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@alkante2962
Thank you for wishing me the best.
I will need it.
Well, Belgium fared worse than Sweden, despite the heavy lockdown in Belgium.
We are now in Belgium with higher figures in this "so-called" second wave than in Sweden.
In Belgium, as in Sweden, they have opted for very large retirement homes for the elderly.
It would all be more efficient.
I have seen several hospitals disappear here within 25km of my hometown.
Healthcare had to be cheaper and more efficient.
But this policy is now turning sour.
In Norway this policy has not been pursued and it seems there are many more, but smaller retirement homes.
If the lockdowns had any effect beyond destroying the economy, it was slowing down the achievement of group immunity.
In all of these epidemics, I'm not saying that, but history teaches us that, it is always this group immunity that will eventually wipe out the virus.
The statement of some politicians, "together we will beat the virus" is utter nonsense and demagoguery.
It is actually a blow in the face of any duped entrepreneur.
My neighbors are nice people, civil servants, they were allowed to work from home during this time, didn't have to be in traffic jams to and from work, and didn't lose a penny of their wages.
Wonderful, for them it could stay that way forever.
When I talked to them about this whole corona affair, I realized that they absolutely could not empathize with my situation.
Did you know that in my country some of those homeworkers were protesting?
They demanded a "coffee compensation" because they get coffee at work and they now have to pay for it at home.
Moreover "life"?
The average age of people who died "with" covid19 is 80 years.
That happens to be the average life expectancy in Western Europe.
None of my relatives I have known ever reached that age.
I don't want to downplay anything, but putting things in perspective a bit wouldn't be out of place.
The WHO praised the lockdown applied in dictatorial China.
The same WHO now claims that lockdowns are not the best way to contain the virus.
A turn of 180 degrees.
Incidentally, it is not the only 180 degree turn that the WHO has made in recent months.
My regard for politics was not high, but it has now been completely washed away in the sewers.
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@alkante2962
Your quote; "We won't be able to afford an other strict lockdown. "
I agree with that.
Yet they do it in Wales.
And our famous politicians here in Belgium don't rule it out either.
As for the clinical picture of covid19, well, it can cause serious complications, especially with older people who already have one or more underlying (or more complex) conditions.
Yet more than 99% of infected people heal from it.
But if you put it in the media like that, it is of course not sensational enough.
The mainstream media has slipped to the level of the tabloids.
A headline from a television report last week in Belgium read: "Liège, the Bergamo of the second wave".
You would expect such a headline in a sensation magazine, but not on state television that is paid with our tax money.
Yet many people are still guided and influenced by such sensational reporting.
The fact that they have problems with the care of patients in Liège is largely the result of the budget cuts in the health sector over the past decades.
Another example of such reporting:
In March/April, during the lockdown, our state television showed footage of a "supposedly" special corona graveyard in New York, where mass graves were dug with a bulldozer to bury the abundance of corona deaths.
But many people who saw the images had a deja vu and thought, "I've seen those images before".
They turned out to come from a report that had been broadcast a few years earlier.
They were images of a New York cemetery where dead unidentified homeless people were buried.
Due to reactions from viewers, the channel had to apologize for the disinformation.
This should never have happened, but it shows how eager the media is to thrill and scare people.
You don't want to blame the WHO.
But if almost all countries signed up to follow the recommendations of the WHO, then you as an institute bear a great responsibility.
In December/January, Tedros of the WHO, who had been in China, stated that it was not transferable from human to human, only from animal (bat) to human.
Trump, who felt that things were happening in China that were not kosher, closed the US borders to those coming from China on January 31.
For this he was called "xenophobic" by his opponents (haters).
A few days later, Tedros declared to the press that "travel restrictions are not necessary".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOpBke87-ec&ab_channel=ARIRANGNEWS
Later in February, Nancy Pelosi ostentatiously walked the streets of Chinatown with the press, and declared that nothing was wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmllqkU6j2k&ab_channel=JosephHewes
At the beginning of March, Tedros suddenly declared: "It is time to pull out all the stops".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9hYkoZH7yo&t=10s&ab_channel=APArchive
But even the panic monger, Neil Ferguson, with his unreliable computer models, now admits a lockdown was wrong.
https://viruswaarheid.nl/medisch/modellen/neil-ferguson-lockdown-was-een-vergissing-voorspelling-miljoenen-doden-waren-startschot-draconische-maatregelen/
Click for English version on the British flag.
If you go through this entire history, it seems like a science fiction story that the greatest fantasist could not have imagined last year (2019).
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Goran
You know, nobody has to die for me.
But dying is a law of nature that applies almost to all living things on earth.
We would be in serious trouble if no creature on Earth died.
Nature has provided a balance.
The older you get, the more likely you are to die of natural causes.
Sickness is one of the natural causes.
That is, if you have not weakened or made yourself sick by a wrong lifestyle, such as smoking or excessive alcohol consumption.
As in so many areas, humans have disrupted the natural balance through interventions and medication that have caused life expectancy to increase significantly, by artificially keeping people alive who should have been dead already.
Not that I disapprove, because it's a natural reflex of almost everyone to try to live as long as possible.
But then you are left with a very vulnerable group of people who could get into trouble if a disease emerges that disrupts this strategy of life extension of the elderly.
There are many countries where more people died from influenza during the 2018 flu epidemic than now from corona.
Relatively speaking, these were mostly elderly, but also young people.
Despite the flu vaccines, a variant that was not in the vaccines then surfaced, and even vaccinated people became ill and died.
Yet you hear little about this in the current hysteria, partly due to the media.
But it also shows that a vaccine is not foolproof.
It also shows that covid19 is kind to the young, compared to the flu.
That's why I actually think the flu is worse than corona.
But that's my personal vision, after going through all aspects of it.
Oh and I'm not saying this as a youngster, I'm already 66 myself and close to the risk zone.
I have never smoked, I am not a drinker, I watch my diet and eat fresh fruit, which makes it good with vitamin C, I think.
Vitamin C and D are very important for a healthy immune system.
At our latitude in Western Europe, we are deficient in vitamin D.
Especially in winter during the short sun-poor days, when we also spend a lot of time indoors.
I am considering taking a vitamin D supplement during the winter.
It's strange that you never hear the virologists who scare us through the media every day tell you about it.
Probably that is not important enough for them (or the media).
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@danielbengtsson9833
This is not theory, but facts.
Compare the "official" figures of cases in relation to deaths from March/April, with the "official" figures of cases in relation to deaths from "now".
A toddler sees that something is not right.
The number of deaths now is only increasing by a fraction of what it was then.
Either the number of cases is incorrect or there is something wrong with the number of deaths.
I can still accept a small deviation, but this deviation is too blatant.
The media always uses the numbers in the most dramatic sense, namely "double", "quadruple" when it suits them.
Percentages are now also great in the media.
An increase from 40 to 50 is a percentage of 25%.
25% sounds more impressive than 10 cases.
Unfortunately for them, "the media", I see through all those tricks.
The problems that are now emerging and for which we were put into a "supposedly" temporary lockdown in March (of no more than three weeks, they said) was to counter the overload of hospitals.
They now use a different narrative to devastate the economies in the Western countries.
Now they speak of "We are going to fight and eradicate the virus".
Well, I wish them the best of luck, our famous politicians.
Over the past decades, they have ensured that the health sector has been tidied up and cut back to such an extent that the capacity in the event of epidemics or possible disasters is insufficient.
I have seen several hospitals disappear here within a radius of 25 km from my hometown.
There were two retirement homes for the elderly within a radius of 5km, both of which have been demolished and one new "large" retirement home was built.
That would be much more efficient, but a infection in such a "large" nursing home is also a "major" problem.
In small nursing homes, such as in Norway, any contamination can be better controlled.
In Sweden, I understand, they have quite a lot African immigrants, just like here in Belgium.
They seem to be more susceptible.
Are these people more susceptible because they have hardly or not come into contact with other corona variants in their past?
But you can spin it however you want, Belgium with its strict devastating lockdown is doing worse than Sweden.
I have been hit hard with my business as it is seasonal from March to October.
Since the lockdown was never completely lifted here.
There was still a ban for some industries, I could only run more or less normally (with restrictions) in September, in October the restrictions were tightened again, so that my company had an annual turnover of barely 10 % of a normal year and moreover I could not create the traditional buffer (reserve) to bridge the winter period until next season.
Fortunately, I already have a respectable age and have savings, which I now have to live on.
But there are young people in my industry who do not yet have a reserve (savings), where the drama is imminent.
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@danielbengtsson9833
If the purpose of looking at other countries is to blame Sweden, then I am not participating.
If it is for the sake of science or rather, better knowledge, then OK.
I know from experience that a lockdown has been an exaggerated panic reaction by governments frightened by pitiful scientists who engage in dangerous computer simulations.
Even the WHO now says that a lockdown is not the ideal way to contain the virus.
Yet they praised the tactics of the dictatorial Chinese in March as a panacea.
You could say, "Oh, but they also had to learn through advancing insight."
Nevertheless, lockdowns are still being introduced and applied, as in Wales UK and Melbourne Australia, to the great dismay of the population.
You do not lock up or chain up people who live in Western democracies.
The Chinese people don't know any better, these people have lived in one big prison for generations.
If you have been to Japan, you will also know that it is customary in Japan for the elderly to be kept at home as a family for as long as possible.
They consider this a duty.
Where were the most victims in Sweden and also in Belgium?
Exactly, in the retirement homes for the elderly.
Elderly people living at home in Belgium are much less affected.
An analyst in the Netherlands called Maurice de Hond, went out of professional interest to study the spread of the virus.
Now in the south of the Netherlands, North Brabant and Limburg, there was a tremendous outbreak of corona infections very early in the pandemic.
It was blamed on the carnival, which is celebrated in the south of the Netherlands in that period.
But how could one or two people infect hundreds of people in a short time?
The same happened in Ischgl (Austria), where almost immediately hundreds of people were infected.
Actually, it could hardly have been through direct contact, but it must have happened by air.
He also contacted virologists and most importantly, epidemiologists also abroad who confirmed his hypothesis.
Many of these infected persons also had a remarkable number of lung problems.
He came to the analysis that the contamination did not happen outside on the street during the carnival and also not on the ski slope, but during the after parties that are held during the carnival and apres-ski in closed, poorly ventilated areas.
Where the people contracted the infection via contaminated air, which they immediately inhaled into their lungs in high doses.
Bringing the infection straight to the most dangerous place in their body, "the lungs."
People who are in poorly ventilated retirement homes, where the air is contaminated with the virus, breathe that air 24/7, directly into the most dangerous place in their body, "the lungs".
The Dutch politicians and RIVM dismissed Maurice de Hond's theory as: "What does he know about it?" "He is not a medical expert."
In the meantime, the RIVM in the Netherlands continues to claim that contamination via aerosols is "the air" is negligible.
The "so-called" experts advising the government just keep talking about vaccines, mouth masks, keeping five feet apart, limiting social contacts, paralyzing businesses such as cafes and restaurants, etc.
But what has the government been doing about ventilation since March?
Indeed, NOTHING.
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