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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

They don't care.  Its only about them.  [/quote]

It's also about a functioning society and economy that's not singularly focused on Covid. On a list of things I'm worried about this upcoming week, it doesn't even rank.[/quote]

Thats great your family is invincible but for the rest of us, we still need precautions because we aren't.[/quote]

Then get vaccinated/boosted. Wear a mask. There's your precautions.[/quote]

I'm the PP who wrote the Omicron paragraphs. I agree! But nearly everyone needs to get vaccinated and boostered for this to work, and as you know, there are so many places in the US where this advice seems to fall on deaf ears. 
Even here, there currently aren't enough boostered people in the DC area to ward off the "worst Omicron option".

[/quote]Thank you, Omicron Paragraph writer! You are a helpful responder on this thread.[/quote]

Do we know for sure that a booster protects against Omicron? Should teens who aren’t six months out from the second shot get boosted anyway?[/quote]

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