With Fauci, big government fanatics, Democrat officials, and the biopharma lobby all turning the Omicron (not to be confused with Xi as the WHO explained earlier) variant fearmongering to max, a few holdouts are still trying to maintain a lack of panic (even if that means less revenue for makers of Pfizer and Moderna megayachts).
One, as we noted last night, is Goldman which said that the bank has a “reasonable degree of confidence that this mutation is unlikely to be more malicious and that the existing vaccines will most likely continue to be effective.”
Then this morning, the Pretoria doctor who first sounded the alarm about the new strain and who is a Covid-19 adviser to the South Africa government said that symptoms linked to the omicron coronavirus variant have been mild so far.
Contrary to the panicmongering unleashed by western mainstream median, Barry Schoub, chairman of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines, told Sky News on Sunday that while South Africa, which first identified the new variant, currently has 3,220 people with the coronavirus infection overall and while the variant does appear to be spreading rapidly, there’s been no real uptick in hospitalizations
“The cases that have occurred so far have all been mild cases, mild-to-moderate cases, and that’s a good sign,” said Schoub, adding that it was still early days and nothing was certain yet.
Most importantly, and running counter to the fearmongering narrative being pumped out 24/7 by the mainstream media, Schoub said that the large number of mutations found in the omicron variant appears to destabilize the virus, which might make it less “fit” than the dominant delta strain.
While South Africa, where the Omicron strain first emerged in early November, has been hit with a number of travel bans from the U.K. and other nations, after its scientists found the mutated variant last week, since then a growing number of European countries, along with Australia, have also identified people infected with the variant.
“In a way, hopefully it won’t displace delta because delta we know responds very well to the vaccine,” he said.
At the same time, one could make the point that while Omicron could soon become the dominant strain due to its higher R-nought (or pace of transmission), that could be a blessing in disguise as it pushes out the much more dangerous (and more stable) delta strain.
It wasn’t just Schoub seeking to taper the fearmongering: Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, agreed with Schoub’s assesment calling symptoms associated with the variant at this point “different and so mild” compared with others she’d treated for the virus in recent months.
Coetzee, who first spotted what turned out to be the new variant, told the U.K. Telegraph that a number of healthy young men turned up at her clinic “feeling so tired.” About half were unvaccinated.
Speaking to the Telegraph, she said that “Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before,” Coetzee told The Telegraph.
Most of the patients who turned up to her clinic and have tested positive for COVID-19 felt tired. Other symptoms included sore muscles and a slight cough, Coetzee added to Sputnik.
“There are no prominent symptoms. Of those infected, some are currently being treated at home,” she said.
“What we are seeing clinically in South Africa and remember, I’m at the epicenter, that’s where I’m practicing, is extremely mild,” she said Sunday on the BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show.”
Speaking to the BBC, Coetzee said that doctors in the UK where panic over Omicron has exploded, “might be more focused on the Delta symptoms” and missing the much milder Omicron variant.
Even more remarkably, she said that “we haven’t admitted anyone” to the hospital with the new variant,” she said. “I spoke to other colleagues of mine, the same picture.”
Asked if authorities around the world were panicking unnecessarily, Coetzee said “yes, at this stage I would say definitely. Two weeks from now on maybe we will say something different.”
Of course, none of these actual facts matter to those dealing in propaganda, such as Anthony Fauci, who instead of hoping to ease public concerns, said that the omicron variant appears to be more transmissible, reinforcing the need for Americans to get vaccinations or booster shots.
Omicron “is a clarion call” for people to be vaccinated, said Biden’s top medical advisor on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Infections in the U.S. are already rising and stepped-up prevention with the emergence of the new variant will impact whether Americans are “headed into a bleak or bleaker winter,” he said, in a vivid example of what Coetzee dubbed “unnecessary panicking.”
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Not nearly so mild as the toasts that’ll line up to be milqued over it.
I know why, Sweetie. It’s about keeping the panic going, not about truth or safety.
Can’t shove socialism down the rube’s throats if they aren’t terrified.
Plus, Africa did not comply enough.
Channeling my inner Johanna Mason…
Schoub says variants arise in the unvaccinated. Of course, mutations occur randomly. A question is which environment better selects for variants – the vaccinated or the unvaccinated. He’s the virologist, but it seems to me – with no science education- that there’s less reason for virus mutations to be selected for in the immunologically naive. Mutations – especially in the spike protein – would be more likely to arise in the vaccinated with their partial immunity focused solely on spike. He spent years at NIH in Bethesda. No matter how smart, trained and experienced he is, he’s still susceptible to groupthink.
Any data that comes forth always leads to “get vaccinated”. Sorry, no. Not for something so benign to those under 60. Not when the vaccines are the most problematic ever. Not when long term and ancillary harms are unknown. And not when natural immunity of the recovered isn’t accounted for.
“Omicron ‘is a clarion call’ for people to be vaccinated,” said the Biden spokesidiot. Leaders all over the world are claiming the super mutation is super contagious. The UK Health Security Agency said the variant is “the worst one we’ve seen so far.” The Belgian Prime Minister asserted, “You could say that this is Covid-21 instead of Covid-19: it is three times more infectious than the original virus.”
They are clearly making it up. There is no possible way anyone can know about the virulence of a virus just discovered in the last week or two. Those with the most data on this so far are the South Africans. What do they say? “South Africa’s medical chief Dr. Angelique Coetzee described the panic as a ‘storm in a teacup,’ adding that she had only seen ‘very very mild cases’ of the variant so far.” Moreover, people who had close contact with the infectees “have no COVID-19 symptoms and have tested negative for COVID-19.”
Oh, and there’s this minor tidbit. The new mutation was “first discovered in four people who had received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.”
So, it’s all lies from governments worldwide. In other words, nothing’s changed, so carry on.
There’s always going to be new variants. Coronavirus is the common cold.
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Sometimes Stephanie you can be a pain but you are sure right about this.
Does not fit narrative. Boosters for all. You will DIE with out more boosters. Do it for the CHILDREN!!!!! of the elite.
mild? MILD???….They must be HUNG! Then KILLED in every way conceivable, Then drawn and quartered, then fired unless they beg for their 33rd booster.
When asked how she found it. She said I saw it floating on by and snatched it just like a fly. Of course, there is no test for this variant. The same as every other variant, and if they say you got it just trust them with all your heart and soul. Funny thing is Covid is everywhere, but they have never isolated it, and some say any other Virus. What they can’t find any. Jon Rappaport has some real good articles on how hokey vaccine science is.
Meanwhile the world medical association (whoever the fuck they are) is calling for lock downs, etc and saying this variant could be as bad as ebola. Will the lies never end?
What worries me about the Botswana strain, is that the WHO says it’s a mild strain and nothing to worry about.
Since they have been wrong about everything else about covid, so far.
I hope Schoub and Coetzee have their life insurance premiums paid up. I sense fatal automobiles accidents are in their future.
Oh my God,Oh my God!!!! He is a liar . I know with certainty that we will all be dead just after Christmas.Run and get your jab NOW.
It’s a brave new world because you have to be brave to live in it. Apparently to be human is a disease and to be healthy is an act of terrorism.
If it is super mild, then it needs to be banned at the border because mild, highly infectious viruses self-extinguish, while displacing more deadly less infectious variants (say, delta). If it is highly infectious and dangerous, it is a mainstream tool for pushing vaccination. If it is highly infectious, but of greater concern to kids, it is a tool for pushing child vaccinations. So there are a wide range of ways to play the new variant game.