Recent data gathered from South African hospitals has implied that the Omicron variant is less dangerous than those witnessed in previous Covid waves, although it may have a high transmission rate. Shabir Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, said that there could be a “large number” of cases, but this would likely be counteracted by less people requiring medical attention. Financial Times has the story.
Early data from the Steve Biko and Tshwane District Hospital Complex in South Africa’s capital Pretoria, which is at the centre of the outbreak, showed that on December 2nd only nine of the 42 patients on the Covid ward, all of whom were unvaccinated, were being treated for the virus and were in need of oxygen.
The remainder of the patients had tested positive but were asymptomatic and being treated for other conditions.
“My colleagues and I have all noticed this high number of patients on room air,” said Dr. Fareed Abdullah, a director of the South African Medical Research Council and an infectious disease doctor at the Steve Biko hospital.
“You walked into a Covid ward any time in the past 18 months… you could hear the oxygen whooshing out of the wall sockets, you could hear the ventilators beeping… but now the vast majority of patients are like any other ward.”
The data will reassure global health officials who have been alarmed by South Africa’s rapid rise in infections. But experts have warned that the sharp increase in cases, linked to the new variant’s apparent ability to evade immune protection from previous infection or vaccination, could still strain hospitals to a similar extent as the summer Delta wave.
Meanwhile, concern is growing in neighbouring Zimbabwe where surging infection rates are beginning to test the creaking healthcare system in the first sign of the Omicron wave spilling across the region.
The pattern of milder disease in Pretoria is corroborated by data for the whole of Gauteng province. 8% of Covid-positive hospital patients are being treated in intensive care units, down from 23% throughout the Delta wave, and just 2% are on ventilators, down from 11%.
Although the total number of Covid-positive patients in Gauteng’s hospitals is approaching the level it reached at the same stage of the Delta wave, researchers said a large proportion received treatment for other conditions. And the number of Covid patients in intensive care is one quarter of what it was three weeks into the Delta outbreak.
“I’m extremely optimistic,” said Shabir Madhi, professor of vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, who forecast that while there would be a “large number” of breakthrough infections and reinfections, a smaller proportion of cases would end up requiring hospital treatment.
Top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that early signals about the severity of the variant were “encouraging”.
Worth reading in full.
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I despair.
Not a prayer.
Moronic will be even deadlier – especially to the unjabbed (Note, no mention of the unjabbed recovered).
It will be deadlier to kids- the vast majority having natural immunity in any event.
The unjabbed will be the ones occupying all those precious hospital beds.
The unjabbed will be those occupying the time of our Heroes in the NHS.
The sheep will lap it all up and queue on time for their third, or is it the fourth salvation.
Epidemic of the unjabbed continues according to plan.
no ‘facts’ or ‘statistics’ supporting the official covid narrative can be believed. this is because of massive egregious multifaceted fraud of data and facts. this begins with the fraudulent use of the PCR test for ‘covid’ diagnosis. the other pillar of this fraud is the myth of asymptomatic transmission. Lord Denning’s groundbreaking 1956 judgement that fraud vitiates everything it touches has particular relevance in relation to ‘Covid’.
Hospitals in USA and in first world countries are refusing life-saving Ivermectin treatment even with court orders. Big Pharma doing everything they can to jab us no matter what, while alternative COVID cures EXIST! There happens to be heavy censorship who are looking for these treatments. The Research Is Clear: Ivermectin Is a Safe, Effective Treatment for COVID. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Hands up if you know somebody who currently has a chest infection.
Someone mentioned to me today that France is locking down it’s night clubs for 4 weeks because there has been a surge in cases. LMAO since only the ‘clean’ could access them.
It is important to remember that it is currently summertime in SA. Most upper respiratory tract infections are mild in summer, covid included.
Yeah, but have you seen the scary chart Boris is touting? Obviously, without saying so it’s another ‘prediction’, with ‘cases’ going through the roof. Just cases, because that’s all they’ve got. But. Cases are now dangerous. A reason if ever there was one to cancel Christmas as late as possible. Certainly after the House has risen. Bloody MP’s objecting to the writ of Boris. How dare they. Wonder who Carrie is having round this year.
only nine of the 42 patients on the Covid ward, all of whom were unvaccinated, were being treated for the virus and were in need of oxygen.
[…]
But experts have warned that the sharp increase in cases, linked to the new variant’s apparent ability to evade immune protection from previous infection or vaccination, could still strain hospitals to a similar extent as the summer Delta wave.
Contradicting itself within five paragraphs. Is this really so difficult to spot? So far, each and every bit of COVID news from South Africa has been nothing but a rerun of the same old bullshit we’ve been fed since March 2020.
so only the jabbed didnt need oxygen?
what were the other 33 doing there?
Doing stat-pushups?
But the interesting bit is really that the text first implies that only the unvaccinated are at risk, tacitly admittting that pressure on hospitals is due to vaccinated patients, and then, five paragraphs later, experts are indirectly quoted stating that immunity escape by this dangerous new variant could still lead to lots of people getting very sick (and thus being in need of hospitalisation).
That’s basically Better get vaccinated because your life depends on it, followed by We need Corona measures because vaccines don’t work anymore and nobody is safe !!1
Obviously, both of these statements can’t be correct. They’re just appearing in the same text because both are essential nudges.
I note that there’s evidence that the vaccinated have a longer pre-symptomatic period by about 2-3 weeks — if this is the case then you might expect that statistic to reverse over the next month or so.
If this headline turns out to be true, then the government will have devised an absurd policy of coercing people to be vaccinated against a variant that overwhelmingly causes only mild illness, and when there is no proof that the vaccine protects against the variant anyway! Surely, they are going to be rumbled by the majority sooner or later.
Yeaaaaaah, but…the majority are pretty stupid.
With every passing day I think that it is the jabs that have done that to them, maybe some clotting going on in their brain so they are less capable of thinking and reasoning.
Plus, majority is so brainwashed now that they will completely fall for the type of “news” and information being pumped out by BBC as set out by Julian in his post above.
For life of me I cannot see how majority cannot see it. I doubt they ever will.
“Surely, they are going to be rumbled by the majority sooner or later.” See my post from a few minutes ago. The narrative will emphasise waves, cases, transmissibility, vaccine ineffectiveness, and will not mention that it is even less dangerous than the original one
BBC headlines
“Omicron appears more transmissible – No 10”
“Omicron: Wales expects significant wave of new Covid variant”
Summary
Early indications suggest the Omicron variant of coronavirus is “more transmissible” than Delta, Downing Street says But much remains unknown and the government is not looking at introducing its Plan B level of restrictions, a spokesman tells reporters Scientists are yet to draw firm conclusions but are continuing to analyse samples of the virus and real-world data People travelling to the UK must now take a Covid test before their journey as well as a PCR test upon their return There are currently 336 confirmed cases of the highly-mutated Omicron variant in the UK Experts believe it could overtake Delta to become the dominant variant Reasonable degree of certainty Omicron is more transmissible – SturgeonThere is a reasonable degree of certainty that the Omicron variant is more transmissible than Delta, “perhaps considerably so”, Nicola Sturgeon says.
The first minister adds that early data suggests it is more capable of infecting people who have previously had the virus.
There is also concern it may evade the immunity provided by vaccination, she says.
However, she says vaccination remains “vitally important”.
Same in Wales
… Read more »
OMG 336 CASES. CASES, actual CASES. OMG.
It’s the new Plague.
Save me, save me, save me……aaghhh!
Panic = Disaster
it is a panicdemic
Fewer people
Of course the cult Covidians and BigPharma don’t want the Omicron variant here because it promises to bring a rapid end to the pseudopandemic and their delusions.
A variant that is more transmissible and much less virulent will rapidly displace the Delta monoculture and resolve the problem of hospitalization and death. Moreover, once folk have contracted and recovered from Omicron, without risk of serious harm, then they will have acquired natural immunity for life against coronaviruses of this sort (including other mutated ones), which is far better than the quick-fading and lousy artificial immunity conferred by the dangerous ‘vaccines’, which are highly specific to the spike proteins. Why then would anyone want to be kept on a vaccine pathway of playing Russian roulette with their life every six months when one can have a bout of the mild Omicron and acquire robust lifetime immunity?
This is one well known way that epidemics and pandemics are brought to an end: viral evolution, which tends to favour the more transmissible and the less virulent.
To be picky, you will likely not have immunity for life, since we do not seem to get that for coronaviruses – cold do the rounds every so often. BUT: the immunity should be a whole lot better than the spike-only “vaccine”. Also, immunity does not turn off and go to zero one day, it gradually diminishes, so when you do get it again, you will still have partial immunity and get over it more easily.
Edit: Upvoted your post.
jabbed “protection” turns negative after 5 months.
There’s evidence that the first exposure to a coronavirus (catch that type of ‘cold’, typically in the first year of life) offers substantial protection against coronaviruses for life.
It has been suggested that if a person grew up without exposure to any coronavirus then their first exposure to ‘a cold’ at age 50+ would also carry substantial risk, just like covid. Covid has only been dangerous because it has somehow got around this immune response (or, more accurately, a small proportion of people have got the wrong type of immune response and consequently suffer from an immune over-reaction to covid, aka cytokine storm).
and then they go ahead and jab themselves with more of the spike toxin, triggering worse and worse autoimmune reactions. Literally eating into their vessels. I’ve heard from Dr. Bhakdi’s excellent videos that the natural immune system in most cases stops the virus in the respiratory tract, well before it gets to the organs. My word what are people doing to themselves?!
I agree with your hypothesis, which, as I understand it, would apply to the unjabbed.
However, for those already jabbed, they cannot acquire that natural immunity by virtue of having had the jab and they will, like it or not, be on precisely that jab pathway due to waning immunity and the fact that their immune system cannot recognise the mutated spike proteins of new variants.
If that is the case then you can see why governments and big pharma are so keen to exaggerate if not outright lie about the supposed dangers of Omicron, in order to get more of the currently unjabbed onto that jab pathway. More jabs now = more customers for the duration of what is left of their lives after having been jabbed.
I’m quite content to have a brush with Omicron to let if beef up my NI.
yes.
So basically if you believe everything the rulers told us pre-Omicron (forgetting about mutually contradictory bits – I mean if you believe the main narrative, which obviously requires that you don’t think about it too much), then we should all be going hell for leather to spread Omicron so that it can push previous SARS variants out of the way?
Y’know, just as the “Russian flu” that killed 1 million people in 1889-90 mutated into HCoV-OC43, one of the viruses that nowadays causes the common cold?
Huh, thanks for that, I learned something today. Source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8441924/
PFIZERLEAK: EXPOSING THE PFIZER MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY AGREEMENT
https://senseofawareness.com/2021/07/31/pfizerleak-exposing-the-pfizer-manufacturing-and-supply-agreement-the-brazilian-job-day-56/
This contract requires a country to pay even if Pfizer did not deliver the product on time, even if Pfizer did not deliver the product at all. It demanded the country will provide full indemnity to Pfizer, it demanded that it defend Pfizer against 3rd party claims, which mainly means citizens who get harm by the vaccine. It defines the product not only as the vaccine but also as other technologies which are related to COVID, It demanded the country to acknowledge there are unknown long term effects of the vaccine and that they accept that risk, countries requires to put as collateral all their assets, including embassies… I can go on and on and on, read my thread, or look on my site for the analysis I did for the Brazilian contract which is even longer.
This was not a contract, it was a foreign power dictating to a country terms and conditions of their surrendering.
… our governments have been forced to sign such agreements without our knowledge and our consent as citizens, which turned our world into one big pharmaland. I do not want any company to be… Read more »
– Ford Edsel
– New Coke
– The Segway
– Omicron
My Internet Provider has just sent me a brand new router. Nothing suspicious about that, I suppose, except the last time we had a faulty router I had to threaten to leave before it was replaced.
The router was delivered about a week ago. This morning I received a letter from Provider reminding me to install router in order to avoid any disruption to service. There’s a hint of coercion in the letter which leaves me feeling a bit uneasy.
Does anyone else have a similar experience. Am I being paranoid or am I right to think this is not just about customer service?
It could just be technical – an impending change in the system which the new router’s needed for. (Don’t know enough to say more, but I am a Life Member of the IEEE and have been on the Web since it was opened to the public.)
Evil doesn’t lurk in the hardware (unless it was made by Huawei.) It’s the software, and that can be modified in secret at 2:21 AM.
It’s the modem part of the connection that will be the issue, not the router.
True. My “router” is coffee, and obviously, I needed more of it.
BT came round a few years ago and replaced all of the modems with ‘new and improved’ ones. The new and improved ones had more vents, the unvented ones had a tendency to go pop apparently! The installer still made sure they sat besides the router and not on or under ‘just in case’ lol. Thanks BT!
You’re being paranoid.
Maybe – so there must be a good reason?
Can you tell me what it is?
I’ve worked in electronics OEMs for decades. Was on the Internet before the Web was popularized in the mid-90s. (25 years ago, made a slight error in modifying software on a test rig. The only way to get out of it was to kill power to the entire system. That gives me b*tching rights about others’ software.)
I do not, and will not, own a screenphone/smartphone. My flip-type cell phone is disconnected from the Web.
Am I paranoid? Yes.
Do I have reason to be? … … …?
I had the same experience and very recently. The company was the Post Office. They sent me a modem-router without prior warning and told me my connection would be “upgraded” and at that point it would no longer be compatible with my existing modem. I told them that actually my existing modem could easily handle the increased bandwidth and in any case I didn’t need an increase in bandwidth and therefore as far as I was concerned it would be fine not to “upgrade” the connection. I also told them that if it was a matter of requiring a change of settings, then rather than expecting me to use their kit they could tell me what settings needed to be changed and what to.
I could only get through to droids and lying scum, unfortunately. So the day of “upgrade” came, and, whaddayaknow, my modem could not longer connect.
In the end I bought a new modem that connects without a problem. I was five days without a landline internet connection.
Here is my advice:
Never use hardware kit such a modem or router supplied by the company that supplies your internet connection. Buy a modem from a “third party”.… Read more »
You can buy a decent modem-router (e.g. of the TP-Link brand) for about £30 that isn’t locked to any connection company (or “provider” as they call themselves).
That will also make it easier for you to change to hiring a different connection company if and when you want to, which gives you more leverage over your existing supplier.
It may be a way of getting you to agree to a new contract extension by the back door – particularly if you are on an older tariff they don’t want to support any more.
Had a similar event at my parents recently.
Check the small print of any emails you’ve had from them.
It may be to do with this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59400762
They have been using weak and/or predictable default passwords for years. They may have panicked and started sending out new kit.
Their previous router system has probably been hacked, but they aren’t going to tell you this because there might be a liability issue.
I note that IT people tend to buy their own modem/routers, and not use the ones that ‘come for free’
Its the new SOVIET UK CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ROUTER – the WIFI HAS NO OFF BUTTON. Microwave your family 247 with this new special version.
It works beautifully with your new SOVIET LED LIGHTS – you know the ones – the blue and white light emitting lights that are linked to cancer and blindenss and hormone disruption – the ones your government have installed up and down the country at ENORMOUS financial and long term health costs. BUt dont worry because they save the planet so they are the BEST THING EVER. And a whole load of them are radio linked too so you get bonus wireless radiation from that. They only do it because they love you so much. Thats why the new car headlights are so obnoxious and leave you blinded when cars are approaching – to keep you safe and happy in your new UKSSR shithole existence.
“Blue light” of LED streetlights linked to breast and prostate cancer
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_655460_en.html
The “blue light” emitted by street lights including LEDs, and commercial outdoor lighting such as advertising, is linked to a significant increase in the risk of breast and prostate cancer, innovative new research has concluded.
Joy of joys, arent… Read more »
“The remainder of the [42] patients had tested positive but were asymptomatic and being treated for other conditions.”
How many of you realize that the number of “sick” is being grossly inflated by the press?
This isn’t just a cabal of scientists and Big Pharma and politicians.
Elements of the Fourth Estate are smack in the middle of it. The rest of the press has cluelessly climbed on board — loyal professionals playing follow-the-leader.
Research “advocacy journalism” – when and what it came out of – what it’s for.
And do NOT trust Wikipedia on this topic.
Were is the Chief Medical Officer?
Has he jumped ship?
Covid: Omicron wave set to hit Wales in January – BBC News
Billy Hunt’s hero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpCxpmegbnE
I f*cking hope so..
Omicron is a milder sequencing error.
So much for our ‘experts’ saying we need to shut up shop becaue the Omicron variant IS more deadly with more people in hospital/on life support in SA. Utter LIARS the lot of them, and likely authoritarian commies as well.
I won’t hold my breath for the MSM to call them out on this fake news, presumably because (IMHO) they’ve been told by Big Pharma and the Nudge Unit to keep the fearmongering (i.e. lying) going to keep us grovelling at their feet.
I still can’t believe that ‘expert’ (DT report yesterday) said anyone with ‘the sniffles’ should stay at home. I get ‘the sniffles’ whenerv I go for a walk outside in the colder weather – because the cold air irritates the nasel passage. It goes away after a few minutes on returning inside.
Besides, haven’t they heard of ‘a cold’? We can’t keep cowering under our beds in fear for something the overwhelmingly kills a tiny percentage of everyone and mostly the already very sick and very elderly. Colds, coughs and the flu did that too and no-one asked as all to get flu jabs, even in bad years.
Notice how the government and especially the MSM are… Read more »
The satanic pharma cabal has politicians and media worldwide in their back pockets that is clearer by the day.
Dan Wotton on GB news last night landed all these points – I really hope that a LOT of people, including No 10, saw his interview with Carol McGiffin last night because they totally nailed it – the words “government propaganda” were used in the same sentence as “the BBC” (sadly my memory doesn’t permit me to do a verbatim quote) and Dan disclosed that he and Carol were going as far as the OFCOM regulations would permit them to do so.
The T word was also used liberally as well. T as in Totalitarian and Tyrannical.
Keep going Dan you are doing brilliantly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duiVcNaGWBQ
They’ve been listening to the comments…
Total change of direction in terms of away from covidiocy towards a little more sceptical approach.
I saw that interview last night in response to the Manchester police overreaction to the guy not wearing a mask.
If they have been listening to the comments then great. I hope they continue to do so and position themselves accordingly.
Both Mark Dolan and Dan Wooton have in the past reference the DS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-HUgN7e7Pw
Patrick Christys: ‘More people will die as a result of our response to Covid than from Covid itself’
Yes – good analysis, as far as it went.
One of those who commented pointed out:
“Good presentation Patrick and I agree with your conclusion. However I would point out an error in terminology which may seem minor but isn’t. You refer to people dying OF covid when the figures relate to dying WITH covid. The two are not the same although people have come believe they are.”
Which I would agree with – and if you do that then it makes the stats of how we have dealt with covid killing more people than covid even more remarkable.
But fair play to GB News.
Oliver Dowden is an utter disgrace.
Oh wait, but what?
Damn
In my opinion the Covidians have not suffered enough
By the fourth or fifth jab we could see large numbers of them throwing off this mortal coil
Now is not the time to stop
Invent new variants, more pictures of people dying please do anything you can to keep this thing going
The now deleted “Deagel” 2025 population forecast not such a conspiracy theory anymore.
Agreed.. in modern jargon, I suppose it should be called a ‘forecast of concern’..
Just for good measure.. a little glimpse of the 2025 plan..
Odd too that world bank financing was supposed to be in place until 2025
Population falls by about 80% in the next 4 years. Isn’t that about the overall vaccination rate 🙂
Odd that, isn’t it.. surely just a coincidence though..
No need to worry. The next ‘Pi’ variant will be 3.14159 times worse than Omicron.
Approximately.
Yorkshire will have its own ‘E variant, only about 2.71828 times worse, because they are right hard in Yorkshire (except any Yorkshire cavers reading this; Mendip cavers kick arse),
yes, but must must must keep that unvaxxed population high enough. Not sure if they will press ahead with boosters – Pfizer just announced that they will be holding a special call end of the week which may well be the news around a booster. This is good news for the unvaxxed as the more they press ahead with the already jabbed the better.
They have started to flirt with pointing blame of inflammation on the virus itself. People will begin to suffer from autoimmune diseases and think it is the virus, turning this into a vicious circle
‘First time in history that the ineffectiveness of a medicine is being blamed on those who haven’t taken it’. Robert W Malone, MD, Inventor of mRNA gene therapy – excellent comment, says it all,
I am a natural being, endowed with God-given rights and freedom – from conception. And it is going to stay that way. No silly little cold such as Omicron is going to change that.
Some conspiracy theory wacko’s going to pronounce that it’s Zuma’s “machine gun”.
Imagine being in a coma from Christmas 2019 and waking up to this.
“Put me back to sleep, please”.
You’d have been declared a case and midazolamed long ago.
Got to say.. they gave me a good laugh..
Ohcomeon not living up to expectations then . Seems Pi is up next. Everyone loves Pi . Especially when the ingredients are fuck all squared!
Excuse me going off topic. Received a letter from my children’s school saying we should expect to be contacted by NHS as vaccination for 5 – 11 years has got the green light.
My wife (soon to be ex) is an idiot who is happy to go along with it. I have been getting data together to make my case that this is a terrible idea but it feels flimsy, anybody know of any articles or resources covering the case against vaccination for kids?
My sympathies.
Try and find a Solicitor.
1984 Children Act :-
“The welfare of the child is paramount”.
But, I suppose we will find that’s been trashed by the current medical emergency
We need some cases which will doubtless arise in matrimonial disputes to find out.
Dr Renee Hoenderkamp has also written about this and has spoken out against the mass vaccination of children. She’s on Twitter but is a regular commentator on Talk Radio.
https://www.hartgroup.org/should-children-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19/
This is a good starting point!
Thank you
Make sure you get the CD collection
One thing’s for sure in all this – we’ve still got a sense of humour compared to the other lot – and yes that’s you, the 77th and the G******n reader.
I’ll see what I can do.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/09/14/13-reasons-why-you-should-not-allow-your-child-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine/
Thanks
Terrible for you – I can’t imagine how terrible.
If you go to the Doctors for Covid Ethics website there is a lot of information and also template letters.
On Trialsite news (which I subscribe to) there are also some free to read articles:
https://trialsitenews.com/the-costs-of-inoculating-children-against-covid-19-far-outweigh-the-benefits/
and
https://trialsitenews.com/dont-vaccinate-kids-urgent-message-from-doctors-summit/
Well-referenced and worth a look.
Good luck!
Jo
Excellent, thank you.
Try this: https://www.covidkidfacts.ca. from Canada but still relevant.
Thank you.
This site is excellent and chock-full of useful stuff such as template letters for what you’re after; https://www.ukmedfreedom.org/resources/template-letters