Unless I misunderstand, the “Omicron is less severe” thing that people keep fucking saying isn’t even really true. It’s literally just that more people are vaccinated or already fucking got covid , along with bad math not accounting for the delay for hospitalizations and deaths.

Whoever first put that in a headline needs to be insert actionable threat for the fucking destruction they caused, because after they said it people just kept fucking repeating it. By the way The Guardian, the New York Times is not an acceptable source to cite when talking about a scientific finding. Cite a peer reviewed study or shut the fuck up Jesus fucking Christ.

Edit: I followed the trail, NYT cites an actual study. The study is in preprint, meaning it hasn’t been peer reviewed yet. It also has a fuck ton of conflicts of interest. And most notably, the sample sizes are fucking tiny. The largest group I saw was a sample size of 6, most parameters only got 3 or 4.

In short, they’re basing this off of the fact that when they gave 3 hamsters normal Covid and gave 3 omicron, all of the normal Covid ones died and only one of the omicron ones died. This study is a joke.