Understanding why the United States of America is testing Chinese passengers for SARS-CoV-2 in 2023
Because nobody else is writing this story
CDC overreach
Unfortunately, the CDC continues to use its power to create edicts that won’t stop the spread of covid. China is opening up, at least it seems, and the CDC doesn’t like that. They have recently opened their borders after nearly 3 years of biomedical torture of their citizenry.
The CDC wants to get the genomic sequence data for the circulating strain. They have a partnership with the WHO to enhance sequencing capacity and improve the global capacity to detect new variants. If China doesn't participate, it's going to be pretty hard to collect all the viruses. China isn't sharing their sequences. Where have heard that before?
CDC edict
I call the press release the edict because that's what all the reporters see first, then write their stories about.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p1228-COVID-china.html
For Immediate Release: December 28, 2022
China isn't sharing
This is happening because the PRC isn't sharing sequencing data with the WHO. Allegedly. It looks like China might be done with zero-covid, the last holdout gives in after nearly three years. The public health industrial complex hates this, because they were the example of what we were doing so wrong. If China is actually ending its zero-covid policy, the implication is that lockdowns never would have worked; lockdowns were wrong-headed from the beginning. And now, China must be punished.
CDC Announces Negative COVID-19 Test Requirement from Air Passengers Entering the United States from the People’s Republic of China
Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus continue to emerge in countries around the world. However, reduced testing and case reporting in the PRC and minimal sharing of viral genomic sequence data could delay the identification of new variants of concern if they arise.
Starting at 12:01 AM ET on January 5, all air passengers two years and older originating from the PRC will be required to get a test (such as a PCR test or an antigen self-test administered and monitored by a telehealth service or a licensed provider and authorized by the Food and Drug Administration or the relevant national authority) no more than 2 days before their departure from the PRC, Hong Kong, or Macau, and show a negative test result to the airline upon departure.
Prove...documentation of recovery instead?
Passengers who tested positive more than 10 days before the flight can provide documentation of recovery from COVID-19 in lieu of a negative test result.
You can test positive more than 10 days ago, recover, test positive or just not test, then present documentation of recovery in lieu of a negative test? What's the point of even requiring a test then? How is this enforceable in any way?
The only way I see it being enforced is selectively.
Airplane poo is my hobby
And here we go, with the obsession with variants and surveillance. Nobody is saved by this, but it gives the CDC something to do. Variants variants variants variants variants.
Also, there's a WHO lizard people one world government calling the shots. Or something like that.
CDC is also expanding the Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program (TGS), a voluntary program that serves as an early warning system to detect and characterize new and rare variants of the virus that causes COVID-19. TGS collects anonymous nasal swabs from arriving international travelers on selected flights at major U.S. international airports. The program tests for presence of the COVID-19 virus, and if it is detected, the program sequences the virus’s genome to identify any new variants.
TGS has proven to overcome gaps in global SARS-CoV-2 variant surveillance that occur as many countries decrease or discontinue testing and sequencing. During the initial weeks of the Omicron surge, TGS detected two Omicron subvariants, BA.2 and BA.3, and reported them to the global database weeks before they were reported elsewhere, demonstrating that the program is able to detect variants early.
CDC also continues to work with WHO and partner countries to enhance sequencing capacity and improve the global capacity to detect new variants.
Curious changes
December 28, 2022 press release: This will also apply to persons traveling from the PRC via third country transit and to passengers connecting through the United States onward to further destinations.
However, on the guidance from December 30, 2022, it states—The requirement does not apply if you transited through an airport in China, Hong Kong, or Macau en route to the United States from another country, or if you spent less than 24 hours in China, Hong Kong, or Macau.
The December 28 press release makes no mention of an exception for just being in the country for a short period, and doesn’t except connecting flights. What's going on?
The CDC has not offered any proof that this will have a meaningful impact on the burden covid causes to the United States and its people. This shouldn't be happening three years into the pandemic. So we must look a little deeper.
Why do it?
Nobody knows. But at this point, public health is the last reason covid measures are enacted.
There is an interesting development that has not received much attention.
Canada recently banned foreigners (exempting permanent residents and refugees) from buying property. At least for two years.
Just something to think about.
Financial crime experts and political observers say the case raises questions about how Winnermax was able to secure its funding in Canada as China imposes a capital export limit of US$50,000 per year on every citizen. If the transfers don’t follow legal and transparent methods, it raises questions about money laundering.
The subject of that story is now in a mainland prison, serving a 13 year sentence. After he was extraordinarily rendered (kidnapped, if you prefer) from a Hong Kong hotel room in 2017. He is a Canadian citizen—a dual national. This story was published August 2022.
Currently Canada has essentially the same policy for testing flights from China as the US does. Notably, both the US and Canada's policies took effect January 5, 2023. Sovereign nations by the way. The third of January would be weird. Why not the first, second, third, or fourth. Or sixth?
Magnitsky Act, Part 2—Burglarize Beijing imminent?
How does a Chinese billionaire own a bunch of real estate in Canada if they only let you take out $50,000 USD a year? I guess this never occurred to anyone in the last 20 years in Canada.
Or the states.
Massachusetts corruption
It also never occurred to anyone that the name on Harvard's school of public health is because of a donation from a former Enron audit committee member. That's not a joke either. Oh, and the University of Massachusetts (a public institution) is now The T.H. Chan School of Medicine. Or is it just the the UMass Chan Medical School. It's not exactly clear.
From 2002. About Ronnie Chan, son of T.H Chan.
On Feb. 12, Enron announced that Mr. Chan, a member of the company's audit committee was one of six directors who would be leaving the board within 30 days. Mr. Chan, a Hong Kong real-estate developer, was one of three directors who lived overseas. Enron's audit committee has been the subject of criticism from a variety of sources, including a special board committee's report on Enron's collapse.
School of Public Health Renamed with $350 Million Gift, Largest in Harvard History
A charitable foundation run in part by Gerald L. Chan, an alumnus and longtime benefactor of the Harvard School of Public Health, has pledged $350 million to the school, the largest single donation in Harvard’s history, the University announced this afternoon.
The gift comes from the Morningside Foundation, which is supported by Gerald Chan and his brother Ronnie Chan. It was officially announced at 12:30 p.m at an event at the School of Public Health in the Longwood Medical Area.
He said some interesting things too in 2014.
Many commentators lambasted the family for giving so much money to an already wealthy institution, rather than to more needy universities in China.
In a recent meeting with journalists, Mr Chan, the chairman of family firm Hang Lung Group, brushed off the criticism.
"To be honest, we donate to projects that we think are meaningful. How society views it or how we are viewed by history, well, we'll let them decide. How others view us is out of our control," he said.
In recognition of the gift and of the deep commitment to education, research and health care by the Chan family of investors, entrepreneurs and philanthropists, UMass Medical School will be renamed the UMass Chan Medical School. Its three graduate schools will be renamed: the T.H. Chan School of Medicine; the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing; and the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
The announcement was made by UMass Medical School Chancellor Michael F. Collins, who was joined by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, University of Massachusetts President Martin T. Meehan, and members of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees in thanking The Morningside Foundation and the Chan family for the gift.
Reminder, Charlie Baker is the former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim, a health insurance company that recently merged with Tufts Health Plans into Point32Health.
Would this be a big deal? Well, Ronnie Chan believes we shouldn't underestimate the madness of the US's ambitions to destroy China. He said as much in July 2022.
And that Hong Kong should embrace mainland China.
“What is the real problem? Hong Kong did not embrace mainland China as it should, economically and also psychologically. As a result, we are missing opportunities,” Chan said.
“Why are we not benefiting at all? Because Hong Kong people have a psychological problem of being Chinese, being part of China … Young people and the Hong Kong public, in general, have to get over it.”
So, he doesn’t consider himself a member of the Hong Kong public. Well, who does he consider himself a part of?
At this point, it is mere conjecture, but let’s look some more. Chan also serves as a director of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong and is an advisor to the China Development Research Foundation of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China.
He’s an agent of the CCP, the evidence is more than clear for that. And we are supposed to believe he donated $350 million to Harvard out of the goodness of his heart. And then some more to UMass, because he’s so kind.
Is it now sinophobic to call out Chinese state agents infiltrating the United States’ most important institutions, completely in the open?
On a final note, look at the designated airports in the form they make the passengers fill out. They have to follow the same rules if they’re flying from China to Toronto or Vancouver, and catching a connecting flight to the states.
an aircraft at a Designated Airport if the passenger has been in the People’s Republic of China in the past 10 calendar days. Designated Airports include Incheon International Airport (ICN) in Seoul, Republic of Korea; Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in Canada; and Vancouver International Airport (YVR) in Canada.
I'm sure this is all about public health.