Covid 19 is changing at a rapid pace, each subvariant of Omicron is spreading more easily than previous ones and the latest being BA.5. At the moment, BA.2.75 is a new Omicron variant which is now being monitored since July 7th, 2022. Previously, it was not possible to comment on the new variant due to a lack of data, but now there is some data, but not much. More data will be forthcoming. From BA.4 to BA.5 to BA.2.75 all mutated from BA.2 which mutated from BA.1 of Omicron. The new BA.2.75 is not a recombination of other variants so it’s not a hybrid! Although the name which was given to it, “Centaurus” suggests that it is.
Currently, BA.2.75 is 50 percent of the cases in India. However, India has low levels of BA.5, so BA.2.75 is competing with BA.2 in India, which we know is spreading more easily. It’s unknown yet, how it will do against BA.5, it’s possible that it may hit a brick wall once BA.5 cases increase to a certain level. Or it may also dominate BA.5. So far there is no evidence that it will make people sicker. Although that could change.
As far as BA.5, in some cases in certain parts of the world, its causes more disease than less while in other parts of the world not as much. The United States has experienced an increase in hospitalizations because of BA.5 but it’s been tiny so far. There also has been a slight increase in cases for ventilation beds but remains flat. In other words, not surging like it did back at the peak of Omicron back in April of 2022. Covid symptoms overall are surging to peak levels and may even surpass the previous record of BA.1 and BA.2! On the bright side, deaths in the UK affected by BA.5, are going down.
This pandemic has been used and in some cases continues to be used for government expansion over people’s lives! The surge of BA.5, for example, has the UK thinking about bringing back government restrictions that as we know had little to no impact. No data on mask-wearing with Omicron. New York passed a rule back in response to Omicron known as Rule 2.13 under the Isolation and Quarantine procedures. The rule says…
“whenever appropriate to control the spread of a highly contagious communicable disease, the State Commissioner of Health may issue and/or may direct the local health authority to issue isolation and/or quarantine orders, consistent with due process of law, to all such persons as the State Commissioner of Health shall determine appropriate.” In other words, if you tested positive for Covid, the public health authority would issue you an order on where and how long you must isolate from the rest of the public. Some government officials sued the state of NY arguing that the Isolation and Quarantine procedures were in violation of the New York State Constitution and a violation of the separation of powers.
On July 8th, the Justice of the Supreme Court of Cattaraugus County sided with the plaintiffs declaring the rule to be in violation of the New York State Constitution and a violation of the separation of powers. The Judge’s ruling says this…
“Respondents offered no scientific data or expert testimony why Rule 2.13 was a necessary response to combat COVID-19, but instead contend only that it would provide a quick and nimble approach to combating the pandemic,” “Nevertheless, during oral argument of this matter, at a time when we hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us, counsel for the Respondents were unable to cite any instance where the procedure set forth in Rule 2.13 was actually utilized.”
Some have called government restrictions overbearing regulations, and government conditioning for more future regulations. While NY restrictions on people who may have Covid got some relief from a judge, China’s communist party used the most strict lockdown measures in the world known as the zero Covid strategy, which had people screaming from their windows in pain and hunger (not allowed to go food shopping) along with massive testing and shutting down work causing shortages. For the rest of the world, most people have returned to mostly normal situations but some of the media and now more liberal states in America like New York and California are hyping up the latest subvariant BA.5 as the “Ninja” variant! Making suggestions at this point with recommending previous government restrictions.
Reinfections are increasing as Omicron BA.5 Continues to Spread At Record Pace
According to the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, people who have recovered from Covid 19, can get reinfected again as early as 28 days! BA.4 is also included in this new reinfection rate along with those who are up to date with their vaccinations! However, the government goes on to say vaccinations prevent severe illness without a random study to suggest such a conclusion. Also, they don’t say how long this unconfirmed protection against severe illness lasts! Wouldn’t you think this would be important to conduct some random studies to try and find out?
Vaccination losing its efficacy as Covid Continues To Change
18 months ago, it was assumed (even I assumed it) that vaccinations would become yearly much like the flu shots. This means, the virus would become more predictable, and like the flu shot, vaccinations would be updated on a regular basis to account for various seasons of the virus but this hasn’t been the case. As Omicron progresses, its changes have been so fast that science hasn’t been able to keep up! As a result, this idea of vaccine updates as a viable option may not be the case anymore! According to Dr. Onyema Obgbuagu of Yale School of Medicine, updates on vaccinations may not have a broader range of protection against new Omicron variants and subvariants!
Covid-19 Vaccine Effectiveness against the Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant -The New England Journal of Medicine
“Between November 27, 2021, and January 12, 2022, a total of 886,774 eligible persons infected with the omicron variant, 204,154 eligible persons infected with the delta variant, and 1,572,621 eligible test-negative controls were identified. At all time points investigated and for all combinations of primary course and booster vaccines, vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease was higher for the delta variant than for the omicron variant. No effect against the omicron variant was noted from 20 weeks after two ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 doses…
This study did not get a lot of media attention from big corporate outlets. This brings us to the next item of concern…
The Problem With Policy Being Influenced by Big Drug Companies in the United States
This began with the Trump administration, which cut red tape and change the definition of a vaccine in order to fast-track vaccination approval. It was thought to be impossible as previous MRA vaccines did not get approval while some experts predicted 2 years, but within nine months, the start of many vaccinations began! Three vaccines were eventually approved in the United States as previous blog posts covered some of that which became the dominant treatment for Covid 19 for practically all ages! Other treatments were shunned especially when the medication was used for other diseases, only experimental treatments by drug companies were more accepted but not as much as the three vaccines.
Billions of dollars of taxpayer money were poured into drug companies making vaccines. Media outlets who were sponsored by big drug companies reframed from any major criticism of their experimental vaccines! They promoted the idea that this would stop the spread of Covid, then they promoted the idea that this would save their lives by reducing the symptoms. Currently, there is no study confirming such an assumption. Even Dr. Fauci who recently got Covid despite being vaccinated a number of times! Here is what he said during an interview with Fox News…
“At my age, being vaccinated and boosted, even though it didn’t protect me against infection, I feel confident that it made a major role in protecting me from progressing to severe disease,” said Fauci, who is 81 and has been in charge of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since the Reagan administration. But where are the studies that would lead to such a conclusion from Dr. Fauci? Why isn’t he going by data rather than his belief? And why haven’t studies been made concerning the impact of vaccinations on covid symptoms? This is what happens when medicine gets political! Common sense falls by the wayside for a political agenda!
Omicron has been changing very rapidly, reducing the main three vaccinations in the US effectiveness. The CDC reported that after 3 months of the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine there is no protection! However, we still see requirements for getting vaccinated! What is the point if you are not going to have protection from the virus after 3 months? It’s not possible to keep vaccinating people every 20 weeks!
In the early stages of the disease, people were taking risks with these vaccines because the virus was unknown, and at the time it was common sense to take such a risk especially if you had a pre-condition or at high risk due to age, but now since we know a lot more about the disease.
The US military run by the Biden administration, where required vaccinations are one of the main reasons that recruitment is down. Schools also are mandating vaccinations for kids in the United States making some parents not happy that people want to stick a needle into their children whether it works or not, whether it may affect them or not!
While the US quickly approved vaccines from its three companies but slowed down considerably not approving other promising vaccines like covaxin, novavax, an inhaled vaccine, which are considered good alternatives and had success. Finally, on June 7th, 2022, novavax was approved for use for people 18 and over. The other two are still waiting to be approved! However, there is no spiked vaccine that is totally safe, there is always a risk even with the safer ones! Vaccinations are not all bad, but you have to weigh the risk factor and benefits when making such decisions about what goes into your body.
We are certainly not going to live with Covid 19, with the flu model, the virus changes way too fast for that. We should be more focused and more money spent on treatments outside of vaccinations! There are still some good ones that still work against Omicron BA.5. But we need more research and development in this area. The vaccine focus in the United States hasn’t worked and becoming less effective, as the virus changes medicine has to change too!