THE COVID-19 VIRUS HAS INFECTED ALTRUISM
Altruism the belief in and practice of selfless concern for the well-being of others. It is why we may help anyone who needs direction. We may stop if a stranger is having car trouble. We may help an injured person or call 911. We give some money to a homeless person and donate to charitable causes of all kinds. It is why we feel concern when we see anyone who appears to be in trouble.
I feel that the anxiety promoted by the medical world has promoted the supremacy of self-interest. We avoid strangers to stay well. We focus only on our family and close friends. The rest of the world is being thought of as lethal to our well-being and to those we love.
Covid-19 saw the use of inane phrases like "We are separated, but we stand together" or "We are apart, but we are one!" I personally believe that such phrases like those do not at all reflect the harsh reality of what has happened to communities around the world since Covid-19 harsh restrictions have been imposed and supported by so much fear rhetoric.
Covid
19 restrictions are separating people physically, but more importantly,
we are being separated socially and psychologically as well. Many
people in the world who have been very frightened by the information
presented by the medical world, now see others as being potential threats to their lives,
carrying a deadly virus that will be a death sentence to anyone who
draws near to them. Worse yet, many have become so self absorbed with
their own life situation
that they are apathetic toward and callous to the needs of others.
We have to realize that this state of affairs is unhealthy for society at large and for us as individuals. We must stop being overwhelmed by the fear which supporters of Covid 19 restrictions have insinuated into the very fabric of our society and the most hidden regions of our psyches.
It is time that the positive information about the end of the Covid-19 pandemic should be spread.
Currently, 99.7% of Covid-19 cases are mild. That is up from 99.4% just a few months ago. WORLDOMETERS
Healthy individuals who have been vaccinated, and especially those who have been boosted, appear unlikely to develop severe infections from the omicron variant that would land them in the hospital, say medical experts who have monitored the effects of the newest coronavirus variant since it was identified over four weeks ago.
Compared to delta infections in South Africa between April and November, omicron infections are associated with a 70% lower risk of severe disease, they said. The omicron data was collected for the two months through November.
People infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus may be at lower risk of severe illness and hospitalization compared to those infected with the Delta strain, early studies from the United Kingdom and South Africa suggest. Scientists warn, however, that the picture could change as more people become ill with the highly transmissible new variant, and that health systems could still be overwhelmed.
Two separate British studies, looking at real-world data from England and Scotland, have backed up evidence from South Africa to point to less severity with Omicron cases, however. In England, they analyzed hospital records and vaccination data from the start of December, including 56,000 cases of Omicron and 269,000 cases of Delta. They found that the rate of hospitalization with Omicron was 20% to 25% lower than with the Delta infections, and that the rate of people staying in the hospital for at least one night with Omicron was was around 40% to 45% lower.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-omicron-variant-latest-news-symptoms-severity-hospitalization/
It’s too early to be sure of Omicron’s effect on hospitalizations and deaths. But health officials say the early data offers some cautiously positive signs. |
Walensky [Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C. director] said yesterday that cases had increased by around 60 percent over the past week and hospitalizations had risen by 14 percent. While hospitalizations tend to lag cases, she noted, the pattern is similar to countries that have had the variant for longer, like South Africa and Britain. |
TIME TO RESTORE CARING FOR OTHERS AGAIN
ALTRUISM
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