A lot of commentary is that omicron is mild and that as the pandemic goes on, each strain gets milder and eventually this will be a harmless and endemic like the Cold.
This 'BA.5' variant has flipped that argument on it's head. More transmissible than 'other omicrons' with perhaps the nastiness of the 'Delta' strain. 'Natural immunity' (another BS term) means bugger all with this too. Viruses can always mutate to become more deadly as well as more infectious. It only needs to take longer to kill or permanently damage the host so that the host still has the ability to spread it.
There was a video by that public health menace 'John Campbell' who was discussing 'excess deaths'. His previous video about excess deaths in Australia was so full of shit and demonstrated how ignorant he was it's hard to take him seriously here. In this video discussing possible reasons of what causes excess deaths these days, against 'previous covid infections and the damage they may have done' he puts a question mark. Against vaccinations contributing to excess deaths he puts a big tick and says 'yes we know vaccines have caused deaths'.
But of course, even if the vaccine killed 10 people in every million, that is statistically insignificant to these 'excess death' figures he is spouting. Oh maybe he is one of those that attributes every death to the vaccine even years down the track, somehow. His first thought 'did they have the covid vax?' lol
We know covid fucks up the heart, lungs and brain (as well as other organs or anything connected with a blood supply) - even in people who believe they had it 'mild'. We also know that millions of people in countries like the UK, were infected with covid without being vaccinated. Yet he rates the possibility this could impact peoples health in the future as questionable. Does anyone need any more proof this guy is a moron? Heart attacks, strokes and cancers (especially lung) will no doubt shoot upwards. Internal scarring is nasty. Covid has this effect. The vaccinations, dont.
The mRNA vaccine gets your own body to produce a copy of a 'spike' and then work out how to beat the shit out of it for practice. Anti vaxxers and their 'natural immunity' say this spike causes damage to the immune system. But happily chase after a real covid virus, each one with dozens of its own spikes and each one invading cells and replicating many millions of times under the nose of a naive immune system until its too late. Somehow, they think this is preferable. Takes a special kind of dumbarse to see that logic. The people would believe being thrust into a war, without knowing there is a war, without any protection or weapons training or any idea of what the enemy looks like, is safer than being fully trained, armoured and knowledgeable of the enemy