What is the public to believe about omicron variant? The usual nutty pro-vaccine media are making a lot of fear-mongering noise about omicron.
Here are some things to keep in mind.
A very new medical research article provided compelling information that COVID vaccines are not effective against omicron. The article concluded: “The Omicron variant presents a serious threat to many existing COVID-19 vaccines and therapies.” The only data coming out is on the ineffectiveness of the vaccines. There are no data on whether ivermectin and natural immunity are equally ineffective.
This too was said: “The scientific community has chased after SARS-CoV-2 variants for a year. As more and more of them appeared, our interventions directed to the spike became increasingly ineffective. The Omicron variant has now put an exclamation mark on this point.”
Here is a really important point to keep in mind. Omicron may look like it has high transmissibility, but this may have much more to do with the ineffectiveness of vaccines than with the intrinsic nature of this variant!
See my previous article on omicron that showed research indicating intrinsic low transmissibility relative to delta, and similar to other variants:
Consider these relevant omicron facts.
In South Africa, with only 26% vaccinated, despite omicron, not only has there been no surge in COVID deaths, they are the lowest they've been in 18 months. This, after more than three weeks into omicron in South Africa. If screams about a surge were accurate, it would have started by now. And doctors there say the omicron cases are far less severe than presumably delta.
Fewer than 1 in 50 people with confirmed omicron cases are being hospitalized in South Africa - which suggests that the actual hospitalization to infection rate is far lower still. Why? Because so many people with omicron have such mild cases they don’t bother getting tested.
South African scientists announced the discovery of the Omicron variant on November 25. Since then, the country has had more than 230,000 Covid-19 cases, but just 377 deaths. And as of this writing, none of those deaths are confirmed to have resulted from Omicron.
The UK as of now has reported 1 (1!) omicron death, and it was "with" the virus, not necessarily from it. If there have been deaths globally from omicron, they have not been reported
When you read about mount COVID cases in the US just remember that there normally has been a winter surge in cases. Cases can also be easily manipulated by public health agencies by running PCR tests at high cycles, creating false positive. Keep your attention on deaths in people where there has been gene sequencing to confirm omicron. Ugly and corrupt political forces controlling public health agencies have every reason to create a surge in cases so that fear can be maintained and the public made receptive to getting vaccine and booster shots.
Be patient, do not go crazy over omicron. Keep doing the many good things to maintain a healthy immune system, such as taking vitamins D and C, zinc and quercetin.
Plus, a new medical research article on ivermectin concluded that it really is very effective as a prophylactic, a genuine alternative to COVID vaccines.
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Questions: (1) Does anyone know what the ramifications are of an unvaccinated person receiving blood transfusions from vaccinated donor? (2) Does anyone know if blood donation centers are tagging and keeping separate "vaccinated blood" from "unvaccinated blood"? As importantly, if hospitals are matching unvaccinated patients with "unvaccinated blood". I haven't seen (or missed) information in this area. Thank you.
Hey, Joel. I have read many of your pieces and am very grateful for your hard work. You have been instrumental in helping me form my opinion about what is happening with Covid right now.
I humbly make a suggestion. I have been on the political left for decades. Some of us on the left are listening!--though I know very well that most of my (lost) cohort isn't. I don't think the problem is with leftist values, it is something else. Obviously, there is something wrong on the left if people eschew their own stated values and their stated devotion to critical thinking, in favor of the insane policies that some of us are fighting the best we can! (Maybe Desmet is right.) I think that the more scientists convey political neutrality even when they (understandably) don't feel it, the more chance we have of reaching people who have dug in for irrational reasons having nothing to do with creating physical health.
Thank you for your consideration.