Nine months ago, when Omicron started to emerge, researchers started surveying and routinely checking the antibody levels of nearly 2,500 study participants.
Out of the 2,500 participants, 56% had no idea they were infected. Many with mild-to-no symptoms moved about their lives, unaware they had the potential to spread illness.
Somewhat early in the "pandemic" I found a paper indicating that seasonal flu is also "stealthy". At the end of a flu season, a whole lot of people were checked for antibodies to the strain that was prevalent during that season, and of the ones who were positive, something like 80% didn't recall being sick.
I appreciate your sentiments, but think it is very unfair to call this a common cold. It may have been for you, but it most certainly is not the common cold for everyone. I got covid for the first time in July (presumably BA.5). It was an awful illness with a long list of severe symptoms. It is the sickest that I have ever been in my life. I had to take more than two weeks off from work and muddled through the next few weeks after that. I could give you other examples of people I know who have had similarly bad experiences with omicron. I think a relevant example that's been in the news is polio. Most people with polio never show any symptoms, some have mild symptoms, but for a few people, it is a very serious illness that can lead to paralysis and other life-changing issues. For those people, it is definitely not a "minor cold." I think it is perfectly reasonable to be anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine, but that it is still important to acknowledge that covid is a very serious illness for many people. Just my two cents.
Prior to 2020, seasonal influenza killed tens of thousands of people in the US each and every year. By the criteria used for COVID-19, seasonal influenza is an annual pandemic--except no one thinks of it that way. In fact, from the start, the corporate media has gone to great lengths to push the notion that COVID "is not the flu".
Seasonal influenza pre-COVID was a minor nuisance for some, a miserable experience for others, and a life threatening illness for still others--just like COVID-19 has been all along.
Individual cases are always going to be an individual experience. However, the media is not pursuing a narrative of "covid is a very serious illness for many people". The media is pursuing a narrative of "covid is a very serious illness for EVERYBODY".
When 56% of persons who test positive for Omicron don't even know they're infected, the media's narrative becomes a proven falsehood.
Had the narrative been "covid is a very serious illness for many people", we would not have had the Pandemic Panic Narrative in the first place, we would not have had the lunatic lockdowns that have done incalculable damage to societies around the world, we would not have had the toxic and well nigh useless mRNA injections that under any other circumstance wold see the leadership of Moderna and Pfizer hauled into court on criminal charges and sentenced to multiple lifetimes of incarceration for their casually psychotic infliction of mass death upon humanity.
Statistically, Omicron is somewhere between the common cold and a more severe seasonal influenza. That's what 56% of persons testing positive for the virus while unaware they're even "sick" means. That doesn't mean that some people don't get severe symptoms. It does mean that the corporate media narrative on Omicron is exaggerated to the point of being blatant propaganda.
Peter, I agree with most of what you're saying. I too am against the mitigation efforts that our so-called leaders forced upon us. The vaccines at best have been useless and at worst will be something bad that society will have to deal with for years to come. The media has done nothing but lie to us. They, along with most medical and political "leaders" deserve nothing but derision and ridicule from us.
My main point is that I have always taken issue with statements that simply call covid a "mild cold" without adding the very important qualifier "for many people." When "mild cold" is followed by a period, that implies that it is mild for everyone when that is simply not true. I can personally attest that it is not mild and so can millions of other people in this country who have had very bad experiences with covid. If your case was mild, then count your blessings!
I know plenty of people who have had mild cases of covid. I also know quite a few people who have had cases as severe as mine. I can also say that this was different than the flu. I have had worse respiratory illnesses (in terms of coughing or stuffy nose), but this was so much more than that. It was more like a neurological disease with a long list of severe symptoms that I have never experienced before with any cold or flu. Perhaps that puts covid in a different category, or maybe just a different type of severe influenza. I don't think it really matters since the category matters less than how society responds to it. All I know is that it was a strange illness that put me out of commission for many weeks.
I appreciate the work you do. I hope no offense was taken by my comment, but I try to be candid in my discussions.
Somewhat early in the "pandemic" I found a paper indicating that seasonal flu is also "stealthy". At the end of a flu season, a whole lot of people were checked for antibodies to the strain that was prevalent during that season, and of the ones who were positive, something like 80% didn't recall being sick.
I appreciate your sentiments, but think it is very unfair to call this a common cold. It may have been for you, but it most certainly is not the common cold for everyone. I got covid for the first time in July (presumably BA.5). It was an awful illness with a long list of severe symptoms. It is the sickest that I have ever been in my life. I had to take more than two weeks off from work and muddled through the next few weeks after that. I could give you other examples of people I know who have had similarly bad experiences with omicron. I think a relevant example that's been in the news is polio. Most people with polio never show any symptoms, some have mild symptoms, but for a few people, it is a very serious illness that can lead to paralysis and other life-changing issues. For those people, it is definitely not a "minor cold." I think it is perfectly reasonable to be anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine, but that it is still important to acknowledge that covid is a very serious illness for many people. Just my two cents.
Prior to 2020, seasonal influenza killed tens of thousands of people in the US each and every year. By the criteria used for COVID-19, seasonal influenza is an annual pandemic--except no one thinks of it that way. In fact, from the start, the corporate media has gone to great lengths to push the notion that COVID "is not the flu".
Seasonal influenza pre-COVID was a minor nuisance for some, a miserable experience for others, and a life threatening illness for still others--just like COVID-19 has been all along.
Individual cases are always going to be an individual experience. However, the media is not pursuing a narrative of "covid is a very serious illness for many people". The media is pursuing a narrative of "covid is a very serious illness for EVERYBODY".
When 56% of persons who test positive for Omicron don't even know they're infected, the media's narrative becomes a proven falsehood.
Had the narrative been "covid is a very serious illness for many people", we would not have had the Pandemic Panic Narrative in the first place, we would not have had the lunatic lockdowns that have done incalculable damage to societies around the world, we would not have had the toxic and well nigh useless mRNA injections that under any other circumstance wold see the leadership of Moderna and Pfizer hauled into court on criminal charges and sentenced to multiple lifetimes of incarceration for their casually psychotic infliction of mass death upon humanity.
Statistically, Omicron is somewhere between the common cold and a more severe seasonal influenza. That's what 56% of persons testing positive for the virus while unaware they're even "sick" means. That doesn't mean that some people don't get severe symptoms. It does mean that the corporate media narrative on Omicron is exaggerated to the point of being blatant propaganda.
Peter, I agree with most of what you're saying. I too am against the mitigation efforts that our so-called leaders forced upon us. The vaccines at best have been useless and at worst will be something bad that society will have to deal with for years to come. The media has done nothing but lie to us. They, along with most medical and political "leaders" deserve nothing but derision and ridicule from us.
My main point is that I have always taken issue with statements that simply call covid a "mild cold" without adding the very important qualifier "for many people." When "mild cold" is followed by a period, that implies that it is mild for everyone when that is simply not true. I can personally attest that it is not mild and so can millions of other people in this country who have had very bad experiences with covid. If your case was mild, then count your blessings!
I know plenty of people who have had mild cases of covid. I also know quite a few people who have had cases as severe as mine. I can also say that this was different than the flu. I have had worse respiratory illnesses (in terms of coughing or stuffy nose), but this was so much more than that. It was more like a neurological disease with a long list of severe symptoms that I have never experienced before with any cold or flu. Perhaps that puts covid in a different category, or maybe just a different type of severe influenza. I don't think it really matters since the category matters less than how society responds to it. All I know is that it was a strange illness that put me out of commission for many weeks.
I appreciate the work you do. I hope no offense was taken by my comment, but I try to be candid in my discussions.
If people didn't know they were infected, why do they need to worry about boosters?
Because reasons?
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The Beast must go to Hell.
And will. That much is certain.
They want you scared of everything. They feed on fear. This is why all the fear porn.
Let Evil starve!!!