A thread on the lapdog CCP-apologist fucks who run the World Health Organization.
It doesn’t really matter how Covid variants are named. Skipping the letter Xi in their naming convention (designed in the first place to eliminate references to Wuhan) to arrive at Omicron is ridiculous, not dangerous.
What’s dangerous is WHO leadership placing Chinese political interests ahead of global health interests, something Tedros and team have done from the start.
If possible, China wants to criminalize speech that doesn't follow the official party line. If it can’t be criminalized, China wants to ban it through the cooperative censorship of global tech and media platforms. If it can’t be banned, China wants us to reject it as “fake news”.
Dr. Tedros, a man who covered up cholera epidemics in Ethiopia and appointed Robert freakin’ Mugabe as a Goodwill Ambassador, is China’s foremost stooge in this narrative control campaign.
On Feb. 4, 2020, after a private meeting with Xi, Tedros formally announced to the WHO Executive Board that there was no need to “interfere with international travel and trade” and restricting Chinese flights was “counter-productive” to fighting the global spread of the virus.
This was a lie in service to Chinese political interests, and Tedros (and the entire WHO Executive Board) knew it.
They knew it was a lie because a week earlier, WHO-sponsored doctors in Hong Kong published independent studies showing that it was a lie.
“The World Health Organization is working with Google to ensure that people get facts from WHO first when they search for information about the new virus that recently emerged in China.”
Two “false conspiracy theories” were the primary targets of WHO narrative control efforts – a Wuhan lab origin and “exaggerations about the number of sick and dead” in China.
The WHO narrative control effort on behalf of the Chinese gov’t continued in 2021 with the “fact-finding mission” to Wuhan to investigate the origins of the Covid virus.
The crack team assembled by WHO literally spent more time “visiting a museum celebrating China’s success in controlling the virus in Wuhan and a frozen food storage facility at a local wholesale market” than at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
WHO found it is “highly unlikely” that the virus originated at the local Level 4 biolab doing gain-of-function research.
It was “entirely possible”, though, that the virus was brought into Wuhan via frozen American pork, Russian squid, or Saudi shrimp.
I am not making this up.
The World Health Organization is not just a disgrace. It is not just a humiliation for the thousands of researchers and clinicians doing good work under their auspices.
Texas Capital Bank knew Bill Hwang was juicing stock by acquiring secret 20% stake, then sold $300m in new stock “mostly to retail investors”. Morgan Stanley was stalking horse for Hwang’s stake AND underwriter for stock sale.
“I’m a tax accountant. No one talks about the ERC but its the most outrageous tax benefit I’ve ever seen. Easy to qualify and subsidy of 7K per employee per quarter. Its insanity. Clients getting 600K a quarter.”
“And if you got the last PPP, you’re automatically eligible for ERC for 2 quarters. All they gotta do is play with the coverage period and wage costs.”
“Last thing - the easiest one to qualify have been hedge funds cause they move around fees for 2 quarters in 2021 and now you got a full year of eligibility. 30 employees * 7K * 4Q; easiest 840K they ever made. And treasury made this a priority to pay over legit refund claims.”
For the rest of the US, there are only 18 Covid hospitalizations per 100k.
More than half of all US Covid hospitalizations are in eight states: Florida (16,280), Texas (12,199), Georgia (4,811), Alabama (2,702), Louisiana (2,671), Mississippi (1,647), South Carolina (1,542) and Arkansas (1,421).
20% of all US Covid hospitalizations are in Florida.
A friend of mine sent me this tweet and asked "why is this wrong?".
This NY Mag article blew me away when it came out. It's fantastic. But I don't have the same conclusion as BDW re: inevitability of Covid infection or the essential meh-ness of vaccines.
With a virus as infectious as Delta, we need 90% of the population with effective antibody protection to gain herd immunity.
Herd immunity isn't something that makes the virus disappear. It makes the R0 well below 1 so that it doesn't spread uncontrollably.
Can we get to 90% effective antibody protection in a way that doesn't just mean giving up and taking a 60 bps IFR (infection fatality rate)? I think we can, and the key is vax.
This is the latest FUD being promoted by the know-nothing anti-vax crew, based on this horseshit paper - mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/… - which takes this perfectly fine paper (large vaccine effectiveness study in Israel) - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… - and completely abuses the data.
Over the duration of this large (>500k) Israeli vaccine efficacy study, guess how many people died of Covid 7+ days post-second vax dose? Zero. ZERO.
But that divides the NNTV (number needed to vaccinate) calc by zero, so the authors of the anti-vax horseshit paper ignore it.
Instead, these 3 cranks "calculate" (based on pre-2nd vax data) that it requires 9,000 to 50,000 vaccines to prevent one death. But not one death, period. One death over the study follow-up period, which is FIFTEEN DAYS.
It's just insane that this bullshit is taken seriously.
Excuse me, @LHSummers, but as best I can tell, you have never been asked to describe your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. I realize Twitter is a terrible venue for this sort of discussion, but can you point me to a public statement you’ve made on this issue?