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Omicron is Not Normal
2021-12-21
[EUGYPPIUSsubstack] Everything suggests this variant was leaked from a laboratory engaged in gain-of-function research.

Omicron is not normal. No immediate progenitors are known; its closest relatives are viruses last seen in early- to mid-2020. The orthodox explanation for this awkward fact, is that it has spent the last 18 months lurking "in a geography with poor genomic surveillance ... or ... in a chronically infected individual." The simpler explanation is that it leaked from a laboratory.

Omicron sweeping across America, now 73% of all new US COVID-19 cases

[IsraelTimes] CDC data shows some 650,000 Omicron cases across country in last a week, a six-fold increase in the variant’s share of infections to become dominant strain.
Posted by:The Walking Unvaxed

#13  I prefer pandemic o a global nuclear war
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-21 23:22  

#12  Bio weapon of a different strain? Possibly to keep the fear level. Which does not rule out a mutation, guessing there...
Posted by: Woodrow   2021-12-21 17:40  

#11  @warthogswife : The standard PCR tests (which have their issues) are looking for bits of RNA which distinguish SARS-COV-2 from other viruses. They apparently are NOT looking for the other bits that distinguish the variants (alpha, delta, omicron, eieio) from one another. Until and unless such a test is developed, you have to put the sample into an actual gene sequencer to find out what you've got, which is a good deal slower and more expensive. So they are likely only doing that on a limited sample of cases.
Posted by: Nero   2021-12-21 17:34  

#10  How come no one can tell you what variant you have when you get test results?
Posted by: warthogswife   2021-12-21 13:42  

#9  They will use the "pandemic" to steal more elections, silence critics, and enrich themselves.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2021-12-21 12:00  

#8  Omocron ain't going to give them anything outside of the lying MSM.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-21 11:19  

#7  
Omicron is simply Biden as the Man behind the curtain in OZ.

The Junta desperately needs deflection from Biden/Harris/Pelosi and their growing stupidity.

An Omicron will give them and the Media something to distract many with thru the 2022 mid-terms.

It is 2023-24 that will be the real problems for the Far Left Liberals.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-12-21 11:10  

#6  It is game over. Fauxi, Gates and the worldwide leftist cabal look like the guy at the p0ker table who went all in and lost and now refuses to get up and leave. The game goes on around them and they don't get why they are dealt out.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-21 10:36  

#5  Endemic. Not pandemic.

The jig's up: the vaccines have failed, and now we're looking at an extremely infectious, relatively benign version of the seasonal flu
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-21 10:33  

#4  In a correct world, leftists would be told "you voted for this (COVID). You are free to take whatever measures you wish out of your own pockets and be informed that freaking out about masks or vaccine passports will get you exiled to an iceberg."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-21 10:32  

#3  Nothing "normal" about this entire pandemic from its very beginnings to now, and to the future.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-12-21 10:29  

#2  Up to 40% of new Covid admissions in Omicron epicentre London are only diagnosed AFTER arriving with another ailment, figures suggest as experts and MPs rail against 'pessimistic' Sage's worst-case scenarios
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-21 09:57  

#1  Biden to announce support for hospitals, access to free COVID tests, vaccine availability amid omicron surge
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-21 08:34  

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