CLAY: Omicron. The data that is coming out of Scotland, South Africa, England as well is suggesting that it is not as dangerous as the Delta variant. This is really good news. For those of you out there who are traveling for the holiday season, who have relatives that you might be concerned about, it appears that Omicron is more contagious but less dangerous than the Delta version of the covid virus that has been spreading since the summer widely in the United States. This could mean that the variants and the mutations in covid are actually working in our favor. You hear a lot about, oh, my goodness, this is really dangerous.

If you’re not vaccinated, there’s gonna be more mutations, there’s gonna be more variants that come out. What usually happens, what often happens, based on my study, is that these viruses mutate and add new variations that tend to be less virulent as opposed to more virulent. And so, now there’s another hypothesis out there that one reason Omicron is not as dangerous is because we’ve got so much natural immunity and so many people vaccinated now. But the data reflects that hospitalizations, despite the number of people that might be infected with Omicron, and it has rapidly become the prevalent strain in the United States, it is replacing Delta.

Which is a more dangerous version of covid than it appeared Omicron is going to be. So if you want some positive news rolling into the holidays you’re probably not gonna hear a great deal of discussion about it, because everybody tends to focus on all of the negatives and all of the danger as opposed to some positives.

There are actually two really positive storylines out there about covid. One of them is that there now is a pill from Pfizer which is going to be rapidly distributed and disseminated across the United States and around the world which has a substantial impact after you’ve already gotten covid in terms of helping to keep you out of the hospital. The other one is, again, data can change, and we’ll talk about this with Alex Berenson in the third hour of the show, but data out of South Africa, data out of Scotland, and data out of England suggest that while Omicron may be more virulent, that is, it may spread easily, then it is actually far less dangerous to most people than the Delta version of covid is.

Which would mean, theoretically, that this could be really kind of fantastic in terms of helping to spread herd immunity even more far, even further than it already is, while also simultaneously spreading it with a version of the virus that’s far less likely to cause significant issues for the larger population, both in America and around the world. Again, those are early studies out of South Africa, out of England, out of Scotland. But they’re all three telling the exact same story, which is Omicron spreads easier but is actually less dangerous to everyone than the Delta version was.

And now that Omicron has become the predominant strain of covid in this country, it would suggest that as we move through the holiday season there are gonna be a lot of people who don’t feel well in not a significant way, get sniffles, just run down a little bit, but actually that could be very helpful towards finally declaring to a large extent independence from covid even for left wing mask wearing idiots who have not looked at the data.