Ramaphosa Spreads Misinformation, Fear, and Panic
The political party which killed 500 000 people (mostly children) during the height of the HIV pandemic is now destroying the country in order to `save` it from a virus with a 99% survival rate.
The great man at a festive unmasked braai overseas.
Ramaphosa told us 138 000 Africans have died from Covid. Over 18 months.
How many have died from malaria, Aids, TB, starvation, and violence? We are not told.
How many will die from despair and sheer hopelessness now we have decided we will shut down whenever a wave comes?
(By the way, the official health bodies whose best global practice Ramaphosa says he follows, have said masks and social distancing should continue INDEFINITELY.)
Ramaphosa told people like me last night not to spread so-called misinformation.
Meanwhile he tells us masks and lockdowns have been proven to work. What proof does he have? None exists.
The bulk of cases around the world have been from people at home. States in the US which got rid of the masks did not see resurgence of the virus. The waves come and go WHATEVER you do.
When he speaks about daily infections, he uses terms like `doubling` and increase by high percentages.
We don`t get the hard numbers because they are far less shocking. Here are the truly relevant stats taken from official South African government sources:
149 (!) patients who have tested positive for Covid are currently in government ICU care.
1813 positive patients are in private sector ICU.
BEFORE the first wave, SA had over 7000 ICU beds available.
Surely 1000 more have been added? Which would be plenty. Flatten the curve to get ready, remember?
Ramaphosa`s government specifically notes these patients have been admitted and have tested positive. They specifically do not tell us these patients are being primarily treated for Covid.
This takes us back once again to the issue of mass testing - even for people who are not symptomatic - something which the inventor of the test says should never be done.
Here is a primer on the PCR tests:
In short, we may be over-counting cases massively.
Ramaphosa, like other leaders, continues to place all hope in the vaccines. Hold on till we get vaccinated. Meanwhile the two most vaccinated nations on earth are busy re-introducing restrictions as we speak - Israel and the Seychelles.
As I write this, the most recent South African case numbers are actually 2000 cases lower than the most recent UK case numbers. These numbers have the same proportion to total population in each country. This clearly does not fit the narrative.
(And don`t let them tell you the vaccine was not designed to reduce transmission. That is not how vaccines work and that was not evident in the trial data which granted the vaccines emergency authorization.)
The very fact that teachers are getting vaccinated first speaks volumes. The threat to kids is negligible and the threat to teachers is no different from any other professional group. And drastically lower than that for pensioners. Meanwhile there are 30 year old teachers getting their vaccines ahead of people double their ages. This is not grounded even in the covid-deranged `science`. This the scientific-led action we should not question.
This is not the scientific method at work - with its scepticism and unsettled questions. This is narrative control and the pursuit of a global health regime for the sake of a new herd-like population - at the bequest of a nebulous body of policy described by the elites as `the science`.
Suffice to say, this is a man and government, within a global empire of bureaucratic hygiene totalitarianism, callously allowing children`s future prospects to suffocate beneath soggy masks for no good reason.
I, on the contrary, like other sceptics of big government power, will, continue to spread information, truth, calm, and realism.
I will continue to note that people who do not want to be locked down exist, in volumes, like this massive group of protestors who marched in London this weekend, without any coverage, because the media does not want the world to know:
Sign up for the ride. We are in for the long haul now. Dark times are ahead. These epochs happen. It is our misfortune to live in such a time now.
As Hamlet notes, “The time is out of joint; O cursed spite I was ever born to set right.”
We need not embrace his radical pessimism but we must be realists. A new regime is taking power over our lives.
Sane people around the world need each other, and we need access to analysis outside the corporate media narrative cycle.