Covid-19 in NZ: Five years - and five big unanswered questions
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The New York Times is calling scientists and researchers "alarmists" after ignoring half a million publications on the harms of SARS-Cov-2 and Long Covid. pic.twitter.com/cSRMwCk1P7— Dr. Michael DACM🇱🇧🇵🇸 (@internetuserf12) February 27, 2025
“The New York Times is calling scientists and researchers ‘alarmists’ after ignoring half a million publications on the harms of SARS-Cov-2 and Long Covid.”
New paper examines why COVID-19 mortality was higher in the U.S. than in some East Asian countries
“The U.S. suffered 5 to 7 times more deaths due to COVID per 100,000 people than did Taiwan, South Korea & Japan. Why did so many more Americans die from the virus than people in these East Asian countries?”
How Influencer Leftists Failed On Covid
“Covid was the biggest transfer of power from bosses to workers in 75 years. Billionaires were so angry at this they demanded governments inflict pain on the economy to punish arrogant workers. Yet so little left wing analysis of the last 5 years makes this point. It’s amazing. “
So many Americans died from COVID, it boosted Social Security to the tune of $205 billion
“New research finds Social Security will pay out $205 billion less in future benefits owing to COVID-related premature deaths.”
New research finds Social Security will pay out $205 billion less in future benefits owing to COVID-related premature deaths.
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“Yes this is how most people remember it, left to right. Governments were also doing direct cash transfers to citizens, homeless people were found shelter, evictions were banned and debts were frozen. We should ask why the latter didn't become the cultural story”
Yes this is how most people remember it, left to right. Governments were also doing direct cash transfers to citizens, homeless people were found shelter, evictions were banned and debts were frozen. We should ask why the latter didn't become the cultural story
Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths | PNAS
“Official COVID-19 mortality statistics have not fully captured deaths attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United States. While some excess deaths were likely related to pandemic health care interruptions and socioeconomic disruptions, temporal correlations between reported COVID-19 deaths and excess deaths reported to non-COVID-19 natural causes suggest that many of those excess deaths were unrecognized COVID-19 deaths.”
Official COVID-19 mortality statistics have not fully captured deaths attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United States. While some excess deaths were likely related to pandemic health care interruptions and socioeconomic disruptions, temporal correlations between reported COVID-19 deaths and excess deaths reported to non-COVID-19 natural causes suggest that many of those excess deaths were unrecognized COVID-19 deaths.
COVID-19 case fatality rate and infection fatality rate from 2020 to 2023: Nationwide analysis in Austria
‘SILENCE=DEATH’: Long COVID-suffering performers protest outside BAFTAs
““In just 4 years, Covid has killed more people than AIDS did in 40—both have devastated the arts.
Governments and workplaces once built the infrastructure to protect us, but now they’ve torn it all down. The world needs art more than ever to remind us of our shared humanity.”
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Latest Pew Poll.
Or an exercise on "How well did Biden disappear C0V1D?"
Latest Pew Poll.
Or an exercise on "How well did Biden disappear C0V1D?"
10 More Times Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's Pick for NIH Director, was Dead Wrong About COVID-19
Why the COVID Deniers Won
The Northeast US Is EXPLODING once again for Covid in wastewater.
‘We really never came back to each other’: Five years after COVID, we’re more divided than ever - The Boston Globe
“After a brief moment when Americans came together to battle a virus, the pandemic accelerated divisions of all kinds.”
After a brief moment when Americans came together to battle a virus, the pandemic accelerated divisions of all kinds.
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History shows that pandemics lead to fascism
5 years since COVID declared public health emergency in US, still killing thousands
COVID led to more hospital stays, deaths than flu from 2022 to 2024, study suggests
COVID
Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
“The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. “
COVID-19: It has been five years since the first case in America. What's it like today?
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
"In the U.S., an average of about 900 people a week have died of COVID-19 over the past year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting | Science | AAAS
WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove expressed her frustration that "Everyone is acting as this pandemic didn't really happen."
The COVID-19 pandemic, as best as we can tell, took more than 20 million lives, cost $16 trillion, kept 1.6 billion children out of school, and pushed some 130 million people into poverty. And it’s not over
Five years ago on 31 December 2019, WHO’s Country Office in picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, China.
“Five years ago on 31 December 2019, WHO’s Country Office in #China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, China. “
Intelligence community’s COVID-19 origins division ran deeper than previously thought - Washington Examiner
Three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence concluded in the summer of 2021 that COVID-19 was likely manipulated in a biolaboratory.
However, this information was suppressed by the Pentagon and not included in White House briefings.
Silence of the labs: How a censorship campaign failed to kill a COVID origin theory
“Silence of the labs: How a censorship campaign failed to kill a COVID origin theory”
Silence of the labs: How a censorship campaign failed to kill a COVID origin theory
Spy bosses ‘silenced’ Defense Department, FBI scientists from briefing Biden on COVID lab leak evidence
The virus had features suggesting it was engineered, and a Chinese military researcher applied for a COVID-19 vaccine patent shortly after the virus was sequenced.
The scientists were forbidden from sharing their findings with Congress or the FBI.
After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
FINAL REPORT🚨
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s final report is the most thorough review of the pandemic conducted to date.
This report ensures COVID-19 accountability and serves as a roadmap for the U.S. to prepare for and respond to future pandemics.
I’m seeing so many Democrats panic about the incoming administration’s public health stance after spending the last 3 years pretending COVID no longer exists amid record disability & death. There was ZERO public education, & the newly disabled were subjected to Don’t Ask, Don’t…
“I’m seeing so many Democrats panic about the incoming administration’s public health stance after spending the last 3 years pretending COVID no longer exists amid record disability & death. There was ZERO public education, & the newly disabled were subjected to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell & abandoned by society. Amid RECORD communicable disease—record TB, syphilis/congenital syphilis & other STIs, strep, mosquito-borne diseases, RSV, pertussis, drug resistance, record foodborne pathogens, etc—NO ONE SAID A THING. There was only silence since a Democrat was in power. NO ONE protested living & dying for corporate profits, or transferring workers’ rights back to employers, or the MASSIVE wealth transfer from the bottom to the top, & we deserve everything that is coming.”
Brunch Decapitated: Covid helped Trump win, No future for public health, Corrupt CDC and more