1. What if I don't believe in god? Must I still pray? Or follow the science?
2. The Science: Omicron is 70 times more transmissible but 10 times less deadly than Delta. In South Africa, the UK, US and other places where Omicron is most advanced, hospitalisations and deaths are 70-80% down compared to Delta. Our own University of Hong Kong showed why. That's the science. No need to pray to a supernatural being, Dr Leung.
Shame on the Post for putting this on the front page with no context. Omicron is catching but not deadly. That's the context. And it's good news. Print it.
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ADDED: Dr Angelique Coetzee Chief Medical Officer of South Africa where Omicron was first identified, says — on 26 November— that Omicron has only “mild symptoms”. She suspected this even earlier. And she’s been “taken aback” by the world refusal to acknowledge this. AND: Omicron fears
The BBC is only just now (29/12) — over one month later — telling us that Omicron might have “mild symptoms”. I mean, only just now. Isn’t that some kind of dereliction by the MSM?
ADDED (30;12): SCMP continue with the fear and loathing headlines. Front page back page, all about “crisis”, “city vulnerable”, “very high risk”, etc… The only word about Omicron being mild, is buried deep in one only article. I gotta say, WTF? I mean, why? The even stricter measures put in place are threatening Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong’s world-class airline, with bankruptcy. And threatening HK position as global trade hub. We sit here perfectly comfortably in the fine winter sun; but cut off from the rest of the world by lengthy quarantines.
BREAKING (30/12): there’s a “tsunami” of new cases in the UK, while # of hospitalised steady-ish (80% of which new Covid admissions are for reasons other than Covid — ie, Covid was “incidental”), and Covid deaths were down 34% last week. In UK Omicron is 93% of all new cases, so it’s displacing Delta. Trend in US is similar.
