Posted on 01/07/2022 10:13:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
We’ve known for some time now that the omicron variant of COVID-19, which is driving the current surge in coronavirus cases, is more transmissible but less deadly than past variants.
Recent studies have shown, for example, that while previous variants heavily attacked the lungs, omicron is far milder, mostly infecting the upper airways and not deep lung tissue.
Not that that stopped the usual suspects from pressing the panic button.
But evidence continues to grow that omicron is a signal that the worst of the pandemic is over. Scientists are now saying omicron appears to have a death rate 100 times less than that of the delta variant.
“Covid killed one in 33 people who tested positive at the peak of the devastating second wave last January, compared to just one in 670 now,” according to analysis from the Daily Mail. “But experts believe the figure could be even lower because of Omicron” — and likely less than the case fatality rate of the seasonal flu, which is one in 1,000.
The World Health Organization, however, argues there still isn’t enough data to say with confidence that omicron is less severe than previous variants.
The Daily Mail‘s analysis, however, is supported by modeling done by researchers at Washington University, which suggests that omicron may kill between 97 and 99 percent fewer people than the delta variant.
Health officials in the United Kingdom estimated that the infection fatality rate of COVID before omicron was 0.25 percent, which is down from 1.5 percent before the availability of the vaccines.
If that’s the case, then the infection fatality rate of omicron could be as low as 0.0025 percent, or one in 40,000. However, the modeling from Washington University suggests that it’s closer to 0.07 percent, or roughly one in 1,430 —
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The seasonal flu has been a part of our lives forever. But the seasonal flu didn’t compel us to wear masks in public or in schools, require vaccinations, or shut down businesses.
The only counter argument I can think of is Omicron is more transmissible than the Flu.
I’m going with 0.
Currently, the fire department that I retired from has the highest number of people off sick in its history. They are basically all off with Omicron and none of them are seriously ill or even pretending to be seriously ill. The good thing is that the department was unable to fire all the unvaccinated people as they had planned to do. Strangely, none of the unvaccinated that I am aware of are ill, and all are being forced to work mandatory overtime to cover for the sick vaccinated people.
Yet the unvaccinated are still being told that they will be fired as soon as the crisis has ended. This is because of an order from our genius Governor Dimsley, a person so stupid and disgusting that he shouldn’t be allowed to sweep the floors at a fire station. Yet he is ending the careers of people who have worked for decades and have natural immunity that is giving them much better protection against new forms of Covid than the vaccines.
RE: This is because of an order from our genius Governor Dimsley, a person so stupid and disgusting that he shouldn’t be allowed to sweep the floors at a fire station.
Who on earth is governor Dimsley?
This is all part of the scam people. It is not possible.
Dimsley is the nick name of Governor Jay Inslee of Washington State. This came about long before Covid.
Local, state, and federal agencies establish the number from a representative sample that or DNA tested, or they announce whatever they feel like depending on how well the numbers fit the current narrative.
Yes. Meanwhile, 8 of 9 UC campuses are “starting remote” for Spring semester, while about 10 of the 30 Cal State campuses are.
My son’s Cal State campus, all credit to them, is standing firm and starting Spring semester in person. Thank God.
These kids have done everything asked of them: vaxxed, boosted, tested, masked. . .they deserve an excellent in-person education.
Omicron is such BS (I had it last week).
It's methods strike me as entirely haphazard, and I think the CDC supplies it with data and then uses Worldometer as a 'unbiased source' to then base its own statements about the overtaxxed medical system (circular reporting).
Here are two examples of the overall inaccurate plandemic reporting 'system'.
The actual death rate from Covid is WAY less than many people think, too.
Unbelievable. The unvaxxed FFs are putting in long hours filling in for the vaxxed FFs now sick. And, in the end, their reward will be “you’re fired”?
I’d just quit now, when it hurts them (unless it would endanger a wrongful termination lawsuit) instead of collaborating with them in screwing me.
“These kids have done everything asked of them…”
…good for them! Maybe now they’ve learned that this isn’t how you deal with tyrannical a-holes.
Yep
It’s dropped to way less than the seasonal Flu - and they continue to push the terror tactics that have mentally imbalanced a LOT of people.
Local Health Food place (single owner) was demanding masks until he realized he couldn’t stay in business like that because most of us Mississippians decided “fuck the masks” long ago.
These days, he will have unmasked customers in the place while he still guards the door with his mask from cheek bones to Adam’s apple and he asks everyone entering, “Are you healthy today?”
A recent article called it a mental illness and they are 100% correct.
trebb wrote:
“Yep
It’s dropped to way less than the seasonal Flu - and they continue to push the terror tactics that have mentally imbalanced a LOT of people.
Local Health Food place (single owner) was demanding masks until he realized he couldn’t stay in business like that because most of us Mississippians decided “**** the masks” long ago.
These days, he will have unmasked customers in the place while he still guards the door with his mask from cheek bones to Adam’s apple and he asks everyone entering, “Are you healthy today?”
A recent article called it a mental illness and they are 100% correct.”
We in Texas ditched the masks also; the only place that uses them consistently are medical facilities.
Yep, that has been the plight of firefighters, police, doctors, nurses and other health care workers and providers all over the country who already have natural immunity from caring for the sick and dying for the past two years.
The Democrats demand complete and total compliance anywhere they have control. Most of the public in these places could care less because they have lost all of their reasoning ability because they are scared witless mostly by the media. You would not believe the doom and gloom that we have on local television. Look what is happening in Australia. We have places in this country that are not far behind.
Tyranny has found an effective tool that is being used to force itself on the public in supposedly free places all across the world. The tool being used currently is a variant of the common cold. It is not a highly mutated version of last year's engineered version of Covid 19. It is just a version of the common cold that causes error prone PCR tests to come back positive. If people's lives and careers were not being destroyed by the power-hungry idiots in charge it would actually be funny.
They are already saying that the only way to save the world from the other imaginary bogey man, nearly nonexistent cyclic global warming... is by taking away freedom from everyone other than the ruling class.
Agreed. The only media citation - unless I missed something - was the one case in Texas...and that was debunked by the hospital itself.
The silence on Omicron deaths is deafening.
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