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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Obese people are only a threat to themselves, and that's only if their bad lifestyle catches up with them.

The unvax are mutation factories, who act as a threat to everyone because transmission rates are higher.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294250-how-much-less-likely-are-you-to-spread-covid-19-if-youre-vaccinated/amp/

A recent study found that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant are 63 per cent less likely to infect people who are unvaccinated. This is only slightly lower than with the alpha variant, says Brechje de Gier at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, who led the study. Her team had previously found that vaccinated people infected with alpha were 73 per cent less likely to infect unvaccinated people. What is important to realise, de Gier says, is that the full effect of vaccines on reducing transmission is even higher than 63 per cent, because most vaccinated people don’t become infected in the first place.

[–]88BitSorelianism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The unvax are mutation factories, who act as a threat to everyone because transmission rates are higher.

No it's the vaxxed who are mutation factories, who is patient zero of the omicron variant? Someone who was double vaxed, so again you're a liar and you're going to keep lying because your whole world view on covid is a lie and you can't let it go.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

No it's the vaxxed who are mutation factories, who is patient zero of the omicron variant? Someone who was double vaxed,

False

https://www.bbc.com/news/59462647

The variant was first identified in South Africa's Gauteng province, a region with among the three lowest vaccination rates in the country at just 32% of the adult population.In a population with a low vaccination rate, there will be more infected - and sicker - people around, creating more opportunities for the virus to mutate. But potentially harmful mutations can take hold as the virus attempts to get round the immune defences of vaccinated or previously infected people. So a population with some immunity, but not enough to stamp out the virus, and where the virus widely present, is a good environment for new mutations to develop. Another factor is those who already have suppressed immune systems - as a consequence of the HIV virus for example - and who might have longer and more severe symptoms if infected with Covid. This would give the coronavirus more opportunity to mutate within a sick individual. Untreated HIV infection is a major problem in the southern African region where the Omicron variant was first identified.

So low vaccination and untreated HIV cases. It was a biological cocktail just waiting to explode.

[–]88BitSorelianism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Patient zero wasn't South African, he is Chinese, and visiting south Africa he wasn't living there long term, China requires everyone to be vaccinated there is no medical freedom in China and it was found when he went back to Hong Kong.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Patient zero wasn't South African, he is Chinese, and visiting south Africa he wasn't living there long term,

All sources say it was spotted in Botswana first.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/world/south-africa-omicron-origins-covid-cmd-intl/index.html

Just where and when Omicron first emerged is still unknown. There is no identifiable "Patient Zero," a first person known to have been infected with the variant. As the director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, John Nkengasong, told CNN on November 30, "We just cannot assess where this originated." "The first cases were recognized and identified in Botswana and subsequently in South Africa," Nkengasong said. But he pointed out: "Identifying a virus, a new strain or a new variant doesn't mean it came from there." "It might well be a consequence of an outbreak, probably in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where there's not a huge amount of genomic surveillance going on and the vaccination rate is low," Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton, told CNN in a phone interview.

[–]88BitSorelianism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

All sources say it was spotted in Botswana first.

You mean CNN says that.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/omicron-variant-covid-inside-story-south-africa-1322562

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

the first official record of variant B.1.1.529 emerged in Hong Kong on 13 November.

November 13th in Hong Kong. Botswana reported theirs November 11th.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/verify/coronavirus-verify/omicron-coronavirus-covid-variant-world-health-organization-did-not-say-originated-south-africa-botswana-but-first-countries-to-identify-report/536-ac3d1da1-8f6f-4eed-93ea-eab68beaa08a

On Nov. 26, Botswana’s government explained in a statement that the new variant “was detected on four foreign nationals who had entered Botswana on the 7th November 2021, on a diplomatic mission. The quartet tested positive for COVID-19 on the 11th November 2021 as they were preparing to return.” South Africa’s Department of Health supports this, stating the earliest sample was detected on Nov. 11 in Botswana.