Denmark has recorded just two cases of the Omicron variant so far, with the Netherlands reporting 13; both nations found that all carriers of the new variant recently arrived from southern Africa. The Dutch Health Minister said that he expects more cases to rapidly appear within the country, with the Danish health authorities also actively monitoring its spread. Meanwhile, the U.K. is introducing new measures to directly tackle the variant, whereas elsewhere in Europe, various nations imposed lockdown restrictions in response to a sharp increase in Covid cases before the Omicron variant landed on the Continent, and could expand the restrictions further still. The Express has the story.
With large parts of Europe, including Austria, Germany and potentially France, already vying to ramp up restrictions in response to a recent increase in non-Omicron Covid cases, eyes will now be on leaders to see how they choose to respond to the emerging variant. But numerous health officials have played down fears of the variant and two of the world’s largest Covid vaccine producers have said they will be able to “very quickly” update their jabs “if they need to”.
The latest European countries to report Omicron Covid variant infections are the Netherlands and Denmark.
Dutch health authorities announced that 13 cases of the variant were reported among passengers who arrived in Amsterdam on Friday on two flights from South Africa.
This was out of a total of 600 passengers, 61 of whom tested positive for Covid.
Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said: “It is not unlikely more cases will appear in the Netherlands.
This could possibly be the tip of the iceberg.”
Denmark also announced two cases of the variant on Sunday.
Both people who were found to have been infected by the variant had travelling from South Africa.
In response, Director of the State Serum Institute Henrik Ullum, quoted in Reuters, said: “This was to be expected, and our strategy is therefore to continue intensive monitoring of the infection in the country.”
Beyond Europe, health officials in Australia have reported two cases of the variant in people who had arrived in the country from southern Africa.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson led a press conference on Saturday afternoon after two Omicron cases were reported in Britain.
He said that “we simply don’t yet know enough” about the variant, but insisted that a “precautionary approach” must be taken against it.
This includes the reintroduction of face mask mandates and the tightening up of travel restrictions.
All people who travel to Britain must now self-isolate until a PCR tests shows they are Covid negative, even if they are displaying no Covid symptoms.
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I’m confused, how does 10% of people disembarking a flight test positive, they all caught in in mid air or the tests are bogus (pre-departure, post departure, or all of the above!)?
Yeah.. half a dozen PCR tested ‘cases’ in Botswana, and within the blink of an eye the West has declared a state of emergency and are locking down borders. You’ve got to hand it to these globalists they really have got a fair sized club of useful idiots to call on..
I don’t think you’re alone. It’s what the collapse of a narrative looks like.
Collapse of the narrative?
You must be joking.
NOTHING has made sense since April 2020 when it became very apparent that the covid death was somewhere around 0.2-0.3%.
Everything since then has been the Mad Hatters Tea Party.
The death rate is a bad flu if that but we act as if it were Ebola.
The PCR test is dodgy as hell but we act as if it were dead accurate
Masks don’t do jack but we act as if they are life saving devices
The jabs don’t stop infection or transmission but we have regulations treating the jabbed as not infectious.
The jabs produce terrible side effects at an unprecedented rate but everybody denies their existence.
Footballers collapse at an unprecedented rate and we are told it’s a coincidence.
Everything is mad. Completely mad.
And you think that a story of 10% testing positive on a flight is a sign of the collapse of the narrative?
It’s just more evidence that the perpetrators of this madness can say anything they want and no one will question them.
Collapse… I wish.
I understand your pessimism Stewart but I think patience is the key here.
When I was a sceptic back in March 2020 there were very few of us, but we’ve made slow, steady progress to grow into a sizeable force against behemothic state and MSM propaganda.
The reason it’s taking so long is that many have the same mindset as those who’ve experienced fraud: it’s absolutely clear what has happened but they simply do not want to believe it.
I would like to know what tests were done on departure and on arrival, does anyone know how they test for a variant ?
Hmmm
It’s that old magician’s trick, ‘make ’em watch this hand’.
Good grief. The script seems set in stone. It’s like watching a really, really bad play, over, and over, and over… We might even call it Groundhog Play.
So I guess the zero-covid fundamentalists have access to the levers of power and are winning after all.
Every now and then someone in authority will come out and offer some platitudes about living with the virus, that it’s endemic. But behind them there is a powerful interest group with an enormous amount of power that isn’t allowing a retreat.
It’s zero-covid whether we like it or not.
Didn’t the South African doctor who discovered the new variant say it was very mild? A bit like the common cold. Perhaps we should lock down every time we get a new common cold.
I was planning suicide last year. Wrote a will and it took months to get it done because covid. Sorted now. If we’re going to do this every year I’m going to opt out. Can’t cope with months of no human contact.
Same here. I’m not prepared to live like this either! I’be spent the past 18months waking up each morning wondering what the government is going to screw us over with. Last night just made feel even worse. Really don’t want to be alive right now.
I know what it is like to feel that way, but I promise you that there will be better times; for that to happen though we have to remain defiant in the face of adversity, stick together and keep trying to find ways of getting other people to see how absurd this all is.
Take a break from all media (inc here), get more exercise and learn something new. And if you need a friend, then reach out to the people on this website to see if there is somebody local who is up for a chat, walk, coffee or beer.
I was going to ask about this. What’s the best way for us to meet new friends locally? Many of us are desparate to meet like-minded people face-to-face.
The wonderful Unjected has a dating app, which is also good for making new friends, but most users are across the pond.
There is a meet fellow sceptics section on the forums. Put up a message.
Try stand-in-the-park.
Home – A Stand In The Park
They have a list of all stands and if you went along to your local stand, you’d hopefully meet up with some like minded local people.
It’s basically people who believe in freedom standing around on a Sunday morning.
Well for a start they shouldn’t exclude the vaxxed. There are people on this site who are vaxxed but still sceptical.
It’s hypocritical – albeit understandable – for us to persecute the vaxxed for their decision when we’re rightly complaining about being persecuted for ours.
Ultimately it’s a personal decision which shouldn’t be judged by others either way.
Yes, I would advise a break from the news, including this site. There is a lot of normal life out there.
I think they will try to put pressure on us this winter, so my plan is to get through to the spring. No one should make a drastic decision at this time of year, when it gets darker every day. Wait till the spring once things open out again. I do not believe they can keep this going much longer, I think by the spring there will be too many whistleblowers, their plans will be falling apart, and things will be getting better.
I understand how you feel but all is not lost. Have courage, find like-minded people to gather with. Don’t focus so much on this. Get a pet, go for a walk, pray. God is out there and he is listening to those who cry out to him for help. All the best.
No, don’t do it. Please find a group of like-minded people. They are out there. I agree we can’t live without human contact but it’s far better to find human contact than to end it all. I can personally say I’ve felt similar but my faith in God, church family, and the opposition group I gather with weekly give me hope and encouragement. You’re not as alone as you think, please don’t let despair win.
Strangely – or perhaps, typically – over the past two years, despite everything, I’ve not dallied with suicidal ideation.
Quite the opposite.
Per Lydon, ‘anger is an energy’ and, after 19 months of this endless, circular shit-show, mine is off the charts.
I want to see some people (if you can still call them people) suffer.
And I don’t give a damn.
Anger is an energy.
That’s a t-shirt.
My blood is also boiling, I cannot wait for some people to get their redemption and I for one want to be one of the ones dishing it out
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59450418 mandatory masks in shops again from Tuesday some 4 days after the two “cases” were first detected.
We’re doomed. Doomed, I tell thee. FFS
We know nothing, except that we must proceed with maximum tyranny, based on nothing more than our own fraudulent assertions about a novel virus, which is not noticeable in society and for which there is no true evidence, but which lives in the minds of the majority we have hypnotised, so we can do what we want, and they never figure it out, so we just keep rinsing and repeating the same tired old tricks, laughing in their faces all the way.
“Omicron Variant Spreads to Denmark And The Netherlands – And Could Lead to Restrictions Tightening in Europe”
Yada yada yada
Reuters reporting Japan is at 1% of its COVID peak cases and falling. India is at 3% of its peak and falling. What did these countries do? Ditch vaccine mandates for ivermectin. Since April 28, India medical officials started providing hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to its massive population. As India is the major pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world, they were ready for this massive drug distribution. MIRACULOUSLY!, COVID cases have plummeted quickly since then. Meanwhile, all “first world” countries in Europe are reporting a rise in cases. Get your ivermectin before it is too late https://ivmpharmacy.com
If the Omicron variant is named after a letter of the Greek alphabet, as the Alpha, Delta, etc. strains were then it’s roughly the 15th variant of interest/concern (I’m not all that familiar with the Greek alphabet). Given that very few of the other variants became widespread it seems very suspicious that there is such a panicked over reaction to this one. Possibly the people at the heart of the conspiracy/cock up felt that project fear was starting to loose it’s effect and needed ramping up.
…possibly?
335300+ mutations and only 15 variants? (ref HART)
Enough for NY State to declare a SoE with no prior known cases; what on earth would they do if a really infectious disease broke out?
A total load of nonsense. Please read anything by Steve Kirsch on sub stack. Avoid MSM written tv or radio.
It occurred to me yesterday that the symptoms of this new variant (fatigue and s mild cough for a day or two) are about as severe as the after-effects of having one of the Covid shots, which people are perfectly willing to accept…
A perverse incentive of mandating restrictions once more, trammelling freedoms and normalising even further restrictions is herding the intelligent into inaction by discussing this issue or that issue, or whether x% is not the true figure as it is out of date.
Stop it.
All you need to know is that if this is being driven by incompetence, out they go and if it’s being driven by an agenda, out they go. It’s out they go whatever the rhetoric. You know it’s all wrong. You know it’s all unethical. You *know* it will lead to more restrictions. You know the vaccine pass will be linked to your CO2 travel footprint and your bank account via CBDCs, with 4IR just around the corner and UBI. Do something about it.
I’m not sure that there’s much point in publishing verbatim rehearsals of MSM stories like this. WE know what the narrative is.
What needs more emphasis is facts exposing the bullshit of the cold that is the ‘Omicron variant’.
Or reading this and passing on:
https://doctors4covidethics.org/long-term-persistence-of-the-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-evidence-and-implications/