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Covid-2021
Sums it up. Thieves sitting on the arms of justice whilst the wheel turns slowly. “The World seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attained by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.” – Richard Hofstader Writer’s fatigue or Covid-19 exhaustion are the two likely factors which have curtailed the updating of the Covid-19 blog notwithstanding that this pesky virus needs to be updated to read Covid-2021. Who would have thought that this unprecedented pandemic would endure for so long and take on so many different variants? The last blog was published on 29
th March 2021 and read by 71 people. Interesting that no comments, chirps or message reactions have been posted by readers since December 2020 so I suspect Covid-19 fatigue has set in and we are all suffering a new variant called
Covid-19 gatvol.
Just when the scientific community or their nemesis, politicians, think they have their ducks in a row, the virus explodes in a new direction with all sorts of added implications. Look no further than
India where the Government (read politicians!) thought they were on top of things a few months back. In a massive twist
India is now reporting in excess of 400,000
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Is there a more inept political party on this planet? The ANC are undisputed champions. confirmed infections per day and to date their deaths total 287,122. The reports are truly horrific and include anecdotal evidence of crematoriums being unable to cope and people in rural areas burning their dead on top of funeral pyres. What is bizarre is that India is one of the country’s producing one of the vaccines under licence and their brilliant Government saw an opportunity to make quick bucks (sound familiar?) by exporting elsewhere in the World. Repercussion; they have run out of vaccines for their own population and are now desperately trying to import in a frenzied bid to vaccinate their massive population. The scourge of politicians!
The global picture to date per the WHO website is scary to say the least;
164,5 million confirmed cases and
3,4 million deaths. Interesting that
1,407 billion vaccine doses have been administered to date (roughly 18 percent of the global population so vaccine immunity is a long way off).
What seems to have slipped off the radar screen in recent months is the fundamental question; what are the origins of this coronavirus pandemic?
China was fingered and there was a whirlwind of conspiracy theories with many nations applying pressure on the
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Do the right thing! WHO to conduct a thorough investigation. The Chinese applied Zuma-like delaying tactics and eventually conceded that a bunch of medical scientists could visit China but they never had any intention of allowing the level of access needed to truly get to the bottom of things. It was a non-event and we are none the wiser. Thankfully there are brave investigative journalists at large who go to extraordinary lengths to uncover the truth (think no further than our South African authors who have exposed the industrial scale theft and corruption perpetrated by our appalling political elite).
Sharri Markson has written a soon to be published book entitled
“What really happened in Wuhan” which was recently the subject of an exclusive review in an Australian newspaper. Here are a few takes just to remind us that
China has a lot to answer for:
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Chinese military scientists discussed the weaponization of SARS coronaviruses five years before the Covid-19 pandemic, outlining their ideas in a document that projected a third World War be fought with biological weapons. The US State Dept got hold of a copy and its genesis has been located on the Chinese Internet ·
The Chinese paper describes Civid-2021
Incompetence reigns supreme. coronaviruses as heralding a “new era of genetic weapons” which “can be artificially manipulated into an emerging virus, and then weaponised and unleashed in a way never seen before”
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Intelligence agencies suspect Covid-19 may be the result of an inadvertent leak from a Wuhan laboratory with no evidence to suggest it was intentionally leaked ·
Mr Xi’s increasing emphasis on civil-military fusion meant China’s biological research could be weaponised (He was one of the top leaders in the project team) ·
It notes how a sudden surge of patients requiring hospitalisation during a bioweapon attack “could cause the enemy’s medical system to collapse” ·
An American Colonel Ainscough states; “The First World War was chemical; the Second World War was nuclear and the Third World War will be biological” ·
Among the bizarre claims by the Chinese Military scientists is that SARS Cov-1 which caused the SARS epidemic of 2003, was a man-made bioweapon deliberately unleashed on China by terrorists I guess the jury is out on Chinese culpability but the publication of this book in September 2021 could be explosive and one can only hope it leads to further, thorough investigation. The sad reality of this biowarfare evolution is that it highlights yet again mankind’s relentless quest to self-destruct.
And here in sunny, chilly
South Africa the madness continues unabated. The shenanigans of the ANC are hard to comprehend led by Ace Magashule who clearly has no idea of the concepts of integrity, honesty or just plain, decency. He has been charged as a key accomplice in a R200 million asbestos scam in the Free State but he wants nothing of it. He claims he is innocent and refuses to step aside and in an unprecedented moment of lunacy, he charges the President of the country of some nefarious wrong doing and demands that he step aside instead. And then the Zondo Commission grinds on having cost then taxpayer over a billion Rand to date and exposing swathes of rotten thieves in top tier Government and to date not a single arrest or charge of those implicated. It will end and then nothing will happen as the National Prosecuting Authority simply does not have the resources to go about turning mountains of incriminating evidence into legal cases. I suspect this under resourcing of the NPA is by design as there is zero accountability in the ranks of the ANC elite who will simply reinvent new ways to steal the country to the point of ruin. The less said about the architect, Jacob Zuma, of the looting of South Africa on a scale never seen before in human history, the better. Seventeen years on and he may just appear in court next week on Arms Deal corruption and theft charges. The sad reality is that our Justice system is fragile and the thieving politicians are aware of this and exploiting this weakness to their advantage. So, what does this little rant have to do with Covid-19? Simple answer, a lot. Throughout the pandemic there has been massive fraud, theft and corruption on just about every aspect of tackling Covid-19. Any purchase of medical equipment etc., needed has provided opportunity to plunder at provincial and national level. It is scandalous and disgraceful and should lead to the fall of a Government in any country. Not to be!
Refocussing the lens on Covid-19 and
South Africa, our leadership woes are no better exposed than in our woeful vaccination progress. Let’s not forget that we have the continent’s best health system and as of writing we have vaccinated less than 500,000 people which is less than Zimbabwe, Angola and Senegal. Instead, we got into contractual wrangling with drug companies and there was no apparent comprehensive inoculation campaign. Just lots of hollow talk and endless promises which is what this ANC Government excels at. Whilst many countries are firmly entrenched in massive vaccine inoculations, we have only recently finally concluded supply agreements, vaccines are arriving and the Government is literally crowing about having set up an electronic registration site and vaccine sites. And whilst all this muddling about has been dragging on endlessly, Covid-19 has been lurking and looks likely to unleash a third wave in the very near future.
What is truly alarming is how many people have dropped their guard in the false belief that Covid-19 is no longer a serious issue. One only has to travel around the country, as I have just recently done, to notice how few people in public spaces are wearing masks. Taxis are particular offenders, led by the driver setting a fine example sans mask.
“The Government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”- Milton Friedman
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Bob Carlsen
I see that we feel the same about the Covid virus and politicians.
I'm pleased to be able to comment on your post if only to let you know that TBers are following you!