Tidbit from Serbia: Healthcare was shit here ("universal"> yeah, right), even before COVID, now it is abysmal. There are no patient rights, except on paper. There were cases of septic death of young people in hospitals after routine operations, misdiagnosis resulting in deaths, and continuous & general dontgiveashit behavior towards patients. 99% of the time no doctor was held responsible, either criminally or professionally.
Recently, the health minister announced that 4 doctors who were promoting Ivermectin would face the so called 'professional honor' court to be held accountable for 'misinformation' and misleading the public, lowering vaccination rates.
I cannot paint a vivid enough picture how astonishing this is, with overwhelming corruption we live in in literally every area of state bureaucracy, that talking about Ivermecting is where they draw the line.
I come from North Macedonia (the latest name change, this is how the country is officially called in international communication). We have Ivermectin, it is relatively cheap, and you need a prescription to get it. You can also get it without a prescription from open-minded doctors and pharmacists, but it is not like it is freely available at drugstores. I personally know people how have gone through the disease like a breeze with Ivermectin and antibiotics, and people who have been double-vaccinated and died or suffered. At the moment, we have restrictions for the unvaccinated in non-essential businesses, and a mandate has been mentioned recently. There are doctors that treat the disease symptomatically with great caution and have great success. We have serious restrictions that wreak havoc on the economics but I am so glad I don't live in Australia or Canada. Or New Zealand, Ireland, Austria... Oh wait, the circle is tightening.
I am a Bulgarian. It is correct that we have started well with HCQ but back then there were very few covid cases. The major cause of death is that healthcare here is awful. Bulgarians were among the first in cardiovascular diseases before the pandemic. People don't like seeing a doctor and they start treatment when it's too late. People don't trust the government because it has lied to them for the past decades. Also, there has been a political crisis and no permanent government for a year or so - which is one of the major causes for the low vaccination rate (politicians are careful not to be disliked by people until the next elections). It looks as if measures, lockdowns and certificates are enforced in order to please the EU which is more and more aggressive in meddling in countries' internal affairs and laws... The mass psychosis hasn't affected us as much as other western countries, thank God.
I wake up this morning to an inbox telling me that Germany is locking down their unvaccinated and the UK is recommending boosters every 3 months. Bret Weinstein said in a recent DarkHorse podcast that we are trapped in "someone else's psychosis". That could not be a more accurate way of putting it. Every nation in the world has access to the same data that we read and share through our 'underground' communications and yet, they push forward with policies that are in exact opposition to the data. This week, here in the USA, I've noticed President Biden and Dr. Fauci openly admitting that the vaccines do not work by their comments and actions (ie. requiring international travelers to be tested, regardless of vaccinations status and recommending masking even after you've had a booster). On the one hand, I feel an optimism that maybe they are finally looking at the same data and they are 'getting it' But, that voice in the back of my mind tells me that this is all part of the game. Maybe support for Moderna's omicron specific jab is being established. I want off of this ride.
I would somewhat disagree (being from Bulgaria) with the vaccine correlation suggested here. We never really had a huge vaccine uptake and Bulgaria is still the least vaccinated country in Europe. We also have one of the strongest anti-vax communities here, unfortunately most of which rely on absurd conspiracies which makes them a mocking point in the public discourse.
By June we only had 10 percent of people vaccinated (with one dose) and in March it was 10 percent. At this moment we are at around 25-6 percent vaccination rate which increased significantly thanks to the Green Certificate in October.
Bulgaria is actually being used as an example on why poorly vaccinated countries have such a huge death toll due to covid. Obviously they are missing a key point which is that our medical system just can't deal with even a heavy flu season.
Bulgaria would be an interesting study case though - we have very low level of vaccination, there are also thousands of fake vaccine certificates here and nobody is following the official government measures for the virus. The Green Certificate at least in the moment is not being checked by anyone really, and I'm freely moving with a certificate of a friend of mine. You can also get a certificate (temporary one) if you have some antibodies.
Life hasn't really changed here except for the raised fear levels and the obvious high death toll we have.
HCQ+zinc and then ivermectin stopped the spread, but eventually the virus will be so aggressive that it breaks through anyway, and then all hell broke lose. The earlier a country got covid, the better.
The vaccine companies sent extra bad jabs to Bulgaria to punish them for using cheap drugs.
Bulgaria didn’t address the main problem: Low vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is needed to build up immunity.
I just got back from Bulgaria, where my family lives. There was an old locally produced over the counter drug for pulmonary infections that people (including my family) used with high success rates as prevention and early treatment of C19. My mother who has all the health conditions of a high risk person (high blood pressure, diabetes, heart condition, overweight, over 65) went through C19 last winter by treating herself at home with this drug and vitamin, and nutrition supplements (zinc and propolis). She had a difficult bout and was in bed for a month but did not get hospitalized. She always had a stack of Bromhixin (the commercial name of the drug) so, while I was there, we would go to refill her stack as she would take it every time she would suspect she might have been exposed generally (e.g. trips to the market). In October, just before the green pass was rolled out and the cases suddenly and dramatically spiked, the drug disappeared from the pharmacies. We asked a close family friend who works for one of the large pharma distributors to get us the drug from their supplies, and she was sure she could until she checked and found out they too had been out of it since the end of September. I am not saying this is the only reason for the spike in cases but it is one of the many observable strategies that go under the public radar.
It would be interesting to see the all-cause excess deaths chart in both 2020 and 2021 (single monthly x-axis, 1 curve for each year) to see how much of the Oct 2021 jump-up might be down to seasonality, and a 2nd y-axis for % vaccinated (if available) to see how suggestive it is for vaccine induced mortality. Sorry I'd do this myself if I knew how
I appreciate all the hard work you've been doing here (for real!) but you obviously did much more poorly at geography than you did at statistics.
1) There's no such country as "the Ukraine." Whether now or in the past, the name has always been "Ukraine."
2) Bulgaria does not border Ukraine AT ALL. To the north of Bulgaria is Romania.
3) Bulgaria is NORTH of both Turkey and Greece
4) West of Bulgaria is Serbia and (N) Macedonia. Hungary is far off to the northwest.
5) During the Communist era, Bulgaria was not "on the edge" of any bloc. It was surrounded to the north (Romania) and west (Yugoslavia) by other Communist nations.
6) The short intro you gave (Mongols, et al) about Bulgaria could equally be applied to half the countries in Europe.
Have to ask..are you planning on responding to 'The Gift of Fire' article? It closing on comparing those with concerns about vaccines to QAnon conspiracy theory people is infuriating but the top half has a lot of pretty graphs that I still need to sort through more slowly. I do think a lot of what the article relies on is the fact that Covid is only 10% of mortality and vaccine deaths maybe only 25% the size of that. But need to look closer.
A wikification of pandemic national case studies to date:
https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=sars-cov-2_pandemic_national_case_studies
Tidbit from Serbia: Healthcare was shit here ("universal"> yeah, right), even before COVID, now it is abysmal. There are no patient rights, except on paper. There were cases of septic death of young people in hospitals after routine operations, misdiagnosis resulting in deaths, and continuous & general dontgiveashit behavior towards patients. 99% of the time no doctor was held responsible, either criminally or professionally.
Recently, the health minister announced that 4 doctors who were promoting Ivermectin would face the so called 'professional honor' court to be held accountable for 'misinformation' and misleading the public, lowering vaccination rates.
I cannot paint a vivid enough picture how astonishing this is, with overwhelming corruption we live in in literally every area of state bureaucracy, that talking about Ivermecting is where they draw the line.
I come from North Macedonia (the latest name change, this is how the country is officially called in international communication). We have Ivermectin, it is relatively cheap, and you need a prescription to get it. You can also get it without a prescription from open-minded doctors and pharmacists, but it is not like it is freely available at drugstores. I personally know people how have gone through the disease like a breeze with Ivermectin and antibiotics, and people who have been double-vaccinated and died or suffered. At the moment, we have restrictions for the unvaccinated in non-essential businesses, and a mandate has been mentioned recently. There are doctors that treat the disease symptomatically with great caution and have great success. We have serious restrictions that wreak havoc on the economics but I am so glad I don't live in Australia or Canada. Or New Zealand, Ireland, Austria... Oh wait, the circle is tightening.
I am a Bulgarian. It is correct that we have started well with HCQ but back then there were very few covid cases. The major cause of death is that healthcare here is awful. Bulgarians were among the first in cardiovascular diseases before the pandemic. People don't like seeing a doctor and they start treatment when it's too late. People don't trust the government because it has lied to them for the past decades. Also, there has been a political crisis and no permanent government for a year or so - which is one of the major causes for the low vaccination rate (politicians are careful not to be disliked by people until the next elections). It looks as if measures, lockdowns and certificates are enforced in order to please the EU which is more and more aggressive in meddling in countries' internal affairs and laws... The mass psychosis hasn't affected us as much as other western countries, thank God.
https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/03/30/france-banned-chloroquine-days-before-first-western-scientific-report-on-pandemic
Criminal
“Plaquénil, the trade name for chloroquine, was sold over the counter in pharmacies until January 15, 2020.
I wake up this morning to an inbox telling me that Germany is locking down their unvaccinated and the UK is recommending boosters every 3 months. Bret Weinstein said in a recent DarkHorse podcast that we are trapped in "someone else's psychosis". That could not be a more accurate way of putting it. Every nation in the world has access to the same data that we read and share through our 'underground' communications and yet, they push forward with policies that are in exact opposition to the data. This week, here in the USA, I've noticed President Biden and Dr. Fauci openly admitting that the vaccines do not work by their comments and actions (ie. requiring international travelers to be tested, regardless of vaccinations status and recommending masking even after you've had a booster). On the one hand, I feel an optimism that maybe they are finally looking at the same data and they are 'getting it' But, that voice in the back of my mind tells me that this is all part of the game. Maybe support for Moderna's omicron specific jab is being established. I want off of this ride.
I would somewhat disagree (being from Bulgaria) with the vaccine correlation suggested here. We never really had a huge vaccine uptake and Bulgaria is still the least vaccinated country in Europe. We also have one of the strongest anti-vax communities here, unfortunately most of which rely on absurd conspiracies which makes them a mocking point in the public discourse.
By June we only had 10 percent of people vaccinated (with one dose) and in March it was 10 percent. At this moment we are at around 25-6 percent vaccination rate which increased significantly thanks to the Green Certificate in October.
Bulgaria is actually being used as an example on why poorly vaccinated countries have such a huge death toll due to covid. Obviously they are missing a key point which is that our medical system just can't deal with even a heavy flu season.
Bulgaria would be an interesting study case though - we have very low level of vaccination, there are also thousands of fake vaccine certificates here and nobody is following the official government measures for the virus. The Green Certificate at least in the moment is not being checked by anyone really, and I'm freely moving with a certificate of a friend of mine. You can also get a certificate (temporary one) if you have some antibodies.
Life hasn't really changed here except for the raised fear levels and the obvious high death toll we have.
In all honestly we have been hit hard by Covid, o
I see three potential causes:
HCQ+zinc and then ivermectin stopped the spread, but eventually the virus will be so aggressive that it breaks through anyway, and then all hell broke lose. The earlier a country got covid, the better.
The vaccine companies sent extra bad jabs to Bulgaria to punish them for using cheap drugs.
Bulgaria didn’t address the main problem: Low vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is needed to build up immunity.
I just got back from Bulgaria, where my family lives. There was an old locally produced over the counter drug for pulmonary infections that people (including my family) used with high success rates as prevention and early treatment of C19. My mother who has all the health conditions of a high risk person (high blood pressure, diabetes, heart condition, overweight, over 65) went through C19 last winter by treating herself at home with this drug and vitamin, and nutrition supplements (zinc and propolis). She had a difficult bout and was in bed for a month but did not get hospitalized. She always had a stack of Bromhixin (the commercial name of the drug) so, while I was there, we would go to refill her stack as she would take it every time she would suspect she might have been exposed generally (e.g. trips to the market). In October, just before the green pass was rolled out and the cases suddenly and dramatically spiked, the drug disappeared from the pharmacies. We asked a close family friend who works for one of the large pharma distributors to get us the drug from their supplies, and she was sure she could until she checked and found out they too had been out of it since the end of September. I am not saying this is the only reason for the spike in cases but it is one of the many observable strategies that go under the public radar.
It would be interesting to see the all-cause excess deaths chart in both 2020 and 2021 (single monthly x-axis, 1 curve for each year) to see how much of the Oct 2021 jump-up might be down to seasonality, and a 2nd y-axis for % vaccinated (if available) to see how suggestive it is for vaccine induced mortality. Sorry I'd do this myself if I knew how
I appreciate all the hard work you've been doing here (for real!) but you obviously did much more poorly at geography than you did at statistics.
1) There's no such country as "the Ukraine." Whether now or in the past, the name has always been "Ukraine."
2) Bulgaria does not border Ukraine AT ALL. To the north of Bulgaria is Romania.
3) Bulgaria is NORTH of both Turkey and Greece
4) West of Bulgaria is Serbia and (N) Macedonia. Hungary is far off to the northwest.
5) During the Communist era, Bulgaria was not "on the edge" of any bloc. It was surrounded to the north (Romania) and west (Yugoslavia) by other Communist nations.
6) The short intro you gave (Mongols, et al) about Bulgaria could equally be applied to half the countries in Europe.
Keep up the good work!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bulgaria-health-flu-idUSKBN20S250
Charts like this only look good if they're revenue models. As el gato said with Australia, what could have changed so suddenly?
you almost started WWIII with that major neighboring countries mixup :-)
Have to ask..are you planning on responding to 'The Gift of Fire' article? It closing on comparing those with concerns about vaccines to QAnon conspiracy theory people is infuriating but the top half has a lot of pretty graphs that I still need to sort through more slowly. I do think a lot of what the article relies on is the fact that Covid is only 10% of mortality and vaccine deaths maybe only 25% the size of that. But need to look closer.
Now do Taiwan. Their outstanding policy is less sensitive PCR testing (lower CT threshold).