What about Africa?
The COVID True Believers™ have a glaring problem with their global pox narrative: Africa.
One would expect that a disease as allegedly contagious and deadly as COVID-19 is said to be would sweep through the continent of Africa, decimating countries and leaving them bereft of millions. Health care in Africa is generally poor, despite decades of investment by international organisations such as the WHO, GAVI and others. Combine this with generally poor populations who are unable to afford allopathic medicine, and you have a recipe for pandemic catastrophe. But is that what we're seeing there?
Using data readily available from Johns Hopkins and assuming it to be correct and true (a dangerous assumption, I admit), it is startling to see the proportionality of the so-called COVID crisis in Africa. At the time this post was composed there were 221,868,505 cases and 4,585,508 deaths recorded globally. Africa accounts for less than 4% of cases and less than 5% of deaths.
Africa + Madagascar, Seychelles & Mauritius
COUNTRY
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina-Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Cote d’Ivoire
Democratic Republic of Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Republic of Congo
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zamibia
Zimbabwe
TOTAL
% World
CASES
198,645
49,114
16,946
162,186
13,851
12,585
84,210
11,296
4,996
57,159
55,877
11,792
290,773
9,939
6,374
44,379
317,572
26,177
9,789
122,157
29,877
5,902
241,134
14,395
5,727
318,069
42,884
60,898
14,942
34,408
12,616
889,783
148,444
125,772
5,888
196,487
13,588
90,598
73,257
20,281
6,374
17,947
2,829,834
11,526
37,875
1,367
22,625
675,771
120,714
NO DATA
207,294
125,796
7,907,890
3.56%
DEATHS
5,471
1,299
135
2,309
171
38
1,357
100
174
483
1,061
157
16,811
129
121
1,158
4,804
168
328
1,083
358
121
4,800
403
245
4,363
957
2,225
542
742
34
13,224
1,885
3,414
199
2,573
183
1,141
1,812
103
121
1,005
83,899
120
2,837
50
197
23,901
3,061
NO DATA
3,620
4,503
199,995
4.36%
Now this data must be approached with some limitations. We cannot expect the full number of cases and deaths in these countries to be fully reported; indeed, the countries with the highest reporting capabilities are also the wealthiest with the most developed healthcare systems: South Africa, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, etc. It should not surprise us that the bulk of Africa's reported cases and deaths occur in these countries. However, it is remarkable, even with this caveat, that the place where we would expect COVID-19 to have its most devastating effect accounts for not even 4% of the global case count, and less than 5% of the global death count. For a continent accounting for approximately 16% of the global population (1.6 billion), this is quite a surprising result.
So why might this be?
Well, there is a very crucial piece to this puzzle that must be accounted for. Ivermecin useage in Africa. Multiple researchers have noticed this, see Guerrero et al and Tanioka et al, among others. The data collected by Tanioka may be summarised in the following graph:
We will immediately notice that our wealthy and medically capable countries are also countries that are not generally using Ivermectin for non-COVID related parasitic or malarial medical issues.
Could this demonised and maligned "horse dewormer", a successful and effective treatment for multiple medical issues across the jungles of Africa and proven safe for more than 60 years in humans, be a much needed treatment option in Europe, Asia and elsewhere? Thus, it is truly perplexing that western governments refuse to even consider ivermectin protocols such as those developed by McCullough et al (PDF download), Zelenko (PDF download) and Kory et al (PDF download) for the treatment of COVID illness. I will leave the question of why that might be for another occasion, but I think the almighty god Mammon might have a fair degree of influence upon western COVID policies.
Wherever you follow the ivermectin trail, we find the graves are mostly empty. Africa is a powerful case in point.