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Covid-19 will fall drastically in August

kjacob — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:27:21 +0800

All factory start vaccination in July. My factory worker wife will jab next week.

Inb4 change government case drop

Pfizer,AstraZeneza 90% effective against Lambda

kjacob — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:17:21 +0800

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/h...c9519ffd41dbc62

Experts are confident current vaccines will be up to 90 per cent effective against Covid-19’s most transmissible strain just days after it was believed to be resistant to the jab.

The Lambda strain has devastated Peru, accounting for 81 per cent of Covid-19 cases in the South American country. Peru has the highest Covid-19 fatality rate in the world.

The vicious mutation has infected more than 30 countries including the UK and Australia. Eight cases have been reported in England – all linked to overseas travellers – and yesterday it was revealed that there was one case in Australia’s hotel quarantine in April.

Infectious Diseases expert Professor Peter Collingnon told News.com.au real-world data has proved that current vaccines are effective against the new mutation as well as previous iterations of the virus.

“If you look at the Alpha or the Delta strain, both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are 99 per cent effective in stopping you dying and about 90 per cent effective in stopping you from getting seriously ill,” he said.

“The current real-world data shows that these vaccines are just as effective against the new Lambda strain. There has been some conversation around all previous mutations that the vaccine may not be as effective, then it is proven to be so in the real-world data.

“The data about the vaccines not being as effective comes from Chile where they used a lot of the Chinese vaccine. There was already evidence that was not as effective as the other vaccines (AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna).”

He added, for those concerned about the new strain it was a relatively simple fix to alleviate your fears.

“Get vaccinated. Obviously, we have an issue with the supply of vaccines in Australia at the moment. But if you can receive a vaccination, get one,” he said.

“I would say by November the vast majority of adults would be vaccinated. It will also be out of Winter and Spring which is the time when these types of virus’ spread the most.”

His analysis was backed up by research in the US.

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A report published by the New York University Grossman School of Medicine found both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are effective against the new mutation.
“The results suggest that the vaccines in current use will remain protected against the lambda variant and that monoclonal antibody therapy will remain effective,” it said.

“The findings highlight the importance of widespread adoption of vaccination which will protect individuals from disease, decrease virus spread and slow the emergence of novel variants.“
The new mutation is also known as C. 37 and it was first detected in Peru.
Virologists were particularly concerned about this strain due to a spike in a protein and its potential to infect human cells. Much like the highly infectious Delta that has forced Sydney into a three-week lockdown.

EU spread fake news about AZ coz its fr UK

kjacob — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:24:23 +0800

https://qr.ae/pG4CkL

Given that 15 European countries have halted the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (USA have decided not to approve the AstraZeneca vaccine), why has Australia refused to reconsider vaccinating 90% of their population with the AstraZeneca vaccine?
Originally Answered: Given that no less than twelve European countries and the USA have refused to approve the AstraZeneca vaccine, why is Australia vaccinating 90% of their population with the AstraZeneca vaccine?
Nobody has “refused” to approve the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. It is being used happily and successfully all over the world.

The EMA (European Medicines Agency) approved it for use across the EU on January 29th.

Some countries declined to approve it for use on older people due to a lack of data regarding its efficacy. As that data is now available, those countries are approving the vaccine.

A great deal of the European “trouble” with the Oxford/AZ vaccine has been caused directly by lies - both from the EU itself and from the likes of Emmanuel Macron. The EU politicised the vaccine because it comes from the UK, the UK refused to join the EU’s vaccine consortium, Boris Johnson’s government funded it, the UK’s vaccination programme is going embarassingly well and the EU’s is just embarassing, and because the EU made an unmitigated bollocks of vaccine provision leading to delay after delay after delay.

You will note that nobody else has any problems with the vaccine and are quite happy using it.

More than 15 million doses have been given so far.

142 different countries will receive hundreds of millions of doses in the coming months.

https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/pr...ough-covax.html

Did you ask anyone you met if they vaxed?

kjacob — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:30:04 +0800

After I got vaccinated, last week, everyone I met outside( at supermarket, mini market, mamak stall) , I also ask them if they are already vaccinated.

I feel priviledge few who got vaccinated earlier.

Got one aunty told me not everyone work in supermarket is vaccinated. Only old people.

Seems like supermarket worker are not frontliner.

Great feeling after 1st Dose of Vaccine

kjacob — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:33:08 +0800

And I got my 1st jab last Friday.

Today when I go out to supermarket, I no longer feel scared.

Even people walk nearby me or didn't wear mask properly also I don't give fark.

Eventhough I haven't gotten my 2nd Dose, I already feel protected.

Thank you KJ for opening up AZ vaccine.

And now I become one of the few 10~20% of the country to be protected from Covid19.

Its really good for my mental state of being.

KL should be herd immunity already

kjacob — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 06:17:45 +0800

So I saw 1st dose vaccination above 60%
If we add this to those who already infected with covid19, then isn't KL already herd immunity?

so why is there EMCO in KL?

Australia anti-vax situation

kjacob — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 05:17:36 +0800

Anti-vax are everywhere

Probably stronger in Australia than Malaysia

[twt]https://twitter.com/AnnastaciaMP/status/1410067677826097153[/twt]

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/07/04/...xers-australia/

Anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 sceptic groups are exploiting confusion around the AstraZeneca jab to further undermine Australia’s vaccine rollout.

Conspiracy theory groups are lobbying aged-care workers to go on strike and taking out truck-mounted mobile billboards to twist vaccine rule changes to suit their agenda.

Several right-wing federal politicians have raised similar concerns.

“Are these the newest faces of the anti-vax movement?” asked one prominent COVID-sceptic page on Facebook, alongside a photo of Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young.

It came just hours after the Queensland officials launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his decision to open AstraZeneca eligiblity to people under 40.

State premiers claimed it wasn’t discussed at Monday’s national cabinet and they didn’t support it, while GPs and the Australian Medical Association said they weren’t consulted.

“Wouldn’t it be terrible that our first 18-year-old in Queensland who dies related to this pandemic, died because of the vaccine?” Dr Young said during a press conference on Wednesday.

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) advised Pfizer is the preferred vaccine for those under 60, while AstraZeneca is preferred for those over 60.

However, AstraZeneca is approved by medical regulators for anyone over 18, and under-60s can request AstraZeneca after a GP consultation.

ATAGI’s latest advice said the risk of very rare blood clots associated with the AstraZeneca jab was 1.5 per 100,000 in those over 60, and 2.4 in those under 60.

The AMA and ATAGI reaffirmed advice that Pfizer is preferred for those under 60, but Dr Young’s comments have been met with criticism.

Former deputy chief medical officer Dr Nick Coatsworth claimed Dr Young was “on a very lonely limb” after “nearly every medical leader distanced themselves”, while Royal Australian College of General Practitioners director Charlotte Hespe called it “scaremongering”.

But a video posted by Ms Palaszczuk on social media soon found a receptive audience in anti-vaxxer groups, quickly spreading through private communities on Facebook and Telegram.

Anti-vaxxers jump on AstraZeneca confusion

One such group, which was behind several large anti-lockdown protests around the country, shared clips from the press conference multiple times in recent days.

Group members commented approvingly that Dr Young had “swallowed some truth potion” and dropped a “truth bomb”.

One prominent Australian anti-vaxxer told her several thousand followers on Facebook that Dr Young was “talking some sense” and “had a few truth bombs”.

Other separate groups played up Dr Young’s warnings of “catastrophic” side effects in posts to their thousands of followers.

“In a few short hours, these two ladies have done more damage to the AZ jab and vaccine confidence in Australia, than any ‘anti-vaxxer’ could ever imagine,” one prominent anti-lockdown activist claimed, to his 24,000 Facebook fans.

The New Daily has chosen not to name the groups.

The same groups also seized on Mr Morrison’s announcement that all aged-care workers would be required to get vaccinated by September.

Please vaccinate to protect immunosuppressed

kjacob — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 23:32:28 +0800

Not all people so lucky to get protection after vaccinated. Some are immunosuppressed. Got vaccine also useless.
So don't choose vaccine. Just go jab!

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/heal...ive/7663956002/

Dr. Robert Montgomery had several reasons for getting a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as he could.

As a transplant surgeon at a busy New York hospital, his patients were among the most vulnerable to the disease.

The pandemic has exacted a terrible toll on transplant recipients. About 20% of those infected died – more than 300 in New York City alone last year compared to just one or two transplant patient deaths in a typical flu season, Montgomery said.

He also is a transplant patient himself. The heart beating inside his 61-year-old chest is not the one he was born with.

So, Montgomery was doubly distressed when his body failed to mount a detectable response to his two-dose COVID-19 vaccine.

The medications that prevent rejection of a transplanted organ also block many transplant patients from making protective antibodies. A recent study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that only 17% of transplant recipients had antibodies after their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, with an additional 35% responding after two shots.

Although COVID-19 vaccines work incredibly well for the vast majority of people, roughly 10 million Americans whose immune systems are compromised because of medication or disease may not be well protected.

"This isn't over for us," said Michele Nadeem-Baker, who has chronic lymphocytic leukemia that's out of remission. She got two shots of the Moderna vaccine in March and April, but is pretty sure she has no protection against COVID-19.

For Nadeem-Baker, a patient at Dana-Farber in Boston, the pandemic still looks a lot like it did during the worst of the outbreak: She always wears a mask, keeps her distances, avoids crowds.

"It isn't easy to continue living like this," she said.

Researchers are not yet sure exactly what an adequate immune response looks like – or what level of protection is enough. And once they figure out who is protected, they need to figure out what to do for people like Montgomery and Nadeem-Baker who aren't.

Montgomery's approach was to sign himself up for a clinical trial testing a third vaccine dose.

Apple Movie Sales RM14.90 for 4K movie

kjacob — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 08:18:13 +0800

AstraZeneca safer than taking Aspirin

kjacob — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 18:54:26 +0800

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/get...-taking-aspirin

GETTING A COVID JAB IS SAFER THAN TAKING ASPIRIN

The risk of rare side effects from COVID-19 vaccines like AstraZeneca are greatly exaggerated as they are far safer than many medicines people are taking every day

By Professor Nathan Grills, University of Melbourne

For the family of the woman who recently died from a very rare blood clot after her AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination, it’s no comfort that ‘only’ two people have died despite nearly four million doses of AstraZeneca in Australia.

But this one-in-two-million risk should reassure everyone else, including the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). After all, we are four times more likely to get struck by lightning in 2021.

Taking aspirin daily to reduce the risk of stroke more likely to be dangerous than having the AstraZeneca vaccine. Picture: Getty Images
I have also lost a friend due to AstraZeneca– not because he had the vaccination, but because he didn’t.

He was 70 years old and listened to scaremongers and decided against vaccination, only to die from COVID-19 in India.

Ironically, he was taking aspirin to prevent another heart attack, a medication which poses a significantly higher risk than AstraZeneca.

Around 11 per cent of older Australians take daily aspirin to help prevent stroke and heart attack, but statistically, aspirin is two hundred times more dangerous than AstraZeneca – resulting in around one death per 10,000 people.

So why are so many of us unduly worried about this vaccine given that the severe side effects are exceedingly rare?

One might even question ATAGI’s recent decision to only recommend AstraZeneca for those aged 60 and over.

Perhaps it’s because the media – and anti-vaxxers – are very good at making rare side effects seem very common by focusing all the attention on those effects. This trick starts with a fact – like AstraZeneca can cause blood clots – from which risks are extrapolated and exaggerated, scaring vulnerable people.

Australia approve AZ for all age

kjacob — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 18:03:21 +0800

AZ is safe!

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https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria...629-p5853v.html

Victoria records no new local COVID-19 cases as AstraZeneca made available to all

June 29, 2021 — 8.23am
Victoria has recorded no new local cases of coronavirus for the third day in a row, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the AstraZeneca vaccine will be available to all Australians, regardless of their age.

From today, all Australians can walk into their general practices and request an AstraZeneca vaccine.

The Prime Minister announced the change after an emergency national cabinet meeting on Monday night, saying the Commonwealth will introduce a new no-fault vaccine injury indemnity scheme for GPs.

It will allow those who want an AstraZeneca vaccine to have that conversation with their doctor, including those under-40 not yet eligible for the Pfizer vaccine.

“If you wish to get the AstraZeneca vaccine, then we would encourage you to go and have that discussion with your GP,” Mr Morrison said, noting the expert medical advice was that the Pfizer vaccine was the preferred vaccine for people aged under 60.

Android Tablet Revival. iPad killer finally!

kjacob — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 09:48:41 +0800

https://shopee.com.my/-2021-Lenovo-Tablet-X...3685.7768082278
Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro
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Why ktard obsess with people jogging?

kjacob — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 09:42:13 +0800

I keep reading ktard keep complaining people jogging outside.

I just wonder why?

Death in Taiwan not due to AZ

kjacob — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:47:31 +0800

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/arch...6/25/2003759770

Deaths not linked to vaccines: CECC
CAUSE OF DEATH: So far, autopsies have shown that most deaths were related to chronic health conditions, while one was caused by asphyxia, the center said
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter

Thirty-four more people have died after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, adding that none of the autopsies performed so far have connected post-vaccination deaths to the shots.

The deaths recorded on Wednesday were 16 women and 18 men who died one to eight days after being vaccinated, Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman, told a daily news briefing in Taipei.

Jab AZ excitement like bungee jump

kjacob — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:09:50 +0800

With so many bad news about AZ, i feel jabbing AstraZeneca is like going for a bungee jump or parachuting.

So much excitement!

So exhilarating!

And you get a card to remember it.

Awesome!

Inb4 TS rip.

Updated : I jab AZ today 1st dose!

kjacob — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 23:35:19 +0800

Update summary:-
I feel very good now.
4th July : Feels great again! Except sore arm.
3rd July : Feel under the weather due to bodily pain and chill (no fever)
2nd July : Vaccination day

So I jab AZ today in the afternoon first dose

Sweden version

1. No blood at the plaster (so meaning it jab correctly?)
2. No sore arm
3. No feeling at all
4. Not tired. But should I sleep now?

I ask if 0.5ml. the doctor say yes.

Seems like my body no react to AZ

After 24 hours started to have some bodily pain. Need to sleep now

After one hour no more pain.

How?

AMA.

Tips
- find walk through in YouTube
- you need pen
- ready with mykad. They keep asking

Selangor EXCO another air suam?

kjacob — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:50:59 +0800

Another air suam doctor posting about ivermectin?
This time from Selangor EXCO
[twt]https://twitter.com/DrJasonLeong/status/1410844962611089408?s=20[/twt]

Misunderstanding

kjacob — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 08:16:55 +0800

I have some misunderstanding

Covid19 come from Permafrost?

kjacob — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:06:42 +0800

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Uighurs vs Hui : What is the different?

kjacob — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:49:07 +0800

https://time.com/3099950/china-muslim-hui-x...g-uighur-islam/

The road to Linxia, in China’s vast, sere northwest, is known locally as the Quran Belt, with a profusion of newly built mosques and Sufi shrines lining the motorway. Some are built in a traditional Chinese style, with pagoda-like eaves; others, with their green tiled domes, echo Middle Eastern architecture.

With violent unrest affecting northwestern Xinjiang, a spotlight has been cast on that area’s Muslim Uighurs, who have long chafed at rule from Beijing. But the Uighurs, some of whom yearn for autonomy from the People’s Republic, are not the biggest Muslim population in China, which has more adherents to Islam than the European Union. That distinction belongs to the Hui, a 10.5 million-strong group that is also the second largest of China’s 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities. One of the Hui centers of Islamic learning is the Wild West town of Linxia, in Gansu province, where Sufi traditions remain vibrant.

With the bloodshed in Xinjiang escalating — the most recent clash late last month, which the Chinese government labeled a “violent terrorist attack,” saw nearly 100 people killed, according to an official count — authorities have intensified a crackdown on spiritual expression by Uighurs. (Tibetans face religious repression too as their disenchantment with Chinese rule grows.) But this does not mean that Beijing is curtailing Islam nationwide. Indeed, members of the Muslim Hui community are enjoying a flowering of faith in what is, officially, still an atheist communist nation.

Linxia’s Islamic places of worship are just one symbol of this religious boom. Ismail, a Hui who works for a state-owned enterprise in the Ningxia autonomous region, says he openly practices his faith. “Of course, I fast during Ramadan,” he says. “All my Hui friends do it, too. It’s our obligation as Muslims.” But a Uighur college student says he and his classmates were not allowed to do the same. “[Han university authorities] make sure we eat at the cafeteria. They say they don’t want us to be tired, but I don’t believe them. It is because we are Uighur.”

Hui participation in the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca has increased over the past several years, say scholars. Another sign of renewed religious commitment: Ismail says he has noticed more Hui women in his hometown wearing veils in recent years. “As more Hui women receive education, they learn more about their own identities,” he says. “As a result, they realize the protection brought by Islam and are starting to wear veils more.”

By contrast, a local paper in the Xinjiang town of Karamay reported last week that residents with long beards, headscarves, veils and clothing with an Islamic crescent moon and star would not be allowed to board public buses while the city played host to a sporting event. In Kashgar, a Silk Road outpost that is a repository of Uighur culture, the local government has promoted a campaign called Project Beauty that urges Uighur women to “show your pretty faces and let your beautiful hair fly in the wind.” Uighurs also have a hard time getting passports to travel abroad, especially to go on the hajj.

“It’s not an issue of freedom of religion,” says Dru Gladney, one of the foremost academics studying Chinese Muslims. “Clearly, there are many avenues of religious expression that are unfettered in China, but when you cross these very often nebulous and shifting boundaries of what the state regards as political, then you’re in dangerous territory. Obviously this is what we see in Xinjiang and in Tibet.”

Unlike Tibetans or Uighurs, who speak a Turkic language and are racially distinct from the Han, the Hui are not agitating for increased autonomy, much less a split from China. One reason may be influenced by geography. While Uighurs are concentrated in Xinjiang, and Tibetans clustered on the high plateau in far western China, the Hui are spread out across the nation. True, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is dedicated to them, but Hui communities exist in practically every major Chinese city. A significant population lives in Beijing.

Racially and linguistically, the Hui — whose ancestors include Persian, Central Asian and Arab traders who plied the Silk Road and intermarried with local Chinese — are virtually indistinguishable from China’s Han majority. Often, it is only the presence of a white prayer cap that differentiates a Hui man from his Han counterpart. Partly because of their cultural affinity to the Han and their geographic dispersal, the Hui are far more integrated into mainstream Chinese life than those ethnic minorities living in China’s borderlands.

“The way [the government treats] the Uighurs and the Hui is completely different,” says a foreign scholar who studies the Hui, requesting anonymity. “The standard line for the Uighurs is that everything is oppression and violence and conflict, and the standard narrative for the Hui is that they are complicit with state power and that they are not real Muslims. The Hui are considered the good Muslims and the Uighurs the bad Muslims.”

That division has implications for the future of Xinjiang, which was once predominantly Uighur but has played host to waves of government-encouraged internal migration. While many of the recent arrivals who work at military or state-owned farms and mines are Han, other newcomers are Hui. China’s 2010 national census recorded 983,015 Hui in Xinjiang, up from 681,527 in the 1990 count. During the 2009 rioting in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi that killed around 200 people, one reported refrain from extremist Uighurs spread across social media: “Kill the Han, kill the Hui.”

The Hui’s forebears include a long line of military generals loyal to imperial Chinese governments. (There were, however, Hui rebels who battled the late Qing dynasty from a base in Ningxia.) The Hui also excelled at trading, a talent which spread their numbers across China. Even in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, many trinket stores and restaurants near the main city square are now owned by Hui merchants. The Hui, along with the Han, were targeted when ethnic violence broke out in Tibetan regions in 2008. Indeed, ancient history in China’s far west is filled with battles between Tibetans, Uighurs, the Hui and the Han, with borders and allegiances shifting like desert sands. Animosities endure. “Post-2008 [violence in Tibet] and 2009 [bloodshed in Xinjiang], it’s like it’s every group for themselves,” says the foreign Hui scholar.

External influences are also becoming more important in Chinese Islam. The proliferation of Middle Eastern–style mosques in Linxia mirrors the rise of purist Salafi Islam across the world, from Indonesia to North Africa, in which a unified faith trumps indigenous variations. “In China, the Hui have extraordinarily illustrated this beautiful accommodation between Chinese culture and Islam,” says Gladney, who teaches at Pomona College in California. “But with the rise of social media and an idea of one Islamic world, this historic accommodation is being debated.”

Gladney notes that Hui clerics have studied at Egypt’s al-Azhar University, one of the world’s most important centers of Islamic learning, while around 300 Hui live in the holy Saudi Arabian city of Medina. “For 1,300 years, the Hui have been able to not only survive but thrive,” says Gladney. “But we have to also remember that revolutions in Chinese Islam have tended to come from increased communication and travel abroad, and we’re in a period where the Hui with the right connections are doing just that.”

— With reporting by Gu Yongqiang / Beijing