• The human cost of living with the virus

    From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 30 06:08:14 2022
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19, even
    if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the Centers
    for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 30 08:06:35 2022
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 6:08:16 AM UTC-7, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19, even
    if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the Centers
    for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.

    There is much human cost from this virus. Look at what is happening in Shanghai right now!

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  • From borie@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 30 20:45:19 2022
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19, even
    if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the Centers
    for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.

    Contagious strains not originated by animals will be a serious concern on costs of human lives and human cost of living with the virus.

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 1 06:27:07 2022
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19, even
    if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the Centers
    for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.

    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found.
    The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections

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  • From borie@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 1 11:10:29 2022
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19,
    even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found.
    The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections

    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections have
    taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to borie on Sun May 1 15:33:02 2022
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19,
    even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found.
    The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections have
    taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.

    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.

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  • From stoney@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 2 01:54:35 2022
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19,
    even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found. The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections
    have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.

    Unfortunately, the number of Covid death in US in the past two months in Jan and Feb was about 54,000 deaths. US democracy does not include the care of whether the people going to die or died from Omicron infection.

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  • From David P.@21:1/5 to borie on Mon May 2 09:27:33 2022
    borie wrote:
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections have
    taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
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    Every species has natural enemies that keep its numbers in check!
    Extending life spans artificially, by suppressing communicable diseases,
    is a selfish decision at the expense of other critters, future generations,
    and the environment! It also allows monstrous forms to proliferate!
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    --

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 2 10:24:14 2022
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 3:33:03 PM UTC-7, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19,
    even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found. The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections
    have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    "Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics."

    Really. So then I guess you went back to China to get vaccinated? Ha ha.

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to stoney on Tue May 10 05:18:23 2022
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 4:54:36 AM UTC-4, stoney wrote:
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-
    19, even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found. The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections
    have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.

    Unfortunately, the number of Covid death in US in the past two months in Jan and Feb was about 54,000 deaths. US democracy does not include the care of whether the people going to die or died from Omicron infection.

    54000 among the vaccinated died of Covid death in Jan and Feb this year. Total Covid death during the same period is about 130,000 per worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ .
    Per the same site:
    Total death (2020) 367661
    Total death (2021) 482859
    Total death (Jan - April 2022) 172054

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  • From borie@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 14 23:59:57 2022
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-19,
    even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found. The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections
    have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.

    America likes to lecture their enemies of the time about everything they did and done. America is busybody in the way that how each country handles their covid crisis is also of their problem when they could not manage themselves. Biden of America lately
    announced that US has reached a milestone of 1 million covid deaths. If one is to compare against US with other countries, US is way ahead of the crowds in death numbers.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to borie on Fri May 20 08:35:38 2022
    On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 2:59:59 AM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to covid-
    19, even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from the
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found. The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections
    have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.
    America likes to lecture their enemies of the time about everything they did and done. America is busybody in the way that how each country handles their covid crisis is also of their problem when they could not manage themselves. Biden of America
    lately announced that US has reached a milestone of 1 million covid deaths. If one is to compare against US with other countries, US is way ahead of the crowds in death numbers.

    Actually, negative comments over China's Covid policy is quite fashionable among
    English media including Singapore's Straits Times.

    Constructive criticism is fine. But then no one is really offering an alternative to Covid
    zero.
    "Living with the virus"?
    What is hell is living with the virus? Is it not a slogan taking the place of a policy?
    Is it not "Let us pretend or hope we can do better in the foreseeable future"? Positive thinking and badly needed sense of normality, of course, could confer placebo effect to all.

    But the results tell a different story. 170000+ had died in the US during the first 4 months.
    If China fares like the US, it means 680000+ would die during the same period.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 20 09:26:32 2022
    On Friday, May 20, 2022 at 8:35:40 AM UTC-7, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 2:59:59 AM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to
    covid-19, even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from
    the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found.
    The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections
    have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.
    America likes to lecture their enemies of the time about everything they did and done. America is busybody in the way that how each country handles their covid crisis is also of their problem when they could not manage themselves. Biden of America
    lately announced that US has reached a milestone of 1 million covid deaths. If one is to compare against US with other countries, US is way ahead of the crowds in death numbers.
    Actually, negative comments over China's Covid policy is quite fashionable among
    English media including Singapore's Straits Times.

    Constructive criticism is fine. But then no one is really offering an alternative to Covid
    zero.

    The PRC's heavy-handed approach has saved lives, but at what cost? A lot of what China's government does is for show, not truly for the people.

    Sorry, but perception is not reality.

    "Living with the virus"?
    What is hell is living with the virus? Is it not a slogan taking the place of a policy?
    Is it not "Let us pretend or hope we can do better in the foreseeable future"?
    Positive thinking and badly needed sense of normality, of course, could confer
    placebo effect to all.

    But the results tell a different story. 170000+ had died in the US during the first 4 months.
    If China fares like the US, it means 680000+ would die during the same period.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From borie@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 20 21:07:58 2022
    On Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:35:40 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 2:59:59 AM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to
    covid-19, even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from
    the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found.
    The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections
    have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.
    America likes to lecture their enemies of the time about everything they did and done. America is busybody in the way that how each country handles their covid crisis is also of their problem when they could not manage themselves. Biden of America
    lately announced that US has reached a milestone of 1 million covid deaths. If one is to compare against US with other countries, US is way ahead of the crowds in death numbers.
    Actually, negative comments over China's Covid policy is quite fashionable among
    English media including Singapore's Straits Times.

    Constructive criticism is fine. But then no one is really offering an alternative to Covid
    zero.
    "Living with the virus"?
    What is hell is living with the virus? Is it not a slogan taking the place of a policy?
    Is it not "Let us pretend or hope we can do better in the foreseeable future"?
    Positive thinking and badly needed sense of normality, of course, could confer
    placebo effect to all.

    But the results tell a different story. 170000+ had died in the US during the first 4 months.
    If China fares like the US, it means 680000+ would die during the same period.

    A lot of journalists and people in the media don't write constructive criticism, and hence they don't even know how to think and write constructive alternative, too.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From stoney@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 20 20:22:49 2022
    On Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:35:40 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 2:59:59 AM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to
    covid-19, even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from
    the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found.
    The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections
    have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.
    America likes to lecture their enemies of the time about everything they did and done. America is busybody in the way that how each country handles their covid crisis is also of their problem when they could not manage themselves. Biden of America
    lately announced that US has reached a milestone of 1 million covid deaths. If one is to compare against US with other countries, US is way ahead of the crowds in death numbers.
    Actually, negative comments over China's Covid policy is quite fashionable among
    English media including Singapore's Straits Times.

    Constructive criticism is fine. But then no one is really offering an alternative to Covid
    zero.
    "Living with the virus"?
    What is hell is living with the virus? Is it not a slogan taking the place of a policy?
    Is it not "Let us pretend or hope we can do better in the foreseeable future"?
    Positive thinking and badly needed sense of normality, of course, could confer
    placebo effect to all.

    But the results tell a different story. 170000+ had died in the US during the first 4 months.
    If China fares like the US, it means 680000+ would die during the same period.

    In the English media, one can take a look at who are the editors and chief executives and the people in the board. One can also see over time, what kind of editors will write to their own kind of stuffs and leanings.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 31 11:09:54 2022
    On Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:35:40 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 2:59:59 AM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to
    covid-19, even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from
    the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found.
    The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more infections
    have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.
    America likes to lecture their enemies of the time about everything they did and done. America is busybody in the way that how each country handles their covid crisis is also of their problem when they could not manage themselves. Biden of America
    lately announced that US has reached a milestone of 1 million covid deaths. If one is to compare against US with other countries, US is way ahead of the crowds in death numbers.
    Actually, negative comments over China's Covid policy is quite fashionable among
    English media including Singapore's Straits Times.

    Constructive criticism is fine. But then no one is really offering an alternative to Covid
    zero.
    "Living with the virus"?
    What is hell is living with the virus? Is it not a slogan taking the place of a policy?
    Is it not "Let us pretend or hope we can do better in the foreseeable future"?
    Positive thinking and badly needed sense of normality, of course, could confer
    placebo effect to all.

    But the results tell a different story. 170000+ had died in the US during the first 4 months.
    If China fares like the US, it means 680000+ would die during the same period.


    Research carried out by group of Chinese and US based scientists suggested a much higher
    death toll if the Chinese government failed to control the spread. Approximately 1.55 million deaths.

    "Abstract
    Having adopted a dynamic zero-COVID strategy to respond to SARS-CoV-2 variants with higher transmissibility since August 2021, China is now considering whether, and for how long, this policy can remain in place. The debate has thus shifted towards the
    identification of mitigation strategies for minimizing disruption to the healthcare system in the case of a nationwide epidemic. To this aim, we developed an age-structured stochastic compartmental susceptible-latent-infectious-removed-susceptible model
    of SARS-CoV-2 transmission calibrated on the initial growth phase for the 2022 Omicron outbreak in Shanghai, to project COVID-19 burden (that is, number of cases, patients requiring hospitalization and intensive care, and deaths) under hypothetical
    mitigation scenarios. The model also considers age-specific vaccine coverage data, vaccine efficacy against different clinical endpoints, waning of immunity, different antiviral therapies and nonpharmaceutical interventions. We find that the level of
    immunity induced by the March 2022 vaccination campaign would be insufficient to prevent an Omicron wave that would result in exceeding critical care capacity with a projected intensive care unit peak demand of 15.6 times the existing capacity and
    causing approximately 1.55 million deaths. However, we also estimate that protecting vulnerable individuals by ensuring accessibility to vaccines and antiviral therapies, and maintaining implementation of nonpharmaceutical interventions could be
    sufficient to prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, suggesting that these factors should be points of emphasis in future mitigation policies."

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01855-7#Abs1

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From stoney@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 1 11:09:15 2022
    On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 2:09:56 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:35:40 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 2:59:59 AM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2:10:30 PM UTC-4, borie wrote:
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 9:27:08 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 9:08:16 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
    "Unvaccinated people accounted for the overwhelming majority of deaths in the United States throughout much of the coronavirus pandemic. But that has changed in recent months, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and federal
    data.

    "The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to or could not get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised — who are at greatest risk of succumbing to
    covid-19, even if vaccinated — having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.

    The vaccinated made up 42 percent of fatalities in January and February during the highly contagious omicron variant’s surge, compared with 23 percent of the dead in September, the peak of the delta wave, according to nationwide data from
    the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed by The Post."

    (980349 -849521)*.42=54947 vaccinated in America had died Covid during January and February of this year.

    Virus invasion and immunodefense of a patient is often a matter of which side can ramp up faster. Omicron is a lot less lethal. But highly infectious means a person could be repeatedly invaded from different sources over a short time.
    In addition, "Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies From Earlier Infections"

    "New omicron sublineages show an ability to evade antibodies from earlier
    infection and vaccination, a South African laboratory study has found.
    The findings could signal a fresh wave of infections by the BA.4 and BA.5
    sublineages of the omicron variant that were discovered this month in South Africa. "

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/omicron-sublineages-can-evade-antibodies-from-earlier-infections
    The world is still in the middle of pandemic. With another new wave coming soon, people will have to follow strict measures again. In South Africa, more than 6,000 cases were new variants BA.4 or BA.5. The case figure will rise as more
    infections have taken place. Strict control measures will be needed again.
    Smallpox, a variola virus, has been with us for two plus millennia since 3rd Century. And it was not considered
    eradicated until May 8th, 1980 after several failed attempts. At present, we would have to live with the COVID
    virus in the foreseeable future.

    Concerning HOW to live the virus, no matter how one sees the situation, it is a matter policy choice for individual
    government. Nations should try to learn from each other and improve each other by diversity. For whatever reason,
    western media keeps criticizing Chinese approach while Western governments have yet to to provide a better
    approach.

    Democracy is certainly a matter of democratic politics. Unfortunately, how to deal with a contagious deadly virus
    is and saving lives is NEVER a matter of democracy and/or democratic politics.
    America likes to lecture their enemies of the time about everything they did and done. America is busybody in the way that how each country handles their covid crisis is also of their problem when they could not manage themselves. Biden of America
    lately announced that US has reached a milestone of 1 million covid deaths. If one is to compare against US with other countries, US is way ahead of the crowds in death numbers.
    Actually, negative comments over China's Covid policy is quite fashionable among
    English media including Singapore's Straits Times.

    Constructive criticism is fine. But then no one is really offering an alternative to Covid
    zero.
    "Living with the virus"?
    What is hell is living with the virus? Is it not a slogan taking the place of a policy?
    Is it not "Let us pretend or hope we can do better in the foreseeable future"?
    Positive thinking and badly needed sense of normality, of course, could confer
    placebo effect to all.

    But the results tell a different story. 170000+ had died in the US during the first 4 months.
    If China fares like the US, it means 680000+ would die during the same period.
    Research carried out by group of Chinese and US based scientists suggested a much higher
    death toll if the Chinese government failed to control the spread. Approximately 1.55 million deaths.

    "Abstract
    Having adopted a dynamic zero-COVID strategy to respond to SARS-CoV-2 variants with higher transmissibility since August 2021, China is now considering whether, and for how long, this policy can remain in place. The debate has thus shifted towards the
    identification of mitigation strategies for minimizing disruption to the healthcare system in the case of a nationwide epidemic. To this aim, we developed an age-structured stochastic compartmental susceptible-latent-infectious-removed-susceptible model
    of SARS-CoV-2 transmission calibrated on the initial growth phase for the 2022 Omicron outbreak in Shanghai, to project COVID-19 burden (that is, number of cases, patients requiring hospitalization and intensive care, and deaths) under hypothetical
    mitigation scenarios. The model also considers age-specific vaccine coverage data, vaccine efficacy against different clinical endpoints, waning of immunity, different antiviral therapies and nonpharmaceutical interventions. We find that the level of
    immunity induced by the March 2022 vaccination campaign would be insufficient to prevent an Omicron wave that would result in exceeding critical care capacity with a projected intensive care unit peak demand of 15.6 times the existing capacity and
    causing approximately 1.55 million deaths. However, we also estimate that protecting vulnerable individuals by ensuring accessibility to vaccines and antiviral therapies, and maintaining implementation of nonpharmaceutical interventions could be
    sufficient to prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, suggesting that these factors should be points of emphasis in future mitigation policies."

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01855-7#Abs1

    Chinese people should be grateful that the 2 month's lockdown had saved their lives - at least 1.5 million from the city of Shanghai of 20 to 30 million people.

    Now, on June 1, they are given the freedom to leave their homes from the lockdowns. Chinese people having experienced the lockdown are aware that another lockdown at home can happen again and again as long as the potential infection or reinfection can
    happen again and again at anytime.

    In short, they know that recurrence of cross-infection can happen any time. Since they have this mind in their heads, they should not make too much noises and grumbles about being confined at home.

    Chinese people must cooperate with their government when comes to enforcing the lockdown measures. If they do not do cooperate, the problem will be there for them, too.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)