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I have written about Covid-19 numerous times over the past 2 years. Covid-19 is significant mostly because of the extreme responses to it by Governments and the propaganda spread by the mainstream media. Some of the Governments' extreme responses have been follows:
Mainstream media have mostly supported these Government responses and have used propaganda to justify why such extreme measures are needed. Mainstream media and major social media companies have censored most opposing opinions to those put forward by Governments and their "experts".
Finally, thanks to the Omicron variant, it appears that the Covid-19 nightmare (i.e. phase of a broader agenda) is ending. In this post, I discuss why I believe Omicron is bringing the Covid-19 madness to an end as well as my views regarding Covid-19 as the pandemic progressed.
In April 2021, I wrote a series of posts about Covid-19 and the possible impacts Government responses could have on the economy and society in general. When this series was written, not much information was available about Covid-19 or its extent of severity. Therefore, the posts considered the health threat from Covid-19 to be serious. At the time, I believed Covid-19 might have been a bioweapon.
In Parts 1 and 2 of the series, I briefly discussed the disease. However, most of the series was dedicated to discussing the possible economic impact of Covid-19, Government interventions and their impacts on the economy and society. The series considered the likely winners and losers from Covid-19 and the interventions Governments have put in place.
Inflation has not been as extreme as I anticipated but there is often a lag to price increases as businesses need to adapt to their new circumstances as well as determine if price changes are necessary to reflect these new circumstances. However, in recent months prices in general have begun to increase. It is difficult to predict the extent of these increases and for how long they will last.
As more information became available about Covid-19, it was apparent it did not pose a serious threat to a large majority of the population. At the end of 2020, I reflected on Covid-19 and the damage done by the virus as well as the damage done by the restrictions. The death rate for many western countries increased but it was not a huge deviation from the existing trends in death rates, which were increasing because of aging populations.
We could not confirm how many of the excess deaths were caused by Covid-19, how many were because of the measures taken by Governments, and how many were caused by other factors. The risk of death from Covid-19 was found to be high in only elderly people (80 years or over) who had at least one serious existing condition. Many of the people were dying with Covid-19 rather than solely because of Covid-19.
The damage to the economy and society from Government actions was easier to define. For most of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) that applied strict Covid-19 restrictions, unemployment and national debt increased substantially while national income fell. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses closed for good. While at the same time, big business substantially increased their profits and billionaires increased their wealth by over 1/3. It was becoming clearer who were benefiting the most from the new world of Covid-19.
In 2021, I turned my attention to the vaccines and the vaccine push. I reviewed existing literature as well as discussed my own concerns. I also looked at the connections between Covid-19 and the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.
My research led me to the conclusion that Covid-19 and the restrictions claimed to be put in place to slow or prevent its spread were primarily done with the intention to transfer more power and wealth to a select group of people (i.e. the establishment). Covid-19 is most likely to be just a step or stage to continue this transfer. The vaccines themselves, involve a massive transfer of wealth to the pharmaceutical companies. For example, Moderna’s share price skyrocketed from under US$20 before Covid-19 to over US$400 in September 2021 (Yahoo Financne). However, the vaccine push has gone beyond just a grab for profits. It is being used for a number of other objectives. These objectives may include:
There are several arguments amongst experts regarding the Covid-19 variants. Some believe there are thousands of variants. Some believe there a handful of dominant variants. Some believe there are no variants. Some believe the vaccines are causing the variants. Some believe the variants are created in laboratories. Some believe the variants are occurring naturally, as the virus adapts, changes, and mutates.
If we assume Omicron exists, it appears different to the original version of the virus as well as other variants. It is the first variant to be identified that has escape mutations in all three major antibody classes. Therefore, vaccines and existing natural immunity are likely to be less effective at combatting the Omicron variant. See Table 1 below.
Source: Swiss Policy Research
A study conducted by Professor Alex Sigal of the African Health Research Institute indicates that immunity offered by the Pfizer vaccine to the Omicron variant is minimal. However, previous infection still offers good immunity (Swiss Policy Research).
If Omicron has mutated from the original Covid-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2), it is likely to have different transmissibility and virulency to the original. Since, Omicron has been identified; the number of positive tests for Covid-19 has more than quadrupled (from around 570,000 on 30th November to around 2,500,000 10th January) in around 6 weeks (Worldometer). Therefore, Omicron is more likely to be transmissible than previous variants. However, the number of people who have died while testing positive for Covid-19 has not increased worldwide. Therefore, Omicron is likely to be less virulent.
If we use the United Kingdom as an example, we can see that number of people dying with Covid-19 is barely responsive to the number of people testing positive for Covid-19. Figure 1 contains the 7-day moving averages for positive tests for Covid-19, deaths with positive tests for Covid-19 and approximate percentage of cases with each variant across the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: Our World in Data and Worldometer
It appears with each new variant, the transmissibility increases but the virulence decreases. The Delta variant had a lower percentage of deaths than the Alpha variant and the Omicron variant has a lower percentage of deaths than the Delta variant. Based on data from the UK, if we allow a 2-week lag on the 7-day moving averages of positive tests, the number of deaths with positive tests equates to less than 0.2%. This percentage would be considerably lower if deaths only included people who died because of Covid-19 rather than with Covid-19 based on PCR testing.
Most mainstream media are describing the increased transmissibility of Omicron as bad. This would be the case if Omicron were more virulent. However, since it is not, increased transmissibility is most likely good. It can provide better natural immunity to more people faster with a low chance of serious harm. This natural immunity should be expected to offer protection against other variants as shown by the African Health Research Institute.
As mentioned earlier in the post, there are many expert opinions regarding the Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) variants. An interesting view is from Dr Andrew Kaufman, who claims that the Omicron variant does not exist. The variant is being detected through PCR testing by only recognising 2 of the 3 genes present in other variants of SARS-CoV-2, The S-gene is not considered because of the claimed extent of mutation (WHO).
Dr Andrew Kaufman claims that the soaring number of positive Covid-19 tests are because the PCR tests are showing positive results more frequently because they only need to recognise two of the genes. Normally these tests would have shown negative results. This could explain the increasing number of identified cases without a substantial increase in number of deaths.
Whether you believe Omicron is real and is less dangerous than previous variants or that Omicron does not exist, it is good news. It is good because the threat of harm from Covid-19 is reduced. However, as I have described in my other posts, the threat of harm from previous variants was also minimal.
The more significant good news is that Covid-19 has become extremely difficult for the Government and media to push as a serious health threat. The breaking of the connection between identified cases (i.e. positive tests), hospitalisations, and deaths gives them nothing to use for fearmongering. The lack of health threat and the ineffectiveness of vaccines also greatly reduces the Government’s ability to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory or extend the use of vaccine/health passports/certificates/passes for access to venues. The Covid-19 phase of the agenda has nowhere to go. I expect Covid-19 will barely make the news within a few months.
Life before Covid-19 was better for most people. Therefore, it is not surprising that many would want life to return to the way it was before. I would argue that we could do much better than before Covid-19. Covid-19 did not begin changing the world for the worse. It merely accelerated it. Governments and other forms of authority have always craved more power. The wealthiest people have always craved more wealth. Covid-19 was used as the excuse to take more.
The world will not return to the way it was before Covid-19. Even though many aspects of life could appear that way because we will have more freedom than we did when restrictions were most stringent. Some restrictions will remain but will be barely discussed by mainstream media. An impression of normality will be created. More importantly, precedent has been set for the implementation of draconian rules and laws. All that is needed is another crisis; this could be real or fake. Too much work, effort and capital has been put into the vaccine/health passports/certificates/passes for them to disappear completely and permanently. It is likely, that they will morph into something a little different. They will probably keep a health element to them and will likely have a few more added features that will be used to monitor and/or control our behaviour.
If the agenda is paused, the opposition to the agenda will also need to pause. Public opposition to the draconian approach and Government misinformation is growing stronger. Even if restrictions and controls are somewhat pulled back, opposition is still likely to grow. To overcome the growing opposition, I would expect significant changes to personnel in many Governments. Many seniors leaders are likely to resign or be fired. We could see full changes in Governments through leadership changes or the electing of new Governments. Changes in leadership would be seen by many as a victory for the rising opposition and thus will temporarily quell it. However, the agenda would not have changed. Therefore, people will need to pay attention to what is actually happening.
Even after the Covid-19 madness has ended. Billions of people have been injected with experimental drugs (i.e. Covid-19 vaccines). We have millions of reported adverse reactions and most likely hundreds of thousands of reported deaths, most of these occurring in the first few days of receiving the jabs. The reported adverse reactions most likely only make up a small percentage of overall immediate adverse reactions. The long-term adverse reactions to these experimental drugs remain unknown. It is unlikely we will ever know the full extent of the damage they have caused.
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