The World Health Organisation (WHO) has demanded that nations drop their knee-jerk international travel restrictions after reports from South Africa indicate that the Omicron variant is mild and is not more lethal than the Delta variant. In addition, South Africa has not experienced an increase in Covid deaths since the discovery of the new variant, with patients expressing only mild symptoms. City A.M. has the story.
The WHO and Covid experts are increasingly convinced the new Omicron variant is ‘super mild’ and has, so far, not led to a jump in Covid death rates anywhere in Southern Africa.
The WHO is calling this morning for countries to drop travel restrictions and end the mass hysteria, and instead be cautiously optimistic as more and more reports out of South Africa suggest the new Omicron variant is not more lethal than the previous Delta variant.
In fact, there have been no reports of hospitalisations or deaths as a result of anyone being diagnosed with Omicron.
Most patients merely experience a severe headache, nausea, dizziness and a high pulse rate, according to hospitals and medics across Southern Africa.
However, the news of the new variant, first reported in South Africa, led to mass hysteria around the world: markets thumbed and dozens of countries imposed travel restrictions and additional checks, including the U.K., U.S., E.U., Israel, Australia and Japan after the new mutation popped up in the U.K., Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and Israel among other countries.
Dr. Angelique Coetzee, Chair of the South African Medical Association, said this reaction was “medically seen, not justified”.
A GP for over three decades, and chair of the South African Medical Association, she was the first African doctor to suggest to local authorities Covid had mutated into a new strain.
Coetzee called the response from many European countries, including the U.K., “just a hype”.
“Looking at the mildness of the symptoms we are seeing, currently there is no reason for panicking as we don’t see any severely ill patients.”
South Africa’s Health Minister Joe Phaahla also said the majority of cases of Omicron seen by doctors in his country have been “mild”.
Asked what he knows about how unwell people are who have it, Dr. Phaahla said: “It is still too early at this stage.”
He added he has heard from GPs that the “majority of the people they’ve been seeing are mild”.
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The increased restrictions imposed in England after the arrival of omicron has nothing to do with health and everything to do with a) the so called experts realising that once again they could get their hands round our throats, and b) the utter ignorance and stupidity of Javid and Johnson who have once again kow towed to people like Michie, Ferguson and Vallance. I am triple jabbed, so why the hell should I wear a face mask again? If it is needed, what does that say about all the pressure to get vaccinated? It is merely another attempt to terrorise the sheep and exert complete control over the smallest aspects of our daily lives. Cancel parties? Stop socialising? We’ve been there and got the mental and public health problems to show for it. Johnson needs to open us up fully and tell the “experts” to go to the hell to which their failed policies have confined us for most of the last 22 months
This is where we need Corporal Jones’ “Don’t Panic!”
Have just emailed the article quote block, suitably highlighted, to my (Conservative) MP, suggesting they get a new, rational leader.
The South Africans discovered the variant. There was no panic. When it got going, panic spread like a virus
But where did the panic start?
Sadly, if you trace it back, the worldwide panic started with Boris Johnsons press conference.
The quacks around Boris gave the wrong advice, but it was his decision.
Obviously – in an uncensored environment, this is a major news story. No ifs or buts – complete contradiction of government action.
I am one of the many who steers clear of BBC News. But did they report this overturning of the narrative – it’s a good bit of litmus paper.
The interesting question is why the WHO is changing its usual tune?
Could it be that nations in Africa who know that the Covid nonsense is just a damaging myth are beginning to flex muscle?
Well, WHO’D have thought it, some truth coming out. What’s the bets she will be silenced?
Science fraud detective warns her discovery of thousands of cases of data manipulation is ‘tip of the iceberg’ (msn.com)
GPs in South Africa are seeing people? People with Covid?
Much of the hysteria here must be laid at the door of the BMA and its milking the crisis for political and financial gain. The disappearance of GPs into what amounts to a paid, two year strike is overwhelming A&E departments and the ambulance service. Their refusal to take part in the ‘booster’ programme, not for the sake of patients with other illnesses, but because they wanted more money for it, means that a lot of older people, who do not have smartphones or broadband, have not been for them. In my town the closed surgery has a sign on the door telling people to go to the cattle market!
Yep: being a doctor used to be a vocation, now it is a vacation!
I like that – genius!
Be careful of tarring all GPs with the same brush. There are posters here who have emphasized that their practise has resisted, and my personal experience is of a practise that is now operating pretty efficiently.
“Mild” and “end the hysteria” doesn’t suit the Agenda of the Globalists, SAGE ….. or the f’wit Johnson.
Are the W.H.O. developing a conscience?
They should save their hysteria for the real problem on the horizon. Total failure of the gene therapy. Policy makers need to stop getting drunk and start doing some reading.
“The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is increasing”November 19, 2021
The Lancet
“High COVID-19 vaccination rates were expected to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in populations by reducing the number of possible sources for transmission and thereby to reduce the burden of COVID-19 disease. Recent data, however, indicate that the epidemiological relevance of COVID-19 vaccinated individuals is increasing.
In the UK it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index cases (25% for vaccinated vs 23% for unvaccinated). 12 of 31 infections in fully vaccinated household contacts (39%) arose from fully vaccinated epidemiologically linked index cases. Peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status or variant type [[1]].
In Germany, the rate of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among the fully vaccinated (“breakthrough infections”) is reported weekly since 21. July 2021 and was 16.9% at that time among patients of 60 years and older [[2]]. This proportion is increasing week by week and was 58.9%… Read more »
My brain is getting very fuzzy.
Didn’t the WHO, more precisely the WHAT on earth, say something completely different only two days ago
And our money as taxpayers goes to support these charlatans
The WHO seeing the writing on the wall – the “pandemic” is over – and manoeuvring itself so the blame doesn’t head its way?
I wish.
I was just reading/seeing further down the comments about boosters every 3 months, according to Jabbit. The hysteria about omicron and the urgency perceived by the effing NHS means that the drive to now give everyone a booster indicates that other services may suffer, especially GP services (the government have apparently stated this). Well, GP services couldn’t get any worse anyway, and if all our medical services spend all their time jabbing 70 million people every 3 months, exactly what other medical work is going to be done?
Having become totally jaundiced and cynical about what is actually going on, I think this is all part of the plan to thin down the population. People unable to get treatment will be passed off as legitimate collateral damage. All those killed by the vaccine will be ‘victims of omicron’. I can’t work out yet though why the government wants to replace the population with fit young men who arrive illegally by boat (said only partly in jest).
What’s the cost of boosters for ‘ever’?
My back of a fag packet figure is nearly £10 bn per yr.
We can’t afford it. It makes no economic sense.
They will make us pay for it ourselves!
Not to mention ‘admin’ costs!
where is this published in the WHO website? the link only goes to City AM. not the most reputable of sources for me to go printing all over shoddy MSM comment sections!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465992238689923081.html
Analysis of FDA documents released on Pfizer trial. Pretty shocking and impossible to understand how they could authorise the use of this.
Looking at the amount of AE’s recorded for the 42,000+ is jaw dropping.
Whats worse, out of the recorded AE about 1:37 is death. That is isane.
The FDA admits these are only recorded AE that are considered above mild. There was so much more that wasn’t released.
If Pfizer are seen to have fraudulently obtained approval, all of their “no liability” clauses with governments will be legally null and void, I suspect.
If their management think that politicians are going to take the rap under these circumstances I think they are being very naïve.
If I was a lot younger, not 68, I’d do a law degree. It looks like a job with a big future.
Likewise, it clearly pays better than IT, and they haven’t outsourced law to India. Well not yet.
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
Off subject but something to bear in mind is that Bill Gates funds The Guardian with $5 million. It makes interesting reading looking for the other things he funds.
That would be loose change for Bill. He’s probably got a favourite ’cause’ in every country.
Yes, that is true, but the entire agenda is being driven by the Left as is Climate Change crap. Ever noticed the Covidians are almost exclusively Climate nutters as well?
The save the environment kooks who, before the advent of the virus, decried the use of plastic straws, are more than happy to litter the planet with covid waste: masks, ppe, plexiglass, gloves, swabs….
The Telegraph got about $2 million from him a few years back, ISTR.
I wonder how much positive news coverage that buys you these days.
Which is probably why you can’t comment on any article that Paul Nuki writes, funny that!
Indeed. ‘Follow the money’ still holds good.
Of course, the ‘Left’ controls all the big money like the banks and the ‘Foundations’ and Hedge Funds. 🙂
Someone at WHO wants a mask free Christmas.
Amusing when it was the WHO pandering to China and refusing to recommend travel bans that allowed SARs2 to take over the world in the first place.
They maybe right THIS time – but its a complete accident.
Possibly an animal origin for Moronic, sorry ‘Omicron’, which could explain the many differences from Delta
https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1465822536629821442
New income stream there – vaccines for bonzo and kitty!
Good old Shagger. He just can’t help himself:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/01/covid-19-variants-omicron-may-not-evolve-less-danger-time-nervtag-uk
Starting the legwork for ensuring that mask mandates et al won’t be lifted in three weeks by claiming that Sars-CoV2 is the virus which just keeps getting ever more deadly. As we all know, propaganda targetted against the unvaccinated had to be stopped months ago as they all died.
I’m not usually given to violence (unless attacked) but beating this guy up until he either stops spouting nonsense voluntarily or will have lost the ability to do so for a long time would be a really enjoyable and socially responsible pasttime.
Shagger is as reliable as the grauniad!
I reliably do the opposite of anything they propose.
He just likes to expose his ideas and evidently also himself.
Someone in the cabal will ‘have a word’ with the WHO and Moronic will become a huge, deadly killer v quickly.
The WHO is the nexus of the cabal and they were really asserting (based on nothing but We don’t really know anyhing yet) that omicron will be at least as bad as delta and possibly worse and urging countries to adopt the usual social engineering procedures to control the evil Marmite – sorry – the spread, obviously.
As ordered by the courts the FDA must release the data it based it’s EUA for the Pfizer shot.
The FDA requested the courts to keep this information confidential for no less than 55 YEARS!!
The court returned with an order to release 500 documents a month.
Read the thread here – https://mobile.twitter.com/iGNORANTCHiMP/status/1465992238689923081
You can also find the Pfizer documents here – https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents/
Well I said we should have a sweep stake on who drops one first out of the 6 games, didn’t think it’d be two fans at two separate grounds though.
Seems playing and watching football is soo dangerous it’ll need banning!!
‘Pure-blood sports’ I’m coining that.
You could auction a copy of your comment here as an NFT 🙂
Before they ban crypto!
I usually only use dark banter with my un-jabbed friends, but it’s time to go to the jabby lads’ group chat. Maybe it’s not too late to save their children.
Tonight’s opener, rip the bandage off:
“Hey what’s the score at Chelsea, I hear the fans are down by 1?!”
Remember the unnamed omicron-positive person who was said to have been in “Westminster” but who was then reported to have left the country? It seems to have been the Israeli cardiologist Elad Maor. The boroughs he was in have now changed to Newham and Islington. But he “travelled to the conference in east London using the tube and Docklands Light Railway each day”, so we can all understand why Westminster was the only borough mentioned in earlier reports before he was named. Right? The tube map must have confused him. Or else he’d always wanted to climb on top of one of the lions in Trafalgar Square so he went there in his free time between two conference talks.
Where better to release your hand made new variants?
He is an expert on telemedicine, and he has worked with data provided by SHL Telemedicine Ltd.
“SHL at a glance:
(…)
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/james-corbett-robert-f-kennedy-jr-the-real-anthony-fauci/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=cb9bfd9f-e3f9-412f-9d83-3e10125ca52b
On a recent episode of “The Corbett Report,” journalist and researcher James Corbett interviewed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about his latest book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”
Asked why he wrote the book, Kennedy said:
“Over the past 20 months [there’s been] a coup d’état against liberal democracy, and one of the key players in this medical cartel or medical technocracy is Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“There’s an entire coalition of sinister forces [including] pharmaceutical companies, the intelligence agencies, the medical bureaucracies, the social media titans, the mainstream media and the military, which are all wrapped up in this obliteration of constitutional rights and the use of a health crisis to impose totalitarian controls.”
We know that the intelligence agencies & the social media titans are not 2 separate things.
The deep state got bored and went rogue.
South Africa just want to protect their holiday season.
Is anyone watching the football? Delays at both Vicarage Road and St Marys due to fans having cardiac arrests…..because that’s completely normal!
This is what will shorten the vax queues.
Well it can’t be blamed on outstanding football, that’s for sure.
https://twitter.com/marcel_lesik/status/1466146825354854407
one cardiac arrest at Vicarage Road stopped for 30 minutes whilst spectator resuscitated and taken to hospital
one person taken ill at St Mary’s, match held up for 15 minutes, no more information at the moment.
Why would one cardiac arrest in a crowd of several thousand football supporters plus the rest of Watford be considered particularly unusual?
Because it happened in a football ground instead and delays a football match it gets reported on the national news, if it had been the pub then it may have made the local news.
“Looking at the mildness of the symptoms we are seeing, currently there is no reason for panicking as we don’t see any severely ill patients.”
If this is true, and assuming the official story up until recently was true (which it wasn’t), it would be a good thing, then, if Mr Omicron knocked all the pre-existing variants out of the ring.