[dabigv13]

What about MT's post suggests the "sky is falling"?

It's a useful post with factual information. Rather hopeful factual information in fact.

If we go by history, we know you have been pushing against pandemic restrictions from the very beginning, when we had no vaccine and with a virus that was probably more dangerous, though less infectious. Whereas MT from the beginning has posted facts and useful information, your posts usually lacked pertinent facts and instead were mostly whining and baseless conjecture.

Omicron is more mild. Thanks to vaccines and forced acquired immunity, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and I hope it will be here soon. But we have the highest test positivity of the whole pandemic now, and hospitalizations and ICU utilization is rising quickly, even if stays are shorter and there are less deaths (though will hopefully peak soon, if wastewater data is a reliable indicator). Still even with less deaths, in some places elective cases are being cancelled and wait times for beds are very long, like during earlier surges.

I do think and have posted here before that Omicron will be the transition point to endemicity, but we're not quite there yet.

[dabigv13]

What about MT's post suggests the "sky is falling"?

It's a useful post with factual information. Rather hopeful factual information in fact.

If we go by history, we know you have been pushing against pandemic restrictions from the very beginning, when we had no vaccine and with a virus that was probably more dangerous, though less infectious. Whereas MT from the beginning has posted facts and useful information, your posts usually lacked pertinent facts and instead were mostly whining and baseless conjecture.

Omicron is more mild. Thanks to vaccines and forced acquired immunity, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and I hope it will be here soon. But we have the highest test positivity of the whole pandemic now, and hospitalizations and ICU utilization is rising quickly, even if stays are shorter and there are less deaths (though will hopefully peak soon, if wastewater data is a reliable indicator). Still even with less deaths, in some places elective cases are being cancelled and wait times for beds are very long, like during earlier surges.

I do think and have posted here before that Omicron will be the transition point to endemicity, but we're not quite there yet.