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No Idea Either
Omicron is a variant. More contagious but less lethal, I believe. Most of the vaccinated elderly deaths at the moment are waning AstraZeneca vaccines who have not been boosted, contracting Delta which is more lethal (delta is still around) But what if…..and we’re all pilots here very much engaged in the ‘what if’ line of thinking……what if the next variant is more lethal to say children. Will that change the antivaxers logic. The only way to avoid mutations is to beat the virus down and not allow it to spread right throughout the population. More chances for variants to pop up. So get vaccinated, then soldier on and live your life. Oh and pleeeaaassseee spare me the 5G, Bill Gates, Lizard people crap.
Incoming………Tin foil aka hard hat………ON
The progrssive variations have been interesting but predictable. There is no actual evolutionary advantage to killing the host. Producing a condition where the host spreads the virus- such as sneezing or coughing- IS an advantage.
Therefore a varient that is more transmissable, but sickens the host without killing them, is going to become dominant- we've seen this with Dela and now Omicron.
It's probably in the sweet-spot where it speads like wildfire while keeping hosts alive- HOPEFULLY it's the peak varient.