From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   ### - we can see omicron really starting to gather pace now... with it   
   doubling every 2 days or less those numbers start getting really big (as   
   they're now becoming) and it doesn't then take many more doubles to   
   encompass even whole populations!   
      
   we still don't know everything about omicron, but as the fog clears it   
   would seem to be either mild in nature (which would be really good news in   
   so many ways) or, is just about as-deadly as the others but is susceptible   
   to our vaccines to varying degrees...   
      
   it currently appears to be ONE or the other?   
      
   and not because the vaccines stop you from becoming infected, but because   
   they indeed prime the immune system as-though one has already been   
   previously infected with it to some extent and can now fight it off in the   
   upper airways 'before' it gains a foothold (which is exactly how they're   
   supposed to work to varying degrees by emulating that whole process,   
   something which might also go to explaining why the un-vaccinated are   
   currently being hit the hardest)   
      
   if though it's because omicron itself is actually mild-er... then it all   
   becomes very hopeful in a another way... e.g., within a very short time   
   everyone on the planet will have been 'naturally' inoculated (which is   
   likely to work more uniformly compared to experimental vaccines) against   
   the more dangerous strains of covid by it, including any that might yet   
   appear/evolve...   
      
   in which case the pandemic will then be effectively + very suddenly: over!   
   covid-19 becoming a new common cold or possibly even disappearing   
   altogether!   
      
   so it 'might' be the vaccines (the slower man-made route/way-out of all   
   this) or it 'might' be omicron just being mild (which might be even better   
   because everyone then gets a bit of a cold and it's gone!)   
      
   either way is good news! (very good news actually) we just don't know for   
   sure, yet, which of those 2 it actually is... is it the vaccines helping   
   us to fight it off earlier or omicron being milder?   
      
   hmmm...   
      
   and coz if it's the latter we 'could' even just be witnessing a miracle   
   disappearance of covid altogether here?? and this via nature's OWN   
   solution!   
      
   (oh i'd like that heh...)   
      
   meanwhile there's still time to place yer bets! :)   
      
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