Posted on 12/04/2021 5:05:41 PM PST by BusterDog
its been around for a little bit now, shouldn’t the media be calling it the “deadly Omicron variant?” got to keep up the fear in government dependent crowd.
Where are all these loads of pony poop on necro-Omicron coming from?
The aborigines get their country back!
I’m so happy the USA funded gain-of-function studies in a Chinese lab.
Now we’ve got a virus that merges with other viruses to produce an even more virulent virus.
The men who decided to do this in the first place should get a reward. I’m thinking a necktie would be a nice reward.
Gain of function.
Fauci’s brainchild.
The Council of Covid Concern Trolls is very, very concerned.
It's been a week.
They'd best hold back on filling their drawers over "Omnicron", or they'll run out of adult diapers.
Made of braided nylon.
typical cherry-picking by taxpayer-funded, lockdown-loving ABC Australia.
meanwhile -
5 Dec: news.com.au: Omicron variant ‘may signal the end of Covid’, suggests South African health expert
The emergence of the new Omicron variant has sent chills around the world, but some experts believe there is cause for optimism.
by Sam Clench
“If, in the second and third wave, we’d seen these levels of positivity to tests conducted, we would have seen very significant hospital admissions, and we’re not seeing that,” he (Dr Richard Friedland is CEO of the Netcare Group, which operates South Africa’s largest private healthcare network, including more than 50 hospitals) said, as quoted by Bloomberg News.
“So I actually think there is a silver lining here, and this may signal the end of Covid-19, with it attenuating itself to such an extent that it is highly contagious but does not cause severe disease. That’s what happened with Spanish flu.”...
Dr Friedland made similarly hopeful remarks during an interview with South Africa’s 567AM radio earlier this week.
“If we can get a variant that overtakes Delta that doesn’t cause severe illness, I think we’ll be dealing with a flu-like pandemic,” he said.
“This is potentially the evolution of what we saw with the Spanish flu, that it eventually didn’t burn itself out, but it became a lot less virulent.”...
He is not alone in his cautious optimism. For example immunologist Shabir Madhi, an expert from South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand, told Nature he expected to see “a surge of cases” due to Omicron but an “unhinging of the case rate in the community compared to the hospitalisation rate”.
He said anecdotal evidence thus far indicated most breakthrough Omicron infectious result in only mild symptoms.
“For me, that is a positive signal,” he said...
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/omicron-variant-may-signal-the-end-of-covid-suggests-south-african-health-expert/news-story/9788a1687cfad162d4d18089aa952aff
meanwhile, Murdoch’s news.com.au demonizes the anti-vaccine mandaters. MSM totally downplayed yesterday’s protest mentioned below and called smaller group of pro-vax protesters anti-fascists, of course:
VIDEO: 2m22s: 5 Dec: news.com.au: Covid-19 protesters set to descend on Ballarat to claim Eureka flag at wild Sunday protest
Thousands of protesters are forming a convoy and threatening to swarm a regional Victorian city, in a shocking new move.
by Anthony Piovesan
The Ballarat protest comes after tens of thousands of protesters swarmed Melbourne’s CBD on Saturday, calling for “power to the people” and “freedom of choice” over vaccination mandates...
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/covid19-protesters-set-to-descend-on-ballarat-to-claim-eureka-flag-at-wild-sunday-protest/news-story/c0d4d07f3a1daa4b9e71eac8981562c1
We should start rating these virus fear porn stories by creating and using a YAWN index.
The Australian doctor is simply hypothesizing that Omicron is a recombinant of Alpha and Delta.
More likely the mutated virus has picked up some genetic material from common cold viruses:
The more we see of this virus and its offshoots, the more convinced I am that this all comes out of the Wuhan bio-warfare labs. This a planned attack on the free world. Just look what it has done.
Except for China, every nation is suffering economically, culturally and militarily. One nation is thriving, especially militarily - China. They want to be the only super power and dominate the world. How successful have they been?? I ask you!!!
Alpha Omega,of course
Ohmygawww, we awwgonna dieeee.
And so the “vaccines “ did nothing? Daily boosters next.
“The aborigines get their country back!”
*****
The time has come
A fact’s a fact
It belongs to them
Let’s give it back
yet another update, with no further detail re the four “foreign nationals”:
4 Dec: Voice of America: To Reveal or Not To Reveal Omicron Origins, Botswana’s Dilemma
President Mokgweetsi Masisi, in an interview with CNN Thursday, said the variant was detected in diplomats who visited Botswana but had passed through Europe.
“The diplomats came from a number of countries, their countries of origin, their countries of work station, and they passed through a number of countries to get to Botswana,” Masisi said. “Yes, some have been to Europe and some have been elsewhere. It would seem the very creation of this new virus is a result of intervention from a diversity of sources.”
But some scientists, including South African-based Richard Lessells, who was part of the team that discovered the new variant, say it is key to tracing the origins of the variant.
They argue, one key way out of a variant puzzle is to trace genetic origins, which is why it is matters to know where omicron originated.
Trevor Bedford, a computational virologist and professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the U.S. city of Seattle, is also involved in researching omicron’s origins.
He told U.S.-based National Public Radio that identifying the source of the virus would help scientists assess the potential threat of the variant through educated guesses.
For instance, he says, if omicron had been evolving out of sight in a large population of humans over a period of months, it could suggest the variant is less transmissible.
But Botswana Minister of Health Edwin Dikoloti says tracing the variant’s origins will only stigmatize the country where it is traced.
“Where the virus originates from is not important. We are not going to be geo-politicizing this virus,” Dikoloti said. “What is important is to applaud our scientists, who have discovered or found this virus to make the world aware of it so that we can act quicker to reduce transmission.”
Dikoloti says Botswana will not disclose the nationalities of the four diplomats and their countries of origin...
President Masisi describes the ban on mostly visitors from southern Africa as divisive.
“Even if they did not originate in Europe, I make no sense of these travel bans. These travel bans, if I were to be more candid, are nothing but a manifestation of neo-imperialist thinking,” Masisi said. “These travel bans, if I can be very direct, are very paternalizing and very divisive, and they undermine our belief systems in multilateralism. They question our confidence in proclaimed addiction to principles of human rights.”
While the new variant is said to be highly infectious, in Botswana, with a population of about 2.4 million people, the infection rate has been rather slow, with only 24 reported cases, all of them with mild symptoms.
While Botswana maintains it is not important to report the place of discovery of the omicron variant, scientists like Bedford and Lessells argue it is critical to find out where it came from in order help fight it.
https://www.voanews.com/a/to-reveal-or-not-to-reveal-omicron-origins-botswana-s-dilemma/6339516.html
The ChiComs did their work well. Feels like living in the first chapter of Philip Nowlan’s Buck Rogers only with bio weapons not disintegrator rays .
“The more we see of this virus and its offshoots, the more convinced I am that this all comes out of the Wuhan bio-warfare labs. This a planned attack on the free world. Just look what it has done.”
*****
With Americans involved in it. Maybe it was their idea. Was it official? Did “we” do this?
It could have sex with a horse and become a galloping pandemic that tramples us all. Or not, as the case may be.
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