The Omicron variant is known to have a relatively high number of mutations, including in the spike protein, and is therefore better than previous variants at escaping vaccine immunity, especially, and also natural immunity. As a new pre-print study from South Africa explains:
The Omicron variant is characterised by between 26 and 32 mutations in the spike protein many of which are located within the receptor binding domain (RBD). In addition Omicron has three deletions and one insertion in the spike protein, and mutations outside of the spike protein. Many of the mutations are either known or predicted to contribute to escape from neutralising antibodies, and work on earlier variants of concern has demonstrated that such variants can be antigenically very distinct.
The study looks at the reinfection rate in successive waves in South Africa and finds that the recent Omicron surge was characterised by a reinfection risk over twice as high as in the original wave – though it should be noted that this is from a low base, as studies have found natural immunity to confer 85-90% protection from reinfection (pre-Omicron).
As far as vaccines are concerned, the UKHSA recently acknowledged the weak protection from two doses of the vaccines against Omicron, even publishing a graph showing negative effectiveness for the AstraZeneca vaccine, albeit with very wide confidence intervals.
Nonetheless, there is good evidence that previous infection will continue to provide robust protection against the variant, albeit at a slightly reduced level. Further evidence of this enduring protection comes in the UKHSA’s latest daily Omicron report from December 19th. It shows that Omicron is partially replacing Delta to different degrees in different regions, suggesting the two variants are largely competing for the same pool of susceptible people.
The purple lines in the charts above show the daily change in the proportion of PCR-positive samples with S-gene dropouts in low-Ct PCR positives, which are interpreted as Omicron. What’s interesting about these charts is that almost all of them show a flattening in the rate of increase of the Omicron proportion in each region in the last few days, but they are plateauing at different levels. London is flattening around 86% whereas the South West is flattening around 36%, and the rest are somewhere in between. Nationally, the Omicron proportion has begun to flatten around 67% (see below). Note while the overall number of positives (the height of the bars) for recent days may change as more test results come in, the proportions are unlikely to change much as there is no particular reason why delayed positives are more or less likely to be Omicron. Also, note that while overall reported infection numbers have spiked since December 13th, so far this appears to be mostly due to increased testing and there’s little sign yet of a similar spike in test positivity.
Why might the Omicron proportions be levelling off well below 100%, and at different levels in different regions? London has been the least affected by the Delta wave – it had average positivity of 5.2% between June 3rd and November 17th, compared to 9.5% in Yorkshire and the Humber – and so may be more susceptible to Omicron because of lower population immunity from over the summer and autumn. Here are those figures for each region.
Is there a relationship between how strongly a region was affected by Delta and how susceptible it is to Omicron? Here’s the data in the above table plotted on a chart.
That’s a strong negative correlation, meaning the more Delta a region had, the lower the level of the Omicron (SGTF) proportion plateau. Does this help to answer the question of why the regions are flattening out at different levels?
Regions harder hit by Delta are, by definition, more susceptible to Delta (for reasons such as being less hard hit in earlier waves). So it makes sense that, now that Omicron is on the scene, the regions where Delta has been making more of an impact are finding Delta is better able to compete with Omicron and hold onto more of its market share. In places where Delta has struggled more, such as London, Omicron faces less competition from it and so can grab a bigger market share and push it out faster.
It’s true that you might expect regions hard-hit by Delta to have built up a decent amount of herd immunity to the variant by now. But for whatever reason the Delta outbreak has continued at a relatively low for six months (at different levels in different regions) and hasn’t shown signs of fading out, so evidently some susceptibility remains. The suggestion here is that it is the differing susceptibility by region that is key in determining how well Delta can compete with Omicron and so how much Delta can stay in the race. A number of countries last winter had a winter wave that was a mixture of different variants, and it appears that the U.K.’s winter wave may be a Delta-Omicron mix this year.
The broader point is that the fact that Omicron is not able to push Delta out completely, at least not yet, combined with the as-yet muted spike in positivity, is further evidence that natural immunity is holding Omicron off to a similar degree to Delta. If it wasn’t we would expect to see Omicron taking over everywhere and causing a big surge in overall positivity to boot.
Last year, countries around the world including the U.K. saw reported infections peaking and falling almost in unison in early January. Later analysis from Imperial College London using antibody testing showed that U.K. infections peaked in Christmas week. Winter flu waves often follow a similar pattern. One possibility is that it is the run-up to and celebration of Christmas itself that accelerates the surge to herd immunity (and beyond), which then abruptly peaks and falls once the festivities are over. This means we may see a similar phenomenon this year; one to watch out for.
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Read this entire article and could only think about the teacher in Charlie Brown
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2hULhXf04
So many graphs, percentages, more transmissible wha wha wha wha
Yes, but it’s not at all severe is it? One of the least harmful ailments is spreading like wildfire. Not concerned. Next Greek alphabet letter please!
As is the way with virus else we would not have survived 2 million years or so as a species.
Ebola = crap virus since it kills everyone in sight until it has no more potential victims and so fades away.
Common Cold = Top Virus since it does so little harm the human body does not bother to protect itself. Result, Common Cold is an everlasting worldwide Pandemic that most victims in the west develope symptoms only because they believe existing in stuffy rooms will protect them rather than fresh air and sunshine.
Common cold is only a New Normal pandemic. Back in the old days, a pandemic required substantial deaths to qualify.
This is just more evidence of the massive pre-meditated fraud, enabled by changing definitions of pandemic, case, infection, cause of death (anything else ?) beyond any coherent meaning.
Control language, and you control the masses – Orwell.
. . . herd immunity, vaccine. . .
“As is the way with virus else we would not have survived 2 million years or so as a species.”
Which is why I am down the rabbit hole thinking they want to destroy immune systems and kill people or … these are the most stupid scientists and politicians that have ever existed.
I think this vaccine is a slow acting toxin which is why the desperation to vax everyone before it’s obvious. I don’t think the protagonists are stupid. They are removing the useless eaters because they can’t and don’t want to pay for them.
Only time will tell but it’s too late then. Keep hoping they are just stupid.
Yep I care about hospitalisations and deaths. We don’t track cases of the common cold coronaviruses.
Although, I wouldn’t believe cases of in hospital or died “with” coronavirus positive tests. What is the primary cause?
Then STFU about reinfection rates.
Estimated, off the back of PCR tests = Garbage.
Moronic is the first ‘deemed’ disease. SARS-CoV-2 matches 3 primers in RT-PCR. Anything that matches only 2 is deemed to be moronic.
Blatant, in-your-face, fraud.
Edit: I am using moronic for the deemed causative agent and the resultant disease.
What else might match the primers? Correct me if wrong but they just look for a short sequence of genetic code. There are a lot of organisms in this world and a lot of genetic code.
There are (more expensive) methods and protocols whereby PCR is extremely accurate, however non of the health authorities, or the labs they commissioned for mass testing, use those methods and protocols. Anything over 28 cycles is a spurious result, however the WHO recomended 45 cycles as standard, reduced to 40 after complaints. It’s a shell game.
Have a flick though this paper, notice these authors don’t even bother to measure the PCR error after 30 cycles. Notice it grows exponentially.
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00163-19
NHS FoI request returned FORTY as the cycle count used here. No wonder everyone “got Covid”.
Nothing to correct there.
It is a “long” sequence of genetic code unique to the virus they are detecting.
PCR testing is highly specific and highly accurate “if” the lab has good quality control.
Unfortunately the mass testing labs ie the lighthouse labs leave a lot to be desired and produce many false positives.
Live viruses which are infectious (and Omicron) can only be confirmed by cell culture and not by PCR.
Thanks I didn’t realise it was a long sequence. I had it in my head they were quite short 15-30 bases matched by the primers
A bit more googling turns out primers are short typically < 30 bases. So how is PCR made specific when there circa 3 billion bases just in human DNA?
There was someone claiming that one primer used by one company matches a sequence in chromosome 8 of humans. But there could be all sorts of DNA in our respiratory tracts. Combined with silly cycle numbers.
If anyone explains this to me, it needs to be done without jargon.
SARS-CoV-2 has 29,603 bases.
The PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 uses a unique string of those bases to detect the virus and that virus only.
Whatever your interpretation of short or long the number of bases they use in the PCR Test is around 34 and is perfectly adequate to detect the presence of that particular virus but NOT if it’s infectious or not.
The number of cycles is an indication but only cell culture can determine whether it is infectious or not.
The whole gene sequence of every base of SARS-CoV-2 has been laboriously done and uploaded to GISAID more than 7 million times.
Assume you put a marginally effective outbound filter on a virus. What is evolution going to select for? A strain that is infectious at a lower level of viron exposure, and which emits larger quantities of virons as soon as possible.
I give you Omicron.
Which is why evolution hasn’t equpped us with virus filters in our nostrils, but adaptive immune systems.
The masks don’t work. They just make it worse.
Take them off and we’ll see your face again.
Someone has thought of a better use for them:
https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2021/12/finally-good-use-for-those-fucking-masks.html
Eugyppius – forgive sp – saying in latest Substack Omicron is another lab leak. Not evolution – maybe lab workers making an informal vaccine.
The Rapists Dad has ‘made available’ £60m towards the cost of closing down businesses in Wales
As usual those who lose their jobs and businesses will not see a penny piece
The money will allocated to local authorities and the police to fund overtime payments for special units to harrass and bully the Dictators hapless victims
In more elevated circles, they prefer ‘pater perversorum’
Soo, we dont really know anything about the origin of Sars2 nor how he was detected/invented, but we knew a lot about the mutations, how comes ? Shouldn’t we isolate the original virus version first to get basic data ? Or does it bring us bad news like the virus comes from a lab, or is totally harmless ??
Omicron has completely replaced Delta in South Africa, Ghana, Malawi, and Lebanon, and is about to do so in Botswana and Brazil as well as making good inroads in South Korea and Hong Kong. The aim of government should be to enable Omicron to outcompete Delta as fast as possible, instead we see more “lockdowns” and masks.
It’s almost as if they don’t want people to get natural immunity.
Which was exactly their response to Covid.01. = Lockdown/Isolation for 95% of the population.
They did their level best to prevent us from getting natural immunity during Lockdown Proper, had to relent a bit during Lockdown Lite because they hadn’t got enough (pre-existing) vaccines ready but deliberately created lengthy queues, nationwide at the same time, outside supermarkets so that people could judge each others Social Distancing Skills. The poxy one-in-and-out nonsense at dentists and the like.
Kiddies playgrounds remained chained and bolted to prevent them from harmlessly infecting each while having some FUN, only unchaining them as the schools reopened and Autumn drew in.
Then they started up again with their otherwise pointless Bubbles; trying and failing to stop students ‘mingling’ Autumn 2020 and then Lockdown.02. in the guise of Tiers and 24 hours for Xmas get togethers.
Double benefit for imposing a North Korean system – break people’s social bonds and stop natural immunity at the same time.
“It’s almost as if they don’t want people to get natural immunity.”
Surely not what possible benefit could they get from having a totally dependent workforce?
Who needs workforce.
For sure the drugs companies don’t. Natural immunity is their enemy.
1. Why the scary graphic so beloved of the tabloids since this virus is so small it doesn’t actually ‘look’ like anything?
2. How many people out of a random 1,000 have any idea about what the ‘technical’ words used in this article (and many many more) actually mean?
“My mate down the pub says Omnicons got 26 variations so I told him straight, nah bollocks its 32 for a minimum. I tried telling him it was antigenitally distinct but would he listen?”
There were about 78,000 variants worldwide, and ~300 in the UK, in the early days when there was something that could be called a pandemic. That has presumably reduced dramatically as evolutionary pressure has reduced.
The ONS data tables confirm that London is the heart of the problem and has had a greater share of infections despite a lower rate of testing. It strikes me that isolating London would serve the whole country.
PS London testing positivity is 11.7%.
As with Covid 01. it got London first because London is big, crowded and has maximum connectivity.
It therefore died down in London first, ONS (pre-corruption) 1st or 2nd week June 2020.
As reported in Hector Drummond blog at which point Covid was spent had not the government chosen to pretend it was going on and on forever.
Id suggest razing it to the ground and salting the earth. It’s the only way to be safe.
And then we can build back better.
No not London, just Westminster.
It’s a very ordinary, mild, seasonal Corona virus – as we get every year.
The Danes are now publishing extremely detailed daily data about Covid cases and hospitalisations – not just about Omicron, but all Covid variants. Most new Covid cases in Denmark occur in people who are vaccinated or boosted – and that is true for both Omicron and earlier variants. More than 76 percent of non-Omicron Covid infections in Denmark are in vaccinated people, along with about 90 percent of Omicron infections. Further, only 25 of the 561 people currently hospitalised in Denmark for Covid have the Omicron variant. The Danes do not provide an exact number for patients in intensive care with Omicron, saying only that it is fewer than five.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/stunning-covid-data-from-denmark
Quoting further, “About the only reason for concern in any of the Danish data is that Omicron still appears to be preferentially infecting younger people – though not people under 15, who are more likely to be unvaccinated.
Overall, though, the figures out of Denmark largely back those from South Africa – and make clear that the reason that Europe has seen a massive rise in cases and hospitalisations this fall has nothing to do with Omicron and everything to do with vaccine failure”.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.03.21256520v1
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/theres-something-antigenic-in-denmark
Post vax immuno supression…
https://twitter.com/gerdosi/status/1472143373091942405
“vaccine induces complex functional reprogramming of innate immune responses”
I’d like to know if permanent or if it can be reversed. I guess there must be a way but would anyone be able to work on it let alone administer.
It’s a really tough question to answer, first we don’t know how long the mRNA last inside the body, they said it was gone in 48hr but they lied, I’ve seen it identified in plasma 15 days post shot, they’ve also found it gets into the cell nucleus, and into exosomes.
Distribution studies have seen it all over the body, in most organs, so how would we go about correcting the damage done there too.
All I can suggest is checking the tollerable limits and boosting ones immune system with the regular immuno-boosting vitamins, D, Zinc, C, B3, Selenium etc. for which there is a great body of science to support.
This is an interesting thesis, if it does interfear with the SIRT6 genes the main issue could be a deficiency of NAD+ which is responsible for DNA repair, and plays a huge role in longevity, it may be prudent to research and suppliment NAD+ if you’ve experienced an AE, or have concerns regarding the jabs.
https://wmcresearch.org/sirt6-the-spike-proteins-master-target/
And this is worth a hard look. If it appears in Spanish then click on the Union Flag for the English version. Not only do the vaccines reprogram our DNA, they also contain graphene oxide nano-electronic devices, which can have a variety of purposes, most of them sinister. This is not speculation.
https://corona2inspect-blogspot-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=es
Watch the Whitney webb review of the original Spanish study, Whitney
is fluent in Spanish and worked translating scientific papers in Chile.
The Original Spanish Study commissioned by Delgado/La Qunita was taken down immediately after Whitneys review when she shows the lab confirmed they could not find Graphine Oxide despite looking specifically for it. The study showed an example picture from the literature of what needed to be found. This example picture was used in all subsiquent English translations as if it was found in the samples, it was NOT FOUND. There is clear obfuscation around this subject, Delgado/La Qinta have zero credibility after this episode.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/whitney-webb-interview-is-there-graphene-oxide-in-the-covid-19-injections/
Delgado et al are a bunch of grifters. They said vax is 90% GO if this were the case it would appear black. If you’d like to see some microscopy examining the contents of the vax with a fully auditable trail, how the vax interacts with a live blood sample under the scope, every step of which is shown on camera so there’s no shinanigans, check out the past streams by Dr. Kevin McCairn (well published Neuro-Biologist). Links to the specific streams are in the pdf, you have to register an email to view them
https://www.mccairndojo.com/library/
TLDR: vax strips the hemoglobin from the blood in <1min, the transition point between the blood/vax clots immediately, blood cells swell beyond anything normal, there’s also a ton of unidetifiable junk, and crystalised material in the vax sample, there is no identifiable GO or alien creatures.
Dr. McCairns analysis is enough to show the vax has contamination problems, serious hematological problems, and needs further respectable analysis. There is no need to conjure up misinformation that can easily be armwaved away as sheer griftery by anyone investigating the background and history of Delgado et al, including any of the other grifters pushing the GO bandwaggon.
The Danes are doing whole genome sequencing on moronic. It would be interesting to see how closely it matches the WGS of pre-existing coronavirii responsible for the common cold versus the original (patient zero ideally) SARS-CoV-2 sequence.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/theres-something-antigenic-in-denmark
Alex Berenson does seem to get over excited at times and make assumptions on what the data says. So I would check this carefully. For example, if more people are vaccinated than not and if the vaccine was ineffective you would have more vaccinated people catching COVID. Vaccinated people are absolutely catching COVID in large numbers though and that fact makes it at best therapeutic not vaccine.
It was only ever a therapeutic. Trials did not show whether the re-purposed gene therapy reduced infection, transmission, hospitalization or death, merely whether it reduced mild symptoms.
If only it was just a poor therapeutic, but the rabbit hole goes much deeper than that.
Error bars for BNT126B2 with a BNT126B2 vs. DELTA? All those tested had exactly the same vaccine effectiveness?
If you replaced the title of this article with ‘colds are holding their own against flu’ then I could perhaps believe it
SARS-CoV-2 requires a match of 3 primers in a RT-PCR test. Moronic only matches 2. So it is simultaneously covid and not-covid.
The most common symptoms of moronic are a runny nose, headache, fatigue, frequent sneezing, and a sore throat.
It sounds suspiciously like a cold to me.
Yes – if it looks like a cold and makes you sneeze like a cold …………
“Scientists are urging the Prime Minister to bring in restrictions quickly”
What do governments normally do when “scientists” give them advice they don’t like?
They find other scientists!
One can only conclude they like this advice.
Put more simply, both Delta and Omicron are competing for hosts to continue their survival. There are millions who had Delta (or other way of achieving Delta resistance), and Delta will struggle to reinfect. Their number of potential hosts are fewer due to its prior success. Omicron by being able to sidestep some of Delta’s (and other means of building immunity) prior work, has more hosts and moves faster (Amazon delivery compared to Royal Mail). But in due time (within the month) Omicron will be stealing Delta’s potential hosts entirely. In part because Delta makes people sick enough to remove themselves from circulation, thus stopping its spread while Omicron, 80%+ are either asymptomatic or so mild they keep going.
In the long run Delta will disappear because it can’t find housing. It will move to another nation looking for new hosts, but mind find like former ISIS brides that no nation is willing to accept it.
Son, not jabbed, got Covid earlier in the year. Fine after a few days, as were his family. Now got Omicron (“like bad cold”) as have all his workmates. All double jabbed, some boosted, ALL returned positive tests. None of them ill. Place of work closed. Fuck off Javid, fuck off Johnson
The super killer mega virus that doesnt even produce any symptoms. Keep believing people, its only your freedom on the line
I will declare that I am very concerned that our leaders are blatantly gaslighting the public. Some of the ‘data’ shared recently has been obviously wrong. I have no idea why.
We are very much dependent upon the information shared with us.
Denmark has a similar demographic to the UK but is more open with its people.
Their Omicron variant report of 18 Dec (see link below) details on page 7 the vaccine status of 100k people identified with Omicron.
Surprisingly boostered people have about the same resistance as the unvaccinated.
The ‘Fully vaccinated’ are 10 times more likely to catch it.
This is a good recommendation for having the booster, but it does beg the question whether this implies a need for 2 – 3 boosters a year to top up the decline in effectiveness.
Should we be concerned that the cumulative effect of multiple vaccines has not been tested.?
https://www.ssi.dk/-/media/cdn/files/covid19/omikron/statusrapport/rapport-omikronvarianten-17122021-ep96.pdf?la=da
Theyre not vaccines – they are injecting people with a synthetic genetic code that was designed in a computer that hijacks the machinery of the cells to force them to produce a toxic synthetic protein found nowhere else in nature. No one is being immunised against anything, they are just turning their body in to a factory of a toxic synthetic protein via a process just like genetic modification. All for a virus which either doesnt exist – and the concrete evidence has not been produced anywhere on Earth that this does exist – or its a low mortality rate virus with a survival rate of 99.85percent plus, as determined by the very best in the business as early as March 2020. Either way, the rollout of these injections is criminal and evil in the extreme, and its highly likely that many of the jabbed will die before their time as a result. Calling these things vaccines is “gaslighting” people in and of itself
We should be concerned that they are being used at all. We should be concerned that we pump trillions in taxes to pay people to make the world a better place, when in reality all they are doing is fucking it up and destroying everything that makes life special. Theyre a bunch of criminals. We have criminals making important decisions on our behalf. Thats what we should be concerned about.
Yup, it’s a protection racket – comply or be punished and comply or everyone gets punished (thus turning the compliant against the non-compliant). It’s so bleeding obvious I despair.
Extortion – the act of gangsters, that is, organised crime (or in Bozo’s case disorganised crime)
Too true – organised crime is exactly what this is, with a sprinkling of occultism to make it nice and dark.
There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19. Any hospital administrator who mandated the shots to employees to comply with the government mandate for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and who refused to allow alternative treatments to be tried, doctors who pushed their patients to take the EUA drug without giving fully informed consent, anyone who forcefully administered the shot, the AMA, AAP, Boards of Health, CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, scientists who participated in the development, Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astra Zeneca, et. al.), anyone who pushed the sick into nursing homes resulting in deaths, all must be arrested, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to prolonged imprisonment and fines or death for intentional homicide. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
How so when..US lawyer Dr Francis Boyle has evidence that Harvard U Chem. Dept. Dr. Ch. Lieber & Oz. Health Dept aided Wuhan Labs in the project to create the bio-weapon spike protein.
The Identity of the Virus: Health/ Science Institutions Worldwide “Have No Record” of SARS-COV-2 Isolation/Purification.
By Christine Massey, December 05, 2021
As a spike protein cannot be idented as a virus, the 1M US$ reward by Dr. Russell Blaylock for its ident is NOT taken up.
Dr. Kary Mullins, inventor of the PCR test stated that his test only idents strands of DNA from Hep. and Flu.
US Dr. Elisabeth Eads studies noted that the PCR test gives 97% false positives.
WHO on Jan. 20, 2021 in their Directive #202005 stated that the PCR test is of NO VALUE.. this superseding their Jan.20.2020 advice to do PCR tests.
Global Research. 11.11.21. Dr. Ayyana Love. Graphine Oxide in the injection as a means to deliver nanotech. into our blood.