Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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Well the biggest mistake of China is too soft on its citizens. Allowing people not vaccinated is too lenient. I know Chinese people respect the elder but elder or not, in front of law, all people are equal. If vaccine mandate in place in the first place, no country or no one can critisize China for opening up.
Even if China vaccinates all its population, the West would still be able to find something to criticize China. MSM doesn't care about deaths in China. MSM only cares that if it could demonize China in every chance it can get. It doesn't matter what China does or doesn't do.
As for mandatory vaccination, I personally do support it. But I can see why the Chinese government doesn't want to implement such policy.
Anglo racists always talk about the shortage of anti-fever medicine like paracetamol or ibuprofen.
However, anti-fever medication doesn't kill COVID viruses. It just suppresses your immune system.
Fever is created by your body to fight disease. Fever is your immune system's way of killing viruses, forcing you to stay in bed to recover, and racketing up the creation of white blood cells.
Imo when you suppress your fever, that's not a good thing. Anti-fever medication probably feels great the first few days. But on week two COVID starts hitting your lungs (if things go wrong). If you suppressed your fever that was supposed to kill COVID viruses in the initial infection, you may be in a worse condition.
Now, medical studies say that taking anti-fever medication like ibuprofen doesn't statistically increase your chances of death. And for what it's worth, I believe them. It is interesting, however, that people who take anti-fever medication like ibuprofen often suffer higher death rates in those studies (6.3% death rate versus 6.1% death rate ).
So a shortage of anti-fever medication in China makes no difference. These medications don't work, don't kill the COVID virus, and probably raise the death rate by suppressing your immune system. If nobody in China had anti-fever medication, I bet deaths would decrease.
(Note that this doesn't apply for stuff like Paxlovid, which is the very very rare drug that actually does kill the COVID virus.)
However, anti-fever medication doesn't kill COVID viruses. It just suppresses your immune system.
Fever is created by your body to fight disease. Fever is your immune system's way of killing viruses, forcing you to stay in bed to recover, and racketing up the creation of white blood cells.
Imo when you suppress your fever, that's not a good thing. Anti-fever medication probably feels great the first few days. But on week two COVID starts hitting your lungs (if things go wrong). If you suppressed your fever that was supposed to kill COVID viruses in the initial infection, you may be in a worse condition.
Now, medical studies say that taking anti-fever medication like ibuprofen doesn't statistically increase your chances of death. And for what it's worth, I believe them. It is interesting, however, that people who take anti-fever medication like ibuprofen often suffer higher death rates in those studies (6.3% death rate versus 6.1% death rate ).
So a shortage of anti-fever medication in China makes no difference. These medications don't work, don't kill the COVID virus, and probably raise the death rate by suppressing your immune system. If nobody in China had anti-fever medication, I bet deaths would decrease.
(Note that this doesn't apply for stuff like Paxlovid, which is the very very rare drug that actually does kill the COVID virus.)
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What is wrong with WHO nowadays making political-like statements like China is not sharing enough Covid data?
As it has turned out, from a 4th Jan 2023 WHO report, the Covid variants submitted by China's NHC to WHO are the same as those detected from Chinese travelers worldwide.
As it has turned out, from a 4th Jan 2023 WHO report, the Covid variants submitted by China's NHC to WHO are the same as those detected from Chinese travelers worldwide.
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[citations needed] (studies by researchers with zero financial ties to Pfizer only)
I'll preface by saying I haven't made an academic level inquiry into how well it works or how exactly it works.
But it seems to be some protease inhibitor (anti virus reproduction) kinda like ritonavir which are well proven drugs, afaik there are already multiple on the market from different makers.
So purely from a mechanical perspective I don't think there's anything unsafe.
Now what is the catch, with such antiviral drugs, its that it is something you give to people who are very sick, so they have a chance to quicker recover. Or they may not recover at all. It is not anywhere near as effective as antibiotics is against bacteria.
The problem made by omicron is that people get fever for a few days, are unable to go to their jobs, so you have a big wave and it could cause temporary shut downs, like what happened mid December in China. Even if you distribute antiviral pills everywhere, it will not work.
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As though we need more proof that Chinese female diaspora "journalist/commentator" is one of the worst in terms of bashing anything China. BTW, I have no interest or patience to read her article. I'm just curious why her mother did not take any vaccine? Because she told her mother that Chinese vaccines were no good?
CanSino's mRNA vaccine is effective against some Omicron sub-variants during the phase II clinical trial.