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Scientific Prediction and Prophecy Both Warn of An Imminent and More Severe Pandemic
Jan. 10, 2021 | By Li Zhengkuan
The year 2020 saw the world ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, and the 2021 new year is already marred by uncertainty, with new virus variants emerging across the globe. All indications, be they based on science or prophecy, point to a possibly more deadly new wave of the virus. It is time for us to take a step back and rethink how to stay safe amid the pandemic. This article aims to provide historical and cultural perspectives on the coronavirus, with the goal to help us gain a better understanding of the challenges we are facing and how we might positively cope with them.
New Coronavirus Variant Highly Infectious and “Out of Control”
On December 21, 2020, the official first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned people of an “out of control” new strain of the coronavirus. “Cases have absolutely rocketed, so we’ve got a long way to go,” Hancock remarked, “I think it will be very difficult to keep it under control.”
This was about one year after the virus was initially identified in Wuhan, China. As a result of a top-down cover-up and continued disinformation by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the virus spread to over 200 countries and regions, with over 84 million cases and more than 1.8 million deaths by the end of 2020. Many people called it the CCP Virus due to its origin.
But the virus seems to have gained new force in recent weeks. Although dozens of countries have imposed travel bans from the U.K., the new strain nonetheless crept into more than 30 countries, including European countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain), all Nordic nations, Asia (China, Japan, India, Hong Kong), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand), North America (United States, Canada), and South America (Brazil and Chile).
Increase in New Cases in the U.K. Accelerated Twice: In October and Again in December
According to the chart on the left in the following image, in 2020, the cumulative coronavirus cases in the U.K. had been relatively stable between April and October (250,000 by mid-May, or close to 2,000 per day), but 1.5 million more cases were reported between October and December in about 2.5 months (close to 20,000 new cases per day). The cases increased even faster from December 2020 to January 2021.
Coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom. Left: Cumulative cases since January 27, 2020. Right: Daily new cases increased several times between early December 2020 and early January 2021. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) website.
More specifically, the daily new cases (per chart at right) have also shown an overall increasing trend between December 2020 and early January 2021.
The rapidly growing cases also coincided with the U.K. government’s deepening relationships with the CCP.
“Until recently, Downing Street was famously defining itself as ‘China’s best partner in the West’ and was committed to intensifying its proclaimed ‘golden era’ of relations with Beijing,” reported The Diplomat in an October article. Unlike the current U.S. Administration, which has a taken series of concrete actions to counter the CCP – such as its immigration policy and sanctions against Chinese military-related businesses — initiatives by the U.K. government to counter the CCP are relatively limited.
“We’re not always going to be able to agree on everything, but basically there’s so much that we have to do together,” remarked Caroline Wilson during an interview in a high profile summit in Shanghai in October 2020, one month after she became the British Ambassador to China. While many Western countries, including the U.S., have shut down Confucius Institutes across continents, Wilson attended the opening ceremony of Manchester Metropolitan University’s Chinese headquarters in Wuhan in December. Wilson’s presence at the ceremony was highly celebrated by the CCP’s propaganda powerhouse Global Times as the “first ambassador from a Five Eyes country to visit Wuhan despite continued pressure from the intelligence alliance on a wide range of issues, from Hong Kong affairs to the coronavirus.”
The number of CCP Virus cases shot up drastically, first in October, with another wave in December when the new variant went out of control. By January 5, 2021, the number of new cases in the U.K. has been between 50,000 and 60,000 per day.
It took the U.K. six months (from January 27 to June 27, 2020) to reach 301,000 cases, but 311,000 new cases were confirmed within six days, between December 29, 2020 and January 3, 2021. This made the U.K. the country with the highest number of cases in Europe, triggering Prime Minister Boris Johnson to impose a national lockdown starting January 4 until at least mid-February.
Sharp Increase in Coronavirus Deaths in Germany
Data shows that Germany is China’s biggest trading partner and technology exporter in Europe. China is also Germany’s largest trading partner, superseding the United States since 2017. This has put Germany in a unique position relative to efforts to counter the CCP’s increasing aggressiveness.
“As Europe weighs what course to take in the face of Beijing’s growing belligerence at home and abroad, it has become increasingly clear that the decision depends on Berlin, far and away China’s most important counterpart in the region. Equally clear is that Germany’s economic entanglement with China has become so extensive that reversing it is no longer a realistic option,” stated a Politico article in September, titled “How Germany opened the door to China — and threw away the key.”
Since October, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been pushing for the European Union to agree to a major trade deal with China. The deal was quietly sealed in the final weeks of 2020, potentially hampering joint U.S.-European efforts to address CCP challenges. This occurred “in an increasingly black-and-white world where liberal democracies face an existential challenge from authoritarians and populists,” stated a Foreign Policy article in late December, “The history books may not be kind.”
The number of total infections and deaths in Germany has skyrocketed since October. As shown in the graph below, among all 34,000 coronavirus-related deaths, 16,000 occurred in the month of December, with over 3,600 per week.
Weekly deaths in Germany caused by the coronavirus since August 2020. Data from World Health Organization (WHO) website.
Between June and September 2020, about 1,000 people in total died of the coronavirus in Germany. However, 1,100 Germans died on December 29, 2020 alone.
The business partnership between Germany and communist China has also extended to vaccines. China announced on December 16 that it was sourcing 100 million vaccines from Germany’s BioNTech. “Communist China has been divulging very little about its vaccine development programme to the outside world. Even without final approval, more than 1 million healthcare workers and others who are seen as facing a high risk of infection in China have received experimental vaccines under emergency use permission. But the developer has yet to disclose how effective their vaccines are and the possible side effects that they may have,” stated a Businesses Insider Indian article on December 17. “Health experts also question why China is using experimental vaccines on such a vast scale now that the coronavirus outbreak is largely under control in the country.”
Inside Germany, more than 130,000 people had received vaccines by the end of 2020. German officials have been criticized for not purchasing enough doses of BioNTech vaccines. Sandra Ciesek, Director of the Institute for Medical Virology at the University Hospital Frankfurt, is an expert in the field. She said there are still many unknowns about the disease, for example, the virus could change in a way in which the vaccine would no longer work. “Personally, I don’t think there will be a breakthrough in 2021. That there is a pill that you take at the beginning of the disease and that prevents you from getting seriously ill – I don’t believe that for next year,” she said in an interview at year’s end 2020.
Young People Becoming Susceptible Population
Neil Ferguson, a professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at Imperial College London, said that the new variant tends to infect young people including those under 15, reported Reuters on December 21, 2020. Two days later, he said in a video that, based on evidence from Denmark, a country with a relatively low infection rate, it was “almost certain” that the new virus variant had spread to the “great majority if not all” European countries.
Similar patterns were also observed on other continents. Zweli Mukez, South African Health Minister, said on December 27 that the total cases in the country had exceeded one million with over 9,500 cases reported in the past 24 hours alone. He confirmed that the new virus variant seems to infect young people more readily and develop complications.
Former Japanese transport minister, Yuichiro Hata, had symptoms of flu and fever on December 24. After being taken to a hospital three days later, he died of coronavirus at the age of 53, making him the first sitting member of the Japanese Parliament to lose his life to the disease. He was the son of former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata.
The United States is no exception. Four-year-old Xavier M. Harris died in New York on December 26, becoming the youngest victim. Luke Letlow, 41, member-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives, died on December 29 before being sworn in.
How Bad Is the Next Wave?
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Scientific Prediction and Prophecy Both Warn of An Imminent and More Severe Pandemic
Jan. 10, 2021 | By Li Zhengkuan
The year 2020 saw the world ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, and the 2021 new year is already marred by uncertainty, with new virus variants emerging across the globe. All indications, be they based on science or prophecy, point to a possibly more deadly new wave of the virus. It is time for us to take a step back and rethink how to stay safe amid the pandemic. This article aims to provide historical and cultural perspectives on the coronavirus, with the goal to help us gain a better understanding of the challenges we are facing and how we might positively cope with them.
New Coronavirus Variant Highly Infectious and “Out of Control”
On December 21, 2020, the official first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned people of an “out of control” new strain of the coronavirus. “Cases have absolutely rocketed, so we’ve got a long way to go,” Hancock remarked, “I think it will be very difficult to keep it under control.”
This was about one year after the virus was initially identified in Wuhan, China. As a result of a top-down cover-up and continued disinformation by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the virus spread to over 200 countries and regions, with over 84 million cases and more than 1.8 million deaths by the end of 2020. Many people called it the CCP Virus due to its origin.
But the virus seems to have gained new force in recent weeks. Although dozens of countries have imposed travel bans from the U.K., the new strain nonetheless crept into more than 30 countries, including European countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain), all Nordic nations, Asia (China, Japan, India, Hong Kong), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand), North America (United States, Canada), and South America (Brazil and Chile).
Increase in New Cases in the U.K. Accelerated Twice: In October and Again in December
According to the chart on the left in the following image, in 2020, the cumulative coronavirus cases in the U.K. had been relatively stable between April and October (250,000 by mid-May, or close to 2,000 per day), but 1.5 million more cases were reported between October and December in about 2.5 months (close to 20,000 new cases per day). The cases increased even faster from December 2020 to January 2021.
Coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom. Left: Cumulative cases since January 27, 2020. Right: Daily new cases increased several times between early December 2020 and early January 2021. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) website.
More specifically, the daily new cases (per chart at right) have also shown an overall increasing trend between December 2020 and early January 2021.
The rapidly growing cases also coincided with the U.K. government’s deepening relationships with the CCP.
“Until recently, Downing Street was famously defining itself as ‘China’s best partner in the West’ and was committed to intensifying its proclaimed ‘golden era’ of relations with Beijing,” reported The Diplomat in an October article. Unlike the current U.S. Administration, which has a taken series of concrete actions to counter the CCP – such as its immigration policy and sanctions against Chinese military-related businesses — initiatives by the U.K. government to counter the CCP are relatively limited.
“We’re not always going to be able to agree on everything, but basically there’s so much that we have to do together,” remarked Caroline Wilson during an interview in a high profile summit in Shanghai in October 2020, one month after she became the British Ambassador to China. While many Western countries, including the U.S., have shut down Confucius Institutes across continents, Wilson attended the opening ceremony of Manchester Metropolitan University’s Chinese headquarters in Wuhan in December. Wilson’s presence at the ceremony was highly celebrated by the CCP’s propaganda powerhouse Global Times as the “first ambassador from a Five Eyes country to visit Wuhan despite continued pressure from the intelligence alliance on a wide range of issues, from Hong Kong affairs to the coronavirus.”
The number of CCP Virus cases shot up drastically, first in October, with another wave in December when the new variant went out of control. By January 5, 2021, the number of new cases in the U.K. has been between 50,000 and 60,000 per day.
It took the U.K. six months (from January 27 to June 27, 2020) to reach 301,000 cases, but 311,000 new cases were confirmed within six days, between December 29, 2020 and January 3, 2021. This made the U.K. the country with the highest number of cases in Europe, triggering Prime Minister Boris Johnson to impose a national lockdown starting January 4 until at least mid-February.
Sharp Increase in Coronavirus Deaths in Germany
Data shows that Germany is China’s biggest trading partner and technology exporter in Europe. China is also Germany’s largest trading partner, superseding the United States since 2017. This has put Germany in a unique position relative to efforts to counter the CCP’s increasing aggressiveness.
“As Europe weighs what course to take in the face of Beijing’s growing belligerence at home and abroad, it has become increasingly clear that the decision depends on Berlin, far and away China’s most important counterpart in the region. Equally clear is that Germany’s economic entanglement with China has become so extensive that reversing it is no longer a realistic option,” stated a Politico article in September, titled “How Germany opened the door to China — and threw away the key.”
Since October, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been pushing for the European Union to agree to a major trade deal with China. The deal was quietly sealed in the final weeks of 2020, potentially hampering joint U.S.-European efforts to address CCP challenges. This occurred “in an increasingly black-and-white world where liberal democracies face an existential challenge from authoritarians and populists,” stated a Foreign Policy article in late December, “The history books may not be kind.”
The number of total infections and deaths in Germany has skyrocketed since October. As shown in the graph below, among all 34,000 coronavirus-related deaths, 16,000 occurred in the month of December, with over 3,600 per week.
Weekly deaths in Germany caused by the coronavirus since August 2020. Data from World Health Organization (WHO) website.
Between June and September 2020, about 1,000 people in total died of the coronavirus in Germany. However, 1,100 Germans died on December 29, 2020 alone.
The business partnership between Germany and communist China has also extended to vaccines. China announced on December 16 that it was sourcing 100 million vaccines from Germany’s BioNTech. “Communist China has been divulging very little about its vaccine development programme to the outside world. Even without final approval, more than 1 million healthcare workers and others who are seen as facing a high risk of infection in China have received experimental vaccines under emergency use permission. But the developer has yet to disclose how effective their vaccines are and the possible side effects that they may have,” stated a Businesses Insider Indian article on December 17. “Health experts also question why China is using experimental vaccines on such a vast scale now that the coronavirus outbreak is largely under control in the country.”
Inside Germany, more than 130,000 people had received vaccines by the end of 2020. German officials have been criticized for not purchasing enough doses of BioNTech vaccines. Sandra Ciesek, Director of the Institute for Medical Virology at the University Hospital Frankfurt, is an expert in the field. She said there are still many unknowns about the disease, for example, the virus could change in a way in which the vaccine would no longer work. “Personally, I don’t think there will be a breakthrough in 2021. That there is a pill that you take at the beginning of the disease and that prevents you from getting seriously ill – I don’t believe that for next year,” she said in an interview at year’s end 2020.
Young People Becoming Susceptible Population
Neil Ferguson, a professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at Imperial College London, said that the new variant tends to infect young people including those under 15, reported Reuters on December 21, 2020. Two days later, he said in a video that, based on evidence from Denmark, a country with a relatively low infection rate, it was “almost certain” that the new virus variant had spread to the “great majority if not all” European countries.
Similar patterns were also observed on other continents. Zweli Mukez, South African Health Minister, said on December 27 that the total cases in the country had exceeded one million with over 9,500 cases reported in the past 24 hours alone. He confirmed that the new virus variant seems to infect young people more readily and develop complications.
Former Japanese transport minister, Yuichiro Hata, had symptoms of flu and fever on December 24. After being taken to a hospital three days later, he died of coronavirus at the age of 53, making him the first sitting member of the Japanese Parliament to lose his life to the disease. He was the son of former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata.
The United States is no exception. Four-year-old Xavier M. Harris died in New York on December 26, becoming the youngest victim. Luke Letlow, 41, member-elect of the U.S. House of Representatives, died on December 29 before being sworn in.
How Bad Is the Next Wave?
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