Omicron is very mild. So who cares it shows up?
“Omicron is very mild. So who cares it shows up?”
It may be the best thing to put COVID to bed, if it is safe (and it sure seems to be so far). It barely made a blip in hospitalizations, when it became the dominant strain in Johannesburg (in record time of under two weeks). It looks like it will sweep through much faster than earlier strains, including Delta.
Hopefully, it will impart strong immunity to COVID generally, like the earlier strains have done. If so, we will have herd immunity much, much quicker than with other variants and/or vaccines.
If a lot of Omicron folks are asymptomatic (as in the Botswana sample, where 16 out of 19 were), the main thing we might notice (besides frantic press coverage) is just a sudden drop in cases, as the remaining fuel is expended.
“Omicron is very mild. So who cares it shows up?”
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That’s today’s science, but today’s science will become old science when the new science shows up and new science may not have Omicron as being very mild, so we don’t really know that, do we?
Omicron is very mild. So who cares it shows up?
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If Omicron is mild. I had the covid Feb 2020. Nov 20 I got sick with my 2nd horrible covid illness. I had a high fever for 9+ days. I was sick at the level of 9.5 out of 10. It was just as bad as the covid I had in 2020. If what I just had was the omicrom, we are screwed.
I thought I had natural immunities. Let’s see what happens in 3 weeks. I hope I’m wrong. This biological warfare pisses me off. I refused to go to the hospital, I would have died.