In the first 11 months of 2023, more than 31,000 Chinese citizens were picked up by law enforcement crossing illegally into the US from Mexico, government data shows – compared with an average of roughly 1,500 per year over the preceding decade. pic.twitter.com/PF2th5fyzL
— simonthong aka kitty poo (@KittyPo80176717) July 16, 2023
Hilarious. A temple in Yunnan China offers in their funeral services “prayers by our monks to assist reincarnation as an American” if the deceased person’s family members are willing to pay an extra RMB 500. If they can’t run from 🇨🇳while they’re alive, they can do it as a ghost. https://t.co/9wLKgQCBas
— Sharon/Trilingual 🇹🇼 🇯🇵 🇺🇲 (@nthusharon) July 15, 2023
Mount Jerai, formerly Kedah Peak, is a mountain in Kedah, Malaysia with the height of 3,993 feet. Within Kedah itself, the mountain stands at the border of Kuala Muda and Yan districts. Mount Jerai is known as the Hausberg of the town of Sungai Petani, the district capital of Kuala Muda. Wikipedia
— Bad Vaccine Takes (@BadVaccineTakes) July 15, 2023
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Corona is the common cold 🌴 🍺 🌴 COVID is the influenza flu bug 🐛 Omicron and Delta are an anagram for MEDIA CONTROL 🐑 📺 🐑 BA Is the Babylon America variant. The Z variant is the ZOMBIE Apocalypse COVID stands for Certificate of Vaccine Induced Death 💀 💉 💉 💀
Just after receiving her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, my mom made a strange joke. “I don’t know,” she told me over the phone. “I just feel like, now that I’ve had the vaccine, I’ll come back as a zombie when I die.”
It’s a scene straight out of The Walking Dead, an AMC show I watched with my family. At the end of season one, the characters learn that they’ve all been infected by… whatever is causing the dead to rise. (Supposedly, it was “space spores.”) Long story short, even if a person dies of natural causes, they’ll reanimate and become a zombie.
I verified that my mom—a strong believer in science—was kidding (mostly), and her comment became nothing more than a silly anecdote. That is, until I read a story in the Denver Post in which a man who felt uncomfortable receiving the COVID-19 vaccine mentioned the apocalyptic film I Am Legend. The 2007 movie starring Will Smith also appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post articles—each featuring someone blaming their vaccine hesitancy on the film. .
The zombies’ shambling lack 0f agency maps onto rhetoric anti-vaxxers use: that they’re freethinkers, and vaccinated people are sheep blindly following authority. “I think some of the fear of the vaccine—and you see this in the idea that the vaccine will magnetize you or put a microchip in you—is that you’ll stop being human,” Younger says. Pair that with unsubstantiated lab theory claims made by the far-right, and the overlap between COVID-19 and zombie flicks grows.
“The virus feels very apocalyptic to people,” Younger says. Scenes of barren grocery store shelves from March 2020, as well as fears that anyone, especially your loved ones, could be infected and give you the illness, is straight out of a zombie movie.
Even pandemic language feels familiar. Phrases like “rapid antigen testing” have gone from laboratory lingo to fodder for dinner table discussion. “It’s this massive input of vocabulary that people aren’t familiar with,” Knox says. “Where they have heard all of these terms are films where a bumbling scientist or an evil corporation sets off the zombie apocalypse.”
“I think that’s why people are confused, because we have seen pandemic narratives for so long in horror,” Lauro says. “They wonder, Can my real world look even more like these fantastical horror films?”
“Chinese New Yorkers… had the highest mortality rate of all racial & ethnic groups…. mortality rate of 35.7%, compared to 25.5% for all Asian Americans & 23.7% for Black New Yorkers…. abt 1.5 times more likely to die from #Covid19 than white patients.”https://t.co/5eE6wozWv9
South Asian, Chinese New Yorkers among the hardest hit by Covid, study shows
The research shows the importance of disaggregating data for Asian American patients — and the need to do more, advocates say.
Dec. 18, 2020, 1:01 AM +08
By Vignesh Ramachandran .
According to a new report, South Asians were among the racial and ethnic groups hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City. At 30.8 percent, South Asian Americans had the second-highest rate of test positivity, after Hispanics, and at 54.7 percent, had the second-highest rate of Covid-19 hospitalizations, after Black people, between March and May. (South Asian death rates were lower than for whites and Asian Americans as a whole.)
The first study to offer disaggregated Asian American data shows Chinese New Yorkers have had higher Covid death rates than any other racial group at 37%, and South Asians in the city have had the second highest rate of test positivity behind Hispanics.
The study was posted on medRxiv, a “preprint service” that distributes unpublished medical papers before they’ve been peer reviewed. The study is the first of its kind to offer some disaggregated data on Asian American Covid-19 patients. The analysis examined more than 85,000 patients who sought care in the New York City Health and Hospitals system — the largest public health care system in the United States — and used last name databases and language information to disaggregate, or separate data, about the city’s two largest Asian American subgroups, South Asian and Chinese.
The results also show that while Chinese New Yorkers had lower test positivity and hospitalization rates than South Asians, they had the highest mortality rate of all racial and ethnic groups. Chinese New Yorkers had a mortality rate of 35.7 percent, compared to 25.5 percent for all Asian Americans and 23.7 percent for Black New Yorkers. They were also about 1.5 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white patients.
The researchers said the communities surveyed have several clinical risk factors such as higher rates of obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. Because of the patient population of the hospital system, they’re also more likely to be lower-income front-line workers, including taxi drivers and restaurant, retail and domestic employees.
Enzymes like furin are not differentially compatible with different ethnicities.
Jewish or Chinese protease consensus sequences are not a thing in biochemistry, but they are in racism and antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/MbO8K3WPn2
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) July 15, 2023
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Hi Bobby, the paper you shared *speculates* that certain mutations may increase COVID severity. This paper shows those mutations are extremely rare & have no bearing on public health even if there is a real effect. Please learn to read scientific papers. https://t.co/IlFExj1t9fpic.twitter.com/xv2h2ucMyk
— Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social (@GYamey) July 15, 2023
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This is blatantly racist and anti-Semitic.#RFKJr is wading in dangerous waters here, claiming — w/ZERO evidence — that there are racially distinct differences in ACE2 receptors, which were exploited (by somebody) to create #SARSCoV2 that somehow killed "Caucasians and Blacks"… https://t.co/BKeEcER6ms
I love it when the virologist steps in and affirms that what RFK Jr. said doesn’t just sound bonkers and racist, it 100% scientifically is bonkers and racist.
But I’m sad that, contrary to RFK Jr.’s wacko claims, I don’t actually have super powers against COVID. https://t.co/scCCOIQC3s
— Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social (@GYamey) July 15, 2023
‘Plague on a Biblical Scale’: Hasidic Families Hit Hard by Virus
“His grandmother fell ill, as did two of his cousins. The man who lived next door to his childhood home died on a Tuesday, and by Friday the neighbor on the other side was dead as well.”https://t.co/SDoNenwiVT
Communist #china's nationwide open defecation has been successfully exported to other countries, without "foreign power interference". 👇🏾 https://t.co/zSZFXYDAsH
— Northrop Gundam ∀ 2.0 捍禦の大佐 (@GundamNorthrop) July 16, 2023
They are prohibited from setting up tents or gathering in large numbers, and police are regularly taking them away from cities to countryside. So foreign tourists won't notice them. https://t.co/dYfwSQT7oppic.twitter.com/cX4bW7sPdc
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