Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #6305 –
Good (and bad) news out of the UK: Omicron hospital risk is up to 70 per cent lower than Delta, UK says,, The Age.
The good news is that:
The bad news is that:
It'll take time to figure out whether Omicron ends up being better or worse for us than Delta. Which will have the upper hand: the increased transmissibility and vaccine evasiveness or the decreased virulence? Unfortunately, we'll have to wait until the picture becomes clearer. But for now we can still hope that Omicron will be more like the flu. Footy season 2022 might still see a return to normal.
A pipe dream.
We are going to have minimal lockdowns but maximum impact on playing lists.
The English premier league have already resxheduled 20 odd matches over the last few weeks with the latest casualty being Liverpool vs leeds tomorrow night.
Worth remembering these guys have deep squads, and heavy fixturing lists, but either way they still have trouble fielding teams with the ability to dip into their under 19 cohorts.
Liverpool played Tottenham with no less than 3 first choice players out because they returned a positive test on match day. From an already depleted midfield through injury and suspension they started an 18 year old I've never heard of before.
Unless we stop testing and revert to clinical presentations only, we are going to see bedlam next season as teams lose players to covid.