Rapid reproduction in the bronchus probably results in an infected person exhaling more of the virus with every breath, making the virus spread faster.
The good news is that the Omicron variant doesn't flourish as well in the lungs – perhaps as much as ten times slower – and Omicron's inability to replicate quickly inside the lungs likely gives the infected person better odds of overcoming the infection.When a Supreme Court justice like Sonia Sotomayor (above) falsely contends that 'we have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators,' it is a flashing neon sign that even some of the most powerful people in the country operate in a dark fantasyland, and believe the pandemic is apocalyptic in its severity and scale.It makes sense — the CDC was acknowledging that it is bad for us all to unnecessarily lockdown productive members of society over minor illnesses that most likely won't hurt other healthy people.It was -- it is not appropriate for Omicron, it was not appropriate for Delta, Alpha or any of the previous variants either because we're dealing with something that's airborne, we're dealing with a virus that's extremely contagious.'.
Instead of concluding that masks may be less important in combating a highly contagious virus that nearly everyone may be exposed to – many have concluded that they are more important!
Vaccines help mitigate the virus' effect, but it is no longer even remotely accurate to contend, as MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said last March, 'the virus stops with every vaccinated person… it cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to get more people.'.Teachers unions in Chicago and other major cities temporarily forced schools to close their doors again – after their members have been vaccinated and boosted, and after kids have been vaccinated, for a milder virus.Teachers unions in Chicago and other major cities temporarily forced schools to close their doors again – after their members have been vaccinated and boosted, and after kids have been vaccinated, for a milder virus.America's colleges and universities are treating students like they are the among the most vulnerable, requiring them to stay in their dorm rooms and wear masks outdoors even though as fit, young, vaccinated adults they are pretty much the LEAST likely to get seriously illTo be as afraid of Omicron in early 2022 as you were of the original Covid-19 in March 2020 is to ignore reality - to ignore the effectiveness of vaccines and boosters, the development of new treatments, and the milder form of this variantLiving in fear of a milder virus, after getting vaccinated and boosted, is choosing a form of self-immiseration.
And new variants that emerge are just as likely to be even milder than Omicron than more dangerous