Just in time for summer flu season, remember when we didn’t have those – It’s Arcturus. Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.16 is “causing havoc” across India, with a small number of cases appearing in other counties. OMG! Lets … do nothing, please.
How dare you, the wing-nut Karens might say. What about the community? Do you mean those that are more likely to get it because they got vaxxed and boosted? The people who listened to you and wore masks and got addicted to testing for COVID, and lined up for The Jab that made them more susceptible to every virus.
Maybe we need a different headline. Just in time to shore up declining “sales” at Pzifer, It’s Arcturus XBB.1.16!
Officials are now urging states [in India] to increase testing for the virus.
Figures from Our World in Data, run by Oxford University, show how new daily cases reached 3,108 on April 4 – 242 more than the previous month.
The Arcturus strain was first detected in late January and is currently being monitored by the World Health Organization (WHO), with officials noting some mutations of concern.
Elsewhere amongst the watchdog media, we find this.
XBB.1.16, dubbed “Arcturus” by variant trackers, is very similar to U.S. dominant “Kraken” XBB.1.5—the most transmissible COVID variant yet, Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 technical lead for the WHO, said earlier this week at a news conference.
If you read far enough down in either or any article that attempts to inform the public about BB.1.5 or 1.16, you will learn that “We haven’t seen a change in severity in individuals or in populations,” or that “hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths have not yet risen due to the variant.”
But boy, does that thing spread! And you never know, do you? Actually, we do know. Given how wrong the whitecoats have been these past few years, even if we discount your politicization, no one should take anything you say at face value. But it’s not hopeless. Perhaps, in the future, you could lead with “the latest covid variant hasn’t resulted in a rise in hospitalizations or ICU admissions.”
How about you ignore it altogether since it behaves a lot like the common cold or flu?
No chance?
