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Barcode's avatar

We are seeing similar walkbacks in the USA - especially against masks etc. Basically what I have known from the beginning is catching (or not catching) Corona is a matter of probabilities and little else. If there is high community spread, you are more likely to catch it and vice versa. Mitigation measures are akin to sun dances to make the sun rise. Omicron has blown those probabilities out of the water. With its much higher infectiousness you are much more likely to meet an infected person than not. And therefore mitigation is exposed for the sham that it is.

Also the fact that it is infectious and mild is not happenstance - that is how viruses work. A lethal virus is less likely to propagate since its host will be knocked down before they can spread things around. Which is why this whole prognostication of "what if Omicron was infectious and deadly" is a bit disingenuous. It COULD happen but it would need someone to engineer it.

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Abner Knight's avatar

As of today all that is known with certainty is:

1) viruses grow bureaucracies.

2) sitting alone motionless indoors is public health.

3) most highly educated homo sapiens are insane.

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