The announcement from England regarding the death of a patient “with” Omicron prompted speculation in this space two days back that this was interesting phraseology, perhaps suggesting it was not necessarily a death “from” Omicron.
Others, including a writer at the London Daily Telegraph, since have expressed similar reservations about the announcement in view of a continuing lack of details regarding said victim.
In a Telegraph story dated Dec. 15, 2021, a professor was quoted as saying of the Omicron death wording that it could apply to someone in the hospital due to COVID, or, equally, to someone who had been hit by a bus and just happened to be infected with Omicron.
That was our point exactly. Death “with Omicron” doesn’t have to mean it was “from Omicron.”
The professor went on to note the lack of specifics such as the victim’s age, sex, any underlying health conditions that could have made said victim particularly susceptible to the virus.
Concluded the professor: “I suspect it’s just some old boy that’s tested positive, he may have died in his sleep or with a heart attack, who knows? It is unnecessarily alarming.”
The last “unnecessarily alarming” observation aptly characterizes most governmental approaches to the COVID situation. Oversell the dangers to put members of the public in a panic and they will more willingly accept lockdowns, vaccine and mask mandates and any number of other draconian measures ostensibly to combat the virus but more accurately that are about getting the populace to submit meekly to any and all governmental decrees.
Other news organizations, notably Reuters, have run with the vague report of an Omicron death in England and extrapolated potential catastrophic outcomes.
I scoured the internet before writing this, even as Federal Reserve spokesman Jerome Powell is droning on about trying to deal with burgeoning inflation here, and could find no additional details on the so-called Omicron victim in England.
In view of questions being asked about this death you’d think that if it had been an otherwise healthy 20-year-old male who had died, the propagandists would be eager to spread that news.
Their collective silence could speak volumes about what’s really going on here.
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