Coronavirus

[gaby]

Oui...et DUBÉ ne serait pas surpris que l'on puisse atteindre 3,000 cas/jour...plus de 500 foyers d'infection en milieu scolaire primaire....la vaccination des enfants devrait aider.....peut-être pas lieu de paniquer MAIS peut-être quand même s'inquiéter et
surtout demeurer prudent/ne pas baisser la garde.

 

[sene5hos]

Yesterday in USA

+164 k new cases.

2074 dead

It's human disaster.

 

[wetnose]

Yesterday in USA

+164 k new cases.

2074 dead

It's human disaster.

If only there was some way to prevent all of this human suffering...some way to train the immune system to recognize and destroy the viruses.

Welp, time for more thoughts and prayers.

[...]

Right?

 

[IamNY]

One year ago today, because of operation Warp Speed, the COVID vaccine became available to people in the US:

History made, millions saved: One year later, 'surreal' moments of COVID-19 vaccine debut live on

A year ago, trucks rolled out of Pfizer's Portage, Michigan plant carrying the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine to be delivered in the U.S.

www.usatoday.com

 

[wetnose]

The UK is losing their shit over Omicron:

UK’s 1m a day booster rollout is strategy of short-term pain for long-term gain

Analysis: next few weeks will be tough for anyone who relies on the health service as well as those who work in it

www.theguardian.com

The growing threat means the urgent twin imperatives of all policy now are to save lives and prevent the NHS becoming overwhelmed by what Boris Johnson in his televised address called “the tidal wave of Omicron coming”. The UK Health Security Agency has already warned that the new variant could produce 1m infections a day by New Year’s Eve.

So the question is: what are we doing?

 

[sene5hos]

Yes Wetnose,

UK omicron cases running at 200,000 a day, Sajid Javid says

It comes as the NHS’ Covid alert level was raised to four, the highest possible level

www.independent.co.uk

UK omicron cases estimated at 200,000 infections every day, Sajid Javid says.

It comes as the NHS’ Covid alert level was raised to four, the highest possible level.

The number of daily Omicron infections in the UK has been estimated as being at 200,000, Sajid Javid has said as he warned omicron cases are going to “dramatically increase”.

 

[wetnose]

Beyond Omicron: what’s next for COVID’s viral evolution

The rapid spread of new variants offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 is adapting and how the pandemic will play out over the next several months.

www.nature.com

“There’s this assumption that something more transmissible becomes less virulent. I don’t think that’s the position we should take,” says Balloux. Variants including Alpha, Beta and Delta have been linked to heightened rates of hospitalization and death — potentially because they grow to such high levels in people’s airways. The assertion that viruses evolve to become milder “is a bit of a myth”, says Rambaut. “The reality is far more complex.”

 

[wetnose]

In Denmark & Norway:

The transmissibility of the virus was showcased after a corporate Christmas party in Norway's capital of Oslo resulted in at least 140 infections.

Held by renewable power company Scatec on November 26, the most recent numbers suggest around 120 guests were in attendance, with an additional 400 to 500 patrons also attending the same restaurant that night.

As of December 9, the FHI reported that 70 per cent of Scatec's guests were infected with Covid (111 guests), with an additional 60 customers from the restaurant also testing positive. This is despite the fact all partygoers were fully vaccinated and had returned a negative Covid test within three days of the party.

 

[bonerland citizen]

So who is gonna start the Omicrap thread?
Damn I wonder if strip clubs gonna fold to this "Virus".
News from "Axios" linked in the Drudge report.
Anyone see Alex Jones film "Endgame" 2007?
Unending waves of "Viruses" will be used to corporate capture society and governments??!!
Interesting they use "Data hints".... so impersonal like no organization is behind the "data" to be held accountable.

Data hint Omicron cases poised to explode in USA...

Wait until they say "2 weeks lockdown to flatten the curve"
We now know what that means.

 

[gaby]

QUÉBEC...DUBÉ...ce jour,

-OMICRON....encore sous contrôle....une quarantaine de cas à ce jour MAIS DUBÉ affirme avec raison que c'est sous estimé....va accroître le criblage.

-VACCINATION.....avec OMICRON qui va être très contagieux DUBÉ presse les non vaccinés à bouger et recommande aux personnes à risque et aux 60 ans et plus de procéder asap à leur 3ème dose....ne bouge pas encore pour les autres catégories pce qu'il manque
500 vaccinateurs minimum.

-TESTS RAPIDES....10 millions disponibles dès LUNDI à travers le RÉSEAU PHARMACEUTIQUE....5 tests gratuits par personne /30 jours.....jusqu'au 31 Mars 2022.

-NOEL...garde le cap POUR LE MOMENT pour des rassemblements de 20 personnes VACCINÉES APRÈS LE 23 DÉCEMBRE....MAIS fait appel au bon sens/jugement des citoyens....on le sentait de plus en plus hésitant...lol....mais avec raison. Pourrait changer d'idée
si la tendance actuelle se maintient..et même s'attend dans les prochains jours/semaines à de fortes hausses....donc....à suivre.

 

[wetnose]

Ontario is estimating the R-nought of Omicron to be 4.01 - which means 1 person can potentially infect 4, who each infect another 4 and so on.

For comparison, Delta's R-nought is 1.09 - so 100 people could infect another 109, etc etc.

Omicron driving up Canada’s R value at ‘unprecedented’ rate. Here’s what that means - National | Globalnews.ca

The reproductive rate of the Omicron variant in Ontario is almost four times as much as the Delta variant, which experts say could result in an overwhelmed health-care system.

globalnews.ca

There's still 1.9M people in QC who are not fully vaccinated. This could be very bad.

 

[CaptRenault]

Give me liberty, or give me death!

And yes, I have been triple vaccinated and I'm in a vulnerable group (i.e. I'm human).

We can’t go on like this

When liberty can be snatched away at a moment’s notice, it becomes meaningless.

www.spiked-online.com

...We can’t go on like this. We can’t keep ratcheting up terror in response to every outbreak of Covid. We can’t keep putting social life and work life on hold every time there’s a wave of disease. We can’t keep putting a gun to the head of the hospitality industry, and threatening to plunge its businesses and its workers into turmoil, whenever a worrying variant emerges. We can’t keep drifting back into lockdown, which we might now do in January, in response to the notoriously pessimistic and often wrong modelling of epidemiologists who know the R number of everything and the value of nothing. We can’t carry on in this limbo between normality and shutdown. In some ways it isn’t the current restrictions themselves that are particularly onerous. They’re relatively mild, for now. No, it’s the knowledge that restrictions could return at any time that corrodes our citizenship and throttles our freedom. When liberty can be snatched away at a moment’s notice, it becomes meaningless...

 

[sene5hos]

U.K. reports record daily COVID-19 cases with Omicron spreading rapidly

The United Kingdom recorded its most daily coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic on Wednesday as a senior British health chief said there could be a 'staggering' rise over the next few days.

www.ctvnews.ca

LONDON -- The United Kingdom recorded its highest daily coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic on Wednesday as a senior British health chief said there could be a "staggering" rise in cases over the next few days.

A further 78,610 COVID-19 infections were reported, about 10,000 more than the previous high reported in January.

More than 11 million people have now tested positive for the disease in the United Kingdom, which has a total population of around 67 million.

 

[gaby]

MONTRÉAL---DRE.DROUIN....ce jour,

En date d'hier 844 nouveaux cas et 3 décès---augmentation de 90% de la semaine précédente ----encore variant DELTA dominant MAIS 95 cas OMICRON détecté.....on s'attend à une hausse encore plus importante. Taux de positivité est passé de 5% à 8%.

Moyenne d'âge est jeune soit 32 ans....et 50% des cas sont en provenance des États-Unis !!!!.......suggère fortement de RÉDUIRE les contacts/ partys de bureau/rassemblements collégiaux et universitaires/partys privés....et s'en tenir au télétravail.

Faut se préparer à une hausse importante des hospitalisations.....actuellement 78 hospitalisations et 34 aux soins intensifs.....et les urgences débordent de 127% à 150% ...très mauvais signe en cette période des Fêtes,

VACCINATION....81 % des Montréalais sont doublement vaccinés MAIS seulement 40% des 5-11 ans le sont.....du travail encore à faire.......140 travailleurs de la santé sont atteints de la COVID actuellement.

CANADA...ce jour....le MINISTRE de la Santé DUCLOS déconseille fortement aux Canadiens les voyages non essentiels pour 4 semaines.....craint qu'ils puissent se retrouver en danger/coincés dans des pays ou sévit de facon exponentielle le variant OMICRON.

Ce n'est pas le temps de voyager......statu quo pour les voyageurs étrangers MAIS la situation pourrait vite changer.

 

[wetnose]

Ford losing his shit

 

[gaby]

QUÉBEC , ce jour....2,736 nouveaux cas ....IMPORTANT....LEGAULT va tenir spécialement un point de presse ce soir 18 hres pour annoncer d'importantes mesures ..attachons nos tuques...lol....à suivre.

 

[sene5hos]

Yesterday in USA

+146 k new cases.

2092 dead and total is + 801 k

 

[CLOUD 500]

Lego made his announcement but I am surprised by the measures as I expected them to shut the bars down. Anyhow restaurants and bars will have to cut capacity limits to 50%. Karaoke and dancing on the floor will be banned. Places of worship will have mandatory vaccine passports. Workers will be asked to work from home. Xmas gatherings max 10. But we both know not much people will respect the measures and will host Xmas parties. Cases will keep on going up all in time for when they are pushing 3rd booster shots. Also in some months a 3rd booster shot will be mandatory for the vaccine passport.

COVID updates, Dec. 16: Quebec cuts capacity limits in stores, bars, restaurants to 50% as of Monday

Province reduces interval between doses to three months, speeds up booster shots for people age 60-69, with all adults eligible as of January. Holiday gatherings capped at 10 people.

montrealgazette.com

 

[IamNY]

NYC Covid positivity doubles in 3 days:

‘We've Never Seen This Before in NYC': COVID Positivity Rate Doubles in 3 Days on Omicron Spread

The percentage of people in New York City testing positive for COVID-19 doubled in three days this week, and a top advisor to Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was an indication of the omicron variant evading immunity in a way the virus never had before. Meanwhile, the state of New York reported a...

www.nbcnewyork.com

 

[bonerland citizen]

This really makes one question who runs Canada.
It is like our country is being remote controlled by foreign entities.
G7 consists of the most highly vaccinated countries. Sketchy as F.

G7 brands Omicron 'biggest threat to global public health' and ...https://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-10318967