Is it me or there's significantly less (if any at all) discussion (not even in a doomsayer manner) of hospitalizations, severity, symptoms, death rates, (re)vaxxing (not)affecting it etc.
This time it's just like OMICRON IS COMING OMICRON IS COMING !!!
I'd say that with this variant its going to be a vastly different experience with those who are vaxxed (with & without boosters) vs the unvaxxed. But it will affect all of us, sick with Covid or not.
Theres a hope that Omicron wont be as virulent as Delta but with the transmission rate seemingly much higher, the math says that the hospitals will be packed. The kicker is, if its just serious enough to put non-vaxxed people in hospital beds but not kill them (which is good thing) it may become a much more dire situation in that more care facilities wont have any room for more patients, both suffering from COVID AND Non-covid issues that require hospitalizations.
People seem to forget that we need hospital beds for many other diseases, issues, emergencies etc not Covid related. People can argue that getting vaxxed isnt helping anything because those who are vaxxed are still getting infected and/or still transmitting it into the community. But they never developed the vaccines to completely stop the virus. They did so with the understanding it would keep people out of the hospital beds, and it's doing just that.
But with so many resistant to getting vaccinated its going to put a real strain on the healthcare systems. And nurses and doctors and workers are already beyond stressed given what they've had to endure of the last two years. I really feel for them, because its going to get worse again really quickly