| Jaicee said: Okay, this omicron meltdown is officially hysteria in my book. The doctor who discovered it has described the symptoms she's seen in patients with this particular variant of Covid as "extremely mild", as in no one, not one single person with omicron, has yet been hospitalized as a result, it would appear, unless there's new info on that that I've missed. Cases thereof so far reportedly have not even included so much as a cough or a sore throat. And over this we are seeing travel bans and the shuttering of whole economies again? Seriously? That makes me think we'll never be out of this mode. There will always be new variants, folks. This one seems less consequential than even the original alpha strain, to say nothing of delta. So far I'm not even the least bit worried about the new omicron variant. I feel that I can live with being in circulation. At some point moving on with life is called for. Let me again circle back to the zero hospitalizations point. While I am certainly no medical expert, my understanding has been that the point of everything from masking to vaccination to...*grumble grumble*...lockdowns has been to prevent hospitals from filling up such that people can no longer get in for any other kind of life-threatening emergency like strokes or cancer. If the omicron variant doesn't add to hospitalizations...maybe it's not worth shutting down economies over, you know? That's my thinking anyway. When it came to earlier strains of Covid, the more I read about them, the more worried I became. With this one, it's the other way around: the more I read about omicron, the less concerned I am about it. I'm way more scared of more shortages and further price increases resulting from more supply chain disruptions than I am of the omicron variant. The cost of living here in the U.S. is up 6.2% over the last year alone (the fastest inflation rate in 31 years), while my income is up 0% and my stimulus money is now long since exhausted. I am, in other words, way more afraid of how countries are reacting to omicron than I am of this virus strain itself. Matter-of-factly, I feel that I've been a pretty damn good soldier about all this. I mean okay, I've splurged and been undisciplined in some respects, like returning to movie theaters early on, as soon as they reopened in August of last year because I felt like I needed the outlet mentally-emotionally, even if it was just old movies playing and nobody was there but me, stuff like that. I'm human. But I have also gotten all three of my shots early on for the same virus in the span of well under a year and still have to mask at work anyway. This panic over what sure the hell so far looks like a very mild variant just makes me feel like there's no end to this regime in sight after more than a year and a half; like we'll never psychologically recover from Covid and be able to fully move on with our lives. I'll tell you what, if my workplace masking obligations aren't lifted by the spring when the weather starts to warm up and people resultantly start spending less time indoors and more time outdoors again, I'm officially going to cross over to the other side and start joining some of those anti-masking protests. |
Yeah I read a doctor saying, it might be a good thing, that it becomes the dominant strain, because it appears to be a milder, form of covid.
So its even more contagious than Delta, it might overall kill less people.
The thing is it will still overload hospitals, if the infection rates sky rocket, evne if less people need to be hospitalised (pr infected), the fact that it spreads so fast, might still cause it. Oh and people that have had covid before, arn't immune to Omicron, its differnt enough, that it will reinfect people that have had covid (or vaccine).
Worse still:
People have given up, trying to avoid getting infected or infecting others.
Here in denmark, it seems like 90% of people are up to the mustard, and do what needs doing.
The problem is the people that dont, or refuse.
I take the train, and I see people with face masks, under their chins, while their caughing or haveing a running nose.
People that leave their noses hanging out....
People arnt as good about personal space, and keeping distance to others either.
Its like people think because their vacinated, they dont have to worry about anything (without realiseing that protection drops, overtime).
it makes me question if its even possible to get rid of it, and the spread from a society.
Theres always going to be a few fools, or weak links in the chain.
The same with the 78% fully vacinated rate..... why isnt it just mandatory? get everyone vaccinated, dont let it be a choice.
Personally think, airports, should have required PCR testing for everyone flying, taken at the airport, and handled before take off.
If your not vaccinated, you shouldnt even be allowed in the airports.
They should do the same for all border crossings (if by car, or ship).
