Is Omicron the final wave?
JamesSD
California
Omicron is dying off and based on just how quickly it fell off I'm starting to think we may have finally hit something resembling herd immunity. In California we are at 70 percent fully vaccinated and over 85 percent for one dose. Coupled with all the cases, there probably just aren't that many folks running around who are both unvaxxed and have never had covid.
It also sounds like Omicron was not actually "less serious" but the lower death rate was largely a result of community resistance.
Covid will likely be around for a while like the flu, annual boosters will probably become the norm. The third world hasn't beaten it yet and it's going to be a lingering concern for the immunocompromised.
But I'm calling my shot: I expect by March covid numbers in the US will be low. We probably will see a new variant this summer, but it will really only thrive in areas with low vax rates. Future mask mandates will be short lived based on local spikes.
So yeah, I'm thinking this is probably it, two years later. Hopefully I'm not wrong.
It also sounds like Omicron was not actually "less serious" but the lower death rate was largely a result of community resistance.
Covid will likely be around for a while like the flu, annual boosters will probably become the norm. The third world hasn't beaten it yet and it's going to be a lingering concern for the immunocompromised.
But I'm calling my shot: I expect by March covid numbers in the US will be low. We probably will see a new variant this summer, but it will really only thrive in areas with low vax rates. Future mask mandates will be short lived based on local spikes.
So yeah, I'm thinking this is probably it, two years later. Hopefully I'm not wrong.
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But is Omicron the final wave of irrational and superstitious response?
That is a political question and the result depends on us.
SJG
OMICRON IS NOT THE FINAL WAVE.
There has not been a successful way to control/isolate/contain the virus because some people (you know who they are) refuse to do it and keep spreading it, just out of spite.
I don't think we'll have seasonal flares like we do with the flu. The influenza virus has parts that mutate and recombine into new strains every year. Hence why we get vaccinated against 3-4 strains at once. SARS-CoV-2 replicates fairly faithfully, with proofreading enzymes.
But as always, time will tell.
But there is also no reason everyone needs to get vaccinated either.
SJG
As to what will be the future of Covid; hopefully it will be mild in the future or better-yet hopefully it would die-out/go-away; but this virus has proven to be unpredictable w/ "science" seemingly always behind-the-8-ball.
The AZ and Novavax vaccines are not great either.
mRNA is the way to go.
SJG
SJG
SJG
Unlikely but not impossible - makes you wonder if a "new contagious variant" happens near the midterms or 2024 causing more "longstanding election laws" changes.
They hysteria was certainly manufactured for political reasons. The Dems did not want people talking about Universal Healthcare. So they had to blow up reasonable discussion about COVID.
SJG
When put to a ballot, single payer healthcare failed in Colorado, Vermont, and California.
Please give us detailed plans that don't suck.
1. I am not Donald Trump
2. I am not Bernie Sanders
He denounced Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern, and Michael Dukakis by name. He did not want anyone talking about Universal Health Care, when he was talking about Nothing.
This is why the Dems, with stooges like Gavin Newsom, promoted COVID hysteria.
SJG
^good lord when I was in portland just recently a lot of these faggots there at clubs wanted to talk about covid and shit. Like stfu before I cut u fool 🔪🔪🔪🔪
JUST KIDDING
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Sjg. You sound like your anti covid measures for personal reasons. What you post is like an emotive rant with all the contradictions. I don't get why.