Trotsky (East German now in Russia ex East German intelligence officer)
Well I was informed by the presidential advisor that our security services must be ready to track and trace all Chinese entering Russia and to ensure that we check their temperature on arrival without making a public scene of it. He has stated that there is a new virus that is stronger than the usual flu called COVID-19 and it’s spreading from China. He has said that we must minimise the contact of the Chinese with Russian people so that we can easily understand the source of any infections and we will quietly put people into confinement if we find them to be in anyway ill on arrival. This is an extremely serious measure and therefore indicates the level of the threat perceived by us.
There have been talks between China and Russia. Mainly one must understand that the only way to stop this COVID-19 now is to stop people contracting it, until such time as a viral drug and vaccine can be made. This means that people either will be confined or at least distanced to avoid contracting it for a severe period of time as we do not know how long the drugs will take to produce, but it will be months at least.
You may wish to ask China for some useful medicines as they have developed the use of existing drugs and possibly new ones that really lower the death rate, which ones is not known in the West and China cannot “discover” that yet as the virus has not been officially known long enough to make it possible to have discovered that – clear?
Ok until the next meet, that we will not have, like we did not have this one - goodbye.
Because of this intelligence Germany knew to take the threat much more seriously and reacted with many less proven cases of the virus than others. Even more remarkable because of the much larger population Germany has than most other European countries. (perhaps also an effect of the visa for entry to Germany from China being limited secretly by China, starting in November the previous year). Germany started lockdown preparations on the 10th March. The German death rate remained consistently much lower than all the other European countries per number of cases and total deaths per thousand of their population. The German number of deaths per thousand population was strikingly like China’s, rather than the rest of Europe’s, strange considering the geographical position of Germany don’t you think reader?
In Italy, a nationwide lockdown went into effect starting on March 10 and their lockdown stopped all large group activities and confined people to home with travel effectively suspended. Spain became the second country in Europe to impose a nationwide lockdown but there was complete lack of information and planning in both countries with many infringements and failures. France closed non-essential businesses on March 16 implementing a full lockdown. On March 27 Ireland went into lockdown banning public gatherings and walks outside. Consequently, they were all still in effect having only very recently started when China was re-opening.
The main problems were that none of the countries had a clear view of what would be the most effective way to limit the viral spread, this was because they did not have various critical knowledge. Everyone was looking for answers such as what the transmission methods were, or how long the COVID-19 could stay active when outside of a body, how it was affected by climate or other factors, what could kill it and what not. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that everyone was painfully aware developing a vaccine for a new COVID-19 would take probably one and a half years (at the very best one must bear in mind that the aids has not been overcome with a vaccine in 40 years so there is no certainty that a vaccine can ever be found.) At the time there were no drug therapies that the West could find that appeared effective.
At this point world leaders descended to an “any man for himself” modus operandi, with only one or two exceptions. They tried to cover their backs by ordering lockdowns but trying to make them not too upsetting for the public by randomly banning certain activities but not others that they knew the public would take badly to being banned. The so-called scientific community did much the same wildly projecting statistics for events that they did not have reliable input for. One great miscalculation was when the virus had entered each country. All the Western countries (except Germany) were calculating one or two months late, meaning that the number of people infected already was far greater than those that were used for the statistical calculations.
The number of infections were calculated from an assumed infection rate from a starting point of the first known infection in the country in question. Each having its own start date and place that the first infected individual was assumed to have arrived. If the first infected person for the country in question, was two months earlier than that used in the calculations, then the number of people infected when the calculations were made, was far higher than the result of the calculation. The calculations were the only way to estimate the number of infections, as there was no capability to test enough people for the COVID-19 to make an actual estimate. The incorrect starting point for the number of people infected, meant that there were many more people infected than the calculation gave. An apparently much higher death rate per 1,000 people infected was calculated as a result and as the deaths were visible but the number of virus cases in the population causing them was not. Fear confusion and all sorts of wild actions in the populations and their Leaders resulted.
A further twist began to emerge when leaders realised that if they made the COVID-19 seem even worse than it actually was, leaders could gain compliance and cover their actions much easier, so the system of reporting was changed. The new reporting from deaths from the COVID-19, to all deaths where the person had the COVID-19 (but it was not necessarily the cause of the persons death.) Since there was just not enough tests or test kits available to be able to be sure who had the COVID-19, even deaths where the doctor thought the person might have had the virus, were registered as deaths from the virus. The were no antibody test available that could otherwise have shown who now already had COVID-19 immunity.
The statisticians also never mentioned if only one percent of the population have been tested for the virus, but of the one percent tested, five percent of those had COVID-19; then it may be reasonable to assume that five percent of the country’s population have the COVID-19 not .05% of the country’s population have the COVID-19. The fact that this was never considered shows that there was a great attempt to make the COVID-19 seem extremely more deadly than it was.
A difference between number of active cases at 3 million or 30,000. If the deaths recorded were 10,000, then the death rate per cases of the virus, would appear to be one in three (33%) instead of the real figure one in three Hundred (0.3%), the misleading reporting frightened the populations or the West as it was designed to do.
Once the lockdowns commenced there was no real plan in the West of how to decide on the re-opening. Governments said things like, we must see a real improvement in the number of new COVID-19 cases. But the picture was slowly emerging that without any drugs capable of treating the COVID-19 or any effective vaccine then eventually the only defence would be herd immunity. The only way to get herd immunity was to get people infected with the COVID-19 and cure themselves with their immune system, this of course would be slowed by a lockdown. To be conclusive the Lock Down would have to be years long and totally effective to eliminate the virus, therefore a COVID-19 cure was needed as well as a vaccine.
Sweden is on a “low-scale” lockdown. Gatherings of more than 50 people are banned, and high schools and universities are closed — but primary schools, restaurants, and many businesses are still open.
Lockdowns in various forms commenced all the world in March and April. Done even though there was no real evidence that this would help more than, implementing some social distancing restriction and with a virtual certainty that it could not continue until effective therapy and or vaccines were available. The lockdowns would create economic damage all over the world in extreme amounts and possibly result in a death toll far greater than the COVID-19 death toll itself. the resultant complications in poor countries of lack of food and resources assistance would wreak havoc. Public opinion swung backwards and forwards between blaming the governments for locking down too late and blaming the government for locking down at all. Scandinavia was one of the few countries that made an effective halfway house the results of that they will be pleased to say was probably the same as a lock down.
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