Very interesting analysis, thank you. I'd just like to suggest that the idea that Covid mortality (slightly) decreases as the latitude increases, appears counter-intuitive.
Here are two factors I'd like to throw into the mix. My understanding of it is that the reason respiratory virus infections generally increase in wintertime is twofold: First, the cold weather drives people indoors, where it's easier to breathe in a virus particle exhaled by someone else than outdoors where the particles are dissipated in the boundless space. And second, going indoors decreases the human body's natural production of vitamin D, a circumstance that is enhanced by the shortening daylight hours.
The other factor has to do with the amount of melanin on the skin of people who live in the region. Darker skin evolved to protect people in tropical zones from the harmful effects of sunlight, but by the same token it decreases the skin's ability to make Covid-protective vitamin D. Thus, darker-skinned people living in northern latitudes are handicapped relative to lighter-skinned people, whose vitamin D production is less affected.
To my mind, together these factors go a long way to explain the relative incidence of Covid between U.S. states with greater and lower proportions of African-American residents. If we do an apples-to-apples comparison of Covid mortality between Canadian provinces and the U.S. states that are most like Canada in terms of both climate and ethnic mix (such as Vermont), the supposed benefits of harsh Canadian lockdowns disappear.
Looking forward to your thoughts on this. It might even represent a fruitful new area for Covid-related investigation.
Outstanding analysis! This essay needs to be integrated into every textbook everywhere on the nature of propaganda. We were sold the biggest lie in human history.
Does anyone on this forum know if the Chinese "vaccine" produced by Sinovac is less dangerous than the mRNA death jabs? It's odd that China would not allow its own people to use the mRNA technology, so many Chinese felt they were missing out on the "safer" and "more effective" injectable because they were given only the Sinovac version. Since the latter is based on traditional approaches to manufacturing vaccines, i.e., using an inactivated live virus, it would seem to be much less dangerous. Did the Chinese government know something that was being hidden from the Western world?
After 17 years of research trying to find a vaccine for SARS-1, no one had succeeded. Respiratory illnesses pose unique problems to the vaccine developer, not least of which is that vaccines are usually injected into the arm not the lungs.
It was known by Nov 2020 that the mRNA concept would not stop infection or death from covid, and that the adverse effects were worse than covid in all metrics (fever, cough, hospitalizations etc). Besides, it was an untested platform. No government or scientist should have remotely accepted mRNA shots without 20 years of experiments first, including full toxicological studies. Why any government accepted them, let alone mandated them, is the real question to ask.
Covid was a minor, normal type of disease, not requiring experimental vaccines. I would be gobsmacked if the Chinese missed this elementary truth, known to anyone with eyes by Feb 2020. The rest was propaganda.
"In summary, if we take official Covid mortality data at face value, all the patterns and evidence argue that if governments and the media had never mentioned Covid, nobody would have noticed anything out of the ordinary." Yet another clear example of 'The government that governs best is the one that governs least'.
I think a full analysis of comparing a country's obesity % and/or elderly with their covid deaths would be of interest. A small sample:
Obesity: USA 36.2%, UK 27.8%, Canada 29.4%, Germany 22.3%
over 65: USA 17.13%, UK 19.17%, Canada 19.03%, Germany 22.41%
Covid deaths: USA 3526, UK 3368, Canada 1420, Germany 2107 (per 1M population)
Obesity: Ethiopia 4.5%. Pakistan 8.6%, Sudan 8.6%, Cambodia 3.9%
over 65: Ethiopia 3.14%. Pakistan 4.27%, Sudan 3.5%, Cambodia 5.81%
Covid deaths: Ethiopia 63. Pakistan 134, Sudan 110, Cambodia 178 (per 1M population)
Very interesting analysis, thank you. I'd just like to suggest that the idea that Covid mortality (slightly) decreases as the latitude increases, appears counter-intuitive.
Here are two factors I'd like to throw into the mix. My understanding of it is that the reason respiratory virus infections generally increase in wintertime is twofold: First, the cold weather drives people indoors, where it's easier to breathe in a virus particle exhaled by someone else than outdoors where the particles are dissipated in the boundless space. And second, going indoors decreases the human body's natural production of vitamin D, a circumstance that is enhanced by the shortening daylight hours.
The other factor has to do with the amount of melanin on the skin of people who live in the region. Darker skin evolved to protect people in tropical zones from the harmful effects of sunlight, but by the same token it decreases the skin's ability to make Covid-protective vitamin D. Thus, darker-skinned people living in northern latitudes are handicapped relative to lighter-skinned people, whose vitamin D production is less affected.
To my mind, together these factors go a long way to explain the relative incidence of Covid between U.S. states with greater and lower proportions of African-American residents. If we do an apples-to-apples comparison of Covid mortality between Canadian provinces and the U.S. states that are most like Canada in terms of both climate and ethnic mix (such as Vermont), the supposed benefits of harsh Canadian lockdowns disappear.
Looking forward to your thoughts on this. It might even represent a fruitful new area for Covid-related investigation.
Great analysis, thank you
Oh how I long for the days past of the original SARS. The time when I didn't even know it was a "Thing," lol.
Outstanding analysis! This essay needs to be integrated into every textbook everywhere on the nature of propaganda. We were sold the biggest lie in human history.
Does anyone on this forum know if the Chinese "vaccine" produced by Sinovac is less dangerous than the mRNA death jabs? It's odd that China would not allow its own people to use the mRNA technology, so many Chinese felt they were missing out on the "safer" and "more effective" injectable because they were given only the Sinovac version. Since the latter is based on traditional approaches to manufacturing vaccines, i.e., using an inactivated live virus, it would seem to be much less dangerous. Did the Chinese government know something that was being hidden from the Western world?
After 17 years of research trying to find a vaccine for SARS-1, no one had succeeded. Respiratory illnesses pose unique problems to the vaccine developer, not least of which is that vaccines are usually injected into the arm not the lungs.
It was known by Nov 2020 that the mRNA concept would not stop infection or death from covid, and that the adverse effects were worse than covid in all metrics (fever, cough, hospitalizations etc). Besides, it was an untested platform. No government or scientist should have remotely accepted mRNA shots without 20 years of experiments first, including full toxicological studies. Why any government accepted them, let alone mandated them, is the real question to ask.
Covid was a minor, normal type of disease, not requiring experimental vaccines. I would be gobsmacked if the Chinese missed this elementary truth, known to anyone with eyes by Feb 2020. The rest was propaganda.
"In summary, if we take official Covid mortality data at face value, all the patterns and evidence argue that if governments and the media had never mentioned Covid, nobody would have noticed anything out of the ordinary." Yet another clear example of 'The government that governs best is the one that governs least'.
Good work, gentlemen.
No sudden spread of a novel deadly coronavirus. The evidence continues to mount...