Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Potato]

Vaccines are safe and they are the best tools we have to reduce infections and disease severity. Vaccine mandates shouldn't be necessary, but because people are so fucking stupid, it's necessary to mandate vaccines in certain circumstances.

[Himu]

Vaccines are safe and they are the best tools we have to reduce infections and disease severity. Vaccine mandates shouldn't be necessary, but because people are so fucking stupid, it's necessary to mandate vaccines in certain circumstances.

Vaccines are the best tools we have? This vaccine is barely stopping this spread at this point. We have triple vaxxed getting creamed by this virus. What are we going to do? Keep getting shots each new variant? For a vaccine less than a year old? Where's the line? This is infinite regress and damn near dystopian. What, are you going threaten a niccas job if he hasn't had the fourth shot? Fuck it. I took my third and last vaccine shot. You cannot force me to take more going forward. I have to show my vaccine card to get lunch or go to the arcade. The shit is overglorified virtue signaling and ineffective at that.

Mandates are HORRIBLE policy, restrictive, and slippery slope akin to the "safety" protocols came about after 9/11. Can't wait to have to show my vax card in order to take a shit in a bathroom. If Republicans run on this in the midterms and 24 it's over. Mandates are nothing more than totalitarian political theater.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

you need to head to the conspiracy theorist thread, brah.

There is currently no information to suggest that symptoms associated with Omicron are different from those from other variants.  Initial reported infections were among university students—younger individuals who tend to have more mild disease—but understanding the level of severity of the Omicron variant will take days to several weeks.  All variants of COVID-19, including the Delta variant that is dominant worldwide, can cause severe disease or death, in particular for the most vulnerable people, and thus prevention is always key.

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron

Will Omicron cause more severe illness? More data are needed to know if Omicron infections, and especially reinfections and breakthrough infections in people who are fully vaccinated, cause more severe illness or death than infection with other variants.
Will vaccines work against Omicron? Current vaccines are expected to protect against severe illness, hospitalizations, and deaths due to infection with the Omicron variant. However, breakthrough infections in people who are fully vaccinated are likely to occur. With other variants, like Delta, vaccines have remained effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations, and death. The recent emergence of Omicron further emphasizes the importance of vaccination and boosters.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/omicron-variant.html

[Himu]

Nothing I posted was conspiracy. I live in the strictest state and do not approve of how they are handling it. I am sick and tired of the media hysteria and fear porn. Omicron, Omicron, Omicron this entire past  presented likes Doomsday is approaching. A person has a limit.

[Kurt Russell]

Yeah, that’s the thing, Japan is fully vaccinated at more than 70%, and boosters are starting for the first-vaccinated. This is a country that treats societal participation as compulsive, and hasn’t fucked around once the vaccines were available. Anybody that pretends that this is completely down to personal choice and individual freedom, and not more about how society works here is ignorant.

[Himu]

CharlieBrown_ARGHyell.mov

[BIONIC]

I can admit when I’m wrong.

The discourse in this thread really improved without filler, james, nintex, and pissy shitting it up. I’m so much more aware of the tyranny surrounding us now.

Thanks dog mod!

[Lonewulfeus]

Nothing I posted was conspiracy. I live in the strictest state and do not approve of how they are handling it. I am sick and tired of the media hysteria and fear porn. Omicron, Omicron, Omicron this entire past  presented likes Doomsday is approaching. A person has a limit.

Go back to Texas then

[Rufus]

Everyone is tired of this. Literally everyone. But Omicron apparently still clogs hospitals, so it's in everyone's best interest we take it seriously.

[benjipwns]

For all the strum und drang, over 80% of Americans have gotten at least one shot. OSHA's mandate hasn't come into effect yet. Vaccine resistance at businesses that have established their own mandates has been practically non-existent. New York and California's elites may be trapped in COVID hysteria with the media but most other Democrat-led states are completely disinterested in going back to failed 2020 policies. For all the hype of DeSantis as either some kind of unique evil or savior, Florida has been doing fine comparatively to New York the entire time despite having a larger and older population. While coy about it, the Biden Administration has not shown much interest in the outdated 2020 policies either.

We shouldn't confuse mandates for people to get the vaccine with safety theater like NYC is predominantly interested in or things like forcing kids to sit on buckets six feet away from each other in the cold wearing masks and being unable to talk to each other. Or media members and media doctors who peddle the idea that not wearing masks indoors among vaccinated people will kill everyone involved. (While then going to take all kinds of pictures at Christmas parties where nobody wears a mask.) Or universities that shut down due to one case of COVID and plan to be virtual-only into February despite the entire population being vaccinated.

Lying is one thing, it's bad enough. But perhaps worse is when so-called "experts" and their allies refuse to admit they don't actually know anything and instead promote hysteria and policy based on a fear of not appearing tough enough. That's how you get the security theater.

If any of these people have evidence that the miracle vaccines don't work and are useless, they are being derelict in not sharing that information directly and publicly, especially while they act in private completely counter to the idea.

[Himu]

I can't deal with more safety theater Benji

The governor issued a state of emergency when there were three Omicron cases in NY. THREE.

Over 80% of Americans have had a shot and over 70% of New Yorkers have had one but it's endless with mandates and rules and security and do this and do that and when does it end?!

[Raist]

Check what's been happening in the UK, including London.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/django/status/1471650878734180354

[Himu]

George would be asymptomatic and give both his parents Covid, killing them.

[Himu]

https://bronx.news12.com/latest-covid-spike-isnt-swamping-nyc-hospitals-like-before-another-22-000-test-positive-in-state

https://twitter.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1472297047034404871

A needed break from fear porn.

Are you SAFE, yet?!

[Great Rumbler]

I can admit when I’m wrong.

The discourse in this thread really improved without filler, james, nintex, and pissy shitting it up. I’m so much more aware of the tyranny surrounding us now.

Thanks dog mod!

I'll take my internet award now. 

[BIONIC]

I can admit when I’m wrong.

The discourse in this thread really improved without filler, james, nintex, and pissy shitting it up. I’m so much more aware of the tyranny surrounding us now.

Thanks dog mod!

I'll take my internet award now. 

[Rahxephon91]

A man that was basically a father figure to me in my 20s passed away from corona today. He was of course very hard-headed and is one of those tough guys that thought they knew everything. An idiot, but he didn't deserve to pass away from this. Shit sucks, please get vaccinated people.

[Himu]

Sorry for your loss, Rah.

[Raist]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59722081

Covid-19: No 10 says garden photo shows work meeting

 

[Propagandhim]

https://bronx.news12.com/latest-covid-spike-isnt-swamping-nyc-hospitals-like-before-another-22-000-test-positive-in-state

https://twitter.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1472297047034404871

A needed break from fear porn.

Are you SAFE, yet?!

Yep, vaccines are wonderful.

https://twitter.com/LaloDagach/status/1472334851739045890

[Himu]

And to think we got this vaccinated mostly through our own personal choice

New York Strong!

[Himu]

https://babylonbee.com/news/garth-op-ed-the-best-way-to-convince-the-unvaccinated-is-to-scream-at-them-with-ignorant-certainty

[Himu]

https://nypost.com/2021/12/19/americans-increasingly-refuse-to-obey-mandates/?utm_source=reddit.com

Get fucked.

[Great Rumbler]

https://babylonbee.com/news/garth-op-ed-the-best-way-to-convince-the-unvaccinated-is-to-scream-at-them-with-ignorant-certainty

BabylonBee is so cringe.

[Himu]

https://babylonbee.com/news/garth-op-ed-the-best-way-to-convince-the-unvaccinated-is-to-scream-at-them-with-ignorant-certainty

BabylonBee is so cringe.

Come on. White ally made you chuckle, surely.

[Great Rumbler]

I mean, I suppose it's better than another "herpa derpa trans people be like durrrr" article, but not by much.

[headwalk]

Denmark has the best sequencing on the planet and their Omicron data is making it out to be the same blessed gift from benevolent Papa Nurgle that ths South Africa data did. They've sequenced 25,000 cases (the actual infected is likely a magnitude more) and have 35 in hospital and less than 5 in intensive care.

This all corresponds with lab data showing it replicates 70x better in the throat but 10x worse in the lungs. Seems It's essentially become a cold, like the other 4 coronaviruses we deal with annually.

[Kevtones]

Ugh, fuck.


Been COVID-less since the outset and my wife and I have a 5.5 month old. She started feeling kind of off today (fever/headache/fatigue) and I've got fatigue. At about 2pm I found out someone at our work function who I talked to a couple times started feeling off on Friday/tested positive Sunday.


We're both feeling okay right now and our son is okay but... Man. Fuck.

[Himu]

Research shows Omicron is weak af.

The pandemic is ending

[Potato]

Ugh, fuck.


Been COVID-less since the outset and my wife and I have a 5.5 month old. She started feeling kind of off today (fever/headache/fatigue) and I've got fatigue. At about 2pm I found out someone at our work function who I talked to a couple times started feeling off on Friday/tested positive Sunday.


We're both feeling okay right now and our son is okay but... Man. Fuck.

That sucks man. Get tested and monitor your symptoms.

[Potato]

Denmark has the best sequencing on the planet and their Omicron data is making it out to be the same blessed gift from benevolent Papa Nurgle that ths South Africa data did. They've sequenced 25,000 cases (the actual infected is likely a magnitude more) and have 35 in hospital and less than 5 in intensive care.

This all corresponds with lab data showing it replicates 70x better in the throat but 10x worse in the lungs. Seems It's essentially become a cold, like the other 4 coronaviruses we deal with annually.

Research shows Omicron is weak af.

The pandemic is ending

That's not conclusive yet.

Early indications are that it's still a deadly virus and people will be hospitalised in large numbers.

[BIONIC]

Denmark has the best sequencing on the planet and their Omicron data is making it out to be the same blessed gift from benevolent Papa Nurgle that ths South Africa data did. They've sequenced 25,000 cases (the actual infected is likely a magnitude more) and have 35 in hospital and less than 5 in intensive care.

This all corresponds with lab data showing it replicates 70x better in the throat but 10x worse in the lungs. Seems It's essentially become a cold, like the other 4 coronaviruses we deal with annually.

Research shows Omicron is weak af.

The pandemic is ending

That's not conclusive yet.

Early indications are that it's still a deadly virus and people will be hospitalised in large numbers.

People are upset enough they don't need hypothetical extinction nonsense.

It's coming from a place where a lot of people aren't doing well in terms of mental health and the pandemic and waxing hypothetically about the end of the human race apropos of basically nothing doesn't help and should be discouraged.

Thank you for fighting misinformation by coming into a thread about the omicron variant to express that the next one might kill us all.

That you tried to reframe my concerns about extinct discourse as misinformation is incredibly offensive.

[Himu]

Feel better kevtones

[headwalk]

That's not conclusive yet.

Early indications are that it's still a deadly virus and people will be hospitalised in large numbers.

total number of hospitalisations so far in the UK with omicron is 129. that's from 125,000 sequenced cases (the wild number is likely to be tenfold that).

the SA data tells us there will be less hospitalisations, many will be incidental/asymptomatic and only revealed on admission (a third of "hospitalisations" in SA were there to give birth), the average stay will be down from 8 days to 3.5, serious illness will be down by a magnitude and current estimates in S.A are that deaths will be 25x lower. this has so far been borne out by data from Denmark and now the UK.

this is all provisional, but to say early indications are anything but miraculously positive (since this variant will displace the cunt that was delta) is to be a big silly sausage.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1473326898004512778

[jorma]

 

does it come with a lifelong biannual booster shot subscription as well?

[Lonewulfeus]

I’m gonna come up with a chip you put under your skin that stops the chip in the vaccine from getting instructions from the 5G towers

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1473326898004512778

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I'm oId enough to remember when this was a conspiracy

It feels like every single COVID conspiracy has come true. Wild.

[Kurt Russell]

Does anyone know if he managed to shut down the virus yet?

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/smithmachine/status/1473100052004589572

 

[benjipwns]

 

[headwalk]

way to make the unvaccinated look metal as fuck.

i'm vaxXxed but who would want to be part of the big gov's happy clappy ned flanders do-the-right-thing work and school club when they could be part of the plague army of the dead?

[Himu]

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I was considering posting this earlier

So bad.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm triple-vaxxed and have natural immunity, so it's gonna be a chill Christmas for me.

[who is ted danson?]

https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/1473360059908374539

[HaughtyFrank]

Christmas for the vaccinated:


Christmas for the unvaccinated:

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/telefeminism/status/1473310212249554946

 

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/telefeminism/status/1473310212249554946

 

Same routine when I go to the local Dollar General tbh

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1473420357860265989

For some reason, I doubt applicable lessons will be learned much from this pandemic.

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1473485023689035779?t=3aXCsCR-uLqoQWG0OYk8qA

[T-Short]

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1473326898004512778

Seems unnecessary. I have my vaxx passport in my phone, which I carry around with me at least as often as my arm

[Raist]

106k cases in the UK reported today. Neat.


For our muhrican friends following from across the pond, that would correspond to well over half a million cases in the US. I don't think you ever were remotely close to that.

[jorma]

106k cases in the UK reported today. Neat.


For our muhrican friends following from across the pond, that would correspond to well over half a million cases in the US. I don't think you ever were remotely close to that.

that's a fairly irrelevant stat though.
The number of daily deaths corresponds with about 600 deaths in the US which is half of their actual number (measured on the 7 day average).

[Kurt Russell]

106k cases in the UK reported today. Neat.


For our muhrican friends following from across the pond, that would correspond to well over half a million cases in the US. I don't think you ever were remotely close to that.

More and more epidemiologists are starting to back exposure to the Omicron strain rather than blanket boosters. Some even claim that the boosters to all, rather than just the vulnerable will do nothing but prolong the pandemic.

As long as the deaths aren't sky rocketing, I'm fairly relaxed about the 6 figure infection rate and would even argue that in this context, case numbers are not a useful measurement. Omicron currently has a fatality rate more favourable than that of the flu. Only the soyest of the soy should be concerned at this stage.

[Himu]

Amazing that weeks of WINTER OF DEATH!! OMICRON, OMICRON, OMICRON. AFRICAN VARIANT FEAR AND PANIC we finally learn that...Omicron isn't that big of a deal anyways. It's almost like...waiting for the facts helps things rather than doom and glooming. People want their lives back.

[Uncle]

well other than if (when?) it's endemic, and whether that could've been prevented, or if a new mutation based on omicron becomes deadly

if I was a virus I would probably want to be omicron, extremely easy to replicate and perpetuate your existence, and you're not deadly which also keeps you circulating, and the humans stop trying to even stop you



just not a fan of going from expecting to get a cold and a flu once a year, to expecting to get a cold, a flu, and covid omicron every year

[Himu]

It's totally endemic at this point

[chronovore]

http://twitter.com/robdenbleyker/status/1473383136914456585

[Kurt Russell]

Can we hit 222,222 by Christmas?

We can and will.