There are two ways a disease can succeed. One is by becoming less likely to kill the host, obviously. The other is by becoming very contagious, so that even though it kills the host very quickly, it still spreads to new hosts fast enough to multiply. Diseases like "the plague" went that way. They did well, and still exist in the US, mostly out west in various rodents, just waiting to spread to the rest of us.
Yes, many of the folks getting sick now are vaccinated.... Omicron evades the vaccine better, so it is the only version able to infect most vaccinated people. So vaccinated can get sick just like others, but not as sick. That "natural immunity" to original covid, or to delta, doesn't work very well on omicron either, so if you had the others, you'll get omicron soon.
The stupid thing about covid is that if back in 2020 we had controlled the borders, forcing a quarantine on all coming in, and had done about 8 weeks (probably) of targeted mask-wearing and restrictions wherever there was an outbreak, we'd not be where we are.
But, 2 years of pathetic politically limited half-measures, just enough to piss everyone off, but not enough to do any good,, have just pissed everyone off, without really helping at all.
I shouldn't say it has not helped.... It killed off a lot of "useless expensive people" (on medicare, medicaid, social security, etc), which may have been the goal.
Now nobody wants to even hear about controlling covid. The Governor of Missouri, for instance, just basically "declared" that "covid is over and done with", while the hospitals here have more folks packed into them than were in hospital at the last peak. Smart man....????
It would be good if the "experts" would clearly and plainly say that they don't know yet, when that is the case. Too many make statements with weak disclaimers that nobody notices, which then makes them look like they were dead wrong....... That makes people disbelieve everything they say, which is the beginning of the problem.
Then you have political hacks trying to find every tiny mistake, so that they can get ahead politically by pouncing on those and trumpeting them to the world as "proof that the doctors have been lying". It's worse when those hacks don't know what they are talking about, but basically make it up as they go along.
And then you have doctors whose field is surgery, or anesthesiology, etc, talking about covid as if they knew as much as the infectious disease researchers. "After all he's a doctor, and look, HE says this is all a crock of crap"...... That is a great way to get people to believe the medical profession as a whole.
a few tactical nukes would do it.... one on Bentonvlle Arkansas, just on general principles. One for facebook HQ, plus some for their server farms. Maybe a few for google. Done, problems dealt with.
