Data from South Africa seem to indicate it is very contagious and nearly harmless. Yet world leaders and the media went into another round of elevated mass hysteria.

Anyone with a brain knows WuFlu is not going away, so since a strain or another will be circulating anyway, you'd want that strain to be Omicron : mild symptoms, few and shorter hospital stays, very few deaths.

All mesure of testing, vax mandates and quarantines pathetically failed at stopping whatever "variant du jour" from getting in a country. Yet there is a persistent narrative about preventing the spread of any new variant with the same mesures that failed 3 times already everywhere, as if it ever worked.