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Omicron Hits 73% - Herd Immunity? Unexpedtedly!
2022-02-19
[Dallas News/AP] The omicron wave that assaulted the United States this winter also bolstered its defenses, leaving enough protection against the coronavirus that future spikes will likely require much less — if any — dramatic disruption to society.
That used to be the definition of "natural immunity, before it was cancelled.
About half of eligible Americans have received booster shots, there have been nearly 80 million confirmed infections overall and many more infections have never been reported. One influential model uses those factors and others to estimate that 73% of Americans are, for now, immune to omicron, the dominant variant, and that could rise to 80% by mid-March.
Which seems really slow gain for a super-contagious variant. Perhaps the virus has burned itself out? However --
The coronavirus — the current variant or future ones that are sure to pop up — remains a dangerous germ. It is still infecting more than 130,000 Americans and killing more than 2,000 every day. Tens of millions of people remain vulnerable.
Germ? I thought it was a virus. The new 'germ variant'?
"I am optimistic even if we have a surge in summer, cases will go up, but hospitalizations and deaths will not," said Mokdad, who works on the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model, which calculated the 73% figure for The Associated Press.
And it seems the AP liked the implications of that 'estimate'. Somebody tell the Canadians.
With varying degrees of relief and caution, many Americans are starting to return to their pre-pandemic lifestyles.
Ironic, isn't it. The vaccine didn't stop Omicron, nature did. How long will folks get fired for refusing the vaccine?
Posted by:Bobby

#8  At the point where my corpse is being processed, I'm beyond caring. Of course, I can make choices (whether the gummint likes it or not) to hasten or delay the day I become a corpse. Fauxi, Gates et al can go F themselves.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-19 11:10  

#7  Do they give a Nobel in the Blood Clot category?

Funeral directors and embalmers around the country and in the U.K. are beginning to report an extraordinary increase in the incidence of bizarre blood clots in the bodies of the vaxxed. Description, links, and photos here.

... the materials look like fibrin, a major component of a blood clot. Fibrin is defined as “a strong insoluble protein produced by the body in response to bleeding.”
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-19 11:07  

#6  I don't place wagers, but I'll bet predict neither Fauxi nor Gates will get as close to a Nobel Prize as Algore did. And you know it's still driving him wild that Bath House got one and he didn't.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-19 10:52  

#5  No worries. Even as he admits that natural immunity was the way to go, Ghoulish Gates assures us we'll have another DemPanic in no time -- so he and Fauci can pretend to be heroes and get on the Nobel shortlist.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-19 10:47  

#4  Best described as "A game where you never get to shuffle, cut or deal."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-19 09:27  

#3  And now that the 'vaccinated' are the ones falling sick, being hospitalized and dying, certain public health agencies are simply shutting this data off from public view. Boriquagato, again:

we’ve reached the point where agencies will no longer publish objective data because it does not support their conclusions.

“we cannot provide data because people might analyze it!” is not much of a mantra, is it?

NEW - Public Health Scotland will stop publishing data on Covid deaths and hospitalizations by vaccination status because there are "significant concerns about the data being misused deliberately by anti-vaccination campaigners."

LOL
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-19 09:19  

#2  ^ Religion is not an exercise in reason.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-02-19 09:18  

#1  The medical insider "Boriquagato's" substack has a field day with this latest Peak Stupidity delusion ("An epidemic of self-delusion" -- the comments and discussion btw are excellent, esp the discussion of ADE vs OAS):

this stage of the pandemic is really one of the more mystifying parts. if you listen closely, you can hear the popping of burning wires:

i got vaccinated.
i got covid.
i got really sick.
thank goodness i got vaccinated!
you should get vaccinated too!

... it’s like the last vestiges of observational capability have finally been beaten out of a meaningful portion of the population.

truly, we have entered the post rational world of the unfalsifiable claim: “it would have been worse if i had not!”

it’s such a wonderful meme. so pervasive. so persuasive. and so totally, utterly impervious to contradiction. it’s the perfect brainworm to justify what you did.

you can show them all the societal data you like about higher rates of hospitalization this year than last in groups that were 95%+ vaccinated.

it does not matter. no aggregate data can refute any individual belief about one specific datapoint among many.

“i’m sure it helped.” < this belief lets anyone feel good about vaccination and boosting even as they fall ill.

it literally turns the contraction of covid by vaccinated people into the belief that covid vaccines worked for them.

this may be the most successful piece of product positioning in human history. Cognitive bias becomes cognitive dissonance becomes an iron bar certainty that your virtuous behavior saved you.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-19 09:16  

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