COVID-19 Pandemic
2022
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The War on COVID-19!
2022 marks the beginning of the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Highwire recaps the past 100 Episodes covering COVID-19 pandemic. – WATCH
Borders open to all travelers into SA
- All international travelers are now allowed entry into South Australia with different testing and quarantine requirements for COVID-19 vaccinated compared to unvaccinated individuals. Though Australians 12+ years old, are required to be “fully vaccinated” to leave the country.
- All interstate travelers are now allowed entry into SA, and are “required” to sign/QR code into public places.
State Emergency Coordinator tests positive on day of record infections in SA
South Australian Police Commissioner Grantly Stevens, the State Emergency Coordinator, tests positive for COVID-19, the same day of record new case numbers of 2552. [1]
Mr Stevens test positive and is allowed to quarantine at home. Just a month ago Senator Alex Antic tested negative upon return to SA from Canberra and was forced to quarantine in a medi-hotel for 2 weeks.
Besides the international border restrictions lifting 2 days ago, on the 4th of December 2021 the SA interstate borders opened with the knowledge of Omicron, the most transmissible virus variant to date. Prior to border opening you had to be vaccinated to enter the state.
The recent spike in cases is logical, even with the 90% vaccination rate, because the vaccines don’t stop infection or transmission, they are said to only provide “protection against serious illness, hospitalisation and loss of life”, though that effectiveness may not last long.
In two years South Australia has recorded a total of 8 COVID-19 deaths.
CDC replaces “Fully Vaccinated” status with “Stay up to Date”
On January 5, 2022 as 3 monthly boosters caused confusion with COVID-19 “vaccination status”, the CDC replaced the term “Fully Vaccinated” with “Stay up to Date” with your vaccines!
A month later, on February 10, 2022, Australia’s ATAGI published “defining ‘up-to-date’ status for COVID-19 vaccination”
Omicron: poor at infecting deep lung and will likely escape vaccines
In a Nature article published January 5, 2022, it points to mounting evidence from animal studies that Omicron is poor at infecting deep lung tissue, making it “less dangerous”, the exact prediction made by Dr Malone on December 15, 2021.
Based on modeling, the Omicron variant may have an 88% likelihood of escaping current vaccines, and studies are revealing breakthrough cases with Omicron. In lay terms, the spike protein mutations are too great for the vaccine-induced Wuhan spike antibodies to neutralise. The same appears true for previous natural infection, though second infection is mild.
Judge orders FDA to release Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data
In September 2021 the PHMPT sued the FDA for failure to respond to a FOIA request. The FDA then asked the court to grant them permission to release only 500 pages per month. On January 6, 2022, 18 months after the FOIA request, US District Judge Mark T. Pittman, Northern District of Texas, ordered the FDA to comply and “produce at least 55,000 pages per month” of the Pfizer documents they relied upon to license their COVID-19 vaccine in USA.
Since this time a huge “posse” of collaborating citizens, doctors and lawyers in a coordinated effort to review the Pfizer documents; which are revealing alarming insights into what was known before EUA was granted and shortly into the vaccine rollout!
Tracking the Pfizer FOIA documents – HERE
China: Omicron continues to spread even with “zero-covid” policy
Despite closed borders and very high vaccination rates, the highly transmissible omicron variant has been reported in seven out of 31 provinces and all of China’s biggest cities after it was first detected December 9, 2021
China’s first community outbreak of Omicron was detected in the city of Tianjin on Jan 8, 2022 in 2 patients, prompting ab immediate government lockdown of the local districts followed by large-scale screening. 41 positive cases were reported as of Jan 11, the source of the transmission is unknown, and the virus is still spreading.
China, which is set to host the Winter Olympics in Beijing starting February 4th, has adopted a “zero-covid” policy, which if an infection is detected it triggers strict control measures such as city lockdowns, factory shutdowns and delivery standstills, including the shut down of ports. These strict measure have an onflow effect to the global supply chain. [1, 2]
3rd Vaccine Shot Mandated for Australian Workers in multiple states
Booster shot mandates for healthcare workers are being ushered in by various state emergency coordinators. ATAGI stated it is “acceptable to co-administer” different brands of COVID-19 vaccines, though Pfizer and Moderna are “preferred over” AstraZeneca.
Each state and territory of Australia is under their own State of Emergency, and as such the Chief Health Officers (CHO) issue Directions independent of each other. Except for South Australia where it is the “emergency coordinator” Police Commissioner Grantly Stevens, who hands down vaccine mandate Directions.
US oversight committee seek truth about the virus origins
Just before release of Fauci’s damning emails, a letter was sent from US Senate committee to HHS seeking to find truth about the origins of the pandemic virus. It is stated that “rather than be transparent with the Committee, HHS and NIH continue to hide, obfuscate, and shield the truth” by hiding information that will help inform the origins of the virus.
Read more >>>
EMA warning: repeat boosters could adversely affect immune system
On January 12, 2022, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) warns that frequent boosters every 4 months could adversely affect the immune system and may not be feasible. Boosters “can be done once, or maybe twice, but it’s not something that we can think should be repeated constantly,” said Marco Cavaleri, the EMA head
The narrative is now being steered towards “following the blueprint set out by influenza vaccination strategies”. A pre-season flu shots will align with a COVID-19 preseason shot.
The U.K. has said that boosters are providing good levels of protection and there is no need for a second booster shot at the moment. Booster less effective against mild illness for Omicron.
Back in March 2021 Australian TGA’s Access Consortium was already looking at changing the mRNA code during the pandemic, in a provisionally registered vaccine, and compare that to what is done with seasonal influenza – yet they are completely different technologies.
Life insurer refuses to pay out on death following COVID-19 vaccination – deemed it “suicide”
An insurance company refused to pay out on a multi-million dollar life insurance policy, after it was confirmed the man died from a COVID-19 vaccination. A French court ruled in favour of the life insurance company because it is know the vaccine is “experimental” and as such is a risky undertaking, essentially “suicide”, which is excluded from the insurance contract. [1, 2]
March 16, 2022, according to AFLD, America’s Life Insurance council now says that Life Insurance policies may deny payment if you die from the COVID-19 vaccine because they are experimental.
Vaccine mandate for US/Canada cross-border truckers
The President of Private Motor Truck Council of Canada warns that the vaccine mandates for truckers crossing the US/Canada border has the potential to result in a devastating economic collapse, in the face of an already “fragile” supply chain.
Beginning January 15 truckers entering Canada will be forced to show proof of vaccination, potentially causing around 30,000 cross-border truckers to shut down. A similar vaccine mandate for truckers entering the United States from Canada will go into effect January 22. [1, 2]
These mandates motivated the Canadian Trucker Convoy, a movement of over 60,000 trucks along with tractors and people coming out to protest the protest the government overreach. Other countries were inspired to follow suit with truck convoys to capitals. [3]
- Effective October 1, 2022 Canada removes all border requirements, including proof of vaccination
- April 2023 – Trudeau is now says he never “forced” anyone to get the COVID-19 vaccine – WATCH
World’s 10 richest men doubled their wealth since the pandemic began
On January 17, 2022, Oxfam’s “Inequity Kills” report was released and states “The wealth of the 10 richest men has doubled, while the incomes of 99% of humanity are worse off, because of COVID-19″.
The wealth of the 10 riches men amounts to $1.9 trillion, grew at a rate of $1.6 billion a day, more than it did the previous 14 years.
“This is the biggest annual increase in billionaire wealth since records began.”
“We have a situation where 10 men hold more wealth than that of two-thirds of humanity”
said Lyn Morgain, chief executive of Oxfam Australia.
Oxfam’s 2021 report revealed the COVID-19 vaccines had created 9 new billionaires.
Over the past two years, the wealth of Australia’s 47 billionaires has doubled to $255 billion. [1]
TGA grant Provisional Registration for PAXLOVID
TGA provisionally approves Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd’s COVID-19 treatment nirmatrelvir + ritonavir (PAXLOVID) on January 18, 2022. “The decision has been made on the basis of short term efficacy and safety data”.
Scotland: unvaccinated have the lowest COVID-19 case rate/100,000 of all the cohorts
In a January 19, 2022 Public Health Scotland “COVID-19 & Winter Statistical Report“, figure 13 revealed the unvaccinated having the lowest COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 of all population cohorts, but they warn it should not be an indicator of the vaccines failing to “work.”
“a simple comparison of COVID-19 case rates in those who are vaccinated and unvaccinated should not be used to assess how effective a vaccine is in preventing serious health outcomes, because there are a number of differences between the groups, other than the vaccine itself, and these biases mean that you cannot use the rates to determine how well the vaccines work.”
CDC & WHO: natural immunity superior, vaccines don’t stop transmission, push for new vax technology
CDC MMWR report released on January 19, 2022 showing in their graph of the Delta wave (May-Nov 2021) data that the unvaccinated who have had previous SARS-CoV-2 infection have a lower risk of hospitalisation as does the vaccinated population. In support of natural immunity. [1, 2, 3]
On same day the WHO’s IHR Emergency Committee put out a statement regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
“While current vaccines continue to be effective in reducing risk of severe disease and death due to COVID-19, they do not completely eliminate the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (all variants)…
Given the inability of the vaccines to stop transmission the committee stated a need to increase vaccine uptake in countries with only 10% coverage but also “stressed the importance of coordinating research on heterologous vaccine combinations” and “vaccines that confer broader immunity across variants.” plus “the importance of expediting research and development on novel vaccine technologies…such as intranasal vaccines.”
Point 7: Given the limited and uneven distribution of COVID-19 vaccines globally, proof of COVID-19 vaccination will no longer be required as the only way or condition for allowing international travel.
WHO: No evidence “healthy children or healthy adolescents need boosters”
The World Health Organization’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said during a media briefing on Jan 19, 2022 that there is no evidence that children need booster shots and that the goal needs to “protect those at highest risk of severe disease and dying”. [1]
“There’s no evidence right now that healthy children or healthy adolescents need boosters, no evidence at all.”
CDC data shows strong natural immunity compared to vaccinated
On January 19, 2022 a CDC study shows that those who have recovered from COVID-19 have more protection against infections from Delta than those who have only been vaccinated.
Four groups of people were analysed:
- unvaccinated with no prior COVID-19 infection,
- vaccinated with no prior infection,
- unvaccinated who recovered from COVID-19, and
- vaccinated who recovered.
Dr Malone summarises: By the first week of October, COVID-19 rates among the vaccinated with no previous infection were 6.2 times lower in [California] and 4.5 times lower in New York than among the unvaccinated with no previous infection.
However, among the unvaccinated with a previous infection, the COVID-19 rate was 29 times lower in California and 14.7 times lower in New York.
WHO want COVID-19 vaccination integrated into routine health services
In the “Statement on the tenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic” on January 19, 2022, amongst other things, the WHO want at least 70% of all countries’ populations vaccinated by the start of July 2022 and they want COVID-19 vaccinations integrated into routine health services. Also “[t]o enhance vaccine uptake, States Parties are encouraged to assess enablers and barriers to vaccination.”
In addition the WHO is calling for the lifting of international travel restrictions and they Do NOT require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for international travel because currently there’s not enough to go around…not because of health!!!
TGA grant provisional approval to Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
On January 19, 2022 Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) granted provisionally registration for Biocelect Pty Ltd’s (on behalf of Novavax Inc) COVID-19 vaccine NUVAXOVID. This protein sub-unit vaccine is for active immunisation to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older and is recommended as 2 doses administered 3 weeks apart.
This a protein subunit vaccine administering a set dose of spike-antigen (SARS-CoV-2 rS or NVX-CoV-2373) compared to the genetic vaccines which deliver a genetic code (mRNA or DNA) which will trick the body into manufacturing unknown quantities of foreign spike-protein antigen.
The product has been under evaluation since February 2021
Australia purchased 51 million doses of Novavax and by September 2022 less than 1% has been used!
Britain lifts vaccine passports and mask mandates
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced “the lifting of COVID-19 vaccine passports, mask mandates and work-from-home guidance in England,” from 20th January, on the back of “wildly incorrect” modelling. [3, 4]
Now with masks the basic policy will be to “trust the judgment of the British people and no longer criminalize anyone who chooses not to wear one.” The virus is not going to be eradicated, we have to learn to live with it. [1, 2]
Israel, with most draconian measures, is #1 in COVID-19 cases/capita
By January 20, 2022, despite the fact that Israel has implemented some of the most draconian COVID-19 pandemic measures in the world, including the most vaccinated country, is now number one in the world in new COVID-19 cases, according to The Times of Israel, where “0.6 percent of the population was testing positive daily for the virus”. [1]
Omicron sub-variant BA.2 emerges
The latest COVID-19 variant, the omicron sub-variant, known as BA.2, is 1.5 times more transmissible than the original omicron strain, according to Danish scientists, but just as mild. UK health say it has a “substantial” growth advantage over the original omicron VOC, known as BA.1. The mutation difference between BA.1 and BA.2 is greater than the difference between the original “wild strain” and the Alpha variant, where BA.2 has five unique mutations on a key part of the spike protein.
The BA.2 variant was first detected in the Philippines on January 20, 2022, and was soon detected around the world including Australia, around February 3, 2022. [1]
The WHO still considers BA.2 the same Omicron variant of concern.
Canadian Trucker Convoy against mandatory vaccines begins
Following the announcement of border crossing vaccine mandates requirements for Truckers in Canada, a grassroots convoy began to form and migrate across Canada to meet up in Ottawa on Monday 31st January. The Canadian Trucker Convoy protest movement was cheered on by many millions of Canadians as they lined the roads and overpasses on their way to Ottawa. [2, 3, 20]
The Canadian Prime Minister referred to the record breaking 50,000 strong truckers as a “fringe minority“, and the media portray them as “terrorists“, but the Ottawa locals have a different view. [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17]
A GoFundMe page was set up and raised over $10 million, which on 5th February the platform then shut it down. [5, 6] GiveSendGo then offered to assist and within 12 hours $1 million in donations poured in which crashed their system. [1]
Protesters settle into Ottawa:
- Trucker convoy – live Jan 30
- The truckers were being catered to by the locals.
- Protesters keeping Ottawa clean and safe [12]
- Saskatchewan first to announce mandate end followed by others, but are their loopholes?. [4, 13]
- Police confiscate fuel, citizens bring more in. [16]
- The Canadian convoy for freedom went from “fringe minority” to a declared “state of emergency” in a week. [7, 8]
- Truckers have their say [18]
- The world is watching and joining in.
- Feb 6 – powerful rally speech by Chris Sky (2.5 million protesters in Ottawa) [19]
- Feb 5, 2022 – GoFundMe deleted Canada’s Freedom Convoy fundraiser for violating its terms, stating the “peaceful demonstration has become an occupation” now!
- Feb 7 2022 Trucker Press Confrerence
- Feb 10 – a warning went out to the truckers about the “self-appointed spokespeople” who setup the GoFundMe – GiveSendGo accounts.
- Feb 10 – Canadian govt block access to GiveSendGo account.
- Feb 17 – Canadian government blocked citizens access to their bank accounts a pre-cursor consequence to a Digital ID! [21, 22]
- Feb 22 – The bank freeze ended, but trucks still were missing.
- Effective October 1, 2022 Canada removes all border requirements, including proof of vaccination
- Nov 2022 – Trucker commission
- Jan 23, 2024 – Canadian federal judge ruling that Trudeau’s use of emergency powers to end the anti-government Freedom Convoy protests two years ago was unreasonable and unjustified and violated Canada’s rights charter, unconstitutional. [21, 22] Dictator Trudeau will appeal and gets to remain in power [23]
- Canada’s media receives 2022 Fake News award!
Visit Convoy Reports for chronological coverage >>>
Nov 2022 – Canada’s Freedom Convoy Commission – report
FDA grants remdesivir outpatient and pediatric approval
As requested by the sponsor Gilead Sciences, On January 21, 2022 the FDA granted EUA approval to expand the use of the antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) to “certain non-hospitalised adults and pediatric patients for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 disease”. Their justification is that it “provides another treatment option to reduce the risk of hospitalization in high-risk patients”, even with the renal problems. [2]
Previously, the use of remdesivir was limited to patients requiring hospitalization. EUA was first granted in May 2020.
In addition the FDA revised the Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) for remdesivir to include pediatric infants weighing 3.5 kilograms to children weighing less than 40 kilograms even though there IS NO safety data, and children are not at risk of COVID-19, but certainly at risk of the drug side effects! [1]
Ireland announces ending COVID-19 restrictions
Almost all COVID-19 restrictions in Ireland will end on January 22, 2022, including domestic COVID-19 Certificates, curfews, social distancing, and capacity limits, but mask mandates, self-isolation rules, and protective measures in schools will remain. This makes Ireland the second country following England to remove mandatory vaccine passports after they were implemented reports the Epoch Times.
Senator Ron Johnson held Second Opinion doctor roundtable
US Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) held a 5 hour panel discussion, COVID 19: A Second Opinion, where a group of world renowned doctors and medical experts provided testimony of a different perspective on the global pandemic response, the current state of knowledge of early and hospital treatment, vaccine efficacy and safety, what went right, what went wrong, what should be done now, and what needs to be addressed long term.
- Attorney Tom Renz – DOD vaccine injury whistleblowers data – WATCH
- Nurse Nicole S first hand experience on the frontline – WATCH
- Dr Marble – telehealth early treatment success – WATCH
- Dr. Peter McCullough Full Highlights – WATCH
- Dr. Paul Alexander Full Highlights- WATCH
- Dr. Paul Marik Full Highlights – WATCH
- Dr. Aaron Kheriarty Full Highlights WATCH
- Dr. Pierre Kory Full Highlights – WATCH
- Dr. Robert Malone Full Highlights – WATCH
- Dr. Ryan Cole Full Highlights – WATCH
- Dr. Richard Urso Full Highlights – WATCH
- Dr. Harvey Risch Full Highlights – WATCH
- Dr. Christina Parks Full Highlights – WATCH
- Steve Kirsch Full Highlights – WATCH
US Department of Defence (DOD) medical data reveals alarming statistics
At Senator Ron Johnson’s “Second Opinion” round table discussion, attorney Thomas Renz presented Department of Defence (DoD) medical billing data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) that was provided by whistleblowers, which paints a shockingly high increase in health issues amongst service personnel in 2021 – corresponding with the mandatory vaccine rollout. [1, 2, 3]
The DOD were caught trying to cover up the alarming data after this release, but the whistleblowers had taken backup copies. [4, 5]
FDA limiting use of monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19 due to Omicron variant
On January 24, 2022, the FDA limits the use of certain Monoclonal Antibodies to treat COVID-19 due to the Omicron Variant, even though we know doctors have been saving lives using Monoclonal Antibodies.. [1, 2]
“Two monoclonal antibody treatments – bamlanivimab and etesevimab (administered together) and REGEN-COV (casirivimab and imdevimab) – to limit their use to only when the patient is likely to have been infected with or exposed to a variant that is susceptible to these treatments” the FDA state “data show these treatments are highly unlikely to be active against the omicron variant, which is circulating at a very high frequency throughout the United States.”
This FDA announcement happened 3 days after the controversial drug remdesivir was granted outpatient approval by the FDA!
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