Once again, the media is trying to scare people over Omicron BA.2.
While COVID-19 cases have fallen markedly since the winter's initial omicron surge, BA.2 has picked up across the eastern states.
Once again, the media is failing to state the full picture.
New York cases are rising…
But staffed ICU beds are not, and are nowhere near saturation.
Ditto for staffed hospital beds overall.
Once again, more contagious does not mean more severe.
Peter, I love your posts. I do share your general Covid skepticism also.
However, in this case, there may be more to worry about than it may seem at first glance.
We, the USA and especially highly vaccinated Eastern states, are in the very beginning of the latest wave. We do not know YET how big it will be. If the UK, France and Italy are any indication, it may get big, especially in vaccinated cities.
You can look at New York hospitalization here:
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summary
Take a look at Central new York (select a selector to the right). Somehow they have a new variant ba2.12 that took over Central New York and this variant is hospitalizing people like crazy. The case numbers are almost meaningless at this point but the hospitalizations are alarming.
We, vaccine skeptics, do not have to be covid minimizers, especially at this point. It is the criminal vaccinators who want to hide their crimes and the terrible consequences thereof. The vaccinators are now minimizing covid, saying that it is mild thanks to vaccines, etc.
But it is not as mild and it kills immune cells with each infection. It gives long covid, heart problems etc to the vaxed people who have it repeatedly. We do not have herd immunity because of vaccines.
These same health science authorities also likely created this virus via reckless research, and they want to minimize Covid so as not to face responsibility for that.
WE, meaning you me and other vaccine critics, do not have to minimize Covid, although of course we must speak only the truth.
Honestly at this point I don't even look at case numbers. We already argued that they are extremely sensitive and it made no sense to use them in asymptomatic people. I'm not sure why many of the PCR critics are now utilizing case rates as a measure- not to say you are doing it, but that other people appear to be doing so.