There’s suddenly a strange inevitability to the whole thing
The new variant is making its presence felt in New York City and elsewhere. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Omicron is here in full force, and it sure doesn’t seem to care much whether you’ve been following best pandemic practices. COVID cases are spiking among the presumably vaccinated at colleges, in sports leagues — and, anecdotally at least, among the general New York population:
Suddenly this exceedingly transmissible variant has arrived at our door with a pistol in its hand to inform us that the jig is finally up. And right now, the only reasonable response seems to be a sheepish, “What took you so long?” . But almost two years after the pandemic began sweeping through America, we live in a vaccine and booster-saturated world. So now, that inevitability is mingling with an aw-shucks fatalism — or maybe it’s just realism. If you’ve been a quarantining, mask-wearing, vaccine-and-booster-getting member of society and have avoided COVID, you’ve really done about the best that can be expected of you throughout these long 19 months.
It goes without saying that millions upon millions of cases could be very bad news, particularly for the unvaccinated and older people who have not received a booster shot. Hospitals already at a breaking point are likely to be pushed even further. Children 5 and under still aren’t eligible for vaccinations at all, and there’s always the threat of long COVID.
But so far, the vaccine-plus-booster regime appears effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths. And early reports indicating that Omicron is causing less severe disease than Delta may well say as much about the immunity that vaccines have helped confer as about a diminished virulence of the strain. All along, we’ve been told that the virus would probably become endemic and that we’d better get used to living with it permanently.
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