The Pandemic of the Vaccinated Is Here
A coming winter surge and the spread of Omicron have made it clear that COVID is everyone’s problem.
The article is a boring rehash of current day talking points, the unvaxxed are risking mass death with Omicron, get your booster, blah blah. But the title is the giveaway, 'Pandemic of the Vaccinated'. This was written in the Atlantic for fucks sake. The house paper for billionaire progressives owned by Steve Job's widow. The fact that the Atlantic of all things is needing to come out and tell their readers that the vaccines have failed marks a shift in the narrative. Why are they doing this?
SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant — United States...
This report describes the initial spread and impact of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in the U.S.
The effective transmissibility of Omicron Covid is likely lower than Delta. The mutations observed in the spike component makes it less efficient in entering human cells not more. So how come it's spreading so fast? Well to understand that you need to be aware of the difference between effective transmissibility (Rt) and intrinsic transmissibility (R0). When Wuhan and Alpha Covid were circulating it was observed that there was robust cross immunity against the virus, probably from previous exposure to other endemic human Betacoronaviruses. This was observed very early on in cruise ship outbreaks with populations of susceptible elderly people often confined for days/weeks in small cabins, using shared facilities and bathrooms. Even in cases where people were confined for weeks and one person was Covid positive (and very unwell with massive viral loads) sharing cabin space with a spouse the other person never became infected, which would be impossible if they were not already immune. TLDR Covid didn't spread to infect everyone on the ships because it couldn't, the number of susceptible people was too small as a percentage of the population. This limited the R0 to around 2 on the ships and later on when it caused outbreaks around the world.
As time has progressed Covid has mutated. The mutations we've seen have not made it more efficient at infecting cells, Wuhan Covid was incredibly efficient at doing that (after all it was made that way). No it's been evolving to escape immunity, particularly the narrow immunity provided by the vaccines. So to answer the question why is Omicron spreading so fast when it's less efficient at entering our cells, the answer is it now has a LOT more people it's able to infect. It doesn't have to be more efficient when it's circulating in an environment of nothing but low hanging fruit. The rapid spread of Omicron also suggests that the cross immunity against Covid that existed before the mass vaccinations is now impaired in the jabbed.
So I'm going to dust off my crystal ball and make a prediction. The higher the vaccination rates the more Omicron Covid we'll be seeing. If we hadn't decided to vaccinate everyone with non sterilising vaccines this wouldn't have been possible. Covid would have already burned itself out, likely not disappeared, but would have become just another annoying and not particularly infectious cold bug. There just weren't enough people who were able to catch it in the first place. But the vaccines have now fixed that problem for the virus, so well done I guess?
The next couple of months are locked in and there's nothing anyone can do to stop what's coming. We will see incredibly high case numbers, likely in the millions per day in large countries like the US, India, China and Brazil, in the hundreds of thousands per day in the UK, France and Germany. There will be massive pressure put on the health care system, even a milder form of Covid will kill a lot of olds and deathfats. The unvaccinated with no previous Covid infection will likely suffer a similar disease severity as the vaxxed, but even if it's more severe they're going to be way, way less likely to catch it in the first place so their individual risk will be less.
In my opinion governments are well aware of what's about to hit them. Their demand that everyone gets boosted is to lower the chances of ADE or VEI in the vaccinated not to reduce severe illness from the virus let alone reduce spread. Their messaging is already changing, preparing the vaccinated, particularly the Covidians, for the inevitable that pretty much all of them are going to catch Covid in the next few weeks/months and to avoid a mass panic. If it hits China hard, which it will, there's the potential for massive economic disruptions depending on how the CCP responds. All in all it's going to be an interesting run up to Christmas.
