Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #6072 –
A question or two for those who have studied this a bit.
Once a new variant becomes dominant does that eventually mean that the previous strain dies out.
How many folks still get the Alpha strain these days.
Will the Omicron mean the demise of Delta?
@Lods
It's not that the other strains disappear, it's just that the newer faster spreading strains are more dominant, and as the first in can lead to some immunity/resistance against the other strains. They basically compete to occupy the same space.
So far Omicrons concern isn't that it's more deadly, the main issue is that previous Sars-CoV-2 infections offer zero immunity to it.
Vaccine efficacy against Omicron is not yet known because the areas most affected by Omicron have very low vaccine uptake due to short supplies. Something the WHO warned the world about when Western Governments started booster vaccines rather than sharing the resource. We aren't safe until we are all safe, a fact vaccine deniers ignore!
Omicron is shown to mutate very aggressively / quickly, as such it's a potential source of new strains.
While that might not be an issue for people who are mildly affected, people with vulnerabilities and long COVID symptoms could be in severe strife! It's a chook raffle, there are those who think it's OK to spin the big wheel, I suppose they also think The Hunger Games or Soylent Green might be our real future!