the new minor illness replacing covid?

 

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 fast forward to 9 minutes. Most are not in the hospital with covid, but just tested positive.

Community surveys show a high rate of infection. Yet in third world countries people don't go to hospitals or clinics for every sniffle or aches and pains. This gives a background on why most cases diagnosed in the hospital are in folks who went there for other reasons.

it seems that covid has mutated with the help of a cold virus, and like most viruses is becoming more infectious but much milder.

if true, it might mean the end of the epidemic,  

or at least the end of the hysteria over the epidemic. Or maybe not: the hysteria in Europe and Australia seem to be more about autocratic control than about controlling the disease. 

Here, we were strict especially in Manila area, less so in our rural town. But now things are opening up, as I noted in a previous post.

Hopefully things will open up so people can go back to work again before the economy collapses and people start dying of hunger/malnutrition related diseases.

We are stopping travelers from high risk countries from coming into the Philippines again, and they are worried, but I wonder if it was here already and is the reason we have so few cases.

and one story says three Pfizer shots will stop it, except of course most people didn't get the Pfizer shot here. So will the Sinovax or AZ or Sputnik shots stop it?

I am double vaxxed, and as we open, they are continuing giving out the shot.

we are no longer in lockdown, only limited prevention mask and distancing inside. 

The maid noted there is an election coming up and suspects that is the reason. 

One other note: We bought Ivermectin to have on hand just in case via an on line pharmacy since our local pharmacies are out of stock. Now Joy said she can't reorder it since that pharmacy is also out of stock.

When we had a lot of covid in town we were taking it as a prevention just in case even though we were vaxxed. But I guess we are now out of luck.

as for Vitamin D: I guess I'd better restart sunbathing again. 

In the past, people were given sunlamp treatments, but it sort of went out of favor, mainly because vit D was added to milk. But here I drink local waterbuffalo milk, so probably it's not fortified with Vitamin D.

Oh well: I'm a doc and cynical. Whatever.

But the bad news is we are hearing of folks dying of cancer: Probably untreated or under treated because people were afraid of seeing a doctor 

Sigh.

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update: omnicrom virus spread

Oslo party spread to fully vaccinated, half got infected, but no one got very sick.