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Dec 29, 2022, 8 tweets

🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 : I have been hearing from places like Ireland, China, Japan, of massive surge of SARS-CoV-2 unfolding with a high immune evasiveness and virulency. It is now believed to be a new variant circulating amongst the population. Potentially XBB

However our genomic surveillance worldwide has plummeted dramatically as western nations have slowly been defunding all year long and reducing the scope of its capabilities, and China simply has never really utilized GISAID.

This is my belief as to why countries like the US have reinstated negative test requirements out of China. Now the million dollar question is why did we beg them to end zero just to slap these restrictions on them when the inevitable surge would arise from abandoning zero?

50% of passengers from China to Italy on two commercial flights were positive for COVID. Now, these are very high numbers but why NOW are they this concerned to immediately reinstate 2020 policy for only ONE country? I have to think they're trying desperately to sequence

The virus circulating right now for fears of a behemoth of a SARS 2 variant. There must be chatter on the backside about this potential. Nothing else really makes sense. Even if you take it at face value that it's due to chinas surge, why were these policies not used throughout

2022 on other countries when they experienced the same phenomenon? Why are we not doing it to Japan who is currently in the middle of their worse wave in pandemic history? It's gotta be exclusively to figure out what variants are coming this way. Even the CDC who's been extremely

Negligent is raising this possibility. I don't know where we're going folks but it can't be anything good as I'm getting some major 2019-2020 winter vibes. We all know that this situation has been entirely out of control this entire year which makes this walk back all the more

Puzzling to me. In any case we will monitor any critical developments and will promptly post them here when they do arise. But it may not be a bad idea to go stock up on materials and goods right now before the surge really starts impacting US imports. 😷

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