The Omicron variant

This is going to outpace testing ability.

Local school had (I just checked, it was 6 cases) in one class last week. All of those kids whole families are positive now. All very mild symptoms.

Whats going to happen here now is that it is just going to be let rip.

Its too late to test and isolate. Dont know why they are even bothering to test anymore.

13 posts Did you re(register) just to spread conspiracy theories?

This is the beginning of what we know. Nobody knows if symptoms can get worse.

Like what?

Compare that to a delta situation were most of those would not have tested +ve at all, never mind being +ve but assymtomatic. Plus the problem that more hidden assymptomatic carriers bring.

This variant hasnt had any sort of test on the more vulnerable yet, all variants so far have been considered "mild" for the most part for non risk cohorts

So you want to introduce major restrictions on the basis of a variant that we know very little about. Bloody hell.

But COVID is everywhere already. We did the lockdown thing and got vaccinated.

wear a mask and disinfect your hands and move on with your life.

Its not if you catch Covid but more of When you catch it.

it’s way too late to think COVID is going away.

Media are gas "dont panic" they say, while doing everything in their power to introduce panic

Thats my worry. If they find out that it doesn't cause any major issues, then any Omicron specific travel restrictions should be removed quickly.

But we all know it'll drag on and on and on.

Agreed.I can only speak from my own experience and it was a valuable (if a bit embarrassing lesson for a man in his 40s)

When this all kicked off I was stunned by the stupidly, selfishness and just lack of empathy and general cop on in places like the now fairly infamous restrictions threads.I actually thought that stuff was representative of the real world. Embarrassing but in the crazy times of spring 2020 anything was possible, we weren't allowed 2k from our houses!

Once I had real conversations with family,friends,work colleagues acquaintances it became clear that out of say 300 people I know as above 1 or 2 had gone off the deep end.

It might just be a personal thing but I'm glad I can laugh at/ pity/ empathise (to some degree) with this cohort at this stage whilst realising its not representative of real life.

I'm all for questioning data,responses etc and I can get into it with people in the pub or online etc but bottom line is I'm a low rank health care worker who knows fùck all about it.

I ask questions of my doctor,dentist,mechanic builder,plumber,accountant but I don't over rule them with something I read on facebook .You have to trust the science and people who are qualified to read it.

Apologies for the rant!

Its insane to see how the media can stir up a frenzy out of nothing.

A new variant, with no known additional risk (suggestions it may be even milder) - and yet the headlines are dominated by doomsday predictions and the phrase "SUPER MUTANT"

And then some people crying for borders to be shut and for us to be locked in our houses to protect us from what looks to be an even weaker variant - if this is infact milder then we should be encouraging spread. A mild infectious virus is exactly what you want from a pandemic management POV - it makes it more likely things will go back to normal.

So you want to put hundreds of thousands of people out of work a few weeks before Christmas just incase?

Cases appear to have plateaud and are likely declining and hospital numbers have been reducing. We know literally nothing about this variant and there's actually a chance that it will be more mild, if it even does take hold.

We definitely need to keep an eye on things, but it's way too early to make rash decisions.