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Through all the MSM Hysteria, the numbers tell the truth
Ontario has 4,600 positive cases of the Omicron variant...resulting in only 15 Hospital admissions.
Regardless of what MSM is saying.....Omicron's symptoms are 'mild' ...
Better chance of catching a common cold or flu standing out in the cold for 5 hours to get a test to find out if you're sick :)
Most media outlets I’ve paid attention to, are cautiously in agreement with you. It seems to be milder. Then again I’m not on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or anything else. Not sure what hysteria there is, other than the government taking precautions.
Government reaction is considerably more than "taking precautions". MSM have been literally foaming-at-the-mouth chicken littles with sensationalism,disinformation,fearmongering and outright lies. Kneejerk reactions reverting to more lockdowns takes a huge step backwards. At last,people are starting to cast a very critical eye at media and government bureaucracy. It's high time this craziness comes to a screaming halt and we start following the money. Something about this entire thing is stinking like dead fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Birdbuff
News from South Africa..gound zero:
Yes it is 'mild' even there with low vaccinations rates
And the 'wave' is short lived. The virus is already decreasing from it's peak at ground zero.Quote:
In the weeks since the variant was detected, South Africa has experienced rapid spread of the virus. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in the country rose over the past two weeks from 8.07 new cases per 100,000 people on Nov. 29 to 34.37 new cases per 100,000 people on Dec. 13, according to Johns Hopkins University. The death rate hasn’t increased during that same period.
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South Africa’s noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country’s dramatic Omicron-driven surge has passed its peak, medical experts say.
Daily virus case counts are notoriously unreliable, as they can be affected by uneven testing, reporting delays and other fluctuations. But they are offering one tantalizing hint — far from conclusive yet — that Omicron infections may recede quickly after a ferocious spike.
South Africa has been at the forefront of the Omicron wave and the world is watching for any signs of how it may play out there to try to understand what may be in store.
After hitting a high of nearly 27,000 new cases nationwide on Thursday, the numbers dropped to about 15,424 on Tuesday. In Gauteng province — South Africa’s most populous with 16 million people, including the largest city, Johannesburg, and the capital, Pretoria — the decrease started earlier and has continued.“The drop in new cases nationally combined with the sustained drop in new cases seen here in Gauteng province, which for weeks has been the center of this wave, indicates that we are past the peak,” Marta Nunes, senior researcher at the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics department of the University of Witwatersrand, told The Associated Press.
“It was a short wave … and the good news is that it was not very severe in terms of hospitalizations and deaths,” she said. It is “not unexpected in epidemiology that a very steep increase, like what we saw in November, is followed by a steep decrease.”
That won't stop the roll out. https://globalnews.ca/news/8467525/i...tjforILrl6Xz9oQuote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
NO..because that 4th 'Booster' in Isreal is the same vaccine from the first 3 roll outs.. the one that failed to protect the fully vaxxed for the Omicron variant.Quote:
Originally Posted by GloryHole
We're about 6 months behind Isreal in our rolls out and we just started on number 3, the 4th will be about Mothers day 2022.
There is NO Omicron specific vaccine....yet.
I see the article has been edited the original headline read, "Israel Set to Roll out 4th Dose of Covid 19 Vaccine after 1 Omicron Death."Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePal
Well the graph shows numbers higher than ever, whether that is the number of tests done or real numbers.... TBD.
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...ountry/canada/
Likely alot more Omicron if you look at the graph direction on Nextstrain, their data is a week old
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/g...country=Canada
COVID-19 booster shot reduces risk of severe disease by 92%
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...-disease-by-92
The data showed that people who received the COVID-19 booster shot had a 93% lower risk of hospital admissions, compared with people who had their second shot at least 5 months prior.
As for the boosters, long story, mine was scheduled for me and I have mine this evening.... might be wondering if those are Christmas lights or not on the way home :-)
https://ontariomoh.queue-it.net/?c=o...3DCV4KWTC4AXKJ
Really discouraging to see the letters to the editor in the Citizen today - one calling for a complete lockdown and the other blasting Ford for not being ready with the boosters... The boosters weren't really an issue until a week ago, really. Some really scared people out there. Sad to remember when showing courage was a virtue. Pretty sad today when we seem to have an ongoing contest amongst people trying to show who is most afraid.
And before I get slammed for that last sentence - there is a night and day difference between being caution and irrational paralyzing fear.
Saw a whole bunch of folks driving in town today, by themselves in the car/truck, wearing a mask...yes people are scared silly due to the fear-mongering on the nightly news.Quote:
Originally Posted by werner.reiche
Maybe,just a maybe-we will benefit from Covid?Quote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
Covid triggered changes in our society???
All the ignorant,underinformed,gulliable,non participating and lay back woters perhaps will one day open their eyes,and smell the roses?
Not interested in slamming anyone but I do think there’s more to this doom and gloom some people see more than others. Maybe there’s a name for it, but I’m not sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by werner.reiche
An example. Do you know when your car shopping and looking into a certain brand for awhile. You read up on it and research it. The very idea of the car imbeds itself in your memory to the point that you begin to notice that car everywhere you go. It stands out like a sore thumb.
I’m beginning to wonder if that’s what’s going on with this belief of some thinking that there is hysteria, fear, pandemonium, etc.
Maybe I’m living life with horse blinders on, but today while I was out and about I saw people at coffee shops laughing and relaxing. I saw frantic shoppers trying to fill last minute Christmas ideas. I saw restaurants serving patrons. Happy go lucky people at beer and liquor stores. Kids playing in the snow while parents chatted. Joggers out running. What I’m getting at, is that these are all normal activities. Other than seeing masks on the majority of people, nothing much has changed.
I don’t see people hiding in bunkers waiting for doomsday. Just ordinary folks continuing to live there lives. Maybe I’m an optimist and see the good nature in everyone. But maybe that’s the brand that sticks out for me like a sore thumb.
Didn't happen to walk by 1500 people wearing masks outside in the cold standing 2 meters apart in a line 1.4 km long around 3 city blocks waiting for 5 hrs to get a FREE Rapid test to tell them they're sick or not did you ????Quote:
Originally Posted by Birdbuff
That's called the fear of your so called 'Doomsday'.
The good news is that those others you saw carrying on like life was almost normal having a few good laughs, with no mask on, drinking a cup a coffee with friends at least let you know that all of humanity hasn't totally lost their sanity.
I guess it depends on which group your in as to how you see the world these days. :)
There's certainly merit in your observations. I,too,notice people who are simply doing their thing electing to not live their lives in fear. My thoughts are that those folks have the good sense to not get caught up in the hoopla,ignore media "spin" and fearmongering sensationalism realizing more and more that there's vast improvement from even a year ago and are carrying on. Those are the folks you'll find I and my family and friends associating with. As for all the folks who are in full panic mode lining up for test kits,if it makes you feel better,have at 'er. Different strokes for different folks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Birdbuff
Forget all what we hear from the media and the "other side" in terms of info, stats, projections, etc. Ask anyone how many people they know that died and almost every single person (with the exception of healthcare staff witnessing deaths because they are right there in it) will say they know two, one or zero deaths. Some people will inappropriately call the virus serious because of that one or two people and are associating the emotional ties to them with severity of the spread. In reality, there are 10 million people in the Golden Horseshoe and we've had I think 15000 deaths in Ontario? Modern living means we are stacked on top of each other like pancakes compared to less density and population of cities before condos and apartment buildings. 30000 people live in the buildings at the corner of Parliament and Wellesley. Costco and Walmart probably has 5000 to 10000 visitors a day. On top of that, most people know only 5 to 10 people who contracted it. Canada's population is 34000000. Deaths are over 30000. That means the death rate is 0.008%. Fill me in if that calculation is wrong. Regions with highest doses have the most positives. The tester gives false positives. See the video of the inventor saying that himself, therefore the tester can't be used for this and that the head med guy down south is a fraud. Coincidentally, the inventor died in late 2019
Geez I wonder what got him? Yes I heard about the PCR test not being reliable and that it is to be replaced as of Jan.04 with a Bill Gates George Soros collaborated new testing system.Quote:
Originally Posted by FirewodGuy