Like a chicken pox party.

Given:

It’s been a year in the US of having vaccines available to the adult population, and there is still a percentage of adults who are very resistant to getting vaccinated.

Omicron is less deadly than prior variants.

Very vulnerable groups are still recommended and warned to take more precautions.

The CDC reduced isolation time to five days for people with covid who have resolving symptoms, and exposed people can just wear a mask, although five days isolation is preferred, followed by five days of mask wearing.

Omicron often is mild and people dismiss it as a cold and are not cautious.

Omicron is very infectious.

Likely result:

Omicron will spread like wildfire through the population (we are seeing it now) especially the stubborn unvaccinated will catch it, and the US will finally get some level of immunity in over 90% of the population.

There will be some unfortunate collateral damage for the greater good, but Omicron might be a better risk than the next variant. More immunity in the population will help inhibit the virus from mutating.

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