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2021-12-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

G7 brands Omicron 'biggest threat to global public health' and Biden promises a 'winter of severe illness and death' for the unvaccinated - while new study claims variant is 'markedly resistant' to vaccines

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-17 00:47|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 FJB

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-12-17 07:12|| 2021-12-17 07:12|| Front Page Top

#2 It never ends well...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-17 07:16|| 2021-12-17 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 What a bunch of verbal handwringing we have here.

All vaccines can be severely compromised by omicron....

But that doesn't mean they are not effective....

Especially since Fauci just told us get the booster...

Posted by Unineter Pelosi3126 2021-12-17 07:36|| 2021-12-17 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Notice also that there is no warning about the severity of the illness that omicron brings. Unspoken assumption is that any variant is worse than the OEM factory-new COVID. Its bad salesmanship to point out that accounts from Africa indicate a less severe illness.

Posted by Unineter Pelosi3126 2021-12-17 08:02|| 2021-12-17 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Believers gonna believe. I see atheists and agnostics in a different light now...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-17 08:41|| 2021-12-17 08:41|| Front Page Top

#6 The Omicron seems to attack the sinuses and upper respiratory, not the lungs as the 'classic' strains do.

Acts like another coronavirus series that causes the common cold (which is also resistant to vaccines, unexpectedly®)

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-12-17 09:20|| 2021-12-17 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 If it's primarily nasal, take cetirizine or loratadine oral (OTC) and use triamcinolone (Nasacort) spray.

Will I be banned for this? Not here, of course, but if the claims that it is all watched are true, I'm on the list.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-17 09:33|| 2021-12-17 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 They've entered a new phase of incoherence. So now they're lying about the virulence AND standing good mepidemiological practice on its head: quash the mild strain so that it can't win out over the truly lethal strains and give us natural immunity.

We Are Ruled By Lethal Morons

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-17 09:34|| 2021-12-17 09:34|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ It's over. They are like the guy in the old western who is dying from his gunshot wound but doesn't believe it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-17 09:35|| 2021-12-17 09:35|| Front Page Top

#10 I really believe the most vi(r)ulent covidian here has gone to ground because he saw the writing on the wall. I disagreed with him, but always knew he was a very smart guy.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-17 09:37|| 2021-12-17 09:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Two Common Over-the-Counter Compounds Reduce COVID-19 Virus Replication by 99% in Early Testing

Consider this article published By UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH DECEMBER 12, 2021
as my Holiday present to All Rantburg Readers

I am a former UCC Minister, had to give it up because of my Tourette's
(I was giving a sermon - Sudden Onset - *&$@#%&& -👀 Yeah, got the parishioners attention - after the sermon, the oldest and longest member of the Congregation, an 89 yo Lady, came up to me and said, "Reverend, The Congregation had to hear that, I know it woke them up, made them think, It it was the best Sermon I've heard in over 80 years, and you put real emphasis into every word you spoke, I'll never forget it"
- Unfortunately, the Board of Trustees didn't feel the same as she, I was "demoted" to The In-home Ministry for the Sick and Dying.
- Well, you can image how I helped some of the dying to transition into the afterlife of God's Hands 👐

Posted by Black Bart Lumplump1868 2021-12-17 09:50|| 2021-12-17 09:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Well thank G-d our best medical schools still adhere to rigorous educational standards ... oh wait

We Are Ruled By Civilization-Destroying Morons

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-17 10:07|| 2021-12-17 10:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Just Corporate Feudalism with an unhealthy splash of living by signs and mysticism.

Today's re-makes are shit because they are made by absolute dullards, so Dark Ages II really needs to not happen.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-17 11:37|| 2021-12-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

#14 #12, if I were in med school, I'd play the game. Some will be droids when they come out, others will be very shrewd individuals.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-17 11:41|| 2021-12-17 11:41|| Front Page Top

#15 Its the India variant which will kill us all!

Dude, sounds a bit racist.

I meant....Delta, like, Ganges Delta, but...the old alphabet delta.

You mean Greek Alphabet?

Yeah sure. (looks up the phonetic spellings). Look, some scary sounding variants, it'l be like Name That Hurricane stuff. New Variant..boogah boogah!

You see what comes after, uhem, Nu, right?

Xi? Why? Wait, oh...well, we will just skip that one, nobody will notice.

Not how it works. Literally everyone who has been in or around a college is at least familiar with Greek letters...do you not remember all your Fraternity hit pieces?

What does that have to do with Greek letters....oh, that's the Delta Delta Delta joke.

Unbelievable. What happens at pi? Everyone loves pie. We had to skip the zeta for the obvious people wanting to catch the Zeta-Jones hubba hubba jokes. Are you eating your pencil?

Its a pen, why? Its got electrolytes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-17 13:00|| 2021-12-17 13:00|| Front Page Top

#16 Ideocracy

"So, we skip over xi?
"Uighur, please. No, a crisis is something to seize!"
"Ohhh. We feed 'em hànzì..."
"And in decade or three..."
"Hypochondriacs speaking Chinese!"

Posted by Sninesing Big Foot3944 2021-12-17 14:10|| 2021-12-17 14:10|| Front Page Top

#17 Uighur, please.

OK, I *snorted*

Posted by Frank G 2021-12-17 14:37|| 2021-12-17 14:37|| Front Page Top

#18 'winter of severe illness and death'

"Now is the winter of our discontent, made onerous by this son of Pork.

Posted by SteveS 2021-12-17 19:17|| 2021-12-17 19:17|| Front Page Top

#19 I can imagine the meetings: "these bastards just refuse to die. We are going to have to do something!"

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-17 19:18|| 2021-12-17 19:18|| Front Page Top

#20 but if the claims that it is all watched are true, I'm on the list.

If they are, we’re all on the list.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-12-17 19:26|| 2021-12-17 19:26|| Front Page Top

#21 yep, except Gorb, he's on some Bike Fetish list ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2021-12-17 19:55|| 2021-12-17 19:55|| Front Page Top

#22 As far as I can see, Omicron is following the standard virus playbook by going more contagious and less lethal.

An Ozzie buddy points out that 'omicron' is an anagram for 'moronic'.

Posted by SteveS 2021-12-17 20:27|| 2021-12-17 20:27|| Front Page Top

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