South Africa’s Omicron-wave seems to be going down already. So if the rest of the world follows this wave’s short.

    Homegrove This is it, everything looking good, this will be forgotten about by the end of Jan hopefully

        We’ve lowered the “isolation” time to seven days for the breakthrough vaccinated cases. And going outside for a walk or doing some food shopping (hence isolation being in quotes) is considered fine if mild to no symptoms as long as a mask is worn. The only worry is people spending considerable time indoors with groups of unmasked people - like isolate from that.

        One doc, my actual boss on all this, basically said she’s whatever about Omicron. It’s very infectious but not causing many issues and the incubation period is short. Covid could be burning itself out . I have no evidence of this or any link to point to, it was just said on a call. But her and this other dude George are the leading infectious disease experts at UCSF/SFDPH and both raised the alarm bells when needed so I’m inclined to trust their opinions.

        Was just reading about Japan’s wave completely dropping off which has experts baffled.

        hugopal So the only problem becomes how many people get it at once, right? If it’s 20-50% less likely a positive case will end up experiencing ‘severe disease’ there only need to be 20%-50% more cases for hospital admissions to balance out at similar peaks to the top of the delta wave. Have I got that right?

            vinnyt77 that’s certainly my biggest concern. Omicron might burn itself out quickly, and be mostly harmless, but it’s not good if half the country has it at the same time, and are away from work. That could become a huge problem, hence the restrictions we have now again.

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                Homegrove which is what I alluded to about healthworkers and the strain on hospitals last week but it fell on death ears. Its ok though have you seen the percentages yet? Lol

                  I meant also outside of health workers. Not everyone can work from home with SNIFFLES.

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                    Homegrove of course, I hear ya. Goes without saying really barring one or two birdbrains.

                      Hursty End January… I’d say more like mid January… the coalface beckons lads

                          alistair So basically, if you’re a young person of colour, living in a city and from an economically deprived background, you’re an Omicron hotbed?

                              Jules72 Tropple quad vaxxed and ready for the next Fabric gig front and centre 🤟