1. Preliminary German Study Shows a COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate of About 0.4 Percent
Preliminary results are out from a COVID-19 case cluster study in one of the regions worst hit by Germany’s coronavirus epidemic. They are somewhat reassuring.
One often-heard statistic is the “case fatality rate”—that is, the percentage of people diagnosed with a disease who will die of it. This afternoon that figure stands at 3.5 percent for COVID-19 in the U.S., but this rate is significantly inflated because it does not count asymptomatic cases or undiagnosed people who recover at home. What we really need to know is the infection fatality rate: the percentage of all the people infected who eventually die of the disease. That’s what the German study attempts to do.
Over the last two weeks, German virologists tested nearly 80 percent of the population of Gangelt for antibodies that indicate whether they’d been infected by the coronavirus. Around 15 percent had been infected, allowing them to calculate a COVID-19 infection fatality rate of about 0.37 percent. The researchers also concluded that people who recover from the infection are immune to reinfection, at least for a while.
(End the lockdown now)
2. Pakistan: Christians and Hindus only allowed food rations if they convert to Islam
Several days ago, Jihad Watch reported that Saylani Welfare International Trust in Karachi was denying food aid to poor Hindus and Christians amid the coronavirus pandemic. “The reason for this is that Zakat, Islamic alms giving (one of Islam’s five pillars), is reserved for Muslims.”
Then shortly afterward, International Christian Concern reported that Christians in Lahore were also being denied government food aid amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Now it emerges that Christians and Hindus in Pakistan will be allowed food rations under one condition: if they convert to Islam. They must say the Kalma Tayyaba, which translates to: There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet (or messenger). This is the first part of the Shahada — the profession of faith that constitutes conversion to Islam.
This “shocking act of discrimination against minorities” is major news, but is, of course, ignored by mainstream media.
3. FBI Used Russian Disinformation to Launch Investigation Into Trump, Audit Finds
3. Germany: Afghan killed a German mother carrying her baby in her arms with a beer bottle
When the woman was found lying on the ground with her skull bashed in, the baby lay next to her” … Brutal murder of a German mother by an Afghan in the recreation area Auwald in Leipzig in broad daylight. The 37-year-old woman, with her baby in her arms, was knocked down with a bottle and seriously injured by the perpetrator on Wednesday morning at about 11:40 a.m. on the Neue Linie, a forest path in the south of Leipzig.
On Good Friday, her martyrdom in a Leipzig intensive care unit resulted in her death – despite the intensive medical treatment initiated on the day of the crime. The perpetrator – according to initial findings it was her ex-boyfriend – was able to flee first, and on Thursday afternoon the 30-year-old was arrested. The accused was born in Afghanistan and of course has German citizenship. According to the mainstream press “the victim is also a German”.
The police had been looking for the perpetrator in the victim’s surroundings from the very beginning. The suspect is said to have harassed his former girlfriend in the past. He was investigated – as usual in such relationships – for stalking. The murderer of the still nameless mother “fled” to Germany as a child. The baby is safe and is being looked after.
4. China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
Move is likely to be part of attempt to control the narrative surrounding the pandemic
China is cracking down on publication of academic research about the origins of the novel coronavirus, in what is likely to be part of a wider attempt to control the narrative surrounding the pandemic, documents published online by Chinese universities appear to show.
Two websites for leading Chinese universities appear to have recently published and then removed pages that reference a new policy requiring academic papers dealing with Covid-19 to undergo extra vetting before they are submitted for publication.
Research on the origins of the virus is particularly sensitive and subject to checks by government officials, the notices posted on the websites of Fudan University and the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) said. Both the deleted pages were accessed from online caches.
5. Candace Owens has a petition to demand the resignation of Connecticut’s Governor, for using the death of a 6-week old baby to further a political agenda, claiming the baby’s death was a Covid 19/Wuhan Flu death, when it was not. Her claim is that he knew it was false. She does not link the story or the evidence that he knew this was not the case, although it seems quite likely she has it right. If anyone does have a link to this story, showing that the baby died of other than Covid and that the Governor knew, please post to the comments. The link to her petition is here.
6. Much of this video shares techniques with Micheal Moore’s way of forcing a conclusion. The fact that Gates’ daughter works for someone they are associated with likely just means that Gates said, “Hey can you give my daughter a fat job with a nice title? Thanks! I owe you one” or something like that. It does not mean that its sinister, any more than it means that it isn’t. But there are some facts in this video that are highly concerning anyway. The thing to do is draw one’s own conclusions based on those and try not to step in the Moore style dot-joining.
(Simulations for a situation like this doesn’t necessarily mean more than war games mean they know there will be a war. And even if it does, aren’t we glad our side rehearsed for it? Videos like this require open eyes. But again, the instruction to call all deaths with Covid as deaths FROM Covid is a giant thing and requires an explanation.
Doubly concerning because its easy to think of one on our own. Lets say a person with a heart or lung condition who is well treated and otherwise healthy and living a normal life but doing the required medication and lifestyle routines for their disease, gets Covid and dies of a heart or lung related failure BECAUSE of the Covid where they would not have otherwise, then yeah. That is a Covid death. And that explanation is an easy one. The Ottawa Civic Hospital does 5000 angioplasties a year for Ottawa alone. We could extrapolate and say that means every year there are 5 per thousand people in the world with access to that tech who are vulnerable.
But they have not said that. They say any death with Covid is of Covid. That sounds more like politics and manipulation than like public interest or good medicine or science.)
7. Here is one of the videos from yesterday’s Belgian migrant riots where a police car was trashed and looted and from the look of some of the videos, the police inside where pretty seriously attacked.
8. Boris Johnson discusses his battle with the Wuhan Flu
9. On the other hand… Governments have empowered the worst characters among our populations
10. Indian and Pakistani Troops Exchange Fire in Kashmir, Three Dead – Police
Hostilities re-emerged between Indian and Pakistani troops at the Line of Control (LoC) earlier this week with both sets of troops involved in cross-border shooting and artillery fire.
Three civilians were killed when Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy artillery fire on Sunday evening, Indian police said, as quoted by the Associated Press.
The agency quoted Shri Ram Ambarkar, an Indian police officer, who said that three civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed when shells fired from the Pakistani army hit homes in the Kupwara area of Indian-controlled Kashmir.
He added that more people were feared to be injured as a rescue operation was still underway after the shelling.
The two countries have been engaged in firefights and shelling for the past few days following the killing of five Indian troops near the Line of Control. According to the Pakistani military, they were responding to “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by the Indian side. India, for its part, issued a statement to say that its army was responding to Pakistan’s ceasefire violation.
Thank you M., Wrath of Khan, Malca, Richard, Sassy, Johnny U., Tanya Gaw, PC., EB., Chris Jones and all who have posted this weekend.
Check back later today for some videos that are hopefully revealing on a couple of subjects.
10 – Someday India will not have a hostile China ready to jump in and help Pakistan, when this happens the Paki’s had better watch out.
6 – I am not sure what to think, part of the video is pure BS but part of it are very thought provoking. Especially when you consider that Bill Gates wants to emplant a chip in everyone to be able to moniter their “health”. This video and Gates actions need to be thought about and looked into but right now nothing is proven.
This is upbeat in a half-full kind of way. Here’s a simple plan to come out of lockdown.
Because the asymptomatic spreader period can be one week, have the population rotate on and off social-distancing in weekly cycles. Illness clusters will appear while people are in their shelter-phase.
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/on-campus/bar-ilan-researchers-offer-exit-strategy-for-coronavirus-lockdown/2020/04/12/
and this one says, have the population in unison work 4 days, then off 10 days. During that 10-day period, you can have clusters of illness.
And the other one says, it’s a model, it’s not life. Whatever you do, do it for one small population to test it at a time.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/exiteers-pitch-a-range-of-on-off-lockdown-proposals-to-get-israel-back-to-work/
(this is in a country where the government monitors you to stay within 100m of your home and you receive an automatic text if your phone has been near someone who has tested positive for the virus.)