ALL COVID Forecasts are for a STEEP DECLINE in Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths.
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Just to clarify the confusion and unnecessary Fearmongering spread by
one Prolific Panic Pontificator…

Omicron (B.1.1.529 – alias BA) accounts for 100% of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S.
Lineages follow the Pango nomenclature.
B.1.1.529.1 – alias BA.1
B.1.1.529.1.1 – alias BA1.1
B.1.1.529.2 – alias BA.2
B.1.1.529.2 – alias BA.3

The Original Omicron variant tracked World-Wide (Sep 2021) is BA.1
BA.1.1 is a closely related BA.1 sub-variant,
and BA.2 & BA.3 are sub-variants.

All these sub-variants are Known, Tracked and Sequenced.

BA.1 accounts for 20.6% of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S.
BA.1.1 (the dominant strain since early Jan2022) accounts for 75.6% of new cases.
BA.2 accounts for about 3.8% of new cases in the U.S.
and
BA.3 accounts for a very small proportion of new cases – not statistically important.

The predominant Omicron lineage in the United States is BA.1.1, which is descendent of the BA.1 lineage and is characterized by an additional substitution (R346K) in the spike protein.

For the Vast Majority of people returning to normal life –
the difference in prevalence of these variants & sub-variants means
Nil, Null, Nothing and Not None.
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The Real Issue is Freeing the Children from Ineffective and Harmful Masking Mandates in Schools,
imposed by Gov Newsom and Teacher Unions…
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Children should NOT be Forced to be masked for hours upon hours in school or outside.

Regardless, it’s not that hard to just spin through his noise and move on to reading something from someone who wants to convey a message and has an opinion or idea.

Agreed, I no longer read or reply to Mr. Freeloader, but it is important to realize that to have a valid opinion, to have a say in society, we have to give only those who have skin in the game a say. Anyone who lives their live afraid to get married, have kids, buy a house, pay their rent, start a business gets NO SAY when we are talking about opening businesses, dealing with housing, or raising kids.

So, I randomly point out the obvious

No one cares what he thinks and if you do, you are a fool…

– Recognize that people are “worn out” and feeling real harm from the years- long restrictions and TAKE THEIR SIDE. Most Americans have personally moved out of crisis mode.
….66% of parents and 80% of teachers say the pandemic caused learning loss, and voters are overwhelmingly more worried about learning loss than kids getting COVID.

– Acknowledge COVID still exists and likely will for a long time.
… the threat of COVID is no longer what it was even 1 year ago and therefore should not be treated as such – shutdowns, masks, and lockdowns were meant to save lives when there was NOT YET a vaccine that could do that. (REALLY? DEMs Finally acknowledge this?)

– Don’t set “COVID zero” as the victory condition.
…83% say the pandemic will be over when it’s a mild illness like the flu rather than COVID being completely gone, and 55% prefer that COVID should be treated as an endemic disease.
And that’s what most Americans are dealing with – a disease with fatality rates like the flu…

– Stop talking about restrictions and the unknown future ahead.
…If DEMs focus on how bad things still are and how much worse they could get, we set DEMs up as failures unable to navigate us through this.
…DEMs RISK PAYING DEARLY for it in November. (2022).

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I suppose this will be the screed repeated ad nauseam thru the mainstream media and the often liberal biased misleading cable news networks like cnn and msnbc.

DEMs need to stress how Biden has Conquered Covid…lol.

All the while the polls have Biden underwater in Every Category including his Covid crisis collapse.

ALL Trends Show a Decrease & Decline in Covid Cases, Hospitalizations & Deaths.

— “US COVID-19 Deaths DROP for 3rd week + 9 other CDC Findings” (25Feb2022 GMasson) —

COVID-19 Deaths FELL nationally for the 3rd week in a row,
while Hospitalizations DECLINED for the 4th straight week
and
Cases DROPPED for the 5th straight week,
according to the CDC’s COVID-19 data tracker…

10 Things to Know:

Reported CASES:
1. …the nation’s 7-day case avg DECREASED 37.7% from the previous week’s average.

DEATHS:
2. The 7-day death average is DOWN 18.8% from the previous week’s average.

HOSPITALIZATION:
3. The 7-day hospitalization avg DECREASED 30% from the previous week’s average.

VACCINATIONS:
4. As of Feb. 23, about 76.3% of the total U.S. population
— have received at least 1 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine,
and more than 64.8% have received both doses.

5. About 50% of people eligible for a booster dose have gotten one…

6. The 7-day avg number of daily vaccines administered Decreased 17.6% from the previous week.

TESTING:
7. The 7-day avg for POS tests is 5.4%, down 3% from the previous week.

8. The nation’s 7-day avg test volume was down 7.7% from the prior week’s average.

VARIANTS:
9. …the CDC estimated the Omicron Variant accounts for 100% of new U.S. COVID-19 cases.

10. CDC estimates that BA.1.1 accounts for 75.6% of cases,
while the BA.2 subvariant accounts for 3.8% of cases.

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As Before,
The Real Issue is Freeing the Children from Ineffective & Harmful Masking in Schools.

Why are children still being masked?
“…CDC also is easing its recommendations for wearing masks in indoor K-12 settings.”

Adults can decide when & where they want to mask up –
the real issue is Freeing the Children from harmful & ineffective school mask mandates,
imposed on children by Gov Newsom and Teacher Unions…
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The Rational Facts are that in CA Hospitals (as of Feb 25th):

ICU Bed Utilization for Covid is………… 14% (Downward Trend Continues)
Inpatient Bed Utilization for Covid is……. 8% (Downward Trend Continues)
ICU Bed Utilization (all causes) is………. 76% (STABLE)
Percent Inpatients with Covid is…………. 10% (Downward Trend Continues)

Testing Case Counts remain mostly meaningless…

—— WHO: Omicron subvariant now dominant in 18 countries & 6 more updates (24Feb2022, ECarbajal) —–

COVID Cases worldwide fell 21% for the week ending Feb. 20 ….
Global Deaths also fell 8% from the week before.

Six updates on BA.2:

1. As of Feb. 21, the U.S. had identified 1,359 COVID-19 cases involving BA.2, …The strain has been identified in almost every state… though its overall prevalence in each state is
very low, accounting for 0.38% or less of all samples sequenced.

2. Initial data indicates BA.2 has a growth advantage over BA.1 — the original omicron strain —though the “difference in transmissibility appears to be much smaller” than the difference between BA.1 and delta…

3. There have been documented cases of reinfection with BA.2 after infection with BA.1,
though early data based on population-level studies suggest that
infection with BA.1 provides STRONG PROTECTION against reinfection from the omicron subvariant.

4. So far, real-world data from South Africa, the U.K. and Denmark have found
NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE in disease SEVERITY between BA.2 and BA.1…

5. The WHO has also said BA.2 should remain classified as an omicron sublineage rather than getting its own name, based on available data so far.

6. Health experts in the U.S. have said the subvariant is a reminder that new virus strains will continue to emerge, though it is NOT CAUSE FOR PANIC.
“As of now, I don’t think that we need to sound a global alarm.
But I do think that we need to pay attention,”

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The Real Issue is Freeing the Children from Ineffective and Harmful Masking in Schools.