The Omicron surge in South Korea has resulted in record deaths in the country, reportedly leaving crematoriums and funeral homes struggling to cope. This is despite 87% of the country being double vaccinated and 63% triple vaccinated, with higher proportions among the elderly, raising questions about the efficacy of the vaccines. Sky News has more.
The number of dead has almost doubled since early February, leaving funeral homes and crematoriums struggling to cope.
The Korean Disease Control Agency (KDCA) reported 490,881 cases for Tuesday, the second highest daily tally after it peaked at 621,205 on March 16th.
In all 291 people were reported dead after contracting the illness over the last 24 hours, after daily deaths peaked at 429 last Friday.
At least 13,432 people have died since the pandemic began, from a total of 10,427,247 cases, the KDCA said.
Nearly a fifth of the country’s population of 52 million has now had or is battling the disease, according to the latest figures.
South Korea reacted to the initial outbreak with a strict regime of tracing and quarantine, but with 87% of its population fully vaccinated, they have been scrapped by Seoul, along with social distancing curbs.
Booster shots have been administered to 63% of the country.
Ministers have told the country’s 60 crematoriums to open longer and burn seven bodies a day, up from five.
The 1,136 funeral homes, which can hold around 8,700 bodies, have been instructed to expand their facilities.
Health ministry official Son Young-rae said: “Crematories’ capacity is increasing, but there are still regional differences.”
The Government said the occupancy rate of intensive care beds rose to around 64% on Wednesday, up from 59% two weeks earlier. Health ministry official Park Hyang said the situation, while pressured, was manageable: “The medical system is under substantial pressure, though it is still operated within a manageable range.”
Reported daily infections appear to have peaked, though have not yet started to decline (see graph below).
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So S. Korea has had 1/10 of the Covid deaths in comparison to the UK and you ask about the effectiveness of vaccines.
Have a big think and perhaps consider that vaccines are the cause of this much lower death toll.
Let’s see if there is a pattern here we can identify.
As the percentage of fully vaccinated goes up, the death rate also goes up. As the percentage of ‘boosted’ fully vaccinated goes up, the death rate goes up further despite most infections being from a much milder mutation of the virus.
I wonder if that correlation is demonstrating causality? What about unvaccinated are death rates going up,or down? Down? And what about societies where vaccination rates are lower, up or down? Down? Hmmm.
I just read this hypothesis and it is exactly what I have been thinking. The not a vaccines are leaky as hell and it is a known effect of leaky vaccines that they screw the immune system. That is why they are normally not released.
The basics are that the jab causes a reaction in the immune system but also causes variants to occur. Those variants then have say 90% of the population whom act as factories. They get stronger and stronger, better at avoiding the only response the immune system has. Effectively the entire population gets wiped out because the peoples immune systems cannot fight back. What can the Scientists do? Not a lot really because injecting with more crap is simply going to multiply the issues.
It’s only a hypothesis at the moment but it fits the facts perfectly.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/homogenizing-herd-level-antigenic?s=w
‘… the jab causes a reaction in the immune system but also causes variants to occur.’
Well not quite. New mutations are not ‘caused’, they happen anyway, but vaccinated individuals select for those mutants against which the vaccines have not produced an effective immune response. They then will dominate and transmit. Worse, the immune system is preoccupied making antibodies against the original virus – Antigen Imprinting – so is less able to defeat the new one. This allows more virulent strains to enter the population, particularly if the response is ‘boosters’ which suppress the immune system for 14 days or more making the boosted more susceptible to infection, particularly if they are elderly or sick when their immune systems are not in good shape to start with, more likely to have serious symptoms and die from the virus the booster supposedly is protecting them.
None of this is News.
For ”despite” read ”because of”.
Replacing the word ‘despite’ by ‘because’ in the title of this piece saves one the bother of reading it.
Aha! I posted mine before I read yours!
The weakest and most common incidental variant so far, has been affixed to a record number of Korean cadavers, colour me suprised. One also has to allow for additonal vaccine damages I suppose. Excess mortality figures will provide.
Like almost all of Asia, Korea is a collectivist pseudo-democracy in name only. Totalitarian controls are already freely available to the ruling dynastic elites and coup champs. Digital surveillance IDs will be welcomed without fuss. Thus the forces of COVID haven’t felt compelled to lean on most Asian and Korean statistics for higher turnout, leaving them to focus on countries were resistance to totalitarian surveillance technologies (or devlopment bank and NGO client-state servitude) may be harder to roll out, without the life or death biosecurity justification of COVID.
Per capita cumulative COVID atrributed deaths.
and nearly all died with covid19 not from covid19.
i am starting to wonder what will jones is trying to accomplish by repeatedly acting exactly like the msm has done for over two years and by completely disregarding reality.
it is as if he is slowly changing over to the dark side.
Let’s be truthful here…. The vaccine has been the main cause of death.
Exactly right – I personally believe the jab tampers with a persons immune system to the extent that it actually wrecks this delicate and finely tuned defense system completely – I know of many double and triple jabbed who have complained of lack or energy, feeling tired and/or run-down all the time and then coming down with endless colds they can’t seem to shake off – meanwhile I’m one of the ignorant unjabbed and so far I’ve had nothing except for the initial bout of flu-like covid back in Feb2020 – I’ve not had so much as a sniffle.
Our immune systems have evolved over millions and millions of years and as Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi once said – your immune system knows how to deal with these viruses much better than any politician can.
My triple-jabbed mother hasn’t been right since the really bad cold she had at Christmas. She’s had a terrible cough for almost a month now and can’t shake it. Going for a chest x-ray on Monday.
I a recent article on Hong Kong here, the explanation of their high death count was based on the fact that the elderly were refusing vaccines in large numbers. Yet, here we are now showing that such a situation will not lead to more deaths, or the opposite, that high vax levels will prevent it.
Catch up time. Admit these vaccines do next to nothing but harm, mame and keep people locked into a cycle of cognitive abuse whereby they cannot admit that they backed the wrong horse. Best to double their money on the next race, because this time it will be different.
Fellow skeptics, can you help me analyze this CDC study: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7112e2.htm ? It seems to show that unvaccinated folks are hospitalized on the order of 10x as much as the vaccinated. I don’t see any obvious red flags except that it contradicts results that I have read here. Cheers!
‘CDC study’. There’s your problem! The CDC has been promoting dodgy data from the start. It’s like trying to get impartial news from the BBC!
Three issues which complicate matters enormously:
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t South Korea one of those countries where nearly everyone wears a mask as a matter of routine? In which case, why the increase in cases?
The virus refuses to wear a mask or get jabbed.
Sad story from Italy today. A young lad of 13 was found dead in bed by his mother. She tried to wake him but couldn’t. He had epilepsy and the story being put forward is that he died of a respiratory crisis. A footnote to the story is that another 13 year old in the same town died of cardiac problems a few months back. No connecting of the dots. No questions asked. Covid vaccines were introduced early summer 2021 for children of 12 years and over.
Truly awful.
Is it just me, or do the actual numbers not look particularly scary given the headline? Am I missing something obvious? 13,500 deaths out of over 10 million ‘cases’ over the entire pandemic? Am I reading that correctly?
A great shame, but they can’t say we didn’t warn them.
Now the drugs don’t work
They just make you worse
I hope I’ll see your face again
It is unclear what people are dying of.
“The Omicron surge in South Korea has resulted in record deaths in the country”
What – from suicide? Not being able to see a doctor or go to hospital? Months or years of waiting for hospital treatment?
Are people dying from the ‘vaccines’? Or directly from ‘Omicron’ itself? Which would be peculiar as it is deemed ‘not dangerous’!
“In all 291 people were reported dead after contracting the illness over the last 24 hours”
What does that mean? They might have died anyway (of old age?). How can you say they “contracted the disease” – were they tested (with tests that give false results and are not fit for purpose!)? How was it known they had ‘Covid’ – they might have been ‘asymptomatic’!
So many questions, so few facts or answers.
It’s been like that all the way through “the covid crisis”. TBTB will blame everything on the virus. BJ was on LBC this morning blaming the cost of living crisis on it
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/clinical/moderna-says-its-low-dose-covid-shots-work-kids-under-6
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers the company announced Wednesday — and if regulators agree it could mean a chance to finally start vaccinating the littlest kids by summer.
Parents need to think very hard about this, I also very much doubt a drug manufacture would say anything other as they are the ones selling a product.
Shouldn’t it be “because” not “despite” the vaccines.
Where has logic gone? Why are these countries who have highly vaccinated against covid populations which are then experiencing high death and sickness rates, why are they still blaming it on covid? for me I would look at what the common thing is in the community, and its the covid vaccines, surely it is I realise an unpalatable reality for world Governments but all the evidence is pointing to the fact that it is the covid 19 vaccines that appear to be the common factor in deaths. So why are they refusing to see what is plain obvious? its the vaccines that are killing people, its the thing that is common inthese countries, and the deaths are coincidental with the increased uses of boosters.
Because, for any number of reasons including greed, stupidity, gullibility and misplaced optimism, they’ve bet the house on this supposed panacea, and simultaneously painted themselves into a lethal corner.
Just what I was going to say. After all the guilt-tripping, coercion, job losses, social shaming, denial of AEs, cardiac events/strokes in teenagers, who the hell is ever going to admit to this having been a huge mistake?
Once that is admitted, people will ask when they knew it was a mistake. When it becomes apparent they knew this by July 2021 (when Israel started boosting) at the latest (they knew about myocarditis from Israel in March/April 2021), people will really start getting pissed.
They opened up jabs for 5-11 some time January/Feb this year in NL. But just around the time it opened up, the media feed was “as Omick-take is not serious for children, parents should consider whether jabbing their kids is really necessary”. In other words, they were walking it back very quietly, without saying so. There was no push to vaxx kids, a slight nudge that the jab in fact it wasn’t necessary at all, but no outright “don’t stick this poison in your children” – they clearly didn’t have the bottle.
Does anybody know which persons were responsible for making the ‘Look into his/her eyes’ posters? Someone must have designed them, someone must have printed them, someone must have distributed them…
i’m only downvoting, not for the comment but for that awful ad campaign, the look into my eyes advert from the state was a disgrace.
Precisely – what I hated most was when one of my local politicians trotted out the phrase in justification for the introduction of the vaccine passports to punish/discriminate against the unvaccinated because otherwise how could she look the healthcare workers in the eyes and tell them she had done everything she could to reduce the numbers of people being infected with covid and the health service being overrun.
If only “they” were the only victims.
How much longer can the MSM -including DS- maintain their support of this blatant scam? If there are excess deaths happening in any country, it is because there are other factors playing out.
For example; In the UK it was ‘care’ home midazolam/morphene murder which accounts for the “first wave”.
Let’s stop pretending anything other than politics has altered our way of life, or lack there of, over the last two years.
Alternative headline: “Over 1/3rd of intensive care bed capacity still going unused.”
Should that ‘Despite 87% double vaccinated” or “because of”?
Unquestionably, the worst ‘Vaccine’ in human medical history? Constructed from a partial computer model of the alpha S1 spike protein (apparently obtained from China by Moderna) and hence providing no immune response to the wild virus’ nucleo-capsid. Such an ineffective, non-sterilising novel treatment was a virology 101 basis for ‘Original Antigenic Sin’ and potential ADE. Blood work from the double vaccinated shows a dramatic increase in Granulocytes and a tanking of CD4 and CD8 Lymphocytes over a particularly long period, with additional vaccinations compounding the problem to a point where the immune system is permanently impaired. This is before we include the 9 pages of single-spaced adverse reactions published reluctantly by Pfizer. The actuaries, insurance assessors, funeral directors and embalmers, know exactly how effective this vaccine is.
I’d add ‘encouraging mutation of the virus to escape vaccine induced immunity’ into the mix.
What is your basis for this? Geert Vanden Bossche specifically says he doesn’t think this is the case (he emphasises the vaccines exacerbate the spread, rather than as assisting the actual mutations)
Boom
Lol. Early poster child for the “track and trace” loonies – there were not many “cases” there because “track and trace” was done so well. Morons.
Six billion down the drain after believing poor journalism. Whoops.
It didn’t go “down the drain”: it all ended-up in bank accounts.
be sure to miss the book out from Devi Sridhar cashing in. Great reviews from intellectual titans Owen Jones and Piers Morgan – and her fwiend Chelsea Clinton
The sensational story of how a disaster was turned into a catastrophe, with the clarity, precision and humanity that you would expect from one of the most important voices of reason of the COVID era. A brutally compelling reminder that if voices like Devi’s had been listened to, so many more could have lived — Owen Jones
One of the most brilliant scientists in the world who has been proven consistently right in this crisis — Piers Morgan
Point of order, that quote from Morgan isn’t a review of the book, it’s a twat from him when they were both on GMB preaching doom and gloom.
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1325790639229898752
point taken. he didnt review the book, but its on the front cover!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Preventable-Pandemic-Changed-World-Stop/dp/0241510538
As is a “quote” from Dr Chris van Tulleken “Totally arresting.”. I guess he doesn’t do irony.
I thought you were all joking. Good grief.
Curiously for such a popular tome there isn’t a single review on amazon.
18.10.2020 — “It is the virus killing the economy, not the restrictions themselves” says Prof Devi Sridhar
lol
Imagine taking this on via the Audible version. You’d be throwing a rope up listening to her explain how, if they’d just listened to her, it would have all worked out just fine.
In a country of 50 million, at least 500,000 die each year.
That’s about 1,400 people dying ever day on average.
270 “extra” people dying in a day, in the midst of a cold or flu season shouldn’t be news.
They have a a lot of dry tinder as they avoided it in 2020. Just catching up.
This is right.
There might be questions about how much their current system ‘runs at capacity’, thus a 20% increase might result in problems.
I’d suggest that this probably shouldn’t be news, other than that they’ve vaccinated everyone thus there is a public interest in telling others about how the vaccines don’t seem to have helped, particularly.
If any of this is actually true I would suggest it’s not the ‘efficacy’ of the vaccines that’s the problem, especially considering ‘omricon’ is a milder strain.
Yes I really struggle to get my head around people “dying from Omicron” which in most people is nothing more than a sniffle, that is if they notice any symptoms at all.
Sky News? More like Pie-in-the-Sky News. An impossibly dreadful combination of lying, propaganda, misinformation, wishful thinking and the sloppiness that is supposedly “journalism”.
I suppose that, one day, some superhero journo will write something to the effect that the jollop doesn’t work, except perhaps to make things even worse. I don’t see many W.T. Stead types in the offing, though.
How would you like a lunatic explanation? SOME PEOPLE decide that Covid was an attack by China on the West. So THEY fabricated a new version of the virus designed to be particularly severe on East Asians – which by bad luck includes South Koreans.
Evidence for – none whatever. Plausibility – slightly more plausible than most of the junk our own governments have been telling us for the last two years. Honesty – meant as satire and therefore infinitely more honest than most of the junk our own governments have been telling us for the last two years.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that the CCP is terrified of the virus. Shutting down a city of 10 million, over seven ‘cases’, as most of the rest of the world has moved on.
I know that ABL the authors wish to remain neutral, but “raising questions about the efficacy of the vaccines” – really?
Setting aside any issues of immune suppression, serious adverse events, negative VE, the coercion, the dubious trial data, etc. – it is clear this vaxx DOES NOT WORK.
It works in that it produces antibodies to the original wu-flu, that quickly wane and it would appear they wane even more quickly with each ‘boost’. But the world at large always understood that the vaxx working meant that it would stop people from getting infected, stop people from spreading it, stop people ending up in hospital, stop people from dying. It very, very clearly does none of those things, so the fact that the mRNA tech has been proven in a live trial to function in and of itself may be great for the $cientists, but in terms of a useful tool in dealing with the lurgi – nope, epic failure. The sooner this is accepted and the sooner the vaxx is banished, the better.
… and now they want to “fix” the original flu vaccine with mRNA “vaccines”
To be fair, the flu vaccines aren’t anywhere near as effective as we’re told.
Not that I think that the mRNA approach is likely to work any better.
They’re about 60% effective, I believe , some years less than that.
vitamin D is even more effective!!!
I’ve never had the flu vax, either and never will. I’ve seen that TPTB are raising the age range eligibility for free flu jabs back to pre ‘pandemic’ eligibility age groups.
I suspect reducing the age, from October 2020 for free flu jabs, served its purpose to entice more people to be flu-jabbed. They then likely experienced some side effects from it – it can be a nasty beast – which were wrongly assumed to be due to the ‘c-virus’. In turn, that resulted in increasing the number of ‘cases’ reported and the fear that – shock, horror – the good old caring NHS would be overwhelmed, gulp!
This added more drama to the narrative of a life-threatening, highly infectious, rampant virus which necessitated the deployment of the infamous ‘safe and effective’ vaccines to save everyone on Earth – except they weren’t safe and effective…
‘But the world at large always understood that the vaxx working meant that it would stop people from getting infected, stop people from spreading it, stop people ending up in hospital, stop people from dying.’
That’s why the definition of ‘vaccination’ was changed. People trust traditional vaccinations, based on decades of use. Had the jabs been accurately labelled ‘gene therapy’, most people wouldn’t have touched them with a bargepole.
The crime against humanity is so enormous, most people still can’t bring themselves to see it!
It works in that it produces antibodies to the original wu-flu, that quickly wane and it would appear they wane even more quickly with each ‘boost’.
Alternate theory: It really doesn’t work at all and once the data has been public for long enough that someone else than people involved in the vaccination process got a chance to analyse it, no effect can be found. Which would not mean protection wanes but doctored statistics have only a limited shelf-life.
This is obviously an entirely unproven conjecture, but it would fit the known facts as well.