The Omicron variant

Groan. The same posters keep posting the exact same message from the beginning about how we need to live with the virus, no point waiting for a vaccine, no point getting a second vaccine, no point getting a booster, no pont getting getting fourth vaccine...

Never giving credit for the fact that covid might not have gotten much less harmful, it is much less harmful to a vaccinated population, and still always trying to put the brakes on any effort to vaccinate, to be cautious and to wait for the evidence to make decisions. It's boring and unthinking.

There will come a time to go back towards normal and hopefully this wave will be the last significant one. And they'll be right at some point, like the stopped clock is right at some point. And then they'll claim they were right all along and we should have done nothing from the start. Boring and unthinking. The kind of people who will never be in a position to make decisions because they're not equipped to make decisions. The safest people to make wild pronouncements because there's no real chance they will be listened to.

Aye, i have learned not to read the condescending posts of rubbish that’s constantly spewed out repeatedly over and over by certain posters. I have no idea what was in the post because when i see certain usernames i just scroll on because it’s just the same old i’m so perfect and know better than anyone else BS posts. But going by your yawn emoji i could hazard a guess lol.

Yeah.

LOL. The curiosity got the better of me and so against my better judgement and i thought i’d read and see what your response to my post was and reply ., i won’t be replying to further posts from you though. Just thought i’d get a few things straight.

Firstly i never ever claimed the pandemic was over. Show me where i posted that i said it was over or please retract your claim and admit that you were wrong and stop making things up. I’m quite aware we are in the middle of a pandemic and never have claimed otherwise. I have had the 3 jabs and i still practice all the health guidelines.

The current restrictions “ this winter” haven’t affected me much at all i’m glad to say and has gone as planned and as i had hoped because of the vaccine roll out. I’m happy enough. I can go to a restaurants and In the last few months i have travelled out of the country 4 times and in 2 weeks i’ll be in Florida visiting family . My work hasn’t been affected either i never needed the PUP. All is as normal. Unless you are a pub goer the restrictions will affect you more but i’m not really into pubs.

My life is more or less pre 2019. Sure i have to wear a mask etc, have a test before i travel but i’m used to it and for me it’s a small price to pay.

More good news: Omicron, lower viral load, mostly bronchi (upper tract) much less in lungs (oxygen needed because of inflammation), mild symptoms even in the unvaccinated (mice and hamsters).

It confirms what was reported some weeks ago w data from SA and is happening everywhere else, Omicron replacing Delta, a tough few weeks ahead..

You should write a book and retire on the proceeds.

The Chinese need to up their game.

A lot of people have been following Omicron for weeks, it's been reported on since mid-November, including its potential mildness by our own COVID obsessed media. Yes, that information on animals emerged a few days ago.

You spent all the early part of the year telling all and sundry there would be no restrictions this winter. Called anyone who said there could be need for restrictions depending on whether there were more variants this winter various names like 'misery merchants'. That was you, wasn't it?

Sure you don't read my posts - except you do and you know you were dead wrong but you're still coming out with the same tired argument.

And that is why people are asked to regularly test - two three times a week a least. - so if you test positive on a LFT (anti-gen), then next step is to confirm with PCR. Many companies require people to regularly test to help reduce the spread. Omicron is very transmissible.

US hits the million cases

Link ~ Tue 28 Dec 2021 10.29 GMT

Ireland Confirmed GS Cases now 383 (+239) ~ Updated today GISAID

^^^ https://newsnodes.com/omicron_tracker

There's always another one... IHU variant has emerged in France and is said to be more infectious with 46 mutations. Very little information about it available though so difficult to say anything yet. Seems there's several Indian and other Asian news sources panicking about it but U.S. and European news sites seem to have a more calm approach.

https://www.newsweek.com/ihu-covid-variant-b-1-640-2-mutations-identified-france-1665299

They estimated 4 - 5x the officially recorded cases in the UK... similar idea.

But there would still be the risk of yet another variant coming along of course (invariably from some other part of the world).

We never actually got down to double figures at any point in 2021. Let's see if it happens later this year.