I Just Had a Cold, Or Was It Omicron? Either Way, Covid Is Finished. Now Watch For the Recovery Stock Market Boom, Then Bust

 What are the symptoms of the Omicron variant of  Covid-19? 

According to CNBC, they are:

1. Runny nose. Check, had that.

2. Headache. Had that too, but only mildly.

3. Fatigue (either mild or severe). Sure, had a nap yesterday afternoon.

4. Sneezing. Yup, sneezed a coupla times.

5. Sore throat. Definitely, and persistent, though not severe.

Which are pretty much the symptoms of the common cold.

So that's it. The Covid panic is over, or soon will be. Omicron, vastly more infectious than every other Covid variant, has reduced SARS-CoV-2 to the status of just one more common cold virus. The modelers with their tangled computer code and preposterous predictions can now return to the academic obscurity that they so richly deserve. The politicians with their vast and needless budget deficits engineered in the name of Covid, can now start thinking about a return to solvency.

As for the World, the celebrations will shortly begin, these to be marked by a Covid-recovery stock market surge before rationality sets in and the huge cost of Dr. Fauci's foolish funding of Chinese gain-of-function virus research is assessed.

But please note, we're not anti-vax. Want a jab? Go get it, it probably won't kill you. 

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* Severity of symptoms may vary. I had Covid early last year, meaning I have long-lived, full spectrum immunity to the novel Corona virus in whatever form it may appear. To those without prior Covid infection, Omicron may be tough, as was the worst childhood cold I remember, which was likely my first Corona virus infection.

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“Super Immunity”: Pandemic collapses into self-parody

The Covid19 “vaccines” don’t work. They’ve admitted it, and now they’re seriously trying to tell us it’s actually a good thing.

What “working” really means when your pandemic is nothing but wave after wave of meaningless positive tests and weasel-worded changes to the meaning of “cause of death”, is a different discussion for another time.

Indeed, whether they were ever meant to work, what they are actually for and why the establishment needs to push them so hard, are interesting questions for a future article.

For now, let us confine ourselves to Big Pharma’s stated intention: The “vaccines” are allegedly meant to stop the spread of “Covid19”. They don’t do it.

The “vaccines” are not even true vaccines by the traditional definition. People who have been “vaccinated” still get infected, and can still spread the infection to other people.

Such infections are called “breakthrough cases”, and their existence has run a familiar course in the media.

First they didn’t exist, then they did exist but they were rare, then they weren’t that rare but they were mild…and now they’re not just mild, they’re actually a good thing…because of “super immunity”.

That’s right, getting sick after being vaccinated might actually be good for you, according to a recent study, currently getting wall-to-wall coverage in the press. 

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Confirming that Omicron is a dud, UK reports Omicron hospitalizations rise to a grand total of 14 That's hospitalizations not deaths which, in the UK, typically run at a rate around 1600 a day. 

UK: New Covid cases breach 100,000 for first time: Daily infections hit 106,122 - up 35% -- mounting evidence Omicron IS 'milder' Wow! A hundred thousand cases a day sounds terrifying. But remember, at this time of year there are usually something like a million cases a day of the common cold. 

Daily Moil: NHS staffing crisis timebomb: 130,000 workers - nearly ten per cent of the workforce - are STILL not fully jabbed Yeah, well, so what? Most of them have already had Covid, most likely acquired in the hospital, so the unjabbed hospital staff have better Covid immunity than the merely jabbed. And what exactly is supposed to happen when this supposed crisis detonates, to pursue the bomb analogy?

And Here's a Good One!

Triple-Vaccinated More Than FOUR Times As Likely to Test Positive For Omicron Than Unvaccinated, Data Shows 

Or as the authors of this piece put it with classic understatement: 

"The data from the ONS Infection Survey, while provisional, adds support to the claim that the Omicron variant has significant vaccine evading ability." LOL

But note, this is further proof that the vaccine hastens viral spread. 

Why? 

Because folks have accepted the understandable but false assumption that the vax prevents infection and transmission. Thus they act without the caution of people who have not been vaccinated but who take sensible precaution against either catching or spreading the virus. 

The Most Important Quote of the Pandemic

“The idea that everybody needs to be vaccinated (against Covid19) is ... scientifically baseless. [T]hose who’ve been infected are already immune.”  Martin Kulldorff, Epidemiologist, Harvard Medical School Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University

Meaning that the epidemic will be over as soon as most people have gained immunity through infection. Then we will have herd immunity, which is to say that there will be enough people with durable and robust natural immunity to prevent further flareups of the disease. 

Covid infections will continue, particularly among new recruits to the population, these being mainly children who are at negligible risk from the disease. In addition, infections will occur among those previously infected. However, such infections will generally be either asymptomatic or of limited severity due to immune system priming by prior infection. In particular, memory T-cells in mucosal epithelia will recognize the virus and instigate an early, broad-spectrum, immune system response that prevents the development of a high viral load and hence severe illness or high infectiousness. 

What that means is that masks, lockdowns, and social distancing, by impeding achievement of herd immunity, do not hasten, but rather delay, the end of the Covid pandemic.

Further it means that we are being consistently, insistently, persistently, and insolently lied to by people such as Dr. Fauci -- the man who financed the creation of Covid -- who pretend that we must give up our natural right to work and to socialize freely until such time as we have all been jabbed with an untested and, in at least tens of thousands of cases, lethal so-called vaccine that fails either to prevent infection or disease transmission and that has to be renewed frequently to confer whatever minimal benefit it is supposed to provide.

For those with conditions predisposing to severe Covid illness, vaccination may be advisable. For healthy individuals under 50, the advisability of vaccination plus twice-yearly booster shots with a vaccine that has already caused hundreds of thousands if not millions of adverse effects, including tens of thousands of deaths, is highly questionable. 

For tyrannical governments such as that of Canada's Justin the Apologist, a man who lusts for dictatorship, to seek to compel vaccination of the entire population, amounts to a crime against humanity. 

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Suuuuure, Covid19 Did Not Come From the Lab

Hear Fauci-funded Peter Daszak, who subcontracted research to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, on how we create deadly new diseases in the lab:

  

And supporting the out-of-the-lab thesis on the origin of Covid19, if only unintentionally, this absurdly bad article and mostly fatuous comments from the Unz Review, which claims that the virus was created and released by a bunch of dirty NeoCon Jews plus the horrible Steve Bannon intent on war with China.

Yes, there may be dirty NeoCon Jews intent on war with China, but that is not the relevant question. What's relevant is:

(1) Are there people creating dangerous pathogenic viruses in the lab?

And if so,

(2) Are they creating dangerous pathogenic corona viruses with spike protein genetically engineered to increase infectivity and virulence, i.e., viruses that would look just like Covid19.

To which the answer, in both cases, is yes.

Related questions of interests include:

(3) Was such gain-of-function research on pathogenic viruses being conducted in China?

And if so,

(4) Was such work conducted in collaboration with scientists from the US, the UK and other Western countries with US Funding provided, directly or indirectly, by Fauci's National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases?

To which the answer in both cases is yes.

None of this means that Covid19 came from the lab, but it establishes:

First, that Covid19 could be, and in light of other evidence, almost certain is, a lab construct;

Second, that Covid19 could have been released from the lab into the human population in many possible accidental or deliberate ways, including collusion between US and Chinese agents intent on promoting the New World Ordure.

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Time for Fauci and Gates to Sweat

 By Yusef:

Fauci has been nothing more, his entire career, than a tool to the elites who run the country from behind the scenes.

It may be-- maybe-- now the octogenarian tool will be used as the scapegoat for the whole ugly destructive mess.

"We were listening to Dr. Fauci, the nation's 'chief immunologist'-- what else could we do? We had no idea, no idea at all, he was this corrupt. We didn't know he was the bad apple at NIH, spoiling the bunch of great scientific work they otherwise do there."

Dr. Fauci has been touted as if all-knowing, the scientist who knows more than any other scientist, and even knows, just by looking at it, what's credible and what is not.

I mean, come on, look at this. Facebook and Google were censoring anyone who mentioned the lab leak theory. Even though the lab leak theory was the one best supported by what we knew.

A virus with bat and pangolin and then a special furin-activating site which just happened to activate infectivity into humans. Suspected to have originated in a place in China known to have a lab conducting precisely such "gain of function" research, and where lab workers had been hospitalized with "covid-like" symptoms prior to the general outbreak.

But the nation's chief immunologist said that was ridiculous, so it was ridiculous. Until now, when it may turn out to be convenient for the powers that be the nation's chief immunologist be revealed as a conniving buffoon.

If I was Fauci, I would be sweating. But it does look as if he's been sweating all along...

If I was Bill Gates, I would be sweating. Fauci and Gates are connected somehow and this is understood among those paying attention. But Gates probably isn't sweating. Nor has he been sweating all along. He is far too stupid and removed from the realities of daily plebian life to see how vulnerable he actually is right now.

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New York City: The Bronx Tests 27% Positive for Covid-19, And That's Good News, Not Bad

Breaking down the New York City report, Cuomo noted that the Bronx had the highest infection rate of the five boroughs, with a staggering 27.1% of respondents having COVID-19 antibodies. ...  “That number remains obnoxiously and terrifyingly high,” Cuomo said. “It’s not where we want it to be.” Source

There is a pernicious idea that the media, politicians and public health officials in the US, Canada and elsewhere seek to encourage, namely, that the spread of Covid19 is a bad thing. Actually, it's a good thing: here's why.

Epidemics don't end with everyone in quarantine, because life cannot be sustained by a population in perpetual quarantine. Eventually, a quarantined population must get back to work. then people will have to come face to face once again, and the disease will resume it's spread.

So how do epidemics end? They end when the number of people with immunity to the disease rises to the point that the number of people each infected person infects falls below one. At that point, disease spread slows and dies.*

And what determines who has immunity? There are two key factors. One is the acquisition of immunity among those who have been infected and survived the disease. The other is the process of natural selection. Those who lack the necessary immune system genes to fend off the disease die, so that a higher proportion of the residual population has the genes that provide either immunity to infection, or the capacity for recovery from infection.

The seasonal flu is an example of a non-lethal disease that induces immunity in those infected. The plague, or black death, is a an example of a more or less lethal disease that kills many but not all that it infects, leaving a more resistant population more or less immune to the disease.

And, in the worst case, are diseases against which an entire population is vulnerable, and in that case the entire population dies, as was the fate of many Amerindian communities afflicted by diseases brought by explorers and colonists from Europe to the New World.

Covid-19, fortunately, is a relatively mild disease for most who are infected by it, leaving them with protective antibodies that reduce susceptibility to future infection. The Covid epidemics working theirs way through the nations of the world seem to be killing no more than 30 to 40 people per thousand of those infected (at least in the developed world), these being mainly the elderly with existing heart or respiratory diseases**.

The end to the Covid-19 pandemic will thus occur when the virus has gone through every population causing an increased level of immunity that halts the disease's spread.

What proportion of the population must have immunity before the rate of recovery from the disease exceeds the rate of infection is not something that can be exactly predicted, since it depends on the way people in each community interact. In a nation of hermits, the disease would never spread and there could be no epidemic. Otherwise, the particular features of specific communities, in particular the way in which people interact with one another, but also many other factors such as age distribution, air quality, nutrition, etc., determine the infection rate that must be attained before an epidemic dies.

What that means is that although lock-downs, quarantines, social distancing and face masks can slow the spread of disease, they have no effect on the incidence of the disease at which disease spread slows and ultimately stops.

So well done The Bronx. With 27% of the population reported to have antibodies for Covid19, they  may not be there quite yet, but they are well on the way to the condition of so-called herd immunity, when immunity to the pathogen is sufficiently widespread to cause its spread to slow and die even after a return to normal life.

Despite what crackpots such as Ron Unz of the Unz Review, New York State Governor Cuomo and the political class generally, plus most public health officials tell you, the spread of Covid19 and hence of immunity to Covid19 is good news that heralds the return to normality. But don't expect to hear that from the gerontological medical experts, the politicians and the vendors of patent medicines and vaccines now in the limelight and positioned to profit by the present panic.

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* In New York City, the hardest hit place in North America if not the world, the number of new infections reported daily is down to about one third of the peak rate, indicating that, under present conditions of restricted social mobility, herd immunity has been achieved and the epidemic is dying. An end to the lock-downs in NY City may increase the infection rate if the percentage of the population with immunity is insufficiently high for herd immunity under the changed social dynamics. Certainly, an end to the lock-downs will cause a temporary increase in the infection rate, but a new downward trend leading to extinction of the virus will resume within a reasonably short time.

What percentage of the population must have immunity to achieve herd immunity is impossible to model accurately since people do not interact randomly, but in many distinctive ways according to factors such as age, profession, the need to commute, etc. Certainly, the percentage of infected people needed for herd immunity will be less than the theoretical 67% (assuming an R nought of 3.0), and quite possibly less than half that number.

** In the Bronx, with 27% having Covid-19 antibodies, the number infected is around 382,000 people, of whom 1,700 have died for an infection-specific mortality rate of 0.44%. Of those who have died, 545 were resident of nursing homes or adult care facilities, and most had other serious medical conditions. For the remainder of the population the infection-specific mortality rate has been 0.3%. (Source: Riverdale Press).

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