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    Posted: April 01 2023 at 9:50pm

DJ, April 1 is a day for jokes also in NL...the most funniest this year was "customs cats" to detect fish smuggling...

[url]https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5375222/1-april-grap-ingetrapt-douane-kat-sigaretten-drone-aarsappel[/url] or https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5375222/1-april-grap-ingetrapt-douane-kat-sigaretten-drone-aarsappel showing a brave cat at its job....

indie_SAGE [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjFaxDXOVb0&t=986s[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjFaxDXOVb0&t=986s keeps doing a great job...but it is getting impossible by insane "politics"...a few comments;

Will Newcomb
"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members." -Gandhi My heart goes out to all those who are Immuno compromised and clinically vulnerable. You should be at the top of our concern.   Here in China, while they're abandoning mask mandates, most people are still wearing them and my family are all using N95s in indoor settings.  Just like Australia and NZ I'm expecting another wave soon, 3 months after the disastrous wave in December.

-Will Newcomb used to also include a "timeline" on the video...indie_SAGE this time talking about immuno compromised...and how "politics" is abandoning them...

Prof. Christina Pagel is exactly right (as always). Everything is going away except COVID. There is no reason to think that 2023 will be any different from 2022. Here in Southern California March is our best month. Things heat up after the Fourth of July. After Halloween, the official start of the holiday season, it's off to the races until February. People think that I'm a freak, but I wear a respirator in all indoor public spaces. I don't go to restaurants or public gatherings. This is the human condition from now on.

DJ...[url]https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data[/url] or https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data may no longer be able to give good indications;

-symptoms change (more fatigue, less cold like ???)

-people give up...

Raj Rajnarayanan

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Recently reported #SARSCoV2 infections in #Animals - USA   Two #Dogs from #California with XBB.1.5 (Samples collected in 2/2/23 & 3/3/23) #SpiderMonkey from #Arizona with BA.2.18 (6/19/22) A dog from #NewJersey with BA.4.6 (1/13/23)

DJ...my view...CoViD is becoming widespread in animals...from rats to pets...but "we stop testing"...

[url]https://www.laprensalatina.com/bird-flu-kills-more-than-2000-sea-lions-penguins-in-chile/[/url] or https://www.laprensalatina.com/bird-flu-kills-more-than-2000-sea-lions-penguins-in-chile/ ;

Santiago, Mar 31 (EFE).- Chilean authorities have documented the deaths of 1,535 sea lions and 730 Humboldt penguins due to avian flu, the government said Friday.

“Never before have the events that are happening now occurred in Chile,” the head of the National Fish and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) said.

Soledad Tapia said that the biggest impact of the outbreak has been on pelicans and other birds.

Most of the mammalian fatalities are in the northern regions of Arica, Parinacota, Antofagasta, Tarapaca, and Atacama, where 709 sea lions and 343 Humboldt penguins have died.

Sea mammals have also been found dead in the Biobio region, 500 km (300 mi) south of Santiago.

DJ, by now there will be coinfections of CoViD19 anf H5N1..."don't look up"....

Ryan Hisner

@LongDesertTrain
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Replying to @T_Brautigan and @SolidEvidence
I think there's probably something to ORF9b:T83I. In the last few days, it's started showing up in XBB.1.9.1 (20), XBB.1.9.2 (9), and XBB.1.16 (5). Previously only found (to any major extent) in 2 variants: B.1.526 & BA.5.1. Seems to have conferred 12-13% weekly GA in both.

and

The same mutation now appearing in XBB.1.9.1, XBB.1.9.2, and XBB.1.16: ORF9b:T83I

DJ...of course when you do not stop spread and infections you get new variants...AGAIN !!!!! Corona-virus outbreaks in farm animals means you kill all possibly infected animals...

The 'logics" behind "pseudo-science" claiming "it will get mild" or "it will go away" is -at best- based on wishfull thinking, but it is utter stupidity...Just like climate collapse will not stop if you ignore it...

Tom Wenseleers

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In Indonesia, Omicron XBB.1.9.1 (yellow) now has a >50% share - one country at least that will skip an Omicron XBB.1.5 wave (cyan) - not because it didn't have an advantage there, but because another even fitter variant emerged. Second is Singapore, where XBB.1.9.1 has 15% share.

Lots of experts still try to do a good job-untill "insanity" defunds them...

"More war" is the "political top priority" with "defense industries" pushing for doubling the US "defense budget"...in fact ALL US goverment spending then will go to "defense"...beyond crazy...

"The west" is driving full speed into a swamp where it may stay...Pandemics, climate need global answers..."the west" is no longer able to provide those answers so "the rest" will do that job..

Music; "Last seven days" Unit Gloria/NL [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F91otlb-Mdw[/url] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F91otlb-Mdw (original from the 70's...maybe in reaction to "the club of Rome" -people ignoring all kinds of warnings...)

Stay safe & sane...

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XBB.1.16 exponentially increasing in India.

DJ...the basic problem is not new variants, other/new diseases...but politics failing to do anything about it "saving the economy"....


Coronavirus disease 2019 already spreading in Germany as early as December 2019.

DJ...it would be welcome if SCIENCE could find out more on when and where CoViD-19 started...Was it in Africa or linked to earlier SARS-like cases in China/SE Asia ? "politics" is destroying any chance for real science...

The "real bad news" however is we had reasonable surveilance in 2019...we did give up on testing-hardly have any sequencing (only limited hospital cases-most CoViD cases in hospital may not even see testing.....!!!!)...insanity as a new normal....

Jess

@MeetJess
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Jamie Oliver says wife Jools has long Covid and doctors can't cure it two years on TV chef Jamie Oliver has revealed that his wife Jools has been in a "deeply scary" battle with long Covid over the past two years https://mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/jamie-oliver-says-wife-jools-27788230

Real number of Long CoViD-often chronic CoViD=virus still hiding in the body !!!-worldwide likely over 100 million people...CoViD by now widespread in animals as well...bringing even more new variants !!!

[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/coffee-and-milk-a-powerful-anti-inflammatory-duo-uniting-polyphenols-and-proteins[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/coffee-and-milk-a-powerful-anti-inflammatory-duo-uniting-polyphenols-and-proteins DJ-I knew I was doing something good ! Coffee !!!

So-to keep this part short-

-NO Why should CoViD go away ?

-NO Why should CoViD become milder ?

-NO It is NOT running out of variants !

-NO natural immunity does NOT offer protection against reinfection !

Yes...expect a lot more healthproblems...in combination with climate collapse...

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DJ, 

[url]https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data[/url] or https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data may indicate UK CoViD cases going down...or do symptoms change ? So self reporting on symptoms gets less effective ? 

[url]https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/[/url] or https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/ NL only country-week 11-with "moderate excess deaths" . Germana, Scotland "low" excess deaths...But this does NOT mean CoViD is no longer serious...

Previous COVID infection linked to lower brain oxygen levels, cognitive problems.

Link; [url]https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/previous-covid-infection-linked-to-lower-brain-oxygen-levels-cognitive-problems-study-1.6302197[/url] or https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/previous-covid-infection-linked-to-lower-brain-oxygen-levels-cognitive-problems-study-1.6302197 

DJ In Dutch [url]https://twitter.com/BertMulderCWZ[/url] or https://twitter.com/BertMulderCWZ Bavaria-part of Germany-has half a million Long CoViD cases on a population of 13 million...Worldwide I think the number of Long CoViD cases could be over 100 million people...Lots of symptoms resemble ME/CFS symptoms-often ignored (at best) by "experts"....

XBB.1.16 at 42% of sequences in Nepal Of the 24 samples collected, ten tested positive XBB 1.16. Three samples tested positive for XBB 1.5, two for BA.1.1, two for BA.2, two for BA.5, two for BA. 5.2, one for BA. 2.76, one for XBB 2.6, and one for XBF.

If you stop testing monitoring changes gets impossible...









SARS-CoV-2 lineage EU.1.1 has additional Spike mutations I410V and P521S and appears to be outgrowing the parent XBB.1.5* in Europe. The growth advantage appears to be on the order of 25-60%, similar to the growth advantage of R346T in BA.5 and BQ.1.

So the outcome is CoViD soon may crash healthcare (again)....Can it get (much) worse ?

Potential recombination between SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV. "a potential zoonotic threat that MERS-CoV could .. be gaining the ability to use hACE2 as an entry  receptor and, thus, could also coinfect ACE2-expressing cells with  SARS-CoV-2.

link;[url]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-023-01396-6[/url] or https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-023-01396-6 ;

In sum, given the high risk of SARS-CoV-2/MERS-CoV recombination, the development of pan-β-CoV vaccines as well as CoV entry and replication inhibitor-based therapeutics is urgently needed to combat the pandemics or epidemics caused by emerging SARS-CoV-3 or MERS-CoV-2 in the future.

DJ-YES !!!! It can get MUCH worse !!!!!

Primary covid vaccinations (1st or 2nd dose) STOPS for almost everyone under 50 in the UK from this summer

Did "Big Pharma" go for profits above public health ? 

YES !!! On the longer term vaccines/anti-virals resulted in more immunity evasion...MORE new variants ! In the short term it may have saved lives-on the longer term it made the pandemic even worse...

[url]https://twitter.com/JosetteSchoenma[/url] or https://twitter.com/JosetteSchoenma (Dutch) Following new developments-with very limited data...

DJ-With H5N1 spreading-very likely human cases being missed, lots of cases in mammals, with decrease of (human) immunity after CoViD the global health outlook-my view-is bad...


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Well twitter and this forum is a problem...

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See how it works out now..

DJ...we soon may be in another global wave of CoViD...


COVID-19 Infection Accelerates the Progression of Dementia “Patients with all subtypes of dementia included in the study experienced rapidly progressive dementia following infection with SARS-CoV-2” I’ve been saying this for a long time 

and lots of complications from CoViD...

Rare fungus kills one person and hospitalizes two The cluster of cases was caused by Blastomyces, a microscopic fungal  species which lives in moist soil and decomposes wood and leaves.

less immunity against all kinds of other infections just one of many complications...


1918 pandemic flu virus recreated in BSL3 lab in Atlanta. "Four days after infection, the amount of 1918 virus found in the lung tissue of infected mice was 39,000 times higher than that produced by one of the comparison recombinant flu viruses."

link [url]https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html#reconstruction[/url] or https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html#reconstruction DJ-History can learn us a lot on pandemics...

My view;

Weakest pandemic-part is spread of disease into a host; so the less travel the better...STOP flying diseases all over the planet ! WE CREATED THE PANDEMIC !!!!

Of course masks limit risks, ventilation lowers viral/disease loads (but also could spread a disease !!! so filters/UV-C matter !!!)

You need good testing/surveilance...we did give up on both...hardly any sequencing left simply because they gat no samples...








Also for those who have had trouble loading Collection 24, #Collection42 https://cov-spectrum.org/collections/42 now has just the fastest lineages from #Collection24 as measured highest lower bound of the growth advantage confidence interval “CI (low)”.

link [url]https://cov-spectrum.org/collections/42[/url] or https://cov-spectrum.org/collections/42 some of the newest variants-with mutations, growth advantage...

Vaccine immunity in most countries may be "limited" at best...another CoViD pandemic wave is on its way....With lots of unknowns because of spread in animals, missed variants in chronic CoViD cases...simply lack of testing...

DJ, 'Living with CoViD" is just as crazy as living with wildfires...climate change etc...[url]http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/ipcc-keeps-downplaying-the-danger-even-as-reality-strikes.html[/url] or http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/ipcc-keeps-downplaying-the-danger-even-as-reality-strikes.html and [url]https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/35-million-risk-another-burst-tornadic-activity-midwest-south[/url] or https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/35-million-risk-another-burst-tornadic-activity-midwest-south 

There is no point in science if politics/media simply ignore science....

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April 6,

Marc Johnson

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Variant trackers, keep your eye on these new lineages with Y453F.  (XBB.1.31, XBB.1.12, etc) Not many sequences, but Y453F is one of the few prevalent cryptic lineage changes that hasn't been in a major VOC yet. https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1608050442130300928

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Y453F is one of the few prevalent cryptic lineage changes that hasn't been in a major VOC yet..

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The mutation Y453F in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is a potential genetic adaptation in minks.

-link; [url]https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/figures?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010053[/url] or https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/figures?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010053 

DJ-With CoViD spreading in mammals (from deer to rats...) we will see a lot of new mutations...OF COURSE !!!! it will show up sooner or later in humans...









Nepal: "around 15 percent of the [Covid-19] samples tested are now returning positive results".

and

Test positivity rate in Delhi, India, reaches 26.5% A 26.5% TPR would be one of the highest levels ever recorded in India. The OWID chart below only records up to June 2022.

DJ...present "strategy" is simply to deny there is a problem...








We had expected dementia to overtake heart disease this year (left panel).  But with so many more deaths from heart disease than expected, it has remained in top spot, despite dementia deaths also increasing (right panel).

and yes long/post CoViD is a very major problem !

[url]https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/frequent-testing-reduced-covid-19-deaths-nursing-facilities[/url] or https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/frequent-testing-reduced-covid-19-deaths-nursing-facilities NOT testing keeps CoViD-deaths statistics low...over 20,000 NL CoViD deaths in Dutch nursing homes were kept out of the CoViD -deaths statistics for NL...

[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/study-finds-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-accumulating-in-skull-marrow,-brain-meninges-and-brain-parenchyma-while-killing-brain-cells[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/study-finds-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-accumulating-in-skull-marrow,-brain-meninges-and-brain-parenchyma-while-killing-brain-cells Again...CoViD does do damage all over the body...excess deaths may even further increase over time-CoViD may be a slow killer....

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Of course CoViD also decreases immunity...M-Pox still not under control-however "the news" on M-Pox is under control-downplaying both numbers and risks...

[url]https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/united-states/h5n1-tracking-af/972306-bird-flu-outbreak-linked-to-thousands-of-seal-deaths-in-new-england-cdc[/url] or https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/united-states/h5n1-tracking-af/972306-bird-flu-outbreak-linked-to-thousands-of-seal-deaths-in-new-england-cdc by now lots of reports of H5N1 spreading in mammals...but most health organizations downplaying risks "to save profits"...

So -will we get another pandemic? YES-it is by now just a matter of time...very likely it can become a "mega-mix" of several diseases in both humans and (farm)animals...It will further worsen the global food crisis. The already excisting healthcrisis will develop into healthcare collapse.....

We need governments working for public interests-not for profits....

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DJ-It looks like-at least for now-we do NOT see a major new war in the Middle East-bringing millions of more refugees...There is still "seismic unrest"...will we see another M9+ earthquake this month-West Pacific ???








For the first time during this pandemic one of the many “not airborne tweets”, connected to the WHO, has been removed.  finally decided to delete his tweet from March 6, 2020 in which he said that the coronavirus is not airborne.

DJ...just an indication of the problems in dealing with a healthcrisis...

[url]https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data[/url] or https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data for now UK CoViD numbers may decrease...

[url]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table[/url] or https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table of very limited value because of lack of testing...Asia cases +16%...India, Singapore, Indonesia see new variants...also hospital cases increasing there again...

[url]https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/04/who-update-risk-assessment-human.html[/url] or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/04/who-update-risk-assessment-human.html ;

There is also some ambiguity over how this individual was exposed, although environmental contamination, likely from birds or marine mammals, is considered a possibility. 

So far, none of his contacts have tested positive for avian influenza, but yesterday one of them reportedly developed respiratory symptoms, and will be further monitored.   

should be a worry...More H5N1 cases=more mutations/mutation selection in mammals=more risk...[url]https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/united-states/h5n1-tracking-af/wyoming/972380-domestic-cat-in-wyoming-tests-positive-for-bird-flu[/url] or https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/united-states/h5n1-tracking-af/wyoming/972380-domestic-cat-in-wyoming-tests-positive-for-bird-flu 

DJ-There is NO point in warnings if warnings are simply ignored...we keep offering free global travel for all kinds of diseases....fail to learn a thing...

The "economy=profits" are NOT worth pandemics !!! Governments keep failing to protect their population...and most of the voters seem to think that is great..."freedom"....

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DJ, Since statistics are based on hardly any testing-often only testing a very limited part of the population (elderly ending up in hospitals) statistics -even based on self reporting of (what ???) symptoms may be of decreased value...

One XBC.1.6  just showed up from South Korea. The first one outside of Australia. Victoria/Australia uploaded 9 yesterday. Bringing their total to 10!

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My best guess, looking at this, is that also New Zealand has a growing amount of XBC.1.6. 20 samples in total, that aren't on GISAID (yet).

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XBC.1.6 is now growing in New South Wales as well, not just in South Australia. Be aware that week 13 in NSW is incomplete (about half of the samples), so the graph could very well be different next week. But it still makes me very curious to see what it will show next week!

DJ...it may by now be "very hard" to get a view on what variants are spreading in what age groups, countries....

Vipin M. Vashishtha

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⚡️First data on lab study of XBB.1.16 #Arcturus is out! 1-Relative effective reproduction number (Re) of XBB.1.16 is ~1.3-fold greater than the parental XBB.1, and ~1.2-fold greater than that of XBB.1.5. 1/

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Delhi logs 733 Covid cases, highest in 7 months.

DJ...symptoms may shift-for some variants-towards neurological, gastro-intestal...others may still look like a (severe) cold...

Unexplained rise in Covid-19 deaths in Spain. Spain recently moved to reporting Covid data on a weekly basis, but Covid deaths seem to be running at a higher rate compared to the first quarter of the year.

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We haven't found any explanation for the sudden rise in Covid deaths in the Spanish press. The main variants currently circulating in Spain seem to be XBB.1.5, and XBB.1.9.1.

should also show up in [url]https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps[/url] or https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps later on...for week 12 (we now are in week 14) excess deaths in NL, Germany 4-7% above the long term norm...However Spain also did see a very early heatwave...also increasing excess deaths. 

[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/viruses-like-sars-cov-2-exploit-built-in-antibody-bias-a-threat-lurking-in-our-immune-systems[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/viruses-like-sars-cov-2-exploit-built-in-antibody-bias-a-threat-lurking-in-our-immune-systems ; Human immunity reacting much more to some parts of the virus-less to other parts-giving new variants way to escape immunity reaction...

and [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/study-finds-that-sars-cov-2-activates-ancient-retroviral-genes-and-inflammatory-herv-w-envelope-protein-in-covid-19-patients[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/study-finds-that-sars-cov-2-activates-ancient-retroviral-genes-and-inflammatory-herv-w-envelope-protein-in-covid-19-patients 

DJ Both point to immunity problems-not only giving new diseases more chance but also room for "older" infections to reactivate...

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Lots of other diseases may be becoming problematic by now...spread of both CoViD and H5N1 in mammals is -in fact- a nightmare...But "we are tired of the virus"...so "it has to be mild"...ignoring tens-of-millions Long/often chronic CoViD cases -resulting in even more new variants...

DJ-In latest news I follow the "war-situation". "The west" seems to be ignoring/denying reality and keeps pushing for wrong choices making matters worse....climate collapse in fact is denied...If the problem gets to big "politics" buy time...seem unable to come up with answers...

[url]https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/asia/h5n1-h5n8-h1n08-tracking/japan/969609-japan-s-bird-flu-cull-to-top-15-million-this-winter[/url] or https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/asia/h5n1-h5n8-h1n08-tracking/japan/969609-japan-s-bird-flu-cull-to-top-15-million-this-winter (latest) Japan has lost so many chickens to bird flu, it's now running out of land to bury them.

Japanese state broadcaster NHK reported Tuesday that 16 out of 26 prefectures in the country did not have enough land to dispose of culled birds properly. All 26 had reported experiencing avian flu outbreaks recently. ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/japan-...-flu-1.6345375


DJ Worldwide very likely hundreds of millions of farm birds got "culled/killed" because of "bird flu"...it does not need furter spread to mammals to affect our food (prices)....

African Swine Flu did see millions of pigs being killed (sometimes buried alive...bulldozered...)...meat prices will only increase...egg production problems will get worse...On top of that climate disasters will worsen other food production/storage/logistics...

We need answers NOW !!!

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DJ, A Dutch/NL link [url]https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/7918743/vogelgriep-zet-dierenambulances-onder-druk-wij-gaan-dit-echt-niet-redden[/url] or https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/7918743/vogelgriep-zet-dierenambulances-onder-druk-wij-gaan-dit-echt-niet-redden Animal-ambulance run by donations and volunteers no longer able to picj up dead birds killed by bird-flu...Only in urban area's they may be able to do such a job any longer...so further spread in birds/mammals -more mutations-on their way...related;








UPDATE: 3 cats in the U.S. - two in Nebraska and one in Wyoming - have tested positive for H5N1 bird flu

[url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-indian-researchers-warn-that-emerging-mutations-on-xbb-sublineages-in-india-could-totally-undermine-all-immunity-protections[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-indian-researchers-warn-that-emerging-mutations-on-xbb-sublineages-in-india-could-totally-undermine-all-immunity-protections ...also lots of warnings on coViD getting out of control...

China CDC: Genomic Recombination of SARS-CoV-2 Subvariants BA.5.2.48 and BF.7.14. We .. identified nine potential recombinant sequences from Henan Province), Anhui Province, and Sichuan Province  https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/1642 https://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/doi/10.46234/ccdcw2023.058

My view; there are lots of warnings-only being ignored to "save the economy=profits"....

Australian Health Minister on Covid-19: "Almost every citizen is now immune."

DJ, natural immunity phantasy....









COVID-19 is third leading cause of death in Australia. "More than 20,000 additional people died last year than would have if there had been no pandemic."

unable to learn...

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April 10-part 1, reasons to discuss "wars"/pandemic links...

DJ-There is a basic idea both when dealing with pandemics and conflicts...the "enemy is weak" or "the disease is low risk"...in both cases a wrong idea can have grave, serious results...endless wars, endless healthcrises...If the "basic thinking" is wrong you do not solve the problem. 

Climate collapse [url]http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/ipcc-keeps-downplaying-the-danger-even-as-reality-strikes.html[/url] or http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/ipcc-keeps-downplaying-the-danger-even-as-reality-strikes.html is making risks of war, pandemics even worse...empty bla-bla by "talking heads" wasting their lives with lies-in fact-only worsen crises....

At present "Russia is weak" insanity created a NATO-Russian war  destroying Ukraine...At present the idea "CoViD is mild" is resulting in lots of new variants...however we stopped testing...we do not want to see the problem...

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up#Plot[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up#Plot ;

Kate Dibiasky, an MSU doctoral candidate, discovers a previously unknown comet. Her professor Dr. Randall Mindy confirms that it will collide with the Earth in about six months and is large enough to cause a planet-wide extinction eventNASA confirms the findings and their Planetary Defense Coordination Office head Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe accompanies Dibiasky and Mindy to present their findings to the White House. They are met with apathy from President Janie Orlean and her son/Chief of Staff Jason.

and [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth 

An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over 1,000 times to audiences worldwide.

DJ...humanity now may be facing problems they can no longer solve....The basic idea humans had of themselves "top of creation" now switched to fatalism;Any view according to which human beings are powerless to do anything other than what they actually do.[1] Included in this is the belief that humans have no power to influence the future or indeed the outcome of their own actions

Both basic ideas are not very helpfull...In pandemics there are lots of "easy actions" we could do;

Pandemic triangle is "disease-transport-host."...that simple ! So if you can keep disease away from host by limiting transport you may be slowing down a pandemic...

That idea may have worked for CoViD...bird-flu now is that widespread it may kill "trillions of birds" and become very widespread in mammals...If you act realistic on that scenario you would try to limit H5N1 (most) spread to mammals as much as possible...keep farm-birds safe the best one can...

Miximum profits may be a wrong basic idea during pandemics...survival of humans is the ONLY priority !!!!

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but "we go for profits"...

Stop flying diseases all over the planet would be a good idea during pandemics....ignored...

Masks/ventilation could lower viral load...even that basic idea is "controversial"...

DJ-Vaccines in the past did a great job...(no links with autism...very likely lots of statistics may find autism more in UN-vaccinated !!!)...however they may be of limited use in a major global healthcrisis...

-You need vaccines that stop infection (sterilizing) NOT vaccines that "only" limit the outcome of infection...end up with more immunity evasion...

-We did see billions of vaccines being used in the ongoing CoViD-pandemic...in "the west"m-RNA vaccines for profit were most used...the rest of the world did see "billions" of more "old-style" vaccines...but it did NOT stop the pandemic enough...

-How many vaccines you want to go for ? Vaccinating 8 billion people every 6 months ? Vaccinating "trillions of animals"? There are simply limits...even when you vaccinate via food, water...and you do not have good enough control over the outcome...

So "we can first beat Russia-then China" insanity is resulting in TRILLIONS !!!!! of military spending-decreasing spending on healthcare (to the point we may no longer have much public healthcare left...)...CoViD is over, H5N1 "has to be low risk" is pushing us towards a healthcrisis unseen in centuries...

End of part 1

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April 10-part 2

[url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/science/variants/recombinants/xbb-1-9-1/china-31-cases-of-xbb-1-9-1-up-from-just-two-cases-last-week/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/science/variants/recombinants/xbb-1-9-1/china-31-cases-of-xbb-1-9-1-up-from-just-two-cases-last-week/ 

China - SARS-CoV-2 variants by region. From China's CDC, up to 6th April 2023. It looks like a clean sweep for XBB.1.9.1 in Gansu, with DZ.2 showing strongly in Qinghai. https://weekly.chinacdc.cn/fileCCDCW/cms/news/info/upload//92564565-5e3b-40d8-83af-d8288f77043f.pdf

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That's fairly strong growth in XBB.1.9.1, up from 31 cases last week to 53 this week:

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COVID cases on the rise in Japan again for first time in over 2 months. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230406/p2a/00m/0na/003000c

DJ...[url]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table[/url] or https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table Asia CoViD cases -6% however India +79%, Indonesia +14%, Malaysia +38%, Japan +16%, Nepal even +91%...lots of countries simply stopped reporting...

Saudi Arabia cases +45% may indicate increase of spread (from India ?) to West Asia as well...Statistics have become out of touch with reality due to a total lack of testing/reporting...so we have very limited sequencing...New variants could be (linked to) increasing...but most of the spread is missed...

The Risks of Even Mild COVID-19 1 in 4 Showing Cognitive Deficits After Mild Case

link [url]https://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and-disorders/covid-19/2023/the-risks-of-even-mild-covid19-1-in-4-showing-cognitive-deficits-011723#.ZDEQPF_6H40.twitter[/url] or https://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and-disorders/covid-19/2023/the-risks-of-even-mild-covid19-1-in-4-showing-cognitive-deficits-011723#.ZDEQPF_6H40.twitter ...so we are talking of hundreds of millions of people living with "some" post/long/chronic CoViD damage....








Reinfections worse than first time COVID. More breathing difficulty, tiredness (Long COVID) after repeat COVID. Boosters waned/offered limited protection against long term symptoms. Study from National Institute for Public Health, Netherlands. 1/2 https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.05.23288157v1.full.pdf

DJ...maybe the worst part of this "news" is that we did know it for over year(s)....








Viral persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the nasal mucosa in 8 of 8 patients with olfactory dysfunction (anosmia) for more than 80 days after diagnosis of COVID Samples were obtained by Brushing Finding supports our Anosmia Protocol with drugs against Viral Load https://doi.org/10.3390/v15040899

DJ "viral persistence" simply means the virus still is in the patient..."chronic CoViD" with the virus doing long term damage, mutating...








It looks like XBB.1.5* has a about a week left as the majority lineage in the US.   Still not clear whether XBB.1.9* (currently 17%) will reach dominance before it is overtaken by XBB.1.16* (currently 5%). That will take us into summer, no idea what comes after that.

basic message; pandemic is NOT over..."only" out of sight....

[url]https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/south-america/h5n1-tracking-ab/chile/964333-chile-bird-flu-in-wild-birds-and-mammals-december-8-2022?view=stream[/url] or https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/south-america/h5n1-tracking-ab/chile/964333-chile-bird-flu-in-wild-birds-and-mammals-december-8-2022?view=stream ;latest

The regional director(s) of Sernapesca, Branny Montecinos, reported that the first case of bird flu in a sea lion found with signs of the disease in Carelmapu is being confirmed.

In conversation with the Aquaculture Region of Radio Sago, he explained that the case is under suspicion, despite the fact that the first sample was positive for Avian Influenza.

However, and as dictated by the protocol, we must wait for the respective counter sample.

https://www.radiosago.cl/carelmapu-s...n-lobo-marino/

DJ...H5N1 spread in mammals simply indicates we should do all we can to avoid a H5N1 human pandemic...but we miss most of spread in mammals.....

[url]https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/the-pandemic-discussion-forum/economics-at-flutrackers/972480-china-price-of-eggs-up-on-a-large-scale-april-10-2023[/url] or https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/the-pandemic-discussion-forum/economics-at-flutrackers/972480-china-price-of-eggs-up-on-a-large-scale-april-10-2023  both "bird flu" 

[url]https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/united-states-ab/972460-wyoming-game-and-fish-say-winter-die-off-will-affect-hunters-prolonged-and-harsher-than-normal-winter-temperatures-blamed-april-8-2023[/url] or https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/united-states-ab/972460-wyoming-game-and-fish-say-winter-die-off-will-affect-hunters-prolonged-and-harsher-than-normal-winter-temperatures-blamed-april-8-2023 and climate collapse worsening the global food supplies...

Of course [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_mpox_outbreak#Cases_per_country_and_territory[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_mpox_outbreak#Cases_per_country_and_territory is NOT over !!!! What kind of magic would end spread of the virus ? Only testing/reporting stopped...

To end it for today [url]https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-cases-surge-in-japan-with-a-variety-of-xbb-sub-lineages-leading-the-new-onslaught-and-xbb-1-16-just-only-making-a-debut-there-[/url] or https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-cases-surge-in-japan-with-a-variety-of-xbb-sub-lineages-leading-the-new-onslaught-and-xbb-1-16-just-only-making-a-debut-there- 

You do not need to be very clever to expect the global healthcrisis to get worse....it would take a miracle NOT to get worse...The only thing under control is the "news" on the unfolding worsening global health crisis...Coffee !


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CNN: Only 24% of Americans personally feel that the pandemic is over, with 53% saying that it’ll never be over.

DJ, Maybe the public is more aware of the risks then "politics/experts for sale"....You do not solve a crisis by ignoring it....


Pakistan seeing a rise in COVID, this report from today’s Dawn paper

link [url]https://www.dawn.com/news/1743926[/url] or https://www.dawn.com/news/1743926 yet another Asian country reporting serious increase of cases (with no doubt even less testing...). 


India: Uttar Pradesh government makes Covid testing mandatory for international passengers The use of masks is also now mandatory for all people in crowded places.

link [url]https://www.indiatvnews.com/uttar-pradesh/covid-19-surge-in-india-uttar-pradesh-government-makes-coronavirus-testing-mandatory-for-international-passengers-latest-updates-2023-04-09-861739[/url] or https://www.indiatvnews.com/uttar-pradesh/covid-19-surge-in-india-uttar-pradesh-government-makes-coronavirus-testing-mandatory-for-international-passengers-latest-updates-2023-04-09-861739