The Omicron Menace
 

"In a Tuesday briefing with the White House's COVID-19 response team, Fauci — the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — said existing pandemic measures should work against the newly detected variant.

Fauci recommended the following steps to protect against the Omicron variant:

Get vaccinated against COVID-19.
If you're already vaccinated, get a booster shot.
Use masks.
Avoid crowded places.
Gather outdoors when possible.
Socially distance from others.
Get tested.
Isolate from others if you test positive for COVID-19."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...edgdhp&pc=U531

Seems simple doesn't it?

But… but…. That’s infringing on my liberties, dad gummit! I’m a libertarian, so I don’t give a crap about YOU, it’s all about me, me, me!!!! So long as this fake virus (the commie Dems made it all up) doesn’t kill ME, I don’t care. I’m not about to have MY liberties stomped on to protect YOU! :rolleyes:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

― John Rogers

A close friends daughter who is married into a Trumper family refuses to have her kids wear masks, even when visiting them. Absolute insanity and how she flipped from a well bred well educated family is quite simply shocking.

My son and daughter in law are expecting in March and her parents have not gotten vaccinated and see no need to. I'm worried. Daughter in law says she won't let her parents see the baby unless they are vaccinated. I'm still worried.

Most accurate summary of libertarianism ever!

Well, the first Omicron case is here folks in CA, traveler from South Africa who is fully vaccinated.

Sad part is that when news of this breaks out, the Trump Cult will chime in, "see vaccines don't work".

My niece by marriage, a Bible thumper extraordinaire said when her dad who was fully vaccinated yet contracted Covid-19 and spent a week in intensive care, "see vaaccines don't work. This is why we (husband who is a full time preacher, and two kids) are not vaccinated." She was actually thumbing her nose at us.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/u...-vaccines.html

A week in intensive care is still better than an eternity in a grave.

Good for her.

"A Superior Court judge has denied a request by the Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters union seeking a preliminary injunction to delay enforcement of the city’s vaccine mandate.

The ruling is “a victory for public health and safety in Los Angeles,” City Atty. Mike Feuer said in a statement.

“The Court recognized the emergency we’re in, and the harm that enjoining implementation of the vaccine mandate could have caused,” Feuer said. “Beyond this case, the presence of the new, highly contagious variant here in L.A. underscores the importance of vaccinating our first responders — indeed, of vaccinating everyone.”" LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...te-enforcement

Bunch of crybabies scared of a needle. :rolleyes:

It is funny how the whiniest anti-vaxxers try to come off otherwise as tough people. Bunch of anti-social morons and proud of it.

Positive in the knowledge of not alone in having any little sympathy for those selfish crybabies. Who thinking by yelling and screaming at the top of their lungs like a adolescent child refusing a jacket to school on a cold day, replaces known facts.

If the shoe were on the other foot no mystery on just how this would be handled.

Bunch of crybabies, because they're on the side that politicized the whole affair, afraid of having to admit the Dems were right.

Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame

Its NPR, so we already know what the response is going to be. Reality is that Darwin's theory is for real.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...vid-death-rate

They're crying "Fake News" all the way to the grave.

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said to avoid travel to France, Portugal, Cyprus, Andorra and Liechtenstein, grouping all in a Level 4 category that represents a “very high” level of the coronavirus. Countries and territories in this group have an infection incidence rate of more than 500 new cases per 100,000 people over the past 28 days (or, in places with fewer than 100,000 residents, more than 500 cases cumulatively over the past 28 days)." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/trave...ance-portugal/

Typical incomprehensible Catch-22 created by the Goober states. Hospital workers refusing to get vaccinated for Covid-19 which they seem to be OK with for now. They get a pass because they need them to treat the incoming barrage of Covid patients. This is the classic blind leading the blind.

To justify this waiver, Goober states have lawsuits going against the Biden administration. Bite my nose to spite my face is in play here.

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.town...size=800%2C801

https://www.idahopress.com/news/loca...9930cef34.html

the sign in the post above says, "unvaccinated lives matter". Someone should tell that guy that unvaccinated lives matter to the virus in the worse kind of way.

:rolleyes:Be a good guess he was carrying a "All Lives Matter" sign at "Black Lives Matter" marches ....

Mask order reinstated for all of California due to pissants and peckerwoods not getting the 'jab'. smh.

Funny thing is we've never stopped wearing them while out and about. At the worst they're a minor inconvenience.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...pire-san-diego

One of my cousins up in the Bay area in a Long Term Facility was telling me just Saturday. That he would go out to via the van, all was OK then. Come back a little later and be force into a lock down because of a change while he was out.

Have to call him later and see if this will effect him. What little enjoyments are in his life. Going to the Bowling alley for a hamburger fries and a beer. Then will cause him to be locked down in isolation for two weeks out of the fear of being exposed.....

I never had any symphony for those who have refused to take this serious.

President Biden orders 500,000,000 home test kits and calls up 1,000 of our military to provide help to the nations' hospitals. It's looking really grim for the unvaccinated due to the Omicron mutation.

Look, I don't care if you're a dyed in the wool conservative or a knuckleheaded librul, please get the jab. All three of them. Don't be a Luddite.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...p-to-americans

Hiya Barny, I was at the CVS/Target yesterday and folks were lining up for the jab. The pharmacists were looking more than a little frazzled but they were moving them right along. I'm going to pick up a bunch of gift certificates to Starbucks for them.

I think Biden is being to nice with the very people who are causing the up tick in C-19 cases. Sure there would still be the infected, just not the number of the very sick and dying. The overwhelming of the medical facilities and test sites.....

Place the blame squarely on those who are the root cause of the nightmare we are in.

If it's not the Omicron variant it will be something else. 'Rona's going to decimate the unbelievers until death & suffering comes knocking and unfortunately the rest of us are at risk too. Less of a risk but still at risk.

Yep. Then we need to figure out to get along again. Such that it was.

They're looking more and more like a death cult.

Oh you simple minded folks!

Omikron is yesterday. It is (almost) history.

The latest topic is Omega.

I hope that the Officials all over the world will realize this new threat timely.

Wake up! Wake up NOW!!!

However:

Merry Christmas to all of you!

The Omicron variant though less potent than the Delta breaks through vaccinated folks and also has shown that those with immunity are still prone to get re-infected.

South Africa is showing a rapid decline in infections but it will run through its course in other countries until yet another variant rears its ugly head.

Sad to say that we are in for a long haul and life is now getting quite tiring and boring. Unfortunately the herd immunity that we expected is no longer a reality if future variants can break through both natural immunity and vaccines. From what I know, Pfizer vaccines are only about 70% effective against Omicron. Israel will be inoculating their 60 and older folks with Pfizer and would be quite interesting to see the results. From what I know, Israel was an early adopter and procured Pfizer vaccines ahead of all other countries, as as such they are a benchmark for Pfizer.

Herd immunity for Covid-19 via natural immunity through infection was a dangerous fantasy that should have been decisively dismissed by heath experts early in the epidemic.

The text quoted below is an excerpt from an article published by the Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...s/art-20486808.

That herd immunity fantasy was championed by certain Reich-Wingers and the former guy. Either by words or actions they wanted us to go that way. The ugly truth they never mentioned was the death, suffering and strain on the health care system that ensued. It boggles the mind that they thought people wouldn't see what was happening. Oh yes there are those with their heads in the sand but when those four horsemen come calling...

"Donald Trump is "destroying himself" and "committing political suicide" by endorsing COVID-19 vaccines and not doing enough to help jailed Capitol insurrectionists, according to MAGA conspiracy theorist Alex Jones."

https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-...ump-interview/

Gotta say, this knuckledragging lunatic is nucking futz. Him and d'Rumplestiltskin are made for each other. :rolleyes:

So does the cult follow Diaper Don or Alex Jones? They do have an amazing ability to rationalize anything. As friends & family get claimed by Covid vocal opposition to vaccines may wane. Being out of office there's limits on what he can do to help the insurrectionists and most of them are getting slaps on the wrist anyway. Donny could as a campaign promise pledge to pardon any convicted insurrectionists should he get into the WH again.

Candace Owens suggests Trump only touted vaccines because he's too old to know how to find alternative sources online

So there you have it folks. "Forgive him for he knows not what he does". :rolleyes:

To 45, no news is bad and all publicity is good.
Isolated in Floriduh, unwelcome in the Big Apple, he probably craves for the headlines.

Almost too bad Bunkerboy isn't still on Tweeter for surely he'd hit back at Ms. Owens calling him old and out of touch, almost.

The Repub nut-base has never been under the control of Trump. They expect their leader to be (at least) as crazy as they are.

Mainstream media is fond of opining that the Repub nut-base has just been misinformed so it's not really their fault. BS, these people WANT to believe shi$ like QAnon and election fraud!

Yes, perhaps............
But it also a fact that the nut base elects whack jobs like MTG, Bobert, Gosar, Brooks, etc. and the primary qualification they have is that they are unabashed Trump worshipers. Look at the guy (ex-coach) who won the Senate seat in Alabama!

I got nothin'.

Face it would rather die then admit they were ever wrong....and we were right!!!!!