How this was not clear from the start is beyond me. However, however - Omicron SHOULD be a blessing, were our govts not trying to kill us.

In response to a rapidly spreading, almost-harmless virus, we should be dancing and rejoicing, opening borders to every foreign person so he can spread his viral load all over our societal faces.
As a result, we will all achieve herd immunity for a very low price (for what it's worth, there IS a price to "just letting it go rampant" - a few people still get really sick and/or die) and put covid behind us.

However, since we're ruled by either the biggest morons in history or the most Machiavellian minds of all time, we're going to be tortured for a bit longer, until whenever Covid outlives its usefulness.

Yay, 2022.