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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why OP? Not vaccinated? Otherwise, what does it matter?[/quote]

Many of the recent outbreaks are "breakthrough cases."[/quote]

Answer me this: are they mild? Then I don’t care [/quote]

The only way that "mild" cases can pose a problem is if the variant is so transmissible and therefore spreads so much that it ends up sending a large portion of vulnerable people (partially vaccinated, those with waning immunity, the elderly, the medically fragile, etc) into hospitals, and the hospitals get overwhelmed. So mild Covid in children or healthy, recently-boostered adults, doesn't really tell you much, because it doesn't give you an accurate picture of what the same variant could do if a whole lot of vulnerable people had it within a short period of time and all went to the hospital, also within a short period of time.

This is the concern with Omicron. The UK has come out with a predictive study that lists a range of potential Omicron outcomes, none of which are good, but the worse one is hospitals getting overwhelmed and lockdowns put in place, because despite a robust vaccination system, this variant is way more transmissible than Delta: it doubles cases once every 2.4 days. [/quote]

You know what? I’m 100% over the adults that can’t be bothered to get vaccinated.  Done.  And the [quote]LTC facilities and medically vulnerable need to step up the precautions to protect themselves[/quote][quote][b].  Given the high vaccination rate in this area, I think the chances of hospitals being overrun is small, so I don’t think we should be taking drastic measures with kids to prevent Covid at all costs. [/quote]

Wow, insensitive much?  As if they haven't being doing so.

I wonder if HCWs agree with you on not needing to step it up to prevent Covid.  Not looking great at the moment...

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