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“The CDC Director was working with the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army…the whole time…” -Dr. Naomi Wolf
originally posted by: McGinty
a reply to: musicismagic
First of all we have to wonder how accurate or manipulated those stats are.
Could they be using other cause stats to enhance the numbers? It's possible, i imagine! But to what ends? That'd be the big question. Is it money (are private companies profiting from vaccine use in Japan?), or something else.
If the stats are accurate, then could the increase it be seasonal? Is the colder weather drawing in in Japan? If so then that probably means more people spending more time together in enclosed spaces; that'd give the figures a bump.
If it's indeed covid, then the only really important stats are the last 2, ICU and deaths, since the infection stat may be a variant that's less harmful. Are those last 2 way up on previous stats?
...If there is indeed profit going anywhere from vaccine manufacture and sale, then i'm going to err towards this being stat manipulation to prolong and increase those profits.
originally posted by: musicismagic
6. Deaths are on the rise. The govt. position now is we just have to live with it or this country will economically crash into a depression of 70% unemployment.
originally posted by: McGinty
originally posted by: musicismagic
6. Deaths are on the rise. The govt. position now is we just have to live with it or this country will economically crash into a depression of 70% unemployment.
That really is a rock and a hard place scenario. One that is likely to become common the world over if waves persist, since i don't see governments having the stomach for more furlough payouts. So long as the variants are mild the public will cooperate, which leads me to suspect that even when they're not mild the governments will claim they are and makes the stats fit.
That of course doesn't immediately square with my suspicion that governments may want to prolong their respective covid epidemics in order to keep making pharma trillions from vaccine sales (from which said politicians would without doubt receive a slice in one form or another)
...That brings me back to my earlier question about who might be making cash from covid in Japan. I wasn't suggesting that individual doctors, or even hospitals were scamming treatments etc. The big money would be made by the vaccine manufacturers selling the vaccines to the government so they can be given to the populace for 'free'. Of course it's not free, because the billions paid to the pharma for the vaccines comes out of the public's tax coffers. It's perhaps the biggest transfer of wealth from the workers into the pockets of private corporations in history.
I don't know if that's the case in Japan; if like the rest of the world the government are buying the vaccines from private big pharma corps, if there's a different arrangement that means the vaccines a truly made for free. However, nothing is ever for free.
We would like to inform you that a person infected with the new coronavirus has died in Tokyo.
We pray for the repose of the souls of those who passed away.
1 Deaths related to the new coronavirus (announced today)
number era sex residence Diagnosis date date of death
1 80's male Tokyo November 8th November 16th
2 70's male Tokyo November 15th November 24th
3 70's male Tokyo November 12th November 25
Four 80's Woman Tokyo November 12th November 25
Five fifties male Tokyo November 16th November 17th
6 80's Woman Tokyo October 31st November 14th