The Highwire with Del Bigtree - PROS AND CONS OF OMICRON

Episode Date: January 12, 2022

While legacy media and Public Health Agencies continue to stoke fear over Omicron, new data is painting a different picture of the overwhelmingly mild variant. But there’s a catch; it appears to be able to efficiently escape vaccine protection.#Omicron #PROSNCONSBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Anybody out there watching the news, they're probably in fear. And why is that? It's because the news lately, the past couple weeks, is looking like this. Take a look. We begin tonight with the latest wave of COVID infections, making it feel, yes, like December of 2020. The country is in the midst of an Omicron tidal wave. The average number of new COVID cases nearly 300,000 a day. Americans wondering whether family gatherings will affect the spike in cases fueled by the Omicron variant.

The CDC is now saying the Omicron variant is responsible for nearly 60% of all COVID cases across the country as of Christmas Day. COVID cases are rising extraordinarily quickly, even in people who are vaccinated. Dr. Fauci today said COVID Omicron will become the dominant variant very soon. There are some encouraging signs. Many people with this new Omicron variant get asymptomatic infections. While new COVID-19 cases shot up 60% in the last week, hospitalizations rose just 14%. And the average number of daily deaths actually dropped by 7%. If you have tried to get a test lately, you already know it is very hard to get one right now.

Again, today, long line stretching through streets in major cities all across the country. Look at this, Miami. Today, once again, jammed with cars at a testing site. And in New York City, people sharing videos showing long. long lines at testing sites. And chaos at testing centers. With tests sold down at many pharmacies. We've obviously got to do better.

There certainly is. I mean, you know, this is one circumstance where, you know, we talk about the media being sort of sensational and they're putting a lot of fear around it. But I'll be honest with you. And I've been asking about for me, I do feel like Amacron is not like anything I've seen And as far as the amount of people that got sick over the holidays, I would say almost everyone in my family that had not previously got sick seemed to have come down with it, you know, put me through. But it does feel like it's everywhere.

I mean, I don't remember it feeling like this up until this moment. Amacrom does seem to be a little bit different in that. It's sweeping certainly America, and I would guess, is it appears the world. Yeah, and there's a lot of new information that's come out. So let's check that out. right now let's go over it first of all this is mainstream headlines right out of reuters from the w h o world health organization says more evidence that amicron causes milder symptoms so they're saying there's studies and evidence emerging that the amicron variant is only affecting the upper respiratory

track compared to the other variants that we're going deeper with their pathology and you know we get the people running to the ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic we we all remember sadly so that's a good sign because it's staying out of the deep lung tissue pathology but here's Let's look at a study. We have some of the first studies that are really digging into the Omicron versus the Delta. And this is a study right here, comparison of outcomes from COVID infection and pediatric and adult patients before and after the emergence of Omicron. They looked at almost 600,000 first-time SARS-CoV-2 infected patients nationwide.

They looked at a nationwide database from multiple surveillance sites in the U.S. And this is what they found. So they write, and these are the comparisons, they write the three-day risk in the emergent Amacron cohort outcomes were consistently less than half of those in the Delta cohort. Emergency department visits were 4.55 percent. This is the Amacron versus 15.22% in the Delta. Hospitalizations, 1.75% in the Amacron verse 3.95% in the Delta. ICU admissions. 026% in the Amacron versus 0.78% in the delta. And then finally, the mechanical ventilation. God forbid, we're still doing this to people.

Luckily, it's 0.07% in the Omicron compared to it was 0.43% in the Delta. So to summarize, really, a lot of numbers there. 70% decrease in emergency department visits. 55% decrease in hospitalizations for the Omicron variant. 66% decrease in ICU admissions and 83% decrease in mechanical ventilation. So that's really, really good news. Yeah, super good news. Absolutely.

So even though it's sweeping, it's, it's, much more like a cold and not really like even a flu. I mean, those numbers are really low. Yeah, and more good news from this study. Those authors go on to say this as well, talking about the wide range of population. They say in children under five years old, the overall risk of emergency department visits and hospitalization

in the emergent Omicron cohort were 3.89% and 0.96% respectively, significantly lower than the 21.01% and 2.65% in the matched Delta cohort. And then the kicker right here, similar trends were observed for other pediatric groups ages five to 11, 12 to 17 years, adults 18 to 64 and older adults, older adults, old versus 65.

So basically everyone is experiencing this, less of these larger issues that are really associated with this COVID virus that we're seeing. Right. And now, in the, yes, absolutely. In the UK, we can go over to there. There was a report that was put together with their numbers,

the office national statistics, and so on, and so forth. And here's the headlines coming out of there. Over 70s, those are 70-year-old people, 10 times less likely to die from COVID than last year. This is from Professor Anthony Brooks. He's an expert in genetics and health data at the University of Leicester. He held compile the research based on Office of National Statistics, Government, and NHS infection reports. And he says, COVID no longer posed a significant threat to, quote, the vast majority of people, end quote. He continues, we will not be in anything like the same place in January 2020 as we were in January 2021. Infected individuals are at dramatically less risk of becoming seriously

ill or dying than a year ago, he said. And here's the kicker. He added, over the last month, the risk has been dropping further thanks to Amacron, now accounting for about 95% of cases in England. Amacron is around fourfold less dangerous. It's like nature's vaccine. So we have amazing statement, in fact, and we've had that conversation. I'm not sure if I said it on one of the previous shows when we were talking about, but what we have been, you know, thinking to ourselves is, you know, we've mentioned, I think it should be on the table whether this is manmade again or natural. But if it's natural, you know, I think there's even scientists that have called this perhaps God's vaccine. But it really does feel, as I've been watching this, no matter what,

whether there's some benevolent person out there, maybe they're saving their own butts, they release this. I don't know. But it does feel like, you know, or the thought that I have is Is it possible that a milder virus like this that is sweeping across everybody? In fact, it's getting everybody that doesn't matter, one shot, two shot, three shots, vaccines. It seems to get right through that. And for us, we know that you're really hurting your immune system. You're blocking the ability for your immune system to have a decent recognition of future variants. I wonder if Omicron could even reset those individuals.

My thinking is, is this sort of that last exit to Brooklyn, that last opportunity to jump off this crazy bandwagon, let this virus run its course. Of course, always protecting. I'm never going to say just blanketly just let it run its course. But to say that for those that are still at high risk, you know, even though this is much lower risk, let's protect them. But honestly, of all the times, I've been ridiculed early on when I said, for those of us that are healthy, we need to get out and catch this cold.

In this case, I don't think you have to do anything. It's going to find you whether you're wearing three masks, triple backs. It doesn't matter. This thing is coming your way. The mistake, it seems to me, would be to add a boost. after it. I've met people that say, oh, I just got that amacron, but I'm finally testing negative. I got to go get my booster shot. I'm thinking, what in the hell is wrong with this person? You have like the Ferrari of immunity now. You've been through it. You've built up, you know,

memory, you know, B cells and T cells and antibodies. You're ready to go. You have a Ferrari. You're going to trade that in now for a Pinto and go back to vaccinated, you know, immunity and for everyone that's watched all of our shows on what that vaccine actually does, the specific antibodies. But man, does this feel like a get out of jail free card for all sides, for all sides, for Fauci and all of them. Go ahead. Take it as a victory. Let this thing sweep. Stop this vaccine program. Let's listen to Geert van de Boch. My concern is that if we don't use this opportunity to jump off this crazy train, that the next, you know, that that next moment will be like that dark cloud that covers the sun and we thought we were through it. And then what happens if you continue

to pressure this virus? It obviously figured out in some way how to be. be more infectious? What if it becomes more deadly? We're really lucky right now. It feels like wherever this comes from, it really could reset. And as that guy said, it's like a natural vaccine. We should really, I think, celebrate this and got to be a great time for like all of those great Barrington scientists that were really believed in, you know, sort of controlled, you know, you know, acceptance of this virus and let it sort of run its course but protect those that need to be protected. Scott Atlas part of that group too. Man, I really, I pray to God we come to our senses before we do something really stupid like continue to vaccinate.