1) Whether the variant is more transmissible than the current, prevalent Delta strain?
2) Does it cause more severe disease?
3) Will it render our immune defenses — from vaccines and prior infections — less effective (a phenomenon known as immune escape)?
[The above from today's NY Times]
I predict the answer to all three questions will be "yes."
Will we shut down? No. We will continue to march forward, navigating the minefield on advice of our public health experts.
The answers to three questions will tell us:
Replies to: "The answers to three questions will tell us:"
- Over/under that Omicron is no big deal? - Curly1918 - 6:43pm 11/27/21
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- We may run out of Greek letters for variants soon. That's a big deal. [NT] - Eli - 11:19am 11/28/21
- Not how over/unders work [NT]
- Chris94 - 10:06pm 11/27/21
- Try to think creatively… would you take the under or over that it’s no big deal. [NT]
- Curly1918 - 9:18am 11/28/21
- The answers to three questions will tell us: - conorlarkin - 9:29am 11/28/21
- No reason for pessimism. And so far it is spreading more among the unvaccinated. - Chris94 - 4:03pm 11/28/21
- If it only punishes the unvaccinated, then "Oh My, Cry On" for thee and thee. Meanwhile .... - conorlarkin - 5:21pm 11/28/21
- Yeah, but what the unvaxxed plague rats are doing to our health system is criminal. [NT] - Frank L - 4:17pm 11/28/21
- Why do you predict that it will be more severe? I have to say, it seems like you want that. - NedoftheHill - 11:54am 11/28/21
- No reason for pessimism. And so far it is spreading more among the unvaccinated. - Chris94 - 4:03pm 11/28/21
- For a supposed educated person, he comes across as a pretty dim bulb [NT] - ColeyO - 9:29am 11/28/21
- The answers to three questions will tell us: - conorlarkin - 9:29am 11/28/21
- Jesus you're wound tight. Lighten up, Francis. [NT]
- Nigel Tufnel - 10:08pm 11/27/21
- Over/under that Nigel is kind of a tool? [NT] - Chris94 - 8:18am 11/28/21
- Try to think creatively… would you take the under or over that it’s no big deal. [NT]
- Curly1918 - 9:18am 11/28/21
- Omicron is an anagram for moronic - Nigel Tufnel - 9:55pm 11/27/21
- They had to skip Xi in the Greek alphabet...probably because the first variant was the Xi virus. - NedoftheHill - 10:03pm 11/27/21
- Isn’t that supremely ironic?! [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 12:27am 11/28/21
- They had to skip Xi in the Greek alphabet...probably because the first variant was the Xi virus. - NedoftheHill - 10:03pm 11/27/21
- Let us defer to Dr. Fauci, CDC, and our nation’s other best and brightest experts. - conorlarkin - 8:45pm 11/27/21
- I'll toast to the best & brightest, but Fauci & CDC ain't among them [NT] - MarkHarman - 11:35pm 11/27/21
- Your tyrone side is showing [NT] - ColeyO - 11:09pm 11/27/21
- Hahahaha! Hahaha ah heh ah heh. Oh man! Good one. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 9:47pm 11/27/21
- Heh. Funny. I assume you are joking. If not, I feel sorry for you. [NT]
- NedoftheHill - 8:50pm 11/27/21
- Ned he is a Hillary Biden deadender who is hopeless [NT]
- eftg1 - 9:03pm 11/27/21
- Even so, I have to assume he was joking. If not, his life is very very sad. [NT]
- NedoftheHill - 9:19pm 11/27/21
- I don’t think he is joking. I think there a few on here who raised a glass to Fauci - TampaIrish - 9:22pm 11/27/21
- What a petty silly thing to toast to on Thanksgiving Day, though. I think he's just trolling. - NedoftheHill - 9:27pm 11/27/21
- Chinese lanterns were released after dark. - iairishcheeks - 3:15pm 11/28/21
- What a petty silly thing to toast to on Thanksgiving Day, though. I think he's just trolling. - NedoftheHill - 9:27pm 11/27/21
- I don’t think he is joking. I think there a few on here who raised a glass to Fauci - TampaIrish - 9:22pm 11/27/21
- Even so, I have to assume he was joking. If not, his life is very very sad. [NT]
- NedoftheHill - 9:19pm 11/27/21
- Ned he is a Hillary Biden deadender who is hopeless [NT]
- eftg1 - 9:03pm 11/27/21
- Your jab’s spike protein has entered the nucleus of your cells and split your 🧬 DNA [NT] - eftg1 - 8:49pm 11/27/21
- Time to move on. Novel idea: Just treat the sick. [NT] - NedoftheHill - 7:43pm 11/27/21
- The big deal is the damage the spike protein is doing to your DNA after it enters the Nucleus [NT] - eftg1 - 7:16pm 11/27/21
- Keep your fingers crossed, but in the meantime, it would be good to reflect on the lessons learned [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 7:07pm 11/27/21
- Wrong. This will cause a nationwide regulatory panic. More regs. More stimulus. - Cole - 6:44pm 11/27/21