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Chakaconcarne

(2,387 posts)
6. Don't know I would put it that way, but...
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 01:09 PM
Jan 2022

There are hints of omicron infection plus vaccines increasing immunity. Certainly too soon to completely discount it or put ones complete faith in.

Omicron is nature's vaccine! [View all] Shermann Jan 2022 OP
Yeah, people are catching it again after being infected before Walleye Jan 2022 #1
Wacko thinking bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #2
Interestingly, he may not be wrong Shermann Jan 2022 #5
When I first read that name, I thought it said, "Dr. Marty Malarky." GoCubsGo Jan 2022 #3
Infection causes reinfection and is yet more opportunity for adverse mutation (Nt) FreepFryer Jan 2022 #4
Don't know I would put it that way, but... Chakaconcarne Jan 2022 #6
So are polio, measles, smallpox, mumps, etc. Ms. Toad Jan 2022 #7
After being very pessimistic for a very long time Raftergirl Jan 2022 #8
Sadly, I think our only hope... forgotmylogin Jan 2022 #14
I think Omicron is a significantly less lethal variant. Raftergirl Jan 2022 #15
magical thinking indeed -- vaccines are made in a lab and cost billions to produce cadoman Jan 2022 #9
Very dangerous thinking. PufPuf23 Jan 2022 #10
Sure. And I guess Delta was a "vaccine" too, as were the original variants. gulliver Jan 2022 #11
Even though Omicron may on average be milder than other variants, since it so much more totodeinhere Jan 2022 #12
Yes, although the data so far from both SA and UK Raftergirl Jan 2022 #13
A highly contagious, but very mild virus could end the pandemic andym Jan 2022 #16
Just because omicron seems to be less deadly IzzaNuDay Jan 2022 #17
I have been thinking that myself if Omacron doc03 Jan 2022 #18
Endemic disease. Wait until some unvaccinated hunter brings us the Bambi Variant JCMach1 Jan 2022 #19
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