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2021-12-22 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Omicron Infections May Have Already Peaked In South Africa

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Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 the falling case numbers come ~~despite~~ in part BECAUSE only 25 per cent of South Africans are double-jabbed and boosters have not been dished out in the country

It's endemic now, you fools.

It's spreading much faster and becoming much less lethal -- like seasonal flu.

Game over.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-22 12:30|| 2021-12-22 12:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Outside of SAfrica, as of this morning, 14 deaths worldwide from or with Omicron (1 Israel, 12 UK, 1 USA); most from people with multiple serious conditions

per https://nowbreakingnews.in/2021/12/22/omicron-deaths-reported-in-3-countries-so-far-experts-warn-of-more-fatalities/

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-22 12:35|| 2021-12-22 12:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Total incoherence now.
Boost! Don't boost! Oh SHIT whaddawedonow

WHO says COVID vaccine booster programs will prolong pandemic

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-22 12:42|| 2021-12-22 12:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Omicron provoked a Moronic Response.

At least South Africa still has some intelligent researchers who understand evolutionary biology and its connection to epidemiology:

"It was a short wave ... and the good news is that it was not very severe in terms of hospitalizations and deaths,” Marta Nunes, senior researcher at the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics department of the University of Witwatersrand, told The Associated Press.

Duh:

It is “not unexpected in epidemiology that a very steep increase, like what we saw in November, is followed by a steep decrease."

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-22 12:59|| 2021-12-22 12:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Thought this was over around here until the other day when a silly white affluent old couple come tourist shopping in their silly city golf car and silly blue paper masks and made silly distressed rabbit motions every time someone came within touching distance.

They even backed their golf car up against the curb. Embarrassing.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-22 18:14|| 2021-12-22 18:14|| Front Page Top

#6 fwiw, covid cases increased on 22 Dec in SAfrica to ~21k

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-22 19:05|| 2021-12-22 19:05|| Front Page Top

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