The Australian Government Needs to Follow the Lead of South Africa on Covid Omicron By Brian Simpson
Two items to be covered here. First, the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee, has recommended that the Covid mandates, including tracing and quarantining those who have come into contact with Omicron, be dropped as these measures are not stopping the rapid spread of the disease. Omicron, while highly contagious, is generally mild in its effects, and acquiring natural immunity is the best approach, perhaps the only one. As detailed in a second item, scientists have proposed that the existing vaccines are inadequate against Omicron anyway. Pfizer has said that it will have a new vaccine ready by march. Well, we are waiting, and the viral clock is ticking away!
“In news that you will likely not see anywhere today, government advisors in South Africa have suggested stopping tracing and quarantining those who have come into contact with Omicron because it isn’t helping to stop the spread of the variant, which for the most part causes no symptoms in those who contract it.
News 24 reports that the Ministerial Advisory Committee wrote to Health Minister Joe Phaahla “recommending that the quarantining of contacts be stopped as it is no longer viable in the current social and economic climate.”
The report also notes “the committee said contact tracing was no longer necessary and should also be halted with immediate effect.”
The report notes the memo stated that “With only a small number of contacts identified from a proportionally small Covid-19 cases, quarantining was no longer effective for containing the spread of the disease.”
The memo also noted that “the proportion of people with immunity to Covid-19 had risen substantially… exceeding 60-80%.”
The memo also said that testing is ‘highly skewed’ because the majority of people who are getting Omicron do not even experience any symptoms.
The memo also stated “It stands to reason that if the vast majority of cases are not diagnosed, then the vast majority of case contacts are also not diagnosed. This means that quarantining and contact tracing are of negligible public health benefit in the South African setting.”
The advisors warned of the negative effects of shutting down the country when the variant doesn’t warrant it.
The memo states:
“On an individual level, the consequences of prolonged quarantining include loss of income, loss of employment, and loss of schooling time. We propose that quarantining be discontinued with immediate effect for contacts of cases of Covid-19. This applies equally to vaccinated and non-vaccinated contacts. No testing for Covid-19 is required irrespective of the exposure risk, unless the contact becomes symptomatic. We further propose that contact tracing be stopped.”
The advice echoes that of South African scientists and officials who for days now have been urging that mass panic over Omicron, which originated in the country, is unnecessary and dangerous.”
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-12-23-columbia-omicron-has-striking-resistance-covid-vaccines.html
“More than 20 scientists from Columbia University and The University of Hong Kong have come to the conclusion that Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” provide no protection whatsoever against the so-called “Omicron” (Moronic) variant.
The paper they all co-authored together concluded that the Moronic variant is “markedly resistant” to both the primary jabs and the “boosters.” It does not matter how many shots people get; whatever is inside all those syringes will not keep anyone safe against the latest strain of the Fauci Flu.
“A striking feature of this variant is the large number of spike mutations that pose a threat to the efficacy of current COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapies,” the study explains.
The Moronic variant’s “extensive” mutations have the potential to “greatly compromise” the vaccine, the study adds. In essence, the jabs become worthless following exposure to them (assuming the shots provided any benefits to begin with).
“Even a third booster shot may not adequately protect against Omicron infection,” the paper reads, noting that Moronic “may still pose a risk” to people who have been triple-jabbed.
These findings align with currently emerging clinical data showing that Moronic demonstrates higher rates of both reinfection and vaccine breakthroughs, the authors further found.
One such study says that Moronic is around 70 times more transmissible than “Delta,” though much less severe.
“It is not too far-fetched to think that this [COVID-19] is now only a mutation or two away from being pan-resistant to current antibodies,” the study added further.
“We must devise strategies that anticipate the evolutional direction of the virus and develop agents that target better conserved viral elements.”
Covid jabs are ineffective against the Delta variant, too
The latest official data claims that 5.3 million people worldwide have died after testing “positive” for the Wuhan Flu. Of this, more than 802,000 deaths occurred in the United States.
Where this data goes wrong, however, is in the fact that almost all deaths for the past 20 some-odd months have been blamed on “covid,” even when they involved things like motorcycle accidents, drownings or other unrelated incidents.
The way the government tabulates “unvaccinated” covid deaths is also deceptive. A fully vaccinated person who dies within the first two weeks post-injection is counted as a “covid” death, it turns out, which greatly inflates the count.
Research published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal found that getting vaccinated has little effect on the “Delta” variant as well, along with all other forms of covid.
Not only can a fully vaccinated person still spread the Delta variant, but he or she can also become infected with it. In fact, most new cases of covid, regardless of the variant, seem to be occurring in people who took the jabs.
You might say, based on all of this, that getting jabbed for covid is an exercise in futility. There is no protection to be had from doing it, so why bother and risk other potential complications?
One Natural News commenter speculated that the true reasons for the jab push include generating lots of new cash for Big Pharma; killing people off from organ failure; genetically reengineering the human body; and injecting surveillance and control technology into people.
“Mass hysteria is ruining the USA, thanks to the mainstream media,” wrote another. “MILLIONS of people are still clueless about the conflict-of-interest nature of the mainstream media.”
“The ‘pandemic’ was / is a lie. The ‘safe and effective’ claim about ‘vaccines’ is a lie. And the mainstream media stirs up mass hysteria among the masses.”
A high immunity among South Africans that stems primarily from prior infection is likely a contributing factor to the lower hospitalization rate the country has recorded amid the surge in COVID-19 cases after the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus became dominant, according to a pair of new studies.
COVID-19 infections in South Africa have skyrocketed in recent weeks, but hospitalizations have risen much more slowly compared to the previous wave, which was driven by the Delta variant.
In the first 31 days of the current wave, 164,911 cases were recorded, but just 3,432 patients required hospital care, and 194 died.
In comparison, during the same time period of the last wave, 38,577 cases were recorded, with 10,088 requiring hospital care and 668 dying.
“We believe that the evolution of cell-mediated immunity from prior natural infection and vaccination is resulting in the uncoupling of the high case rates seen with the Omicron variant and the rates of severe disease,” South African researchers said in one of the new studies, a preprint done with funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The immunity is “primarily due to natural infection, with or without COVID-19 vaccination,” they added later.
In the other study, also not yet peer-reviewed, South African scientists said people who get infected now face roughly 80 percent lower odds of needing hospital care when compared to individuals who got COVID-19 from the Delta variant.
Additionally, people who do get admitted to hospitals have a lower chance of developing severe disease and are staying, on average, for fewer days than before.
That’s likely due in part to “high levels of population immunity (due to natural infection and/or vaccination),” wrote the researchers, who received funding from the South African Medical Research Council.
While seropositivity estimates have been high in South Africa, vaccination rates have been relatively low. As of this week, about half of adults 18 or older had received a COVID-19 vaccine, including people who only got one shot.
Early studies indicate Omicron can better evade immunity from both prior infection and vaccination, though both have held up well against hospitalization and severe disease. Just 1.7 percent of patients with COVID-19 were needing hospital care in South Africa, compared to 19 percent during the Delta wave, Health Minister Joe Phaahla told reporters last week.
Vaccine booster doses, meanwhile, show promise against Omicron, though experts aren’t sure how long the restored protection will last.
In South Africa, most people who have been admitted to hospitals or died with COVID-19 in recent weeks either did not receive a vaccine or just received one dose, according to the country’s National Institute For Communicable Diseases. Officials there are encouraging people to get a vaccine or get a booster if they’ve already gotten one.
Cheryl Cohen, an epidemiology professor at the University of the Witwatersrand who helped with the second study, told reporters in a virtual briefing Wednesday that researchers could not tell if vaccination, natural immunity, or an intrinsic reduced virulence of Omicron have played the largest role, but that she believes the findings are generalizable to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, which have similar levels of previous infection.
“I think what is unclear is how the picture will be similar in countries where there are high levels of vaccination but very low levels of previous infection,” she added. “The baseline epidemiology is different. But I think, compellingly, our data really suggests a positive story of a reduced severity of Omicron compared to other variants.”
Real-world data from other countries also points to a reduced severity, including lower hospitalization rates in Denmark and the United Kingdom when compared to previous waves.
At the same time, Imperial College London researchers said last week that they found no evidence of lower severity with Omicron versus Delta; and in Denmark, “the jury is still out” because of the small amount of data to study thus far, Troels Lillebaek, professor of infectious diseases epidemiology at the University of Copenhagen, told The Epoch Times in an email.
Still, there does seem to be enough evidence out to show Omicron is less severe than previous strains, “but we do not know yet if this is because of increasing cellular immunity in the population in December 2021 versus an inherent property of the strain that makes it less virulent or both,” Dr. Monica Gandhi, director of the University of California, San Francisco-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research, told The Epoch Times via email.
Beyond the high immunity in South Africa “this could be partially because the strain is less virulent and there was data from the University of Hong Kong last week that it is less likely to be able to infect lung cells than previous variants, a finding replicated by a laboratory at the University College London,” she added.”
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