CV and mad panic behaviour

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Our local greengrocer got the Omicron strain in January and was very sick for a couple of days and felt the after effects for a couple of weeks.  Family members who have also had Omicron (daughter, son in law, grandchildren, niece, etc) were just a little off colour for a day or two.

This seems to be a very common pattern.

There is a still a bit of argy bargy going around in relation to why, various answers related to genetics and blood types, but I suspect that is an oversimplified argument.

FWIW, there were preliminary reports they had pegged the why for the initial strain, but both delta and Omicron proved them wrong.

The pandemic seems to dynamically attract quack assessments and sweeping conclusions, so you just know anytime someone comes out with a definitive answer it's going to bite them on the ar5e!

The current one seems to be a political declaration that "We are achieving endemicity", which is being used as a hashed together and misused proxy for herd immunity, but the virus becoming endemic means nothing of the sort. Just because it might now be endemic, doesn't mean it is benign, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Anthrax and Polio are endemic!