“This wave is frightening. But hopefully most will be left standing and far better off when it recedes. However suspect the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl are toast.”
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I don’t know if it’s frightening, because maybe it really is like a bad cold.
I don’t think it’s a good thing, as some say, which will produce herd immunity, because I don’t think we will get any more herd immunity from the novel coronavirus than we do from the seasonal flu.
I do think it’s fascinating, because of it’s amazing speed and the high level of mutations.
I don’t think we know what Omicron means, yet, but I do think it means something important.
Maybe it’s the mutations that proceed from Omicron that will have the most significance. Maybe they will all be highly transmissible and weak like a cold, thereby ending all things Covid, maybe not.
Yup- that is the belief of many- including doctors who look at this from all angles. Omicron could end covid if they let it rip through the population- but they’ll never let that happen.
The original Covid 19 virus was highly optimized to affect humans, via S-protein optimal for human ACE-2 receptor AND proximity of the furin site. Mutations will, most likely, only destroy it’s ability to cause damage to human cells. That’s what we observe now with so-called “omicron” variant, whatever the hell it is...