Coming straight from all over the corporate media: We should never have locked down, isolated, or vaccinated! If we had gone for herd immunity, like South Africa and many other countries, Omicron would be passing over us like a common cold. By locking down and mass-vaccinating the population, we weakened our immune systems AND prevented herd immunity, making us sitting ducks as omicron approaches. They're telling us the only option now for North America and Europe is to continue the mass vaccinations, or Omicron may destroy our healthcare systems, a risk we can't take.
You can find variations of this story in almost every mainstream news source right now, but I'm quoting from this announcement in my provincial paper.
Is omicron dangerous?
Everybody and their dog wants to know how severe omicron's symptoms are. Does it cause serious illness? Does it cause hospitalizations and deaths? We know it's highly transmissible, and many officials are now saying they believe every human will be exposed to omicron soon (if they haven't been already). So the quadrillion dollar question is: How bad is it?
South Africa, which has been dealing with omicron since it originated there 3 months ago, just published a large detailed study on this very topic. It found "people diagnosed with omicron were 80% less likely to be admitted to hospital than those diagnosed with another variant."
Just as people around the world are now reporting, omicron is so mild that most don't even know they had it. It spreads fast, like a cold, and the symptoms are now about the same as other cold viruses. Covid has become endemic! The data from South Africa just keeps coming, and it only points at an incredibly mild form, which is rapidly replacing delta as the dominant strain.
That's not in dispute. The official narrative is now going to have to acknowledge that Covid is no longer a threat to individuals. Even elderly people who get omicron have essentially no chance of hospitalization. Sure, we still don't know everything about it, but all indications are that it's now just another common cold virus. Which is to be expected, since that's always what happens with respiratory virus pandemics.
Here we see that omicron produced many positive test results, but passed quickly and posed little risk:
But....
The study's author was first in line to remind the world that while these findings are promising, omicron could still potentially devastate Western healthcare systems, because so few people there have natural immunity. "60% to 70% of people in South Africa have had a prior COVID-19 infection," she points out. Thanks to lockdowns, isolation, masking, and mass-vaccination, only about 20% of people in Western countries are thought to have recovered from a previous Covid infection, granting them acquired (natural) immunity.
"The study’s findings could likely be generalized to other countries that also have very high levels of previous infection. What is unclear is whether the picture will be similar in countries where there are high levels of vaccination but very low levels of previous infection." And all over the world, state officials parrot the idea that we can't assume South Africa's mild experience with omicron will be duplicated in places that locked down and vaccinated. We can't compare apples to oranges, they say.
So if we hadn't vaccinated and locked down, but did what South Africa and Sweden did (achieved mass natural immunity), omicron would result in many cases, but few hospitalizations, and we wouldn't need to be cancelling Christmas, segregating society, collapsing our economy, and sentencing countless more people to death-by-lockdown.
And this is how they admit they were wrong all along? Let me guess, they will soon pull out the 'how could we have known this would happen?' card!
Similar Danish study
A separate Danish study is quoted as finding "omicron cases were three times less likely to be admitted to hospital than cases with other variants", which backs up what has been seen in so many South African studies.
This seems to provide the answer we're looking for. Omicron is so mild, and so contagious, it is quickly spreading to every person on the planet who isn't in full isolation, and granting them lasting natural immunity, without any risk to the healthcare system. In other words, we need to call off the "vaccines", and the lockdowns, the masks, and all the other restrictions. The "health passports" have no use and can be abolished. Those responsible for lying to the public over the past 2 years can be investigated and dealt with. We can start getting back to our lives.
But wait! Just as with encouraging data from South Africa, experts already have an excuse for why Denmark's experience doesn't apply elsewhere - because many of the infected there are youth. "It is primarily young and vaccinated people who are infected with Omicron," meaning we can't be sure the same will happen anywhere else.
Imagine if the South African (or Danish) findings were that omicron is much MORE dangerous than other variants, leading to a spike in hospitalizations? The mainstream media "experts" would immediately tell us we must heed the results, assume the same thing will happen here, and assume the worst. In reality, the findings are that omicron is almost harmless, and the "experts" find a reason to disregard them, and assume the worst.
Because it's all about getting as many people as possible onto these permanent gene therapy shots and associated microchips. Even if they have to say "duhhh, we had no idea, sorry" in order to make it happen.
You can't hijack humanity for 2 years, and then just say "accidents happen". Besides, most of us know: It wasn't an accident.
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