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This is the best article I read in the past 24 hours. It does tell us what we already knew, or should have known. Vaccines have no apparent effect on Omicron. Omicron symptoms are the same as a coronavirus common cold, because Omicron is a coronavirus common cold, but it is MORE dangerous than other common colds. Simply because so many people are getting infected with Omicron. While the probability of hospitalization is small, and death is rare, just like any other common cold, that's not obvious when so many people get infected at the same time.
Unfortunately Omicron spreads so easily even six foot social distancing won't work to prevent infections. If you are in the same room as an Omicron infected person, or even in the same home, with all windows closed, your immune system will be challenged. Especially if you are older with one or more cormorbidities.
My own practice for a healthier immune system includes remaining calm about Omicron -- it's only a common cold. I also have added supplements to my diet, the first three for at least 50 years, and quercetin since early 2021.
I am not a doctor, but a real doctor is unlikely to give you any valuable advice like this. Or even treat Covid symptoms until they gets bad enough to send you to a hospital (medical malpractice in my opinion).
My daily dosages, including amounts in a multi-vitamin pill:
Vitamin C = 1,060 mg
Vitamin D = 4,500 IU
Zinc = 61mg
Quercetin = 500 mg
My editing is primarily finding 10 good articles for my three blogs each day. That's not work for me. When I find a good article, I often change the title so it summarizes the article. I did with this article. Sometimes a remove a few sentences to make the article better. Such as deleting predictions (they are so often wrong). If there are charts I usually use my iPhoto software to make them easier to read. I also put one space between each sentence, so the article is easier for me to read. Long articles may get a summary and a link to the original article.
I've been saying for many weeks that Omicron is a new coronavirus common cold that spreads very easily. It is not a new Covid variant because it has the same symptoms as a common cold. And 30 mutations of the spike protein, versus Delta Covid -- a new Covid variant would have hd only one or two mutations and symptoms similar to the prior Covid variant.
Unfortunately the tests for Covid are positive for any coronavirus, sometimes for weeks after your immune system has defeated the virus. So don't waste your time or money getting tested. Even a perfectly accurate test will only tell you about the moment you were tested. You could be infected with Omicron five minutes after a positive test. So if you feel sick, then assume you are sick. You don't need a test to know you feel sick.
Treat Omicron like a common cold that very easily spreads. Don't panic. You'll be back to normal in a few days. And if Omicron can "crowd out" Delta Covid, this pandemic will end. No matter how hard government officials scaremonger the population.
I predict the pandemic will be over by this Summer. You can't use the term "pandemic" if the primary illness is a common cold like Omicron. We are herding in that direction. I don't know when government fascism will end, especially for those of us who are not vaccinated, and plan to stay that way.
Total US deaths in 2021 will exceed 2020 -- it's hard to believe the vaccines were a success with such disappointing results of total US mortality. And reported vaccine side effects remain unprecedented in the history of US vaccines.
I will not volunteer to get spike proteins in my body, created by taking an experimental vaccine with severe short term adverse side effects, and unknown long term adverse side effects. Those spike proteins are going to have to fight me to get inside my body -- I won't volunteer to get them "injected" !
Ye Editor
"On Saturday, Israel had 84,000 new infections, the equivalent of almost 3 million in the United States.
Infections in Israel have risen unthinkably fast since late December.
They’re are up 100-fold in one month, driven by the collapse of booster protection and the arrival of the Omicron variant.
Israel is not alone.
Denmark reported 42,000 cases yesterday, equal to almost 2.5 million in the United States.
France, the second-largest country in Europe, reported the American equivalent of about 12 million new infections in the last week.
Australia had a tremendous surge in cases earlier this month, though it seems to be subsiding for now.
These countries have very different population demographics and previous exposure to Covid.
They even have very different weather; it is summer in Australia.
What do they share, then?
Incredibly high Covid vaccination rates, mostly with the mRNA vaccines.
Israel is among the world’s most vaccinated countries.
More than 90 percent of Israeli adults have been vaccinated with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Almost 80 percent have received a booster dose, and several hundred thousand have gotten a fourth.
Yet Israel had more coronavirus infections in the last week than in all of 2020, before it began mass mRNA Covid vaccinations.
Omicron is much milder than Delta or the original coronavirus.
So the data from South Africa - which was the first country where Omicron spread quickly - seemed to show.
But South Africa is quite lightly vaccinated.
The more recent data from the highly vaccinated countries has not been as promising.
Yes, Omicron is milder.
Even so, hospitalizations and deaths are spiking in countries like Israel and Denmark.
In Israel, the number of severely ill patients has risen eightfold this month, and almost fourfold in the last two weeks - even though the true spike in infections has come only in the last few days, and hospitalizations typically lag infections.
In Australia, deaths are up tenfold since in the last four weeks, although from a low base.
In part the rise has come because Omicron infections have reached such stunningly high levels that even a relatively low risk can lead to a significant number of deaths.
And yes, many Omicron hospitalizations are incidental - they are people in the hospital for other reasons who just happen to test positive for Omicron.
But other factors may be at play too. Here are four facts:
1: Both the within-country and the between-country data show that people who are vaccinated but not boosted are at higher risk of Omicron infection than the unvaccinated.
Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
2: Thus vaccines will actually make hospitalization or death from Omicron MORE likely unless they somehow protect against serious outcomes from Covid infections more than they increase the odds of infection. That’s simple math.
At this point we have no way of knowing how those two factors interact. In other words, we do not know if Omicron is more dangerous to the unvaccinated than the vaccinated (putting aside any vaccine side effects).
Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
3: It is unclear whether the vaccines interfere with the development of long-term post-infection immunity in people who are infected with Omicron.
Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
4: It is clear that a third vaccine dose temporarily reduces the risk of serious illness or death from Omicron.
But it is unclear how long that protection will last, and whether when it ends people who have received a third dose will be less or more vulnerable than those who are unvaccinated or have received two doses.
Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
Put these four facts together and it is clear that to encourage booster shots for anyone - including the elderly - at this point is reckless, bordering on criminal.
I have not used language like this before.
I did not discourage older people from the primary vaccination series. But the facts have changed and they continue to change, and not to face this reality is incredibly dangerous.
mRNA Covid vaccinations and boosters need to stop worldwide while we figure out what is happening.
Not next week.
Not tomorrow."
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