Posted on 12/12/2021 2:29:51 AM PST by Kaslin
Let me preface this by saying I am not a doctor. Far too many columnists and pundits like to make absolutist declarations, likely to (what they believe) make themselves look tough, about things they clearly have no expertise in, especially COVID. It probably works, gets them eyeballs and clicks, but it informs exactly no one. That being said, without making any declarations, I have some questions and speculations about the Omicron variant and, more importantly, what it means for the progress of the pandemic.
Naturally, leftists want to scare the hell out of you over Omicron. Fear is good for business – it brings in viewers, gets more clicks, and means more followers. So you can expect the type of hyperventilating coverage of Omicron and whatever comes next to continue. But what is the truth?
I haven’t seen a single report of anyone actually dying of Omicron. That’s incredible news, if it holds up, and we should all want it to hold up. The media has screamed about Omicron from the mountain tops, trying to scare the hell out of people, but is there anything to be concerned about? Not really, at least not yet.
Very few people, if any, have been hospitalized with it either. All testimonials from people who’ve had it include the word “mild.” This is cause for cautious optimism, if not outright celebration. That is not what we’re getting, we’re getting more mandates, etc.
So what’s going on? Not with the liberal politicians, they’re going to do whatever they can and have to in order to advance their agenda, but the virus itself?
Again, I’m not a doctor, but I do have a brain and common sense.
COVID 19 is not a human virus, it exists naturally in bats. Thanks to President Fauci and some of his cronies, and the Chinese communist government, it was changed to infect humans. But that is not its natural state, and whatever you do to nature, nature is always pushing to return to its natural state.
Clear up a patch of land and, eventually, nature will reclaim it. Same if you abandon a building. Dam a river and it’s a constant fight to maintain it. No matter what you do to nature, nature fights to get back to what it was.
When researchers created the human version of COVID 19 it was never meant to exist. The natural evolution of the virus may well have led to it being able to infect humans, but that was a long way off. So what they did to create it can’t hold. The evolution of the virus might be moving back toward where it was supposed to be naturally.
When COVID 19 was bouncing from bat to bat, its evolution was not fast because that’s where it belongs. That environment is where it is supposed to exist, there’s no need for it to evolve quickly because it thrives there in the way it exists to thrive.
In humans, the manufactured version doesn’t belong there. It can exist, thanks to Fauci’s money and Chinese tampering, but it’s not natural. Maybe Omicron is the virus reverting back toward, if not to, what it’s supposed to be?
The virus has obviously been in humans before, there are plenty of viruses out there that people get and easily defeat without even knowing it. Viruses that don’t impact humans are like putting a fish in beer – sure it’s liquid, but it can’t survive there. Perhaps COVID 19 is returning to what it was supposed to be? Or maybe its DNA simply can’t support what Fauci and his friends did to it for very long?
I don’t know this to be the case, but it’s possible. It could also be possible that the deadlier version of the virus kills off the host too effectively, or the symptoms are so bad people isolate, before they’d had a chance to infect others, so it’s fading as a dominant virus because of that.
Whatever the case, the news about Omicron has been good so far. I haven’t been able to find reports of a single death from it, and if there were any you know the media would hype it. It’s actually difficult to find anyone hospitalized from it. This is great news that should be greeted with optimistic caution, not more lockdowns, mandates, and everything else that never worked in the first place.
The problem with a perceived ‘weaker’ virus is the same as with Alpha compared to Delta - infection with last year’s less sticky Alpha, didn’t prevent some being infected with the more sticky Delta this year. And those infected by Delta have in turn been infected by even stickier Omi. A virus doesn’t care if it kills the host; viri have no brain and there is no virus leader to say, speed up or slow down. What matters is the extent of organ damage being done, silently or not, versus the ability of the body to mount a fast response, which is related to age group. If the fast response is hindered by immune -escape, whether one has a runny nose or not versus Delta is immaterial.
to quote from a Mirror article, “”Even if it is milder and, therefore, a smaller proportion of infected people end up in hospital, given that so many people are going to come across this virus, even a small proportion of a lot of people is a lot of people in hospital.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brits-will-exposed-omicron-coming-25671522
Just like every other year of my life, we have different variants of the flu. It’s the damn flu. After two years, round and round we go.
Be careful or the FReeper “doctors” are going to show up to correct you (”It’s NOT the flu!”).
To be factual and actually twist the knife a little, coronaviruses are actually the common cold. So yeah, it’s a bad cold.
The beauty of a milder version of covid though is that you might get the natural immunity even though you only got the milder virus.
One cautionary anecdote that was related to me of late was the phenomenon of “Chicken Pox Parties” they used to throw. Mothers would decide “Let’s get this over with before school” and let their kids be exposed.
Yet in this one incident, the children were instead exposed to meningitis and brought it home. Of the three children and mother, only one child survived but was so incapacitated they had to be committed to care for the rest of their known life.
Just a thought before anyone starts thinking like this. The left lies…
A natural vaccine.
Exactly. Now is the time to Omicron parties. Pass it around, get it over with, move on with life.
If I hadn’t already had covid, I’d be looking for someone to infect me.
Ummm - Omicron is Nature doing what it does to preserve life.
It’s milder so less folks are really sick and it builds natural immunity against the whole gamut of the “initial” and variants.
They originally told us that we would all get sick and their jabs were the only thing that could save us - if that were so, we would have died off a millennium or 10 ago.
See post #5 here: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4020441/posts?page=5#5
I have a buddy who’s a liberal and who’s a doctor who told me this exact thing last week.
Ya know, I wish that were true, but it's not. It is a bio-weapon. This virus was weaponized to attack humans in ways the common flu does not.
I often wonder why anti-parasitic meds act as a prophylaxis against this virus? HCQ, Ivermectin and Quercetin seem to help prevent and or reduce severity of the Covid virus.
If the typical Influenza virus behaved the same way, why then hasn't healthcare providers and researchers prescribed HCQ, zinc, D3 for folks during influenza seasons?
Is it truly because of profits for big Pharma?
If so, this would be immoral and evil.
All I can say is that I really don’t care what distinguishes Covid from the Flu. Whatever it is, or isn’t, I’m still not convinced that getting the vaccine is worthwhile for me.
The virus is similar to human coronaviruses (that cause about 15% of colds) but the symptoms are more like the flu. So...whichever. “Tylenol: Cold, Flu and Covid” will be on the shelves in a few years.
More fear porn based on speculation and hypotheticals.
Getting the vax is not the answer, as that causes plenty of it’s own problems. There’s basically no way to avoid getting sick in this world.
So you can speculate all you want about bad and negative outcomes, but for what?
If Omicron helps us achieve natural herd immunity sooner, then GRRRRREAT! (says Tony the Tiger)
Or is it just “Tony Tiger” as in “Smokey Bear” or should “Winnie the Pooh”, just be “Winnie Pooh”?
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