Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "Omicron Less Likely To Cause Hospitalization And Develop Into Severe Disease: South African Study" video.

  1. Yup. The economy will grind to a screeching halt come January, when all of those free tests get passed out and we start seeing who actually tests positive. Everyone who is completely asymptomatic or who just has the sniffles but tests positive will be out of work for two weeks. On the plus side, getting the real infection rate numbers in will give us a much better picture of the virus. Chances are pretty good that it's even less severe than even South Africa is claiming.
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  2. SA's data is bunk and US/UK data is not? That's an interesting take. How exactly did you come to this scientific conclusion?
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  3. That nonsense they're getting into halfway through the video is just that: nonsense. They're saying Omicron is 80% less likely to hospitalize you and 70% less likely to bring severe disease in those who do get hospitalized. THEN, to cover their butts with those in charge, they try to claim that's because of a high rate of natural immunity in SA. I call bullsh*t. If the high rate of natural immunity were the cause, it would also have been causing their Delta hospitalization numbers to wane. It didn't. It wasn't until Omicron took over in SA that the numbers of hospitalized, severely ill, and dying dropped. Omicron is far less severe, period. No need for caveats or addendums.
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  4.  @jamesricker3997  Interesting hypothesis. How exactly did you come up with that number and how does it differ from the number of deaths we would get from Delta - which is already a much more contagious strain than any previous ones? Were looking at a stain that, by all legitimate accounts, should result in far fewer hospitalizations. That, in turn, results in more available resources for the severely ill, of which there will be far fewer as well. We're not talking about marginal differences in severity. 80% lower hospitalization rate and 70% lower instance of severe illness is better no matter how you slice it.
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  5. Which hospitals?
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