'The 1890s pandemic, more and more are thinking it was indeed coronavirus OC 43, was much different and so far is mirroring our current situation. Depending on where you were in the world, there were 7 to 12 huge waves. There was no clean stair stepping down in badness, each wave had its own characteristics, and some waves were nothingburgers, some were Godzilla...
As I have repeatedly said, collective humanity and our collective immune system is going to have a hot war with this virus until the hostilities are over... It remains to be seen how the introduction of vaccines will play out in this war. We have never attempted this in humans before. In every animal coronavirus pandemic where vaccines were attempted, it has ended in tears.'
However, it is also possible that we are seeing the final settle down to a seasonal, endemic virus and the human race got 'lucky' - just as the serious clash between the vixens and the ever evolving virus happened, Sars-CoV-2 became quite a lot less dangerous - quoting part of a comment on the Market-Ticker I saw on Monday:
"Without Omicron, all the people that are getting sick now (and we suspected they might as protection wore off) would be getting SICK.
But now they are getting sick enough to be hurting by this cold, but not so sick that they still believe the "I would be much worse without the jabs". They don't seem to recognize that the purebloods aren't really getting it at all (or have at worst the same symptoms).
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branchandroot
Are we getting settled yet?
Date: 2022-01-18 06:20 pm (UTC)It appears to have quite a few differences to the original. Might just be possible the entwined Sars CoV-2 virus/covid vixenation story isn't quite done yet and another twist may happen. I say this in light of Radagast's post on the 9th: https://www.rintrah.nl/omicron-the-vaccine-induced-self-inflicted-wound/
and IM Doc's thoughts in the Naked Capitalism thread on the 14th: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/links-1-14-2022.html
'The 1890s pandemic, more and more are thinking it was indeed coronavirus OC 43, was much different and so far is mirroring our current situation. Depending on where you were in the world, there were 7 to 12 huge waves. There was no clean stair stepping down in badness, each wave had its own characteristics, and some waves were nothingburgers, some were Godzilla...
As I have repeatedly said, collective humanity and our collective immune system is going to have a hot war with this virus until the hostilities are over... It remains to be seen how the introduction of vaccines will play out in this war. We have never attempted this in humans before. In every animal coronavirus pandemic where vaccines were attempted, it has ended in tears.'
This is, of course, taken on board together with an awareness of JMG's original hypothesis way back when too: https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/140421.html
However, it is also possible that we are seeing the final settle down to a seasonal, endemic virus and the human race got 'lucky' - just as the serious clash between the vixens and the ever evolving virus happened, Sars-CoV-2 became quite a lot less dangerous - quoting part of a comment on the Market-Ticker I saw on Monday:
"Without Omicron, all the people that are getting sick now (and we suspected they might as protection wore off) would be getting SICK.
But now they are getting sick enough to be hurting by this cold, but not so sick that they still believe the "I would be much worse without the jabs". They don't seem to recognize that the purebloods aren't really getting it at all (or have at worst the same symptoms).
It seems to be a perfect bug to reinforce the "It could have been worse" trope ..."
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244845&page=10
Welcome anyone's thoughts on this.