Due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, combined with the rules put in place to tackle its spread, the Government suspects that up to four times as many people will have to self-isolate on Christmas Day compared with last year. Furthermore, current statistical forecasts predict that close to one million Brits will be forced to stay at home come December 25th. RT has more.
Anyone in the U.K. who tests positive for Covid from Wednesday onwards will have to spend Christmas Day in isolation under current Government regulations. The rules issued by the U.K. Health Security Agency demand that anyone who gets a positive test goes into quarantine for 10 days. If that person then develops any Covid symptoms during this period, they will have to spend another 10 days in isolation, starting from the day the symptoms first appeared.
The Government believes there might be four times as many people self-isolating this Christmas Day than on December 25, 2020. The total number of Omicron cases reported in the U.K. rose from 4,713 to 5,346 over the past 24 hours, with 633 new infections linked to the highly transmissible new strain.
The overall number of new daily infections amounted to 59,610 and has gone up by more than 30% in just a week. This is the highest such figure since January, when almost 60,000 new cases were reported. At this rate, the U.K. may see some 100,000 people infected with Omicron on Christmas Eve, and around one million Brits isolating the next day, media projections say, using the Government data.
Omicron appears to be “the most significant threat we have had since the start of the pandemic”, Dr. Jenny Harries, CEO of the U.K. Health Security Agency, told MPs on Wednesday, adding that the time taken for the number of new Omicron infections to double “is shortening”. Earlier, England’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, also warned that the new strain is spreading “unbelievably fast”.
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Another “conspiracy theory” now recognised as a simple fact.
It is real and it exists. Its Latin name is Plumbum Oscillans.
Or long lazy arse syndrome
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LOL, “swinging the lead”.
”When the results were compared with nearly 1,000 people who had flu, the numbers reporting issues were similar (3% vs 3.4%).”
Well this is because, just like the flu got a rebrand and was repackaged as ‘Covid’ ( the insane amount of specific testing helped here but plenty got diagnosed based purely on symptom presentation, or no symptoms and a ‘positive’ test result. The obsessive fools! ), post-viral fatigue syndrome went and got a new image and was rebranded as ‘Long Covid’. It’s just that it’s taken somebody with clout almost four years to come out and state what many of us already knew, or at least suspected. So is this article effectively saying that we’ve all been led up the garden path then? Sounds it to me.
This is about a study they did in the Netherlands on ‘Long Covid’ patients and they found a biological cause, but it too sounds a lot like post-viral fatigue to me, though I’m no expert or doctor, they just need to drop the silly name. But our government has recently declared it’s going to invest 27 million euros into further research of LC, so they’re not ready to admit there’s no such thing yet, seemingly;
”Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells that produce less energy than in healthy patients. The results of the study were published today in Nature Communications.
“We’re seeing clear changes in the muscles in these patients,” says Michèle van Vugt, Professor of Internal Medicine at Amsterdam UMC.
25 long-COVID patients and 21 healthy control participants participated in the study. They were asked to cycle for fifteen minutes. This cycling test caused a long-term worsening of symptoms in people with long-COVID, called post-exertional malaise (PEM). Extreme fatigue occurs after physical, cognitive, or emotional exertion beyond an unknown, individual threshold. The researchers looked at the blood and muscle tissue 1 week before the cycling test and 1 day after the test.
“We saw various abnormalities in the muscle tissue of the patients. At the cellular level, we saw that the mitochondria of the muscle, also known as the energy factories of the cell, function less well and that they produce less energy,” says Rob Wüst, Assistant Professor at Department of Human Movement Sciences at the VU University. “So, the cause of the fatigue is really biological. The brain needs energy to think. Muscles need energy to move. This discovery means we can now start to research an appropriate treatment for those with long-COVID,” adds van Vugt.”
https://www.amsterdamumc.org/en/spotlight/tiredness-experienced-by-long-covid-patients-has-a-physical-cause.htm
These Australians seem to be going off-narrative. Campaigning US family doctor Pierre Kory believes that “long Covid” is an establishment ruse to cover up the chronic injuries resulting from the Covid vaccines. He sees from his 1200 patients that their problems only started after taking the vaccines and says they are suffering from “long vaccine”, not “long Covid”.
I suspect that one day this explanation will be proven, but actually holding the insane jabbers to account and extracting whatever pound of flesh remains is going to be difficult.
Indeed, Long Jab Injury
Does this mean that a lot of people with post-viral illness after the flu are also vaccine injured. This would be pretty easy to research as very few people under 50 have had flu jabs and would be a perfect control group.
It was interesting that shortly after the term passed into common parlance a study was carried out amongst sufferers of this new and novel phenomenon.
Astonishingly it was found that a significant number of sufferers had er, never had covid (whatever that may be…).
Sorry but cannot locate link.
If the rates were similar to other viruses in a highly punctured population, imagine how much lower a rate it would be if they reduced the figure to account for those who were suffering from Long Jab.
Indeed
Either you understand the nature of malaise or you dont. And understanding in regard to this has to be gnosis or knowledge of the heart. If you lack the understanding to enter that realm then it is probably better that you keep your mouth shut.
There is a real malaise just look at how many people are off sick from work. The dampness that will contnue to affect health is going to continue for many years. All you an do is encourage your children to travel abroad, maybe try to learn a difficult language. You will need to have a very strong constitution if you stay here. I’m sure that the strongest amongst us will find meaning in the nastiness but this is not a place to stay if you can help it.
Indeed, anecdotal evidence aside, Long Covid is statistically and practically indistinguishable from Long Flu, Long Cold, and stuff like that. Occam’s Razor would say, it’s simply post-viral syndrome. Meanwhile, Long Lockdown, Long Mask, Long Nutritional Deficiency, and especially Long Jab Injury are far, far worse.
I dated a bloke the other day, who told me that he had ‘long Covid” as he was very tired and breathless. He then proceeded to tell me that lots of NHS staff are off sick with it, but its a big conspiracy because no-one is mentioning it… Idiot…I didn’t see him again…
It’s another of those “so hard to disprove” conditions which the lazy lumps are using to avoid the unpleasant prospect of having to get off their fat arses and go to work/find a job.
The new “back pain” and “migraine.”
Post-viral syndromes are real and can be devastating. 3% suffering life altering symptoms is serious! ‘Fatigue’ or ‘post exertional malaise’ are trivialising terms for the illness and exhaustion that precludes even the simplest of exertion and feels like a long-lasting flu. Investigators into ME have found multiple abnormalities in muscle function, immune cell function, energy production and in sustaining exertion. As stated, instead of sporadic cases a whole cohort got ill at a similar time which hit the headlines. Some post-Covid syndromes only last months and wane. This Australian study probably did the usual very general assessments that have been used to discredit M.E. over decades but I don’t know. Some sponsored by insurance cos in cahoots with Gov Welfare depts. Yes, prob some post vax injury in there too. I realise Long Covid was used as an excuse to vax unnecessarily but don’t throw the baby out etc.