Month: January 2022
In Antarctica, all their precautions were for nothing
By Andrea Widburg
In July 2021, we published an essay from an “Anonymous Antarctican” describing the insane restrictions placed on people in the middle of nowhere, all in an effort to avoid COVID. Now, we’re getting a reminder that, in the words of the old margarine commercial, “you can’t fool Mother Nature.” It turns out that all those crazy precautions were for nothing. A similarly situated station hosted a virgin population of people who had never had COVID, and two-thirds of them caught it, just as everyone will eventually.
The July American Thinker article, entitled “Anti-COVID measures in an Antarctic research station,” described how the McMurdo Station, 800 miles north of the South Pole, had instituted incredibly repressive rules, all based on magical, not scientific, thinking:
PAE-ASC (Antarctica Support Contract) along with the NSF (National Science Foundation) then implemented a COVID screening process to anyone going to the ice. This process included flying to San Francisco and staying in a managed hotel from which you could not leave the grounds. During that time, a negative COVID test was required to process further to Christchurch, New Zealand. The program booked a private charter flight to reduce COVID contact. Upon arrival in Christchurch, per N.Z. government regulations, any person arriving from outside the country was required to stay in a government-managed isolation facility for two weeks and required two negative COVID tests, one per week, before being released.
But it was still not over yet; once departing the N.Z. government isolation facility, we take a private van to another managed isolation hotel. During this trip, masking and social distancing are required at all times — as it was throughout the whole process.
Due to unpredictable weather patterns, delays can be anywhere from a few days to several weeks, and — you guessed it — you cannot leave your hotel at all. Mind you, N.Z. has zero COVID cases.
Those attenuated and pointless travel restrictions, which meant a month of isolation and myriad COVID tests (which we now know can’t distinguish COVID from the flu) were just the beginning. Once at the station, the people were under a red-yellow-green-blue alert season, which prescribed various levels of social distancing and masking—in a small working and living area:
If it is green and a plane arrives, we go to level yellow for one week. Mask and social distance at all times during work and personal hours. At the end of a long day, you can’t wait to get back to your room. Oh, wait — you have roommates, too! How can you implement these rules and yet have everyone live together?
Last summer season, everyone had his own room, but this is changing this season as the NSF is ramping up production. But what happens if there are multiple planes in one week, or one arrives on day 7 from the last one? Well, you guessed it: it all starts over again. That means depending on flight schedule, you will be in “level yellow” for months. Sounds like so much fun.
Despite all these extreme precautions, which now include requiring that everyone coming to the station must be vaccinated, COVID came to Antarctica. The COVID-infected station is not the one described above, but the protocols sound much the same:
Two thirds of the staff based at Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Polar Station have caught the Omicron variant, according to Le Soir newspaper. All staff passed multiple PCR tests, quarantining, and being fully vaccinated with one having received a booster shot.
Before leaving for the station, they had a PCR test two hours prior to a flight to South Africa.
In South Africa they then quarantined for ten days before taking another PCR test.
They were also tested before leaving Cape Town for Antarctica and also a final one five days after arrival.
Significantly, even though people with Omicron were evacuated, others still tested positive. However, because it’s Omicron, “it’s not thought that any of the Belgian’s [sic] have experienced severe symptoms.” And let me just say again that they’re all vaccinated.
The “vaccinations” don’t prevent COVID nor do the boosters. For vulnerable people, shots may make less intense those COVID strains other than Omicron. With Omicron, there is no “intense.” You get it, you’re not very sick, and with luck, you’re truly immune and that’s the end of the Chinese Communist Party’s viral gift to the world.
It’s time for us to end the COVID charade. It’s a nasty flu, with the main problem being that our federal government refuses to allow doctors to treat it at any time before patients are at death’s door. With treatment, I suspect deaths would be uncommon. And as the Antarctica experience shows, with Omicron, we’ll all get it and pass through the fire unscathed.
Rot In Hell
Düsseldorf: Healthy riot squad officer suddenly collapses and dies
A 53-year-old police officer died on New Year’s Eve in Düsseldorf. He belonged to a unit of riot police from the Ruhr area. There has been no news on and no interest in his vaccination status.
“In the midst of the heavy workload at the turn of the year, the officers’ colleagues received the sad news from the hospital,” reported a police spokesman on request. They confirmed that he had not been assaulted or attacked and no outside force had been responsible for his sudden inexplicable death.
The cause of death is currently assumed to have been an “medical emergency“, the police said. “When he collapsed, he had not suffered from anything, but had been, as far as we know, healthy to be deployed,” said a spokesman.
Overall, the spokesman concluded that the police operation at the end of the year was more like a “normal weekend in the old town”. Fireworks were banned in the old town due to the Corona pandemic.
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In Montbéliard, Département Doubs, France, the most common given names in 2021 are: Hamza (1st), Mohamed (2nd), Amir (3rd) and Naël (4th) for boys; Selma (1st) and Aïssa (2nd) for girls
In 2021, Montbéliard welcomed 281 new little inhabitants. More births were registered there than in 2020 (245), with a similar range of first names. Hamza, Mohamed, Naël, Côme, Emma and Gabin are at the top.
This is good news. In Montbéliard, the birth rate is rising. During 2021, 281 births were reported at the City Hall of the City of Princes, an increase compared to 2020 (245) after a good year in 2019 (320).
Happy events that make us forget the health crisis and the outbreak of the epidemic. With regard to the first names, one observation can be made: The parents voted for the same first names that were given last year.
Also at the top of the podium is the male Hamza (6), which in the Muslim religion is the uncle of the Prophet and means “strong and powerful”. In second place is Mohamed (5), followed by Amir and Naël (3). The latter has a double origin, Arabic and Breton. It can be a short form of Gwenaël (the white angel) or Natanaël.
Among the girls, Selma (double origin, Arabic and Germanic), symbolising peace and divine protection, tops the list along with Aïssa and Amélia. L’Est Républicain
EU politician would like to see faces of BioNtech founders on banknotes
The European Central Bank could adorn its banknotes with the mugs of two Turkish vaccine producers. The proposal has come from the EU Parliament. The faces of the founders of BioNtech must be on the notes, said a German politician.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has received a suggestion from the EU Parliament for fresh designs on its legal tender from the FDP politician Moritz Körner. He has called for the two BioNtech founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci – sponsored by Bill Gates – to be pictured on one of the banknotes.
“Important European personalities” such as the founding couple of the pharmaceutical company should be printed on the new banknotes, the member of the European Parliament told German weekly Welt am Sonntag. Their work allegedly “saved the lives of millions of Europeans“. He offered no evidence for this lofty claim, perhaps because none exist.
The fawning Körner added: “Their lives are an impressive story of integration, advancement, entrepreneurship, academic excellence and the potential of an open immigration society.” Until about 2018 this company had recorded neither successes nor any profits, but that changed suddenly with the appearance of Sahin at the World Health Summit together with Bill Gates, Angela Merkel and WHO boss Tedros and the €50 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In the wake of the Corona pandemic, the Mainz vaccine manufacturer BioNtech managed to develop an approved vaccine against Covid-19 based on the so-called mRNA technology, he said. But it could also be an indictment rather than a promotion. How did they know that a pandemic was about to sweep across the globe?
Some twenty years after the introduction of the Euro, the European Central Bank has started a process of redesigning the banknotes. Citizens have been invited to share their thoughts on this. It will take years, however, before there these revised notes are released into circulation. In 2024, the Governing Council will decide on the production of new banknotes and when they will be released, according to dpa.
All qualifications are equal
Meanwhile, an editor of the German business daily WirtschaftsWoche has been busy manufacturing consent for a multicultural society, soon to be reflected on the banknotes: “Germany must finally become a country of immigration!”
Sophie Crocoll, like Moritz Körner, also fantasizes about skilled workers welcomed into the country in as large a number as possible in order to prevent Germany’s economic strength from diminishing. Turks, Africans and Arabs should pay for the pensions of the baby boomers who will be exiting the labor market in the coming years.
Any well-informed person who is reasonably familiar with the reality of German immigration policy, however, will be alarmed at the sheer stupidity of Crocoll’s notion of a “skilled worker”.
She argues that the central problem is the fact that the professional qualifications of many immigrants are not recognized in Germany.
But if the car dealer from Rabat has been unable to work in Germany as a mechatronics technician and the medicine man from Burkina Faso as a surgeon, it may be because their qualifications are lacking. Crocoll dismisses such distinctions. The “skilled workers” who have not turned their poverty-ridden homelands into thriving economic landscapes, will somehow manage to do so in Germany according to her.
The truth is that Germany’s immigration policy has been hinged only on one single issue: the generous German social system. It attracts people who make a living from government benefits and there are several million of them worldwide willing to drown in the Mediterranean for these hand-outs.
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France’s Secretary of State for European Affairs approves of pointed message hailing EU flag ‘key to our sovereignty’
LIZ TRUSS’s French rival has approved a provocative post on social media hailing the EU flag as the “key to our sovereignty”.
Clement Beaune, France’s Secretary of State for European Affairs, took to Twitter and “liked” a pro-EU post shared by a French businessman. The tweet features an image of the famous blue and gold EU flag along with the caption: “This flag is 75 years of peace.
“This flag is the key to our sovereignty. This flag is what allows an unprecedented recovery plan.”
The UK left the EU a year ago today in order to restore sovereignty and wrestle back control of money, laws and borders.
Mr Beaune has been a constant critic of Brexit Britain and most recently led the charge for French vessels to be able to fish in UK waters.
France officially took over the six-month rotating presidency of the EU on January 1.
To mark the occasion, the Eiffel Tower in Paris was lit-up in EU blue on New Year’s Eve
In his New Year message, French President Emmanuel Macron said: “The year 2022 must be a turning point for Europe.”
He added: “You can count on my complete commitment to ensure that this period, which comes around every 13 years, is a time of progress for you”.
The EU presidency will give France the opportunity to shape the direction of the bloc.
It will also coincide with the French presidential elections in April – Mr Macron is yet to commit to running for a second term in office.
Earlier this month, Mr Macron outlined his vision for Europe and stressed his priority would be to reinforce sovereignty and highlighted the importance of stopping illegal migration.
He said: “If we have to sum up in one sentence the objective of this presidency… I would say that we must move from a Europe of cooperation within our borders to a Europe that is powerful in the world, fully sovereign, free of his choices and master of his destiny.”
Mr Macron added: “To prevent the right of asylum which was invented on the European continent and which is our honour from being misguided, we absolutely must find a Europe which knows how to protect its borders.”
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is now leading Brexit talks with the EU following the shock departure of Lord David Frost as Brexit Minister last month.
Ms Truss will also be tasked with rebuilding strained ties between London and Paris following months of disputes over fishing licences.
Following the exit of Lord Frost, Mr Beaune called on the UK to “rebuild a climate of trust with France and the EU”.
France: Rapper Gims rails against people who wish him “Happy New Year” because this is not customary among Muslims
He doesn’t want to hear any more about it and sends a strong message to all Muslims.
“Please do not bother me with ‘happy year, new year’ etc “. Rapper Gims has made a statement that is likely to anger many people. The Congolese artist – who grew up and became known in France under the pseudonym Maître Gims – declared on Friday December the 31st that he no longer wanted his fans to congratulate him on the New Year or even on his birthday. The singer and composer announced this in videos he temporarily posted on his Instagram account. The recordings are no longer available, but the identitarian activist Damien Rieu has collected them and shared them on Twitter. In these videos, Gims addresses his followers, “I never replied to this, but you keep sending me them the whole of January and February. Muslims stop it.” He reminds in passing that it is Muslims who kindly congratulate him on the New Year and on his birthday. “Brothers, we don’t celebrate that (…) That is not part of our beliefs”.
The rapper, who lives in Morocco for most of the year, again stated that Muslims, of which he is one, do not celebrate New Year. “Did the Muslims celebrate New Year? No!” he said. The singer also claimed that he suffers when people wish him happy birthday: “It’s another step towards death.”
He then shouted, “Come on, let’s focus on our own things. Let’s stay strong with our values”. The man who rose to fame with the rap group Sexion d’Assaut also mentioned Eid celebrations, “During Eid, everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving is quiet, they don’t celebrate Eid. Christmas we respect, but those are not our celebrations”. Before pointing his finger at non-Christian people who celebrate Christmas anyway, he says: “When I see big Christmas trees at the Mustafas, the Bakaris, I see that people at home don’t really think about it there.” “Come on, we have to focus on that,” he ended his speech.