More than two-thirds of omicron cases are reinfections, English study suggests

[Swede]

This is some not so good news.


https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/26/more-than-two-thirds-of-omicron-cases-are-reinfections-study-suggests.html

[SoCalDavidS]

1. What This Tells Me

A lot of the people who were careless, and couldn't care less about catching Covid, or thought that it didn't exist, continued to act EXACTLY the same way having been infected once, and so naturally, they caught it again.

Some will probably even wear it as a badge of honor. "Hey, I caught Covid 3 times, and I'm still here. See? Nothing to worry about. Oh, and by the way, I'm an Ignorant Moron."

[bigtree]

4. hard to blame them when almost universally leaders like to tout the nearing of the end

...by relaxing or removing restrictions.

Then there's the nonsense from people who obviously don't feel at risk telling everyone else to carry on life and business as usual, instead of waiting for the risk to actually fade or subside significantly.

The political class has pretty much prolonged this, and its not just republicans, especially locally. Businesses are naturally eager to act as if there's nothing to defend against, and politicians are eager to put us all back into the fray to appease commerce.

The push to keep kids in infected schools is the most disgusting, especially after the initial nonsense about there being little or no risk to them.

[Bleacher Creature]

2. Didn't we already know that people with prior infections had little immunity against Omicron?

Now if people with Omicron we're getting reinfected with Omicron shortly thereafter, that would be terrifying.

[Johonny]

3. It really depends if next summer-winter's Covid is from

the omicron family, another known family, or a different variant of it's own.

I believe a previous Delta infection didn't help much again Omicron, but omicron infections do seem to help prevent Delta and other. It may drive the others to extinction in the human population. Which maybe a good thing by fall 2022.