Omicron

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A new variant has shown up in South Africa and the World Health Organization (WHO) has labeled it Omicron. This variant has been spreading faster than the Delta variant which Europe, Northern American states and the world in it’s grip.

“Initially it looked like some cluster outbreaks, but from yesterday, the indication came from our scientists from the Network of Genomic Surveillance that they were observing a new variant,” Minister of Health Joe Phaahla said, stressing that it is currently unclear where the variant first emerged.

Initially given the number, B.1.1.529, it was rumored that t might be called Nu, the 13th letter in the Greek alphabet but they called it instead Omicron after the 15th letter of the Greek Alphabet. I had already started my painting of Gnu’s, which are like wildebeests,  stampeding, and since I was close to finishing I stayed the course.

Omicron has an unusually high number of mutations, with more than 30 in the key spike protein. It is believed that it is infecting the vaccinated as well as the unvacinated. Only about 21% of the population has gotten the jab. Many scientists have been warning that there should be a concerted effort to vaccinate the entire population of the world, but rich countries have instead been focused on providing third booster shots with the vaccines that they have hoarded for their own populations. By hoarding vaccines new mutations are able to develop in countries where much of the population is unprotected. Even so, half of the population in countries like America have refused to get vaccinated.

UK officials announced that six African countries will be added to England’s travel “red list” after the UK Health Security Agency flagged concern over the variant.The United States as always is slow to react. The United States will restrict travel from South Africa and neighboring countries effective November 29, 2021, a senior Biden administration official said. With air travel open for several more days over the Thanksgiving holiday it is very likely the Omicron virus has already arrived in America. The financial markets have begun to tumble, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 2.5%, its worst day since late October 2020.

Data Massacre

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The situation in India continues to get worse. Crematories can not keep up with the dead. A dog crematorium is being converted into a crematorium for humans to try and keep up with the deaths.

Families fight for the right to cremate their loved ones while people gasp for breath outside completely full hospitals. They are turned away to die at home or on the street. One person put his dying mother on the street because he did not want to care for her. Doctors are literally being beaten by people frustrated that their loved ones have died.

On April 28, 2021 there were 360,960 cases of COVID-19 reported in India. That number is likely very low since the country has lagged in it’s ability to test for the virus. Reporters on the ground found crematories that had over 100 cremations each day. However the death reports for that area were far less that that, making it clear that COVID-19 related deaths are being under reported. Families are being forced to bury their dead in their back yards.

Less than three months ago Prime Minister Narendra Modi declaration of victory over Covid-19. The first wave of the virus wasn’t as bad as expected. India is the largest manufacturer of vaccines and they began to send vaccines to other countries while India’s vaccine distribution to citizens lagged. Emergency field hospitals which had been build during the first wave were dismantled. Over 600,000  Hindus gathered on the Ganges River for Kumbh Mela, another superspreader event. Like our former president, Modi began holding massive political rallies which were most certainly superspreader events. Such rallies were being held as recently as two days ago. It is no surprise that countries with arrogant Narcissistic and science denying leaders are having the worst outbreaks of COVID-19. Case numbers surged through April 2021. The official death toll for April 28, 2021 was 3,645 but that number could be half of the actual daily death toll.  Overall the country surpassed 200,000 deaths.

The national vice-president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Dr. Navjot Dahiya said, “The scarcity of medical oxygen has become the reason for the death of many patients in every part of the country against the fact that several projects for installing the oxygen are still pending with the Union government for clearance, but no heed was given to such an important need by the Modi government.” People are dying because they can not find an $80 oxygen cylinder. When there was an oxygen leak at a hospital 22 patients died gasping for air. India declined assistance offered by the United Nations of its integrated supply chain for COVID-19-related material. The second wave is a result of incompetence and arrogance.

Crates of ventilators and oxygen concentrators from the UK arrived at an airport in the Indian capital of New Delhi on April 27, 2021. A shipment of medical equipment from Germany is also set to to be airlifted to India in the coming days. The European Commission (EU) which includes, Ireland, Belgium, Romania, Luxembourg, Portugal and Sweden will be sending a shipment that includes oxygen concentrators and ventilators. The World Health Organization (WHO) is also providing critical equipment and supplies to India. Several other nations, including the U.S., Israel and Pakistan have also pledged to send medical supplies. For those suffering and dying today this may be too little too late.

 

Cluster 5 Killing 17 Million

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Denmark is the world’s biggest producer of Mink for the fur trade. Mink are raised on farms in tightly spaced cages. Mink on a farm caught COVID-19 from a human. Since they are packed so close together the 10,000 mink on this one farm were soon all infected, The virus spread like wild fire over the course of two weeks. It as then discovered that the mink could transmit the disease back to humans. “Cluster 5” is the name given to a mutated variant of the COVID-19 virus.

By Tuesday, November 10, 2020 COVID-19 had been reported on 237 farms in Jutland with further cases suspected on another 33. The Danish government decided they had to destroy all 17 million of the animals in the country. The government ordered a lock down of the effected northern jurisdictions. All cultural institutions, cinemas, theaters, sports and leisure facilities, and dine-in restaurants have been ordered closed, and travel into or out of the municipalities is prohibited.

The concern was that the virus would mutate when it was passes back to humans making it possible that this new strain might not be effected by any vaccine that might be developed.

After the mass murder had been started the prime minister admitted that there was no legal justification for the cull. Police and the armed forces have been deployed and farmers have been told to cull their healthy animals too -but the task will take weeks.

Mink are killed by forcing them into airtight metal boxes. CO2 is then used to gas the animals to death.My sister once had to euthanize a small mouse. It was put in a bucked and gassed. I could hear its tiny gasps and coughs as it threw itself against the side of the container in an attempt to survive. That memory still haunts me. How could it be possible to gas 17 million living beings?

They are then burned along with their fur. Huge trenches are being dug and the animals are being dumped into mass graves.

COVID-19 has infected Minks being raised  on farms in America as well. The census shows that there are 2836 Mink farms in America. 11 mink farms had Covid-19 outbreaks so far in America. On August 6, 2020 a mink farmer in  Utah, reported “deaths in numbers they’d never seen before.” Thousands of Mink have died in Utah and Wisconsin.  A necropsies on some of the the animals found, lungs that were “wet, heavy, red, and angry,” all signs of pneumonia. Researchers in America are now trying to determine whether these workers gave the virus to the mink, or vice versa. Mink suffer similar symptoms to humans. Difficulty breathing and the virus progresses rapidly, with most infected mink dead by the next day.

Now, scientists at University of Oxford, UK have reviewed the data say the mutations themselves aren’t particularly concerning because there is little evidence that they allow the virus to spread more easily among people, make it more deadly or will jeopardize therapeutics and vaccines. The Danish government still wants to kill all 17 million animals since they are so vulnerable to the virus and can spread it to humans. As always America seems to be on a “wait and see” holding pattern. Any Mink infected pose a risk to public health.