https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/07/04/Get-Ready-Forever-Plague/
"While Omicron’s subvariants find new ways to evade vaccines and destabilize
immune systems, another pandemic has overwhelmed officials who are supposed to
be in charge of public health.
Let’s call it a plague of willful incompetence or an outbreak of
epidemiological stupidity. Or maybe José Saramago’s novel has come to life and
targeted public officials with a scourge of blindness.
In any case, COVID, a novel virus that can wreak havoc with vital organs in the
body, continues to evolve at a furious pace.
In response officials have largely abandoned any coherent response, including
masking, testing, tracing and even basic data collection.
Yes, the people have been abandoned.
So don’t expect “normal” to return to your hospital, your airport, your nation,
your community or your life anytime soon.
Although many public health officials still dismiss COVID infections as
inevitable and even beneficial, a growing body of science shows this
fashionable dogma is dangerously wrongheaded, if not an outright form of
malpractice.
Reinfections, and 2022 is surely the year of reinfections, just increase the
damage from COVID, which can be profound: immune dysregulation, blood clots,
nerve cell death, inflammation, lung damage, kidney failure and brain damage.
New science shows that Omicron and its variants are getting better at evading
immune defences induced by vaccines or by natural infection. BA5, for example,
is more transmissible than any previous variant.
As a consequence it is now possible to be reinfected with one of Omicron’s
variants every two to three weeks."
Via Alrekr Jarnhandr.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
Sun, 7 Aug 2022 23:20:47 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/07/04/Get-Ready-Forever-Plague/
"While Omicron’s subvariants find new ways to evade vaccines and destabilize
immune systems, another pandemic has overwhelmed officials who are supposed to
be in charge of public health.
Let’s call it a plague of willful incompetence or an outbreak of
epidemiological stupidity. Or maybe José Saramago’s novel has come to life and
targeted public officials with a scourge of blindness.
In any case, COVID, a novel virus that can wreak havoc with vital organs in the
body, continues to evolve at a furious pace.
In response officials have largely abandoned any coherent response, including
masking, testing, tracing and even basic data collection.
Yes, the people have been abandoned.
So don’t expect “normal” to return to your hospital, your airport, your nation,
your community or your life anytime soon.
Although many public health officials still dismiss COVID infections as
inevitable and even beneficial, a growing body of science shows this
fashionable dogma is dangerously wrongheaded, if not an outright form of
malpractice."
Follow up:
"On Monday
The Tyee writer [Andrew Nikiforuk] published a detailed caution
against COVID minimizing that went viral and sparked fierce debate. Here’s his
response."
<
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/07/08/Forever-Pandemic-Nikiforuk-Replies-Critics/>
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: July 14, 2022
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-69070635
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
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