It has started

[snapping turtle]

Riots in France Greece and Brazil today.

Brazilians take to streets again to demand Bolsonaro's impeachment

Protesters took to the streets in several Brazilian cities on Saturday to demand the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, whose popularity has fallen in recent weeks amid corruption scandals against the backdrop of the pandemic.

www.reuters.com

Protesters opposed to COVID measures clash with police in Paris

French anti-riot police fired teargas on Saturday as clashes erupted during protests in central Paris against COVID-19 restrictions and a vaccination campaign, television reported.

www.reuters.com

Greek police clash with protesters in rally against mandatory vaccinations

Greek police used teargas and water cannon to disperse people who had gathered in central Athens on Saturday to protest against mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

www.reuters.com

down under has had some protests also.

 

[BigRed]

Riots in France Greece and Brazil today.

Brazilians take to streets again to demand Bolsonaro's impeachment

Protesters took to the streets in several Brazilian cities on Saturday to demand the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, whose popularity has fallen in recent weeks amid corruption scandals against the backdrop of the pandemic.

www.reuters.com

Protesters opposed to COVID measures clash with police in Paris

French anti-riot police fired teargas on Saturday as clashes erupted during protests in central Paris against COVID-19 restrictions and a vaccination campaign, television reported.

www.reuters.com

Greek police clash with protesters in rally against mandatory vaccinations

Greek police used teargas and water cannon to disperse people who had gathered in central Athens on Saturday to protest against mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

www.reuters.com

down under has had some protests also.

Strange.

Do these folks not trust state has their individual interest at heart?

 

[Leadeye]

I never hear anything about covid in Africa, you would think with the lower quality health care it would be running wild.

 

[Route 45]

I never hear anything about covid in Africa, you would think with the lower quality health care it would be running wild.

To be fair, when has the rest of the world ever given a **** what happens in Africa? Entire genocides occur without a blip on the evening news. One could always Google it if they momentarily gave a ****, even if only to prove a political point on a message board.

 

[Leadeye]

To be fair, when has the rest of the world ever given a **** what happens in Africa? Entire genocides occur without a blip on the evening news. One could always Google it if they momentarily gave a ****, even if only to prove a political point on a message board.

My thoughts as well, but you would figure big media would be screaming if it was really bad. They are strangely silent, like maybe nothing is happening on a continent with no vaccines.

 

[Route 45]

My thoughts as well, but you would figure big media would be screaming if it was really bad. They are strangely silent, like maybe nothing is happening on a continent with no vaccines.

It is false that nothing is happening.

Africa slammed by third wave as vaccinations languish under 2%

China, Russia and others step up to provide assistance

asia.nikkei.com

 

[jsx1043]

I never hear anything about covid in Africa, you would think with the lower quality health care it would be running wild.

Might have something to do with the fact that HCQ has been handed out like candy over there for malaria for over 50 years, and the fact that the majority are not fat, sedentary internet sophists.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Yep. LOTS of what happens on that continent goes unreported. Watching the documentary Farmland right now. First, the recent riots over there were hardly covered here in the MSM. And over there, everyone is afraid to speak up about the white farmers being murdered. At least one white farmer a day is killed. And at least 3 riots a day over things like schooling policies, often resulting in govt buildings and schools being burned. And people are afraid to speak out. One person was asked, and she nervously sidestepped the question, with her compatriot off camera reminding her not to give out specifics, for fear of losing govt contracts. (but she promised on camera to give anonymous numbers later to the journalist)

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I never hear anything about covid in Africa, you would think with the lower quality health care it would be running wild.

Unless you really believe South Africa has nearly 200k cases in two weeks and the Democratic Republic of Congo has zero, that may be an artifact of simply not testing anyone.

 

[indykid]

Unless you really believe South Africa has nearly 200k cases in two weeks and the Democratic Republic of Congo has zero, that may be an artifact of simply not testing anyone.

I think we have a winner. The best way to have no new cases, or no cases at all is not test anyone. Someone gets sick, just "the flu" or a bad cold. Someone dies, simply not eating the proper foods. Or make up any excuse you want as long as it isn't COVID related.

 

[BigRed]

I think we have a winner. The best way to have no new cases, or no cases at all is not test anyone. Someone gets sick, just "the flu" or a bad cold. Someone dies, simply not eating the proper foods. Or make up any excuse you want as long as it isn't COVID related.

Essentially the inverse of the US gov approach.

 

[BigRed]

Yep. LOTS of what happens on that continent goes unreported. Watching the documentary Farmland right now. First, the recent riots over there were hardly covered here in the MSM. And over there, everyone is afraid to speak up about the white farmers being murdered. At least one white farmer a day is killed. And at least 3 riots a day over things like schooling policies, often resulting in govt buildings and schools being burned. And people are afraid to speak out. One person was asked, and she nervously sidestepped the question, with her compatriot off camera reminding her not to give out specifics, for fear of losing govt contracts. (but she promised on camera to give anonymous numbers later to the journalist)

That report is VERY WELL worth the watch.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I think we have a winner. The best way to have no new cases, or no cases at all is not test anyone. Someone gets sick, just "the flu" or a bad cold. Someone dies, simply not eating the proper foods. Or make up any excuse you want as long as it isn't COVID related.

I doubt it's even that involved. Somebody dies, they just died and the family/village buries them. End of story.

It's easy to forget that things like death certificates, autopsies, collection and reporting of demographics information, etc. requires an infrastructure and functioning government. We're so used to it we don't give them any more thought then we give air. It's just there, until it isn't.

 

[BugI02]

I think we have a winner. The best way to have no new cases, or no cases at all is not test anyone. Someone gets sick, just "the flu" or a bad cold. Someone dies, simply not eating the proper foods. Or make up any excuse you want as long as it isn't COVID related.

I thought they were getting the ChiCom vaccine, maybe it comes with an NDC

 

[phylodog]

I think we have a winner. The best way to have no new cases, or no cases at all is not test anyone. Someone gets sick, just "the flu" or a bad cold. Someone dies, simply not eating the proper foods. Or make up any excuse you want as long as it isn't COVID related.

So basically exactly the opposite of this country where people shot in the back of the head died from Covid. Maybe the numbers will offset in the end.

 

[Denny347]

I never hear anything about covid in Africa, you would think with the lower quality health care it would be running wild.

Ivermectin

 

[tim87tr]

Ivermectin

Yes, someone mentioned HCQ, but Merck has distributed 4 Billion doses of this worldwide. It's cured so many virus related illnesses, river blindness, etc.
Well discussed here.

 

[Ingomike]

BTW, another candidate for least descriptive thread title of the year. What is wrong with telling us the subject of the post? I thought it might be about your truck or maybe your wife's cycle...

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Reference Africa and the claim that low fatality rates are due to anti-malarials:

f you look at reported numbers, you are 4x more likely to die from COVID in South Africa than Zimbabwe, and if you live in Namibia you are 4x more likely to die than if you live in Zimbabwe. (Rough numbers based on per capita figures). Does that sound like a reasonable spread?

In short, much of Africa (especially sub-Saharan) lacks
1) Sufficient test kits
2) Sufficient trained personnel to administer test kits
3) Sufficient labs to process the test kits (many had to send test kits to South Africa or elsewhere as they completely lacked adequate facilities)
4) Sufficient infrastructure to determine cause of death, particularly outside major urban areas.

That's on the testing side. Then on the reporting side, records are being kept on paper. They lack the web-based/automated reporting methods the developed world has. Ethiopia, for example, reported "Collection of patient clinical data and sociodemographic information is manual, and electronic or web-based data collection has not been fully in use. Hence, there has been a duplication of effort in transcribing what was written at time of specimen collection and sample delivery to testing centres. Such practice is prone to human error and leads to unnecessary delay in result delivery."

So any "findings" from what we will charitably refer to as developing nations in Africa should follow the GIGO principal (Garbage In = Garbage Out) because the required data to actually make any sort of determination are fundamentally lacking in validity.


I had another thought on the Africa thing and decided to look into it. COVID fatality rates increase dramatically as people get older. Africa's life expectancy is pretty low compared to the developed world. I thought perhaps the people COVID would have killed may have died of something else before COVID was a thing. So I looked at the demographics.

Results, 40% of Africa's population is under 15. With the exceptions of Egypt and South Africa, every reporting nation had less than 5% of the population being over 60. Again, removing Egypt and South Africa, the median age is 15-20 years old.

In short, even with perfect reporting Africa should see much lower fatality rates just because the most susceptible population is already dead.

 

[ninepntr]

What is going to happen here when Most Retail stores start requiring masks on all people regardless of vaccination status.

Today Apple Stores are requiring masks for everyone!

Luckily for me I’ve never been in an apple store.
I guarantee I won’t ever be in one in the future.

This is how it starts fellas!


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