CIA Agent Cloaks Lockdown Propaganda in Concern for China

 Dr. Michael V. Callahan published an opinion piece in The New York Times entitled "The Indirect Ways the U.S. Can Help China Avoid Covid Catastrophe." Many of the points in the article map beautifully onto Robert Blumen’s helpful Covid propaganda grid.

Fiction #1: Zero Covid works

• There is no evidence - except for the lockdown-narrative-promoting mainstream press - for the fact that the "zero Covid" strategy protected anyone from anything.
• The biosecurity propaganda machine has to maintain the illusion that lockdowns are effective to some degree, and that ending them is somehow undesirable.

China's Lunar New Year is a very scary time

• Due to "enormous" travel, "densely packed transit systems, winter conditions and multigenerational gatherings," Callahan tells us "the Lunar new year is a common tabletop simulation for training public health officials."
• What about the real world? Do we have any proof that it was disastrous in 2020, as mainstream media warned, or will be disastrous in 2023?
• If it spread everywhere despite lockdowns, how can we believe the zero deaths for three years narrative?

The most dangerous subvariant

• Propagandist Callahan makes an unsubstantiated claim that the "subvariant XBB1.5" is "the most infectious to date." There is no reference, so I'm not sure where the information is from.
• A WHO official says it's the "most transmissible" but adds "there's no indication it makes people more sick than previous subvariants."

Vaccines work

• The United States has a high vaccination rate using "highly protective vaccines."

Some vaccines (ours) are better than others (theirs)

• Domesticly made Chinese vaccines may provide less lasting protection against the virus and its variants.
• However, as a member of the quarantine-until-vaccine biosecurity network, Callahan is using this propaganda to bolster the case that lockdowns and vaccines work.

Postscript: a very scary non-fiction

• In December, at least one online pharmacy in China began selling the Covid drug Paxlovid, made by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, directly to patients.
• If the Beijing government were to tie the government’s home test result reporting system to the commercial Covid home delivery providers, many lives could be saved.

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