Posted on 02/10/2023 9:10:57 PM PST by artichokegrower
Health officials are monitoring the emergence of a new COVID-19 strain that has become dominant in Los Angeles County in recent weeks.
The new strain, XBB.1.5, accounted for nearly 33% of COVID-19 tests in the county for the week of Jan. 21, outpacing the previously dominant strain, BQ.1.1, the Department of Public Health announced Friday.
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Of course!
“Cancel the three ring circus. Secure all animals in the Zoo!”
UK Gov’t confirms Covid19 harmless to VAST MAJORITY of people
May 11, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adj8MCsZKlg
Must be some excited leftist women hearing this.
Yes, of course.
Viruses mutate to become more virulent and less deadly.
And they do so rapidly.
Which is why, until now, no one has attempted to create a vaccination against the common cold.
Lock down the entire County of LA. Shut down the businesses and schools. Force people to strap on face masks and walk counter clockwise through the isles at China Mart.
Just in time for the virus spring fling....Lock down LA County before it spreads!
they gotta try to scare as many people as possible into gettign vaccinated and boosted before the public becomes aware of the fact that the vaccines do nothing for almost everyone except the elderly and sickly- and even then it’s highly debatable that it does much good- and likely will do harm-
How many confirmed deaths?
There is an Excess Death tracker for the US population, divided into age groups.
EDs are nearly 0 for younger ages as of now.
The elderly are still seeing substantial EDs and it is much more than substantial for 85+. They are showing EDs higher than last year at this time (and that still had Delta deaths as well as the new Omicron surge). The 85+ EDs are lower than 2020. And they are approximately equal to 2021 (same month/week).
When you go to examine it yourself, remember you must look back about 4-6 weeks for all the death numbers to trickle in.
Overall conclusion, the old are dying in far greater numbers than pre Covid. They are dying at lower numbers than 2020 (which was pre vax, so vax is not the cause).
We are not seeing the same surge in Covid deaths for this age group. They are not aligning with Excess Deaths.
The cause is likely what is happening in Japan and China. The mechanism of death for the current variant is not what it was for previous variants. The killing method is on organs other than lungs, and docs accustomed to seeing Covid kill with crashing blood oxygen levels are not labeling these other methods to be Covid.
That is speculative. The fundamental truth is 85+ people are still dying far above normal, though not quite as high as the pre vax initial alpha strain of 2020.
Build a wall around it.
Ping me when we get to the variant that turns us into Mole Men.
As a precaution can we send anyone back who left in the last 5 years. Ya know, if it saves one life.
Whatever the strain is doesn’t even matter any more. They have people working overtime to categorize a minor ailment. I am just now getting through my second round of COVID disease. I am medicating with Gin and Tonic, and taking vitamin Nyquil. First day, body aches and soreness, no fever. Second day, headache and dizziness, tired feeling, no fever. Third day, stuffy head, runny nose, no fever. Fourth day, coughing and sneezing, diarrhea, no fever. Tomorrow will be day five. I can’t wait!
If you are over 85, you are pretty much going to die pretty soon. There are no excess death statistics for that age group.
‘Viruses mutate to become more virulent and less deadly.’
I think you meant ‘more contagious’. Anyway I think the host changes and not the virus in many cases. The host gets herd immunity so the virus is less virulent.
When anthropologists or missionaries show up for the first time to some tribe, often many in the tribe will get severe disease from the strangers and die. The virus is still deadly to humans but not to the immune.
The jab has interfered with this and in not a good way.
Dang! I need more shots. And let me cover my breathing holes with bacteria-laden cloth.
Yeah. That’ll make everything OK.
Correction accepted; and for the rest, totally agreed!
The moral of the story is that lockdown, masking, and anti-social “distancing” weaken immune responses as with those isoloated tribes.
Most “exposures” make you stronger!
Hibernation is for groundhogs.
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