Guest Post by Alex Berenson
It is what happens when Omicron hits a highly vaccinated population with little preexisting natural immunity; the early returns are not promising
Australia has deported Novak Djokovic for the crime of being unvaccinated.
Sending the world’s top tennis player home may make the Karens of the South feel better. Too bad it won’t solve their Omicron crisis.
Australia now averages more than 100,000 new Covid cases per day – equal to about 1.5 million in the United States. One fine day last week, it reported 175,000, the equivalent of about 2.5 million, maybe the highest per-capita total any country has ever reported.
Not even six months ago, Australia was still chasing zero Covid and patting itself on the back for “Doughnut Days” – with no new Covid infections. (Because a doughnut is shaped like a zero, see?)
Yeah, about that:
By the way, Australia is among the world’s most Covid vaccinated counties.
Its policy of open coercion and discrimination against the unvaccinated has “succeeded” – more than 95 percent of Australians 16 and over have received at least one vaccine dose, and 93 percent two doses. Those figures effectively represent full vaccination – many of the people left are probably simply too frail to tolerate Covid vaccines.
Yet, as this headline explains:
Deaths are still relatively low by American standards. But they have risen sixfold in the last two weeks and are now at their highest level ever, equal to almost 700 deaths in the United States a day.
The trend adds to other worrisome signs about Omicron in highly vaccinated countries.
At this point two facts about Omicron are near-certain:
1: Vaccinated people are at HIGHER risk of being infected with Omicron than the unvaccinated (and whatever protection boosters offer does not last). In Scotland, another highly vaccinated country, vaccinated people are more than twice as likely to be infected as the unvaccinated – and people who have received a booster are 30 percent more likely.
SOURCE: https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/11089/22-01-12-covid19-winter_publication_report.pdf
2: Omicron is less dangerous than earlier variants.
But how much less dangerous is not entirely clear, because infections have risen so fast that hospitalizations and deaths are still catching up. In South Africa, the first country to see an Omicron spike, deaths from Omicron didn’t peak until Jan. 11 – almost four weeks after infections peaked. In Britain, infections peaked 10 days ago, but deaths are still soaring; they have tripled since late December.
Unfortunately, at this point we still do not know how those two facts interact.
In other words, if you are vaccinated and infected with Omicron, will your risk of being hospitalized or dying the same, higher, or lower than someone who is infected but unvaccinated? Remember, because their risk of infection is higher, a vaccinated person will need to have substantial post-infection protection to have an overall lower risk of serious outcomes.
In other words, vaccinations will only help and not hurt against hospitalization or death from Omicron if they somehow substantially reduce the risk of getting very sick even though they substantially increase the risk of infection.
Is that tightrope even biologically possible? Sure, it’s possible. The vaccine advocates have lately been writing stories about T-cell protection. But possible doesn’t mean plausible. In reality the vaccines do little to drive broad B- or T-cell responses – and that fact was known before Omicron.
Further, the British data (which is far better and more honest than American data) make clear that throughout the fall, vaccinated people made up the vast majority of deaths from the Delta variant in the United Kingdom. That’s the truth, despite the efforts to “age-adjust” (but not comorbidity adjust) it away.
Australia is now offering similar numbers. Its most populated province just reported that in the week ended Jan. 1, 12 people who died of Covid were fully vaccinated, compared to only four who were unvaccinated (four others were partially vaccinated or had an undetermined status).
SOURCE: health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/covid-19-surveillance-report-20220113.pdf
Again, we are too new to Omicron to know for sure whether vaccine protection against serious disease has gone negative. The question will be very complicated epidemiologically (good news for the vaccine companies) and most scientists will not want to touch it (even better news for them).
But it will be very hard to hide the reality in Australia, with a nearly totally vaccinated population that has no preexisting immunity.
Deporting the world’s best tennis player will do nothing to change that fact.
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it appears that video is from 2020… according to the fact checkers on twitter.. FWIW.
RiNS,
Both sides of this debate are using falsities. Fo sho.
Unbelievable. New peaks of dystopia happening every day.
“Deaths are still relatively low by American standards.” Did they not get the memo that all deaths are covid deaths?
Australians would argue that their harsh lockdowns and vaccines mandates held Covid Classic at bay until Covid Lite came along. And they may be right in that. We’ll have to assess all-cause mortality after 10-20 years to see whether other illnesses and cancers arose due to a vaccine-suppressed immune system. It’s likely that the Great Barrington proposal of vaccinate the elderly (who wanted it) don’t mandate anything and leave the children the fuck alone would have been the best policy. Then there’s the issue of destroying all civil liberties and looking like a bunch of pussies.
ENGLAND. new information coming out about injection
Look up on Odysee. Vax to be Pulled UK? Jan 16 2022
This Spring I’m getting together with my Aussie daughter and her family for a vacation in Hawaii. I can’t wait to ask them how they like living in a totalitarian country. I figure that question will gain me a week of peace of quiet from my liberal family.
Um…how do YOU like living in a totalitarian country?
https://www.travelpulse.com/news/destinations/hawaii-to-require-booster-shot-to-be-considered-fully-vaccinated.html
You got that right. There are just different degrees. Some states are still free, I think. Off to Florida next week. First time traveling to the covid states of America from AK since the plandemic started.
Have fun in FL. I’m thinking about going there myself. I will only drive though, but I’m closer than you are.
Well, shit on me. No booster means aloha to the aloha state. Damn, I was so looking forward to bugging my Aussie family about their concentration, if mean, quarantine camps and other Nazi-like approaches to government by the people.
Sorry for the bad news. Maybe you can drive to Florida instead?
Sorry to hear about that. It’s always nice to see family, even if they are libtards.
Are you jabbed and boosted? I thought I heard Hawaii was now demanding all visitors be ‘up to date’ with all death jabs.
Under duress I got the Moderna double jab so I could see my Canadian son after two years. But no boosters will enter my body. I’ve sacrificed enough already for this bullshit.
Check out these enzymes for Un clotting. lumbroinase and serrapeptase. There was a detailed article on Lew Rockwell about them a few days ago.
The Cases!
OMG! The cases!!!!!!!!1
Thank you Alex for the Aussie report. Only time will tell with the overall death stats. Deporting tennis player won’t matter. Trying to mine truth from Aussie stats won’t matter either–they gave away their freedoms and guns and now seem proud to be worlds permanent continental penal colony. May God have mercy on most of them.
It looks like the Sepos will have to quarantine the Vaccinated.
Letting the unvaccinated and the heads of state who received the saline shot to go free.
Are these deaths and hospitalization due to ADE?
My best friend just survived covid. His fever got as high as 99.4. Sniffles. Body aches. Took tylenol and chicken soup. Woop de frikkin doo.
Obviously a domestic terrorist for not dying for his country. LOL
All you need to know is that a respiratory “virus” whose typical spread is during winter months when vitamin D levels are typically low, is running rampant in Australia in the middle of summer, and similar spikes were seen in the “vaccinated” northern hemisphere nations last summer. The plannedemic is the jab and the jab is the plannedemic.
From no covid cases to 100,000 a day. Some new world order puppets will get an extra doggy biscuit for that.
I don’t know if you shop Walmart but I noticed this week that the vitamins are disappearing.
Actually, boostered are four or more times more likely to get Omicron…
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/preliminary-uk-data-triple-vaccinated
…and from what I’m seeing daily, most people testing positive with it, even the very elderly, have few if any symptoms
Just saw two little old ladies today, both asked me “Why do I have to stay in my room, I’m not sick”.