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Omicron variant, isolation, day 5,
Large snow accumulation overnight.
-1C,
Arctic Outflow, week 3,
39 minutes before sunrise,
From my balcony,
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia
As Omicron returns us to further hesitance to leave the house, and snow every day makes it more difficult, we're on our own lock down.
Winter's carpets reveal the underlying shapes of the landscape as if a white blanket was carefully arranged.
Splash art creations capture water drop collisions using high speed photography. The medium is water with resin for texture and colouring for effect.
As Omicron returns us to further hesitance to leave the house, and snow every day makes it more difficult, we're on our own lock down. Being the end of 2021 the Grim Reaper is forming in my kitchen window.
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New Omicron Subvariant Is 'Crazy Infectious,' COVID Expert Warns
Ralph Ellis
January 10, 2023
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The newest subvariant of Omicron, XBB.1.5, is so transmissible that everybody is at risk of catching it, even if they've already been infected and are fully vaccinated, a health expert told USA Today.
"It's crazy infectious," said Paula Cannon, PhD., a virologist at the University of Southern California. "All the things that have protected you for the past couple of years, I don't think are going to protect you against this new crop of variants."
XBB.1.5 is spreading quickly in the United States. It accounted for 27.6% of cases in the country last week, up from about 1% of cases at one point in December, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's especially prevalent in the Northeast, now accounting for more than 70% of the cases in that region.
It's spreading across the globe, too. Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD., technical lead of the World Health Organization, has called XBB.1.5 is "the most transmissible subvariant that has been detected yet."
Ashish Jha, MD, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, tweeted a few days ago that the spread of XBB.1.5 is "stunning" but cautioned that it's unclear if the symptoms of infection will be more severe than for previous variants.
"Whether we'll have an XBB.1.5 wave (and if yes, how big) will depend on many factors including immunity of the population, people's actions, etc.," he tweeted.
He urged people to get up to date on their boosters, wear a snug-fitting mask, and avoid crowded indoor spaces. He noted that people who haven't been infected recently or haven't gotten the bivalent booster likely have little protection against infection.
The symptoms for XBB.1.5 appear to be the same as for other versions of COVID-19. However, it's less common for people infected with XBB.1.5 to report losing their sense of taste and smell, USA Today reported.
Sources
USA Today: "People who haven't had COVID will likely catch XBB.1.5 – and many will get reinfected, experts say"
CDC: COVID Data Tracker
Y entonces en la tele vuelven las noticias, él no quiere viajar, ella no quiere hacer vida social, nosotros queremos tirar para delante y vosotras no entendéis que yo ya no entiendo nada. Y recuerdo desde la ventana de mi casa, sufriendo los efectos adversos de la tercera dosis, que esto se iba a acabar con las vacunas. Y ardo por dentro una vez más.
Dejé de perderme lo bueno por buscar el error, pero me noto de nuevo en la casilla de salida. Y mientras hago una mochila para Madeira, perdón, Tenerife, me resigno a aceptar que vivo en la Falsa Normalidad.
Omicron numbers are going down. Starbucks is as busy as ever…This was my first time sketching at a coffee shop since the pandemic began.
Date: Feb 24, 2022
Location: Boston, MA
Medium: ballpoint pen
This frames the asterism called the False Cross, made of stars in Vela at top and Carina at right.
The brightest star is the orange star Avior or Epsilon Carinae at lower right. To the right of it is the large naked-eye star cluster NGC 2516, called the Southern Beehive. At top above the star Delta Velorum is the large but sparse star cluster IC 2391, called the Omicron Velorum Cluster after its brightest star. At far left near the orange star N Velorum is the small star cluster IC 2488. At top are the easternmost magenta tendrils of the vast Gum Nebula.
This is a stack iof 10 x 2 minute exposures with the Canon RF135mm lens at f/2 on the Canon Ra at ISO 800. The lens had an URTH 82mm Night broadband filter on it. Tracked but not guided on the Astro-Physics AP400 mount, from Australia in March 2024 on a night dedicated to shooting 135mm telephoto lens fields along the Milky Way.
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As the predicted Omicron Covid outbreak in December 2021 was about to go rogue the Perrotett NSW government removed most restrictions. Public and business backlash saw the NSW Government quickly reinstate some of the previously existing restrictions, like mask wearing in public spaces. Common sense was sadly lacking because the initial relaxation made no sense at all yet was hardly surprising given the abominable manner in which the NSW Government handled the Ruby Princess debacle as well as the June 2020 Bondi Junction outbreak.
At the same time as Omicron was arriving on the scene support services for contact tracing and PCR testing were being wound back and the Federal Government said they would not fund subsidization of Rapid Antigen tests (RAT) probably because they did not want to undercut their donors, among them Chemist Warehouse and Harvey Norman. Electrical goods and furniture retailer Harvey Norman, was very likely tipped off as to the government's intended policy, or indeed they lobbied for it, and immediately ordered many thousands of the Rapid Antigen tests which are now being sold. At the time of writing (5.1.21) online ordering of RAT tests via Chemist Warehouse yielded a nil result with tests out of stock as is the case, as I write, with most pharmacies and supermarkets. Some of those commercial sales outlets with stock have been guilty of price gouging with prices as high as $40 for a single test. The tests actually cost under $4 each to produce and the manufacturers say they can produce 15 million tests in a day.
The current dire shortage of tests is a legacy of callous and indifferent, if not incompetent management, by the Federal Government who failed to heed warnings issued by the Australian Medical Association in September 2020 that RAT tests would be an essential tool in managing the predicted tsunami of infections to occur from January 2022. Most health experts are of the belief that the Federal Government should be making the RAT tests free as a means to help minimize the impacts of the predicted explosion in cases of Omicron covid.
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Around 74% of the current NSW Covid ICU cases are of the Delta variant indicating that since Perrotett removed most restrictions before Xmas 2021 Delta has become rampant in the community. The situation is made much worse because the government has stopped tracking infections and our political leaders are selling the message that Omicron is the problem and it's less virulent, deflecting from the impacts of Delta which for now is much more problematic.
We have here a massive case of political failure to protect the Australian people. One could only imagine what would have happened if condoms had been made so ridiculously expensive during the AIDS crisis from 1981 onwards.
Chaos is increasingly the state of play in the NSW health system as hospitals begin to struggle with a lack of staff and rising Covid admissions which are detrimentally impacting on the opportunity for other urgent life-threatening procedures. Health workers are even being pressured by hospital administrators to come back to work even though they have Covid 19.
On the 5th Jan 2022 NSW recorded 35,054 cases a day but this is not an accurate assessment as it has become very difficult to be tested if an individual feels they have been exposed or have symptoms. The actual infection figures are likely to be up to 10 times higher according to some experts. People, some with Covid symptoms, are lining up at testing centres for up to 7 hours to get tested. It should come as no surprise that many just give up waiting. Drive through queuing is of a similar wait time. Many testing laboratories have become overwhelmed and understaffed due to some staff becoming infected with covid rendering them unable to work. For these reasons the labs are unable to return test results in a timely manner. Some tests results appear to be taking 4-7 days to be returned and there are almost no RAT tests available to buy anywhere in NSW.
The shambolic mismanagement by the Perrotett and Morrison Governments is there for all to see. Both governments, imbued with a business first ideology (or should that read donors first) are of the mindset to 'let it rip' and this ideologically driven approach has seen the virus escalate its intrusion into all other states of Australia, despite their best efforts to keep it at bay.
The failure to manage this health crisis appropriately is not only impacting people's lives and health but in fact doing immense damage to the bottom line of many businesses as well as the economy.
It might seem like I am stating the obvious when I say it's very unwise to catch covid yet many people appear to be confident in their trust in the effectiveness of triple dose vaccination. Hopefully this trust is proven to be correct in the coming months.
From my own limited observations, it appears some people out there on the streets are naively unconcerned about the risks to their own, or their family's well-being, believing they will catch covid, Delta or Omicron, eventually and that they'll survive it.
If Seal Rocks was any example on Boxing Day 2021 there are plenty of people in that category. I've never seen so many cars lining every road, occupying every parking space and indeed many illegal ones. It was 'wall to wall' people, like I'd never seen before.
Despite these crowds my solitary walk through the rainforest brought me out at the southern end of Number 1 Beach from where I took this shot. Most people had located themselves on the beach further north from this point while many had returned to their cars for lunch. To be fair though it was clear that many people were social distancing from strangers but not necessarily in their family groups.
As we enter 2022 the game is changing rapidly, the 'let it rip brigade' appear to have won the war, for now, at least in NSW.
It has been reported that Omicron may well be more infectious but the jury is still out as to whether it's as potent as Delta. Even if Omicron turns out to be less potent the sheer growth in Omicron infections to come may yet result in significant growth in ICU admissions and potentially, in more deaths.
With many children going back to school in a few weeks not having had their 2nd jab, let alone their boosters it appears 2022 is going to be one big game of Russian Roulette.
The ship is rudderless so good luck folks.
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Part of the Pan Pacific Corps Jaeger defense program Omicron Chrome was stationed off the artificial coast of Odaiba to protect Tokyo Bay.
17th and final build in my Iron Builder War with Brickthing
Uses 20 of the Brickarms Minigun Assembly Parts
One hell of a month - it's been a pleasure Nick.
The pandemic has quite a negative impact on my shooting the last several months, but today, in spite of the fact that we're in the 6th wave here in Tokyo thanks to Omicron, I decided to take my old Fuji X-Pro1 out for a walk. Except for cropping, a little clarity, and some vibrance in one of the color shots, these are right out of the camera.
"The diamond does not need to prove its worth. It is in fact the person who must teach themselves to recognize the worth of real diamonds."
Coronavirus model in a doctor's hand, showing the new omicron variant of covid-19 / covid xbb
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“Yesterday, we received orders from the Emperor himself to proceed to the enemy base of Valkan, a large naval base were a large convoy with almost 100 cargo ships was being prepared to depart, with a few escort ships. Our small battle group, one Kalstin aircraft carrier (with 70 Stealth Thanatos Fighters), two anti-ship Destroyers of the Dana class and three Omicron’s nuclear attack submarines represented an impressive surface battle group.
We entered a small fiord near the enemy base and we started to prepare to launch the Fighters when suddenly, 120 enemy Striker fighters appeared in the sky. Immediately we launched all the fighters to intercept, while the Kalstin and the Dana’s started to fire AA missiles. Unfortunately, we couldn’t use the main guns or the Walstons CIWS, because our shells could hit our own fighters.
In the end, we shoot down 45 enemy Striker fighters while the others fled, all without a single aircraft loss on our side. Since the enemies on the Convoys knew that we where near, we launched immediately our air strike, with the help of the D.D.N. anti-ship missiles fired by the two Dana’s Destroyers and the Omicron’s submarines, guided to the target by two naval helicopters.
The mission was a complete success, since we only received a little damage on our ships and we sunk or crippled at least 87 cargo-ships.”
Kalstin Aircraft Carrier: www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=415241
Dana Class Destroyer: www.flickr.com/photos/einon/5804198158/in/set-72157626897...
Thanatos Stealth Fighter: www.flickr.com/photos/einon/5485588596/in/set-72157628204...
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About the ship
In 2009, I started the construction of a 1,5meters LEGO aircraft carrier based on the Russian Kuznestov aircraft carrier, which I named “Project Kalstin”. Unfortunately, I never completed the ship since at the time I lacked hundreds of reddish brown tiles necessary to complete the aircraft runway.
The incomplete hull of the ship was later modified into the 2,8meters Battlecruiser Gualdim Pais.
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But I always wanted to have a picture of the Kalstin in action. And finally, here it is! XD
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The GARC series visits the Omicronian system, more specifically Omicron Persei 8, for the Omicron 8000. Here, the Ferrari MB-1989 of Rolf and Hans Gutenberg races the RJ Industries 501 of Adriano Traficante and Ernesto Vescovi for position.
Micro GARC's!
Built these for the Future Tech category for the 2014 Mocathalon on Mocpages.
We’re easily sidetracked, it appears. One half of id-iom had ventured out into the cold to scrape and blank out our previous wall as the weather was just about sunny enough. After an hour or so out there I head out to see how he’s getting on and rather than paint over the previous wall he’d decided to adapt it into something else entirely. Then I got involved. Then it got dark and we had to come back the next day to finish what we were doing. And it’s still not ready to be painted on again. Like I said, easily sidetracked.
Anyway, if at first glance you thought this was 90’s cartoon legend Johnny Bravo then you’d be very much mistaken. For this is his second cousin twice removed Johnny Omicron. He’s twice as chatty but half as much fun. Now he’s got to go. The wall will be blanked out…
Cheers
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Might as well do one more description: keep in mind this pic of the pharmacy waiting area was taken prior to the Omicron (Should that word even be capitalized? Doesn't deserve that kind of respect!) variant freak-out, and this same area 3-4 weeks later might be overrun with people infecting each other :P Will this pandemic ever end!? (Let's hope so, maybe after mid-term elections in November...)
Also, remember not to say *anything* (whatsoever) negative about vaccines on Twitter, your account there might get suspended in the blink of an eye! (Odd, methinks...)
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Not all computers are made equally.
The O.M.I.C.R.O.N II (Operational Mainframe Intelligence Communications Reconnaissance Omni Nexus) is a black ops field command center. Used in covert missions the computers are assembled in or around hot zones to deploy and monitor command teams. Featuring a number of high tech functions, the primary feature is the "thin air" VUD display: an interactive 3D interface used to view real time operations and communications via satellite or live vision inputs from the ops team or hacks on the ground via civilian surveillance. Use blade tablet to display vitals from the team and connect them to the VUD or call weapons and support from the Mainframe to take out targets on the ground and air.
The display can be easily broken down, transported or in the case of compromise, disintegrated or used as a weapon via detonation of its micro fusion core.
The information is classified....
As Australia descends into Omicron chaos our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has learnt nothing about the realities of a pandemic. As the Guardian says "Morrison also urged people not to focus on case numbers." But that was the whole reason the various levels of Government had to step up with testing, tracing, vaccination, restrictions and financial support! Because the sheer numbers in a pandemic overwhelm normal systems. Supply chains, services, health care, aged care and many other economic activities. They are all deeply impacted by soaring case numbers at every level of people's lives and deaths! From a few days ago, no one actually knows the numbers as the testing system has broken down under the pressure. RAT's anyone?
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/03/scott-morr...
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in all my photos the movement is original in the camera, it comes from my hands, there are no Photoshop effects ...... ICM with Photoshop it's not ICM ...it's just "digital dust"...
In tutte le mie foto il movimento è quello originale della fotocamera durante il singolo scatto, viene dalle mie mani, non ci sono filtri oppure effetti Photoshop......ICM fatto con Photoshop non è ICM, è solamente "polvere digitale"....
As Omicron returns us to further hesitance to leave the house, and snow every day makes it more difficult, we're on our own lockdown.
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell infected with the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (pink), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID