The “one law for them, another for us” concept continues to show itself. The 30,000 attendees at the World Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland have been exempted from the need to have Covid passports. Why? To encourage participation? Some people might suggest that the fewer people who attend such a meeting, the better. Some people might at least be of the expectation that people expressing concern with climate change would be fast to comply with Covid control measures.
But it is in keeping with the rest of the farce that is the “Climate Change” conference. The Scottish Nationalist Party, eager to show off their “green” credentials, bought 20 Teslas to provide delegate transportation. The Teslas are being charged by – diesel generators.
We hear a lot about the federal government vaccine mandate, but one federal agency in particular seems to be ignoring it – the TSA, which is currently reporting a mere 60% of their employees have been vaccinated. It is becoming increasingly clear that it will not have all employees vaccinated by the 22 November deadline (due to the leadtimes involved – the remaining 40% will need to get the single J&J jab if they’re not already part-way through their two-jab courses of Moderna or Pfizer vaccine), which might see the firing of many screeners just before the Thanksgiving peak of air travel.
As we anticipated, the Moderna third shot “booster” has been approved, and now it is the J&J second shot that is getting approval next, even though there is little evidence of the J&J vaccine weakening. Instead, it is being justified on the grounds that “it increases the overall level of protection – it should have always been a two-shot vaccine”.
If that is true, why was it approved as a one shot vaccine?
Current Numbers
The minor country list saw Georgia rise two places, and some smaller one place swaps.
There were no changes in the major country list.
The US moved up one more place in the death rate list. There’s a large gap between it and the next country, Colombia. Astonishingly, Romania entered the list “from nowhere” and landed immediately at eighth place. At the present rate, it could even reach up to pass the US within the next.
The analysis of countries with the highest rates of new case numbers last week continues to change greatly from week to week, and this week showed massively higher numbers at the top of the chart.
The UK rose 17% in the last week, with a new case rate more than twice that of the US. Elsewhere in Europe, super-vaccinated Gibraltar (118% fully vaccinated!) reported a 149% growth in new cases compared to the last week (and a case rate only slightly below that of the UK). So much for the vaccine….
The Czech Republic’s numbers are growing again, up 54%, and the Netherlands is up 53%. At the other end of the scale, Spain enjoyed a 33% drop, Sweden had a 16% drop, and Switzerland a 10% drop. Germany was down 7%, but France was up 10%. Europe as a whole rose again, up 13%.
Mexico enjoyed a 17% drop, and Canada a 32% drop. The US had about a 12% drop.
The world as a whole enjoyed a 6% drop.
Top Case Rates Minor (population under 10 million) Countries (cases per million)
| Rank | One Week Ago | Today |
| 1 | Seychelles (218,297) | Seychelles (220,237) |
| 2 | Montenegro (215,385) | Montenegro (219,318) |
| 3 | Andorra | Andorra |
| 4 | Gibraltar (167,053) | Gibraltar (170,972) |
| 5 | St Barth | Georgia |
| 6 | San Marino | San Marino |
| 7 | Georgia | St Barth |
| 8 | Bahrain | Maldives |
| 9 | Maldives | Bahrain |
| 10 | Aruba (145,571) | Slovenia (148,192) |
Top Case Rates Major (population over 10 million) Countries (cases per million)
| Rank | One Week Ago | Today |
| 1 | Czech Republic (158,347) | Czech Republic (159,197) |
| 2 | USA (135,556) | USA (137,304) |
| 3 | UK (119,319) | UK (123,622) |
| 4 | Netherlands | Netherlands |
| 5 | Argentina | Argentina |
| 6 | Sweden | Sweden |
| 7 | Belgium | Belgium |
| 8 | France | France |
| 9 | Spain | Spain |
| 10 | Portugal | Portugal |
| 11 | Brazil | Brazil |
| 12 | Colombia (96,411) | Colombia (96,572) |
Top Death Rate Major Countries (deaths per million)
| Rank | One Week Ago | Today |
| 1 | Peru (5,950) | Peru (5,954) |
| 2 | Czech Republic (2,841) | Czech Republic (2,845) |
| 3 | Brazil | Brazil |
| 4 | Argentina | Argentina |
| 5 | Colombia | Colombia (2,459) |
| 6 | Belgium (2,203) | USA (2,232) |
| 7 | USA (2,200) | Belgium (2,209) |
| 8 | Italy (2,176) | Romania (2,191) |
| 9 | Mexico (2,159) | Italy (2,180) |
| 10 | Tunisia (2,090) | Mexico (2,176) |
Top Rates in New Cases Reported in the Last Week (new cases per million) for Countries over one million population
| Rank | One Week Ago | Today |
| 1 | Lithuania 5,431 | Latvia 7,712 |
| 2 | Latvia 5,181 | Georgia 7,107 |
| 3 | Serbia | Lithuania |
| 4 | Romania | Estonia |
| 5 | Estonia | Romania |
| 6 | Mongolia | Serbia |
| 7 | Georgia | UK 4,340 |
| 8 | Singapore | Mongolia |
| 9 | UK 3,737 | Singapore |
| 10 | Slovenia | Armenia |
| 11 | Armenia | Slovenia |
| 12 | Turkey 2,413 | Bulgaria 2,871 |
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