A better comparison would be SA’s Delta wave with their Omicron wave, rather than comparison “between waves”. But with SA, for many reasons, comparison is difficult anyway.
France is in some ways a better comparison. But, they are not much ahead of us. In any event, their Omicron fatalities are not particularly encouraging. However, I’m more concerned about ours, in 2 more weeks and thereafter (very slow falloff?) The area under our curve is what counts, and despite what a lot of very cold (or misled) people on FR say, it is still a lot of carnage.
On the economic front, Omicron seems to be generating a lot of cases sufficient to send people to ER’s, then home feeling “awful” for a week. That alone is a big hit to our economy, and therefor everyone’s wellbeing. Of course our Gov’t exacerbates the situation.
Since money is a substance that is created from nothing by the Federal Reserve, there doesn’t really have to be any significance to economic impact. If money is disappeared and there’s a problem you just create more of it. This was discovered in 2009 and it was on going until this year oh, and I suspect. It will continue pass this year as soon as the impact of the virus is more clear.
Has to France or Europe being the correct foundation for modeling, at least the seasons are correct. South Africa has a young population and it’s summer time and it is astonishing to me that folks are not realizing that the current up spike in deaths taking place there should more or less not be possible.
Inside the US the breadth of infection is so wide that there’s little chance of old folks avoiding it. One would suspect that’s where our deaths are coming from, and more people turn 65 every day.