But not to worry. Dr Angelique Coetzee, the South African doctor who first spotted the new Covid variant Omicron, says the patients seen so far have had mild symptoms. Thing is, though, that infection with Omicron will induce antibodies not just to the highly mutated Omicron spike protein, but all 17 other proteins possessed by the virus.
This antibody response is relatively short-lived, just like the Covid vax that needs to be repeated every few months if it is to remain effective. However, infection by Omicron creates memory cells that record both the genome of the virus and the recipe for all the antibodies that the immune system created in response to the infection. That means that the immune system will promptly recognize a future infection by any Covid strain, however mutated. Furthermore, the immune system will retain a memory of the antibodies it needs to destroy the virus and will, thus, begin pumping those out much sooner than if faced by a previously unknown virus.
What this means is that Omicron, whether naturally occurring or created anonymously in the lab, will serve as a live vaccine. As it spreads throughout the population, it will greatly reduce the incidence of severe illness due to Covid. Covid then will join the collection of viruses that cause what is known as the comon cold.
So good-bye Covid. Good-bye the vax. Welcome back bad winter colds. Oh and good-bye to vax passports and the Western version of China's Social Credit system of totalitarian social control -- for now. But never forget the enthusiasm of Western dictator-wannabes, when they believed totalitarian control was within their reach.
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ReplyDeleteI was looking at your sidebar and there for a second mistook Carson Tucker for Justin Trudeau.
Of course Carson Tucker (or Trucker) is a man of the people, or better said, a clone of the people.
I'd be worried for you if you retired to the Falklands. What would you do if Margaret "ball-breaker" Thatcher's ghost apprehended you? At the very minute you were reaching for the delectable egg of the blue-footed boobie?
Thatcher wouldn't have cared about the egg. She'd have been happy to see one eat both egg and bird: it would eliminate grounds for environmentalist objections to paving the place over as a base for nuclear bombers.
DeleteWeird, I didn't like Elizabeth's likeness on your money, and hated the exchange rate bullshit, too. "Dominion" was to me, a rather pretty word. I've got an anglophile strain in me. Couldn't say why. As an American, I have often wondered why we have the bicameral system with what we call a Senate, supposedly replacing a house of lords. We still elect the boogers-- to thwart and second guess us, to backseat drive. You guys? You kidding me? Your "senate" is appointed.
ReplyDeleteLords are appointed. Interesting.
That was interesting how Jordan Peterson and Rex Murphy attempted to create a good solid devil's advocate position for the rationality of martial law. I thought the idea the trucker's actions were insurrection same as the most horrible challenge to American democracy, January 6th, first year of our lord, Biden. Stamp that out! Nip it in the bud!
Boston Tea Party! Who thought of those who owned the tea? The "revolutionary" war. British officers were killed, and that meant summary execution. Yet we suffer chief of murder George Washington to be "lionized".
Queen Elizabeth II is not Queen of Canada by virtue of being Queen of England. She was made Queen Elizabeth II of Canada by a 1953 Act of the Canadian Parliament. Why she was named Queen Elizabeth II of Canada when there had been no Queen Elizabeth I of Canada is difficult to understand, and can give rise to the mistaken notion that she is jointly Queen of Britain and Canada rather that, as is the case, separately Queen of England and Queen of Canada -- which explanation I hope makes everything clear.
DeleteAs for our Senate, the members are mostly non-partisan appointees of at least modest distinction, journalists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, etc., with an average IQ probably a good few points higher than most Members of Parliament not excluding the Prime Minister. Furthermore, Senators are appointed almost for life (until the age of 75) so they are a fairly independent-minded lot. As such, they are well qualified to serve in what has been called Canada's "House of Sober Second Thoughts." And it may well have been fear of Senate rejection that prompted Trudeau to drop his declared state of emergency before the Senate had a chance to apply some sober second thoughts and negate the Government's intention.
"And it may well have been fear of Senate rejection that prompted Trudeau to drop his declared state of emergency before the Senate had a chance to apply some sober second thoughts and negate the Government's intention."
DeleteThis is a nice example of how I get a little overwrought at times and splash the "fascist" label irresponsibly.