The South African doctor who discovered the Omicron variant said on Marr this morning that the U.K. may be panicking unnecessarily about the new Covid strain. Metro has more.
Dr Angelique Coetzee said that patients had been presenting with ‘extremely mild’ symptoms in her country, though the population there is significantly younger than in the UK.
The chair of the South African Medical Association suspects the variant is already widely in the UK but added she had not seen any confirmed cases admitted to hospital – adding that other colleagues had seen the “same picture”.
But other experts have disagreed with the characterisation of the variant, especially given the limited amount of data available.
It comes amid growing concern and new restrictions following the discovery of the strain, which experts fear may be able to evade vaccines and be more transmissible.
Those fears are yet to be confirmed, however.
She told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show she first encountered the variant in a man in his early 30s who presented with tiredness and a mild headache, but none of the usual coronavirus symptoms.
She said: “What we are seeing clinically in south Africa, and remember I’m at the epicentre – that’s where I’m practising – it’s extremely mild. For us, that’s mild cases.”
When asked if the UK was “panicking unnecessarily”, she said: “I think you already have it there in your country and you’re not knowing it, and I would say, yes, at this stage I would say definitely.
“Two weeks from now maybe we will say something different.”
She listed symptoms of Omicron as extreme tiredness, headaches and a scratchy cough – but not a loss of smell or taste.
“Your doctors might be more focussed on the Delta symptoms and missing this, because it is easy to miss this,” Dr Angelique added.
Worth reading in full.
So the symptoms are tiredness, headaches and a scratchy cough? Sounds a lot like a cold.
Watch the clip from Marr on Twitter here.
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Who named this variant? Are they unaware, or is it some kind of a joke on us that it’s an anagram of ‘moronic’?
The public aren’t panicking it’s SAGE Whiity and Boris panicking they were losing control over use we were not wearing masks not getting our jabs or isolating if tasting positive we were starting to think for ourselves and in SAGE land that is unacceptable
If Omicron is so dangerous, why has the Govt responded with measures about as effective as carrying a clove of garlick or administering leeches?
It’s obvious that this is a crisis manufactured to distract from sleaze, Peppa Pig and channel drownings.
This variant will be contained, Christmas saved and Mr Johnson will be caste as a hero – just like he was over the vaccination issue. If a plan works once use it again… and again… and again.
We see you.
So, a physician in Africa says she had patients with mild common cold symptoms that alarmed her that maybe it was a new Covid variant, and led to discovery of new variant . . . say what?!
They have never isolated Covid, but they can isolate new variants . . . say what?!
Within 3-4 days of discovery, they miraculously have a test to identify the new variant . . . say what?!
Not only do they have the new test for the new variant, they have it available all over the world . . . say what?!
Then, a plane leaves South Africa where all passengers were tested for Covid before boarding and were negative. The plane lands in Holland and 10% of the passengers miraculously have the Omicron variant (tests beat them there from South Africa). . . say what?!
Of course, by the time the plane landed, the world had also determined the Omicron variant is more infectious than other variants and was already spread to every corner of the globe; children particularly susceptible; and the vaccines does not provide protection against Omicron. Wow!!! Say what?!
Of course, the Pfarma companies… Read more »
How the f@ck does a doctor go from seeing a patient who clearly has a cold, to huge leap that it is a new variant of the most dangerous intelligent virus ever to grace the universe. This smells to the rotten core and I suspect its bullshit, just like everything else the government pedals regarding covid. FFS!
Sadly britain, on the verge of bankruptcy has been bought, threatened, both? Based on all the Covid data, nothing else makes sense. This is not about a virus. Please wake up.
MSM is trying to make fun of people wanting to protect themselves with cheap and proven drugs. Ivermectin has been FDA approved for human use since 1996. It also beats Pfizer’s new wonder drug hands down, and costs next to nothing. Ivermectin doesn’t make tons of money. So they know the Covid shot is on its final gasp, so they take it add something different to it, rebrand under another name and charge 20 times what they would for ivermectin. I cannot wrap my head around this nonsense. When I explain this to my relatives they label me as crazy and ask me if I know better than science. I don’t make up these information out of my ass. All this information is true and proven. For some people it is near impossible for them to wake up. They are comfortable in their clown world life. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
Extremely mild – as in non existent. More on the ground proof that this whole thing is a scam. Extremely mild – what kind of doctor ever uses that phrase to describe real ailments, let alone ones that are changing the course of the human race. People need to snap out of this, the whole thing is a scam. Covid is a psyop.
Its a psyop being conducted by true forces of evil, who rule the world via evil methods. They are also occultists, and they rub peoples noses in it because they let them get away with it so easily. If people are stupid enough to keep believing their tricks they will keep doing them. They tell you the truth in the films – “the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didnt exist”…….or something like that. This is part of the problem, people almost cannot fathom that true evil exists and is operating within their own government, even when its so obvious, they can never bring themselves to admit it, let alone confront it. And so it thrives, in the darkness, evil 101.
Here is a blatant example that Convid is a psyop being orchestrated by the powers of true evil who are laughing in everyones faces:
COVID-19 Predictive Programming at the 2012 Olympics in London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4aiScgSvCs
So is this how we have to live from now on? As soon as the government think a dangerous variant springs up, we have to resort to restrictions? Well fuck that. I’ll be living how I want to live!
May?????
Really, it would be more accurate to say is.
Could end up being a good thing then! Greater immunity gained with lower virulence? Most pertinent point is that covid is considered a respiratory virus and if it is mutating away from that then this is significant (consider the symptoms she explained) – it will be a significantly less of threat to the elderly and immunocompromised.
It’s November so time for those jumped up public health officials and their fellow travellers to discover a new variant so that they can cancel Christmas just to show how important they are. As with last year the new variant might be this and might be that but best to be cautious because no one ever died from following their advice.
It’s hard to say what Angelique Coetzee is up to, but if a union leader doesn’t have support from her members she’ll soon be out of a job, and the SAMA will be one of the strongest unions in South Africa, perhaps the strongest of all. (Cf. the BMA in Britain.)
She will also surely have enough information to be able to assess probabilities regarding what’s happening better than most of us. Big Pharma and Big Insurance don’t leave the bigwigs in the professional medical association out of the picture.
Perhaps she’s just helping the British government a bit by painting their action as excessively cautious, which at the moment is just what they want.
Her words such as “extremely” (two instances of that), “sudden”, “unusual” will have been carefully chosen.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/k45zrvEIYkLT/
The first in a series of videos of Dr. Mike Yeadon talking with Del Bigtree about the Covid-19 lies we’ve all been told.
https://odysee.com/@OracleFilms:1/RFK-Jr.-Milan-Rally-Speech_HD:4
Watch the full version of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s speech from Milan 13th November 2021
Gosh! When I was young I felt tired with not a mild but a bloody awful headache every Sunday morning. Was Omicron at large in the 70s?
My sense is that TPTB want to use this new scariest to ban the growing street protests
Same. I think the growing numbers and strength of the protests were getting a few of them a tad concerned. Time to predictably wheel out the next scariant in order to dampen the fires of rebellion.
Anyone who can’t suss out from the start that the narrative is profoundly ridiculous probably needs a bib, shouldn’t be trusted with a knife and fork.
Ruprecht?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKDX-qJaJ08
Not “may be” panicking, definitely panicking!!
I note that in news from Soweto it is stated that around 65% of those in ICU are unvaccinated. Given that around 75% of the population are unvaccinated this suggests that the vaccines are now offering little protection against hospitalisation.
This middle manager’s Friday hangover skive got well out of hand…
I’ve reached the point where frankly i don’t care about these articles that endlessly prove how incompetent or corrupt this government is anymore – there is now more than enough evidence out there to prove that the lockdown measures and the mask wearing and even the mass vaccination rollout was totally unneccessary and wrong – either by catastophic error or something much more sinister (I tend to sway towards panic, incompetence and politics but sometimes I find myself edging towards something more sinister going on because sometimes the insanity of the governments decision-making pushes you into that direction) – I mean this is a government that has thrown away billions in taxpayers money and prolonged what should have been a temporary problem that could have been all over within months – I mean they can pick and choose any of the worlds leading experts to assist them for much less than what they have splashed out on track and trace, furloe etc – but still they seem to listen to same few so-called ‘experts’who have been wrong on absolutely everything so far but lets face it these few appear to tell the government exactly what they want to hear which… Read more »
There are always two antagonistic factors in my head:
1). We can’t be alone. Most people must be hating this situation by now. They will rise up soon.
2). The propaganda is just relentless, and so many people are too scared, too stupid, or too indifferent to rise up.
In the end, there will be a coup. In the midst of this suffering, the numbers of opponents of the gov are increasing. All we can do is uphold the truth and refuse to comply, while remaining patient and alert. It is not easy, but there is no other way right now.
All it will take is a trickle of defectors from the ‘inside’. The facts will start gushing out, and the witless, enraged, masses will trample on their masters.
Just watch the backlash, soon(ish)!
We’ve been expecting the ‘tide to turn’ for months now.
It hasn’t.
That isn’t a reason to despair.It’s a reason to hang on grimly and never, never, never yield an inch of free territory, if only in our own minds.
The tide might not have turned but there definitely seems to be numerous ripples. If you can bear it just check out the best rated readers comments on the various Fear Porn articles in the Fail on Sunday online version. They are almost unanimously scathing as regards the governments response to the omnishambles variant.
Do not expect too much. 62% of Swiss just voted for vaxx passports.
Now you know how the sensible Spaniards felt in 1935. But the radical left did not stop pushing, and when the military coup came there were plenty who supported it.
When all the alternatives are bad, people choose bad options, perforce.
Of course, the problem with that is that you might stop some of the worst leftist insanities, but you probably won’t get your freedoms back.
Today in Spiegel (the German leftist magazine) I read that rejecting vaccines is all a far-right conspiracy to take over and destroy democracy. Oh the irony. But the huge problem is that you have millions of people who firmly believe this.
They’ve probably copied this more-or-less unchanged from something in the USA where people like to define democracy as rule of the democrats, because otherwise, it’s obviously just a republic.
The Asparagus (as some American newspaper once misnamed it due to confusing the German name with Der Spargel) used to be a decent, weekly periodical while Rudolf Augstein was still in charge (I used to be subscribed to it), afterwards, it progressively declined until I cancelled my subscription and finally, even stopped reading the free online version: Today, it’s nothing but US wokery rehashed, usually poorly adapted to German circumstances and very often, also poorly translated.
The very patronizing We are oh-so-wise and have to tell you feeble-minded underlings how you should see the world! style alone is intolerable. The intended audience is obviously a bunch of outwardly grown-up feelgood lefties with the intellectual capabilities of five year olds.
The truth is that the far-right competitors are of course rubbing their dirty paws while trying to undermine and utilize any dissent to their own benefit. But this clinging like shit to a shoe lies in their very nature – and they are not the ones who are creating all the opportunities.
I blame much of the Merkel politics for the ascend of far right in Germany and throughout Europe. This politics is keen to create a “controllable monster” which can then serve as a fake, powerless opposition to which the more extreme views within the ruling party are outsourced. And a convenient scapegoat on which to blame own failures, much like the imperialist collaborators were blamed in the Soviet bloc.
Of course, the solution cannot be to allow this Merkel-raised pet monster to come into power, as it would mean more of the same, just in much more extreme format. Just look how totalitarian minds of all sorts are jumping on the pandemic bandwagon while paying lip service to “the people”. The solution must be to reject both the monster AND the false friends who did everything to raise and feed it in hopes of their own political gains.
Who is this feared ‘far-right’? Define ‘far-right’ and then articulate why those you speak of fit the bill.
I don’t understand how this relates to my statement but I can assure you that the total contempt the German democrats have shown for their own, oh-so-precious constitution once it became feasible to throw so-called human rights overboard in (parts of) the USA has certainly caused me to change a couple of my opinions about said democrats most beloved enemies.
Well said – thank you.
The logic of this, if true, is that we should positively welcome the new variant and encourage it’s spread. If it takes over from variants which have greater symptoms, then the quicker it displaces Delta etc the better.
Besides, it will likely spread very quickly if it is that infectious, and any measures to delay it will have 0% effect or even spread it faster.
On the contrary, the ‘panic’ is necessary to keep things moving. Contrived panic at the top, real panic down below. Have we not sussed this out yet?
Destroy ordinary peoples lives, jobs, businesses, plans, hopes, dreams not to forget their basic freedoms that no government has the right to take, over a bit of fucking fatigue. Burn in Hell to all of the panic spreaders and fascist pigs pushing this scam.
The UK government, in persona, Boris ‘Hosenscheißer’ Johnson, was already needlessly panicking in March 2020, when they rushed to buy loads of never used ventilators and to erect emergency overflow hospitals nobody ever saw a need to use or even staff.
Yesterday’s announcement followed the meanwhile ‘classic’ pattern of a bunch of career civil servants wrongly calling themselves scientists ganging on poor, little Bojo with lots of wild scare stories about what they all don’t know and what thus could happen if … and so, poor little Bojo had to hold another emergency press conference detailling that population must urgently be terrorized with Corona politics again because there’s something career civil servants don’t know. They even recycled the S-gene dropout story from last year verbatim.
This was his last chance to at least become a second-class champion of the people and he blew it again. The ‘sovereign’ United Kingdom of London and Westminster plus some associated countryside of lesser importance is de facto ruled by some shady body of anonymous international experts in faking stats. For their’s is the kingdom, the power and absolutely no glory.
I was out chopping firewood this afternoon. Usually, if I meet a particularly tough bit, as I swing the mawl, I chant the an incarnation: “Blair” or “Cameron” or …. but now I have a new pantheon of names: “Whitty” or “Ferguson” or “Gates” ….
Oh, and the Omicron variant. I say: “Bring it on, muthaf**ker. My immune system gonna whip your skanky arse”. [*]
[*] Mixing English-English and US-English.
Are the Moronics panic buying bog rolls yet?
Only micro-rolls.
Why would any country from now on ever report a new “variant” – its economic self-harm. But I guess someone will do it for them
The bribes make it worth it.
Ooops!!! enjoy Christmas in South Africa
Cardiff hit by Covid-19 in South Africa – BBC Sport
By design!