Omicron Lockdowns?

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Expect President Biden to make some drastic moves this week in response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 including new talking points about the unvaccinated.

Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian

🙄 thepostmillennial.com/breaking-biden…BREAKING: Biden to announce new COVID-19 measures, will issue ‘stark warning’ to unvaccinated AmericansBiden is expected to issue “a stark warning of what the winter will look like for Americans that choose to remain unvaccinated.”thepostmillennial.com

December 19th 2021

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Places where lockdowns and vaccine passports are already being used are in a panic despite the measures.

Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC

BREAKING: Another record high # of cases reported in NY State today: 21,908 11,589 cases in NYC alone. This is omicron hitting us hard.

December 18th 2021

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The Associated Press @AP

"Saturday Night Live" has announced that tonight's episode will tape without a live audience and with only limited cast and crew “due to the recent spike in the Omicron variant and out of an abundance of caution." Paul Rudd is the host. ‘SNL’ to air without live audience, Charli XCX amid omicron | AP NewsNEW YORK (AP) — People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021 is set to be inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on “Saturday Night Live,” but the surging omicron variant of the coronavirus means there won’t be a live audience to see it happen.apne.ws

December 18th 2021

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However, early reports don’t seem to make the case for panic.

From Nature.com…

Reports from South Africa have consistently noted a lower rate of hospitalization as a result of Omicron infections compared with infections caused by the Delta variant, which is currently responsible for most SARS-CoV-2 infections globally. On 14 December, the South African private health insurer Discovery Health in Johannesburg announced that hospitalization risk has been 29% lower among people infected with Omicron, compared with people infected with a previous variant.

Also:

Laboratory studies have suggested that Omicron might be able to evade some COVID vaccine-induced immunity, and early data from the UK Health Security Agency suggest that the vaccines are not as protective against Omicron infections as they have been against other variants.

Yet, the Biden Administration’s push for vaccines are still in full throttle.

Omicron seems like a cold/flu to many early treating physicians. UK reports 10,000 jump in Omicron cases, deaths rise to 7 per Reuters. Is that reason to panic? We will find out soon.