The Coronavirus Thread

[macdoc]

We do have a discernible source of "crap" spewing from SD. Nothing new there ....needs treatment.
Perhaps formaldehyde
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Long COVID made me an advocate for myself as symptoms were ignored with treatments hard to access

By Jess Davis
Posted 5h ago5 hours ago, updated 20m ago

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-19/ ... /101751410

[macdoc]

Covid Tests Are Free in the US Again
Hey, remember Covid? Not only is the virus very much still a thing, it is making the rounds again, along with all sorts of cold and flu strains. (Maybe you’ve noticed how it seems like everybody is sick right now.)

To abate some of that virus spread, the US government is again making Covid tests free for a limited time. Each household is limited to receiving four free tests, but hey, that’s better than nothing. You can order the tests from the official Covid.gov site, or call 1-800-232-0233.

[Scot Dutchy]

Collecting data is but of course you know all about it.

[Scot Dutchy]

Covid Tests Are Free in the US Again
Hey, remember Covid? Not only is the virus very much still a thing, it is making the rounds again, along with all sorts of cold and flu strains. (Maybe you’ve noticed how it seems like everybody is sick right now.)

To abate some of that virus spread, the US government is again making Covid tests free for a limited time. Each household is limited to receiving four free tests, but hey, that’s better than nothing. You can order the tests from the official Covid.gov site, or call 1-800-232-0233.

Well if dont vaccinate... Who is worried what the corrupt government of the USA does.

[Tero]

Health freedom actvists in Florida.
Where else?
https://www.kios.org/2022-12-21/in-flor ... r-hospital

[rainbow]

Who is suing these so-called "activists" for the million deaths they caused in the US?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... de-graphs/

[macdoc]

Waving stupidity like a merit badge

[Svartalf]

Waving stupidity like a merit badge

To them it is, since their trademark is more like evil, being merely stupid deserves virtue signalling

[pErvinalia]

Who is suing these so-called "activists" for the million deaths they caused in the US?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... de-graphs/

Fairy deaths.

[L'Emmerdeur]

A new book on the lab leak/bioweapon hypothesis. No doubt the author is currently making the rounds on some really important podcasts.

'Andrew Huff’s new book explains why even lab leak conspiracy theorists didn't afford him a higher profile'

The closest thing Huff has to evidence for his far-fetched claims is a now-familiar grant proposal to study bat coronaviruses, which Huff admits says nothing about gain of function. He claims that the proposal is actually written in code that only he can translate.

Lab leak boosters love to conjure secret codes from banal documents. What Huff doesn’t tell the reader is that none of the viruses that were studied under the proposal were closely related to SCV-2, which makes the proposal a red herring.

All lab-origin theories have the same fundamental problem, which Huff never acknowledges: There is no evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology ever possessed SCV-2, or any virus that could have been engineered to make SCV-2. A lab can’t leak what it hasn’t got.

Lab leak boosters love to kick up dust about allegedly lax safety protocols or risky research projects at the Wuhan Institute, but nobody has been able to show that any of these shortcomings could possibly have resulted in a leak of SCV-2.

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Huff baldly asserts that there is no evidence for a natural origin of SCV-2 whatsoever. In fact, there’s a large and growing body of evidence pointing to a natural origin. The fact that Huff refuses to acknowledge any of it further undermines his credibility.

By the time SARS-Cov-2 emerged in late 2019, nature had already spun off two deadly coronaviruses in less than two decades, and both of them jumped from bats to humans via an intermediate animal host.

The first such virus, SARS-Cov-1, jumped to humans from trafficked wild palm civets. This time around, scientists established a strong epidemiological link between the earliest known cases of covid and the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, which was one of only a handful of markets in the teeming metropolis of Wuhan that sold wild animals.

Samples taken from the market show that the SCV-2 virus was highly concentrated not only in stalls where wild animals were kept, but in the cages where they lived. Are we supposed to believe that some hapless peon at the WIV accidentally infected themselves and then went to hang out in the racoon dog cages?

Perhaps the most compelling evidence for a natural origin at the market comes from a reconstruction of SCV-2’s family tree, which shows that the virus jumped from animals to humans twice at the same market.

This is exactly what you’d expect to see if SCV-2 came to town in a cage of infected raccoon dogs or palm civets. It’s not what you’d expect to see if the virus escaped accidentally from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, on the opposite side of the Yangtze River.

Huff seems to be aware of this research because he spends a whole chapter speculating about how SCV-2 could have been released from labs twice. He speculates that the Wuhan Institute might have leaked the virus accidentally and then the Chinese government deliberately leaked it again to make it look like the virus naturally emerged from the market. Huff is tacitly admitting that it sure looks like the virus came from the market. His twist is that China set it up to look like that by releasing a bioweapon in their own country.

[Brian Peacock]

The real evidence is on Hunter Biden's laptop!

[Tero]

Fairy data from China

Second, China does not have much natural immunity from past Covid waves. Its lockdown policies have kept the virus out of the country, probably saving lives in the short term. But they have also left its population more vulnerable to the disease than those who have been repeatedly exposed to the virus, as this newsletter previously explained.

It’s a sharp contrast to the situation in many other countries. Consider the U.S.: Nearly all Americans 65 and older have gotten a Covid vaccine (although less than 37 percent have gotten the latest booster). Americans have also built up natural immunity from prior Covid waves, providing some protection. That combination has allowed American life to return to some sense of normalcy, without recent years’ levels of hospitalization and death.

Of course, the U.S.’s more lax approach has its own cost: Covid has killed nearly 1.1 million Americans since 2020, according to the C.D.C. China’s strategy has prevented the virus from causing that level of death since it first appeared in Wuhan in late 2019, according to the country’s available data.

NYT

[Brian Peacock]

Italy is the first Euro country to require on-arrival PCR tests for travellers from China.

[DRSB]

I was very sick two weeks ago, took the test and it was positive. Very unpleasant.

[Brian Peacock]

Well done for passing the test though!

Here's wishing you a swift return to normal and no lingering side effects.