Panic

Imagine a disease so dangerous that it requires testing to know if you have it.

  • The only COVID-19 symptom that doesn’t show up with a common cold is the loss of smell, Barrett said, but that’s not a “useful tool to differentiate between the two.”
  • That’s why self-diagnosis is not a safe option for finding out if you have COVID-19. Getting a COVID-19 test is the best way to determine if you’re infected with the omicron variant.

If you are diagnosed with it, you get locked in your home and can’t go to work. The best course of action is: don’t get tested.

Follow the Science

Twittter says that people who claim that vaccinated individuals can spread the virus can be penalized for spreading misinformation:

When tweets include misleading information about Covid-19, we may place a label on those tweets that includes corrective information about that claim. We may apply labels to tweets that contain, for example… false or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people.

I wonder if that applies to the CDC?

If you’ve been fully vaccinated:

You can resume activities that you did prior to the pandemic.
To reduce the risk of being infected with the Delta variant and possibly spreading it to others, wear a mask indoors in public

Oh Nose!

A birthday party for a 60 year old man in the UK was a superspreader event for the Omicron variant of COVID. Fifteen of the eighteen attendees were tested positive for COVID, with every one of them being fully vaccinated, and most having already received booster shots. This, in my mind, is sold evidence that the vaccine doesn’t do a thing.

It seems that, with all of the breathless panic over this Omicron variant, we should keep in mind that its most common symptoms are a cough, fatigue, and a runny nose. Now the powers that be keep saying that the vaccine wards off serious symptoms, but the only person in the US who has been hospitalized with this variant was fully vaccinated, so there is that.

Of the first 43 people in the US with this variant:

  • 40 were symptomatic.
  • 34 were fully vaccinated.
  • 25 were under the age of 40.
  • 14 had traveled internationally in the past two weeks.
  • 14 received boosters.
  • 6 had shortness of breath.
  • 6 had previously had a coronavirus infection.
  • 3 lost their sense of taste or smell.
  • 1 was hospitalized (for two days). The one hospitalized was vaccinated.
  • 33 had a cough
  • 24 complained of fatigue
  • 22 had a runny nose

So we are in a panic over an illness that we used to refer to as a “chest cold.” That was before we began testing everyone. This is just stupid.

Meanwhile, the liberal press in South Florida is demanding that DeSantis restore the COVID lockdown.