Who's afraid of the [S]Xi[/S] [S]Nu[/S] Omicron variant?

[NotAllThere]

THE SKY IS FALLING!
THE SKY IS FALLING!

what a bunch of frightened sheep, FFS!!

Just thought it'd be interesting to see how many frightened sheep are here.

[ladymuck]

Bring it on!!

They'd better not cancel my trip to Malta in January.

[BR14]

Just thought it'd be interesting to see how many frightened sheep are here.

HA! like they'd admit it.

[Paddy]

Bring it on!!

They'd better not cancel my trip to Malta in January.

You will make the Maltese Cross

[OwlHoot]

If it's as mild as they say, it might actually be better to catch it, to give more immunity to more severe mutants floating around!

[BR14]

[OwlHoot]

Before we get too complacent though, it's worth pointing out that if this is a major mutation then although it might be fairly innocuous in itself, it could be the first generation of a new "path" of further mutants some of which might be far worse!

[BR14]

Before we get too complacent though, it's worth pointing out that if this is a major mutation then although it might be fairly innocuous in itself, it could be the first generation of a new "path" of further mutants some of which might be far worse!

heres baaaarbra now

[TwoWolves]

All pandemics mutate into less dangerous variants because it's not advantageous to kill your host. Our problem is the state, which is reluctant to give up its emergency powers.

[eek]

All pandemics mutate into less dangerous variants because it's not advantageous to kill your host. Our problem is the state, which is reluctant to give up its emergency powers.

Nope, all viruses mutate

until now it has always been the case that the more virulent variants are less dangerous but that’s not necessarily the case (it wasn’t with Ebola). And with Omicron we just don’t know enough yet.