It is been a year and 11 months since the happy little packet of spike proteins and mRNA arrived in our country courtesy of Dr. Fauci and the Chinese Communist Party.
So here’s a little schadenfreude for my naysayers: yesterday, I was diagnosed with what I suspect is Omicron. In my case, it started with very subtle bronchitic symptoms at the end of the day on Tuesday. Walking out to my car from work, I suddenly felt an unexpected sense of fatigue for that time of day. Suspicious, I went straight home, and grabbed a home test kit. That first test was negative.
Overnight I felt chilled and achy but took some Naprosyn which improved my symptoms. The next morning I retested and was unequivocally positive.
Since then, my main symptoms have been that of a rather annoying viral respiratory infection. There is some fatigue, a modest cough, but a lot of upper respiratory congestion and sneezing. Yesterday, at least in the morning, the symptoms might have prompted me to call off work (as if I weren’t busy) even without the quarantine requirements of Covid-19. Today I feel better. Symptomatically I would’ve gone back to work, albeit with a little self-pity.
Unfortunately, this is SARS CO-V2. The 10 day period of isolation will encompass Christmas, and disrupt plans to gather with family, and otherwise socialize. This arbitrary number is annoying given that I can easily retest when I become asymptomatic and prove I’m not shedding virus.
In my case, I can see why this variant spreads so efficiently. Omicron infects preferentially the tracheobronchial tree, versus the alveoli (lung tissue) in earlier viruses. It thus causes more cough and sneezing symptoms which help to aerosolize and spread the viral particles. Given this, however, it is much less likely to cause issues with “gas exchange” and thus hypoxia and respiratory failure. This seems to have so far borne out both in South Africa and now Great Britain.
I have been taking again the cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin, given the unavailability of Ivermectin. I’m also taking zinc, vitamin D, and a B complex supplement in addition to my usual medications.
Obviously, my situation will not be universal, and some people, particularly people with lung disease, will have more problems. But in reading reports in countries where omicron has become dominant, this is a fairly typical presentation. From my point of view my experience is nothing to get excited about. We’ll see what happens but, three years ago, if such an illness were spread in the community, I would probably notice an increase in exacerbations in my asthma and COPD patients. I have seen this kind of outbreak many times before Covid. The general public is typically unaware.
Omicron has definitely changed the game. There is an international study in preprint, detailing the mutational change in the virus, and its ability to escape immunity, both natural, and vaccine-induced. Here is an article in Forbes that nicely summarizes the study’s findings. In short, the spike proteins have mutated to cling more tightly to the ACE-2 receptors in the respiratory tree, which may explain the preference for the upper airways. Natural immunity also has been thwarted by these new mutations. This was studied by using convalescent serum.
It is interesting to look at the vaccines in detail. Pretty much all of the vaccines lost efficacy against the virus two weeks after the last injection. By three months post the third injection, the vaccinated were susceptible to Omicron. It is interesting to me that the most durable vaccine appears to of been the one offered in China by Sinopharm, which, by the way, is a traditional attenuated live viral vaccine. This means people are vaccinated against the whole virus, rather than just the spike protein.
Parenthetically, according to Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA vaccine technique, traditional vaccines take much longer to produce. China appears to have gotten it done in record time. I wonder whether they had a “head start”
To me, all of this suggests several conclusions:
#1. With Omicron we are essentially back to square one in terms of immunity. Thank God it isn’t particularly virulent. Hopefully, this will be a trend.
#2. As with multiple efforts with coronaviruses in the past, vaccination is not a practical solution, and ought to be deemphasized.
#3. It’s time to turn to therapeutics, which are less likely to be affected by mutations. We need Ivermectin to be freed up for use. The promising new antiviral from Pfizer, Paxlovid, has just been granted an Emergency Use Authorization but is unlikely to be widely available for some time. Unfortunately, from their own data, Merck’s drug Molnupivinir, may not be particularly useful.
As I have said before, this virus and its variants are becoming endemic in the population. Any expectation that you will not be infected, or re-infected, is likely unrealistic.
And for my vaccine-devoted, Fauci-worshiping critics, enjoy your opportunity to revel in my illness.
Your turn is coming.
As always, I’d be honored if you’d share.
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Wolf Moon
December 26, 2021 5:47 amGreat report – thanks for this! This is a very useful account. I will try to share it, and you may get some visits.
I mostly self-treated through “documented” delta around Thanksgiving, after having “undocumented” but almost certain “Wuhan original” in January of 2020. Not positive what that says about natural immunity, but my hunch is that it’s similar to your story, and we’re back at colds and flu as we knew them before the COVID psy-op.
I wanted to alert you, in case you hadn’t seen it, to the papers on the Spanish nursing home protocol using antihistamines and azithromycin. I learned of that from Karl Denninger, but Jo Nova has a nicer blog post on it:
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/12/81109/
Knowledge of this treatment spread through the media could have saved millions of lives, IMO, but the same “vaccine hypnosis” which Peter McCullough found present in the pre-COVID medical and research communities also affected the media. I credit Bill Gates and the social media czars with that phenomenon.
For Wuhan, I used vitamin C and gatorade, and lost a bit of lung function, but survived because I never went to the hospital, instead remaining calm right through the curious phenomenon of panting in bed. I didn’t think it was COVID at the time, because of the cruise ship media psy-op. After all, COVID wasn’t here yet – right?
For delta, I used a combination of (A) FLCCC protocol with ivermectin (0.6 mg/kg), aspirin, Listerine, etc., (B) Spanish protocol with loratadine and azithromycin, and (C) monoclonal antibodies probably too late, after fever gone, on day 6. In my opinion, the loratadine and azithromycin had the greatest effect against the disease, but the ivermectin seemed to get rid of my long haul symptoms from the 2020 infection – I really felt great after the mucus was all cleared up and I’d lost 10 pounds. It’s hard to say which drug did the most, but I’ve been crediting and recommending the antihistamine – I think that approach is life-saving.
Again, thanks for this honest account of *treated* omicron. Nice to see somebody still using HCQ, which I agree is a great therapy.
admin
December 27, 2021 9:08 pmVery interesting, thank you
gailcombs
December 28, 2021 1:40 pmI am a visitor from Wolf Moon’s Blog.
An anecdotal case to add to your knowledge
Over 70, morbidly obese, pre-diabetic (controlled by diet) arthritis & severe allergies with life long sky high IgE test results. (NO ASTHMA to the amazement of my allergists)
I had Ralph Baric’s virus very early in December thanks to a visit to UNC near his lab. I was treated with O2 & Albuterol at the emergency room and then given prescriptions for Prednisone & azithromycin for my combined ‘asthma’ and pneumonia. Cov-19 was unknown at the time. I then suffered 18 months of long haulers with O2 levels of 92% — 94%. While worming my animals I ended up with an avermectin and spit bathing my hands for several hours. My ‘chronic asthma’ suddenly disappeared and my O2 levels returned to 96% — 98% with a resting pulse in the 40s.
I have been taking an antihistamine, multi-vitamins in general +plus Vit D3, C, E and selenium for decades. Beef (zinc) is a very large part of my diet and my beverage of choice is Green Tea — EGCG another zinc ionophore. I never take the flu shot and have not had the flu in the fifty years I have been following that diet.
So there is another data point you can add to your information.
Priscilla
December 29, 2021 11:03 pmOur adult daughter became sick first. Six days later I came down with it. I have copd and my lungs were my biggest worry. Six days later my vaccinated husband came down with it then six days later our other daughter. I believe it was delta because my husband had Regeneron and it was gone in less than 24 hours. I still have the cough.
My doctor refused any medications and told me to go to the emergency room.instead, HCQ, doxycycline, vitamins c, d, and reservation.
Milla
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TheCovidPilot
January 14, 2022 12:29 amVery interesting and thanks for sharing your experience.
It seems that time to first treatment is the most important factor. APeruvian study showed that no mortality occurred in their patients if treated within 72 hours of symptom onset.
Adequate dosing with vitamin D and zinc also look important. We used elderberry concentrate, which contains large amounts of quercetin, for our zinc-delivery system to combat viral replication. EC seems to work better than elderberry extract or quercetin tabs. Maybe it’s the additional flavonols that help.
We used 2,000 units of D3, which really is tiny. Now we use calcifediol instead of D3 because it’s faster acting. D3 is dilatory and takes months of supplementation to raise levels. Calcifediol may be obtained online as Fortaro. Calcifediol is also called 25OHD in the literature.
Dr. Chetty’s ideas about using antihistamines also look interesting for reducing inflammation from immune reaction. Calcifediol and locally-immune-produced calcitriol have been shown in the literature to reduce immune inflammation after an infection has been cleared locally. So those are two ways to attack the same problem.