Posts by frozenraven22

Paul White9 said:But you’re missing the point—back in the day, even before COVID-19, we always had a huge surge of people coming down with respiratory viruses for about four months during the winter. Nowadays, everyone expects us to be either perfectly healthy or, if you so much as sneeze or cough, it's automatically labeled as COVID. Instead of acknowledging that all those other bugs are still circulating alongside COVID, everything just gets lumped together.

Translation: It is completely normal for a ton of people to get sick during the winter. You're going to see people sneezing and coughing around you, and only a small fraction of them actually have COVID.

Everything you said holds water, but I don't see how that connects to our inability to accurately gauge the danger and behavior of the Omicron variant, especially when we can't just take a direct translation of data straight from New York City.

Paul White9 said:Are we really such a different breed from the folks over in Jordan and the surrounding areas? Are we supposed to believe that something will be considered malicious here, while they get a free pass for doing the exact same thing?

Exactly. We aren't any different. Pandemics have a massive seasonal component, and right now they are in the middle of summer over there—even if I can't wrap my head around how that works since the Earth is clearly a flat plane, but whatever...

urbanwalker72 said:That outcome feels quite likely. However, we should remain patient and observe how this unfolds, considering the average age in Africa is roughly 20, whereas in Europe, it exceeds 40. For now, the situation appears relatively mild, which aligns perfectly with the historical patterns seen during previous pandemics.

It is certain that something will happen eventually, but there is nothing certain about it being specifically with omicron.
Between a younger population, poor tracking of both infections and mortality rates, and generally low numbers—right now, all we can do is watch.
I would love to be right, but I’ve learned to be extremely cautious over the last two years. 😵😵