Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

No. None at all.

Do you seriously think that people going to crowded areas are taking things way overboard?

So we might as well close pubs and nightclubs again and cancel all outdoor concerts?

Your living in the past. Wear your mask if it makes you feel better and do your social distancing, but let the rest of us get on with life please.

My observation is that roughly 2 every 100 wear masks. Not sure how significant that is, but logic would suggest that 98 have moved on.

If it wasn't for the media and social media we would not have called it a pandemic in the first place.

When did Biden make the comment? It appears the video itself is the lie if you are using Omicron to judge comments made 12 months ago based on the best available data at the time for the variants in circulation.

You haven't provided any evidence to show Biden or Andrews lied. You haven't even provided the source & timings for these statement \ exact phrasings, or any recent citation for when they used the phrase "pandemic of the unvaccinated" in relation to Omicron.

The Qatar study referenced below found that - for Omicron:

The effectiveness of three doses of BNT162b2 and no previous infection was 52.2% (95% CI, 48.1 to 55.9).

So if 100 Australians are vaccinated, that's 52% of cases prevented.

It also found:

The study, the most comprehensive of its kind in investigating different combinations of immunity for omicron-variant SARS-CoV-2 infections, also found evidence that both vaccination and prior infection provided strong and durable protection from severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19 during the omicron wave.

So your statement of fact: "We have known for months before the omicron variant that the vaccines do not prevent infection and transmission" is false and unsupported by any evidence you have provided.

Your post appears to be nothing more than anti vax propaganda.

No doubt vaccine played a huge part to reduce in severe disease and deaths rates, but it also must be said we had lockdowns and restrictions when we had over 90% vaccine uptake.

Sorry but I'm still not getting the point why you brought Trump into this. While he was hospitalised, and unvaccinated because there wasn't a vaccine in place at the time (which you left out) there are a lot more confounding factors to take into account. (Obesity being one )

Is the CFR the same as previous strains in unvaccinated ?? Do you have a link to this information

I'm not on twitter at all tbh so I'm not one that gives out about tweets,

I'll look into the cfr rate at some point in time. Not something I'm overly concerned about tbh

I'd be flabbergasted if the CFR for Omicron was anything like earlier variants. To attribute the reduction in hospitalisations purely to vaccinations seems a teeny weeny optimistic to put it mildly.

South Africa seems to fare just fine with Omicron and a low vaccination rate. I thought it was generally accepted Omicron was less lethal than previous variants.

Even esteemed epidemiologist Bill Gates has said Omicron done a better job than the vaccines:

This is what happened when Omicron hit Hong Kong - older demographic without immunity from either vaccines or previous infection.

Even if Omicron is less severe, it is more infectious. IN the numbers game of hospital capacity, without vaccines, it is major threat to capacity.

if vaccinations are so crucial from keeping people out of hospitals and protecting from death, why highly vaccinated countries i.e. Israel (almost entire population with 4 doses), New Zealand and others are being absolutely wiped out when it comes to excess deaths this year? A 20-40% of excess deaths does not seem insignificant to me. What is causing those deaths if it is presumably not covid?

https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676