COVID-19 is a mutation of the SARS virus that hit the news circa 2002. It is a virus (not a bacteria or parasite) that falls under the category of coronavirus, which is known for having distinctive protein spikes protruding from it that at some point someone probably thought looked somewhat like the tines of a crown. COVID-19 has caused a lot of fear in the world. It does not have to present with severe symptoms to kill weeks after infection, during what is sometimes called its multisystem inflammatory phase. When it’s severe, it sometimes kills very quickly. I’ve heard that it has a tendency to cause fatalities about 5% of the time (worldwide, diagnosed and undiagnosed combined), which is one in twenty cases, or less. It seems to be proving to be over three times as deadly as influenza is today.
If this disease was sweeping through a community in the old days, they might call it a plague, but it would admittedly be a mild plague. People are scared, and they have a right to be.
Delta is another mutation of SARS. So far, it is easier to catch but less dangerous than COVID-19. Since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, they’ve been naming SARS mutations Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc., and usually referring to them as “strains” of COVID-19. Several variants of SARS had already been documented for years, having been discovered some time before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Omicron seems to be kind of a chaotic concept. It seems like it may be a range of different viruses, possibly. Some people claim that it’s a mysterious strain that originated in vaccinated patients. It is still unknown whether the symptoms of Omicron vary from COVID-19 symptoms. Discovered in November 2021, Omicron is said to be spreading rapidly all over the world– many months to over a year quicker than COVID-19 (which was only called Coronavirus at the outset) spread, if Omicron only has one or even a small handful of origins. Despite how it’s being written about, it is very likely not possible to test seropositive for Omicron yet using any preexisting mainstream test (science doesn’t exactly occur at the speed of sound), and it may be most commonly diagnosed by clinical evaluation. People have been warned that they may or may not need to be particularly worried.
In large part, Omicron actually seems like it may be a theorized mutation of COVID-19 that is particularly severe and may cause organ dysfunction. The Omicron theory may have been developed as a result of autopsies of people who’d been diagnosed with COVID-19, but showed additional and abnormal causes of death in common. Early reports indicated that Omicron presented with heart symptoms, though that may have been tacitly dropped for now.
Is Omicron what they’re going to call “Be Around” Syndrome? Will they say it’s linked to SARS? I don’t know. I’ll be on the lookout.
(Note as of October 2022: I believe I may have finally come into shamanic communication with a virus that was near my current environment that thinks it might be the Omicron variant, but does not know whether or not to identify that way and does not know if it belongs in the category of coronavirus; by contrast, COVID-19 and Delta usually do know to identify themselves in those respects, the monkeypox virus seems to be able to identify itself as such when it’s anywhere in my city, etc. For the record, I do tell viruses not to harm anyone nor infect anyone when we communicate.)
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