Research papers indicate that SARS-CoV-2 may be a bioweapon

[Puma Cat]

Originally Posted by PHC1

I’ll quote myself here... If you saw today’s WH briefing, this is being looked at. Dr.Fauchi said he found it “disturbing” and “misleading” because it means the 6ft distance is not working.... Nonetheless, it is being discussed by the task force.

I actually heard the Surgeon General and an MD state today they don't think wearing masks in public would be a good idea.

Man! This is a no-brainer.

Jeez.

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by Puma Cat

Man! This is a no-brainer. Jeez.

Last thing anyone at the WH wants to admit right now. It’s not about politics but the reality that there are no masks for the population. That in itself is a strange story. I noticed most masks disappeared from Amazon some time before we even had an outbreak in the US. Were they bought up by people from overseas? Perhaps but I find that odd.

[PHC1]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/opini...lee/index.html

[PHC1]

Now that they finally woke up...

"While there is limited research on the effectiveness of homemade masks made from household materials to block droplet transmission, some studies show that homemade masks are better than no mask. Next time you go to the grocery store, you might want to bring with you some homemade Personal Protective Equipment."

Time for youtube DIY mask videos.

[PHC1]

Side note. Forgive me for being cynical during these very difficult times... This of course was last year and way before the pandemic.


An annual government report on the status of the programs painted a dire portrait of their solvency that will saddle the United States with more debt at a time when the economy is starting to cool and taxes have just been cut.

According to the report, the cost of Social Security, the federal retirement program, will exceed its income in 2020 for the first time since 1982. The program’s reserve fund is projected to be depleted in 16 years, at which time recipients will get smaller payments than they are scheduled to receive if Congress does not act.

Meanwhile, Medicare’s hospital insurance fund is expected to be depleted in 2026 — the same date that was projected a year ago. At that point, doctors, hospitals and nursing homes would not receive their full compensation from the program and patients could face more of the financial burden.

[PHC1]

Italy: Inside the hospital where NO medics have been infected. Perhaps the only way to fight it without losses to the medical staff. This is not the norm unfortunately.

https://youtu.be/RsJJtI9bwwo

[PHC1]

So how many 5G towers should we expect to be erected while we are locked up inside?


https://youtu.be/-T2R2htAaqg

[PHC1]

1957–58 influenza pandemic

The 1957–58 influenza pandemic, also known as Asian flu, was a global pandemic of influenza A virus subtype H2N2 which originated in China and killed more than 1 million people worldwide.



History

The strain of virus that caused the pandemic, influenza A virus subtype H2N2, was a recombination of avian influenza and human influenza viruses.[1] As it was an entirely novel strain of the virus, there was no immunity in the population.[2]

The first cases were reported in Guizhou in February 1957.[3] On 17 April, The Times reported that "an influenza epidemic has affected thousands of Hong Kong residents". In Taiwan, 100 000 were affected by mid-May and India suffered a million cases by June. In late June, the pandemic reached the United Kingdom.[2] By June 1957 it reached the United States, where it initially caused few infections; the first wave peaked in October (among children who returned to school) and the second wave, in January and February among elderly people, which was more fatal.[1][4] United States researchers began work on a vaccine by May 1957,[5] which began to become available in August in the United States[4] and October in the United Kingdom.[2] Although it was only available initially in limited quantities,[4][2] its rapid deployment helped contain the pandemic.[1]

H2N2 influenza virus continued to circulate until 1968, when it transformed via antigenic shift into influenza A virus subtype H3N2, the cause of the 1968 influenza pandemic




The Hong Kong flu (also known as 1968 flu pandemic[1]) was a category 2 flu pandemic whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 killed an estimated one million people all over the world. [2][3][4] It was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus, descended from H2N2 through antigenic shift, a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes reassorted to form a new virus.

The first record of the outbreak in Hong Kong appeared on 13 July 1968. By the end of July 1968, extensive outbreaks were reported in Vietnam and Singapore. Despite the lethality of the 1957 Asian Flu in China, little improvement had been made regarding the handling of such epidemics. The Times newspaper was the first source to sound alarm regarding this new possible pandemic.

By September 1968, the flu reached India, the Philippines, northern Australia, and Europe. That same month, the virus entered California from returning Vietnam War troops but did not become widespread in the United States until December 1968. It would reach Japan, Africa, and South America by 1969.[5]

The outbreak in Hong Kong, where population density is greater than 6,000 people per square kilometre, reached maximum intensity in two weeks, lasting six months in total from July to December 1968. However, worldwide deaths from this virus peaked much later, in December 1968 and January 1969. By that time, public health warnings[6] and virus descriptions[7] were issued in the scientific and medical journals.

In comparison to other pandemics, the Hong Kong flu yielded a low death rate, with a case-fatality ratio below 0.5% making it a category 2 disease on the Pandemic Severity Index. The pandemic infected an estimated 500,000 Hong Kong residents, 15% of the population.[5]

The same virus returned the following years: a year later, in late 1969 and early 1970, and in 1972. The CDC currently estimates that, in total, the virus killed 1 million people worldwide and around 100,000 people in the U.S.[8]

Fewer people in the U.S. died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[9]

some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

[Cohibaman]

Very interesting. Could you please link your source? Thanks!

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by Cohibaman

Very interesting. Could you please link your source? Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu