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[00:00.000 --> 00:07.200]  There was a brand new mutation variant out of South Africa.
[00:07.200 --> 00:12.640]  Of course, and his name is Omicron, New York governor has declared a state of emergency
[00:12.640 --> 00:16.380]  in the state of New York to prepare for Omicron.
[00:16.380 --> 00:25.420]  So how much should we actually be concerned?
[00:25.420 --> 00:36.820]  The Dr. Reality Vodcast with Dave Champion.
[00:36.820 --> 00:43.100]  Technically Omicron is designated as B.1.1.529.
[00:43.100 --> 00:47.020]  I'm not going to take a lot of time with this today because back in February 2021, I did
[00:47.020 --> 00:53.100]  a very in-depth presentation concerning mutations, how they mutate, to what extent they mutate,
[00:53.100 --> 00:55.900]  what's significant and not significant about mutations.
[00:55.900 --> 00:59.940]  I'll put the link down in the notes if you really want to understand mutations, which
[00:59.940 --> 01:03.020]  is then called variants, have a look at that video.
[01:03.020 --> 01:05.700]  But for today, I'm going to keep it short and sweet.
[01:05.700 --> 01:09.900]  When a virus mutates and creates a new variant, there are three and only three things we care
[01:09.900 --> 01:10.900]  about.
[01:10.900 --> 01:17.120]  Transmissibility, immunogenicity, and virulence, period, full stop, those are the only three
[01:17.120 --> 01:18.120]  things we care about.
[01:18.120 --> 01:26.280]  So let's take a look at those one by one insofar as what we know today about Omicron.
[01:26.280 --> 01:27.720]  Transmissibility.
[01:27.720 --> 01:32.160]  First of all, in the video that I'm going to link down in the notes, I explain how incredibly
[01:32.160 --> 01:36.920]  challenging it is, especially in the early days of a variant, to determine factually
[01:36.920 --> 01:41.720]  whether it is more or less transmissible than an earlier variant.
[01:41.720 --> 01:46.200]  And that would certainly be the case as we juxtapose Omicron against something like Delta.
[01:46.200 --> 01:55.440]  Now with that said, there is a small, small amount of evidence suggesting, not proving
[01:55.440 --> 02:02.240]  anything, suggesting that Omicron may be more transmissible than Delta.
[02:02.240 --> 02:04.160]  Suggesting may.
[02:04.160 --> 02:09.120]  In other words, we really don't know at this moment, but we will in short order because
[02:09.120 --> 02:12.520]  Omicron is already in a handful of countries around the world.
[02:12.520 --> 02:15.680]  Probably it's in a lot more than that, but that's just where it's been located.
[02:15.680 --> 02:19.440]  And frankly, you can bet your ass it's going to show up here in the United States.
[02:19.440 --> 02:22.200]  Whether or not that matters is a whole separate question.
[02:22.200 --> 02:25.320]  I think there's a lot of people that say Omicron is coming to the United States.
[02:25.320 --> 02:29.380]  They are weirdly immediately filled with fear.
[02:29.380 --> 02:34.640]  So I want to make very clear that whether we're talking about transmissibility, immunogenicity,
[02:34.640 --> 02:40.580]  or virulence, the mutations that lead to a newly classified variant can actually make
[02:40.580 --> 02:43.120]  a variant less problematic for us.
[02:43.120 --> 02:45.880]  So please, until we know the data, don't live in fear.
[02:45.880 --> 02:53.520]  So to summarize on the issue of transmissibility, whether this is a more transmissible variant,
[02:53.520 --> 02:56.080]  we don't know.
[02:56.080 --> 03:00.080]  And of course, if it turns out to be more transmissible, but the mutations make it so
[03:00.080 --> 03:04.760]  that essentially you just get like a runny nose for a couple days, and it really wouldn't
[03:04.760 --> 03:08.320]  matter if it was more transmissible because it would be a lot less virulent.
[03:08.320 --> 03:09.320]  Get it?
[03:09.320 --> 03:14.640]  The second factor we want to look at is immunogenicity, which is a fancy scientific word meaning,
[03:14.640 --> 03:20.600]  can it evade immunity, whether that's from vaccine or whether it's from prior infection?
[03:20.600 --> 03:23.160]  Can it evade immunity?
[03:23.160 --> 03:30.400]  And as you can imagine, right, we don't know a damn thing about this particular variants
[03:30.400 --> 03:31.400]  immunogenicity.
[03:31.400 --> 03:36.080]  So why is that being discussed in the news and politicians are talking about it and the
[03:36.080 --> 03:39.640]  governor of New York declared a state of emergency.
[03:39.640 --> 03:45.840]  OK, so what distinguishes Omicron, the reason there's so much media hype about it, aside
[03:45.840 --> 03:50.160]  from the political aspect, which we're going to get into in a minute, is that it has a
[03:50.160 --> 03:51.760]  lot of mutations.
[03:51.760 --> 03:56.700]  And this is probably a good time to talk about the fact that these mutations normally push
[03:56.700 --> 04:01.240]  the virus profile in a direction that is less problematic for humanity.
[04:01.240 --> 04:08.720]  But on the issue of can Omicron defeat immunity, what they're saying is it has changed itself
[04:08.720 --> 04:12.880]  so considerably that perhaps it won't be recognized.
[04:12.880 --> 04:17.160]  That's a perfect time to talk about the difference between people who are vaccinated and people
[04:17.160 --> 04:19.680]  who have prior infection immunity.
[04:19.680 --> 04:24.780]  In a presentation I put out just a couple of weeks back, I talked about why the vaccines
[04:24.780 --> 04:29.400]  do not activate production of memory T cells and the consequences thereof.
[04:29.400 --> 04:34.640]  And in that video, I get into the issue of the distinction between the body breaking
[04:34.640 --> 04:42.120]  down identifying and cataloging the numerous identifying factors of the whole anatomy of
[04:42.120 --> 04:46.080]  a virus versus what the vaccines do, which is just create a spike.
[04:46.080 --> 04:48.840]  I will also put the link to that in the notes.
[04:48.840 --> 04:54.800]  So let's just focus for a moment on prior infection immunity without a person being
[04:54.800 --> 04:55.800]  vaccinated.
[04:56.240 --> 05:04.000]  Again, watch that video and it will explain what the B cells and the CD4 T cells do to
[05:04.000 --> 05:09.520]  create memory T cells in the environment where you're not vaccinated and you become infected
[05:09.520 --> 05:12.440]  and you end up with prior infection immunity.
[05:12.440 --> 05:18.980]  For a person who fits that profile, it is incredibly unlikely that the virus could change
[05:18.980 --> 05:26.460]  so many aspects of its anatomy that your prior infection immunity would be evaded by
[05:26.460 --> 05:27.460]  the variant.
[05:27.460 --> 05:32.860]  Statistically, it virtually almost, almost never happens.
[05:32.860 --> 05:35.060]  It's incredibly rare.
[05:35.060 --> 05:38.820]  So to look at Omicron and presume that's what it's going to do concerning people with prior
[05:38.820 --> 05:39.820]  infection immunity.
[05:39.820 --> 05:40.820]  Yeah.
[05:40.820 --> 05:46.860]  I mean, to say that's just crazy overreaching is not even strong enough language.
[05:46.860 --> 05:52.780]  In short, if you have prior infection immunity and you have not been vaccinated, there is
[05:52.780 --> 05:58.900]  a snowball's chance in hell that Omicron is going to somehow evade your prior infection
[05:58.900 --> 05:59.900]  immunity.
[05:59.900 --> 06:03.580]  Now, let's take a moment and talk about people who are vaccinated.
[06:03.580 --> 06:07.300]  You're probably aware because we've been in this 22, almost 23 months now and all the
[06:07.300 --> 06:16.140]  news stories that the mRNA vaccines, they cause your body to produce just only the spike
[06:16.420 --> 06:17.420]  protein.
[06:17.420 --> 06:22.820]  So instead of your body running off of being able to identify the entire anatomy of a whole
[06:22.820 --> 06:26.820]  virus, it has this little fragment and that's all it has.
[06:26.820 --> 06:29.620]  So in other words, the data points it's working off, there's very few.
[06:29.620 --> 06:35.620]  So as you can imagine, if the mutations to Omicron included significant changes in the
[06:35.620 --> 06:42.860]  amino acid profile of the spike, that could diminish or change the entire profile that
[06:42.860 --> 06:45.980]  your body was working off originally concerning the vaccine.
[06:46.820 --> 06:55.500]  In other words, it's exponentially easier for a mutation of the virus to evade the immunity,
[06:55.500 --> 07:02.780]  the protection provided by an mRNA vaccine, yeah, dramatically easier than prior infection
[07:02.780 --> 07:03.780]  immunity.
[07:03.780 --> 07:08.580]  So I think with people who are relying on the vaccines for their protection, there could
[07:08.580 --> 07:11.260]  potentially be reason to be concerned about Omicron.
[07:11.260 --> 07:14.660]  If you have prior infection immunity, no.
[07:14.660 --> 07:21.020]  The last of the three categories is virulence and all that means is how sick you may get
[07:21.020 --> 07:22.700]  if you become infected.
[07:22.700 --> 07:27.020]  It can change the symptom profile, it can change when those symptoms comes on, how intense
[07:27.020 --> 07:29.860]  or not intense those symptoms are.
[07:29.860 --> 07:36.700]  And again, statistically speaking, the mutations almost always push a virus in the direction
[07:36.700 --> 07:38.700]  of being less virulent.
[07:38.700 --> 07:44.660]  It's very, very rare for a virus mutation to cause it to be more virulent.
[07:44.660 --> 07:47.060]  So what do we know about the virulence of Omicron?
[07:47.060 --> 07:48.060]  Nothing.
[07:48.060 --> 07:49.060]  Zero.
[07:49.060 --> 07:50.060]  Zip.
[07:50.060 --> 07:51.060]  Zilch.
[07:51.060 --> 07:52.060]  Nada.
[07:52.060 --> 07:56.260]  So as you're seeing all these media stories about how terrible Omicron is, remember, we
[07:56.260 --> 07:59.460]  don't know what Omicron has done in terms of virulence.
[07:59.460 --> 08:03.560]  It may have made SARS-CoV-2 now just a walk in the park.
[08:03.560 --> 08:05.740]  We just don't know.
[08:05.740 --> 08:09.700]  So again, there's no reason to live in fear of what we don't know.
[08:09.700 --> 08:13.660]  Although oddly, I have come to realize that there are a lot of people who really dig that.
[08:13.660 --> 08:17.980]  In light of what we don't know about Omicron, which is virtually anything and everything
[08:17.980 --> 08:24.340]  you would actually want to know, what's going on with all the media hype and politicians
[08:24.340 --> 08:26.220]  talking it up?
[08:26.220 --> 08:31.740]  Every single news site I went to today, the first six or seven headlines, Omicron, Omicron,
[08:31.740 --> 08:33.740]  Omicron, Omicron, Omicron.
[08:33.820 --> 08:41.620]  OK, so I think the best way to characterize why there's this incredible comprehensive
[08:41.620 --> 08:48.500]  media push for everyone to panic about Omicron can be exemplified by a public statement that
[08:48.500 --> 08:49.500]  Joe Biden made.
[08:49.500 --> 08:54.900]  And he said, quote, the news about this new variant should make it clearer than ever why
[08:54.900 --> 09:01.500]  this pandemic will not end until we have global vaccinations.
[09:01.500 --> 09:07.220]  In other words, this entire push concerning Omicron, of which we know virtually nothing
[09:07.220 --> 09:13.500]  other than the fact that its amino acid profile is significantly different from Delta, we
[09:13.500 --> 09:15.500]  don't know what the consequences of that are going to be yet.
[09:15.500 --> 09:17.020]  So what's all the hype?
[09:17.020 --> 09:23.340]  Well, it's just more of an effort for the establishment to terrify the public into getting
[09:23.340 --> 09:24.340]  vaccinated.
[09:24.340 --> 09:25.340]  That's it.
[09:25.340 --> 09:28.340]  There is nothing bigger, nothing more meaningful.
[09:28.340 --> 09:31.220]  They're just trying to push people to get vaccinated.
[09:31.220 --> 09:35.540]  And by the way, Joe Biden's statement that this should make it more clear than ever that
[09:35.540 --> 09:42.300]  the pandemic will not end until everyone is vaccinated is 100% factually inaccurate.
[09:42.300 --> 09:43.300]  That's not a political statement.
[09:43.300 --> 09:46.940]  I'm nonpartisan, so I don't care who it is in office.
[09:46.940 --> 09:49.300]  That's a scientific assessment.
[09:49.300 --> 09:55.060]  Could it turn out that Omicron is worse than Delta in all three factors?
[09:55.060 --> 09:56.060]  It could.
[09:56.060 --> 09:59.580]  Statistically, very, very unlikely.
[09:59.580 --> 10:01.140]  Should we be looking at Omicron?
[10:01.140 --> 10:02.140]  Sure.
[10:02.140 --> 10:06.220]  Should we be assessing it as we learn more and more about it?
[10:06.220 --> 10:07.220]  Sure.
[10:07.220 --> 10:13.940]  Should you have grave concerns or fear about Omicron at this point?
[10:13.940 --> 10:14.940]  Absolutely not.
[10:14.940 --> 10:21.580]  Because at this point, there is absolutely no scientific or factual basis to be concerned
[10:21.580 --> 10:23.260]  about Omicron.
[10:23.260 --> 10:29.460]  If you value this kind of straightforward, no BS presentation, please help me to continue
[10:29.620 --> 10:31.220]  to be here for you.
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[10:40.260 --> 10:47.460]  In both cases, I tear down the false establishment narratives that have been pervasive for decades
[10:47.460 --> 10:51.740]  concerning the case of body science, human physiology, and in the case of Income Tax
[10:51.740 --> 10:55.420]  Shattering the Mist, who the income tax has actually been imposed upon by Congress and,
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[10:57.420 --> 11:02.020]  Spoiler alert, it hasn't been imposed on the vast majority of Americans.
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[11:25.820 --> 11:26.340]  Thank you.