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Oct 30, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

This is a script. Governments are all following a script.

The question is why?

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Oct 30, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Thanks Mat.

Singapore are now withholding daily vax status of deceased having done so diligently throughout covid. They used to break it down by unvaccinated, partially vaccinated and vaccinated since their daily reports began. Yesterday no breakdown. And today just below.

8. 16 more cases, aged between 44 and 90 years, have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection. All of them had various underlying medical conditions. The 44 year-old individual had not been vaccinated against COVID-19.

https://twitter.com/sporeMOH

https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/update-on-local-covid-19-situation_29_October_2021

In Australia this started happening on Thursday also. The Victorian health department refused to release the vaccination status on 25 coronavirus fatalities.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/victorian-officials-refuse-to-release-vaccination-status-of-virus-deaths/news-story/9dbcc791a7745419e20233cc91e1cb92

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Oct 30, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Love these Mathew.

Really appreciate that you document these other countries. I learn so much from these.

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Oct 30, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

It would be GREAT to have a library of many of these case studies, including, if there exists any, some disconfirming cases. This pattern is so widely repeated and so ubiquitous I'm astonished it's not obvious to everyone. So having a place where many of the cases can be reviewed would be awesome. Thanks for your great work.

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Fantastic case study in both COVID and censorship. Just a side note about Wayback archive from comments in another post. It appears that FORBES has a series of URL for the piece because it saved for me a short time ago as a "first save" but search for all the captures has 42 total. Hunting archive copies is more complex than it appears (news to me) but it's not a function of Wayback purging saved pages but surely confusing.

The banned tweet has a single capture and Twitter has static URL so that searches fine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200508152433/https://twitter.com/niro60487270/status/1256671933053067264

FORBES 42 saves total

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/06/03/worries-grow-over-chinas-sinopharm-covid-shot-bahrain-plans-pfizer-booster-for-fully-vaccinated-people/*

URL is listed as single save

https://web.archive.org/web/20210714164338/https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/06/03/worries-grow-over-chinas-sinopharm-covid-shot-bahrain-plans-pfizer-booster-for-fully-vaccinated-people/?sh=47624b11c7dc

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Oct 30, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Thanks for this middle-Eastern perspective, Mat. With so much focus on Euro / UK / US / Aus-NZ data (ok except Israel) , it did leave a bit of a hole in my knowledge not to be aware of strategies and data from Middle East. SE Asia also feels to a bit of a hole (although I'm sure your team are looking at everything).

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Glad to see an honest discussion of HCQ. It works.

Most Western press suggest Sinovac (used by Bahrain at first) is a poor-performing vaccine, but be aware that a peer-reviewed NEJM study says Sinovac is about 85% effective for reducing severe cases.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107715

What does that tell us? Hmmmm....

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Oct 30, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Matt; have a question. Did they continue with Hydroxi along with the Monoconal? Or just the one? Are they sticking with the vaccines? Is the Unvaccinated claim a smoke screen?

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Do we know what the total vaccination rate is? I am assuming in the 90’s?

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Wow. I doubt they could've turned down the vaccine contracts and stayed in the good graces of the West. They would've been well advised to buy the vaccines and immediately plowed them into the local landfill.

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LIke to know the testing rates and protocol during that time, pre, during and post spike.

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