Yawn 
you are still not adding to the debate, you are just being pointless.
you are entitled to it however you are not putting up any information or opinion so you are just another noise.
Bring something, even humour to to topic.
On your last point, humour has no place in this topic.
As for referring to me as pointless and just another noise perhaps you should choose your words more carefully in future posts.
Still looking like it could be good news, to balance out the bad news circulating in UK media from our senior people from the centre for tropical disease who modelled the headlines from using delta disease symptoms but using the omicron transmission rates.
The worst of all worlds whereas SA still reporting mild symptoms.
My biggest concern with trying to use Omicron in the same way as the original vaccine (assuming people know about cow pox/small pox) is that it will likely give rise to more harmful variants. No-one should be allowing themselves to become infected willingly.
Early, largely anecdotal, evidence from South Africa suggested Omicron might be milder. Such data has to be interpreted carefully as essentially all infections start with mild symptoms and there is a time lag before severe disease develops. As additional data has landed in the past two weeks, the hypothesis of the Omicron wave being significantly milder becomes increasingly plausible. Reported deaths and hospitalisations in South Africa, in particular those requiring intensive care or ventilation, have remained far below numbers recorded during previous waves.
Francois Balloux, chair in computational biology systems at University College London Genetics Institute, writing in The Observer today.
Still not convinced enough data ….who is catching it in SA, do they have comorbidities etc etc, what is age profile…
How much HIV is clouding the issue in SA.
The UK has its first hospitalisations of those infected with Omicron (BBC news) although it is not clear if they are there because of the virus or other causes. The delay between infection and hospitalisation appears to be around 2 weeks, which is roughly the typical delay for other variants. There is still insufficient data to be clear whether this variant produces milder symptoms than the others, despite SA experiences.
Whilst true so is the inverse, at the moment depends if you are a glass half empty of half full type of person.
Shouldn’t be long before the UK knows the answer but also the UK inhabitants may not be as healthy as SA ones.
To me, there is a clear positive risk from exposure to the virus unless demonstrated otherwise. I can’t make an informed decision on what I hope to be true, but I can follow the numbers. 
Its the risk of what? No current underlying health issues so getting a bit ill for a while isnt anything out of the ordinary. Those with underlying health issues a different matter of course. That was some countries approach from the start, protect the vulnerable.
Shouldn’t take long now to get some answers from UK
While it’s tempting to make a sarky answer, every form of this virus is ‘guilty until proven innocent’ with a chance you might develop long covid and discover other subtle damage later in life. And we know that there are variants arising all the time, so there is no reason to think that even if this form is less harmful it will remain that way.
Thats life’s roll of the dice, plenty of folk on long term meds suffer problems from long term meds, life is a gamble but hopefully we’ll get some news soon and not the Boris variety.
I see Johnson didn’t speak ‘live’ tonight which saved him having to answer awkward questions, the plan is to get all adults ‘third jabbed’ by the end of the year and hope that works.
Usually after a careful balancing up of risks and rewards, and making a conscious choice that is based on a lot of data. Better now, but 30 months ago we were really being asked to gamble…