Posted on 12/30/2021 8:43:04 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Last week South Africa became the first country to dial back COVID-19 restrictions after it became clear that the Omicron variant was far more mild than other strains, and that it had peaked much sooner than expected.
On Christmas Eve, the government announced that contacts of Covid-positive cases will no longer need to test or self-isolate if they aren't showing symptoms, while those who develop mild symptoms will be required to isolate for eight days, and anyone with severe symptoms will need to isolate for 10 days
Let us remind you that South Africa is roughly 75% unvaccinated.
Three days later, the US CDC made major changes to their Covid isolation mandates - including cutting quarantine from 10 days to 5 days (plus 5 days of masking), and eliminating PCR tests from it's end-of-isolation guidelines. And they swear it isn't because of test-kit shortages and/or their decision not to distribute rapid tests to Americans before the holidays.
Tell us you want everyone to get Covid without telling us you want everyone to get Covid.
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As a related aside, informed Zero Hedge reader Doug R. notes regarding the CDC's 'substantial' revision in Omicron cases - where they now say it jumped from 3% infectivity to 58.6% of all cases over the course of two weeks (revised down from an even more implausible 73% they first reported): "Sorry, still not buying it. This still implies a level of infectivity that is hard to believe. My guess is the real starting point was it was already in the range of 10%-20% market share, and the CDC completely missed it. In part because it is so mild, but in larger part because they failed at their job of detecting and tracking. Because they are bad at what they do."
And now, Israel is mulling a new 'herd immunity' policy amid a second day of spiking cases.
According to the Times of Israel:
Israel recorded almost 3,000 new coronavirus cases for the second day in a row, according to data released Wednesday, as the infection rate continued to climb and senior Health Ministry officials were reportedly weighing a switch to a policy of reaching herd immunity through mass infection.
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For the first time, most Omicron infections were recorded in the community, not in people who recently returned from abroad or those they came in contact with, indicating the true figures are likely much higher than the official ones.
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In light of the lack of immediate rise in serious illness, Channel 12 news reported Tuesday evening that senior officials in the Health Ministry have recently raised the option of switching to a “mass infection model.”
The plan would mirror Sweden's policy in the early stage of the pandemic - which essentially meant doing nothing to restrict the spread for people who aren't in at-risk groups. Israeli officials estimate that within two weeks, Omicron will account for 90% of Covid-19 cases across the country.
Back to Doug R., he poses the following thought exercise: "If Omicron was the original virus, and behaving this way, how would society have reacted? My guess, very differently to how it is reacting now. No global freakout, lockdowns, and NO treatment with vaccinations. It wouldn’t be necessary. But we are now where we are, which provokes an incredibly strong and odd reaction to something that appears so mild, and may be a free vaccine."
Maybe policymakers are finally catching on? Their corporate media wing seems to have gotten the memo.
As I said a few days ago, there is a big narrative shift going on: it is the lead story in the NYT morning brief today.
Now even more evident since clearly the biggest MSM m0r0ns have their marching orders to downplay “cases” https://t.co/QEY1ZHhGRI
— Barbarian Capital (@BarbarianCap) December 30, 2021
Meanwhile the NYC lemmings are lining up for useless “test”: the phoney-baloney foundation of the Covidians house of cards.
As usual, Israel’s governing coalition of people who hate each other are fighting tooth and nail over the Covid response. From ‘let ‘er rip’ too Draconian lockdown.
Let's further suppose that the Aliens were also subject to the infections. The Aliens would have to release the weapon in a way which caused their enemies to be most affected while they are forewarned and are able to take precautions.
If Aliens had the ability to create such a weapon wouldn't it be reasonable to believe that they could also create a solution for nations suffering the effects of the original weapon?
The solution could be a second biological agent which had mild symptoms, was extremely contagious, and which conferred lasting immunity to the original biological weapon.
Now let's stretch our imaginations just a bit more and imagine that the Aliens developed not just one pair of biological agents, but rather two dozen such pairs. Would it be possible to utilize a pair of these biological agents every six or eight years? Perhaps the Aliens could time the release of each weapon set to maximize the effect on a target nation's elections, hoping to influence the future of such a nation without ever having to set foot in that nation.
I'm not saying it was Aliens ...
This should have always been the policy of every country everywhere all along. Now nobody's perfect including policy makers, so its excusable that this got messed up early on. But with the benefit of hindsight, it is so obviously the only sensible policy that it is a sign of gross incompetence (or corruption maybe) for there to be any other policy ever again for this stuff.
They still have the socialist mindset.
RE: This should have always been the policy of every country everywhere all along.
This was already proposed by a large group of physicians, experts and scientists in the GREAT BARRINGTON DECLARATION last year. See here:
Guess what the leaders of the NIH did upon getting hold of this proposal?
Read all about it here:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/fauci-email-francis-collins-great-barrington-declaration
NIH Director Francis Collins told Anthony Fauci there needs to be a ‘quick and devastating’ takedown of anti-lockdown declaration by ‘fringe’ Harvard, Stanford, Oxford epidemiologists: Emails
I was in both sections of Williamsburg Brooklyn yesterday. The hipster section and the Hasidic Jewish section.
In the hipster section everybody was walking with a mask on outside, and people were lined up to get tested at several different testing centers.
In the Jewish section not one person was wearing a mask and there were no testing centers anywhere.
From what I’ve seen, this is unique. There are testing centers set up in all different neighborhoods, with all different ethnicities. Sure, the hipster areas are filled with more people who are running to go get tested. But even in the Hispanic, Asian, and West Indian areas, there’s a lot of testing centers, even if they’re not quite as busy.
But the Hasidic Jews had such epic battles with the mayor, the governor and the cops over the last 2 years about being able to go synagogue, they have completely united as a community against all of this nonsense.
So the complete absence of testing centers in in the religious Jewish areas proves that they are setting up these these testing centers strictly to drive up case numbers. If this was about public health, they would set up testing centers in every single neighborhood indiscriminately. They’re obviously shifting the manpower to wear they think they’ll get the most action.
This is interesting. The Gateway Pundit. Lenora Thompson put this one up.
“HUGE. CDC Withdraws Use of PCR Test for COVID and Finally Admits the Test Can Not Differentiate Between the Flu and COVID Virus”
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