The source of the original has not been identified but the original has been fully decoded and broken down genetically. That's how they were able to create a vaccine for the original strain. The trouble has been that the original strain has mutated multiple times to new variants which has made the original vaccine less effective on these newer versions.
From the Boston Globe article:
"Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and a cardiologist, knew the United States was in trouble. He has spent a career watching Americans gain weight — nearly three quarters of us are now overweight or obese — and he knew that we needed to eat more unprocessed foods, and exercise regularly."
"But his message mostly went unheard."
"In fact, his own recent research, he says, suggests that “64% of all the hospitalizations from COVID could have been prevented, if we had a metabolically healthy population, without the rates of obesity and diabetes and hypertension that we have now.”
"Just take a minute to let that sink in."
"Remember months of overcrowded hospitals? TV footage of packed ICUs, overworked medical staff, patients who couldn’t have their loved ones come visit them.:
"Now imagine that two out of every three patients could have avoided being hospitalized."
"And Mozaffarian suspects that the death rate could have been similarly reduced."
Pandemic of the obese/unhealthy...confirmed.
Also just to clear up a false statement that vaccinations have caused new variants to form - this is completely untrue and the opposite is in fact the case. The variants have formed in the countries with the lowest vaccination rates because when the virus enters the body of an unvaccinated individual it has more chance to replicate and the more times it replicates the more chances there are of mutations occurring and a new variant forming. This explains why this latest strain originated in Africa - one of the lowest vaccinated countries in the world.
seattle prattle wrote:
fisky wrote:
In the name of all that's holy, can someone explain to me how Fauci and Walensky still have a job?
The obesity article in Lancet came out in summer 2020. In summer 2020 (July 1st to pick a date), covid deaths stood at 130,000. Today, it's 770,000... 640,000 deaths later. By my quick math on the back of a napkin (40% of adults obese and 74% higher death rate), that's roughly 380,000 obese deaths.
How many of those deaths could have been avoided had Fauci said in his daily press conferences, "Mask, social distance, and for goodness sakes, lose weight if you're obese!" 1? 100? 1,000? 10,000? 50,000? How many cases of diabetes could have been reversed? How much heart disease could have been prevented?
As individuals, we can't do anything about this. All we can do is look at the facts and realize that Fauci and Walensky don't give a fat rat's behind about your personal health. All we can do is keep an open mind and act based on what we know... and what we don't know.
I am so sad to see the country I love reduced to this.
Faucci linking Obesity with increased risks associated with Covid, as recently as March of this year:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dr-fauci-said-people-more-111512123.htmlFaucci quoted, as per the article above:
"““Obesity is an epidemic in this country,” said Dr. Fauci. “That's really one of the unfortunate situations, and there are so many reasons for that, that date back from the time a person is a child, the kind of diet that they get exposed to. "
As per the article, he sites a couple of reasons the obese have worse outcomes with Covid, including the action of their diaphragms, and that they are more likely to have co-morbidities due to their weight issue.
Wow! This article proves my point. Fauci has been interviewed probably more than 1,000 times since this pandemic started. Probably closer to 2,000 times. He has meticulously avoided telling people that their health is their personal responsibility. He has seemingly purposely avoided telling people, "If you're obese, lose weight!" Let's analyze the article you cited.
1. It's an interview specifically about obesity so Fauci has to comment on obesity. Is he commenting on obesity every time he gets in front of a camera? No. In fact....
2. You found one in March eight months ago. What>!!? 64% of covid hospital admissions are obese and HE DOESN'T MENTION IT EVERY TIME HE GETS IN FRONT OF A CAMERA!! Where are the daily references to combating obesity?
3. Even in this interview specifically about obesity, he never says, "IF YOU'RE OBESE, LOSE WEIGHT." In fact, he makes excuses for people being obese! I'm not making this up!!! Look at all the "it's not your fault" phrases in these three sentences!
He says...That's really one of the unfortunate situations, and there are so many reasons for that, that date back from the time a person is a child, the kind of diet that they get exposed to. And it's particularly disproportionate in certain demographic groups. I mean, African-American, Latinx population—clearly almost certainly related to the lack of accessibility early on when their children [need] a completely varied and healthy diet."
I read this as him giving people an excuse for not losing weight. Where is the real doctor who really cares about the individual's health? Where does he say, "Hey. It's going to be hard, but you MUST lose weight if you want to reduce your risk of covid! Others have lost weight. You can do it, but you must start NOW!" HE SHOULD HAVE SAID THAT A DOZEN TIMES IN THAT INTERVIEW.... INSTEAD, NOT EVEN ONCE DID HE SAY IT. NOT. ONE. TIME.
I can't surf the news cycle without seeing an interview with Fauci. When has he ever said anything remotely like that? He needs to be saying it every time he gets in front of a camera!!! EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Not just in a one-off interview directly addressing obesity eight months ago.
Look carefully at the article. The only references to combatting obesity are quotes from the CDC's website, not Fauci. Even those comments are pretty wishy-washy.
It's the same with vitamin D. In September 2020 about 40 minutes into an interview, Fauci was asked about vitamin D. He actually laughed and mealy-mouthed around the topic, basically denigrating vitamins in general, but eventually mentioning the HE TAKES VITAMIN D HIMSELF. Then, he's never mentioned it again. Not once.
Fauci is the most powerful person in the world when it comes to covid. He has the bully pulpit every day to admonish, inform, cajole, and empower people to take the personal responsibility to get healthier. He has failed miserably.
GreatDane1 wrote:
Also just to clear up a false statement that vaccinations have caused new variants to form - this is completely untrue and the opposite is in fact the case. The variants have formed in the countries with the lowest vaccination rates because when the virus enters the body of an unvaccinated individual it has more chance to replicate and the more times it replicates the more chances there are of mutations occurring and a new variant forming. This explains why this latest strain originated in Africa - one of the lowest vaccinated countries in the world.
Where did the other strains originate?
Alpha (B.1.1.7) . In late 2020, experts noted gene mutations in COVID-19 cases seen in people in southeastern England.
Gamma (P.1). In January 2021, experts spotted this COVID-19 variant in people from Brazil who’d traveled to Japan. By the end of that month, it was showing up in the U.S.
Delta (B.1.617.2). This variant was spotted in India in December 2020. It caused a huge surge in cases in mid-April 2021.
Mu (B.1.621). Experts first spotted this COVID-19 variant (pronounced m’yoo) in Colombia in January 2021. Since then, countries in South America and Europe have reported outbreaks of Mu.
R.1. Scientists first detected R.1 in a number of countries, including Japan. There was an outbreak at a Kentucky nursing home in March 2021,
Epsilon, theta and zeta were at one point listed as varients of interest.
GreatDane1 wrote:
Also just to clear up a false statement that vaccinations have caused new variants to form - this is completely untrue and the opposite is in fact the case. The variants have formed in the countries with the lowest vaccination rates because when the virus enters the body of an unvaccinated individual it has more chance to replicate and the more times it replicates the more chances there are of mutations occurring and a new variant forming. This explains why this latest strain originated in Africa - one of the lowest vaccinated countries in the world.
This is an out and out lie. The truth is that OMICRON STARTED in vaccinated people. Period. End of story. We need to stop spreading false info to get to the truth.
Please quote your sources that show Omicron originated in vaccinated people.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here? The dates that you are referring to are all when barely anyone had been vaccinated and hence covid had a better chance of mutating to other variants pretty much any where in the world.
First 4 confirmed cases in Botswana all vaccinated people. You can Google it. It’s not fresh news. What is fresh is that they are not telling us of the other more recent cases whether the people are vaccinated or not. Hmm. Silence is a killer.
You ought to post your source that contradicts the first 4 cases attacking vaccinated people in Botswana. God knows every media outlet and CDC and WHO and other stunned spectacles on the planet are working overtime to find one.
https://rifemoneyfever.com/2021/11/26/all-four-botswana-nu-variant-patients-were-fully-vaccinated/GreatDane1 wrote:
Please quote your sources that show Omicron originated in vaccinated people.
Bottom line is that we are betting out lives on it. If you just want to think and believe that the first cases were not created in vaccinated people, which is against the evidence, then that’s on you. But nobody is slamming a needle in my arm with this crap until real answers are met.
Throw Fauci in a max prison for a week and we will all know exactly what this is about.
You're quoting a source from rifemoneyfever.com, a news site that no one has ever heard of and expecting people to believe this? A paragraph from The Guardian Newspaper states "Prof Francois Balloux, the director of the UCL Genetics Institute, said the large number of mutations in the variant apparently accumulated in a “single burst”, suggesting it may have evolved during a chronic infection in a person with a weakened immune system, possibly an untreated HIV/Aids patient". They actually don't know who it originally came from but that is their best prognosis so far based on actual science.
They pit the lifers against the new boys, the old against the young, black against white.
Anything to keep us in our place.
They use Trump, Covid, Kenosha, anything and everything, to keep us from unifying and taking on the real enemy.
Don't let them get away with it.
[quote]GreatDane1 wrote:
You're quoting a source from rifemoneyfever.com, a news site that no one has ever heard of and expecting people to believe this?
Denial runs deep in those who embrace the official narrative.
The variant was discovered in 4 vaxxed people. This is not in dispute.
Yes, proof that it’s time for everyone to face the facts. These vaccines are not vaccines at all and may very well be just the opposite.
At first glance this is devastating news for the vaxxers: The Omicron variant emerged from them. Yet I been hearing from my sources THAT Omicron is much less lethal than previous Covid, therefore THE VAXXERS HAVE CAUSED THE VIRUS TO MUTATE INTO SOMETHING LESS LETHAL!
I always knew they would save us, didn't exactly know how, but God works in mystery ways! LONG LIVE THE VAXXERS! PRAISE THEM WITH GREAT PRAISE!
When we look back with the grandkid on the knee and they ask what we did during the great pandemic, VAXXERS can proudly say with I smile, "I took the Pfizer, felt a little 'off' for a day, but in the end it caused a less lethal antigenic drift and as a result I was given a GOLD STAR SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE FOR MY BRAVERY, and the state allowed me to procreate. That's why you kids are here today!"
Noyankee wrote:
Yes, proof that it’s time for everyone to face the facts. These vaccines are not vaccines at all and may very well be just the opposite.
Dear imbeciles:
All major variants to date evolved before significant (or any) vaccination.
Omicron, its unknown (and could have been either) but given the low vaccination rates, its more likely than not that the initial case was unvaccinated. Additionally, if you fools think these 4 vaccinated people that were infected were the first cases, your nuts.
Had it. NBD. But just wait until the variant comes out with teeth and legs. It will be named the T-rex variant.
real man sprinter wrote:
Noyankee wrote:
Yes, proof that it’s time for everyone to face the facts. These vaccines are not vaccines at all and may very well be just the opposite.
Dear imbeciles:
All major variants to date evolved before significant (or any) vaccination.
Omicron, its unknown (and could have been either) but given the low vaccination rates, its more likely than not that the initial case was unvaccinated. Additionally, if you fools think these 4 vaccinated people that were infected were the first cases, your nuts.
My nuts have nothing in common with your delusions.
The FauciFlu is on its way out. The war continues with the vaccine and the vaxholes.
"Most likely" will work. What a ringing vote of confidence.
In case it doesn't work, the Godfathers of the vax mob mafia are working on 2 more shots and another "booster". That will bring your total number of shots to 6 in less than a year.
Good Luck, you vaxxed people.
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