Coronavirus / COVID-19

[Montmorency]

Because Hong Kong didn't prioritize vaccinating its elderly until just now (see earlier post), thousands will die this year, probably more than ten thousand. Almost all Hong Kong Covid deaths have been over the past month.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Wow.

Almost a 'Logan's Run' effect.

[Montmorency]

More on China, specifically Hong Kong, squandering the immense advantage of two years. China's ongoing surge is the worst in 25 months (with the first recorded Covid deaths in over a year), and Hong Kong has recorded 99% of its Covid deaths in the past 5 weeks.

[Shaka_Khan]

This thread has historical value - reminding us how we thought about this pandemic during the early phase when this virus was new to us. I had forgotten that I started this thread. I had also forgotten that a few people were annoyed at my warning. I can see why. Western mainstream media hadn't mentioned the outbreak when I started this thread. The South China Morning Post mentioned it in January 2020, but claimed that it would be over soon. Another thing that I noticed is that YouTube deleted the Chinese whistleblower videos. On the other hand, videos on the pandemic in other countries remain. This will certainly leave the wrong impression to the future generations if this type of censorship continues. China has more influence on much of the world's media than I had thought prior to 2020.

Speaking of testing, this is another excellent visualization:

This might explain why South Korea seemed to have the most infections after the spike in China. South Korea began testing in large scale earlier than the other countries. And we all know that countries stopped counting at different times, some after the later variant turned out to be less worrisome. I'm sure that at least one stopped in early 2020. We should tell the future generations not to rely on the online infections chart because this is clearly not a reliable source on which countries had more infections. Just use it as reference to see how it made us think about the pandemic at that time. It has been said that South Korea lowered the infection rate due to early social distancing and mask mandates. I think it's more because people got spooked by the early spike in South Korea, which made the tourists avoid South Korea. Later on, the lockdowns in other countries prevented them from leaving their countries. Thus, the virus had stopped entering South Korea at that time. At the same time, most of the South Korean infected recovered. The hospitals in South Korea never got overwhelmed. Also during this time, most of the countries banned any South Koreans from entering. Surprisingly, Trump never banned the South Koreans from entering. This is the same Trump who had banned not just the Chinese, but also the Europeans from entering. The only reason why the South Koreans didn't travel to the US at that time was because of the lockdowns in the US. Thus, South Korea didn't have to worry about having any infected returning. And South Korea didn't experience shortages since there was no panic buying. Thanks to the low rate of infections, South Korea is one of the countries that never had any lockdowns. Here are some footages of South Korea when a lot of the other countries were going through lockdowns.

[Olaf The Great]

Anybody heard of those coronavirus frauds still happening? I think they should get more ALJ hearings.

[Shaka_Khan]

Anybody heard of those coronavirus frauds still happening?

I haven't heard of anyone getting it this year.