Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2557/ https://xkcd.com/2557/ In general, getting infected voluntarily is a bad idea. It could have made sense if vaccines di

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2557/ https://xkcd.com/2557/ In general, getting infected voluntarily is a bad idea. It could have made sense if vaccines didn't exist. In fact, "vaccine" is the french word for cowpox, a disease less severe than smallpox but that left you immune from smallpox, and ultimately led to the discovery of vaccination. So we could consider getting omicron to protect yourself from a deadlier variant a primitive form of vaccination. But vaccines exist, and they are much safer than getting infected by omicron.