OMICRON IS THE FLU

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https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/covi ... -november/

20 million for this useless thing. How much Covid spread was stopped with this application? This is not armchair quarterbacking, many people knew this app was a joke when it started. Why do I care if I was in close proximity to someone who had Covid 7 days ago? It’s to late! If your Covid testing takes weeks for results this app is meaningless. Right now just to book a Covid test you are looking at a week out. Then the results take another few days… some people have been waiting 6 days since the test for a result. You need a positive PCR to show you had Covid through the app.

Yeah load up that code in your app! You had Covid 14 days ago, let’s inform all those close contacts they may have contracted Covid last month :lol:

20 mil well spent. You will see this reflected on your grocery bill in the form of inflation. Everything is expensive because we have to spend all this money to slow the spread… :rolleyes:

Palebird please tell me this didn’t make your list of best ways to manage a pandemic.
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CYERCaptainPooping wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 3:57 pm Pelmet only takes credit for prevention of covid hospitalization and deaths, he won't take and credit for lost wages, depression, anxiety, suicide, drug addiction etc that may be linked to covid policies. Only covid deaths matter. And like you said, inverted, there were 5. That's 5 to many!
Well, apparently I saved your family. And think of all the thousands of people who heeded my call to avoid becoming a longhauler because they got their vaccine. And that reduced hospitalizations which has so far avoided a lockdown.

I should get a Nobel prize.
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pelmet wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 10:48 pm
CYERCaptainPooping wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 3:57 pm Pelmet only takes credit for prevention of covid hospitalization and deaths, he won't take and credit for lost wages, depression, anxiety, suicide, drug addiction etc that may be linked to covid policies. Only covid deaths matter. And like you said, inverted, there were 5. That's 5 to many!
Well, apparently I saved your family. And think of all the thousands of people who heeded my call to avoid becoming a longhauler because they got their vaccine. And that reduced hospitalizations which has so far avoided a lockdown.

I should get a Nobel prize.
I’ll nominate you. Then you can be “Nominated for a Nobel Prize” on your website. Which category do you prefer? I hear the peace prize is widely accepted as demonstrating expertise in all fields, will that be acceptable? :-D
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photofly wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:45 am
pelmet wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 10:48 pm
CYERCaptainPooping wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 3:57 pm Pelmet only takes credit for prevention of covid hospitalization and deaths, he won't take and credit for lost wages, depression, anxiety, suicide, drug addiction etc that may be linked to covid policies. Only covid deaths matter. And like you said, inverted, there were 5. That's 5 to many!
Well, apparently I saved your family. And think of all the thousands of people who heeded my call to avoid becoming a longhauler because they got their vaccine. And that reduced hospitalizations which has so far avoided a lockdown.

I should get a Nobel prize.
I’ll nominate you. Then you can be “Nominated for a Nobel Prize” on your website. Which category do you prefer? I hear the peace prize is widely accepted as demonstrating expertise in all fields, will that be acceptable? :-D
Actually, I thought it was none of the fields. Maybe I'll stick with prize for medicine. I will send my representative, the YER Captain, to pick it up for me(but I keep the money). If he wears a mask and shows his vaccination certificate, I might cover his justifiable expenses.
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CBCNN was reporting this morning that vaccine effectiveness against omicron is currently sitting at 15% based on data out of Ontario.
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rookiepilot wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 8:10 am Covid Wasn’t
Delta Wasn’t
This is, all evidence points.

Hence, at the risk of Government’s reading this, my own policies have and will change.

Time for governments to do the same. No more lockdowns.

I will not get tested and isolate for every little sniffle i have going forward. I will continue to be wise and responsible, as i have been, but I will make that call.

Highly vulnerable elderly unvaccinated, you are on your own to manage your own risk.

Elderly die of all kinds of things. It’s reality.

And stay out of our ER’s with your sniffles, too. Anything free, is always overused and abused. A $50 charge for using the ER would do wonders. Take care of your own health!
You’re absolutely right, rookie.

They aren’t releasing deaths and hospitalizations in BC until Wednesday rather than every day. Testing is overwhelmed. 811 is jammed up and those who do get through are told to stay home with mild symptoms and ride it out. The CDC is already talking of recommending reduced isolation times because they know that the risks are minimal compared to the entire world shutting down.

You’re also absolutely right about a small deductible reducing the strain on our healthcare system. To me I don’t use it because my time is valuable. But lots of people don’t value their time. The same people who would say a $50 charge is discriminatory.
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There should be no more testing..
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‘Bob’ wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:13 pm
You’re also absolutely right about a small deductible reducing the strain on our healthcare system. To me I don’t use it because my time is valuable. But lots of people don’t value their time. The same people who would say a $50 charge is discriminatory.
It's why the cheap, self serve economy ticks me off so much. My time is valuable. I constantly look for ways to pay a reasonable amount more to get service. Companies really resist this model unless you are willing to pay ridiculous sums.

Airlines have successfully gotten me into business class more and more on long flights. Economy is practically torture, the seats are so narrow and so thin.
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rookiepilot wrote: Sun Dec 26, 2021 8:45 amI’m more than qualified.
Rookie Pilot, and Rookie Doctor, too. :roll:
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Vaticinator wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:25 pm CBCNN was reporting this morning that vaccine effectiveness against omicron is currently sitting at 15% based on data out of Ontario.
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https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/12/1 ... rotection/
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Imjustlurking,

Now that Ontario is seeing a steady increase in vaccinated cases, and the data shows you are more likely to get Covid if you are vaccinated, will Ontario stop reporting the data? Anyone higher up at the call centre grumbling about it? If we don’t like the data can we just pretend we don’t have it?

Really unfortunate to see all the conspiracy theories come true. Looks like for the past two years we have been over reporting hospitalization… of course those who have family in healthcare have been saying this for over a year.

That was cool an all with no vaccine to keep the fear going right, but now that we are basically all vaccinated we better tone that down. Looks like it’s time to stop counting the 50 percent of people in the hospital with Covid, not for Covid. I wonder how this booster data came so quickly. Did they just slap a number on a chart and say this is it! Kind of like how the vaccines are 95 percent effective, then 90, now 15.

Apparently Doug for needs more time for decisions on schools as we need more data, but the booster data is like a snap of the finger! Every effective! :lol: What a fucking joke public health and politicians are. And a joke that people follow their garbage.
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CYERCaptainPooping wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:14 pm Now that Ontario is seeing a steady increase in vaccinated cases, and the data shows you are more likely to get Covid if you are vaccinated
Well, I don't think it's fair to say that there's any data that will show that a vaccinated person is more likely to contract covid than an unvaccinated person. That would be a misinterpretation of the data. But I certainly think it's fair to say that it shows that the vaccines are so ineffective over any meaningful length of time that they shouldn't even call them vaccines. Maybe anti-covid supplements would be a more fitting description, considering that after 10 weeks they're down to 50% efficacy. Maybe our government can join forces with Pfizer and start a subscription service. In an effort to enforce social distancing they can start sending out monthly boxes that contain a booster, a new mask, a government approved, Pfizer manufactured, soy-based meal replacement compliance slurry and a CERB cheque for two grand. Throw in a bonus Netflix subscription and no one will ever need to leave their house again.
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Right. So, booster. Which will bump you back up to 75%. For how long? You know, being healthy to begin with will do you better than 75% and lasts for as long as you want it to. But I guess that requires willpower and discipline and isn't easy, so we better not bring that up, lest we trigger the physically and mentally frail who would find it too difficult.
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Vaticinator wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:03 pm
CYERCaptainPooping wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:14 pm Now that Ontario is seeing a steady increase in vaccinated cases, and the data shows you are more likely to get Covid if you are vaccinated
Well, I don't think it's fair to say that there's any data that will show that a vaccinated person is more likely to contract covid than an unvaccinated person. That would be a misinterpretation of the data. But I certainly think it's fair to say that it shows that the vaccines are so ineffective over any meaningful length of time that they shouldn't even call them vaccines. Maybe anti-covid supplements would be a more fitting description, considering that after 10 weeks they're down to 50% efficacy. Maybe our government can join forces with Pfizer and start a subscription service. In an effort to enforce social distancing they can start sending out monthly boxes that contain a booster, a new mask, a government approved meal replacement Pfizer soy-based compliance slurry and a CERB cheque for two grand. Throw in a bonus Netflix subscription and no one will ever need to leave their house again.
Why not?
I’m literally looking at the same data people used to make an argument a month ago to say the non vaxers are the reason the pandemic can’t end. “It’s a pandemic of the non vax!”

Vaccinated people today in Ontario, and for the past 3 days at least, have tested positive more than non vaccinated on a population basis. It’s right there in the data. How is it fair to formulate an argument of of testing data, then when the data flips the other way then disagree with an argument.

Next point on vaccine efficacy. South Africa on a population basis has similar (maybe even lower than Canada) Covid death rate since omicron. They have 26 percent fully vaccinated. Many are saying we see the vaccines working because deaths are low… but wait, how do you explain SA who had 20k cases a day and similar death rates. They look like a mirror image of us.

So here’s an interesting thing, how do you measure vaccine efficacy. If I were to take a vaccine and not be hospitalized vs for the same infection if I were not vax and not been hospitalized, does that prove efficacy? They leave out the last variable! They don’t measure that. Literally you can take a population of children, who were extremely unlikely to be hospitalized with Covid, and show zero change for that comparison and call a vaccine “90 percent effective”

How do we call a vaccine effective if we are not even comparing it to the alternative option, which is not being vaccinated?

I’m going to call BS on the vaccine efficacy. Look at the data around the world and nothing screams out that the vaccines are great at all. Health officials have been manipulating numbers, over representation of hospitalization by 50 percent. Comparison of data between SA and Canada… all of this point to more questions than answers.

ICU and hospitalization is low now because omicron is less virulent, and very little to do with vaccines. It’s so obvious when you peel past the BS.

A vaccine that prevents hospitalization for a disease where without a vaccine you would also not be hospitalized is a BS measure of vaccine efficacy.

To measure the efficacy, take the age and demographic at risk and show the results. How many deaths in the 80 plus age get prevented with the vaccines?

What a fucking scam.
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CYERCaptainPooping wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:15 pm Why not?
I’m literally looking at the same data people used to make an argument a month ago to say the non vaxers are the reason the pandemic can’t end. “It’s a pandemic of the non vax!”
Well, the data shows only that more vaccinated people than unvaccinated people are getting covid. It might be tempting to think that that correlates to likelihood of catching covid, but it doesn't. It is however, probably safe to assume that it tells us two things: 1) the vaccines are not performing as advertised, and 2) the vast majority of people are now vaccinated. Think of it in terms of absolute numbers. Roughly 33 million Canadians are vaccinated, leaving 5 million unvaccinated. It stands to reason that, given the poor vaccine performance and a comparatively huge vaccinated group, breakthrough infections have become more common. We may be at a point where we can say that if a person tests positive for covid, they are mathematically more likely to be vaccinated than not. But that is very different than saying that side by side, all things being equal, a vaccinated person is more likely to contract covid. Those are two different and distinct statements, and the stats don't back up the latter.
CYERCaptainPooping wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:15 pm What a fucking scam.
You're certainly not wrong on that.
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CYERCaptainPooping wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:14 pm Imjustlurking,

Now that Ontario is seeing a steady increase in vaccinated cases, and the data shows you are more likely to get Covid if you are vaccinated, will Ontario stop reporting the data? Anyone higher up at the call centre grumbling about it? If we don’t like the data can we just pretend we don’t have it?

Really unfortunate to see all the conspiracy theories come true. Looks like for the past two years we have been over reporting hospitalization… of course those who have family in healthcare have been saying this for over a year.

That was cool an all with no vaccine to keep the fear going right, but now that we are basically all vaccinated we better tone that down. Looks like it’s time to stop counting the 50 percent of people in the hospital with Covid, not for Covid. I wonder how this booster data came so quickly. Did they just slap a number on a chart and say this is it! Kind of like how the vaccines are 95 percent effective, then 90, now 15.

Apparently Doug for needs more time for decisions on schools as we need more data, but the booster data is like a snap of the finger! Every effective! :lol: What a fucking joke public health and politicians are. And a joke that people follow their garbage.
Problem with you, you either jump the gun or just like to post misinformation, all along it has been said it was too early to tell, ie; it’s a new variant. So instead of posting shit that you never seem able to retract, why not wait until a clear picture comes out.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2119270

“During the proxy omicron period, we found a vaccine effectiveness of 70% (95% confidence interval [CI], 62 to 76), a finding that was supported by the results of all sensitivity tests. This measure of vaccine effectiveness was significantly different from that during the comparator period, when the rate was 93% (95% CI, 90 to 94) against hospitalization for Covid-19”

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/england ... es-2679724

“The number of patients in hospital with the virus are also growing fast, exceeding 10,000 in England on Wednesday -- the highest figure since March“
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'97 Tercel wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 11:25 pm There should be no more testing..
Ontario listened.

I hope you're happy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ ... -1.6300831
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Vaticinator wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:07 pm
imjustlurking wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 7:57 am [Image of vaccine effectiveness with and without a booster dose]

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/12/1 ... rotection/
Right. So, booster. Which will bump you back up to 75%. For how long? You know, being healthy to begin with will do you better than 75% and lasts for as long as you want it to. But I guess that requires willpower and discipline and isn't easy, so we better not bring that up, lest we trigger the physically and mentally frail who would find it too difficult.
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https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data

The data shows (once again) that you are 10 times more likely to be in ICU testing positive for COVID19 if you are unvaccinated.

Yeah, the vaccine doesn't prevent you from getting sick. This isn't news.

The vaccine helps reduce your risk of getting a tube shoved so far down your throat that you may feel it come out of your ass with your bullshit.
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I hope so but………this pandemic has made a lot of people look foolish(like my brother who insisted there would be no second wave).

Hopefully the next inevitable variant isn’t a case where people who got Omicron discover that they are not immune to the new one.

After all, I think getting the flu once is no guarantee of full protection for future variants.
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