Damn… I think I’ll fly to South Africa in my unrequited quest to achieve natural immunity to COVID-19. I can stand a day of being “tired”…. and I won’t even have a sore arm.
If Omnicron is as infectious as these early reports indicate, I doubt that it will be contained for long. Reportedly, it blows the doors off the Delta Variant for transmission, and became dominant strain in Johannesburg in record time.
I saw a report yesterday (Fri, 26 Nov) that two recent planeloads from South Africa at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, had about 60 active COVID cases on board - likely Omnicron, but getting sequenced to find out.
It will be great news if it is significantly less deadly.