German, British, and French leaders issued new lockdown measures last week they say will help their countries gain control of the coronavirus outbreak that is infecting people at record numbers.
But is the virus infecting these nations the flu of 2021?
Knut Wittkowski, former Head of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at Rockefeller University says the sharp drop in influenza cases is because what is being reported as COVID cases is the flu: “Influenza has been renamed COVID-19 in large part.”
Mr. Wittkowski notes that according to CDC figures from late September to 19 December, there were just 0.2 percent flu cases as compared to 8.7 percent, the cumulative positive influenza test rate in 2019.
He told Just the News there may be a substantial number of influenza cases included in the “presumed COVID-19” category of those who have COVID symptoms, which influenza symptoms can be mistaken for, but are not tested for SARS RNA. Mr. Wittkowski said those patients “also may have some SARS RNA sitting in their nose while being infected with influenza, in which case influenza would be ‘confirmed’ to be COVID-19.”
He said flu and COVID-19 viruses are “more similar than people want to acknowledge.”
Fail and Re-Fail
As we have continually noted, despite draconian lockdown orders that were imposed throughout much of the world when the COVID War was launched, despite their inability to lower the case rate, politicians are doubling up on their lockdown rules.
As Just the News notes, “Data indicate that more than nine out of every ten Americans in most states are wearing masks in public regularly; those numbers have been above 80% since the early fall. Yet average positive COVID-19 tests have multiplied by nearly seven times since the spring peak.”
GERMANY. “With every relaxation now, the likelihood of even longer necessary restrictions is greater and greater,” Helge Braun, the head of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office, told Reuters.
The report said the number of confirmed cases in Germany reached 1.84 million, and the virus death toll is now at 37,607. Merkel extended the country’s lockdown until the end of January. Ms. Merkel said,
“It is the beginning of the year with mixed feelings. There is the hope we associate with this new year, the justified hope that step by step we will get the coronavirus under control and get our freedom back.”
Selling more fear and hysteria, the German chancellor warned,
“There is this dangerous second wave of the pandemic that our country is in, like so many European countries. These next weeks of winter will probably be the most difficult phase of the pandemic.”
In addition to school closures, the new orders put travel restrictions on residents who live in coronavirus hotspots, which means 200 cases per 100,000 residents. Members of one household cannot meet more than one person from another household.
“We must be especially careful now,” Merkel said. “We are in a new and extraordinary situation.”
TRENDPOST: As we have reported, most of the virus victims are “grandparents” and those suffering from 2.6 pre-existing chronic conditions. The average age of COVID victims in Germany, depending on available data, is between 77 to 82 years old.
To date, the country of 84 million had a total of 40,000 deaths since March. This compares to New York State, with a population four times smaller than Germany’s (19.5 million) that has approximately the same number of people who allegedly died from the virus.
Therefore, rather than lock down the entire nation, destroying businesses, lives, and livelihoods, Germany, as with the rest of the world, should be advising and assisting those most at risk to take strict precautions while letting the rest of its citizens live “normal” lives… and end the lockdown orders that have already failed to stem the virus.
U.K. Britain’s Matt Hancock, the health secretary, told the BBC that the country’s health system is under serious strain. There were 54,940 new cases on Sunday. He said staying home was the “most important thing we can do collectively as a society.”
Professor Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, told the BBC if the country stays on its current trajectory, hospitals will begin to be overcrowded, which could lead to “avoidable deaths” because some people could be turned away from hospitals.
Some British citizens expressed coronavirus fatigue last week and used the police action against two women as a way to express their frustration.
The two women said they were surrounded by police cars because they took a walk by a reservoir, which was five miles from their home. They were both fined €200 and said they were intimidated by the officers.
Derbyshire police responded to criticism by saying that driving to exercise was not in the “spirit” of the lockdown orders, the report said. The women said their cars were surrounded and were blamed for having a “picnic” because they were carrying hot drinks.
Another video showed footage of U.K police surrounding a woman for allegedly leaving her house more than once in a day and of another woman being handcuffed and led away by the COVID Cops, repeatedly telling them, “I was sitting on a bench.”
A viral video also emerged that showed a group of police officers in the U.K. sitting down at what looked like a mall cafeteria during a break without masks. A citizen walked up to the group and asked them what tier the country was in (Tier 4) and why they were allowed to sit without masks while the rest of the country cannot.
The police gave the inquisitor some backtalk and went on doing what they wanted… which the masses of Slavelandia are not allowed to do.
TRENDPOST: As with much of the world, the virus death rate in the U.K. is predominantly among the elderly and those with pre-existing chronic conditions including obesity, type 2 diabetes, asthma, cancer, heart disease, etc.
Since the virus broke out in February, now, some ten months later, according to the United Kingdom National Health Service, only 388 people aged under 60 with no underlying health conditions have died from COVID.
The NHS reported that between 2 April to 23 December, just under 2,000 previously healthy people died from the virus after testing positive.
As we continue to note, rather than taking measures to protect those most vulnerable, as with other nations, in the locked-down U.K., more businesses and lives are being killed by the draconian mandates than healthy people dying from the virus.
TRENDPOST: Where have we seen this before? Politicians and law enforcement officers disregarding the very laws they put into place and enforce. Last week, we reported on Ontario’s Finance Minister Rod Phillips stepping down after he was caught vacationing in St. Bart’s while health officials in his province told citizens to avoid travel due to the risk of spreading COVID. These politicians are drunk on their power, and they will not easily give it up.
Albert Einstein famously said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The lockdowns in the countries that are being extended did not work the first time, so they’re foolishly doubling down again on them. It’s always dangerous when politicians say, “Trust us.”
The Guardian reported last week that a top police commissioner in England has requested his officers be allowed to enter private homes to break up illegal gatherings during the lockdown.
“For the small minority of people who refuse entry to police officers and obstruct their work, the power of entry would seem to be a useful tool,” said David Jamieson, the head of the Labour Party police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands Police.
Nigel Farage, who became a household name during the country’s Brexit fight, called out the request by police forces to barge into homes amid the coronavirus outbreak.
“Before COVID, an Englishman’s home was his castle. Not any longer! Our liberties are being destroyed,” he said.
SWEDEN. Yesterday, Sweden’s new emergency lockdown law, which allows the government to impose COVID War orders, went into effect.
“We see a great risk that we will be in a difficult situation for some time ahead,” said Prime Minister Stefan Lofven last Friday, pledging to use the law’s powers “in the near future.”
The emergency law allows the government to limit the number of people in shops, businesses, and public places and can fine transgressors.
Last Thursday, while not mandatory, the government recommended wearing face masks during rush hour on public transportation.
Unlike most free nations, i.e., democracies/republics where the COVID War has raped the citizens of their Constitutional and Bill of Rights, Sweden’s constitution does not give its leaders the power to impose a state of emergency… thus now national lockdown.
TRENDPOST: While the mainstream media continues to deride Sweden for not imposing harsh lockdown orders, compared to most, their coronavirus death rate is much lower than nations and states that imposed draconian measures.
For example, to date, there have been some 14,000 virus victims in Michigan, U.S.A., compared to Sweden’s 9,440 COVID deaths with a population a bit larger than Michigan’s. Yet, the press praises Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer for imposing strict lockdown measures while continually deriding Sweden, despite Sweden having a lower death rate and not destroying the businesses, lives, and livelihoods of its citizens.
FRANCE. Currently, in France, some 25 departments are under a 6 PM to 6 AM nightly curfew or soon will be. The government has said it will not rule out stricter measures if its COVID situation worsens. But, yesterday, it was reported the government reaffirmed they have no plans for a third national lockdown.
CANADA. Beginning Saturday and running for the next four weeks, Quebec’s supreme leader has declared a strict curfew, and the COVID Cops have vowed to enforce it.
“The main reason for the curfew is to prevent gatherings, even the smallest ones,” wrote the province’s Premier François Legault on Facebook. “It’s the addition of all the small breaches of the rules that feeds the virus,” he declared.
The COVID Cops have been given the power to stop and question anybody outdoors that goes out during curfew.
“The police will also be very visible this weekend,” the province’s Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault said in a tweet Friday. “Let’s stay at home, save lives.”
Residents in Montreal are facing new COVID rules that limit gatherings and establishes an 8 PM to 5 AM curfew, which is enforced with fines of up to $6,000.
“There will be about 100 extra police officers circulating in the city, to patrol, to be in the streets, to show that they are present, so people understand how important this is,” Mayor Valérie Plante told CBC’s Debra Arbec last week.
The new guidelines will be enforced throughout Quebec, and 740 tickets have already been issued. Premier Legault praised the police effort and said he hopes they “give a fewer warning but more fines.” He said, “So what we are asking Quebecers is… apart from working, apart from going to school, apart from getting food, you have to stay home.”
To date, there have been some 8,600 virus-related deaths in Quebec since last February of a population of some 8.5 million or one-tenth of one percent.
Moreover, and ignored in all of the reporting of these new lockdown orders, some 70 percent of the virus deaths in Canada are attributed to elderly people in nursing homes.
