Thanks for the write up. I think most of us are from the "what authorities and pharma has told us about covid is bullshit" more so than covid itself is bullshit.
I look forward to your insights as more data develops.
I agree. I know a few people who have died of Covid - most early on (Mar/Apr 2020) with one exception. But the risk/benefit of lockdowns and vaccines has been VERY biased (towards the cash cow media eyeballs and pharma bottom line!) IMHO.
Sure. One was elderly and put on a ventilator (Mar 2020), the other 3 were in their 50s with no apparent health issues (one a marathon runner, one a dancer/super health conscious). However I later learned the dancer had a heart murmur issue as a child so I assume some related issue there (and early Mar 2020 so undiagnosed Covid initially) the runner was also Mar 2020 and died very quickly (had started to feel better and then died within a day so no time for treatment); the other lady was late 2020 and didn’t have any known issues or wasn’t on any medications. That one is surprising to me but I don’t know all the history (extended family member)
My mom has a few old friends in nursing homes. Nobody died of covid there, but one elderly woman did set herself on fire.
My mom, 80 yo, two heartattacks, unvaccinated (i insisted), i have had covid so did she, mine was mild, but hers was even milder. No big deal for 99.9% of people.
To be honest, I think this Omicron stuff is nonsense. Not even gonna bother going into arguments over why. It's just a rebranding campaign trying to spice up a product that people are bored with.
But even if it's not, it's quite clear that none of the government measures have done much good, vaccines included. So I plan to just keep living a healthy and mostly calm life and avoid scaremongering.
It could be "virus doing what virus do" (spread faster but be less lethal). Or it could be bad news. Time will tell. The virus itself may have changed but the BS from the gov is as you've put it "rebranding". How many more times will the gov go to the fear well? As many as they can get away with.
Bosnian supreme court ruling: Discrimination of unvaccinated is illegal, it is illegal to ask for vaccination papers in Bosnia. Everything is open in Bosnia, including restaurants and nightlife!
Great post. Masks have never worked. The virus is much too small. As an Unvaccinated ICU RN, I have seen the damage ‘Rona can do. It can be deadly & unpredictable ( I’ve had young, fit, unvaccinated patients die from ‘Rona) I appreciate Frontline Doctors & am grateful they are working hard to help ppl. I encourage ppl to contact them in advance of illness. Their website protocol isn’t a substitute for an individualized treatment plan. I’ve seen far too many patients who took Ivermectin as prophylaxis but did not take enough. They thought they were protected but they weren’t. The same goes for early treatment. The first three days of symptoms are critical.
No. It’s very safe to use long-term while preserving natural immunity. It’s so important to cut out sugar, eat a healthy diet, and get fresh air & exercise. If infected, sugar MUST be avoided. The virus thrives on sugar.
Not saying you're wrong, but just curious how you came to that conclusion.
I just wish I knew this sooner. I just recovered from omicron a few days ago, and I was incidentally drinking lots of energy drinks which contain loads of sugar, around the time I got infected. I don't usually drink so many energy drinks, but it was just a random phase, and I coincidentally got covid at around the same time. Although, after reading what you said, I don't think it's a coincidence.
I’m glad to hear you are recovering. I’m an ICU RN with almost 2 years of caring for C19 patients. The sugar issue relates to inflammation. Sugar causes inflammation. Inflammation is a leading cause of all disease processes, not just C19. Having said that, this particular virus does thrive on sugar/simple carbohydrates. There are some peer reviewed studies on this topic, and Dr Peter McCullough also points this out in many of his talks. He advises patients to avoid all sugars, including fruit juices.
I don't think so. Antivirals (in this case, an antiparasitic with antiviral properties) penetrate cells to stop the virus from replicating. If you are symptomatic, you've already made antibodies to the virus. I'm not a medic though.
Ivermectin, and other meds, help people to develop natural immunity! The soul heals the body, not any drug! There is only One Doctor! Have you seen a drug help a corpse?
I cannot be certain, but I am pretty sure that for me, Vitamin D helped tremendously. Thanks to John Campbell from youtube and his video about a randomized controlled study. Possibly saved me from a severe outcome a year ago. No Ivermectin
We used HCQ, Z-pac, steroid zinc regimen when we went through it. (More than a year ago.) Started the regimen on the first day of symptoms. No problems, but I noticed residual fatigue for about 6 weeks. (I am in the 55-60 age group and this is common.) I currently do the Zelenko protocol using Quercetin instead of Ivermectin.
My niece works at a medium/large hospital as a nurse in Amsterdam. She says covid is not as bad as the media makes out of it. She saw two covid patients in the last two weeks and only one covid patient in IC the last two years. What is going on? Bullshit is what is going on for most people.
Dr. Bossche had posted to watch to see if omicron dominated over delta. Looks like it has.
Normal mutation direction is to become more pervasive but less dangerous. If that happens, great! We will have herd immunity sooner rather than later.
But if this is from a lab, there is no way of knowing what it will do.
Dr. Bossche said it would start mild but when it hit certain sectors, it could end up more dangerous. He is still concerned about Marek's scenario. His recommendation for unvaxxed is to avoid crowds. Some exposure to prime innate immunity is good, but to not keep exposing over & over & avoid crowds altogether.
Without surveillance testing to get prevalence of asymptomatic/very low symptomatic there is no way to know how dangerous it really is.
I expect the last 18 months of lockdowns, etc. has created a new group of immunocompromised due to D3 insufficiency, sedentary life, isolation (& resulting depression), not to mention toxic jabs.
Personally, I'm continuing my current routine: weekly food shopping unmasked, Zelenko protocol plus melatonin, with Xlear at 1st sign of sore throat.
I have on hand for treatment should I show symptoms: ivermectin, sweet wormwood extract (active against sarscov in vitro), & if breathing trouble, nebulizer + H2O2.
My last items to get are L-arginine & glutathione supplements.
I also have Iver and take Vitamin D daily. I already had covid a year ago, which I treated only with Vit D and other vitamins plus aspirin. But I have Iver on hand just in case and for other family members.
Interesting, thank you. I’m unvaxxed and have never had it (and taken 2 antibody tests to check since aside from mandated actions/restrictions I’ve lived my life as normal which some might say is irresponsible!). I’ll take comfort in Igor’s words that we have to die at some point!
Thank you. I'm a med lab tech who was forced into early retirement during Obama economic "recovery", so have some background & deep interest. Thinking of starting my own substack in a week or so, just to make use of my perspective & background.
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Re NAC, no. I read an article where l-arginine was administered to patients w/severe respiratory symptoms, led to dramatic improvement within a few hours. On research, learned that l-arginine works with glutathione in making white blood cells.
Can't find the article now, but it was apparently in clinical trials:
Yes, l-arginine is quite amazing. You probably know that three researchers were awarded the Nobel prize in physiology for discovering that nitric oxide is increased with the use of l-arginine (and citrulline), which in turn helps the heart in part by increasing blood flow and lowering blood pressure. My husband used a powder with both l-arginine and citrulline in the proportions they used in their studies to lower his blood pressure. It seemed to work but we stopped it because they added so many other synthetic vitamins to the mixture (for example folic acid, rather than a methylated version). Haven't found a more organic one but know that beet juice is also used to increase l-arginine. Thanks for your info - didn't know it helped white blood cells.
I have saved a pdf of Dr. Mercola's article on NAC improving glutathione levels. He deletes all of his articles within 48 hours. I'll be happy to send it to you if you want it.
Thanks! Early on in the pandemic and currently, many wrote and published papers that spoke of pathogenic priming could result from the mRNA vaxxes. Predictions were that we would start to see more severe illnesses and deaths as a result of priming. Also, all age groups would be affected. My question is this, is it possible that if Omicron, or any other variants, seem to be more lethal (or higher illness), is pathogenic priming the reason?? Obviously, we would need data on the number of deaths that were vaxxed as opposed to unvaxxed.
Hopefully some data soon. I will continue to believe that if the world starts to see worse than ‘normal’ outcomes from cv19, especially ones that are outside the ‘at risk’ groups, it will be the result of priming. The so called health experts will blame variants and unvaxxed. I was predicting this in early 2020.
To those who say there is no cv19 and that it’s just rebadged flu, that cannot be true unless this ‘flu’ is completely different than any flu in history. I had mild cv19 and lost all smell/taste. This was neurological, not from heavy congestion. In fact, with covid, it’s pretty much no congestion unlike the flu which is the opposite. No flu affects neurological like the cv19 does. However, cv19 is lab born, no doubt!
This is how research should be done. Examine the date, make inferences, come up with testable hypotheses, collect (or wait for) more data to test your hypotheses. Not: have agenda, torture data to fit, make pronouncements instead of hypotheses, ignore data that conflicts with your pronouncements.
Thanks for all your hard work, determination to get it right, and willingness to be wrong.
Thank you! Since the truth is on our side, there is no need to contort words, fake data, lie etc. All we need is analyze what we see honestly as new information comes along.
I am from the “most of the propaganda from the Covid Regime is bullshit” camp.
“News” articles like the one about the superspreader event in Denmark are case in point. “None of the patients have severe symptoms; none are hospitalized.” Why are they being called patients if they aren’t even sick?
Just more bullshit to drum up fear about the latest scary variant to justify new restrictions on freedoms.
You could easily prove right. We will see very soon.
I mean you are of course right that Omicron will be another excuse for vaccinators to demand that we get useless Covid shots. That's not even a question.
But the real question is "what is Omicron" and "is it really mild" and "how quickly dies it spread".
The question is, What is Covid-19? The only part of the label that seems reasonably valid is the year; the rest is completely spurious. Corona-virus? Show me; no one has been able to. Infectious disease? Prove it; provide causal link between the virus if any, and the diseasy (flu-like, non-specific, albeit with a twist. The "superspreader spots" are extremely suspect, and make me think along the lines of targeted attacks. To my knowledge there are two studies establishing contagion AT HOME; one sets the figure at ca 10%, the other at some 16% (not sure about the decimal). I simply have not seen anything claiming household infection rates above 20%, and show me a better setting for viral transfer. Restaurants, etc., infection spread 1%; shopping malls, 1 - 2%. Where actually does the thing (yes, there is something) make its run if we disregard the usual, that is places full of sick people (hospitals)? The figures do not add up. All I can see is an attack, with a bioweapon.
I don't see omicron as an argument to vax, they don't either. The main viral activity has been among vaxxed, so no point in getting vaxxed. Plus, they're talking about making omicron boosters, and ignoring OAS, it's too late, boosters are for the vaxxed, who, again, are spreading this variant. This is all a circular admission that vax doesn't work. The natural immunity question is always thrown in whenever possible, but I have yet to find a true failure of natural immunity.
Interesting Igor thanks as always. Perhaps this is a sign of the pandemic waning into a highly contagious but very mild variant that finally gives us some natural herd immunity. As we know this is how Spanish Flu went. But Berezow pointed out the other day that there is no guarantee a pandemic will run this way, there is a general historical gradient in this direction but not always.
Early analysis of COVID hospitalizations in South Africa supports my suspicions about the apparent increase in hospitalizations from omicron being due mostly to hospital policy of COVID testing all patients upon admission, resulting in massive rates of incidental COVID (charitable interpretation) or simply of false positives (more likely interpretation, due to the false positive paradox).
“In summary, the first impression on examination of the 166 patients admitted since the Omicron variant made an appearance, together with the snapshot of the clinical profile of 42 patients currently in the COVID wards at the SBAH/TDH complex, is that the majority of hospital admissions are for diagnoses unrelated to COVID-19. The SARS-CoV-2 positivity is an incidental finding in these patients and is largely driven by hospital policy requiring testing of all patients requiring admission to the hospital”
Webb and Osburn 2021 found similar results in their analysis of pediatric COVID hospitalizations, with fully 87% being incidental or presymptomatic. Their analysis also supports the notion that we've similar massive exaggeration in Covid-attributed deaths in the pediatric population (which they define as 22 years or below), and also in the population as a whole. My working rule of thumb is to discount all public Covid stats by 90% in order to get a more reasonably accurate picture of what's actually going on.
According to a preprint study of statistical analysis by scientists in SA primary infections aren't rising but rather reinfections are causing the spike bringing into question the relevance of natural immunity. I wrote about it the other day, but I'm skeptical of everything. Seems like part of the Omicron hysteria being engineered by the coordinated global media machine to destroy the natural immunity argument of the vaccine hesitant aka critical thinkers. Fool us once...
I totally agree that we should not be trusting "the media" or Dr Fauci. We need to be very critical about what we read. When they say "most infected are vaccinated and that's why you need your booster", it kind of raises my eyebrows.
And I agree that the paper's focus on natural immunity was indeed a red flag since this has been such a hot button issue lately in the vaccines vs. natural immunity debate.
I saw the study and the problem with the paper, which problem is absolutely rampant in all "cases" tracking, is that they define a case as simply a lab-test positive, which opens up the likelihood that the vast majority of cases are false positives due to what I call the "false positive catastrophe" that stems from testing of asymptomatic populations (aka "screening").
But my main issue with this is what we actually see in countries with good testing (not the USA):
- When infection is low, we see positive rates as low as 0.5%. We know that some of these people are true positives, so this indicates to me that the false positive rate is less than 0.5%,
- during waves, testing numbers go up, and positive rates go up, often to >10%.
This does not fit with the 'false positive catastrophe'. According to the 'false positive catastrophe', if most of the positive results are false positives, increases in testing would not lead to a rise in positive % (at least not significantly).
In my reading of the issues with testing, the lowest positive % gives you a maximum for potential false positives.
For example, if a test has a false positive rate of 0.5% (0.5% of all tests give a positive results, regardless of the actual rate in the population), that will be the lowest rate seen during testing. When the positive rate rises by a factor of 10-20, to a rate of >10%, how can this be due to 'false positives'? Are 'false positives' leading to inflated case numbers?
I’m trying to figure out if the “testing everyone for Covid upon hospital admission for any cause” is a new policy in South Africa. If so, it would explain very well the uptick in apparent hospitalizations due to false positives or simply incidental positives. I’ll report back
Good pick-up. However, hospitals in all rich countries test everyone. Worse, many only caught rowuhan AFTER entering hospitals for non-rowuhan matters.
Covid is a psyop to re-engineer the global economies.
The flu was re-branded to create the fiction that there is this "scary" demon out there that we must now "go to war" against.
There is no such thing as a "Covid case" as the entire (anti) scientific evidence for this comes from a make believe computer generated simulation courtesy of proven frauds.
If anyone has the receipt of a single conformation assay of a "SARSCoV-2" so-called positive test I would like to see it. It doesn't exist.
The offspring of "Covid", the mythical "Delta" and "Omicron"are also complete nonsense.
Sorry Igor- they're just making shit up to keep the narrative going and the ensuing (ir)rationales for social controls.
Thanks Igor - to understand better what the steeply increasing SA case chart means, it would be good to know how cases *per test* have increased (not just because of the sudden inclusion of antigen tests at the beginning of the Omicron scare, but it may also be that more tests are being done in general at the moment given all the publicity)
Thank you for staying on the heels of this new development. There is absolutely no hope that we could get anything close to the truth without you and the very few others like you. The situation also brings to mind a saying that one might apply to the creators of these evils: “if first you don’t succeed try try again!”
Does SA have good data on vax status of hospitalized patients? I always interpreted “Delta variant” as another term for a vax adverse event (given the loose definition of “fully vaxxed” and bad reporting by hospitals). I see Omi-Con as the same thing just repackaged, but by saying it “evades the vax” the CDC/Fauci is again blaming these widespread symptoms on a virus rather than the poison they gave their victims.
Like you said, Igor, a couple weeks will give is the answer. Would love it if you could ask your followers to report to you if they get Covid now with Omi-Con around. We then could have an honest idea of how many unvaxxed are getting sick.
Thanks for the write up. I think most of us are from the "what authorities and pharma has told us about covid is bullshit" more so than covid itself is bullshit.
I look forward to your insights as more data develops.
Thanks. Let me know if you think that my first paragraph needs editing.
I don't think it needs editing. I like that you put your cards out on the table as context for your analyses
“Remember that you will die anyway eventually anyway.”-⬅️this needs editing. And not a great follow up to “Do not freak out”, but I get your point.
I agree. I know a few people who have died of Covid - most early on (Mar/Apr 2020) with one exception. But the risk/benefit of lockdowns and vaccines has been VERY biased (towards the cash cow media eyeballs and pharma bottom line!) IMHO.
May i ask how old or sick were those who you knew who died from COVID? Weee ventilators and induced medical coma involved?
Sure. One was elderly and put on a ventilator (Mar 2020), the other 3 were in their 50s with no apparent health issues (one a marathon runner, one a dancer/super health conscious). However I later learned the dancer had a heart murmur issue as a child so I assume some related issue there (and early Mar 2020 so undiagnosed Covid initially) the runner was also Mar 2020 and died very quickly (had started to feel better and then died within a day so no time for treatment); the other lady was late 2020 and didn’t have any known issues or wasn’t on any medications. That one is surprising to me but I don’t know all the history (extended family member)
My mom has a few old friends in nursing homes. Nobody died of covid there, but one elderly woman did set herself on fire.
My mom, 80 yo, two heartattacks, unvaccinated (i insisted), i have had covid so did she, mine was mild, but hers was even milder. No big deal for 99.9% of people.
Go Mom and good genes!
thanks for sharing
Were these people.... vaccinated?
No, the vaccines weren’t available so all unvaccinated (I know lots of fully vaccinated who’ve had it though as I’m sure everyone does at this stage)
To be honest, I think this Omicron stuff is nonsense. Not even gonna bother going into arguments over why. It's just a rebranding campaign trying to spice up a product that people are bored with.
But even if it's not, it's quite clear that none of the government measures have done much good, vaccines included. So I plan to just keep living a healthy and mostly calm life and avoid scaremongering.
I agree with the second paragraph.
It could be "virus doing what virus do" (spread faster but be less lethal). Or it could be bad news. Time will tell. The virus itself may have changed but the BS from the gov is as you've put it "rebranding". How many more times will the gov go to the fear well? As many as they can get away with.
Bosnian supreme court ruling: Discrimination of unvaccinated is illegal, it is illegal to ask for vaccination papers in Bosnia. Everything is open in Bosnia, including restaurants and nightlife!
awesome
Great post. Masks have never worked. The virus is much too small. As an Unvaccinated ICU RN, I have seen the damage ‘Rona can do. It can be deadly & unpredictable ( I’ve had young, fit, unvaccinated patients die from ‘Rona) I appreciate Frontline Doctors & am grateful they are working hard to help ppl. I encourage ppl to contact them in advance of illness. Their website protocol isn’t a substitute for an individualized treatment plan. I’ve seen far too many patients who took Ivermectin as prophylaxis but did not take enough. They thought they were protected but they weren’t. The same goes for early treatment. The first three days of symptoms are critical.
Does an antiviral drug like Ivermectin interfere with forming natural immunity?
No. It’s very safe to use long-term while preserving natural immunity. It’s so important to cut out sugar, eat a healthy diet, and get fresh air & exercise. If infected, sugar MUST be avoided. The virus thrives on sugar.
Tks. Good to know. Bad time with the holidays though. Lol
How do you know the virus thrives on sugar?
Not saying you're wrong, but just curious how you came to that conclusion.
I just wish I knew this sooner. I just recovered from omicron a few days ago, and I was incidentally drinking lots of energy drinks which contain loads of sugar, around the time I got infected. I don't usually drink so many energy drinks, but it was just a random phase, and I coincidentally got covid at around the same time. Although, after reading what you said, I don't think it's a coincidence.
I’m glad to hear you are recovering. I’m an ICU RN with almost 2 years of caring for C19 patients. The sugar issue relates to inflammation. Sugar causes inflammation. Inflammation is a leading cause of all disease processes, not just C19. Having said that, this particular virus does thrive on sugar/simple carbohydrates. There are some peer reviewed studies on this topic, and Dr Peter McCullough also points this out in many of his talks. He advises patients to avoid all sugars, including fruit juices.
This information is golden. Thanks August.
Oops. 😬
I don't think so. Antivirals (in this case, an antiparasitic with antiviral properties) penetrate cells to stop the virus from replicating. If you are symptomatic, you've already made antibodies to the virus. I'm not a medic though.
You are being humble. You know about how to treat rowuhan and their mechanisms of action than many MDs.
If one is infected, and survived, one has developed broad and long-lasting natural immunity.
Antibodies are receding soldiers. The innate and memory immune systems are the generals.
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Ivermectin, and other meds, help people to develop natural immunity! The soul heals the body, not any drug! There is only One Doctor! Have you seen a drug help a corpse?
Based on my reading and experience, early intervention (i.e. at onset of symptoms) appears to be the key.
I cannot be certain, but I am pretty sure that for me, Vitamin D helped tremendously. Thanks to John Campbell from youtube and his video about a randomized controlled study. Possibly saved me from a severe outcome a year ago. No Ivermectin
We used HCQ, Z-pac, steroid zinc regimen when we went through it. (More than a year ago.) Started the regimen on the first day of symptoms. No problems, but I noticed residual fatigue for about 6 weeks. (I am in the 55-60 age group and this is common.) I currently do the Zelenko protocol using Quercetin instead of Ivermectin.
With anything.
What is a good amount to take? I keep some around just in case.
It’s based on your weight
Flccc protocol has the info
Thanks. The dr was saying what people take isn’t enough … not sure if that meant the FLCCC protocol isn’t enough.
My niece works at a medium/large hospital as a nurse in Amsterdam. She says covid is not as bad as the media makes out of it. She saw two covid patients in the last two weeks and only one covid patient in IC the last two years. What is going on? Bullshit is what is going on for most people.
Dr. Bossche had posted to watch to see if omicron dominated over delta. Looks like it has.
Normal mutation direction is to become more pervasive but less dangerous. If that happens, great! We will have herd immunity sooner rather than later.
But if this is from a lab, there is no way of knowing what it will do.
Dr. Bossche said it would start mild but when it hit certain sectors, it could end up more dangerous. He is still concerned about Marek's scenario. His recommendation for unvaxxed is to avoid crowds. Some exposure to prime innate immunity is good, but to not keep exposing over & over & avoid crowds altogether.
Without surveillance testing to get prevalence of asymptomatic/very low symptomatic there is no way to know how dangerous it really is.
I expect the last 18 months of lockdowns, etc. has created a new group of immunocompromised due to D3 insufficiency, sedentary life, isolation (& resulting depression), not to mention toxic jabs.
Personally, I'm continuing my current routine: weekly food shopping unmasked, Zelenko protocol plus melatonin, with Xlear at 1st sign of sore throat.
I have on hand for treatment should I show symptoms: ivermectin, sweet wormwood extract (active against sarscov in vitro), & if breathing trouble, nebulizer + H2O2.
My last items to get are L-arginine & glutathione supplements.
I also have Iver and take Vitamin D daily. I already had covid a year ago, which I treated only with Vit D and other vitamins plus aspirin. But I have Iver on hand just in case and for other family members.
Interesting, thank you. I’m unvaxxed and have never had it (and taken 2 antibody tests to check since aside from mandated actions/restrictions I’ve lived my life as normal which some might say is irresponsible!). I’ll take comfort in Igor’s words that we have to die at some point!
You are very well informed, Mary. Please keep educating us from time to time.
You are totally impervious - only Fauci can get at you!
Thank you. I'm a med lab tech who was forced into early retirement during Obama economic "recovery", so have some background & deep interest. Thinking of starting my own substack in a week or so, just to make use of my perspective & background.
Yes! I am looking for people with current or prior clinical experience to share their knowledge and insights. Unlike material things, we only gain by sharing or giving intangible things.
If you start substacking, can you please let me know?
Will do my best.
Thanks for the comment about crowds - I respect Dr. Bossche opinion. Re glutathione supplements are you thinking NAC?
Re NAC, no. I read an article where l-arginine was administered to patients w/severe respiratory symptoms, led to dramatic improvement within a few hours. On research, learned that l-arginine works with glutathione in making white blood cells.
Can't find the article now, but it was apparently in clinical trials:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00405-3/fulltext
Yes, l-arginine is quite amazing. You probably know that three researchers were awarded the Nobel prize in physiology for discovering that nitric oxide is increased with the use of l-arginine (and citrulline), which in turn helps the heart in part by increasing blood flow and lowering blood pressure. My husband used a powder with both l-arginine and citrulline in the proportions they used in their studies to lower his blood pressure. It seemed to work but we stopped it because they added so many other synthetic vitamins to the mixture (for example folic acid, rather than a methylated version). Haven't found a more organic one but know that beet juice is also used to increase l-arginine. Thanks for your info - didn't know it helped white blood cells.
I have saved a pdf of Dr. Mercola's article on NAC improving glutathione levels. He deletes all of his articles within 48 hours. I'll be happy to send it to you if you want it.
Thanks! Early on in the pandemic and currently, many wrote and published papers that spoke of pathogenic priming could result from the mRNA vaxxes. Predictions were that we would start to see more severe illnesses and deaths as a result of priming. Also, all age groups would be affected. My question is this, is it possible that if Omicron, or any other variants, seem to be more lethal (or higher illness), is pathogenic priming the reason?? Obviously, we would need data on the number of deaths that were vaxxed as opposed to unvaxxed.
Your question is good, but I am not aware of any trustworthy data that can answer it.
Hopefully some data soon. I will continue to believe that if the world starts to see worse than ‘normal’ outcomes from cv19, especially ones that are outside the ‘at risk’ groups, it will be the result of priming. The so called health experts will blame variants and unvaxxed. I was predicting this in early 2020.
To those who say there is no cv19 and that it’s just rebadged flu, that cannot be true unless this ‘flu’ is completely different than any flu in history. I had mild cv19 and lost all smell/taste. This was neurological, not from heavy congestion. In fact, with covid, it’s pretty much no congestion unlike the flu which is the opposite. No flu affects neurological like the cv19 does. However, cv19 is lab born, no doubt!
The issue with this Moronic "variant" as was with Delta is that neither has been isolated nor are the fraudulent PCR tests testing for them.
Do NOT comply.
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If I remember correctly it took more than 10 or 15 years to isolate Hepatitis C...
They've experimented on a lot of orphans since that time.
This is how research should be done. Examine the date, make inferences, come up with testable hypotheses, collect (or wait for) more data to test your hypotheses. Not: have agenda, torture data to fit, make pronouncements instead of hypotheses, ignore data that conflicts with your pronouncements.
Thanks for all your hard work, determination to get it right, and willingness to be wrong.
Thank you! Since the truth is on our side, there is no need to contort words, fake data, lie etc. All we need is analyze what we see honestly as new information comes along.
I am from the “most of the propaganda from the Covid Regime is bullshit” camp.
“News” articles like the one about the superspreader event in Denmark are case in point. “None of the patients have severe symptoms; none are hospitalized.” Why are they being called patients if they aren’t even sick?
Just more bullshit to drum up fear about the latest scary variant to justify new restrictions on freedoms.
You could easily prove right. We will see very soon.
I mean you are of course right that Omicron will be another excuse for vaccinators to demand that we get useless Covid shots. That's not even a question.
But the real question is "what is Omicron" and "is it really mild" and "how quickly dies it spread".
The question is, What is Covid-19? The only part of the label that seems reasonably valid is the year; the rest is completely spurious. Corona-virus? Show me; no one has been able to. Infectious disease? Prove it; provide causal link between the virus if any, and the diseasy (flu-like, non-specific, albeit with a twist. The "superspreader spots" are extremely suspect, and make me think along the lines of targeted attacks. To my knowledge there are two studies establishing contagion AT HOME; one sets the figure at ca 10%, the other at some 16% (not sure about the decimal). I simply have not seen anything claiming household infection rates above 20%, and show me a better setting for viral transfer. Restaurants, etc., infection spread 1%; shopping malls, 1 - 2%. Where actually does the thing (yes, there is something) make its run if we disregard the usual, that is places full of sick people (hospitals)? The figures do not add up. All I can see is an attack, with a bioweapon.
I don't see omicron as an argument to vax, they don't either. The main viral activity has been among vaxxed, so no point in getting vaxxed. Plus, they're talking about making omicron boosters, and ignoring OAS, it's too late, boosters are for the vaxxed, who, again, are spreading this variant. This is all a circular admission that vax doesn't work. The natural immunity question is always thrown in whenever possible, but I have yet to find a true failure of natural immunity.
Interesting Igor thanks as always. Perhaps this is a sign of the pandemic waning into a highly contagious but very mild variant that finally gives us some natural herd immunity. As we know this is how Spanish Flu went. But Berezow pointed out the other day that there is no guarantee a pandemic will run this way, there is a general historical gradient in this direction but not always.
We will know very soon, in three weeks or so.
Except there wasn't mass vaccination during the Spanish Flu.
Oh I agree completely. It's the one thing you shouldn't do during a pandemic. I guess we will have to learn why all over again.
Early analysis of COVID hospitalizations in South Africa supports my suspicions about the apparent increase in hospitalizations from omicron being due mostly to hospital policy of COVID testing all patients upon admission, resulting in massive rates of incidental COVID (charitable interpretation) or simply of false positives (more likely interpretation, due to the false positive paradox).
https://www.samrc.ac.za/news/tshwane-district-omicron-variant-patient-profile-early-features
“In summary, the first impression on examination of the 166 patients admitted since the Omicron variant made an appearance, together with the snapshot of the clinical profile of 42 patients currently in the COVID wards at the SBAH/TDH complex, is that the majority of hospital admissions are for diagnoses unrelated to COVID-19. The SARS-CoV-2 positivity is an incidental finding in these patients and is largely driven by hospital policy requiring testing of all patients requiring admission to the hospital”
We’ve seen this pattern in other places too, including California, which I analyzed here in an essay. https://tamhunt.medium.com/how-california-made-the-pandemic-worse-29df15246df7
Webb and Osburn 2021 found similar results in their analysis of pediatric COVID hospitalizations, with fully 87% being incidental or presymptomatic. Their analysis also supports the notion that we've similar massive exaggeration in Covid-attributed deaths in the pediatric population (which they define as 22 years or below), and also in the population as a whole. My working rule of thumb is to discount all public Covid stats by 90% in order to get a more reasonably accurate picture of what's actually going on.
https://publications.aap.org/hospitalpediatrics/article-abstract/11/8/e133/179737/Characteristics-of-Hospitalized-Children-Positive?redirectedFrom=PDF
You see, I heard this argument before: the hospital admissions with Omicron are for "unrelated symptoms".
But when I look at admission I see that they are rising meteorically with the rise of Omicron infections.
And I have a question: if they are tryly unrelated, why are they rising???
Could it be that Omicron has different symptoms that get people admitted to hospitals, and the symptoms ARE related?
According to a preprint study of statistical analysis by scientists in SA primary infections aren't rising but rather reinfections are causing the spike bringing into question the relevance of natural immunity. I wrote about it the other day, but I'm skeptical of everything. Seems like part of the Omicron hysteria being engineered by the coordinated global media machine to destroy the natural immunity argument of the vaccine hesitant aka critical thinkers. Fool us once...
I totally agree that we should not be trusting "the media" or Dr Fauci. We need to be very critical about what we read. When they say "most infected are vaccinated and that's why you need your booster", it kind of raises my eyebrows.
https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/omicron-and-the-corporate-media-variant
And I agree that the paper's focus on natural immunity was indeed a red flag since this has been such a hot button issue lately in the vaccines vs. natural immunity debate.
I saw the study and the problem with the paper, which problem is absolutely rampant in all "cases" tracking, is that they define a case as simply a lab-test positive, which opens up the likelihood that the vast majority of cases are false positives due to what I call the "false positive catastrophe" that stems from testing of asymptomatic populations (aka "screening").
What is the 'false positive catastrophe'?
https://tamhunt.medium.com/the-false-positive-catastrophe-that-results-from-widespread-covid-19-testing-fc6febac8689
Interesting hypothesis.
But my main issue with this is what we actually see in countries with good testing (not the USA):
- When infection is low, we see positive rates as low as 0.5%. We know that some of these people are true positives, so this indicates to me that the false positive rate is less than 0.5%,
- during waves, testing numbers go up, and positive rates go up, often to >10%.
This does not fit with the 'false positive catastrophe'. According to the 'false positive catastrophe', if most of the positive results are false positives, increases in testing would not lead to a rise in positive % (at least not significantly).
In my reading of the issues with testing, the lowest positive % gives you a maximum for potential false positives.
For example, if a test has a false positive rate of 0.5% (0.5% of all tests give a positive results, regardless of the actual rate in the population), that will be the lowest rate seen during testing. When the positive rate rises by a factor of 10-20, to a rate of >10%, how can this be due to 'false positives'? Are 'false positives' leading to inflated case numbers?
Omicron, a nothing burger?
[omiburger; omicon; omibulla]
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1467909989226450944
I don't know, I guess we'll have to see.
I’m trying to figure out if the “testing everyone for Covid upon hospital admission for any cause” is a new policy in South Africa. If so, it would explain very well the uptick in apparent hospitalizations due to false positives or simply incidental positives. I’ll report back
Good pick-up. However, hospitals in all rich countries test everyone. Worse, many only caught rowuhan AFTER entering hospitals for non-rowuhan matters.
Omicron, a nothing burger?
[omiburger; omicon; omibulla]
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1467909989226450944
Or maybe bad testing?
Possible. If they use CT > 24. Who knows since anything can be tested positive. We need to remind people of this fact!
What do you think the false positive rate is?
Actual hospital admissions are going up substantially, not just "cases"?
Omicron, a nothing burger?
[omiburger; omicon; omibulla]
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1467909989226450944
I don't know, I guess we'll have to see.
A well-read and exemplary commentary.
Covid is a psyop to re-engineer the global economies.
The flu was re-branded to create the fiction that there is this "scary" demon out there that we must now "go to war" against.
There is no such thing as a "Covid case" as the entire (anti) scientific evidence for this comes from a make believe computer generated simulation courtesy of proven frauds.
If anyone has the receipt of a single conformation assay of a "SARSCoV-2" so-called positive test I would like to see it. It doesn't exist.
The offspring of "Covid", the mythical "Delta" and "Omicron"are also complete nonsense.
Sorry Igor- they're just making shit up to keep the narrative going and the ensuing (ir)rationales for social controls.
Thanks Igor - to understand better what the steeply increasing SA case chart means, it would be good to know how cases *per test* have increased (not just because of the sudden inclusion of antigen tests at the beginning of the Omicron scare, but it may also be that more tests are being done in general at the moment given all the publicity)
That's a good idea, would you like to look that up? I think that it is called "positivity rate".
The increasing positivity rate shown on OWID is pretty steep as well as the pure case number. They seem to be testing at about twice the rate as in mid Nov, so I guess inferences about infectivity should factor that in https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing#how-many-tests-are-performed-each-day
I'm already not worried about omicron.
I am 100X more worried about omicron than delta. Strangely I am still worried the same amount.
Thank you for staying on the heels of this new development. There is absolutely no hope that we could get anything close to the truth without you and the very few others like you. The situation also brings to mind a saying that one might apply to the creators of these evils: “if first you don’t succeed try try again!”
This is how this looks as of now...
Does SA have good data on vax status of hospitalized patients? I always interpreted “Delta variant” as another term for a vax adverse event (given the loose definition of “fully vaxxed” and bad reporting by hospitals). I see Omi-Con as the same thing just repackaged, but by saying it “evades the vax” the CDC/Fauci is again blaming these widespread symptoms on a virus rather than the poison they gave their victims.
Like you said, Igor, a couple weeks will give is the answer. Would love it if you could ask your followers to report to you if they get Covid now with Omi-Con around. We then could have an honest idea of how many unvaxxed are getting sick.