1. Covering the 4Cs: children, climate, complexity, coronaviruses (CoV). As Covid is counterintuitive I share data. Excess mortality is high in every state safe New Zealand, which implemented #ZeroCovid. For solutions read Quarantine law and WHO member states' pandemic playbooks.
2. Current excess mortality is fascinating -- Taiwan, Japan, Australia at the same level. Germany nearly half as high as Italy, similar to Hong Kong/Macao, which COULD be indicative of China. India data (?!?) Russia a complete desaster even before the war. ourworldindata.org/explorers/coro…
3. China CDC now reports cases only once a month. (Counter western media coverage claiming they stopped reporting?) The reason given is that WHO ended the COVID-19 PHEIC in May. If the West had wanted timely data, they shouldn't have ended it.
4. No state has negative excess mortality, the historical prepandemic norm. Negative excess mortality is how life expectancy grows. Thus, "Living with Covid" policy marked a watershed in human affairs. It's degrowth from here. How fast is the big question. ourworldindata.org/explorers/coro…
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Fortunately I’m a rocket scientist, so here the public health decision every state worldwide now faces, broken down to its essence. Do you want to live with a SARS virus in your much shortened, disease-ridden lives or would you rather not?
2. Previous iterations of this deep insight. I’m not satisfied with “explode” here because while true on an intergenerational scale, explosive typically denotes a process faster than multiple years - as it will take - to most people. Should say “increase.”
3. You’d think whether we want to live with a SARS and smallpox-like virus (monkeypox ~ variola virus) is at the heart of the German national security policy debate #Sicherheitsstrategie? Cute.
In reality, as @RikeFranke argued, German millennials are incredibly bad at strategy.
There has been no public discussion on COVID-Ebola (SARS-CoV-2 / Ebola virus) parallels. That was just one of the many interesting questions never debated while it mattered.
This was popular too but twitter search didn’t return it. The big question is whether China’s massive XBB wave, daughter mutation of BA.2, generates a BA.5 BF.7 circulating recombinant form. Chances are good, given hundreds of millions of reinfections.
This is excellent, timely analysis by @RajlabN. The only problem is that China essentially stopped genetic surveillance and sequencing, or at least publishing, so it’s happy dark times in the health data department.
1. This is extremely funny because Martin was shocked by WHO reporting 1.5 million COVID-19 infections in the last 26 days worldwide. In reality, China alone accounts for 40-65 million infections *per week*.
Check out Germany's updated excess mortality, the highest ever. Stabil.
2. We always share links because that's the only way people can check data and learn for themselves, so here goes: ourworldindata.org/explorers/coro…
3. Excellent that @MartinStamer you consider Informationskrise as one of the four (three?) major crises. Excellent focus also with Arendt, thanks! Roughly:
A Climate crisis
B Information crisis
C Public health (virus) crisis
D Food crisis, due to (A)
Details on Germany’s first National Security Policy (NSS). Like Chinese Five-Year-Plans, such documents can indicate intent. Way to go for Germany. Good: climate focus. Bizarre: Germans don’t recognize the circulating pandemic SARS virus and orthopoxvirus (OPV) as security risks.
2. Not saying people need to comment, but IF you want to make a difference on German national security policy. 🤷♂️ Germany is in complete denial. Coronaviruses and orthopoxviruses are CLASSICAL biological weapons systems. Literally every expert knows this.
3. That’s why it’s so funny that everyone is pretending they don’t know everyone else is pretending. C’mon on, at least laugh about this great meme if you aren’t going to say anything.
1. How many years did SARS-CoV-1 survivors live on average? What were their COD? There were no reinfections. I can’t believe that I must share the question (for free on twitter) for there to be any public discourse; it should be all over the press. You have almost the same virus.
2. Influenza kills when viral load exceeds a threshold and the cell pops like a balloon. Western virologists don’t understand SARS doesn’t behave like this. Patients die in the acute phase from immune system dysfunction of NK/CD8+ cells and cytokine storm.
3. These differential dynamics are important because even today, western virologists use the wrong mental model for SARS. I assume their software packages can’t even model the SARS-CoV replication process. This explains their horrendous errors and deadly policy advice. 🧀🧠