Denmark abolishes all Corona measures

Danish parliament recently decided in Copenhagen that all Corona measures should be ended from October 1. There will therefore no longer be a mask requirement and the test regime will be abolished. The Danes will then no longer have to provide evidence of whether they are vaccinated or unvaccinated, or whether they have tested positive or negative.

Copenhagen All Corona measures are being lifted in view of the increasing incidence figures in Denmark, reported RT Deutsch. Since the beginning of July this value has risen from 31 to 107,2 (as of August 8). At the same time, the upper limits of this Corona indicator has increased significantly.

At the same time, the incidence limits are increased significantly: In communities from 300 to 500 infected people within seven days, in the districts from 500 to 1000. However, the prerequisite is that an increasing number of Covid-19 patients does not overload the health care system.

Denmark’s SSI infectious diseases agency said it no longer relied on vaccination to achieve herd immunity in the country. Tyra Grove Krause, the SSI’s acting academic director, said a new wave of infections were expected after people return to work and school at the end of this summer, but it should not be cause for alarm. “It will be more reminiscent of the flu,” Krause said.

Overall, the current vaccination rate is just under 58,4 percent of fully vaccinated people in Denmark. In Germany, this value is only slightly lower at 54,5 percent (as of August 8) but vaccine advocates have been persistent in their fear-mongering and pressure on the unvaccinated.

Tyrolean lawyer Dr. Renate Holzeisen, meanwhile strongly recommended that all employers refrain from vaccination pressure or compulsory vaccination, because most of them were “obviously not even aware of the far-reaching legal consequences associated with it”.

The fact that the so-called Covid-19 vaccines, according to the official approval documents of the EMA and the European Commission were not developed and approved for the prevention of infection with the SARS-COV-2 virus, but solely to prevent a more severe course of the disease, were conditionally approved for this reason alone, Holzeisen underscored.

The official approval documents therefore show that these substances cannot interrupt the chain of infection because the people treated with them can become infected and thus be infectious. Practice also proves that people who are completely “vaccinated” become infected with the virus and even have the same viral load as “unvaccinated people” as the CDC, among others, has admitted. It is therefore clear that any Covid-19 “compulsory vaccination” actually lacks any justification.

All pressure, including moral pressure (alleged act of solidarity with one’s neighbor) is therefore illegal in terms of criminal and liability law based on the official approval documents.

“As a lawyer advising on corporate law, I strongly recommend that every employer stay away from Covid-19 vaccination pressure or compulsory vaccination, because most of them are obviously not even aware of the far-reaching legal consequences associated with it,” she said.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/08/09/denmark-abolishes-all-corona-measures/

Covid Cases Top 200 Million Worldwide, 68% Increase Since June

Paris: The number of Covid-19 infections recorded worldwide passed 200 million on Thursday, an AFP count showed, as China pledged to provide two billion vaccine doses this year to combat surging infections caused by the Delta variant.

The more infectious strain is driving a resurgence in the pandemic, especially in the Asia-Pacific region where Thailand, Indonesia and Japan continued to see new records and the city of Melbourne entered yet another lockdown.

The number of daily new cases globally has jumped 68 percent since mid-June, AFP's tally shows.

But as more of the world gets vaccinated -- particularly in wealthy countries -- deaths have risen at a slower rate, up 20 percent since July, the data show.

China "will strive to deliver two billion doses of vaccines to the world" this year and pledges $100 million (85 million euros) to the Covax system for distributing jabs to the poorest countries, President Xi Jinping said in remarks reported by state broadcaster CCTV.

Records fall

After months in which Beijing could boast of its success in containing infections, authorities there are again battling a rise in cases -- including in Wuhan, the city of 11 million people where the first mass Covid-19 outbreak occurred.

In Thailand, new cases hit 20,000 for the first time on Wednesday -- and then again on Thursday.

Overwhelmed mortuaries are renting refrigerated containers to store bodies, while medical and other frontline workers are exhausted.

"We're almost at our limits," forensic scientist Thanitchet Khetkham told AFP.

"I've seen our personnel faint quite a few times lately so fatigue is definitely starting to set in."

Indonesia's total Covid death count passed 100,000 on Wednesday after it recorded 1,739 of the 10,245 fatalities registered worldwide -- taking the global count past 4.25 million.

Tokyo on Thursday reported a new record number of cases at 5,042, just three days before the end of the Olympics, forcing the Japanese government to extend anti-virus restrictions to eight more departments.

Not happy to be here

In Australia, almost two-thirds of the 25 million population were in lockdown on Thursday.

A little more than a week after Melbourne's last lockdown ended, Victoria premier Daniel Andrews said he had "no choice" but to once again lock down the city and the rest of the state.

"None of us are happy to be here, none of us," he said, citing the danger posed by eight new "mystery" cases, the origins of which had yet to be traced.

Around 2,000 protesters took to the streets chanting "no more lockdown", with police making arrests and using pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

Protesters were out again in Paris too, as the country's top constitutional body approved President Emmanuel Macron's controversial health pass that will restrict access to bars, eateries and inter-city trains to those who have been jabbed or tested.

"All this undermines fundamental freedoms... Freedom is, first of all, the choice to be vaccinated or not," said Marie Jose Libeiro, 48.

"We are falling into an authoritarian state."

But the Constitutional Court said the restrictions, as well as compulsory vaccination for health workers, represented a "balanced trade-off" between public health concerns and personal freedom.

And in French-speaking Quebec, the government said it too will introduce a vaccine passport, the first in Canada, to counter the Delta variant.

"People who have made the effort to get their two doses should be able to live a semi-normal life," provincial premier Francois Legault told a press conference.

Staying alive

Living a life at all was at the heart of the message from the head of the African Union's health watchdog.

John Nkengasong revealed on Thursday that he was battling Covid-19 but had survived the worst thanks to his jabs, as he urged the continent to fight vaccine hesitancy.

Experts worry that reluctance to take the vaccine, stemming from public scepticism over foreign-procured jabs and fear of side effects, may prolong the pandemic among Africa's 1.3 billion people.

Africa also posted a new record with 6,400 deaths in the week to August 1, the continent's most in the pandemic, the World Health Organization said.

Nkengasong, the director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control, said he had contracted the infection last week despite being fully vaccinated.

"The severity of the attack is so unbearable. The headaches, fever," the Cameroonian virologist told an online press briefing.

But he added that without his jabs, "I wouldn't be here".

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/covid-19-cases-cross-200-million-worldwide-report-2503799

CURRENTLY HAPPENING: BOLEHLAND BUSINESSES UPLORRYING EVERYWHERE!!!!!

Netizens vent anger as cases hit 5-figure, blaming govt for spike

PETALING JAYA: As daily Covid-19 cases breached the 11,000 mark today, social media users were quick to react to the news on Twitter.

“WTF 11K” has been trending in the country with people sharing images (memes), mainly complaining about the extended lockdowns and blaming the Perikatan Nasional-led (PN) government, in particular, the minister of international trade and industry (Miti) Mohamed Azmin Ali.

One user @millenialrabbit said: “WTF 11K??! I stayed at home since the first day and yet the cases still keep increasing till 11K?! What is going on now?? What’s the function of staying at home if the cases are still growing in numbers?”

Another said: “Wow, congratulations Malaysia! We finally reached 10K at last! i mean,WTF 11K!

I just have one thing to say… lockdown is bulls*it. Not to say it has reduced cases, in fact it has spiked crazily! #KerajaaanGagal #KerajaanBodoh #KerajaanPembunuh #MalaysiaBoleh.”

Azmin has been at the receiving end of most of the backlash. His ministry oversees the approvals for factories and businesses to operate during the lockdown.

Meanwhile, factory and workplace clusters have been on the rise contributing to higher community transmissions, especially in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur.

Speaking on the issue, one user @_anarafiq suggested for EMCOs at all factories that are open for 14 to 21 days.

“All workers must stay at the factory. Bosses need to provide food and temporary accommodation on site, such as cabins for workers.

“Since they want profits, then they need to spend some money as cost.”

He said one of the criteria for the Miti approval letter for factories to operate during this time should therefore be temporary and proper workers accommodation.

“Or else, they cannot get the letter and should not be allowed to operate. Don’t mix the workers with others in the community.”

Another netizen said it seemed that the total lockdown had not produced any result, calling it “pointless”.

On a similar note, another said: “So now, tell me what’s the function of a movement control order (MCO) if the cases are not decreasing??? Wtf 11k.”

The health ministry reported a record high 11,079 Covid-19 cases and 125 deaths in the past 24 hours.

The previous record high of infections was 9,353 on July 10.

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2021/07/13/netizens-vent-anger-as-cases-hit-5-figure-blaming-govt-for-spike/

More than 11,000 new COVID-19 cases in Malaysia, third record in less than a week

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia reported a record 11,079 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday (Jul 13), a sharp increase from already high infection levels in the past week.

This is also the first time that daily COVID-19 cases have hit five figures.

Only 27 of the new infections were imported, with the rest classified as local cases.

More than half of the new cases were once again from the Klang Valley area, with 5,263 in Selangor and 1,521 in Kuala Lumpur.

There were 1,033 new infections in neighbouring state Negeri Sembilan while Sarawak and Johor registered 472 and 406 respectively.

The health ministry also announced 125 more fatalities, aged 27 to 86, taking the national death toll to 6,385.

Sixteen of the victims were classified as "brought in dead" as they did not die in hospital.

A total of 972 patients are in the intensive care unit, yet another record. Of these, 456 require respiratory support.

The number of critically ill patients has been at record levels for more than a week, with the health ministry repeatedly stating that hospitals, frontline personnel and morgues were overwhelmed.

Twenty-three more clusters were also identified, taking the total number of active clusters in the country to 870. Thirteen of the new clusters stem from workplaces while 10 are in the community.

The health ministry said the increase in cases was partly attributed to the spread of the Delta variant.

Members of the public are encouraged to adopt double-masking especially in high risk areas as "airborne" transmission can occur, it added.

Malaysia entered its third nationwide lockdown on Jun 1, shortly after it breached the 9,000 mark for new cases for the first time on May 29.

Numbers reached record levels again on Jul 9 and Jul 10, with more than 9,100 cases on each day.

Health ministry data showed that more than 3.6 million people have so far completed the full COVID-19 vaccination regimen.

This is still short of the country's target to inoculate 80 per cent of its population, or 26.7 million out of the total 33 million people in the country.

Health director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah on Tuesday said vaccination was the solution to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A fully administered vaccination has been proven to decrease the likelihood of death or hospitalisation, he added.

Dr Noor Hisham said 2,779 health ministry employees tested positive for COVID-19 after they were fully vaccinated. However, a majority of them were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms.

None of the affected individuals was critically ill and those who had mild symptoms could be quarantined at home, thus reducing the number of patients in hospital, he said.

As of Tuesday, Malaysia has reported a total of 855,949 COVID-19 cases, of which 96,236 are currently active or infectious.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/covid-19-malaysia-record-11079-mco-lockdown-selangor-icu-deaths-15211378

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00069-0/fulltext

Fact Check-Why Relative Risk Reduction, not Absolute Risk Reduction, is most often used in calculating vaccine efficacy

Referring to a “peer reviewed study” published in medical journal The Lancet, users on social media have erroneously claimed that the reported efficacy rates for the available COVID-19 vaccines are “deceiving” and that the real rate of protection from immunization is much lower. This stems from a misinterpretation of two different measurements, the relative risk reduction (RRR) and the absolute risk reduction (ARR).

The posts feature a tweet that reads, “@TheLancet peer reviewed study confirms vaccine efficacy, not as 95% stated by the vaccine companies, but as: Astra Zeneca 1.3%, Moderna 1.2%, J&J 1.2% and Pfizer 0.84%. They deceived everyone by reporting Relative Risk Reduction (RRR) rather than Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR).”

Screengrabs of the tweet or posts with virtually the same wording have since spread to Instagram ( here , here , here ) and Facebook ( here , here , here ).

A similar narrative is replicated in a TikTok video here . “Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine reduces your risk at most 1.3%”, the women says to the camera around timestamp 00:33. “Why have we been hearing this vaccine has a 95% efficacy rate? Simple, they lied to you.”

The posts erroneously claim the article was a “peer reviewed study”, when it was actually a commentary by Piero Olliaro, Els Torreele and Michel Vaillant on April 20, featured in the Lancet Microbe here .

When asked about the claim, Olliaro, professor of poverty related infectious diseases at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health of Oxford University ( here ) told Reuters via email it was “extremely disappointing to see how information can be twisted.” He also said, “Bottom line: these vaccines are good public health interventions,” and added that in the commentary, “We do not say vaccines do not work.”

STATISTICAL CONFUSION

Posts refer to two statistical values in relation to how a vaccine impacts a population: Relative Risk Reduction (RRR) and Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR), which are calculated differently.

As explained by the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools of McMaster University in Canada youtu.be/QPXXTE8N4PY?t=260 , these statistics “present the effects of an intervention in different ways and all provide useful information and together give a more complete understanding” of it.

According to medical experts at Meeden’s Health Desk here, the RRR tells us how much the risk of infection is “reduced in the test vaccine group, compared to a control group who did not receive the test vaccine.” The RRR, or efficacy, tells us "how well the vaccine protects clinical trial participants from getting sick or getting very sick.”

This is what is usually presented as vaccine efficacy. For Pfizer BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine this is 95% ( here ), for Moderna’s 94.1% ( here ) and 66.3% for the J&J/Janssen vaccine ( here ).

The Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR) is the arithmetic difference between event rates (the percentage of people who, for example, got infected) within the two groups ( here ).

The Lancet commentary by Olliaro, Torreele and Vaillant shows here the numbers for ARR, misleadingly referenced in social media posts, were obtained.

Meedan Health Desk exemplifies how the ARR “will always appear low” as it depends on the event rate.

“Let’s say a study enrolled 20,000 patients into the control group and 20,000 in the vaccine group. In that study, 200 people in the control group got sick and 0 people in the vaccine group got sick. Even though the vaccine efficacy would be a whopping 100%, the ARR would show that vaccines reduce the absolute risk by just 1% (200/20,000= 1%). For the ARR to increase to 20% in our example study with a vaccine with 100% efficacy, 4,000 of the 20,000 people in the control group would have to get sick (4,000/20,000= 20%).”

WHY RRR IS USED FOR VACCINE EFFICACY

Natalie E. Dean, assistant professor of Biostatistics at the University of Florida, understood why the ARR numbers might have confused users on social media and explained why the RRR is the “usual scale” considered by the medical community when talking about vaccine efficacy.

“Because (the ARR) is a much lower number, it feels like it is saying that the other number (RRR) isn’t true,” but this is not accurate, “they are both capturing some aspect of reality, just measuring it in a different way,” she told Reuters via telephone.

Vaccine efficacy, expressed as the RRR means the vaccine will reduce the risk of infection by that reported percentage irrespective of the transmission setting. “It is more meaningful,” she said.

WHAT STUDIES SAY

Real world studies have already shown how the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, for example, are highly effective.

Paul Offit, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pennsylvania who is also a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory panel, pointed to two studies. A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that found the risk of infection fell 90% two weeks after full vaccination with Pfizer or Moderna vaccines ( here)

The other piece of real-world evidence highlighted by Offit was a Cleveland Clinic study,

released in mid-May that showed 99.75% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 between Jan 1 and April 13, 2021 were not fully vaccinated, reported by Axios here. “You significantly decrease the chances of hospitalization by being vaccinated. That’s a better way to look at it,” Offit noted.

Reuters has previously debunked posts on social media that push vaccine hesitancy here , here , here , here

VERDICT

Misleading. The Relative Risk Reduction (RRR) and the Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR) are two measurements that are calculated differently. In terms of measuring how a vaccine impacts a population, they are complementary and not contradictory.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-thelancet-riskreduction-idUSL2N2NK1XA

A study on using Ivermectin to fight Covid-19 has passed peer review and is expected to be published soon:

Now this is what I call transparency. Not brushing everything aside and simply saying there is no link whatsoever between getting vaccinated and suffering adverse effects/possibly dying.

https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0007477852

There were no deaths associated with adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine made by U.S.-based Moderna after about 190,000 doses had been administered by June 4, the health ministry has announced.

There were also no cases of anaphylaxis, an acute allergic reaction, as defined by international standards during vaccinations administered up through May 30, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry reported to an expert panel on Wednesday.

It was the first time the ministry had released information on adverse reactions to the Moderna vaccine.

The ministry also reported 141 deaths among men and women ranging from those in their 30s to over 99 who had been inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine between May 17 and June 4. In 84 of those cases, it was found impossible to assess whether there was a causal link between their death and the vaccine, while possible causal links were under assessment for the remaining 57.

As of June 4, approximately 17 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had been administered, and the total number of deaths had reached 196.

A total of 169 cases of anaphylaxis had been confirmed as of May 30, equivalent to 13 cases per 1 million doses of the vaccine.

Malaysia to enter 'total lockdown' from Jun 1 to Jun 14 as daily number of COVID-19 cases hits new record

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will close all economic and social sectors by implementing a "total lockdown” throughout the country.

The first phase of the lockdown will last from Jun 1 to Jun 14. This move was announced in a media statement posted on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s Facebook page on Friday (May 28) night.

Only essential economic and service sectors listed by the National Security Council will be allowed to operate during Phase 1 of the lockdown, said the statement issued by Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

“This decision was made after taking into account the current situation of COVID-19 transmission in Malaysia with daily case numbers exceeding 8,000 and active cases exceeding 70,000,” the statement read.

More than 2,550 people in Malaysia have died from the disease.

The emergence of more virulent COVID-19 variants also influenced the National Security Council's decision to implement the lockdown.

With the sharp rise in the daily number of COVID-19 cases, hospitals' capacities to treat patients throughout the country are "becoming more limited", the statement added.

If the phase 1 total lockdown is successful in reducing daily COVID-19 cases, the government will implement a four-week phase 2 lockdown by allowing the reopening of a few economic sectors that do not involve large gatherings.

Phase 2 lockdown will last four weeks.

“Once the phase 2 lockdown ends, the next step is phase 3, which is implementing a movement control order (MCO) similar to the current one in effect, where social activities are not allowed and nearly all economic sectors are allowed to operate subject to strict standard operating procedures and limited physical presence at workplaces,” the PMO said.

More at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/malaysia-total-lockdown-jun-1-14-muhyiddin-covid-19-cases-record-14905394

Yeendian wears some lanjiao homemade cabbage-like mask kym? :P

HAHAHAHA UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!! CAKE LENG PRIESTS PRAY FOR MERCY FROM COVID GODDESS!!!!!

Hindu priests at an Indian temple are saying daily prayers to two coronavirus goddesses in an effort to tame the pandemic as the country battles a new infection surge.

Two “Corona Devi” idols have been set up in the southern city of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu state, badly hit in an outbreak that has killed 100,000 people nationwide in the past four weeks.

India on Thursday posted 211,298 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, while deaths from COVID-19 rose by 3,847.

The South Asian country’s overall caseload is now at 27.37 million, while total fatalities are at 315,235, according to health ministry data.

The Kamatchipuri Adhinam temple is closed to worshippers because of Coimbatore’s high infection rates but priests are paying tribute in front of the goddesses, one made of sandalwood and the other from stone.

They leave food and other offerings, chant prayers urging an end to the pandemic and bathe the idols in turmeric water and milk.

“We have had similar temples for smallpox, chickenpox and plague in the past,” said temple manager Anandbharathi K.

“We are worshipping the virus in the form of a goddess and praying to her every day to reduce the impacts of this disease,” he added.

While case numbers are easing in much of India, the country of 1.3 billion people has been shocked by the severity of the latest wave of the pandemic, which overwhelmed hospitals and led to critical shortages of oxygen and medicines.

“Even doctors are unable to deal with the enormity of the situation. So we turn to faith and God as a last resort,” Anandbharathi said.

The priests plan to continue their prayers to the “Corona Devi” idols for another seven weeks.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/27/corona-devi-indian-priests-pray-for-mercy-from-covid-goddess

Jialat, National Taiwan University Hospital is collapsing under overwhelming patient load, sent out SOS liao!

台大院長也求救！病人太多已全面滿載、無法再收

北市聯醫工會昨天向社會發出求救信，今天換台大醫院院長吳明賢，也對社會發出求救信。吳明賢今天晚間在個人臉書以「Hospitals Need Help」為題發文指出，台大把小兒加護病房都改裝、收治成人，仍然不敷使用，但救護車卻持續把需要加護病房和插管的確診病人送來。

吳明賢晚間受訪表示，這波疫情病人實在太多！台大醫院已收治100多名確診病患，重症比率又高，收治高達20多名重症，全國最多，加護病房已經全部滿載，還得把兒童負壓加護病房改裝，用於收治成人患者。但改裝也需要時間，急診都還有病人在等，「真的不希望步上SARS後塵。」他呼籲指揮中心一定把全台灣的醫院都納入規畫，訂定病患收治相關辦法。

吳明賢信中表示，雖然救死扶傷是醫院的天職，但抗疫如作戰，在還沒凖備完訓練好狀況下，結果可想而知，他強調「照顧重症的醫護人力並非急就章就可上戰場！」文中強調，他身為戰場上的第一線指揮官，希望司令部能夠最快的時間定出辦法，友軍們也都能誠實互信同心共濟。

吳明賢也提醒，更重要的是，給醫院的資源或是補助，「不要像去年一樣七折八扣。」他引用拿破崙語錄「軍無糧則散」，醫院已經非常緊急，不能讓一線醫護赤手空拳，彈盡糧絕。

https://udn.com/news/story/122173/5487815?from=udn-catebreaknews_ch2

HOW ABOUT TRYING THIS ON THOSE WHO DIED FROM COVID-19?

Family buries body of man in cow dung pit to revive him in Chhattisgarh

The family members of the man buried his body in a cow dung pit in a bid to revive him in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district.

A body of a 37-year-old man was allegedly buried in a heap of cow dung by his family in a bid to revive him in the Surguja district of Chhattisgarh.

The deceased, identified as Lakhanpur Mutki, was buried in a heap of cow dung for hours after he was struck by lightning. Mutki was rushed to a hospital but doctors declared him brought dead.

Due to Cyclone Tauktae, Surguja district witnessed heavy rains and lightning. Giving credence to their superstitious belief, the family members of the man buried his body in a cow dung pit.

The family members believed that if a dead person struck by lightning is buried completely in cow dung, they could be revived.

"Yesterday evening, a young man was killed due to lightning. His family members were trying to bring the young man back to life by burying him in a heap of cow-dung but he had already died," Dr Premsukh Kerketta said.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/family-dead-body-man-cow-dung-pit-chhattisgarh-1804629-2021-05-20