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Computer modelers predict millions will die if China relaxes its zero COVID lockdowns policy

Chicken Little rules again! Scientists, using the same kind of faulty computer models that falsely predicted millions would die in 2020 if we didn’t social distance, wear masks, and shut down all of society (while canceling the Bill of Rights), now predict millions will die in China if that country’s totalitarian communist government relaxes its zero COVID lockdowns policy.

A study based on vaccination rates in March, published in Nature Medicine in May, found that lifting zero-COVID restrictions at that point could “generate a tsunami of COVID-19 cases” over a 6-month period, with 112 million symptomatic cases, 2.7 million intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and 1.6 million deaths. Peak demand for ICU beds would hit 1 million, more than 15 times the current capacity.

The unvaccinated would account for 77% of the fatalities, according to the authors, primarily at Fudan University. Boosting vaccination rates could slash the toll, but China’s elderly population has remained wary of vaccination. Even today, only 66% of those ages 80 and older have received two doses—versus 90% of the population as a whole—and just 40% have taken boosters.

We of course should trust these scientists without question. How could they possibly be wrong? Bless their hearts. They would never produce junk models simply to promote government overreach and abuse of power.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

9 comments

  • M Puckett

    Covid is much less lethal now than it was two years ago, it has mutated into a less lethal strain. This is absurd!

  • Col Beausabre

    And the ChiComs will use this “scientific proof” to justify their brutal “No Covid” policies among other repressions. How much were these “scientists” paid to come up with these results?

    It’s the further politicization of science. Once it was a search for the truth, now it is for sale. Lysenkoism, anyone?

    Bob is right, the world is headed for a new dark age

  • David ‘

    China and much of Europe are in serious trouble. The US and the rest of North America can absolutely avoid it, but they need competent people to lead the charge. It is obviously too much to hope for competent people in much of government, but people like Musk plus thousands of people at lower levels talking about sane energy policy is helpful.

  • wayne

    I propose we relieve the CCP of their burden in running the slave-state known as china:

    Thermonuclear Strike
    https://youtu.be/S-V6MZlyCqE
    2:22

  • Chris

    Friends of mine will tell you that in spring 2020 I conjectured that China may have created the Wuhan virus to actually target their elderly. I still think this is a possibility. China faces a demographic tsunami with their population’s age. After 35 years of the One-Child Policy the birth rate crashed. Soon China will face demographics such as Japan’s without Japan’s ability to service its aged population. This will cause great strain in the population…..However, if a tragic pandemic were to come forth and remove that burden or at least some of it, China would be much more nimble and better able to look outside its borders.

    This is conjecture on my part but it fits somewhat. And after such a horrific loss of the elderly population the call for control in the name of stopping the spread could possibly be more accepted.

    I have heard several annalists state that demographics are an important driver in China. It could very well limit their time to act on Taiwan (along with the presidency of Joe Biden). There may have been many motives in the development of the Wuhan Flu a.k.a COVID.

  • Cotour

    + 6 PSI Wayne.

  • wayne

    Cotour–
    –there’s also something about (intense) sunlight being the best disinfectant….

  • Cotour

    SIMULATION? : 9-11, COVID19, AND WHATS NEXT?

    The World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins, and Bill Gates Just Conducted Another Pandemic Simulation — This Time The Virus Is Deadlier And Targets Children

    “The extraordinary group of participants consisted of 10 current and former Health Ministers and senior public health officials from Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, Angola, Liberia, Singapore, India, Germany, as well as Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The exercise simulated a series of WHO emergency health advisory board meetings addressing a fictional pandemic set in the near future.

    (Question: What is the last statement by your government that was found by you to be true? A: None.)

    A little too prescient for you? Just a coincidence? It is funny how those in government and these elite Globalist operators and organizations have the pulse of exactly what extreme event is on the way. How do you achieve real change? Under extreme and perceived life-threatening conditions.

    And the result? The people of the world are properly managed for “their own good”?

    *The September 11 attacks in 2001 occurred during that year’s Global Guardian and Vigilant Guardian joint exercises. Coincidence?

    *In October 2019 – two months before the first cases of Covid-19 were officially detected in Wuhan – the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in the United States organized an exercise to simulate what would happen in the event of a global pandemic. Coincidence?

    https://apis.mail.aol.com/ws/v3/mailboxes/@.id==VjN-_95qz8vtNQnj2guvJpSi615JXjYizy9bcZuM2MCqJDk8zBIwKj0CmLH_qmCDE5NsTJVJXmOu9vG5vVhaOWavzw/messages/@.id==ACkNW4JtHMpmY5daBAlK6CDG5N8/content/parts/@.id==2/thumbnail?appid=AolMailNorrin&downloadWhenThumbnailFails=true&pid=2

  • Cotour

    And where are the frontlines of this political battle being fought and who among the many has stepped up and is actively fighting on that frontline? A native African / American.

    https://youtu.be/CxCJkFp2YhM

    https://www.businessinsider.in/photo/76218476/elon-musk-says-the-biggest-challenge-of-spacexs-starlink-internet-project-is-not-satellites-but-rather-ufo-on-a-stick-devices-users-will-need-to-get-online.jpg?imgsize=345269

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