The Mysterious Coronavirus Spreading Worldwide

[friendlyone]

The UK government is really pushing booster vaccinations. The vast majority of people with covid who are having to go in to hospital are those either completely unvaccinated, or those without boosters.

 

New infections over the past few days:

The UK reported 189,213 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours, smashing Wednesday’s record-breaking tally of 183,037 positive tests.

 

New daily infections in Australia spiked to nearly 18,300 on Wednesday, eclipsing the previous pandemic high of around 11,300 hit a day earlier.

 

France is seeing a “tsunami” of Covid-19 infections with 208,000 new cases reported over the past 24 hours - a national and European record.

 

As foretold, the nations don't know the way out, certainly at this moment.  ☹️

[Sofia]

4 hours ago, friendlyone said:

As foretold, the nations don't know the way out, certainly at this moment.  ☹️

Yes so true

[Dustparticle]

39 minutes ago, Sofia said:

Yes so true

True, and the will party for a new year too.

[coolbrz731]

5 hours ago, friendlyone said:

As foretold, the nations don't know the way out, certainly at this moment.  ☹️

The traits of Satan's system, greed and selfishness are so on display now.  This world mirroring its ruler.

[hatcheckgirl]

T cell responses induced upon vaccination or infection remain robust against Omicron, according to a pre-print study from South Africa that seems to agree with what has been seen in real life. 
 

“These results demonstrate that despite Omicron’s extensive mutations and reduced susceptibility to neutralizing antibodies, the majority of T cell response, induced by vaccination or natural infection, cross- recognises the variant. Well-preserved T cell immunity to Omicron is likely to contribute to protection from severe COVID-19, supporting early clinical observations from South Africa.”

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.26.21268380v1.full.pdf
 

T cells make the antibodies, so that means there is good protection with natural or vaccination immunity. Cross-recognition means the body's T cells recognise the virus, regardless of the variant. Similar to how our bodies deal with the common cold every year despite all the different varieties.

 

Also Dr Campbell's video explains the paper:

 

[Sheep]

11 hours ago, friendlyone said:

. . . UK reported 189,213 new Covid cases . . . smashing Wednesday’s record-breaking . . . Australia spiked to nearly 18,300 on Wednesday, eclipsing the previous . . . France is seeing a “tsunami” of Covid-19 infections with 208,000 new cases . . . a national and European record.

Here too in the province of Quebec, Canada, we're breaking records! About two weeks ago the government was telling us we could break 10 thousand new cases a day by the end of the year. So, how did that pan out?

 

We passed that number one week ago today, way ahead of schedule! And now on the last day of the year we saw 16,461 new cases in the last 24 hours, with the government thinking that could leave out some unreported cases because of the recently distributed "at-home rapid test" devices. As of today, our positivity rate is a record 31.7%, which means that 31.7% of tests performed show as positive.

 

With this are big increases in hospitalizations and new patients in intensive care. These are threatening a breakdown in the health-care system. Included in these numbers are some 12,500 health-care workers who have tested positive during the last few weeks, and so are in isolation and cannot work! Because of the shortages in hospitals, the government is considering calling back some of the asymptomatic workers to help out, although under very particular circumstances. (No explanation was given about the details of those circumstances yet.)

 

The government is calling our situation "very critical," and that the "extreme" situation is calling for some extreme moves. Today (Friday), they are imposing a province-wide curfew, between 10 PM and 5 AM, and continuing at least three weeks! This prohibits anyone from traveling outside their place of residence, except for situations justifying travel. (It even tells you what distance you can go outside to walk your dog!) Private gatherings are banned, and restaurant dining rooms are closed, as of 5 PM Friday. Non-essential stores will be closed on Sundays for three weeks.

 

Breaking curfew rules can result in a fine of $1,000 to 6,000 Canadian.

 

It hasn't been since the beginning of 2021 that we had a curfew here, so this should be most uninteresting.

[Sofia]

1 hour ago, hatcheckgirl said:

T cell responses induced upon vaccination or infection remain robust against Omicron, according to a pre-print study from South Africa that seems to agree with what has been seen in real life. 
 

“These results demonstrate that despite Omicron’s extensive mutations and reduced susceptibility to neutralizing antibodies, the majority of T cell response, induced by vaccination or natural infection, cross- recognises the variant. Well-preserved T cell immunity to Omicron is likely to contribute to protection from severe COVID-19, supporting early clinical observations from South Africa.”

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.26.21268380v1.full.pdf
 

T cells make the antibodies, so that means there is good protection with natural or vaccination immunity. Cross-recognition means the body's T cells recognise the virus, regardless of the variant. Similar to how our bodies deal with the common cold every year despite all the different varieties.

 

Also Dr Campbell's video explains the paper:

 

I’m the living proof this is true 

[Hugh O'D]

Ireland had been hovering at 4-6000 cases pd with 14-14.8% positivity (this was with minimum restrictions). It's now over 20,000 cases pd with 43.6% positivity and everyone knows the true figure is much higher because the testing centers are all overwhelmed. My Boss complained today that he'd received messages that day that two of his wife's inlaws (EDIT actually he said relatives, so his in-laws) were now infected. Hospitalizations are up but iCU's are going down (possible benefit of highly vaccinated population)

 

As for the US, the CDC's decision to send nfected HCW back to work early to hospitals filled with vulnerable patients is amusingly summed up by this doc

 

https://youtu.be/FsFvnpcFGA4

 

 

Edited January 1, 2022 by Hugh O'D
Made a mistake.

[hatcheckgirl]

I wanted to do a smiley, Hugh, after watching the video.  But not really appropriate for the rest of the post.  The video is hilarious, yet uncomfortably true.

[Hugh O'D]

1 hour ago, hatcheckgirl said:

I wanted to do a smiley, Hugh, after watching the video.  But not really appropriate for the rest of the post.  The video is hilarious, yet uncomfortably true.

Long time Brother (Pioneer, CO, also spent time on Branch Committee when Ireland had one) said "If you lose your sense of humour you're finished". I'd recommend the video makers other work, you'll wince while laughing.

Edited January 1, 2022 by Hugh O'D
I kant spall

[Dustparticle]

Florida case has jumped around  1,000% in the past two weeks. Welcome to 2022.

 

https://www.wctv.tv/2022/01/01/fl-covid-19-cases-jump-130-leon-county-cases-nearly-300-week-before/

[Hotteok]

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Edited January 3, 2022 by VisualizeUrParadise

[Dustparticle]

MI getting around 12,500 cases per day. https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/01/michigan-covid-19-cases-skyrocket-hitting-record-seven-day-average-of-12442.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=muskegonchronicle_sf&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3Ch_tB-edVGZaHV1Ne4VyqVLT0Z82tRzk8JXbP0MWf0NWqv8T6ZZPxb2o

[Bob]

14 hours ago, Dustparticle said:

MI getting around 12,500 cases per day. https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/01/michigan-covid-19-cases-skyrocket-hitting-record-seven-day-average-of-12442.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=muskegonchronicle_sf&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3Ch_tB-edVGZaHV1Ne4VyqVLT0Z82tRzk8JXbP0MWf0NWqv8T6ZZPxb2o

Cases are acceptable because they’re inevitable and impossible to stop.

 

How they turn out is what’s important, in my opinion. 

[Shawnster]

3 hours ago, Bob said:

Cases are acceptable because they’re inevitable and impossible to stop.

 

But it's possible to keep them under control.  It doesn't matter if everyone gets Covid or not.  What matters is if everyone gets it at the same time or not.  More cases over a longer period does not overload the medical care system (in all facets) the way massive numbers all at once does.

[trottigy]

[Sofia]

7 minutes ago, trottigy said:

I just like to ad, that in countries where it doesnt seem to be cases of covid, namely omicron, testing are scarce and many not even reported. In fact covid cases are under report and these maps are guidance only, cases are far more than double actually according to scientists and mathematicians.

[hatcheckgirl]

And people can’t get into testing sites, or get rapid antigen tests, so can’t be counted. 

But numbers in hospital and ICU show that despite (incomplete) cases rising exponentially, their rise in hospital and ICU is not as sharp. 
 

That’s good of course, but the sheer numbers of covid cases mean hospitals are being badly affected anyway. Code reds for ambulances answering calls. This will have a knock on effect on people needing ambulances and hospitalisation for heart attacks, car accidents and other emergencies.

[Luigi62]

31 minutes ago, hatcheckgirl said:

That’s good of course, but the sheer numbers of covid cases mean hospitals are being badly affected anyway. Code reds for ambulances answering calls. This will have a knock on effect on people needing ambulances and hospitalisation for heart attacks, car accidents and other emergencies.

On the news the other day it was siad people who need "hospitalisation for heart attacks, car accidents and other emergencies" will be treated as if they have Covid.

[pnutts]

Due to changes on how cases are reported, Ontario only had 11,000+ cases reported this morning with 30.7% positivity rate.

Yet a few days ago Ontario reported over 18,000 with rate of 27%.

 

They say rate is probably 2 to 3X reported rate. Hospitalizations are going up as are those in ICU

and those on ventilators for this "Not As Severe" variant.

[Hope]

A sister I went to high school with went into the hospital with Covid six days ago.  She died yesterday.

 

Not vaccinated.   Not sure what variety of C-19 took her out... but so unnecessary to die at such an age... 😢 

[Bob]

9 hours ago, Shawnster said:

But it's possible to keep them under control.  It doesn't matter if everyone gets Covid or not.  What matters is if everyone gets it at the same time or not.  More cases over a longer period does not overload the medical care system (in all facets) the way massive numbers all at once does.

Yeah. Good point. As I see it, the only way to keep it under control is to test literally every US citizen twice a week and isolate any and everyone who tests positive. 
 

In other words, you’ll have to shut society down because tens of millions of people have it and tens of millions of people will have to stay home. 
 

So in theory I agree we can control it, but practically, it’s not feasible to attempt to at this point. 
 

So many cops and firefighters are testing positive that isolating them for ten days puts public safety at an extremely high risk. We see that with the airline industry that so many cases are causing massive cancellations and backlogs that it’s unsustainable. 

 

So basically it’s becoming a societal hazard to test asymptomatic people and have them isolate. 

I can see them simply refusing to test people that don’t have symptoms at some point in the future, because attempting to control it has very serious societal consequences. 

[hatcheckgirl]

48 minutes ago, Bob said:

I can see them simply refusing to test people that don’t have symptoms at some point in the future, because attempting to control it has very serious societal consequences. 

Already happening here in Australia.  Only testing with PCR if symptomatic or defined as a "close contact" (which is  defined as anyone living with you in your house staying more than 4 hrs with you.  The fact that we also work with people for 8 hrs a day, government doesn't care anymore).  Queues are now unmanageable, and your PCR test results are unlikely to come back in a timely manner, so you isolate yourself for many days waiting for the result (and that may be negative).  And if positive, you'll need another pcr test to return to the workforce.  So another enormous time wasting in the queue.

Hoping that like South Africe, in a few weeks we'll see a downturn in cases, and hospitalisations accordingly.  In the meantime, we just have to be sensible and self-isolate if we have symptoms and only go to hospital if symptoms get worse.  Just like you would do if you had something similar that is infectious - stay away from others until you are better.

[New World Explorer]

On 12/25/2021 at 4:27 AM, AH173 said:

We should appreciate the fine guidance of the Governing Body following clear scriptural guidance during the last of the last days. 

I wholeheartedly agree with your comments as with this pandemic we do not solely rely on worldly medical data, but we prayfully look to Jehovah for guidance, and he does not fail. He will provide future instructions through FDS, for sure. 

Loving father will not forsake his imperfect children, He will care for us. So let's listen carefully and humbly to the directions coming from his appointed channel. 

[AH173]

8 hours ago, Hope said:

A sister I went to high school with went into the hospital with Covid six days ago.  She died yesterday.

 

Not vaccinated.   Not sure what variety of C-19 took her out... but so unnecessary to die at such an age... 😢 

Most likely / probably the Delta variant. Unless she had many or a few serious comorbidities she was contending with prior to infection.