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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.