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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