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It was obvious soon enough with Delta. With Omicron it’s now absolutely undeniable. The pandemic is practically finished.
Cue panicked screaming from the mainstream media, medical bureaucrats and politicians.
Despite all the hysterical headlines, the evidence was pretty clear that the scary “Delta variant” was more virulent, but much less deadly than the initial variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. That goes in spades for Omicron, which is so much less deadly that not one person has died of it. (Britain claims one death “with” Omicron, but suspiciously refuses to release any details.)
You wouldn’t know it if you’ve only been listening to the mainstream media or your “sole source of truth”. If you were to believe them, Omicron is such an ominous threat that we must be muzzled and locked in our little fortresses all over again.
But while the lies of the Covidians are racing around the nation, the truth is slowly but surely putting its shoes on.
New data from Scotland and South Africa suggest people infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus are at markedly lower risk of hospitalization than those who contracted earlier versions of the virus, promising signs that vaccines remain effective at warding off severe illness with the fast-spreading strain.
That last assertion is particularly questionable: while Scotland may be vaxxed to the eyeballs, only about a quarter of South Africa’s population is vaccinated. So, if SA, the apparent epicentre of Omicron, shows notably fewer hospitalisations, that suggests that vaccines are not the critical difference.
The findings begin to fill in unknowns around the severity of the disease caused by Omicron, a major variable critical to health authorities around the world as they gauge how to react to the new variant.
Meaning: how can they spin this in order to keep the panic alive?
But, they’re slowly being dragged, kicking and screaming, into admitting the bitter (for them) truth: the pandemic is over.
“This is a qualified good news story,” said Jim McMenamin, incident director for Covid-19 at Public Health Scotland, and one of the authors of the Scottish study, at a briefing. “It’s important we don’t get ahead of ourselves. A smaller proportion of a much greater number of cases can still mean a substantial number of people that might experience severe Covid infections that could lead to hospitalization.” The University of Edinburgh study, drawing on the health records of 5.4 million people in Scotland, found the risk of hospitalization with Covid-19 was two-thirds lower with Omicron than with Delta. The new variant became dominant in Scotland last week.
A separate study published online by researchers at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases similarly found people infected with Omicron were 70% to 80% less likely to need hospital treatment than people infected with earlier variants, including Delta.
“In South Africa, this is the epidemiology. Omicron is behaving in a way that is less severe,” Professor Cheryl Cohen, who heads the institute’s center for respiratory diseases and meningitis, told reporters on a conference call.
Of course, there’s no show of “public health” authoritarianism without idiot Professor Punch.
“The overall picture we get of this virus as it moves through the community month by month and then eventually year by year will be a milder one. It doesn’t mean the virus necessarily is any fundamentally less virulent. It just means we have built up a lot more protection in the population,” said Neil Ferguson, a professor at Imperial College London who led the research.
Yes, well, you’ve fooled us one too many times, Ferguson. You may be able to fool the government, but the rest of us know that you’re a clueless cretin who has made a career out of pulling bogus “projections” out of your rear end.
As for the vaxholes demanding endless booster shots…
The Scottish study also found that a booster shot provides less additional protection against symptomatic infection from Omicron than against Delta.
The Australian
So, shove your boosters. Stick your masks and your computer models. Set us free.
For you, Ashley and Jacinda, ze pandemic is over.
