Tim Harford je, kot običajno, lucidno zajel poanto glede strahu pred možnostjo okužbe z omikronom:
Is this the point at which we should shrug our shoulders and give up? Omicron has prompted three kinds of reaction: optimism, pessimism and fatalism. The optimists argue that the variant is “nature’s vaccine”, a mild and transmissible virus that will quickly infect billions, triggering an immune response that will provide protection against deadlier variants such as Delta. The pandemic is over, and we won.
The pessimists believe that, while Omicron is probably less dangerous than Delta, attacking lung cells less aggressively, it may still be dangerous enough. It partially dodges vaccines, and many people have yet to have access to a vaccine anyway. If it does quickly infect billions, then hospitals across the world will be overwhelmed. The pandemic is over, and the virus won.
The fatalists argue that if everyone agrees that billions are about to be infected, then eat, drink and be merry. If it didn’t get you at Christmas, it will surely get you by Easter.
Ne vem še, ali sem pri omikronu bolj optimist ali fatalist. Oba z ženo sva trikrat cepljena, delava od doma, toda enkrat bo eden izmed otrok iz šole/vrtca prinesel virus. Naredila sva vse, da zmanjšava možnosti za okužbo in možnosti težjega poteka. Vse ostalo je izven najinega dometa. Na koncu se bomo tako ali drugače vsi okužili in prekužili. Vprašanje je le ali januarja ali februarja. Iz vidika zdravstvenega sistema, je boljše, da je to februarja. Relaksirano srkava kozarček vina, gledava “Morilce mojega očeta” in planirava, kam bomo šli na sonce, ko bo čez teden dni krivulja okužb strmoglavila navzdol.
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