Quote Originally Posted by Yppej View Post

So when we all have it I wonder how people will do things like buy food. I don't know anyone who is self-sufficient when it comes to food. Will everyone sit in quarantine and no one work?
Or operate a school. It's not just the kids who will be out, but also teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, etc.

Read this article today about hospitalizations in my county. We're the highest vaxxed county in California with 90% of every single person vaxxed and many boosted and the 'hospitalization' rates for covid are now showing a doubling of covid hospitalizations in just one day. But when the health director for the county dug into it he found that almost all of the increase was from asymptomatic people who were at the hospital for non-covid reasons but were tested because everyone is tested. So yeah, being vaxxed and boosted is key to avoiding serious illness from omicron.

https://www.sfgate.com/coronavirus/a...n-16748226.php

Anecdotally a friend of my sister's that works HR back office for a large hospital system in San Diego says that about 25% of staff are currently out because they have tested positive despite being asymptomatic. All are vaccinated because it's a work requirement. If that can be extrapolated to the community at large then this will indeed pass through rather quickly. And relatively painlessly for highly vaxxed communities.