Posted by Tobby > 2022-02-07 15:44 | Report Abuse

Yeah, i know! We may revisit 30k daily! But this round it's different! Not only do we have vaccine but also anti viral! So chill!

Posted by Ben Tan > 2022-02-07 15:56 | Report Abuse

Molnupiravir showed 30% efficacy in trials, orders had been canceled by multiple countries, including France:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-cancels-order-mercks-covid-19-antiviral-drug-2021-12-22/

Monoclonal antibody treatments do not work against Omicron either:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01678-y
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2119407

Only Sotrovimab retains any efficacy, but nobody has that treatment yet.

Meanwhile Israel scientists find that people deteriorate 10 days after supposedly recovering from Omicron: https://twitter.com/Gab_H_R/status/1490467088607191046

The reason for this is that even after vaccination (remember all vaccines we use right now are for a mismatched variant), COVID continues to weaken the immune system, depleting T cells, and causing damage to the vascular system and the brain. See here for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkFGJj1zUFI

Posted by Tobby > 2022-02-07 16:00 | Report Abuse

Ben! Vaccine is vaccine! Been around for 100 years! Lately we have too many half bake expert taking anti vaccine stake! Decision is yours! If you don't want to take it, fine!
No doubt no vaccine is perfect! It's just a defense against mutation! And serious illness!
Anyway, it's funny how some so against vaccine but blind to many harmful things that we take like smooking, eating unhealthy food and so forth! In fact we are inhaling toxic exhaust fume daily!

Posted by Ben Tan > 2022-02-07 17:12 | Report Abuse

Seems like you completely missed the point. I am 3x vaccinated since December, and I have been actively asking friends and relatives to get a booster dose asap. This has nothing to do with what I wrote above.

You ask people to "chill", because we have vaccines and antivirals, which is very dangerous. Vaccines are a mismatch, and even though Malaysia has a very high vaccination rate, the efficacy rate against Omicron is low, as shown by multiple studies so far. Additionally, Malaysia doesn't have an effective antiviral as you are claiming.

Posted by Tobby > 2022-02-07 17:30 | Report Abuse

Ben! Thousand apology!