"One Last Question",
Here is an article about the Chinese lockdown of Shanghai, a large and very prosperous international city. This is a very expensive lockdown monetarily, but more in terms of political capital for the Chinese Communist Party. The article fails to presume rational action" on the part of the Chinese government. I think they're rational.
The lockdown in China: if the powerful are doing something that looks stupid, is because whatever they’re doing IS actually stupid
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-lockdown-in-china-if-powerful-are.html
Political Capital is on the line. Xi is not stupid:
President Xi Insists China's COVID Lockdowns Will "Stand The Test Of Time"
Adenovirus is a very mild family of viruses that infects humans frequently. It is a bother, not a harm. It causes mostly colds, occasionally mild stomach virus symptoms.
It is typically not a big trigger to the immune system, which is what allowed adenoviruses to be used as "vectors" to infect human cells with DNA vaccines from J&J, Sputnik and A-Z/Oxford recently. It is now well understood in its "vector" role. Why are young children now very sick, needing liver transplants and dying from adenovirus-associated hepatitis, a new-thing?
Hepatitis cases in children might be linked to adenovirus, UK health officials report
Roughly three-quarters of the 53 children who were tested for adenovirus in the UK came back positive. The virus that causes Covid-19, on the other hand, was found in only a sixth of children who were tested — in line with the levels of community transmission in the UK.
WHO , Map shows mainly Western European and US cases:
While adenovirus is currently one hypothesis as the underlying cause, it does not fully explain the severity of the clinical picture. Infection with adenovirus type 41, the implicated adenovirus type, has not previously been linked to such a clinical presentation. Adenoviruses are common pathogens that usually cause self-limited infections. They spread from person-to-person and most commonly cause respiratory illness, but depending on the type, can also cause other illnesses such as gastroenteritis (inflammation of the stomach or intestines), conjunctivitis (pink eye), and cystitis (bladder infection). There are more than 50 types of immunologically distinct adenoviruses that can cause infections in humans. Adenovirus type 41 typically presents as diarrhea, vomiting, and fever, often accompanied by respiratory symptoms. While there have been case reports of hepatitis in immunocompromised children with adenovirus infection, adenovirus type 41 is not known to be a cause of hepatitis in otherwise healthy children.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON376
Adenovirus Linked Acute Hepatitis Outbreaks In Children During 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO), the U.K, Europe, the U.S. CDC, and other countries have recently reported about 427 acute hepatitis/adenovirus infections of unknown etiology among children in about thirty countries. There is no known association with hepatitis viruses (A to E) in these children, found with serum transaminases greater than 500 IU/l.
Here is something that just got put up, from a source in the UK which digs up dirt. I am not yet able to confirm it.
Perhaps it will be confirmed or refuted soon.
The World Health Organization recently issued a ‘global alert’ about a new form of severe hepatitis affecting children.
The news came after the UK Government announced it was launching an urgent investigation after detecting higher than usual rates of liver inflammation (hepatitis) among children, after having ruled out the common viruses that cause the condition.
The current publicised, but not watertight theory is that this is due to an adenovirus. But not just any adenovirus. , an “attenuated” adenovirus variant in both the AstraZeneca and Janssen Covid-19 vaccines that has gone rogue.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/05/07/medicine-regulators-blame-covid-jabs-hepatitis-children/
Most of this data regarding those 270 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinated "unique pregnancies", which should have been released over a year ago is still held in secret.
Table 6 states that of 270 “unique pregnancies” that were exposed to the vaccine, “no outcome was provided for 238 pregnancies.”
This leaves 32 pregnancies with known outcomes.
Pfizer’s report states that there were 23 spontaneous abortions (miscarriages), two premature births with neonatal death, two spontaneous abortions with intrauterine death, one spontaneous abortion with neonatal death, and one pregnancy with “normal outcome.” That means that of 32 pregnancies with known outcome, 28 resulted in fetal death.
In UK hospitalization raw data the COVID-vaccinated are hospitalized at 5 times the rate of COVID non-vaccinated (many of whom are under-30 in the UK, so caveat emptor on this statistic)
The data show:
Far higher accident and emergency admission rates for reasons other than Covid in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated.
Much higher rates of hospitalisation due to non-Covid acute respiratory illness in the vaccinated.
Even higher A&E admissions and hospitalisations in the double-vaccinated (not boosted)...
..The UKHSA has at long last published raw data on hospitalisation rates by vaccine status, for those infected with Covid as well as those that aren’t. The results are very concerning, showing significantly higher A&E admission rates in the vaccinated for reasons other than Covid, and much less difference in admission rates for symptomatic Covid in the vaccinated vs unvaccinated than suggested by the estimates of vaccine effectiveness published by the UKHSA https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/07/vaccinated-hospitalised-for-non-covid-reasons-at-five-times-the-rate-of-the-unvaccinated-u-k-government-data-show/
The upshot of this article is that the US has a treaty with the WHO, as do most countries, related to declaration of pandemics and necessary restrictions on travel and trade. The POTUS is seeking to give more power over the US to the WHO, without Congressional voting on treaty changes. This is not a legal change without congressional ratification, as I understand it.
Biden Handing Over U.S. Sovereignty to WHO
On May 22-28, 2022, ultimate control over America’s healthcare system, and hence its national sovereignty, will be delivered for a vote to the World Health Organization’s governing legislative body, the World Health Assembly (WHA).
This threat is contained in new amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations, proposed by the Biden administration, that are scheduled as “Provisional agenda item 16.2” at the upcoming conference on May 22-28, 2022.1
These amendments will empower WHO’s Director-General to declare health emergencies or crises in any nation and to do so unilaterally and against the opposition of the target nation.
https://www.americaoutloud.com/biden-handing-over-u-s-sovereignty-to-who/
Some old people remember western Ukraine, Galicia, being part of Poland.
Poland leader’s words suggest annexing Ukraine is planned President of Poland Andrzej Duda’s statement about cancelling the borders between Poland and Ukraine can be interpreted as plans to annex certain Ukrainian regions, Director of the Institute of the Newly Established States Aleksey Martynov said on May 6 in a commentary to RIA Novosti.
Previously, Duda said that “there will be no border” between the two countries any longer for the Ukrainian and the Polish people to live “building common happiness together.”
According to Martynov, Poland has “a plan to integrate adjacent Ukrainian regions.”http://eu.eot.su/2022/05/06/expert-poland-leaders-words-suggest-annexing-ukraine-is-planned/
According to (former RussianPresident) Dmitry Medvedev, Western Ukraine will be a welcome acquisition for Poland since it "craves territorial restitution, carried out "under the guise of eloquent words about eternal fraternity"
https://tass.com/politics/1447995
This looks to me like Russia and Belarus want a say in where those lines get drawn by Poland, as "Ukraine" gets another territorial redefinition.
Poland may pose threat to Ukraine’s territorial integrity, Kremlin spokesman says
At the same time, Dmitry Peskov refrained from commenting on remarks made by Belarusian President, who said in his interview to Associated Press that, under certain circumstances, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine might fight against Poland for preservation of Ukrainian territorial integrity
https://tass.com/politics/1447863
This is a Russian historical perspective. The "Patriotic Wars" are existential for Russia. The first was against the invasion of Napoleon, the second against the Nazis, and this is the third, against the western-empire, as we might call it. Russia is pacing herself for a marathon, not losing the race.
The Third Patriotic War
https://thesaker.is/the-third-patriotic-war/
Pepe Escobar explains the real parties to this WW-3, with his usual flair and historical perspectives.
Megalopolis x Russia: Total War
https://thesaker.is/megalopolis-x-russia-total-war/
Here is something intriguingly weird and (as yet) unconfirmable, a leak about a recent phone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump about Ukraine and just who is still trapped under the Azovstal factory.
On a Wednesday evening call with President Donald J. Trump, Putin said that child traffickers responsible for the abduction of thousands of Russian children were embedded among the civilians trapped inside Azovstal. He also claimed that Zelensky was endangering the lives of thousands of innocents by sheltering traffickers at Azovstal.
“Putin told Trump he saw two possibilities. Either Zelenskyy is genuinely trying to protect the traffickers, using civilians as human shields, or he’s hoping Putin bombs the place to oblivion, killing everyone, including the traffickers so they, if caught, can’t implicate Zelenskyy in the biggest human trafficking ring the world has ever known,” our Mar-a-Lago source said...
..Moreover, Putin made an urgent plea to President Trump, asking him to use his next rally to warn the world about what is really happening in Ukraine.
“President Putin, I’m with you, and I understand, but, you know, things are too hot here right now. I am working behind the scenes to get big things out in the open, but right now that’s the best I can do. Soon, very, very soon, the world will know what you’ve done to protect our children,” Trump replied.
https://realrawnews.com/2022/05/putin-pedophiles-and-traffickers-hiding-in-azovstal/
Remember those muscular guys with short hair and all the same boots and watches hanging out in Washington DC January 6, 2021? 80 'Suspicious Actors' And 'Material Witnesses' Under Scrutiny By Jan. 6 Defense Attorneys
Defense attorneys seek to identify and investigate 80 suspicious actors and material witnesses, some of whom allegedly ran an entrapment operation against the Oath Keepers on January 6, 2021, and committed crimes including the removal of security fencing, breaching police lines, attacking officers, and inciting crowds to storm into the Capitol...
According to the new filing, video evidence the defense gained access to only recently shows that some of the 80 people attacked police, other people, and members of the Oath Keepers; entered the Capitol on the west side “with apparent permission or acquiescence of government actors”; opened the Columbus Doors on the east side of the Capitol “from the inside, possibly with even further assistance of government actors”; and deployed “sophisticated crowd-behavior techniques,” orienting themselves between protesters and police. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/80-suspicious-actors-and-material-witnesses-under-scrutiny-jan-6-defense-attorneys
New book about Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell", written by the computer repairman who has lost his business from the publicity, includes Hunter's memorable password.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/analfk69-hunter-bidens-password-revealed-whistleblower-tell-all
Charles Hugh Smith, What Happens When Complexity Unravels?
My synopsis: Systems add complexity while they are growing, more management, more technical overhead, and that may help them grow, until the cost of complexity balances or overbalances the efficiency benefit of the complexity, and there is stagnation. When a crunch comes, like the cost of inputs, fuels, or labor going up, or revenues going down, costs must be cut. It is often functionally or politically easier to cut core functions than it is to cut bureaucratic complexity costs. Ever seen this in your life?
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmay22/complexity5-22.html
"Lieutenant Columbo"
Adenovirus Hepatitis Question
Thank you. I honestly wonder if I'll ever be able to get family and friends and neighbors to believe half of what you and I believe!
For some reason we do not mention another player in the conflict in Ukraine. Some time ago Henry Kissinger stated that by 2022 Israel as we know would cease to exist. Ukraine and Poland supposed to be the future Israel.
https://www.cda.pl/video/1023891563 (in Polish)
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-703061 (in English)
Polish president A. Duda, in his speech quoted V. Zelensky's statement related to "no border" between two nations...