Posted on 01/10/2022 2:53:04 PM PST by Starman417
COVID is causing a great fright but it's not the one you think. I am beginning to think that the media does not, under any circumstances, want the pandemic to end and neither does Anthony Fauci. COVID is not something to be trivialized but news outlets are competing with one another to see who can gin COVID up the most and create the biggest panic. To wit: Covid-19 surge is 'unprecedented' (msn.com)
Fauci Warns of Complacency With Virus Set to Fill HospitalsThe new year is starting with a massive influx of Covid-19 that's different from any other during this pandemic, doctors say. "We're seeing a surge in patients again, unprecedented in this pandemic," said Dr. James Phillips, chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University Hospital.
"What's coming for the rest of the country could be very serious. And they need to be prepared." Even health care workers are getting sidelined during the rapid rise of the Omicron variant, the most contagious strain of novel coronavirus to hit the US.
So that if you have many, many, many more people with a less level of severity, that might kind of neutralize the positive effect of having less severity,” said Fauci, who leads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Preliminary data from Scotland shows that omicron “is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of Covid-19 hospitalization when compared to delta.” However, the same study showed that it was 10 times more likely than delta to infect people who’d already had Covid.
Omicron also seems to favor those who have been vaccinated.
New CDC Covid guidance could be a recipe for serious trouble
This past week, many essential workers have again felt that they are being treated as expendable after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines that shortened the isolation period for those with Covid-19 from 10 days to five days — a move that many workers saw as a concession to business and a danger to workers.
Omicron passes much quickly than delta and is far milder in symptoms.
Dr. Craig Spencer, an associate professor in Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center, tweeted Tuesday that fewer patients were "gasping for air" and requiring oxygen, unlike the first wave in March 2020.
"But there's just SO much of it and it's impacting patients in different ways," Spencer said, referring to his experience during an ER shift in New York City.
Now pay attention
Spencer said "record numbers" of people with COVID-19 were attending the ER, as well as "extremely high" numbers of non-COVID-19 patients. "During the first surge, COVID was the only thing we saw in our ERs," he said.
Indeed. Right now, about half of those admitted to hospitals in NY are NOT being admitted for COVID
Let's scare 'em real good.New York Gov. Kathy Hochul released data Friday breaking down COVID-19 hospitalizations by those who were admitted due to the virus and those who were admitted for other reasons but were found to have the illness.
Included in the data was a chart showing "how many hospitalized individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 were admitted for COVID-19/COVID-19 complications and how many were admitted for non-COVID-19 conditions."
The Next Big COVID Variant Could Be a Triple Whammy Nightmare (msn.com)
Even as cases have surged, deaths haven’t—at least not to the same degree. Omicron is highly transmissible but generally not as severe as some older variants—“lineages” is the scientific term.We got lucky. But that luck might not hold. Many of the same epidemiologists who have breathed a sigh of relief over Omicron’s relatively low death rate are anticipating that the next lineage might be much worse.
Fretting over a possible future lineage that combines Omicron’s extreme transmissibility with the severity of, say, the previous Delta lineage, experts are beginning to embrace a new public health strategy that’s getting an early test run in Israel: a four-shot regimen of messenger-RNA vaccine.
Generally speaking, as viruses mutate, they tend to become less virulent and despite omicron being highly infectious it is proving to be less lethal.
This was also noted in Vermont.The World Health Organization said Thursday that a record 9.5 million COVID-19 cases were tallied over the last week as the omicron variant of the coronavirus swept the planet, a 71% increase from the previous 7-day period that the U.N. health agency likened to a "tsunami." However, the number of weekly recorded deaths declined.
"Last week, the highest number of COVID-19 cases were reported so far in the pandemic," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. He said the WHO was certain that was an underestimate because of a backlog in testing around the year-end holidays.
In its weekly report on the pandemic, the agency said the weekly count amounted to 9,520,488 new cases — with 41,178 deaths recorded last week compared to 44,680 in the week before that.
Growing numbers of children are being admitted to hospitals, but for what? I think what we're seeing is a resurgence of the flu or even flurona, the newest addition to the lexicon.
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People I know, 1 of whom is a friend and 2 others who are cousins, use to be totally normal people. All 3 are now completely neurotic hypochondriacs. Totally obsessed with COVID testing and “whether or not they have it”. Sad and pathetic.
Nope.
You can post the whole thing right here.
Nobody owes you any traffic. Maybe get a job if you need some bucks.
“...competing with one another to see who can gin
COVID up the most and create the biggest panic...”
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Are there goes you and your flopping aces contributing to it!
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I know better than to expect a reply from you,
because you never reply to anyone.
You are one of those folks who post and run.
I just came for the pictures.
I am beginning to think that the media does not, under any circumstances, want the pandemic to end and neither does Anthony Fauci. ...How long did that take ye? Most Freepers figured that out years ago.
lol
What is astonishing is that it isn’t glaringly obvious to everyone that there’s something very sinister about the ‘pandemic’. We stayed home, wore masks, vast numbers took ‘vaccines’, many got natural immunity throughout...yet MORE cases than ever.
So back to lockdowns, passports, ....SMFH.
Are there entities that don’t want it to end???? DUH.
Yep. We’ve lost allegedly conservative friends who went around the bend worrying about the Wuhan Flu.
They got the shots and now they can’t even be in eyesight of us lest we infect them.
What’s ironic is one couple we know went full batshit paranoid with getting the J&J shot and then followed on with the four AstraZeneca shots and they still caught the bug! Getting sick only made them descend even further into madness.
Ivermectin was outlawed by the Feds because they claim that it gives false confidence to people who would otherwise be getting the shot.
Simultaneously, the Feds and the media continuously proclaim that the vaccination protects from omicron. That is a lie and it gives people false confidence since these people would otherwise seek therapeutics that work.
I triple dog dare the next variant...
Fear Porn for the Covid Cultist... they can’t wait for their next booster and stand in endless lines waiting to get tested.
Our local ABC affiliate is 24/7/365 Covid. They literally don’t discuss anything else. I told them on their FB page to change their call letters to KOVD-17. It’s absurd.
that truly is sad.
I will admit, early in the first few weeks of the pandemic, I allowed the TV news to scare the helll out of me, was anxious all the time, lost 12 lbs. because my stomach was in knots.
Then I STOPPED watching the TV news! Best decision ever.
I’ve never watched it since then. Stress and anxiety much lower!
that truly is sad.
I will admit, early in the first few weeks of the pandemic, I allowed the TV news to scare the helll out of me, was anxious all the time, lost 12 lbs. because my stomach was in knots.
Then I STOPPED watching the TV news! Best decision ever.
I’ve never watched it since then. Stress and anxiety much lower!
Early in the plandemic there was cause for concern; here in the NYC metro area a lot of people were dying (because they were being treated incorrectly with flu medicines and such).
As it stabilized many realized nothing the gubmint was doing or demanding was helping; here in northeastern NJ there are still many nervous Nellies but if you go to central NJ (or went there last year) masks were already a rarity.
We are seeing government conditioning of the masses is working.
The first couple weeks of Covid in 2020, we did not know what we were dealing with and really, and what was causing all the deaths.
It became pretty obvious pretty quickly, and that’s when most of us started to realize we were being played.
Yesterday I tested positive.
I am not allowed to return to work until January 18th.
I have a mild, runny nose. My wife has a mild, runny nose. My kids are now all in isolation with mild, runny noses. Nobody is running a fever.
This is insanity. I am perfectly capable of going to work. My kids are perfectly capable to go to school.
Fortunately, I'm still getting paid. But, what a waste of productivity. Oh well. Extended holiday vacation! Thanks, Fear porn!
Mild case of the Flu perhaps
It was all planned and ready to roll.
I posted this in another thread, recounting what I saw on the TV March 2020.....
I'll know they're serious about confessing their lies when they admit that the guy in China falling face first dead on the street didn't instantly die from covid.
And the scenes of doors being welded shut where the infected lived were also a lie.
I vividly remember these clips shown on UK television mid-March 2020 and then for a few days here in the States when I returned home right as Trump shutdown travel from Europe. What a flustercuck that was at the airport!
Those two videos, more than any other, lit the fuse of the lie that exploded around the world.
Filthy bastards, all of them!
I watched things unfold for the first month. After I saw that we weren’t dealing with the Andromeda Strain, I went back to living my life normally.
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