 08 December 2020
A disabled woman assisted by Kester Disability Rights has been paid £7,000 in compensation by a service provider who refused her access to a service because she was unable to wear a face mask.
The pay-out was achieved through negotiation as there was no dispute that access had been denied, or that the Claimant had a disability exemption. The only thing to be agreed was the amount of compensation, not whether it was due or not.
Refusing access to people unable to wear face coverings due to disability is direct discimination - no different to denying access to a black or gay person for example.
Disabled people are now routinely harassed in public for not wearing face coverings - frequently given the impression that confidential medical information must be publicly disclosed to justify exemption. The fact that shops and hospitality businesses routinely display "no mask no entry" signs shows how deeply disablist attitudes are embedded in society. If premises displayed "no blacks" or "no gays" notices there would be outrage.
Fortunately the official Government position does not endorse any of this as nobody exempt from wearing a mask is expected to go around justifying themselves. Saying "I'm exempt" is enough. If the response to that can be proved to be discriminatory then compensation is due.
https://disabilityrights.org.uk/first-face-mask-discrimination-case-nets-7-000
on 08 December 2020
A disabled woman assisted by Kester Disability Rights has been paid £7,000 in compensation by a service provider who refused her access to a service because she was unable to wear a face mask.
The pay-out was achieved through negotiation as there was no dispute that access had been denied, or that the Claimant had a disability exemption. The only thing to be agreed was the amount of compensation, not whether it was due or not.
Refusing access to people unable to wear face coverings due to disability is direct discimination - no different to denying access to a black or gay person for example.
Disabled people are now routinely harassed in public for not wearing face coverings - frequently given the impression that confidential medical information must be publicly disclosed to justify exemption. The fact that shops and hospitality businesses routinely display "no mask no entry" signs shows how deeply disablist attitudes are embedded in society. If premises displayed "no blacks" or "no gays" notices there would be outrage.
Fortunately the official Government position does not endorse any of this as nobody exempt from wearing a mask is expected to go around justifying themselves. Saying "I'm exempt" is enough. If the response to that can be proved to be discriminatory then compensation is due.
https://disabilityrights.org.uk/first-face-mask-discrimination-case-nets-7-000
Kester Disability Rights - Manchester
First face mask discrimination case nets £7,000 - News - Kester Disability Rights
A disabled woman assisted by Kester Disability Rights has been paid £7,000 in compensation by a service provider who refused her access to a service because she was unable to wear a face mask. The pay-out was achieved through negotiation as there was...
The problem with face masks:
1 Masks break up larger aerosols into smaller aerosols: the nebulization effect
2 Smaller aerosols float in air for longest, larger aerosols drop due to gravity, even increase in size & drop quicker in humid conditions
3 Smaller aerosols get deeper into the lungs, leading to more severe infection & higher mortality
4 Masks also reduce oxygen concentration by trapping some CO2 released through breathing
1 Masks break up larger aerosols into smaller aerosols: the nebulization effect
2 Smaller aerosols float in air for longest, larger aerosols drop due to gravity, even increase in size & drop quicker in humid conditions
3 Smaller aerosols get deeper into the lungs, leading to more severe infection & higher mortality
4 Masks also reduce oxygen concentration by trapping some CO2 released through breathing
Doctors in Norway have been told to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer BioNTec vaccine against #COVID19, following the deaths of 23 patients shortly after receiving the vaccine
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n149?
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n149?
The BMJ
Covid-19: Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients after vaccination
Doctors in Norway have been told to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer BioNTec vaccine against covid-19, following the deaths of 23 patients shortly after receiving the vaccine.
“It may be a coincidence…
“It may be a coincidence…
Dostoevsky, Crime & Punishment, 1866:
"When he [Raskolnikov] was better, he remembered the dreams he had had while he was feverish and delirious. He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible strange new plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia. Everyone was to be destroyed except a few chosen ones. Some sort of new microbe was attacking people’s bodies, but these microbes were endowed with intelligence and will. Men attacked by them became instantly furious and mad. But never had men considered themselves so intellectual and so completely in possession of the truth as these sufferers, never had they considered their decisions, their scientific conclusions, their moral convictions so infallible. Whole villages, whole towns and peoples were driven mad by the infection. Everyone was excited and did not understand one another. Each thought that he alone had the truth and was wretched looking at the others, beat himself on the breast, wept, and wrung his hands. They did not know how to judge and could not agree what to consider evil and what good; they did not know who to blame, who to justify….The alarm bells kept ringing all day long in the towns; men rushed together, but why they were summoned and who was summoning them no one knew….
The plague spread and moved further and further. Only a few men could be saved in the whole world. They were a pure chosen people, destined to found a new race and a new life, to renew and purify the earth, but no one had seen these men, no one had heard their words and their voices.”
https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/17/raskolnikovs-dream-come-true/
"When he [Raskolnikov] was better, he remembered the dreams he had had while he was feverish and delirious. He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible strange new plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia. Everyone was to be destroyed except a few chosen ones. Some sort of new microbe was attacking people’s bodies, but these microbes were endowed with intelligence and will. Men attacked by them became instantly furious and mad. But never had men considered themselves so intellectual and so completely in possession of the truth as these sufferers, never had they considered their decisions, their scientific conclusions, their moral convictions so infallible. Whole villages, whole towns and peoples were driven mad by the infection. Everyone was excited and did not understand one another. Each thought that he alone had the truth and was wretched looking at the others, beat himself on the breast, wept, and wrung his hands. They did not know how to judge and could not agree what to consider evil and what good; they did not know who to blame, who to justify….The alarm bells kept ringing all day long in the towns; men rushed together, but why they were summoned and who was summoning them no one knew….
The plague spread and moved further and further. Only a few men could be saved in the whole world. They were a pure chosen people, destined to found a new race and a new life, to renew and purify the earth, but no one had seen these men, no one had heard their words and their voices.”
https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/17/raskolnikovs-dream-come-true/
OffGuardian
Raskolnikov’s Dream Come True
Edward Curtin Something is happening here, But you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones? Bob Dylan, Ballad of A Thin Man It’s hard… Life today seems like a dream, doesn’t it? Surreal to …
FACT: Wearing masks increases severity of infection in others when a Covid19 infected person breathes through them compared to no mask due to the nebulization effect. Larger aerosols deposit in upper throat, nose, & tracheobronchial region of the lung. Medium-sized aerosols mostly deposit in small airways further down. The really small aerosols <1 μm can penetrate all the way to the alveoli - the basic units for gas exchange.
Many on left still think UK govt wanted to pursue ‘herd immunity’. But the contract for the lockdown advertising was signed on 2nd March ‘20! That would have followed weeks of planning. Decision to lockdown prob taken in Jan: everything else was theatre.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/504818-covid19-reverse-psychology-johnson/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/504818-covid19-reverse-psychology-johnson/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
RT International
Covid-19 reverse psychology: Did Johnson play the left by ‘pretending’ he didn’t want a lockdown so it could get public support?…
The ‘liberal-left’ narrative that the UK Tory government wanted to pursue Covid-19 ‘herd immunity’ instead of a lockdown has been shattered by official filings which appears to show the opposite was the case.
Medicine as religion:
It is significant that the theologians who set its strategy are the representatives of a science, virology, that does not have its own place, but is situated at the border between biology and medicine.
Epidemic, as the etymology of the term suggests (demos is in Greek the people as a political body and POLEMOS EPIDEMIOS is in Homer the name for CIVIL WAR) is above all a political concept"
Giorgio Agamben, Medicine as Religion
https://itself.blog/2020/05/02/giorgio-agamben-medicine-as-religion/
It is significant that the theologians who set its strategy are the representatives of a science, virology, that does not have its own place, but is situated at the border between biology and medicine.
Epidemic, as the etymology of the term suggests (demos is in Greek the people as a political body and POLEMOS EPIDEMIOS is in Homer the name for CIVIL WAR) is above all a political concept"
Giorgio Agamben, Medicine as Religion
https://itself.blog/2020/05/02/giorgio-agamben-medicine-as-religion/
An und für sich
Giorgio Agamben: Medicine as Religion
[Translator’s note: Agamben has asked me to translate his latest reflection on the coronavirus crisis.] That science has become the religion of our time, that in which people believe they bel…
The Covid Cult is relentless in its attempts to unseat & replace Christianity in the UK: "Covid jabs are accompanied by live organ music at Salisbury Cathedral"
https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/16/covid-jabs-are-accompanied-by-live-organ-music-at-salisbury-cathedral-13915230/
https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/16/covid-jabs-are-accompanied-by-live-organ-music-at-salisbury-cathedral-13915230/
Metro
Covid jabs are accompanied by live organ music at Salisbury Cathedral
An RAF veteran, 95, was one of 1,000 over 80s who received their jab today.
THE COVID CULT: "Cultic practice is no longer free and voluntary, exposed only to sanctions of a spiritual order, but must be rendered normatively obligatory."
Giorgio Agamben
https://itself.blog/2020/05/02/giorgio-agamben-medicine-as-religion/
Giorgio Agamben
https://itself.blog/2020/05/02/giorgio-agamben-medicine-as-religion/
As officials talk of tighter lockdown, Italian restaurants open their doors in protest (VIDEOS)
https://www.rt.com/news/512744-italy-restaurants-protest-lockdown/
https://www.rt.com/news/512744-italy-restaurants-protest-lockdown/
RT
As officials talk of tighter lockdown, Italian restaurants open their doors in protest (VIDEOS)
Though much of Italy remains under strict coronavirus restrictions, restaurants and bars have opened their doors in protest. Customers drank, ate, sang, and in one viral video, apparently booted the police back out the door.