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Originally posted by chellim1:

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Watch and judge for yourself.

https://open.spotify.com/episo...CsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Just walked out of O'Reilly's. Wasn't in the mood for the bullshit this manager troll behind the counter gave me about not wearing a mask. She got snotty when I put the one they gave me on my head, party hat style, so I walked out and told her I'd just buy my wiper blades on Amazon. Saved a good chunk of change, too. I guess I can understand it, she was definitely in the high risk category.

Was in the post office just before that, federal property, and they didn't say anything to the customers not wearing masks. Imagine that.

People wear masks under their chin and they don't catch a sideways glimpse. Put it on top of your head, where it's no different, and people lose their minds.

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Just walked out of O'Reilly's. Wasn't in the mood for the bullshit this manager troll behind the counter gave me about not wearing a mask. She got snotty when I put the one they gave me on my head, party hat style, so I walked out and told her I'd just buy my wiper blades on Amazon. Saved a good chunk of change, too. I guess I can understand it, she was definitely in the high risk category.

Was in the post office just before that, federal property, and they didn't say anything to the customers not wearing masks. Imagine that.

People wear masks under their chin and they don't catch a sideways glimpse. Put it on top of your head, where it's no different, and people lose their minds.

I guess those decisions are up to the local managers. I go to O'Reillys all the time for stuff and no one, customers or employees, wears a mask. They haven't for well over a year now.

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:
I guess those decisions are up to the local managers. I go to O'Reillys all the time for stuff and no one, customers or employees, wears a mask. They haven't for well over a year now.

Yeah. I went to O’Reillys and bought Heet tonight. The two clerks weren’t even wearing masks.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Per Dr. John Campbell, omicron antibodies protect against omicron and delta, but delta antibodies don't protect against omicron. You get a mild case of omicron, and you're golden.

And I suspect that's where I am.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Per Dr. John Campbell, omicron antibodies protect against omicron and delta, but delta antibodies don't protect against omicron. You get a mild case of omicron, and you're golden.

And I suspect that's where I am.

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Is this the video censored as shown in your post, removed from YouTube?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Per Dr. John Campbell, omicron antibodies protect against omicron and delta, but delta antibodies don't protect against omicron. You get a mild case of omicron, and you're golden.

And I suspect that's where I am.

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They will be able to use this naturally occurring Omicron virus

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Originally posted by PGT:
This is a long but good read: https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20

cliff notes; omicron appears to be a separate branch, possible second lab leak. Or, could be an (intentional) antidote of sorts to Delta (i.e. conferring natural immunity).

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First, look at the phylogenetic tree (it’s basically a family tree for viruses). This image comes from an article in Science, which in turn got it from nextstrain.org:



The x-axis shows time, with earlier times on the left of the graph, later times on the right. The y-axis shows how mutated the viruses are, compared to the original SARS-CoV-2 and to each other. Notice how over time, with natural mutations occurring, the original SARS-CoV-2 has gradually gotten more diverse. You can see delta variants there (in green) nested in what looks like a naturally expanding variety of viruses over time. That’s the main “wedge shape” you see, and it’s what you’d expect to see.

But then look at omicron. It’s the red cluster in the upper right. It’s very, very different. It’s way off the “natural” family tree of descendants of the original SARS-CoV-2. What’s more, if you trace its “stalk” back (i.e., if you look where it branched off from the “family tree”), you see it sprang from an “ancestor” from sometime in Spring 2020.

So, how did that happen? How did it suddenly appear in November 2021, when its “forefather” was a version of the virus that was common in mid-2020?

And where is all the natural variation in between? Why is it not like the other variants, nested in that natural-looking spreading set of gradually mutating descendants?

One parsimonious hypothesis is that some engineering has been done to it, in order to make its evolution look so unnatural. I have not heard another parsimonious hypothesis.