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What gets me is that there's still apologists for the equally insane responses of Russia and China... Even after we knew it was a "flu" in terms of ifr rates.

Many morons think that Russia and China are fighting the West, but they went along with the west when it comes to Big pharma and authoritarian power.

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China didn't "go along" with the west or anyone else.

They used state power to impose massive lockdowns. Unlike in the west, this use of state power is not anathematized in China. It is how the Chinese state does things.

Living outside the clownworld of "the west" as I do, it's hard to see how the development and rapid distribution of Chinese vaccines around Asia--most of which were "traditional" inactivated viral vaccines-- could be seen as "going along with Big Pharma".

Big Pharma and its buddies in the US government funded a propaganda campaign against the Chinese vaccines, which were in most cases distributed for free or at little cost.

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So they locked down for a "novel" disease with the same IFR as the flu.

Genius

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Wow. Major insight there.

They didn't "go along" with the west:

"Authoritarian Power is Us" is like China's brand. And they have a pharmaceuticals industry totally outside and utterly unlike Big Pharma.

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Sep 12·edited Sep 12Liked by Tobin Owl

And yet they continued with lockdowns way after the real data showed that it was not super deadly. Some of it was done way after the west stopped locking down.

What was going on then?

Why did they do it?

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I don't think the founder of US Big Pharma, John D. Rockefeller, would agree with you. What an insult to 100 years of Rockefeller involvement in Chinese medicine.

"In the first half of the 20th century, CMB [China Medical Board] focused exclusively on building the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), "the cradle of modern medicine in China." CMB’s work began in 1914 when it was created by the Rockefeller Foundation to manage philanthropic funding for this premier medical institution solidifying the modern medical sciences in China. Most of this funding—the largest project investment in Rockefeller Foundation history—went towards the construction and development of PUMC. In 1928, the CMB was endowed as an independent American foundation in continuing to operationally support PUMC. Through war and chaos, PUMC not only endured but flourished. Its faculty and graduates founded many medical fields in China through initiating innovations in health such as key clinical specialties and a three-tiered rural health system. CMB withdrew from PUMC and China in 1950.

Starting in the 1950s, CMB expanded its capacity-building work into other Asian countries. Today, CMB remains active in mainland Southeast Asia, supporting universities to strengthen education and research in medicine, nursing, and public health.

In 1980, CMB accepted an invitation to return to China and has since expanded its support of medical education and research to more than a dozen medical universities. From 1980 to 2008, CMB invested strategically in medical research and education. In medical education, it developed the Global Minimum Essential Requirements (GMER), seeded innovations, and established four centers at Central South University, China Medical University, Sichuan University, and PUMC.

In 2008, CMB launched a fresh initiative to strengthen scientific excellence in “critical capacities” among Chinese and Asian institutions to promote equitable access to primary and preventive health services. This initiative re-focused CMB’s efforts onto advancing the field of health policy and systems sciences (HPSS), building capacity in health professional education and directing resources to rural health.

In 2014, CMB celebrated a century of challenges and accomplishments."

https://chinamedicalboard.org/centennial

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Where did they get the 'virus' from?

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Could we get a TL:DR on this before spending time reading what looks at first glance like it wants to suggest that it was air pollution all along?

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So u didnt read the post and assume that pollution doesnt cause respiratory distress or pneumonia?

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not a virus a poisonous injection

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