The Omicron variant

The naivety of governments thinking they can keep it out is staggering. Have they learned nothing?

Please read this before having a banger.

The Nu variant is another throw of the dice, if it turns out to be a mild form of Covid it could be a blessing in disguise.

It could, but then again, if it's spreading to everyone in the world and out competing all other variants, it has billions of hosts to incubate it billions of times each, and spawn many new variants of it's own

Theres no point in closing borders, restricting flights unless we go China style and lock up cities and test every man women and child over a weekend, not happening.

Lets hope that if it is more transmisable, that its less effective at making people sick, could be a blessing in disguise if so.

I read before that viruses generally, eventually, mutate into less lethal versions of themselves. This is because the primary goal of the virus is actually to survive, not to hurt us. The less lethal they are, the more hosts they will have, thus helping their survival. Similar to any form of evolution, living things adapt to survive. The fact that they are less lethal also makes them the dominant strain, because the more lethal strains hospitalize or kill off their hosts, while the less lethal strain survives and can keep spreading.

Not saying this is what's happening with Nu, but it can and probably will happen at some stage if past pandemics are anything to go by.

Tell me this. If the Nu variant is less deadly and more transmissible, that's a good thing right? If Nu continued to circulate, and immunity from having Nu meant that you couldn't catch the Alpha, Kent or Delta variants, then that is positively a good thing

Why aren't governments working on producing a mutated virus that does exactly that? Do we not know what makes one covid variant more deadly, or more transmissible than another?

And yes, I realise there are ethical questions, strong ones, about releasing a man-made virus into the community, even if their intentions are to end the pandemic. But I wonder, would less ethical governments just do it, and not tell us? Would they not do it because they are just not sure what this less deadly variant might do in the wild?

I am not for a moment suggesting that that is what is happening here - after all we know nothing really about Nu yet, but I could actually see this scenario happening if we are still in this position in two or three years.

I was never a conspiracy theorist before this bleedin' pandemic. Sigh.

It has now been officialy named by the WHO. It's not Nu. It's Omicron:

Will it simply eat the other variants?