Coming straight from all over the corporate media: We should never have locked down, isolated, or vaccinated! If we had gone for herd immunity, like South Africa and many other countries, Omicron would be passing over us like a common cold. By locking down and mass-vaccinating the population, we weakened our immune systems AND prevented herd immunity, making us sitting ducks as omicron approaches. They're telling us the only option now for North America and Europe is to continue the mass vaccinations, or Omicron may destroy our healthcare systems, a risk we can't take.
You can find variations of this story in almost every mainstream news source right now, but I'm quoting from this announcement in my provincial paper.
Is omicron dangerous?
Everybody and their dog wants to know how severe omicron's symptoms are. Does it cause serious illness? Does it cause hospitalizations and deaths? We know it's highly transmissible, and many officials are now saying they believe every human will be exposed to omicron soon (if they haven't been already). So the quadrillion dollar question is: How bad is it?
South Africa, which has been dealing with omicron since it originated there 3 months ago, just published a large detailed study on this very topic. It found "people diagnosed with omicron were 80% less likely to be admitted to hospital than those diagnosed with another variant."
Just as people around the world are now reporting, omicron is so mild that most don't even know they had it. It spreads fast, like a cold, and the symptoms are now about the same as other cold viruses. Covid has become endemic! The data from South Africa just keeps coming, and it only points at an incredibly mild form, which is rapidly replacing delta as the dominant strain.
That's not in dispute. The official narrative is now going to have to acknowledge that Covid is no longer a threat to individuals. Even elderly people who get omicron have essentially no chance of hospitalization. Sure, we still don't know everything about it, but all indications are that it's now just another common cold virus. Which is to be expected, since that's always what happens with respiratory virus pandemics.
Here we see that omicron produced many positive test results, but passed quickly and posed little risk:
But....
The study's author was first in line to remind the world that while these findings are promising, omicron could still potentially devastate Western healthcare systems, because so few people there have natural immunity. "60% to 70% of people in South Africa have had a prior COVID-19 infection," she points out. Thanks to lockdowns, isolation, masking, and mass-vaccination, only about 20% of people in Western countries are thought to have recovered from a previous Covid infection, granting them acquired (natural) immunity.
"The study’s findings could likely be generalized to other countries that also have very high levels of previous infection. What is unclear is whether the picture will be similar in countries where there are high levels of vaccination but very low levels of previous infection." And all over the world, state officials parrot the idea that we can't assume South Africa's mild experience with omicron will be duplicated in places that locked down and vaccinated. We can't compare apples to oranges, they say.
So if we hadn't vaccinated and locked down, but did what South Africa and Sweden did (achieved mass natural immunity), omicron would result in many cases, but few hospitalizations, and we wouldn't need to be cancelling Christmas, segregating society, collapsing our economy, and sentencing countless more people to death-by-lockdown.
And this is how they admit they were wrong all along? Let me guess, they will soon pull out the 'how could we have known this would happen?' card!
Similar Danish study
A separate Danish study is quoted as finding "omicron cases were three times less likely to be admitted to hospital than cases with other variants", which backs up what has been seen in so many South African studies.
This seems to provide the answer we're looking for. Omicron is so mild, and so contagious, it is quickly spreading to every person on the planet who isn't in full isolation, and granting them lasting natural immunity, without any risk to the healthcare system. In other words, we need to call off the "vaccines", and the lockdowns, the masks, and all the other restrictions. The "health passports" have no use and can be abolished. Those responsible for lying to the public over the past 2 years can be investigated and dealt with. We can start getting back to our lives.
But wait! Just as with encouraging data from South Africa, experts already have an excuse for why Denmark's experience doesn't apply elsewhere - because many of the infected there are youth. "It is primarily young and vaccinated people who are infected with Omicron," meaning we can't be sure the same will happen anywhere else.
Imagine if the South African (or Danish) findings were that omicron is much MORE dangerous than other variants, leading to a spike in hospitalizations? The mainstream media "experts" would immediately tell us we must heed the results, assume the same thing will happen here, and assume the worst. In reality, the findings are that omicron is almost harmless, and the "experts" find a reason to disregard them, and assume the worst.
Because it's all about getting as many people as possible onto these permanent gene therapy shots and associated microchips. Even if they have to say "duhhh, we had no idea, sorry" in order to make it happen.
You can't hijack humanity for 2 years, and then just say "accidents happen". Besides, most of us know: It wasn't an accident.
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Iraq was hijacked for 20 years after blaming there being no weapons of mass destruction on bad intel. Oops.
Much has been accomplished during the two years of lockdowns. Not for your average citizen nor their businesses and livelihoods. However for authoritarianism and their historical partners, multi-national corporations, it has been a spectacular windfall.
I'm surprised they didn't wipe off all dissenting countries off the map and call it "climate change".
Hard to believe they're going this route. Are they really backed into a corner?
Maybe there's a black swan event just around the corner.
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How are we going to stop these psychos?
It's atomic-scale gaslighting when they ruin us for 2 years and then say "if we had just let the virus run its course, it would be over by now". WHAT THE FUUUUCCKKK!!?!?!!!
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I dunno, man. I'm not seeing this all just "poofing" away with an "oopsie, sorry".
However, I'll entertain the thought, because it makes sense the more I think about it:
Perhaps covid was our generation's 9/11. We got riled up (well, I'm not American and was too young to care, but you get the idea...), decided as a civilized world that it was OK to invade Iraq (& Afghanistan) because, reasons...
The country got plundered and then the people in power shrugged with a "woopsie, my bad". Meanwhile, as an excuse we get Snowden, Assange, and others showing us just how much smaller the world has become.
But it's all a silent war, and we've lost. No one's fighting the NSA. No one is denying 24/7 access to their personal data. No one bats an eye when someone in Australia gets visited by cops for a mean post on Facebook. No, instead as a sign of "protest" we post it all over... well, Facebook! We use the monkey tools that enslave us and think we are somehow denting the system.
TL;DR Covid will be over once the Overton Window and govt powers have shifted enough for Covid to outlive its usefulness. Life will become a little worse every step, but we won't really remember what it was like before then, anyway
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What a great quote. Only Einstein could've come up with something better!
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How this was not clear from the start is beyond me. However, however - Omicron SHOULD be a blessing, were our govts not trying to kill us.
In response to a rapidly spreading, almost-harmless virus, we should be dancing and rejoicing, opening borders to every foreign person so he can spread his viral load all over our societal faces.
As a result, we will all achieve herd immunity for a very low price (for what it's worth, there IS a price to "just letting it go rampant" - a few people still get really sick and/or die) and put covid behind us.
However, since we're ruled by either the biggest morons in history or the most Machiavellian minds of all time, we're going to be tortured for a bit longer, until whenever Covid outlives its usefulness.
Yay, 2022.
Is this a real CNN article? It honestly wouldn't surprise me if it was. CNN was one of the main people attacking Sweden for ages.
What's really alarming is coming to grips what the ultimate goal of all this is - more than just getting people to comply, it's almost like injecting CHAINS into the blood, declaring their property. A world slave system.
This is a kind of mishaps,as it was found in the end of 2019 as COVID. We are facing the same cases of OMICRON near KALAT where we we found more than 30 cases.