The WuFlu pandemic has shown said "experts" to be hopeless. Epidemiologists are near useless. It doesn't take "experts" to figure out that fat old sick people die in droves from covid while youngsters in good health are not sickened significantly.
In New Zealand, where more than 95% of those 65 and older have been fully inoculated, just four people died in the first five weeks of its omicron outbreak before the number shot up. By the sixth week -- where China is now -- its fatality rate had risen to 5 for every 100,000 infections. That’s ten times the rate in China, despite the fact that China has fully vaccinated only 81% of people aged 60 and above.
The divergence has caught the eye of experts.
The Pfizer vaccine has been injected into huge numbers of Kiwis and especially in the old age group.
The infection of Omicron got loose when the vaccination programme was complete, with boosters now done too for those inclined which is most.
Yesterday I got from my doctor the official Auckland Covid-19 Care in the Community - Adding a
Therapeutics Review into the Workflow. It's a page full of flow chart to determine whether a patient should be given Paxlovid or not. The criteria are many, with a patient meeting 5 or more of clinical conditions. Being an apartheid country, one of said clinical conditions is being a Maori or Polynesian, so white people are excluded from that variable. Being old, fat and having various other medical problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney, cancer, heart and whatnot are the other factors.
I meet only the "old" condition, so will not be allowed to have Paxlovid if I get Omicron. They obviously think that being old but with excellent other condition means I'm very unlikely to get seriously sick or die. I like that. And agree that it's probably true though the epidemiologists refuse to allow people to see all the data they must have collected from millions of sick and dead people around the world.
But even from the minimal data they have allowed to be public, we know that being fat, diabetic, old and sick, people are in trouble. Swarms of people in NZ are fat, diabetic and sickly. I see them waddling slowly around the city and wonder how they stay alive one day let alone should they get covid, vaccinated or not.
In China, admittedly now nearly 20 years ago, the proportion of fat people was tiny. Waddlers were few. Obesity very uncommon. I guess diabetes is not too prevalent either. And since hypertension and heart disease are commonly a function of obesity and bad nutrition, that is uncommon in China too.
That easily explains the death difference between NZ and China. The vaccination gives only some protection against covid sickness and death. The initial lie that it would stop infection with covid and stop people passing it on was proven to be false very quickly when disease got going 10,000 per day. The fully vaccinated were filling the hospitals.
But it does provide some protection with the mortality rate for PureBloods who are old, fat, diabetic and sickly being about 5x the rate or maybe it's 10x the rate of the properly vaccinated. But there's no data available for PureBloods who are age 73 but in great condition as measured by HbA1c, blood pressure, pulse, ferritin, lipids, neutrophils, and all that jazz, not to mention with lots of vitamin D3, zinc, vitamin C, A, and long term good diet.
I guess my covid risk is lower than my Pfizer risk. I've had many other vaccinations so it's not that I'm a science denying anti vaxxer. I would love to see said science but the data is either not collected or is hidden from me for some reason. I have never found hidden data is hidden to help me. Secrecy is never in my favour. It's always because there are criminal interests withholding data. And worse, lying about it.
I've had smallpox, tuberculosis, tetanus, polio vaccines, and maybe others I forget. I got mumps as a 30 year old [I was surprised as I assumed I'd had the disease or a vaccination as a child]. I'm pretty sure I got measles before vaccines were around. Our 1 year old grandson was wrecked by a meningitis vaccination for a week, limp, flaccid so lost a week of development time and I suspect might have been a bit brain damaged, so I'm anti that vaccine. I guess the data on vaccines in general is not very good. I've never seen good data. But I know many people died from tuberculosis [including 2 of my great grandparents, and one of their sons].
Given the mechanism of the Pfizer vaccine, I suspect there is a lot of damage not yet recognized. For example, killing 100 billion ACE2 receptors each vaccination seems a dodgy idea since ACE2 receptors have a crucial function. There are about 250 billion particles in a Pfizer vaccination but I guess only half of them reach their targets. The function of the Pfizer vaccine is supposedly to cause spike proteins to be formed which then prompt the person's immune system to produce anti-bodies which then attack any actual covid infection. But I wonder if a big part of the protection from covid is that the ACE2 receptors have already been attacked so there are not enough ACE2 receptors left for the disease to really get going in the vaccinated.
I guess the ACE2 receptors grow back over a period of time but I really have no idea on the biology of the process. If knowledgeable people can put me straight, that would be nice.
How come this "expert" doesn't know what I know [as a layman].
“The bottom line is I’m skeptical about the death rate reported in China,” said Peter Collignon, an infectious disease physician and professor at the Australian National University Medical School in Canberra. With omicron driving the current outbreak in China, “it’s a bit hard to believe that in Shanghai it’s behaving differently to everywhere else in the world where this is circulating.”
He's puzzled as to why China doesn't have NZ's death rate. Really? He assumes that China is lying. He should try thinking instead, using his "expert" understanding about the eligibility criteria for Paxlovid, for example. Surely he knows that USA and Euroserfs have had 2 years of huge rates of infection, and that USA is a fat waddling nation. So is Oz. So are many Italians who died in droves in the first weeks.
It would be surprising if in Shanghai infection behaved the same as in Auckland.
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