‘Fear’ is the virus
“Symptoms for this terrifying new Covid variant include a slight cough, sniffles, and a minor headache. Back in the 80’s, we called that “WINTER””
Fox News contributor Dr. Marty Makary warned against a new “wave of fear” taking hold over the omicron variant, warning it could fuel a “pandemic of lunacy” in the post COVID-19 era. The professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University joined the “Brian Kilmeade Show” on Thursday to discuss the new variant, explaining it appears to be statistically milder than others.
DR. MARTY MAKARY: We’re seeing this massive new wave of fear that is fueling our second pandemic after COVID-19, which is a pandemic of lunacy, which is omicron. Now I call it omi-cold. If you look at the epidemiological data, the epicenter is now way down from omicron. The hospitals had some hospitalizations, not much. They were short. They averaged two and a half days instead of eight days. But a study just came out of the University of Hong Kong telling us that omicron does not invade the lung tissue that’s deep in the respiratory tract. It stays superficial in the nose and bronchus. So that’s why we’re seeing a common cold-like illness. This new scientific data from the lab explains the epidemiological data and the bedside observation of doctors that this is far more mild… and that’s why I call it omi-cold.
It depends what headline you want, what message you want to send, I can recast any respiratory virus as a potential bubonic plague that’s going to destroy the United States. It’s just how you present the statistics.
We’ve got to reduce testing in low-risk situations. If you test everyone in the United States, you will find a virus particle in the nose of some fraction of Americans forever. … We can’t go hunting for a problem that is a very mild or asymptomatic illness.
“According to the CDC, the symptoms of omicron include : congestion, runny nose, fatigue, and cough. This is the common cold. The symptoms are so mild, that the biggest fear is people won’t know they have it. This is nothing more than manufactured fear and hysteria. This is the best case scenario….the virus mutates to something so mild yet allows for mass infection and build up of natural antibodies.”
“When the Covid hysteria began in March 2020, I watched a video of a NYC doctor who was treating Covid patients and he said that after about a year the virus will mutate and weaken into a mild cold.
The video was over 60 minutes long and everything he said made a lot of sense, but he was ridiculed by the left and his video pulled after it received over a million views.
I wish I had written down his name so I can see what he’s saying now. But he predicted this at the very beginning that Covid would turn into a mere cold and was nothing to worry about. And he was right.”
“South Africa ministers announced the country is moving to stop contact tracing and quarantining of Omicron contacts. Healthcare experts discovered the Omicron is so weak that they do not need to trace the Omicron variant among the people.
This is good news for those who believe that the Omicron will help with herd immunity.
It’s bad news for Fauci and his political operatives pushing vaccinations.
Alex Berenson reported from News 24:
The Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on Covid-19 has written to Health Minister Joe Phaahla, recommending that the quarantining of contacts be stopped as it is no longer viable in the current social and economic climate.
Furthermore, the committee said contact tracing was no longer necessary and should also be halted with immediate effect…
…With only a small number of contacts identified from a proportionally small Covid-19 cases, quarantining was no longer effective for containing the spread of the disease, MAC said.
The committee said testing was highly skewed toward detecting symptomatic cases, while the vast majority of cases are asymptomatic and go undetected.
“In addition, among the small proportion of symptomatic cases, testing is far from universal, since patients may not seek testing when their symptoms are mild and when testing would be burdensome and expensive. Furthermore, the SARS-CoV-2 test sensitivity is suboptimal, sometimes leading to false negative results.”