Between @anon29537550’s notes above on Long COVID, the trickle of “COVID eats your brain” work, the “recovery ain’t actually recovered” research, I’m not keen on getting Omicron either. I’ll start believing the “milder outcomes” literature in 2-3 years.
In the TorStar today, Drs. Morris and Sander of the Ontario 
science table have kind of broken ranks and are firing off distress flares, saying a total shutdown is what’s needed. Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri just got COVID after double vax and a booster; bad for him but he’s a high profile case and people might just take notice. Sadly, it will probably take one of Premier Doug Ford’s close colleagues or family dropping dead before anything adequate gets done.
“We won’t even have the testing capacity,” says Dr. Andrew Morris, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Toronto, and a member of the science table. “And the public isn’t ready to shut things tomorrow. No matter what the right thing to do it, you can’t do that. But I’m pretty certain that everybody in the next six to 12 weeks will be infected with Omicron, unless they’re living the life of a hermit. That’s just the reality.”
I’m quite happy to live like a hermit for 6 to 12 weeks… 
