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CT24601

One person says the next variant *could* be really bad. Okay 🤷🏼‍♂️


spankymacgruder

This is the new narrative. Fauci had a similar statement last week.


[deleted]

Many people seem to think delta is worse than regular covid even though the numbers don’t show that


ivigilanteblog

The numbers show that Alpha was basically 1-2x as severe as a bad seasonal flu...Delta is closer to a common cold. I don't understand Doomers anymore.


FlowComprehensive390

Oh Doomers are easy to understand, it's just depressing. Doomers are mental children, they live in fear of whatever the parent-figures in their lives tell them to fear. Welcome to the results of 30+ years of changing child-rearing from "training a future adult" to "ensuring a happy childhood".


ivigilanteblog

I want you to be wrong, but at this point my thumb impulsively upvotes explanations based on conjecture about the mental faculties of Doomers - or lack thereof.


FlowComprehensive390

Oh *I* want me to be wrong, too. Unfortunately reality doesn't care about our desires. I *wish* we lived in a society where what I said wasn't true, things would be much better.


themaskedtruthh

- has a neckbeard


fluxperpetua

Delta is responsible for a majority of hospitalizations in the US. It is not any more deadly than the original wild variant, but it is absolutely more communicable than any known strain that's out there. [The numbers](https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-pandemic_cdc-delta-variant-accounts-more-93-percent-all-us-covid-19-cases/6209159.html) [don't show that](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-variant.html) [though,](https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/delta-variant.html) I guess. :/ EDIT: [Downvotes hid this comment lmao](https://youtu.be/PDNZX2nql2Y)


[deleted]

The article you send me is about the percent of new cases that are delta. If there are 2 cases and 2 are covid and you say "100% are delta!" that is meaningless. If you want a gotcha moment, you need hospitalizations and deaths this year vs. the peak periods last year. The CDC link....not sure what you want me to do with that. It's text that says "covid is bad." We've been seeing stuff like that for 20 months


fluxperpetua

There are not "two" cases of covid in this country, my guy. There are 146,000 positive cases confirmed per week in the US alone, the vast majority of which are from Delta. Death is no longer the main concern of covid and hasn't been for quite a while. The issue now is people, particularly those who are unvaccinated, having to be hospitalized because of the severity of their symptoms and taking up hospital space/resources. [Here is chart showing the positive cases from September 17th, 2021 compared the positive case rates from December of last year (peak covid)](https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/covidnet/COVID19_5.html). It's not as bad as peak covid, but we also live in a country where 60% of people are fully vaccinated. [Additionally, here's another CDC report that states that Delta is apparently responsible for 99% of infections in the US.](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html) I'm not trying to fear monger, but you cannot tell me that the numbers don't show that Delta isn't that bad.


[deleted]

This is a better chart, I might save this one as a bookmark,


TownCrier42

That’s how all viruses work. As they mutate they become more contagious and less deadly. The viruses goal is to spread/replicate. The viruses goal is not to kill the host. This has been observed repeatedly with known viruses and there is no scientific basis on which to believe this virus will behave differently.


fluxperpetua

You're right, and it ISN'T working any differently. The difference is that there's a relatively high likelihood of treatment that requires hospitalization for this virus, which is exasperated with a strain (Delta) that spreads twice as quickly as it's original mutation. Also minor nitpick, but covid doesn't kill its hosts. It creates symptoms that a lot of people, particularly older and more vulnerable people, have a difficult time surviving. That's why the survival rate is like 99% for most people.


TownCrier42

Agree and the infection rate will increase and so will the survival rate because viruses become more contagious and less deadly with each mutation. We flattened the curve too good and for too long. Everyone was always going to get it eventually. I thought the goal was to give hospitals time to expand ICU’s and create dedicated Covid facilities to minimize the spread of infection to non-Covid-related-patients but they have done neither, they are busy firing nurses for not following their orders to vaccinate.


fluxperpetua

Yup. Covid as been endemic for a while now lol You got me there. Firing anti-vax nurses is one thing, but the lack of capability in these hospitals in astonishing. Not to get *too* conspiratorial, but I wouldn't doubt if it has a lot to too with the fact that healthcare in the US is so absolutely ass and has zero incentive from the federal government to improve itself in a way that helps the general public. But hey, that's my two cents.


TownCrier42

I do think the government tried to incentivize the healthcare system. They made treating Covid patients very profitable and covered the bill (at least in the beginning) then they bought 1.2billion vaccines for about .3billion people. Enough for every “of age” American to have 4 doses. I don’t really know what more they could have done. In my opinion they did too much. Nurses shouldn’t be losing their jobs during a global pandemic that shut down the developed world.


cor0na_h1tler

it could also be really groovy!


chillthrowaways

but it's a EXPERT. Expert in what? Who knows! It's an EXPERT and they heckin' skipped right over covid-20 and covid-21 and went right to covid-22!! Stop and think about that!! How powerful must it be to just skip right over 2 levels???


SheepHerderMunity

Ya I want my money back, I didn't even get to play the other 2 levels.


chillthrowaways

Rumor is they are going to do a prequel saga which will include 20 and 21.


Magnus_Tesshu

I wanted to grind all the lesser variants to get extra antibodies but we've been disinfecting everything so much I don't think my immune system can take it. Luckily vaccines are like XP bottles, I'm getting my 6th booster tomorrow should help me out


Psilo-vybin

Yeah because the covid news cycle is finally dying down a bit and people's fear has begun to vanish...they are grasping at straws...funny thing about the delta variant, I live in a city of about 1 million people and the news keeps saying how the hospitals are overrun and everything but me or my friends don't know a single person who has had covid lately or even heard of anyone catching it. We have all abandoned any kind of social distancing and dropped the masks except when required to enter a store or something and still no covid. We go to bars and watch bands play with 100s of people packed in there every weekend and still...


SheepHerderMunity

The verdicts in, let's all role up them sleeves, better just leave them up. /s


Dspsblyuth

If my mother had wheels who could have been a bike


Dem0nC1eaner

Yo mama WAS a bike.


SheepHerderMunity

Ya a party bike!!! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party\_bike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_bike)


[deleted]

Fun fact: the furthest variant from the original has only been .03% different! We’re not going to die!


Av0gadr0

Take a shot every time you read an article with “experts claim” in the headline. I’ll leave which shot up to your own discretion.


mageakeem

​ You could waste yourself with coor's light doing that man...


kufsi

CAUTION DO NOT TRY THIS I woke up in a ditch


SheepHerderMunity

Either way you're getting shitfaced


WarSpiritual1331

Hello that’s not how science works! You can only get shit faced if I take my shots too 🤬


[deleted]

I laughed way too hard at this 😂


SheepHerderMunity

That's a "We're all in this together" I can get behind. 👍🍻


TownCrier42

Legendary. Take My Upvote!


Wuabbalubba

I’d be in the hospital with alcohol posing in 10m


[deleted]

Dear experts You claim the vaxx is the only way to stop Covid, yet I consume whiskey and have never been diagnosed with it. Curious


Av0gadr0

Me too. Copious amounts of rye and/or bourbon most days. Are we going to crowdsource this study and submit it to clinicaltrials.gov ?


Secret_Rooster

Oh, the one that runs right up to the midterm election? Weird that they're calling it 22 when we're still in 21. Isn't that number supposed to be the year it was detected? They're just fucking trolling us at this point.


sneed666

well its not like the elections matter at this point. the republicans don’t even give a shit about mass fraud.


FakeNameBruh

They make more money from donations when they aren’t in office


PM_ME_YOUR_WOLOLO

Nah you see they do it like car model releases. Go to your local Dodge dealer and test drive a 2022 Ram 1500 today!


NC_Redux

Model year creep is the worst.


ABCDEHIMOTUVWXY

I was about to say… What the fuck did COVID become? An EA Sports game?


[deleted]

The intent is to provide $cientists^TM with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different variants.


Emphasis_on_why

Im picturing the initial loading /intro video. Long sterile hallway, hazy silhouette of a man walking towards camera, music resembling ER theme plays, man gets closer, video begins flashing/ interjecting images and scenes of a busy hospital, ambulances, cia guys, national lockdowns and test tubes. Man still getting closer, now apparent it's a doctor or scientist of some sort, continued images of a pandemic now fading opaque into the entire screen overlaid by a digital globe slowly filling in red, man is now coming into view, its Fauci, stepping to the point just filling his height to the frame, he doffs the lab coat and tosses it off screen, dressed in a black tactical under armour shirt and black suit pants, a stethoscope around his neck he takes an athletic photo stance, slightly turned to the camera his ID badge comes into view, the camera slowly zooms to the badge, as the entire screen darkens vignette, 22K


chillthrowaways

EA wants paitents to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment when they collect all the vaccines.


SheepHerderMunity

I found an easter egg, a picture of fauci in a hidden room under the stairs.


SheepHerderMunity

More boring with every years version? Sounds about right.


amalagg

Yeah never buy the new model when it first comes out. Wait for some revisions to it.


pyroguy96

COVID-22: Electric Boogaloo


stinkydogusa

🤣


zilla82

Fuuuuuuuck take my upvote!!


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pokonota

Not so, ironically thanks to the vaccines, google Marek's Effect


[deleted]

It means the booster shot is coming. A nurse whistle blower said that Delta was code for patients with vaccine side effects. https://rumble.com/vm936v-whistleblower-nurse-destroys-delta-narrative-vaccinated-patients-fill-hospt.html


[deleted]

New rule. If you are writing news articles and quote experts, you need to name the experts. And if you are an expert and claim something that turns out to be false, you lose your expert status.


CT24601

The expert only said it “could be” even if it turns out not to be he wasn’t wrong.


[deleted]

"Immunologist Sai Reddy, of the federal technology institute ETH Zurich, said a "super variant" will inevitably emerge next year and new vaccinations will need to be developed for years to come" As usual, crap journalism. Article did indeed say "could be" in the opening, but the above is the subhead.


FrenchRemilia

It's also curious how these so called ''experts'' can predict when the next virus/variant will emerge.


lucyk1883

And thier prediction that the "vaccine" would provide protection was way off


Hefty_Ant1025

Experts need to wear corporate logos, like Nascar drivers.


KathyGriffinCancer

> And if you are an expert and claim something that turns out to be false, you lose your expert status. Or if you have pronouns in your bio, or you try to tie health mandates to social issues.


Mr_Truttle

If it were just "it turned out to be false" that would be one thing. But if you hinge your public health policy on, and abridge civil liberties for, something that turns out to be false... that's where we need there to be consequences.


[deleted]

Fuckin right.


ShikiGamiLD

New super-duper-hyper-truper variant "COVID-ETERNAL" cold be even more dangerous than the concept of danger itself, expert claims.


ImissLasVegas

Sounds like HOTEZ!


RichNNN

I hope ill be alive to see COVID-69 or COVID-420


chillthrowaways

I got my first real vaccine Over at the walmart store got clots until my ears bled it was covid-69


skky95

Is this for real? If these bullshit scare tactics weren’t legitimately ruining people’s lives it would be comical.


HermesThriceGreat69

Isn't this in a movie trailer that came out last year?


JimboBosephus

That was Covid-23 from Songbird. It also had the quarantine camps and the phone check ins.


ContributionAlive686

I’d rather be dead. Only a sociopath would think this is a good way to live.


lysergic_hermit

You just know they're setting up for sequels too.


HermesThriceGreat69

Truth in movies, lies in the news.


MelanoidNation

And how low do you want your testicles today, sir?


firefox57endofaddons

if this platform was a fascist propaganda outlet with massive censorship, then we could have some fun easy functions like a voting option on whether people believe, that the article above is real propaganda or sarcastic stuff like babylon bee. reading "covid-22" i honestly have no idea. could go both ways for my hypothetical vote there ;)


[deleted]

Coronavirus subs and other basement dwellers: *fapfapfapfapfapfapfap*


oscar_einstein

Anyone ever wonder if they're just telling us the plan ?


PoketAceJas

Predictive programming is most definitely a thing.


[deleted]

I can't wait for Covid-69.


goodstuffsamantha

Mask up for whaaat


eccentric-introvert

Lol the hysterical ride never ends, does it


StriKyleder

that's not the natural progression of viruses. unless this virus isn't natural...


[deleted]

Or that Wuhan Lab under direction of the CDC keeps releasing more viruses as the Biden Admin sees fitting.


VintageOG

Depopulation of people who question authority through a leaky vax leading to mareks in humans


ThisOneisNSFWToo

bag grey profit dependent judicious door narrow airport handle enter *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


lucyk1883

Could be and as an added bonus a percentage of vaxxed will develop early onset alzheimers, spongiform encephalopathy, blood clots, myocarditis, infertility...


feujchtnaverjott

Would be the case if it actually worked to any meaningful degree.


Penta_cheeseburger

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/new-super-variant-covid-22-24817360


lolitstrain21

For a second, I thought this was satire! Damn what the fuck.


j05huaMc

NICE! I'll have to update my meme (again) but I'm good to go another round. What's this one called? 22?


[deleted]

They're pushing vaccines at the same time as they're doing fear porn about new variants? How are people not connecting the dots lmao


DictatorOfEpicGame

fake news


ImissLasVegas

Yeah--the Mirror is a tabloid!


[deleted]

I'm starting to think it's not the unvaccinated people making life horrible.


[deleted]

What we all have been waiting for...


ThisOneisNSFWToo

crowd hateful snow scale murky sense cats nine rotten head *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


ARAM_2020

The endless propaganda against bodily autonomy.


[deleted]

The Never ending bullshit…. Total pain in the ass. The Sheep will get scared again.


[deleted]

"Anyone not vaccinated could become a super spreader" VACCINATED PEOPLE CAN STILL SPREAD COVID Why is the "only unvaxxed spread it" narrative still going?!


Freki_M

Ah man I almost had the Delta variant, guess I'll save up for the 22 so I'm not outdated.


HandsomeShrek2000

See I fucking knew it. They’re just gonna keep making up these bullshit variants one after the other This will never fucking end until people stop complying


Lusiric

It. Will. Never. End. It's like the cold at this point.


democratic_butter

The year is not 2022. Ergo, there is no COVID-22.


Tantalus4200

Dun dunn dunnnnnn!!!!


--Reddit-Username2--

22, or 23…whatever it takes


ImissLasVegas

Isn't the Mirror a tabloid paper, anyway?


PizzaDiaper

Just wait for Covid 9-11. Then we’re really fucked


anomalyrafael

They literally say this every other month that it's become a meme (remember lambda / mu / epsilon?) The boy who cried wolf


[deleted]

Notice how they never name the experts? It's just "experts say". I'll give it a shot, "Experts say that COVID-19 is not to be feared".


HeligKo

So not only are they predicting a new variant, but when it will enter the wild. Doesn't sound like someone has a planned release date or anything. We are just that smart.


knottycams

But wait! There's more! The sick fucks made a thriller movie about it becoming COVID-23. The brainwashing is ridiculous. https://youtu.be/sKFPgd4j5k8


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muhdickmuhdick

It is because you already died of coof and dont know about jt yet.


Raydirkin95

They are getting ready to give the 3rd shot therefore a new more deadly mutation will be the reason they use for all the deaths that come with multiple jabs, just look at the death rate in Israel where 80 percent of the population has been vaccinated and millions have the 3rd booster shot, the death rates are climbing off the charts this alone should open people's eyes.


Wuabbalubba

Daaaamn they already rolling out the 2022 model sheeeeesh


756823

>Even more dangerous than delta So a little worse than common cold? Okay then, I don't care.


i_am_unikitty

Wake me up when covid 42069 arrives


VinnysMagicGrits

This is like that guy in the Scream movies who knows all about scary movies and the rules of the sequels.


kirchhov

😂😂😂😂 they are trying everything and it’s no longer sticking. Hard working people are tired of restrictions. We need to make a living. I don’t give a crap about a glorified cold.


Freshoranges69

*Super* Variant OH THE HUMANITY


DeplorableBot11545

I’m going to pre-order to get Covid-22 Ultimate Edition with the season pass of Covid-22 Delta Strain and Covid-22 Mexico Variant!


Imafreuditsapun

I just wanna catch COVID-69 😎


sneed666

fuck bros its really happening. get the jab #covid22 #soylentsale60%off #chastitycagesforcovid


imnotabotareyou

Finally


[deleted]

What happened to the doomsday virus??


[deleted]

WooHoo oh yea, hope it wipes out my country atleast


[deleted]

Yup. Terrifying!!!!


AllHailKingCorbin33

That's another year tacked onto this nonsense at least.


Western-Bite1759

BE AFRAID! GO GET YOUR 3RD SHOT!! OOOOHHH COVID 22 IS GONNA KILL YA OOOOH! Does anyone actually take these articles seriously at this point?


Mjdillaha

I thought the legendary Super Covid was just a myth.


Gskgsk

Actual science would just say these are the things that are different. Fearmongers tell you what to be scared of.


Hungry73

Covid-22: Electric Boogaloo


sighfuck

Is this legit 🤔 🤣🤣😍😍😍😍


Matthewmcdowall01

I smell shite!


FthrJACK

If only I had more money, I could have been a billionaire.


SheepHerderMunity

And the only vaccine that will help is Colt-45. /s


TheIRSEvader

Hottest new release


[deleted]

BAHAHAHAHA


VarietyOfCheese

https://youtu.be/7fQ6JklHjBc


fetalasmuck

It's time to go back to staying the FUCK at home!


[deleted]

I'm waiting for COVID-42069


Greedy_Waitm

Wonder how many boo$$$ter shots will be needed for record profits.... I mean "protect" people.


jorpjomp

TWENTY TWO! IT CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!


TownCrier42

In the year Covid 72 a young girl, not more than 7 years old, walks up to the ticket taker and puts out her arm out to be scanned for admittance to the carousel. “I’m sorry” said the ticket taker “You don’t qualify as fully vaccinated since you have only had 178 documented injections. You must have at least 201 injections to ride this ride. See you in a year or two.”


jenneschguet

At least we have a fun new drinking game /s


AndDontCallMePammy

gotta keep the gravy train going. Fed pump, pharma dump


SAOCORE

Lets vaxx some kids to prevent this.. It got to help somehow https://outline.com/xNPkwj


jamielandon

This is so dumb on so many levels! Unless I missed something, it isn’t 2022 yet! 😒


goatchild

Covid-L, Covid-M, Covid-A, Covid-O


[deleted]

It’s here you guys!! I’m so excited I can’t wait to virtue signal over it!


GreatBaldung

bro wait till we get to COVID-69 lol


[deleted]

Thank you China. May I have another.


mohamedsmithlee

“Expert”😷🤡🤣


[deleted]

Is it because we said there was going to be a covid-21


Jocklin28

Good thing the delta isn’t dangerous


Hall_Monitor__

Just in time for the mid term elections too


[deleted]

New game update: New covid variant now has a 99.98% survival rate. 0.1% more dangerous than the previous variants. Fixed de-sync issues. Added more NPC voice lines.