Special Report: Understanding New COVID Omicron Variant

Keeping sane and smart as mainstream media goes nuts about new variant

The goal of this article is to keep people sane about this newly hyped COVID Omicron variant. The fear mongers are at it again. Using this as an opportunity to promote vaccines.

1.  All current vaccines are nearly useless. 

They were all designed to provide immunity against the spike protein of the wild type strain identified in China in late 2019 and early 2020.  But here is what the mainstream media do not tell the public: That viral strain has practically vanished.  Vaccine immunity increasingly is mostly useless, especially against all the variants that have emerged since that original virus.

As the virus continues to evolve, individuals who are only protected by vaccination are increasingly vulnerable to serious short- and long-term health impacts, including possibly death.  Current vaccines are often described as leaky or imperfect, because they are not effective against new forms of the virus. They actually promote the creation and transmission of new variants.

2.  Natural immunity is vastly different and more protective

Those who have been previously exposed to the virus, whether asymptomatic or with health impacts, have broad immunity.

Dr. Kevin Homer has provided this good way of thinking about vaccine versus natural immunity.  Think of castle walls [your body] deflecting missiles [viruses] launched from many directions and angles.  Those protected by vaccine alone have neutralizing antibodies against the wild-type or original spike protein.  Against the incoming enemy viruses, the vaccine protection is like a slender pole facing the incoming attacks from all directions and with different kinds of spike proteins.  Not a great defense system. New variants can easily get through your vaccine immunity defenses.

Think of the new viruses or variants attacking you as only moving over a few feet to obtain a direct line of sight to you, actually your cells, the target of the variant. Those new variants easily breakthrough.

Being vaccinated provides little if any protection.  That’s why breakthrough infections are common.  Even worse, current vaccine protection does not actually kill the virus and allows transmission of the virus.  So, there should be no surprise that vaccinated individuals can get seriously ill, require hospitalization, and sometimes die from COVID-19.  That is the real world of COVID with ever increasing variants.

Natural immunity has the ability to react to all of the incoming variants and, thus, keep you safe from new infection.  Your body can defend against different kinds of spike proteins.

3.  Transmission allows deadly new variants

This is the biggest deficiency of current vaccine immunity.  No one disputes that all current COVID vaccines do not prevent viral transmission.

Viruses always mutate.  If they kill you, then they too die off.  But what is happening now is the vaccine immunity is allowing new variants to escape bodies, transmit to other people and keep the spreading alive and deadly.  The new variants are not lethal enough for themselves to die off.  Though some infected people may die because their innate immune systems are not strong enough or because they do not have natural immunity from prior infection.

Early research found that: “Our data show that anti-disease vaccines that do not prevent transmission can create conditions that promote the emergence of pathogen strains that cause more severe disease.  … Vaccines that let the hosts survive but do not prevent the spread of the pathogen [allow] the evolution of hotter pathogens to occur.”  In other words, unless a vaccine prevents transmission, new mutations or variants can and will escape and infect others and if they only have vaccine immunity, they will be infected.

4.  Omicron already more pervasive than revealed by mainstream media

The Omicron variant, first identified earlier this month in Botswana and South Africa, has already spread to Israel, Hong Kong, and Belgium, prompting travel restrictions by many countries, including the US.

Current information is that Omicron infections in these other countries have not all been connected to South Africa, though that seems true for the Hong Kong case.  Reported was that “Two quarantined travelers in Hong Kong who have tested positive for the variant were vaccinated with the Pfizer jab.  One individual had traveled from South Africa; the other was infected during hotel quarantining.”

All four initial cases reported from Botswana occurred among fully vaccinated individuals.  All three initial confirmed and suspected cases reported from Israel occurred among fully vaccinated individuals. These were, therefore, breakthrough infections; this is the really big news. Current vaccines were not effective in defending against Omicron.

Rapid global spread should not be surprising.  Viral mutation going on in so many millions of people suggests that some variants will be found in many places.

One should not be surprised if fairly soon Omicron will be found in the US.  How transmissible and deadly it really is will take time to be documented.

5.  Conclusions

One thing is certain as Omicron advances.  There will surely be higher levels of breakthrough COVID infections among fully vaccinated people (including booster shots), and surely more deaths among the elderly and those with weak immune systems and underlying serious medical conditions.

This much is already known: The Omicron variant contains a large number of the mutations found in other variants, including Delta.  No surprise.  Because all COVID variants are changing over time and will have some features from older ones.

This much has been reported.  Omicron stood out because it contains more than 30 changes to the spike protein — the SARS-CoV-2 protein that recognizes host cells and is the main attack on the body.  Many of the changes have been found in variants such as Delta and Alpha, and are linked to heightened infectivity and the ability to evade infection-blocking antibodies generated by current vaccines.

“There’s a lot we don’t understand about this variant,” Richard Lessells, an infectious-diseases physician at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, said at a press briefing organized by South Africa’s health department on 25 November. “The mutation profile gives us concern, but now we need to do the work to understand the significance of this variant and what it means for the response to the pandemic.”

Good luck, keep your immune system strong with vitamins C and D, zinc and quercetin. Variants will keep coming and incompetent public health officials will keep selling current vaccines, despite their fundamental deficiencies.