Some people think you can determine the facts of an issue by … ignoring them! Instead, you show that something in the media was deliberately slanted or false, so the opposite must be the case.
Of course, the PRC had already played the same game on Covid before the Pentagon. The Democracy Now interviewee himself admits, “China starts spinning this narrative that not only was COVID not created in China, but that it was actually brought to China by the United States military, that maybe it came out of Fort Detrick or maybe it came through a military service member who was participating in a sports competition there.” Now to some facts. China went on a campaign to export its vaccines. (They typically gave a small shipment to a country, trumpeted their own generosity, then sold most of the export.) Those vaccines used the method of inactivated virus. The fPizer and Moderna vaccines used the new mRNA method. The difference proved crucial in country after country: By March [2021], the Seychelles was one of the world's most vaccinated countries. With more than half of its population fully inoculated against COVID-19, the island nation off Africa was outpacing even Israel. This speedy rollout was largely thanks to China — imports of its Sinopharm shot made up 57% of all doses delivered there. So when the Seychelles saw a sharp rise in virus cases in mid-May, despite some 60% of the population being fully vaccinated, that came as a surprise. Later the surprise deepened as health officials confirmed, on May 10, that more than a third of Seychelles residents to fall sick had indeed already gotten their vaccines. Two other countries that are highly vaccinated and rely heavily on the Sinopharm BBIBP vaccine — Bahrain and Mongolia — have also seen spikes in cases. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, another early adopter of Sinopharm, have started offering the option of a Pfizer booster shot to those who had been fully vaccinated with the Sinopharm vaccine. Santiago, the capital of Chile, imposed another lockdown on Saturday, as cases rise sharply there in spite of almost 60% of the country being fully immunized. Chile's vaccination program uses mostly Sinovac shots. Looking at the data from the Seychelles, the vaccine expert Dr. Kim Mulholland told The New York Times that the Sinopharm vaccine's efficacy was close to about 50%. This would be consistent with the protection seen with the Sinovac vaccine. The WHO says this shot offers 50.6% efficacy against symptomatic disease, based on data from a large study in Brazil. By comparison, Pfizer and Moderna shots confer over 90% protection. --https://www.businessinsider.com/china-vaccines-questioned-after-virus-surges-countries-using-them-2021-6 And both the U.S and Chinese regimes condemned their own people to massive needless suffering. The U.S. let a million people die before vaccines became available, by not enforcing sensible isolation regulations. The PRC put its people though lockdown hell, then abruptly terminated the lockdowns in late 2022 without anywhere near enough vaccination, and a million or more soon died. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30836): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30836 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106790543/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
