Can you self-intubate and prescribe yourself with RunDeathIsNear? 
Posted on 12/19/2021 6:43:06 PM PST by BeauBo
The daily new cases in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the UK — countries with the largest documented omicron burdens — have exceeded their pandemic records. But hospitalisation and deaths appear relatively low, health officials and experts have said...
In the UK, the seven-day average of daily new infections rose from 43,000 on December 1 to over 93,000 on December 17, while the seven-day average of daily deaths during this period have remained below 125. This is a fraction of the average 1,200 daily deaths during the peak of the UK’s wave in January this year.
South Africa has over the past week recorded an average 30 daily deaths compared with the over 370 daily deaths during the peak of its delta-driven wave in July, and over 500 during the peak of its beta-driven wave in January...
Many experts believe the focus should shift from counts of daily cases to hospitalisation. “This shift in emphasis is important,” Menon (an infectious disease modeller at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) said. “We need to concentrate on tracking pressure on hospitals and intensive care units rather than focus on daily new infections.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraphindia.com ...
Omicron is expected to peak in mid-January in the USA, with daily case numbers higher than last Winter's wave, or the Delta wave. Case numbers may exceed testing capacity.
As this Indian analysis indicates, case numbers may not really be so important, as long as hospitals can meet the demand.
So far, so good.
What does the Hospital do for you that you can’t do at home?
So basically, the FLU!
Can you self-intubate and prescribe yourself with RunDeathIsNear?
What does the Hospital do for you that you can’t do at home?
Kill you on a ventilator. It is the Fauci way.
19 Dec: Hindustan Times: Why breathing difficulty is unlikely a symptom of Omicron variant, AIIMS doctor explains
Omicron variant is multiplying in the throat and not in the lungs and hence severe pneumonia is unlikely a symptom of Omicron variant
by Poulomi Ghosh; with agency inputs
With a sharp spike in the number of Omicron cases recorded in India in the last few days, the total tally of Omicron cases is nearing 150 even before a month of the variant first getting detected in India. The number also depends on the number of samples being sent for genome sequencing as health experts have pointed out that genome sequencing is not a diagnostic tool, it is a surveillance and pandemic assessment and tracking tool. “We can assure sufficient systematic sampling is being undertaken,” Niti Aayog (health) member Dr VK Paul said.
Symptoms of Covid infection by this variant also hold a key to better understand the variant as its symptoms are quite different from Covid infection triggered by Delta.
Explaining the difference, AIIMS’ Dr Punnet Musra, professor of community medicine, said it is natural that different variants will have different predominant symptoms. Omicron does not cause breathing trouble as unlike the previous variants, this variant is probably not multiplying in the lungs. Hence, its impact on the lungs is minimal. As cases from all across the world indicate that throat is somewhat getting affected, it is likely that the variant is multiplying in the throat. One is unlikely to get severe pneumonia by Omicron, the doctor said...
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/why-breathing-difficulty-is-unlikely-a-symptom-of-omicron-variant-aiims-doctor-explains-101639873292097.html
“So basically, the FLU!”
In Gauteng Province in South Africa (which includes Johannesburg and Pretoria, along with about a quarter of the National population), COVID cases have already apparently crested from their Omicron wave.
They are have dropped the last five days in a row, now 20% off from the peak. Hospitals were not overwhelmed, in fact, they were significantly less stressed then during Gauteng’s Delta wave
Other provinces in South Africa started later and have not crested yet, but we have our first big test case of how long an Omicron wave might run, and how severe it might be.
It is looking more like the flu so far, in terms of severity.
The length of time spent in the hospital for Omicron has dropped from and average of 8-10 days to 2-3.
More like a cold as omicron affects the upper respiratory tract
This variant is something different and people should all be afraid. I mean, people are getting sick in the winter and it is quite a new thing.
Oh, wait. Then there might be this perspective:
Omicron variant=a nasty cold= making sure the Covid power grab continues by labelling common illnesses as COVID-19.
A thought, isn’t a common cold a type of coronavirus? Wasn’t the whole thing that the Wuhan lab was guilty of conducting gain of function whereby a common cold was being jazzed up into a weapon? Or did Fauci lie about funding something else and I am mixing this up?
Quote: “More like a cold as omicron affects the upper respiratory tract”
Yup, I was diagnosed with it a few days ago. I thought it might be a respiratory infection. I went to the Doctor and was tested and here we are. Three days later and I am well on the way to recovery. It was less nasty than the flu, more nasty than a cold but more short lived. I test again in two days.
Honestly, this has gotten out of hand. They are planning on going full lockdown in the commie states over something that just isn’t deadly.
Glad you’re okay. What did you take to treat it?
Quote: “Glad you are okay. What did you take to treat it?“
Three days of rest, some chicken soup and Tylenol. The thing is, my Doctor told me this variant is like a cold and goes away with with the same treatment therefore. She was right.
If you are willing to answer I have two personal questions. Are you vaccinated? Are you an old codger, spring chicken, or somewhere in between?
A small percentage of common colds are a coronavirus. Most are rhinovirus. That said, Omicron does seem like a bad cold. Given something like 32 mutations on the spike protein and 2 on another and there being 22 other proteins in the COVID branch of coronaviruses, Omicron seems like an actual vax by “The Hand of Providence.” The body will recognize those other 22 proteins in future exposures and thus the virus will not be novel, rather the immune system will see it as a threat immediately. My read is that it will be quickly reacted to and natural immunity will ramp up upon exposure and future variants of the virus will not cause severe disease in the naturally immune.
Re. Question about vax status and age: I am vaccinated but not boosted. I am 52 (and looking for a job if you know anyone hiring mid aged white guys ).
Seems to me that with Omicron, by the time you decide to go to the hospital you’ll be over it.
Good for you. I was curious and suspected the treatment was what you did. Thanks.
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