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And I must ask why in the name of everything are people rushing out to get tested for something if they have a sniffle to find out if they have something they need to go home and be scared of? This getting tested for everything has gotten completely out of control, especially considering that these tests can pretty much give a positive result for pretty much anything they want. "Yep, you have covid!" "Yep, you have omicron!" "Yep, you have the flu!" and on and on and on. Sorry to those of you who do rush out and get tested, but 2 years ago most people that got a sniffle and a mild fever and weren't coughing and hacking; ate some broth, stayed home and got rest and drank water. The recommendation has ALWAYS been (and I am not a physician, do what you want) if your symptoms don't start going away after 7 days *them* see your physician. STOP GOING AND GETTING TESTED FOR EVERYTHING. This has been part of the mind-screwing. We have to wise up.

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Here is some news from the frontlines, as it were. My nephew and brother-in-law were the first two official Omicron cases in my north east blue state. Nephew tested positive the day before Thanksgiving, his father a few days later. Both had nothing more than cold symptoms (cough and sore throat, a little fatigue). I instructed my sister to make sure they both had adequate C, D and Zinc. Both have now completely cleared the illness. My 85 year old mother, who lives with them, developed mild cold symptoms a few days after my brother in law and was the next to test positive this past Saturday. Don't think it has been sequenced and confirmed as the new strain but, of course, you would certainly assume it is. It has so far remained mild despite my mother otherwise not being in great health. It also has not spread (yet) to my sister, her other slightly younger son or my father who all live in the same house. So far, so good. I'll keep you posted as things develop but all signs so far from this anecdote look like a much milder disease.

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Interestingly, this echoes an exchange I had with Dr. Robert Malone (https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/not-in-the-news-covid-epidemiology) today.

In short, I believe Omicron *would* signal the end of COVID … IF global mass vaccination hadn’t occurred. Since the vaccinated cannot develop antibodies in the same way that the unvaxxed do, we (They) may have shot our chances of achieving natural herd immunity via a harmless version of the virus all to hell. I’ll replicate my exchange with him below for more details:

ME: Dr. Malone, when the vaccinated contract COVID after injection, do you know if they develop natural immunity in the same way the unvaccinated do, or is that process thwarted? (Granted, it may still be too early to make such a determination, and this article suggests it is still an unknown: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8402626/)

If they can still develop antibodies, do you think the highly-transmissible and apparently innocuous Omicron has the potential to achieve the natural herd immunity that we appeared to be on the precipice of a year ago, according to this December 2020 “Medical Hypotheses” article, “Is a COVID-19 Vaccine Developed by Nature Already at Work?”:

“The COVID-19 positive cases are increasing at an alarming rate across the world. On the contrary, the morbidity and mortality are showing decreasing trend as time progresses. The most intriguing part is the rise in asymptomatic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) positive cases in the population, which made us speculate some kind of gradual development of immunity in the population.… Thus, we hypothesized the existence of SAMPPs mediated the development of immunity against SARS-CoV-2 infection, which has caused an increase in the incidence rate of asymptomatic cases and a decrease in mortality rate.” (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33059225/)

DR. MALONE: If vaccinated with a genetic vaccine that only encodes for one protein (spike), the vaccinated do not develop the same protection as those who have caught the disease. There are 29 proteins in SARS-CoV-2 -which the body will mount an immune response with natural infection.

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How I wish it had just been called the Xi Variant so we could witness the symbolism of its being made a non-factor on the global stage.

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South Africa: I am the Beta and the Omicron.

Bows.

Exits, stage right.

You're welcome.

Now come visit us, ok? We need the tourists. Our country is on its knees.

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But was it cold all along?

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What is the possibility that Omicron literally is an older cold causing coronavirus that predated SARS that nobody bothered to sequence until now?

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Sounds like good news, but I have to ask: why would it lead to a change in policy this time when nearly all previous pieces of good news have been ignored in the past 1.5 years?

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Something I've been wondering lately: Could covid "vaccine" injuries be inter-generational? Could the vax even cause genetic problems for kids born of vaxxed parents, or for kids who receive the shot at a very early age?

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Time to start licking doorknobs with a vengeance!

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This is all it would have been from the start in 2000 if the mad greedy Dr. Fauci would not have outlawed proven early treatment drugs like HCQ, all so that his Eugenics buddy Gates could make a killing in the drug market....and a killing in World population.

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How is it that every country is able to test for the latest variant? It took specialized labs in South Africa to proclaim the birth of om, now om is the cause of outbreaks everywhere. Says who? WHO? Call me skeptical.

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In recent weeks, since mid- to late October, Czechia has experienced a “fifth wave” of the Wuhan virus. This coincided with the local start of the season for respiratory illnesses in general. Doesn’t this latest spike in positive tests and hospitalizations in Czechia show that the public health measures like vaxxes, masking, testing and lockdowns don’t work to prevent or mitigate spread of the virus? “Virus gonna virus.” Waves of infection come and go, often seasonally, and none of the pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical interventions have done much to stop it. On the way up, authorities call for lockdowns and mass vaxxination, but then the wave eventually peaks and goes down whether such measures are implemented or not. We saw this pattern in US Southern states in August, in India in spring 2021, and in many other places. And can’t we expect this to continue indefinitely? So, how long will we consider ourselves to be in an “emergency”, and when will we finally accept that this is just the way it is – the coronavirus is endemic – and there isn’t much we can do about it? Doesn’t “there’s no cure for the common cold” seem to apply to Sars-Cov-2, too?

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That's great! Now I'm sure all the governments, organizations, entities, and billionaires who have acquired so much wealth and power over the last two years will give us back our freedom!

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"It's just the flu" is a conspiracy theory, but "It's just the cold" is The Science.

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Any thoughts on this little kitty?

By tracking the evolutionary trajectories of vaccine-resistant mutations in more than 2.2 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes, we reveal that the occurrence and frequency of vaccine-resistant mutations correlate strongly with the vaccination rates in Europe and America.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34873910/

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