From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   ### - well 'omicron' is currently the buzzword now!   
      
   they don't know for sure, yet... but this thing has sooo many mutations   
   that it's virtually another new virus??   
      
   this is covid evolving to fight back see? we're trying to kill it and it   
   wants to survive, and if it has to infect hosts more quickly and   
   unerringly in order to do so versus our attempts to halt it, then it will,   
   and IS adapting!   
      
   even people who've had covid before are apparently getting it again now   
   via omicron, those who've been vaccinated are getting it too... what they   
   don't know yet (or so they say coz they don't want panic and there's   
   already been some via people suddenly demanding booster shots here) is how   
   severe or not it's going to be?   
      
   this last being what everyone's currently very anxiously waiting to know...   
      
   that there's a few glimmers of hope right there in that it's changed and   
   could now go several ways...   
      
   e.g., on the positive side: so ok everyone's gonna be getting this shit   
   now come what may worldwide... but... if it's NOT severe and causes say   
   only mild symptoms, everyone thereafter will then have natural antibodies   
   to it, omicron thus very effectively vaccinating the whole damn planet in   
   an incredibly short period of time BECAUSE it's so infectious!   
      
   that if omicron is mild and runs it's course & dies off (or even hangs   
   around forever as some form of mutating cold) then the antibodies everyone   
   will develop from it will very likely protect anyone from anything that   
   went before it that was more severe, like the original strain and delta!   
      
   that with this move (of becoming super-infectious!) covid may just have   
   painted itself into a corner wherein a compromise on its part is now   
   required, it's mutated so much and so severely in one direction alone that   
   there might even be no symptoms at all! (many people were reported as   
   being infectious but asymptomatic with the first strain no? so it's   
   totally possible with this virus to have it and not get ill!)   
      
   it having invested in becoming THAT much more infectious by dint of a huge   
   mutational jump it may just have done so at the cost of other sides to   
   itself, such as its symptoms! (other viruses in the past having done   
   exactly that: the common cold for example, which killed millions the first   
   few times it did the rounds and now it's just a cold...)   
      
   and IF it DOES that, covid may then find that it can quite successfully   
   co-habit with us forever no problemo! and no more vaccinations either!   
   everybody wins! :)   
      
   we haven't has much luck with all this shit so far huh, to date it's all   
   gone covid's way...   
      
   but maybe now this time it's our turn for a little luck eh?   
      
   so fingers crossed we gets a nice little win here boss :)   
      
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