From: allreadydun@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at 6:56:42 AM UTC-8, slider wrote:   
   > ### - 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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