COVID OMICRON Thread

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Based on the initial information on this new variant of COVID, I figured it would be a good idea to start a seperate thread.

Much is still unknown about how OMICRON will react where a majority of the population is vaxxed. Normally, when a virus mutates, it becomes more contagious but less lethal. The next two weeks are going to be very interesting.

 

[GregD]

How many COVID threads do we need ?

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

I looked through the couple of COVID threads currently being posted to and they were addressing specific issues.

This variant may be a flash in the pan. Yet, the way the World Health Organization and governments around the world are reacting to it, I figured it would be a good idea to start a seperate thread. If the mods don't agree, then they can blow it away.

 

[JCSR]

Who do you believe?

 

[tv1217]

Breaking news: Reports are coming in that it turns you into an angry space lizard with an aversion to the concept of "wuv"

 

[d.kaufman]

Who do you believe?

Sure isn't the media, CDC, WHO, or the government!

More smoke and mirrors to keep fools scared

 

[avboiler11]

Have you gotten your booster yet, Earthling?

 

[JCSR]

Question for the medically smart peoples here. A standard PCR will not find a variant. Correct? Then does someone just decide " I need to look for variants today?" or how does this work? Way too much mystery here for me.

 

[BigRed]

OMG....

Omicron!!!!

 

[cobber]

Just declare it the Omega strain, and done.

 

[JCSR]

 

[hoosierdoc]

Question for the medically smart peoples here. A standard PCR will not find a variant. Correct? Then does someone just decide " I need to look for variants today?" or how does this work? Way too much mystery here for me.

It finds COVID, but won't tell you the strain.

Health departments do random processing of samples to see what strains are circulating i think

 

[JCSR]

It finds COVID, but won't tell you the strain.

Health departments do random processing of samples to see what strains are circulating i think

Sounds like a roll of the dice not science.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Sounds like a roll of the dice not science.

Not really. Who cares what strain they have. It is all treated the same.

It comes down to epidemiology for tracking what is circulating and what the powers that be want to do about it.

Flu test doesn't tell you which of 125 strains you have. Only A or B

 

[JCSR]

Not really. Who cares what strain they have. It is all treated the same.

It comes down to epidemiology for tracking what is circulating and what the powers that be want to do about it.

Flu test doesn't tell you which of 125 strains you have. Only A or B

So we're not all gonna die?

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

So we're not all gonna die?

Nope. But we are going to be impacted by the immediate government response to this new variant. Going to make a lot of people very unhappy.

 

[jwamplerusa]

So we're not all gonna die?

Yes, you are gonna die... Eventually, but probably not from covid.

 

[1DOWN4UP]

 

[Magyars]

Xiden admin is stopping flights from 6 (?) African countries starting Monday......because of this new "frightening" variant, but the border is still wide open!

 

[BigRed]

Xiden admin is stopping flights from 6 (?) African countries starting Monday......because of this new "frightening" variant, but the border is still wide open!

He is an *******.