Omicron OMG or LOL: New variant, same
old normal?
Hot Air,
by
Ed Morrissey
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/10/2022 1:00:44 AM
Is America prepared for a new COVID-19 variant and the wave of infections it’s causing? Will vaccines hold up against it? More to the point, it’s already upon us … and doesn’t appear to be creating any new issues.
That’s not to say that everyone’s sanguine about it. The teachers-union leader that fought to keep schools closed for the better part of two years declared that “Covid isn’t over” (via Twitchy): The Washington Post editorial board declared that the arrival of the latest variant, Omicron BA.5, means that “the finish line in this race is nowhere to be seen”:
What’s BA.5? This is the latest subvariant of omicron,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2022 1:06:44 AM (No. 1211511)
In history, all pandemics gradually wind down as the disease organism mutates to become less deadly and more easily transmitted, and the disease host population develops immunity.
I don't see any reason to imagine that this ChiCom virus will be any different. Mutation is just random errors in replication of the virus, and the evolutionary pressure is relentlessly in the direction of more easily transmitted and less harmful. Always has been the case.
For some viruses, smallpox for example, they are DNA based viruses, which are extremely stable over time, on a time scale of centuries, which means that our "herd immunity" is fairly good, and that our actual vaccines are effective for generations.
The coronavirus, OTOH, is an RNA virus, which is very unstable, rapidly accumulating errors and thus, mutations, over a time span of weeks to months.
The Dem-panic Karens are just blowing smoke.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2022 1:10:28 AM (No. 1211515)
The secondary effect of the rapid mutation of the RNA viruses is that any vaccine, no matter how effective it might be at one point in time, will very rapidly become ineffective as the virus mutates.
It was a stupid waste of time and effort to even try to make a vaccine (even a GOOD ONE) against an RNA virus. Just stupid, and the real virologists said this publicly many times. And Dr. Beagle Torture and his idiot sidekick, The Scarf Lady, somehow managed to override the pre-existing plans for pandemics and put in place the hideous mess that we had to live through or die from, while the Big Pharma companies raked in billions.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 7/10/2022 2:45:52 AM (No. 1211528)
If you already had Covid and have not had the jab then you are probably immune to any variant. So don’t worry about it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 7/10/2022 4:25:13 AM (No. 1211552)
The communist party USA is proving itself to be a one trick pony, with the eyes always on the prize of bringing down our culture and society. There are only two threats, and everything else emanates from them. Covid/shots, and Orange Man Bad. If it stops working they "circle back" and try again later.
I'll give them credit, it has worked up to now.
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We would be at herd immunity and past all of this if the idiots in our government had not gone against all known virus wisdom and vaccinated in the midst of a pandemic. These boosters are creating the ongoing covid. If you choose to take a booster (that clearly has not worked the first two or three or four times), please stay away from me!
I will never be in the graph of hospitalized covid patients. Our government approved "protocols" have killed thousands and hospitals are a dangerous place to be. If you have to go, tell the "hospitalist" that you refuse remdesivir, and you refuse to be put on a vent. Observe their disgust when you say that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/10/2022 7:35:33 AM (No. 1211607)
If this variant is what we had 4 weeks ago, it’s no big deal. I’m almost 70 and hubby is 74. We both had 2-3 days of headache and low fever and another 5 days of fatigue. That was it. No loss of taste or smell and we’re both back to all of our activities including working out.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/10/2022 7:38:27 AM (No. 1211608)
All you really need to know is that your government is a filthy liar about everything. Just say no and live your life.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 7/10/2022 7:47:01 AM (No. 1211618)
Just preceeding a November election....???
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 7/10/2022 8:00:49 AM (No. 1211623)
The people who are vaxxed etc seem to be the ones getting it. Ordinary people can see this but the press and govt just ignores that fact. People are still losing their jobs over not getting the shot. Who now trusts their dr or govt?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
franq 7/10/2022 8:24:54 AM (No. 1211636)
That is true, #1, but there is always the possibility of China unleashing some fresh pestilence upon us.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
erobot 7/10/2022 8:45:54 AM (No. 1211647)
Another diversion for the frothing mobs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/10/2022 9:27:53 AM (No. 1211684)
What, the seasonal cold is back again? Before Pfizer, J & J, Moderna, Merck, etc, people spent a few days in bed feeling lousy then went back to work.Thank goodness for modern drugs.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/10/2022 9:53:37 AM (No. 1211715)
I believe that the statistics, even as fraudulent as they were, have told the real story of this virus strain. Its seriousness has been pretty much limited to those segments of our population already susceptible to death, i.e., those with multiple co-morbidities, very aged, or severely immuno-compromised. You don't have to be a professional mathematician/computer expert (which I am) to see that. Yes, there were exceptions, but essentially, COVID was a biological wildfire that swept through the deadwood and severely diseased trees in the forest and left the healthy trees and saplings standing.
All the rest of what has happened the last few years has been deliberately manipulated and politically/financially motivated hysteria. That's it. And I must say it has seriously singe-ed pretty much the entire medical profession with third degree burns.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 7/10/2022 10:50:45 AM (No. 1211765)
I was speaking to a nurse over the phone reguarding labs and mentioned going to the local urgent care who had all the diagnostic equipment. She said, oh no don’t go there this weekend for they will be overflowing with Covid cases. My mind said, what? How do you know this? Oh that’s right. Staff shortages will back up waiting rooms because of Covid policies, not infections
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jinx 7/10/2022 11:07:45 AM (No. 1211785)
Follow the money and the politics. This has nothing to do with health.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
FLCracker 7/10/2022 11:16:35 AM (No. 1211801)
Do you think, perhaps, that NOT wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding other human beings, etc. may be the reason the variants aren't doing much of anything?
#12, So instead of saying, "oh, I had a cold last week", we can now say, "oh, I had a covid last week"? :-)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/10/2022 11:45:14 AM (No. 1211838)
#6 - hubby and I are recovering from COVID. We had pretty much the same experience you and your hubby had - headache, fever, fatigue, but never bad enough to keep us in bed. We just stayed at home and took OTC remedies and are doing fine.
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