Being at home may save some oldster down the line. Good job.
This wallowing in optimism . . . it’s very hard to get people to accept that optimism is 1000s of times more dangerous than pessimism. They want to hear things have peaked and all will be well soon and they rage when 1) they hear something different or 2) the numbers actually turn out to be something different. If you want to think everything will be fine soon, you can book your cruise tix. Then when your cruise date arrives and the US has death counts 2X what they are today, the expenditure influences your choice of getting on the boat.
Stop with the rosy scenarios. It gets people killed.
Prediction:
Deaths will inflect and decline in a few weeks. Just as they did last year.
There will be an absolute explosion of people celebrating how 1) Herd immunity finally took hold and also 2) the Vax population wide finally took hold. Everyone will have an explanation for VICTORY!!!
A couple of months later, the next surge will start. Instantly, without any delay at all, people will manufacture an excuse for their claim being wrong and also, blame it on someone else.
In the meantime, even more will die.
Some people get wishful out of understandable fatigue (I know I have looked at things and thought, surely it will start to get better from here). Other people try to make the world understandable by dismissing everything that does not fit in with their theories. Neither wishful thinking nor the broken-record of “everything you see and hear is a lie!” is helpful - both attitudes have probably contributed to the deaths of many thousands.
We know that the statistics for, say, the U.S.A. or France are likely to reflect reality much better than whatever China releases. Most of us know enough about the world to make reasonable distinctions like that. Some (not you) seem to think that since China’s statistics are fake that means that all statistics are lies.
Everyone is getting Covid. There is no Rosy Scenario.
Once you get Covid, you might get another variant in a year or you might not.
My vaxxed Wife got Covid, but 13 month Naturally Immune me didn’t, and she did all she could to try to give me her Covid.
The Vax’s may screw up Natural Immunity, and the vaxxed may need boosters for ever, but unvaxxed Natural immunity is real and lasting and it works. I’m proof of it.
I hope you don’t think I was painting a rosy picture. To me it’s pretty bleak. Maybe Omicron has peaked, but those who said it peaked two weeks ago were wrong. Maybe Omicron is less lethal, but deaths are very high (maybe combination of omicron and delta?). With a lack of testing, any decrease in the daily count could be simply the result of fewer tests being taken. These morons in the administration should never have stopped Operation Warp Speed. They never should have bet the farm on vaccines. They may help, or may have helped, but they don’t work and may not help at all with Omicron.
Anyway, hoping what I have is just flu and not the virus I guess I just need to wait. Either way, I am in isolation awaiting the results.