Posted on 12/11/2021 6:36:05 PM PST by Trillian
AUSTRALIA has reported a new version of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, dubbed 'Omicron Like', just weeks after the new strain was first discovered in South Africa.
A South African man who tested positive for the variant was found to have a genetically different version of virus strain. He is currently isolating at a quarantine hotel in Brisbane.
Yvette D'Ath, Queensland's health minister, confirmed the case meant that Omicron now has two lineages classified by the international committee.
The new sister of the variant does not have one of the genes that are used to identify the Omicron strain, the World Health Organisation says.
This means the shortcut for locating it may not be able to be used.
Peter Aitken, Queensland's acting chief health officer, said that the sub-lineage did not appear to have the S-gene dropout - the genetic marker used to distinguish Omicron from other variants of the virus.
He added: "It has enough genes to be classified as Omicron, but we don't know enough about it for what that means as far as clinical severity, vaccine effectiveness.
"What we do know is that Omicron is more infectious and more transmissible."
Peter Collignon, microbiologist at the Australian National University, told the Guardian: “It is mainly at the moment an issue about the technicalities on how they are picked up.
“If the genes have been deleted, and there’s another lineage where the gene hasn’t been deleted, you may not think it is Omicron when in fact it is.”
Son of Omicron Meets Godzilla
What about it's cousin?
The World has gone insane along with the medical profession about a virus that has a 99% survival rate. Not to mention they all poohpooh effective therapeutics.
So glad I'm retired and have no need to go anywhere. I feel bad for those that do. This gov control is going to get worse...
This is a direct result of bad poll numbers (U.S.) or violent protests AU and New Guinea...
The worldwide communists leave no stone unturned in their pursuit, application, and retention of absolute power...
Classic early examples that worked are Carson's silent spring (1962) (a fraudulent ban that saved nothing & jacked up food prices) and the Republican-imposed fraudulent DDT ban (1972) (a ban that killed hundreds of millions)...
The communists then had their desired weapons and have used fraudulent environmental concerns to advance their ultimate (now accomplished) goals of imposing tyranny ever since...
I wonder how many variants there would be of the common cold they were running tests on it.
OR...they are using the PCR test and calling the Common Cold what ever they want to keep the Plandemic going.
Also note that the majority or all the new mutations affect the "vaccinated" people.
How's that Experimental Gene Therapy working out for you?
Translation— ‘Oh crap, the peasants are not buying the Omicron propaganda, because nobody is dying from it. Pfizer profits must be preserved! We need a new variant!’
We’re ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!
(sometime in the next 150 years or sooner)
The midterm variant is just around the corner, I am quite certain it will be VERY deadly gotta keep those ALL mail in ballots going!!!
To your chorus: Sister of Cron we'll be the second shoe;
Verse: But wait! The family of Cron has more to undone.
The brothers, the cousins still have their own say;
It's only time that they have their own fun;
Passage of time will give them their dues;
Eventually, they kill both meeeee and you.
Chorus" Omicron is Electric Boogaloo;
Little time to weep or time for feeling blue;
Coviiiid Omicron is coming after you!
So don't waste timmmme ah,ah;
It's all on the government dime.
Your yawn just made me yawn.
I refuse to die.
If they got a handle on it their excuse for permanently controlling the population would disappear and the peasants would get uppity.
Oh, thank God!
I was so afraid they weren’t going to be able to find another excuse to lock us down and force vaccines on us!
Never forget that OMICRON is an anagram for MORONIC.
This is not a big deal.
It is still easily detectable as COVID by standard tests, just not as easily identifiable as the Omicron strain.
So what?
As long as they know its COVID, protective measures and treatments are the same.
It is not more deadly, or more transmissible than regular Omicron.
I always heard that we never catch the same “cold” twice. It’s always a different version (variant). My old time Doc years ago said a cold takes 9 days, 3 to catch it, 3 to have it and 3 to get rid of it.
Yeh, harder to track because its non existent. 😆
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