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No it's not. All indications are that omicron is much milder.

• Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
  I really am not sure why you got downvoted. Here is a NYMag article that supports what you're saying: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/and-now-for-the-good-news-about-omicron.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/and-now-for-the-good...
  • roenxi 5y ago
    It hasn't been a month since the Omicron variant was reported to the WHO. All the indications could point any way and we wouldn't have solid evidence yet - it takes time for the disease to play out. NYMag can't magic solid evidence into existence when it doesn't really exist, especially from a week ago. This is the same sort of thing as got the "its just a flu" type mutterings while the pandemic was ramping up. It might be a lot milder, and that would be nice. But if it turns out to be about the same then the speed of its spread is scary.
• zerocount 5y ago
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  • jhgb 5y ago
    > It's time to get back to our lives and put Covid on the back burner. There seems to be no end in sight if we don't. There's no talk about people having natural immunity, you don't hear about studies on what makes people asymptomatic, it's nothing but 'get vaxxed', 'get boosted', 'the unvaccinated are going to die.' Well I'm no Pasteur but it sure sounds to me like the latter is a proven means to achieve the former.