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Old Posted Jan 9, 2022, 5:24 PM
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Originally Posted by the urban politician View Post
Omicron is mild. I’m genuinely sad to hear that your family members are ill and I hope they do well. But anecdotes and personal experience are one thing apart from stats.

More people are in the hospital because Omicron spreads so quickly (which is why this attempt at mitigation is a colossal waste of time and resources) and even if it has a lower mortality rate than Delta, if the denominator is very high, then more people are winding up in the hospital.

This variant is badly needed. Quickly getting lots of people infected is the way we continue to grow our immunity to this virus.

This. It's objectively, scientifically-verified as being milder but more infectious than previous variants (hence how we have more cases than ever but a fraction of the hospitalisations & deaths of the first few waves). Doesn't mean that no one is going to get sick or die, though it's certainly much more manageable than it was in the past.
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