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“It presents mild disease with symptoms being sore muscles and tiredness for a day or two not feeling well. So far, we have detected that those infected do not

by vaadu 5y ago

“It presents mild disease with symptoms being sore muscles and tiredness for a day or two not feeling well. So far, we have detected that those infected do not suffer loss of taste or smell. They might have a slight cough. There are no prominent symptoms. Of those infected some are currently being treated at home.” Plus: “The official noted that hospitals have not been overburdened by Omicron patients and that the new strain is not been detected in vaccinated persons.”

1cvmask 5y ago
So then why all the hysteria and banning of flights.
- okwubodu 5y ago
  So a new strain isn’t allowed to spread before we know everything about it.
  - vechagup 5y ago
    And yet the endgame will probably the same as that for all the other travel bans -- the variant will spread anyway.
    - belval 5y ago
      Indeed, but if the travel bans give us a few more days to prepare it's not a bad thing. Maybe the Omicron variant is truly a nothing burger, but if it wasn't, just getting one extra week before it starts spreading more means the hospitals can start flushing non-urgent patients, testing centers can rehire workers to handle the higher load, etc... To me what's more important is how fast we lift travel restrictions once we know that the situation is ok OR that the variant has spread enough that it would make no differences. If we "punish" South Africa for two months for a variant that only causes mild symptoms then it's an overreaction, if we lift is in 1-3 weeks then it's "better safe than sorry" and can understand the policy.
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koheripbal 5y ago
> the new strain is not been detected in vaccinated persons ...this part cannot be correct since a double digit number of people on that one flight that was posted about tested positive and were vaccinated.
- 2skep 5y ago
  People on the flight were vaccinate OR tested negative. Not both. Don't yet know if the cases were in the tested negative group or in the vaccinated group.

by vaadu 5y ago

1cvmask 5y ago

So then why all the hysteria and banning of flights.

okwubodu 5y ago
So a new strain isn’t allowed to spread before we know everything about it.
- vechagup 5y ago
  And yet the endgame will probably the same as that for all the other travel bans -- the variant will spread anyway.
  - belval 5y ago
    Indeed, but if the travel bans give us a few more days to prepare it's not a bad thing. Maybe the Omicron variant is truly a nothing burger, but if it wasn't, just getting one extra week before it starts spreading more means the hospitals can start flushing non-urgent patients, testing centers can rehire workers to handle the higher load, etc... To me what's more important is how fast we lift travel restrictions once we know that the situation is ok OR that the variant has spread enough that it would make no differences. If we "punish" South Africa for two months for a variant that only causes mild symptoms then it's an overreaction, if we lift is in 1-3 weeks then it's "better safe than sorry" and can understand the policy.
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koheripbal 5y ago

> the new strain is not been detected in vaccinated persons ...this part cannot be correct since a double digit number of people on that one flight that was posted about tested positive and were vaccinated.

2skep 5y ago
People on the flight were vaccinate OR tested negative. Not both. Don't yet know if the cases were in the tested negative group or in the vaccinated group.