Could Omicron be GOOD news? Variant 'might speed up end of pandemic

[nachtsid.er]

Symptoms of AIDS can include:

Rapid weight loss
Recurring fever or profuse night sweats
Extreme and unexplained tiredness
Prolonged swelling of the lymph glands in the armpits, groin, or neck
Diarrhea that lasts for more than a week
Sores of the mouth, anus, or genitals
Pneumonia
Red, brown, pink, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose, or eyelids
Memory loss, depression, and other neurologic disorders

Accurate depiction of bbfa co-morbidities here

 

[Greenteafrappe]

What if it also causes hiv?

huh?? got sauce? how come can link dao hiv??

 

[Hello_Kitty]

Thats bad news for the stock market

why???

 

[linbeier]

sho mtl ka kin pa omicron nao instead of booster

 

[greenbubble]

faster welcome the omnicron infected,
Free tickets and hotel stay. No SHN, welcome to roam SG all expense covered. Lol..

 

[tuzantar]

All should praise and thank South Africa

 

[AZE]

Don't talk too much about the good things first, rater tio jinxed.

 

[AZE]

End of pandemic WILL NOT come until China join in the fray.
China ish 20% of world' population, carries the vast majority of East Asian genetics.

Coexistence of virus with human ish a 2 way process.
Human genetics and adaptive immunity system will evolve as the virus will mutate as well.
Can chiu all imagine that the 80% of the world ish endemic, then suddenly China decided to open up when "ALL IS WELL".
The virus will then mutate again as they are exposed to the rest of the 20% markedly different genetics and shaped immune system to the rest of the world.
Then things will turn ugly once again, and the entire endemic fight will drag on another 1-2 yrs at least for the virus to reestablish a new ground to coexist with the world's human population.

 

[Pearce]

End of pandemic WILL NOT come until China join in the fray.
China ish 20% of world' population, carries the vast majority of East Asian genetics.

Coexistence of virus with human ish a 2 way process.
Human genetics and adaptive immunity system will evolve as the virus will mutate as well.
Can chiu all imagine that the 80% of the world ish endemic, then suddenly China decided to open up when "ALL IS WELL".
The virus will then mutate again as they are exposed to the rest of the 20% markedly different genetics and shaped immune system to the rest of the world.
Then things will turn ugly once again, and the entire endemic fight will drag on another 1-2 yrs at least for the virus to reestablish a new ground to coexist with the world's human population.

Imaging this omicron mutated until become a normal virus that actually reduced the negative effect of delta plus

 

[AZE]

Imaging this omicron mutated until become a normal virus that actually reduced the negative effect of delta plus

Mutation can gosh any way, milder or worse.
Issue ish every time a new unknown factor ish introduced, there will be a trend towards destabalisation, and virus mutations will need time to try to find a new norm for coexistance.

It ish still a long way, to vaccinate as many ppl as possible, and to get a real world endemic that includes China as well.

 

[Ghostpel]

'12 Omicron suspects admitted to Delhi hospital'​

https://www.google.com.sg/amp/s/tim...nd-world-december-2/amp_liveblog/88039431.cms

 

[Pearce]

'12 Omicron suspects admitted to Delhi hospital'​

https://www.google.com.sg/amp/s/tim...nd-world-december-2/amp_liveblog/88039431.cms

I always don't trust India's news

 

[kuti-kuti]

How is it good news when delta is still out there?

 

[beer4105]

problem if vaccines can’t contain this yet…

even if it’s less deadly at the moment, it can later mutate into a deadly form….

 

[Ghostpel]

I always don't trust India's news

Even for delta, before vaccination, 98% of the cases are asymptomatic and mild. Hence, statistically, you need 100 cases to see 1-2 hospitalised or death cases.

 

[exsniper]

stop reading at desmond yee

 

[Pearce]

Even for delta, before vaccination, 98% of the cases are asymptomatic and mild. Hence, statistically, you need 100 cases to see 1-2 hospitalised or death cases.

let's hope got new virus mutated that will change it to normal virus, then all will be able to unmask

 

[AUTUMN&WINTER]

let's hope got new virus mutated that will change it to normal virus, then all will be able to unmask

That was how the pandemic ended throughout history. Hope that this is happening now.

 

[buttbERry]

zhun bo???

 

[BHills]

Some months ago, I read this about the Spanish flu virus which has huge relevance to the current Covid pandemic (Basically, as more and more people develop natural immunity (through infections) against a virus, the subsequent variants of the virus will cause increasingly less danger to people's health and eventually, it will become endemic. I was actually reading some books about World War 1 when I came across the Spanish Flu.)

https://www.history.com/news/1918-flu-pandemic-never-ended
Since the whole world had been exposed to the virus, and had therefore developed natural immunity against it, the 1918 strain began to mutate and evolve in a process called “antigenic drift.” Slightly altered versions of the 1918 flu reemerged in the winters of 1919-1920 and 1920-1921, but they were far less deadly and nearly indistinguishable from the seasonal flu.

“The 1918 flu definitely lost its real virulence by the early 1920s,” says Taubenberger.

But what’s truly incredible, according to genetic analyses, is that the same novel strain of flu first introduced in 1918 appears to be the direct ancestor of every seasonal and pandemic flu we’ve had over the past century.

“You can still find the genetic traces of the 1918 virus in the seasonal flus that circulate today,” says Taubenberger. “Every single human infection with influenza A in the past 102 years is derived from that one introduction of the 1918 flu.”

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ps. vaccination enables people to get infected by the Covid virus with a low risk of serious illness or death and hence, for the population to develop natural immunity against the virus over time. However, the risk is nobody knows whether there is any long term negative side effects of the hastily researched and approved current vaccines.