Livin’ on an Omicron prayer

Like some bad actor waiting in the wings, the COVID-19 Omicron variant is biding its time, employing elements of foreshadowing and anticipation, before making its grand entrance in our country. Medical experts would say that the recent uptick in cases is still of the Delta variety, and that the isolated Omicron cases are far and few.

Just recently, I saw a Peanuts cartoon strip that had Snoopy sitting on the rooftop of his doghouse, typewriter in front of him, and the thought bubbles went like this – “2019: Stay Away from Negative People.” Then “2020: Stay Away from Positive People,” followed by “2021: Stay Away from People,” and the last box had Snoopy facing the reader, with “2022: ?”

So privately, I’d say the complaining to my closest friends that the crowding at malls and public places was craziness, that COVID was still lurking around. But of course, a number of them felt I was being overly pessimistic, and couldn’t I just accept and enjoy the paucity of new cases. I can’t predict the future, so I kept my mouth shut, hoping against hope that they were right.

Some pundits in the USA even likened Omicron to “Mother Nature’s COVID-19 Immunity Booster.” Dr. Peter McCullough of The McCullough Report calls Omicron “a briefer and milder syndrome without serious pulmonary involvement….Despite Omicron having a lower estimated transmissibility index than Delta, it has a replication speed of ~70X that of prior variants, and explains why it has edged out Delta as the predominant variant.

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