A person in the UK is reported to have died with the Omicron variant of COVID
As usual, we are given virtually no context by which to understand the meaning of the news. And that is obviously by design, since authorities must have more details than the bare bones they’re giving out, details they could release without compromising the person’s identity or privacy.
Like for example: age? Reason for admission to the hospital? Comorbidities? Exactly what vaccines did the person have, and when (for example, since this is the UK, it might have been the relatively ineffective AstraZeneca)?
At least one person in the UK has died with the Omicron coronavirus variant, the prime minister has said.
Boris Johnson said the new variant was also resulting in hospital admissions, and the “best thing” people could do was get their booster jab.
Note the use of the word “with” in that first sentence. Note also the immediate pushing of the booster. Now, don’t get me wrong – I’ve had a booster and I did it unhesitatingly. But that was my decision. I made it for a number of what I consider good reasons, and I trust other people to make their own decisions.
And that’s about it for what we know about this person, except that in another article (I can’t rmember where I read it) I noticed that they were saying that this person who died with Omicron was diagnosed with it in the hospital. That could mean that this person’s admission was for something entirely different, and that he or she was only found to have COVID through routine testing as part of the admission protocol.
And what has to always be remembered is they KNOW how many deaths are ‘with COVID’ and how many are ‘from COVID’ they just (almost) never release it.
https://healthy-skeptic.com/2021/12/12/what-we-should-have-learned-from-this-epidemic-but-probably-wont/
This is a good picture article and hid point 3 is very important.
If this variant has been around long enough to get its own name and require a travel ban to South Africa and other countries because of it; then the reporting that one person in the world has died with or from is significant in its insignificance. Why does this require a nation’s PM to announce, unless announced alongside a lift on all bans and mandates related to the variant?
They KNOW it all.
They know how many fully vaxxed are testing positive.
They know how many fully vaxxed are being hospitalized.
They know how many fully vaxxed are dying.
They know how many partially vaxxed are testing positive.
The CDC, states, counties, etc. have all this info and could release it any time and allow for massive crowd research but they never do it.
Why?
I notice that our media is now using terms like “COVID related complications” –whatever that means—when they report that the U.S. death toll now reached 900K.
I do not trust the numbers peddled by the press or the government. And I firmly believe that the level of protection an individual seeks is a personal decision. With certain exceptions. I have no issue with certain organizations, like the military, requiring vaccinations. Over the years I was jabbed innumerable times by the Navy. It was a unit readiness issue, and no one questioned it.
Still, I will never disparage the seriousness of the disease for those who experience it. I just learned that the receptionist at my Ophthalmologist was in a coma for a couple of months with COVID. I thought she had departed the practice–no one talked about it. (She is a young woman; who is seriously over weight. I don’t know of any other factors that may have contributed to the severity of her experience.)
I chose to boosted; and will take whatever is offered in the future.
Three nights ago, on our local Fox network station (Ch. 13),
they ran a story about imminent FDA approval of the Pfizer and Merck anti-Covid drugs. Terms like “game changer” and “an end to the pandemic” were used. I thought I would see a big announcement in the newspaper or on the internet about the coming therapeutics and a return to normalcy. So far, crickets. The story mentioned the medicine would cost $530 – $640 per course and that the federal government had ordered a million doses. Big news, right? Well, I guess not. What happened? My guess is that TPTB are not ready to have the game change.
Here’s an article about the drugs:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/how-covid-antiviral-drugs-from-merck-and-pfizer-work-effectiveness.html
Regardless of the new information, its unreliability, or its lack of context, the conclusion is always the same: everybody get vaned then get boosted. This is global warming/climate change all over again: reduce fossil fuel use and shift to unreliables like wind and solar. Is it too much of a stretch to say we are a stupid people?
Is it too much of a stretch to say we are a stupid people?
Yes it’s too much of a stretch. Joe Blow off the sidewalks of Dayton isn’t promoting this nonsense. Our horrid political class is promoting it, with an assist from fragments of the medical establishment and, of course, our embarrassing educational apparat.
‘Is it too much of a stretch to say we are a stupid people?
Yep, agree with Art Deco just go anywhere like concerts, sporting events, restaurants and there are everyday normies living their lives usually maskless.
The normies know this crap is over but are powerless against the elite political class in so many ways.
To justify further ‘restrictions’ they need people to die of Omicron and, the more the better.
Griffin,
You know why. As do all here.
Art Deco,
“Our horrid political class is promoting it, with an assist from fragments of the medical establishment”
fragments of the medical establishments?
The only ‘fragments’ within the medical establishment are those opposing the medical malpractice.
“Liberals finding it difficult to remain in denial”
Pretty funny.
https://youtu.be/si97as8Y25s
J.J., that Pfizer anti-COVID drug would indeed be a game-changer. If Trump were still president, he’d be pushing the FDA hard to approve it and get it into distribution.
When I die I want to die WITH my teddy bear. Just sayin’.
That is the “Drive by media,” as Rush would say. Like a drive by shooting. They come along, throw out a few words and phrases, then keep going without providing context.
jon baker,
No info on types of tests or their accuracy; no info on treatments at different stages of infection; no serious info at all.
To paraphrase Hoffer,
“”Every novel corona virus variant begins as an outbreak, becomes a “dangerous pandemic”, and eventually degenerates into a racket.””
“VACCINATED VARIANT: Only 20% Of Omicron Cases Found In Unvaccinated People, CDC Says”
https://nationalfile.com/vaccinated-variant-20-omicron-cases-found-unvaccinated-people-cdc-says/
What other explanation is there, other than that the ‘vaccines’ have made the jabbed more susceptible to infection? If so, will the boosters render even greater susceptibility to future Covid viruses?
“(She is a young woman; who is seriously over weight. I don’t know of any other factors that may have contributed to the severity of her experience.)”
You do not need any other factors to die from Covid–it’s the fat alone that is a death sentence.
That every American doesn’t know that at least 90% of all deaths in people under 60 have been in morbidly obese people is a mortal sin.
Instead of gaining twenty pounds over the past eighteen months, people should have been doing their damnedest to get that killer fat off their bodies.
And we already have the drugs to end this insanity, as they did in Uttar Pradesh. For less than twenty bucks. Start demanding them from your doctors–in writing. Have a record of them refusing to treat you.
Make them sweat, wondering if they are going to get sued when the truth comes out.
This is shaping up to be the week that the authoritarians tighten their grip. Boris Johnson in the UK has gone off the deep end, California bringing back the mask mandate I’m sure there will be others.
Will it ever end?
NFL requiring all coaches and support staff to get the booster or basically be denied access. Already had COVID and been double vaxxed you say? Doesn’t matter.
Will anybody stand up and say no more?
Cornell bans all student social activity even if double vaxxed and boosted.
And we already have the drugs to end this insanity, as they did in Uttar Pradesh. For less than twenty bucks. Start demanding them from your doctors–in writing. Have a record of them refusing to treat you.
I got my stash of Ivermectin health service and pharmacy. Got fully vaxxed back in March but not planning to get a booster. I’m 61, healthy, lean, take Vitamin D, Zinc, Quercetin. Haven’t had so much as a cold in the last 18 months. I’m not going to risk another experimental vaccine. I figure I dodged a bullet the first time (not that it’s so risky, apparently, but neither is the virus). I’m trying to dissuade my 20-year-old daughter from getting the booster, but I expect to lose that battle.
Stopped by the UNM office today to touch base for next semester. I asked about the Covid policy:
* Booster required
* Masks required.
Bummer.
@Huxley:
Well don’t think of escaping to Hong Kong Utopia. 7 days in a quarantine camp (gratis, but spartan) and 14 days in hotel quarantine (you pay).
ONE person, in a nation of sixty-five million.
OHHHMYYYYYGGGGODDDDDD!!!
We must must MUST protect ourselves from the horror of this awful virus!?!?!?
OWWW. It HURTS when my eyes roll that far back in my head.
Yeesh…
}}} and, of course, our embarrassing educational apparat.
Ah, Art, fully accurate, but missing the key component of the Merdia.
Related:
Trying to figure out the provenance of the latest strain…
“Is Omicron Another Lab Creation?”—-
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/12/14/omicron-lab-leak.aspx
Along with something that should be pretty clear to all of us at this point:
“Dr. Peter McCullough:…in order to make people more willing to take the Covid vaccine, there was a concerted effort to not have a protocol for Covid treatment.”
https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1470511566466523137
And the endgame? Here’s one (conspiracy?) theory that may have already dawned on the attuned…
https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1470529361195507713
Nobody seems to see the main point: The Omicron Variant is the secret to IMMORTALITY! In the last year only ONE person with the Omicron Variant has died. Compare this to the millions without it who have died.
Jimmy —
Same. 56, pretty good shape, no chronic ailments, 60 ng/ml Vitamin D level, walking four miles every day and losing weight doing it. Double vaxxed, not getting the booster unless my job says get it or be fired (even though I work 100% from home). I have no interest in Immunity As A Service; if I don’t have natural immunity already I don’t think I’ll mind getting the Omicron variant too terribly much.
This is the first reported death even loosely associated with Omicron. That should tell us something. Even IF this particular death was FROM Omicron… One? After four weeks???
Statistically, that is ZERO mortality. There is NO rational for ANY of the continuing unprecedented measures.