Below is the full interview streamed on HKET on 19th Apr 2021 in which your correspondent discussed a variety of macro and property market topics, including:
1. home price outlook
2. impact of inflation / debt crisis
3. HK demographics in view of BNO and China's new global tax rules
4. why HKSAR policies are not going to make housing more affordable without imprisoning low income groups in public managed welfare housing (instead of people owning their own cheaper priced properties)
5. property stocks better than housing? PRC developer stocks better than HK developer stocks?
1) Update on the total signatures of Great Barrington Declaration
- the number of professionals urging rational opening of social/economic activities (and implicitly condemning the harsh lockdowns imposed around the world) has ballooned to >13k scientists and >42k medical experts. It is now the professionals against the bureaucrats (and their panel of 'experts'), somewhat ironic:
Sign the
Great Barrington Declaration- Note "Signatures of Medical & Public
Health Scientists will be made public below after verification, approval, and
vetting process." (updated on 16/04/2021), this is indeed becoming highly credible and persuasive.
- virus mutate constantly, which is why pharma companies produce annual flu jabs
- by targeting coronavirus annually as 'pandemic', govt policy may be perpetuating lockdowns, and/or making annual vaccinations mandatory for a flu with a 0.03% death rate (see comparison with other causes of death here)
This is the message being conveyed to the public by a group of doctors in Canada with Canadian Health Alliance, which issued a press release and video this week, opposing the Government’s response to COVID: Stop fearing the Coronavirus, the new COVID “variants” are a hoax, let
children go back to normal activities, take off your mask, and avoid the
experimental COVID “vaccines”
According to their press release:
The CANADA HEALTH ALLIANCE is a non-profit collaboration of medical doctors, nurses, chiropractors, naturopaths, pharmacists, and other healthcare practitioners from across Canada whose common goal is to protect the rights of our patients to access the highest quality healthcare available, continued freedom of choice, and autonomy through informed consent.
Our goal is to halt the misuse of power by politicized public health “experts” currently being conveyed through damaging COVID-19 public health policies that are destroying Canadian society and the health of Canadians.
Here is what they are demanding be stopped immediately:
We call on all levels of government to immediately stop promoting the following measures:
· Lockdowns and physical distancing · Promoting the use of masks · Handwashing and cleaning surfaces with toxic disinfectants · Quarantines of asymptomatic people and social isolation · Using RT-PCR testing on people · Advocating inadequately tested gene-modifying COVID-19 vaccinations (insufficient human and animal trials) · Unnecessary COVID-19 policies at hospitals and other health care facilities · Business closures or restrictions · Restrictions on churches and places of worship · Closures of public facilities including schools, playgrounds, parks and recreational facilities · Misrepresentation of the COVID situation in the media · The use of fear and other psychological coercion techniques
- per this article, analysis by 'Dr. Hervé Seligmann, a member of the faculty of Medicine Emerging
Infectious and Tropical Diseases at Aix-Marseille University, and
engineer Haim Yativ reveal, in short, that the mRNA experimental vaccine
from Pfizer killed “about 40 times more (elderly) people than the
disease itself would have killed” during a recent five-week vaccination
period.'
- again, having the alternative data and analyses help us see the broader perspective, which sadly the mainstream media is censoring - one sided information is often, if not always unbalanced for rational decision making
1. Americans' Views (trust ratings) of U.S. pharma Industry
The 2019-2020 Americans' net ratings for the pharmaceutical industry have never been lower since Gallup first started the poll in 2001.
When govt and pharma companies are so closely knit, and when the former has granted the latter legal immunity from negligence suits, why is it not surprising that trust in pharma companies are at record low?
Daily case data from March 20 to March 21 rise and fall very much independently from whether people wear masks or not, as the chart below clearly illustrates:
Source: YouGov, covidtracking.com
So why do govts continue to force people to wear this increasingly questioned form of protection despite data suggesting otherwise?
There are serious questions being asked about the factual basis
for declaring a pandemic. When is a COVID-19 case
really a “case”?
Do the case numbers and death numbers that have been
touted over the last 12 months by governments in UK, EU, USA, and
numerous governments around the world, accurately reflect actual COVID
cases and COVID deaths?
Even the World Health Organization (WHO) itself has admitted that
the entire basis for collating “case” numbers since the beginning of
this ‘global pandemic’ is effectively null and void.
As at Mar. 10, the six countries in the world with the highest
inoculation rates were Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the UK, the US, Chile and the European Union (EU), in that order.
Mr Law asked a few questions after examining the data (see charts below):
- vaccines for epidemic diseases take years to develop,
ranging from three years to eight years or more. How is it that there
are vaccines made available within half a year for this unusual disease
that the experts initially had no clue about?
- after five quarters since the outbreak, the infection rate in Hong Kong
is only 0.15%, thus even if the vaccine is 99% effective, there is no
scientific justification to administer it?
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