Well said. My guess is that Omicron, similar to Delta, will be more contageous, but less deadly. So there will be high infection numbers, but people (especially those with vaccines) will not see too severe symptoms. In that case, I still expect a lot of hysteri about high infection numbers (even if that doesn't necessarily matter much).
But let's see, and show precaution until we know more.
I agree. The infections numbers could be high, but hopefully without so many deaths. If we cannot vaccinate the entire world, new variants will keep evolving, Covid will be endemic and we will have to use different vaccines each year, like with the flu.
But after yesterday's words by Powell, it seems they are really starting to worry more about inflation... And they want to talk about accelerating the tapering. It is going to be two interesting weeks now. To wait for the tapering decision and to wait for more Omicron data. We'll see. They don't seem too worried about the Omicron variant and they focused on the inflation. Inflation is getting scary... Not as transitory as they said months ago... We all knew that...