Covid19 - Perpetuation of the vaccine myth for political ends

 The original goal for vaccination was prevention of infection. The vaccine was seen as a panacea to save the world from this pandemic.  Get vaccinated and not infected.  This objective has since been proven a big failure with the Delta Variant having a ball of a time in the USA and UK and many parts of the world. The infection rate has exploded to a level that no one would ever think of playing it down or concealing this fact. It is officially admitted by the medical professionals all over that both the mRNA and inactivated virus vaccines are equally ineffective against the Delta variant.

The 95% efficacy of mRNA vaccines against the 70% efficacy of inactivated virus vaccines is now moot, irrelevant.

The other goal of the vaccines is that after vaccination, the illness would be less severe. In this regard, it was acknowledged that Sinovac vaccines are more effective in the prevention of hospitalisation and death. The new narrative for vaccination today is about prevention of falling too ill with vaccination.

Both the mRNA and inactivated virus vaccines are experimental drugs and approved for emergency use only with the former posing the threat of unknown adverse effects in the future and the latter less so. Given the new facts, that the vaccines are ineffective to prevent infection against the more infectious Delta variant but still useful to prevent serious illnesses, the narrative to be vaccinated is still the same. mRNA vaccines are preferred as they are more effective? Really?

The new surges and uncontrollable spread of the virus in the whole of the USA and UK are making a statement that even fully vaccinated with mRNA vaccines have proven futile. Does this ring a bell?

Should not a new narrative be in favour of Sinovac's inactivated virus vaccines for being more effective in the prevention of hospitalisation and death? Why stick to the gun that mRNA vaccines are still the preferred and recommended vaccines? At the very least, both vaccines are equally effective and should be recommended with Sinovac being the better of the two.

Why is the myth that mRNA vaccines are more effective still being perpetuated when it is no longer the case? If it is just to achieve a political end, it is a deadly end, a dead end for many that are prevented from using the more effective Sinovac vaccine.

What do you think? Dead mindset, dead end, which is more deadly?

And why keep flogging a dead horse, that unvaccinated people are more likely to spread the virus when the vaccinated are equally vulnerable to the virus and equally capable of spreading the virus?

COVID-19 Singapore: Leading The Daft, Desperate And Diehard Into A Brave New World

Going it alone, irrespective of potential and foreseeable consequences, Singapore has boldly and bravely removed the need to quarantine travellers from certain countries and regions.

This action requires leadership with the arts and guts of playing with fire, which Singapore has no shortage of. That's why they are paid a political salary many times above the highest paid leaders of the world.

Even though this new no-measure measure will not be reciprocated, Singapore is still courageously going ahead. This is because the no-starter, brilliant travel bubble idea that has been proposed by Singapore, and discussed with a few countries previously, are not working in its current form. Therefore, it will not continue anymore. In its place, this kamikaze, harakiri, seppuku Japanese method is being adopted in order to serve the needs of those who desperately need to get out of their countries.

Effective from Thursday 26 August 2021, visitors from Hongkong and Macau will be added to the list of travelers from countries / territories that are allowed to participate in this one-sided, self-destruct, open-door measure.

This desperate unilateral admission of visitors (probably addicted high-risk casinos gamblers) from Hong Kong and Macau without quarantine is part of a months-old scheme that has already been extended to Mainland China, Taiwan and New Zealand.

That could probably explain why the number of COVID-19 infections in Singapore has shot up the last few weeks?

According to the authorities, Singapore citizens, Permanent Residents and Long-term Pass-Holders arriving from Hong Kong and Macau will have earlier access to the scheme, starting this Saturday 21 August.

Travellers from such countries / territories will need only a negative result from a polymerase chain reaction test. They do not have to be vaccinated. (Vaccination seems to have no effect against infections?)

In addition, Singapore will be starting a quarantine-free travel corridor with Germany next month.

This is good news for the daft, desperate and diehard who are tired of waiting for the Pandemic to be over.

It is great news for those who are tired of living!


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Part 6 - The Dragon has been awakened. Written by : Lim Yu Book

 

The "Way-of-Nature " forward

Look at the picture below. Maybe it can offer us some wisdom. Few had heard of Taliban, despite the fact that not even the mighty Soviet Union could subdue them - until September, 2001. Afghanistan was blamed for the al-Qaeda terror. The country was duly invaded. At that time, the world was on America's side.

Howsever, after spending a trillion US dollars and sacrificing 2500 American lives in Afghanistan , America is now calling it quits. The Taliban have always been thought of as a bunch of medieval Islamic fighters that are incapable of institutionalized governance. They must have thought very deeply about their future before they made this trip to China, which has been branded anti-Islam by the West in the first place.

It is time for the leaders in the West , Japan and India to realise the world has changed. In this internet world no lies can stand long. America's hegemony is going to be a thing of the past. No ideology can last forever. Neither can any doctrine. To the Chinese nothing is set in concrete. The Ying and Yang forces are at work all the time. Its I - Ching ( Scripture or Sutra of Change ) has for millennia advocated the constant need for one to adapt - when the situation arises is written in these two characters ( Wei - Ji ), literally risk - opportunity. The Western paradigm tends to be linear, the Chinese multi-dimensional.

The world economy has largely been a zero-sum game in the past - one country would gain at the expense of the other or vice versa. The Chinese believe in win-win , which they have abundantly demonstrated since their joining the World Trade Organisation.

The West can never change China, neither is China interested to change the West or the rest of the world, which it has declared time and again. What you are seeing China today is just emergence of another Confucian Dynasty in Chinese history. Its rulers are not emperors; they emerged through a multi-layered filter-from village functionaries to city bureaucrats to provincial and finally national decision-makers. The "emperor" is simply the most hard-driven, the creme-de-la creme, of the lot. And most importantly he is not vulnerable to short or even lon-term political pressures or threats, from both within the country or outside.

Thanks to the failure of Soviet Union, Communism has always been thought of as a form of evil system which the masses will naturally reject when they are liberated like what has happened to East Germany. This has also been held true in hitherto satellite states of Soviet Union in West and north-west Europe. However, chances of that happpening to that of China are NIL. If the West understands the two characters, namely  kung-chan, taken together , the term simply means "produce together [ for the greater good of society" ] Who can fault that sense of mission?

Japan understands Confucianism and much of its people's lives also evolves around the ethos of this philosophy. Chinese forgive but not forget. If Japan can own up to their World War 11 guilt and make it a point to live with China without playing the US card, then the future of the region is certainly assured, thanks to East Asians great strengths in STEM. Korea is a very strong part of this equatio, and its unification with North Korea should be encouraged genuinely.

If Modi can shake off his pseudo-sainthood and humble himself to learn a little from China and the Indians in Singapore, then Indians can also look forward to a better life faster. It is now lulled by the West's constant pat on their back. No, The Economist's praises are shallow, you need to transform your country and society and that's a long haul. Who else can show you the way? Think about it. Deluding yourself and acting beyond your pay-grade is the surest way to fall flat.

The West has their niche, Its universities will continue to be the incubators of great scientific ideas and breakthroughs. But the US is in a precarious position. Biden says he protects Asians, but perception is everything. Chinese and Chinese students simply don't feel safe in America and many parts of the Western world today. The US needs to reconcile itself to the fact that it is no longer able, or even necessary, to contain China. It should just live the world as a prosperous and don't-bother-me gentleman in the upmarket neighbourhood of the city, like what they did before World War 11.

As for the rest of the world, be yourself. You don't have to join or attach yourself to any alliance or coalition. Slavery and subserviency are things of the past, and nobody can exploit your resources any more. You want? You pay. Some may still harbour delusions about themselves, about their faith, about their race or about their destiny , no one is going to give two hoots what they think - if they don't work hard enough to earn them."

                                          Acknowledgement

My good friend Lilian Low , who is the author of The M-Quotient : From Muar to Singapore ( 2017 ), helped me to put many pieces together. Without her input, the message I wanted to send would have been quite incoherent. My many thanks to Lilian!

Yu-Book Lim 6:09PM

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Terrorists chased out of Afghanistan after 20 years

 

Portrait of a terrorist

Terrorist leaders

 After 29 years of suffering under the American terrorists, at one time there were more than 200,000 of them in Afghanistan, killing the Afghans and destroying their country, the Taliban have finally chased them out. The Afghans are now free to live in peace in their country devastated by the white terrorists and to rebuild their country and their lives.

But the white terrorists have not given up. How could they cede their prized territory that they could use to send more terrorists into Xinjiang, China? How could they give up the military installations in Afghanistan that were so close to China and could be used to attack China's missile bases in Xinjiang? 

A new mischievous narrative is now being promoted by the white terrorists in Washington to badmouth China. It goes like this. What is China going to do to Afghanistan? China must be planning to use Afghanistan like the white terrorists to threaten neighbouring countries and to use it as a launching pad for war and terrorism.

Not to worry white asses. China would not send a single soldier into Afghanistan. The Afghans know that. That is why they are visiting China, not to ask for more soldiers and military weapons, but to rebuild their country.  China will be sending thousands of engineers and workers to help to rebuild this war torn country, no thanks to the white American terrorists. China will be sending in financial aids and factories to restart the economy of this country.

The white terrorists can keep their mischievous narrative to themselves. No one is going to believe them anymore. Not even their lackeys and cronies. Please go away, go far, far away from Afghanistan. Please don't tell the Afghans you are coming back to help them. You have destroyed their country and their lives for the last 20 years. No more crocodile tears.

Get lost, you white terrorists.

What would be China's plan for Afghanistan? Simple. Build, build and build, to rebuild the lives of a people destroyed by the American terrorists. Get that? There will be no more foreign boots ie terrorists on the grounds of Afghanistan, no more white terrorists in Afghanistan.

Perhaps the Taliban should thank the ex President Ashraf Ghani for conning the Americans that he was good for another year.  And for that, the Americans believed him and left behind a lot of weapons and hardware instead of bringing them home. Now the Talibans are the owners of American tanks, military equipment, fighter aircraft, helicopters, military bases, all intact and operational, left behind by courtesy of ex President Ghani, and a lot of cash, American dollars as well. This is the only good thing, a patriotic act, he did for Afghanistan as his parting gift.

PS. 40 Black Hawk helicopters on the way to China.

Xinjiang - How China treats its minorities

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH7UL4yFucI

 

42 children from the poorest corner of Xinjiang given a treat to visit Beijing and had a wonderful time seeing a new world unfolding in their lives.

新疆最穷的村“皮里村”, 十年前没电没水没信号 Peeli Village, 10 years ago the village still did not have electricity, tap water or mail address, no mails could be sent to the village, no proper roads but mountain tracks.

PS. This video was done 10 years ago.