COVID-19 Orphans

A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association out of the University of Oxford, reported that 10.5 million children world wide have lost parents or care givers due to COVID-19 from January 1, 2020 to May 1. 2022. 7.5 million children were left orphaned with both parents dying from COVID-19. The Imperial College of London offers a daily report on the number of children who have lost a care giver on any given day. As of September 13, 2022 that number has risen to 10.6 million children.

40.6% of these children are in South East Asia, 24.3% are in Africa, 14% in the Americas, 14.6 in the Eastern Mediterranean, 4.7% in Europe, and 1.8% in the Western Pacific region. In India there are 3.5 million orphaned children due to COVID-19.

In America from April 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, data suggest that more than 140,000 children under age 18 in the United States lost a parent, custodial grandparent, or grandparent caregiver who provided the child’s home and basic needs, including love, security, and daily care. Approximately 1 out of 500 children in the United States has experienced COVID-19-associated orphan hood or death of a grandparent caregiver. “Children facing orphan hood as a result of COVID is a hidden, global pandemic that has sadly not spared the United States,” said Susan Hillis, CDC researcher and lead author of the study.

With America’s COVID-19 relief funding being cut by the Senate across the board, there is no help for these children who have lost everything. Florida’s “Stunt Governor” Ron DeathSantis has vowed to coerce as many of Florida’s COVID orphans as he can onto a plane to Martha’s Vineyard to gain notoriety in his bid to run for president.

Cluster 5 Killing 17 Million

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.