Lab rats of America

"Christmas is in less than a week. How is it going to be this year? Last year was very abnormal and strange. Will this year be any different? Will the churches be open? Can families gather together without masks and hand sanitizer?" 

Here we go again, and again, and again. What do we know about our future with this new strain of Covid - 19, called Omicron? Not much, really. We still don't know all the much about the Delta strain. We may put forward some good guesses, but at the end of the day, we are all learning about this mutations of Covid - together. In other words, we are basically lab rats.

What do we think we know about this Omicron version of Covid? For starters, it is suppose to be 70 times more transmissible than Delta. And Delta was suppose to be more transmissible than the original strain of Covid - 19. Thus, it is spreading around the world like wildfire right now. What else do we think we know? This is where it gets interesting.

Some have nicknamed Omicron the "Omi-cold". Why? Many think it is a watered down version of the Delta variant. In fact, it is thought that 40% of all who become infected with Omicron become asymptomatic. And if there are systems, some say it is like having a common cold. But that is only for those who were vaxxed or have strong anti-bodies from having Covid earlier. For those without immunities from being vaxxed or natural immunities, catching Omicron can be serious. Even though not as bad as Delta (supposedly), Omicron can still be lethal. 

Tomorrow night, Slo Joe will be addressing the nation. Subject? Omicron, and what we are going to do about it. With the infection rates headed off the charts, it is thought by some this speech might be "back to the future". In other words, instead of heading into 2022, we might be reliving 2020 all over again. Lock downs, distance learning, social distancing, mandatory mask and testing, the whole ball of wax.

There is some irony in this past year. The vaccines, which were developed under Donald Trump's "Operation Warp Speed", were castigated in 2020 by then candidates Biden and Harris. Neither wanted anything to do with a vaccine that were developed under Donald Trump's watch. HOWEVER - flash forward to today. Both Bident and Harris are the biggest cheerleaders in the country for vaccines. Why? It is the same stuff that was around under Trump. I guess this is what is meant by "following the science"...

Christmas is in less than a week. How is it going to be this year? Last year was very abnormal and strange. Will this year be any different? Will the churches be open? Can families gather together without masks and hand sanitizer? Or as Yogi would say, will this be deja' vu all over again. I guess all of us lab rats will find out this week.