The worldometers on recent cases is a MASSIVE SPIKE. It could be the prevalence of home testing, or it is just that omicron is that transmissable. (Daily new c

The worldometers on recent cases is a MASSIVE SPIKE. It could be the prevalence of home testing, or it is just that omicron is that transmissable. (Daily new cases graph is a fair way down): https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ that is 300% worse than the worst point of the worst outbreak we had of COVID before. The death rate spike trails the case surges, so that will tell me personally how bad omicron is. I had predicted we reach a million deaths in April or so based on a post-christmas surge matching the previous year's surge. This virus is amazing in how well it is adapted to attack American social and political structures. It kills people we don't care about (medically vulnerable, elderly, poor) while almost being completely asymptomatic in the young and vibrant (and socially influential, all we care about is pretty young people in the US). So it undermines political support that would stop it.