Posted on 12/02/2021 10:02:39 AM PST by House Atreides
Minnesota public health authorities confirmed Thursday what appears to be the second U.S. case of the omicron Covid variant in a resident who recently returned from New York City, the state’s department of health said.
The man, who was fully vaccinated and has since recovered, traveled to New York City to attend the Anime NYC 2021 convention at the Javits Center from Nov. 19-21, the department said in a statement. The first omicron case was confirmed in California by U.S. officials Wednesday in a person who recently returned to San Francisco from a trip to South Africa.
New York health officials haven’t yet confirmed any cases in the state, Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters at a press conference in Manhattan on Thursday .
NY Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said it’s just a matter of time before it’s confirmed somewhere in the state. “We now have an exposure we fully expect that it will be detected in coming days,” she said.
Hochul said conference attendees were required to get vaccinated, and she recommended that they all get tested. She said the Anime convention organizers have contact information for all attendees, so it will simplify contact tracing to monitor any potential outbreaks.
“Everyone had to be vaccinated in order to participate in the first place,” she said. “That’s why we anticipate if people who test positive, at least, based on this first individual, that the symptoms will be fairly minor.”…
…The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a statement Thursday, said it is working closely with public health authorities in Minnesota and New York City to investigate the latest confirmed omicron case. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the U.S. has expanded genomic sequence over the past nine months to identify new variants.
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But, they weren't masks and are Trump supporters!
Riiiiiiiiight.
“Omicron is very mild. So who cares it shows up?”
It may be the best thing to put COVID to bed, if it is safe (and it sure seems to be so far). It barely made a blip in hospitalizations, when it became the dominant strain in Johannesburg (in record time of under two weeks). It looks like it will sweep through much faster than earlier strains, including Delta.
Hopefully, it will impart strong immunity to COVID generally, like the earlier strains have done. If so, we will have herd immunity much, much quicker than with other variants and/or vaccines.
If a lot of Omicron folks are asymptomatic (as in the Botswana sample, where 16 out of 19 were), the main thing we might notice (besides frantic press coverage) is just a sudden drop in cases, as the remaining fuel is expended.
I’m more inclined to think of the ending of ‘War of The Worlds” - Cedric Hardwicke commentary:
“The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once they had breathed our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth.”
In this case - ‘Omicron’ is the variant that will give us all immunity. Natural progression of things has given reason to go back to the pre-covid normal. It’s over.
The question is - will governments, the WHO, CDC, and big pharma psycopaths shut down the machines?
How terrifying..... Are they dead yet?
Fear porn,
“Omicron is very mild. So who cares it shows up?”
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That’s today’s science, but today’s science will become old science when the new science shows up and new science may not have Omicron as being very mild, so we don’t really know that, do we?
“I’ve read elsewhere that sampling of new PCR positive test cases has been expanded to one out of every seven cases so Omicron spread should be rapidly detected domestically.”
So it will “blaze through the population”, “surge”, “run rampant” etc...
It’s the never-ending pandemic. I was told all the deaths were Donald Trump’s incompetence and Joe Biden was going to bring back normal. I guess a President doesn’t have a magic wand after all.
“What are the symptoms of Omicron?”
Really severe, comes on in a flash and you run around screaming, “OH MY CRON!” Then you pass out and when your cron hits the floor you’re dead!
“The question is - will governments, the WHO, CDC, and big pharma psycopaths shut down the machines?”
Did Dillinger stop robbing banks?
Omicron is very mild. So who cares it shows up?
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If Omicron is mild. I had the covid Feb 2020. Nov 20 I got sick with my 2nd horrible covid illness. I had a high fever for 9+ days. I was sick at the level of 9.5 out of 10. It was just as bad as the covid I had in 2020. If what I just had was the omicrom, we are screwed.
I thought I had natural immunities. Let’s see what happens in 3 weeks. I hope I’m wrong. This biological warfare pisses me off. I refused to go to the hospital, I would have died.
Well then, China will have to release a brand new bio-weapon if the Great Reset is to proceed apace!
You will not have had Omicron yet. It barely hit our shores.
Sorry to hear about your previous experiences!
Yeah, Chinese bio-war sucks.
It should be called “Commiecron”.
Buck it.
The man, who was fully vaccinated
the FVV - the Fully Vaccinated Variant strikes again...
Not even artful lies. Stupid, clumsy lies, easily discovered. An insult to our intelligence. You call that fear porn?
Worst was Foe saying, “if you listen to the news reports, all the shelves are bare. But the overwhelming majority of shelves are well stocked.” What if you go to a bucking store and look at the bucking shelves your own bucking self, foe? Ever do that?
In other news, a barnyard hen has discovered that the sky is falling! RUN!!!
Severe and prolonged loss of Constitutional rights.
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