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Is Omicron Really a New Variant?
NOQ Report ^ | 12/16/2021 | Jordan Schachtel

Posted on 12/16/2021 9:40:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Is Omicron really a “new strain,” or is there more than meets the eye to this latest COVID narrative?

Say I’m a scientist who has just discovered a previously undetected matter in the universe. Let’s call it Purple Matter. The world never bothered to test specifically for Purple Matter until now, because they had no idea Purple Matter existed.

Somehow, my Purple Matter testing protocol finds Purple Matter EVERYWHERE. Does that mean my newly discovered Purple Matter only surfaced when I started testing for it? Of course not. If my Purple Matter test launched just last month, I would be a fool to assume that my discovery of Purple Matter perfectly coincided with my testing device.

And that’s exactly what’s happening with Omicron hysteria, and the ongoing, abysmal efforts concerning the “stopping the spread” of this latest “new variant.”

Omicron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant. I need to be very clear: vaccines alone will not get any country out of this crisis.
It’s not vaccines instead of masks, distancing, ventilation or hand hygiene.
Do it all. Do it consistently. Do it well. pic.twitter.com/YAVfJXsviQ

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) December 14, 2021

A dumb academic model showing Omicron’s claimed “exponential” growth

The Omicron sequence was first detected on November 24, after South African scientists alerted the World Health Organization to its apparent existence. The world just started testing for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, and lo and behold, it has appeared virtually everywhere, from California to Europe to Asia, and even to sealed off Oceania.

How in the world did this happen? How did “Omicron” infiltrate insanely surveilled areas of the world where there are robust quarantine protocols in place?

Perhaps Omicron isn’t a “new variant,” at all. If nothing makes sense about the “public health expert” promoted Omicron timeline, that’s because the discovery of Omicron does not align with the spread of Omicron.

Several air crew in NZ are close contacts of Omicron case in Australia https://t.co/hb6DbiKvGD pic.twitter.com/iZYakTNDjq

— nzherald (@nzherald) December 14, 2021

Either Omicron spreads so rapidly (see: absurd, hysterical, academic models claiming the whole world will be enveloped in a matter of days) that there is no stopping it, even through tyrannical COVID safety regime measures, or Omicron has already been here for quite some time. If Omicron is indeed new, there is the possibility that the modern scientific consensus regarding human to human transfer of viruses is so off base that it requires re-examining this notion entirely, but we’ll save that for another day.

Regardless of which is true, it’s a lose-lose situation for potential government “interventions” to stop a virus. Omicron is already everywhere. No amount of masking or lockdowns will make a difference. And sadly, the mRNA shots, which already show rapidly declining efficacy for previous strains, appear to show near zero efficacy in preventing a positive Omicron test.

CNN reported on the outbreak, but fails to mention that Cornell University has a 97% vaccination rate on our campus, mandatory masking, and weekly testing. @Techno_Fog @JackPosobiec @claudiatenney https://t.co/RylxnI8T3o

— Joe Silverstein (@SilversteinUSA) December 15, 2021

It’s not just me making this case. Thoughtful scientists and data analysts are starting to come to the rather obvious conclusion that Omicron has been here for quite some time. This of course opens up another longer conversation for another day about the “original” strain first detected in Wuhan.

"[Extensive analysis] reveals that Omicron variant formed a new emergent group that was not originating [from] other variants. It's possible [therefore], that Omicron has been around for much longer than [originally] predicted…"

😎https://t.co/0xtN2Zv6U3

— Ethical Skeptic ☀ (@EthicalSkeptic) December 14, 2021

Any effort to “stop the spread” using the failed tools of Corona Hysteria is beyond foolish. Tyrannical movement restrictions have not worked to stop the annual respiratory season, and it won’t work when it’s again tried for an Omicron label.

Image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay. Article cross-posted from Jordan’s Substack.



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; omicron; variant

1 posted on 12/16/2021 9:40:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Finding” new “variants” is simply a way to keep the con going, and the goalposts moving, until the “one-world-government with all the bling for us” people think of what to do next.


2 posted on 12/16/2021 9:46:03 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: JennysCool

The database of the several million Covid viruses that have been sequenced is publicly available:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/virus?SeqType_s=Nucleotide&VirusLineage_ss=SARS-CoV-2,%20taxid:2697049

If this person thinks Omicron existed widely before being noticed, it would be easy to find examples in the database.


3 posted on 12/16/2021 10:02:49 PM PST by Renfrew
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To: SeekAndFind; Jane Long; ransomnote; SecAmndmt; Secret Agent Man; Jan_Sobieski; bagster; ...

Interesting.


4 posted on 12/16/2021 11:05:41 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom
If you buy a PT Cruiser, you will start to see them everywhere

[Mom bought it for me cheap so please don't judge....] PT Loser owner

5 posted on 12/16/2021 11:30:55 PM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: JennysCool

Yup.

And a depressing amount of otherwise sane, smart people are falling for it, hook, line and sinker.


6 posted on 12/16/2021 11:32:05 PM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: JennysCool; SeekAndFind
JennysCool : “Finding” new “variants” is simply a way to keep the con going,.. "

You have to look for it .. in order to find it "
As time goes on, one expects to find a weakened variant because all viruses want to survive, so they evolve so as not to kill the infected, and thus continue, weakened.
If strong and loud vocal hysteria continues over a weakened virus, you know that it is time to replace whoever is controlling the narrative.
Science says that this is the natural progression of viruses.
If someone says otherwise, they are no longer speaking from the scientific context, but rather for some other reason.

7 posted on 12/17/2021 4:35:27 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: SeekAndFind

Delta was the so-called ‘variant’ that coincided with the ‘vaccines’ wearing off.

Omicron is the so-called ‘variant’ that coincides with the ‘boosters’ wearing off.

My high intellectual capacity allows me to see a pattern in the above two sentences.


8 posted on 12/17/2021 5:22:12 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Renfrew

— “If this person thinks Omicron existed widely before being noticed, it would be easy to find examples in the database.”

Please show us how easy by you surveying “the several million...”

Easy. Yup. Easy.


9 posted on 12/17/2021 5:23:12 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: JennysCool

Omicron is as much a “new variant” as booster shots are “new vaccines”.


10 posted on 12/17/2021 5:24:06 AM PST by glennaro (Although I don't believe in "big conspiracies", neither do I believe in "big coincidences")
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To: BobL
— “My high intellectual capacity allows me to see a pattern in the above two sentences..”

Bravo. You can sharpen my surgical scalpels any day.

11 posted on 12/17/2021 5:25:00 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

We have these wonderful tools called “search engines” that can today search millions of documents very quickly. It’s really quite wonderful.

If you want to search for a sequence in the Covid-19 database you can do so here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/find-data/sequence


12 posted on 12/17/2021 7:38:56 AM PST by Renfrew
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To: SeekAndFind
Omicron is such a throw-back in the evolution of the SARS-COV2 virus that I've heard speculation (Bret Weinstein) that it might have been chilling in a refrigerator until recently. It's natural evolution from existing strains of SARS-COV2 looks pretty distant.

DarkHorse Podcast

13 posted on 12/17/2021 9:55:20 AM PST by Dan Cooper
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To: Salamander
It’s not vaccines instead of masks, distancing, ventilation or hand hygiene. Do it all. Do it consistently. Do it well.

PT Loser owner

I dunno, I think they're kinda cool. They remind me of a Woody that Gidget went to the beach in back when the world was young. And so were we.


14 posted on 12/17/2021 10:23:24 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Yeah, they’re cute.

[I think it looks like I should be hauling ‘shine on some back road with a gun moll on the running board]

For creature comforts, performance and capacity, it is sorely lacking.


15 posted on 12/17/2021 11:26:42 AM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: bagster
They remind me of a Woody

"He said Woody!"

16 posted on 12/17/2021 1:16:07 PM PST by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: Renfrew

Condescend much?


17 posted on 12/17/2021 1:46:45 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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