“The Omicron Variant” – Magic pills, or solving the Africa problem?

The Omicron variant is more transmissable, but they don't know if it's more dangerous yet.

"It has more than double the mutations of Deltascientists anticipate that the virus will be more likely to infect - or reinfect - people who have immunity to earlier variants."Scientists are concerned" that current vaccines may not be as effective against the new strain, they may need to be "tweaked".

We're already seeing preparations for more "public health measures", with the press breathlessly quoting "concerned" public health officials.

Africa is by far the poorest continent, it is densely populated, malnourishment and extreme poverty are endemic across many African nations, and it is home to more AIDS patients than the entire rest of the world combined.

Access to clean water, and healthcare are also much more limited.

So maybe the Omicron Variant is a way of trying to fold Africa into the covid narrative that the other continents have already fully embraced.

There's a more obvious, and more cynical, short term agenda here.

In the US, an emergency use authorisation can only be issued if there is no effective medication or treatment already available, so the vaccines not being proof against Omicron would be vital to rushing the pills onto the US market, at least.

If Omicron is found to be "resistant to the vaccines", but NOT the pills, that will give governments an excuse to rush through approving the pills on an EUA, just as they did with the vaccines.

An exercise in flexing their control muscles a bit, milking even more money out of the double-jabbed and boosted crowd, now newly terrified of the Omicron variant, and a nice holiday bump to Pfizer's ever-inflating stock price.

Hopefully, as the narrative becomes more and more absurd, more and more people will wake up to reality.

https://off-guardian.org/2021/11/27/the-omicron-variant-magic-pills-or-solving-the-africa-problem/