Thank goodness it wasn’t named Nu. How is Omicron pronounced? Oh micron or Omick Ron.
yeah I get it . It’s tiresome and we all have a bit of Pandemic PTSD. I think it was just terrible timing for this new variant to emerge Right Now as Holidays arrived. No time is ever good but this is The Worst Time!
Compared to you? lulz
Oh please no more Q lies.
So corporate influence on politics isn't real, cool
Did you notice the deliberate misspelling pointing to a debunked conspiracy idea? It makes your above gripe just another red herring.
Pretty sure no one said or believes that. The “Plandemic” reference is what gets people’s Q radar up.
That.
well said.
nature is a harsh mistress, the strong succeed and the weak don't. there are just a lot of people who think true strength lies in the size of your biceps, and not the size of your cranium...
I wonder when we will get to Omega...
If this goes on long enough, it’ll be like hurricane or typhoon naming. When the end of the current naming convention is reached, a new one will be added on the fly.
The adaptation to the movie was horrible.
The strength of you immune system counts too, but with a brain you can supplement it with a vaccine these days. If the new strain turns into a vaccine evading killer we could all be in shit, but if it's serious enough they will have an improved booster for it ASAP. Also the antiviral medications will work against it too (Pfizer), they are cheap and easy to make and are now licensed globally, so expect to see a lot more of them. We need to be able to react to these viral mutations faster and even be able to predict them. The way I have it figured we are at war with this fucking thing, the entire human race, we should act like we are, we can't eradicate it but we can contain and control it for now and eventually defeat it in humans, pets and domestic animals. Like I said we are in the scientific payoff period now with covid and more treatments and tweaked vaccines will be coming online over the next year or two.
mRNA vaccines are new and a game changer. We are just breaking into the computational power to produce the necessary sequences quickly. I anticipate by spring well have an update vaccine that addresses Delta and Nu.
"Whatever happens, there can be no more illusions of inevitability. The flu, it turns out, has always been a choice. Now we have the opportunity to do something about it—and the burden of knowing we can."
Maybe some day we'll find a way for corona too. Vaccination alone won't do it, lockdowns neither. What could work, short of an eternal lockdown, is constant testing. Everyone test themselves in the morning, test before entering buildings and transportation. I don't think mankind is willing to go far enough, and maybe they shouldn't.
Our pm is currently giving a speech, re-introducing new measures. "We the government, the medical experts, nationally and internationally, assumed a high vax rate would be a way out of the pandemic and lockdowns. The reality now is very very different. Get vaxxed to protect yourself."
It wasn't a very good book, either. But it was better than the movie. Also, the ending was more believable and had a strong message about the damage one can do to others as well as one's self when acting upon false belief.
