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Yet strangely, where I live, the last two weeks have doubled the number of people in ICU (and hospitalisation in general), infections are at a pre-summer level and we're at a daily death level not seen since March. Of course, there are circumstances that impact this (winter, more gatherings etc) but causal or casual links are irrelevant if you're the one on oxygen wondering if you're going to die.
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As far as I can ascertain there have been no recorded deaths from the new deadly variant worldwide, no hospitalisations in the UK, and generally mild symptoms reported in SA.
You ascertain incorrectly. Its true to say that there are fewer hospitilisations in SA at this stage of wave 4 compared to the same stage in wave 3 but you're ignoring the fact that hospitilisations and ICU beds are starting to increase there, that mostly younger people are infected in SA so far, and there are signs that more older people are starting to be infected. There's also the still unanswered question about why more children are ending up in hospital with Omicron than they did with Delta.
There are some reasons to be optimistic for sure, but its way too early to say Omicron is mild and that it doesn't kill people. The key point is that if we wait to find out, it'll be too late.
It has also only been about 2 weeks since Omicron was first detected.
As far as I can ascertain there have been no recorded deaths from the new deadly variant worldwide, no hospitalisations in the UK, and generally mild symptoms reported in SA.
More authy nonsense to come from our govts. Let's follow the science. With the exception of vaccination no other authy measures seem to have done much to mitigate the virus. One wonders whether they are proportionate under the current public health based emergency powers.