Omicron 'Does Look More Like the Flu'

[AlterErgo]

 

[ll74]

It's not the flu

 

[Rightguide]

Just reported on the news. Biden admin is scrapping its Covid tests because it can't tell the difference between Covid and the flu.

 

[ll74]

Just reported on the news. Biden admin is scrapping its Covid tests because it can't tell the difference between Covid and the flu.

That's not accurate. Rapid tests are missing Omicron because there is less viral load needed for transmission and the current approved tests aren't sensitive to that level

 

[Rightguide]

That's not accurate. Rapid tests are missing Omicron because there is less viral load needed for transmission and the current approved tests aren't sensitive to that level

Just reporting the news as heard over the radio, here in snow-swept idaho.

 

[ll74]

Just reporting the news as heard over the radio, here in snow-swept idaho.

And I was just correcting your incorrect statement. It's has nothing to do with the flu

 

[AlterErgo]

MSNBC Host Says Omicron ‘Looks Like The Flu’


https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-omicron-something-that-looks-like-the-flu

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

More like a nasty cold in my case. Sniffing, scratchy throat, pretty much ran it’s course over 4 days.

 

[ll74]

MSNBC Host Says Omicron ‘Looks Like The Flu’


https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-omicron-something-that-looks-like-the-flu

So for vaccinated people, it has flu like symptoms. We already knew that

For unvaxxed, it's worse.

We knew that too

 

[LittleDixie]

This is all over except for the shouting.

 

[ll74]

This is all over except for the shouting.

The pandemic is still not over.

Even with shouting

 

[JohnnySavage]

That's not accurate. Rapid tests are missing Omicron because there is less viral load needed for transmission and the current approved tests aren't sensitive to that level

Now that's funny!


What an awful... simply awful disease!

 

[ll74]

Now that's funny!


What an awful... simply awful disease!

And yet I was talking about the amount of viral load for transmission.

 

[BidudeinWi]

It's not the flu

Soooo confident! The PCR test cannot distinguish between the two. There is no disputing that. I may be wrong here but I don’t believe that any variant have been isolated from a human infected with said variant. Not sure I believe they can tell you which variant you have. I’m sure YOU know cuz……..well to start with, there’s that outstanding education, right?

 

[ll74]

Soooo confident! The PCR test cannot distinguish between the two. There is no disputing that. I may be wrong here but I don’t believe that any variant have been isolated from a human infected with said variant. Not sure I believe they can tell you which variant you have. I’m sure YOU know cuz……..well to start with, there’s that outstanding education, right?

One of the PCR tests...correct. And yet there are other tests.

When I posted that, I was not aware of the posting. (Might be be ause Alter never posts it, but I digress)

It's also true that the viral load is less with omicron.

 

[ll74]

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices...s-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests

The FDA's analysis to date has identified certain EUA-authorized molecular tests whose performance may be impacted by mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant. These tests fall into two categories, as described below: those that are expected to fail to detect the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant, and those that are expected to detect the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant with a specific gene drop out detection pattern.

 

[Rightguide]

So for vaccinated people, it has flu like symptoms. We already knew that

For unvaxxed, it's worse.

We knew that too

How many have died without other health issues, none.

 

[ll74]

How many have died without other health issues, none.

Yes, I get that you don't understand that they wouldn't have died without the virus.

 

[Rightguide]

Yes, I get that you don't understand that they wouldn't have died without the virus.

The one fatality probably would have been brought down by a bad cold.

 

[ll74]

The one fatality probably would have been brought down by a bad cold.

Incorrect

Here's something for you to do - go down to your local hospital, to the ICU and either see for yourself, or ask the nurses there to affirm your assertions

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Incorrect

Here's something for you to do - go down to your local hospital, to the ICU and either see for yourself, or ask the nurses there to affirm your assertions

I swear to God, you're not going to know what to do once this virus is suppressed. It's your entire reason for being.

 

[ll74]

I swear to God, you're not going to know what to do once this virus is suppressed. It's your entire reason for being.

I don't post 20 threads a day about it.

I respond to 20 threads a day about it...mostly to mock and ridicule you idiots.

But certainly to call out your bullshit.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Locally, we have a 55 bed hospital. From it's founding in the early 50s it was owned by the county and run as a non-profit. In the annual report to the county government, the hospital board would tout how they were being utilized at 80-90%. That showed good management and justified an increase in budget or a new doo-hickey machine. So they said.

Last year WVU Medicine bought the hospital. In the middle of the Covid. No Covid patients, yet the press releases were, 'OMG!!! the hospital is only 10% from capacity!!! OMG!!! we are all going to be laying in the streets!!!!!"

Oddly enough, they bought a new CAT scanner and opened a cancer center.

Covid paid for all of it.

Anecdotal, I know. But what is a non-covid hospital utilization rate? probably 80-90%. Doctors need to eat too.

 

[ll74]

Locally, we have a 55 bed hospital. From it's founding in the early 50s it was owned by the county and run as a non-profit. In the annual report to the county government, the hospital board would tout how they were being utilized at 80-90%. That showed good management and justified an increase in budget or a new doo-hickey machine. So they said.

Last year WVU Medicine bought the hospital. In the middle of the Covid. No Covid patients, yet the press releases were, 'OMG!!! the hospital is only 10% from capacity!!! OMG!!! we are all going to be laying in the streets!!!!!"

Oddly enough, they bought a new CAT scanner and opened a cancer center.

Covid paid for all of it.

Anecdotal, I know. But what is a non-covid hospital utilization rate? probably 80-90%. Doctors need to eat too.

Our local hospitals are around 80% currently. My friend told me about her daily view of things in recent weeks ...it isn't the flu

 

[LittleDixie]

Omicron will probably be the best thing for this pandemic. Infections will go vertical, and most people will get it and think "...wait, this is what we've been terrified about?"

Once a huge number pf people have had the virus, it will choke itself off and we'll get herd immunity and it'll all be over.