We have. It’s not just about Omnicron. There’s no way out but through now. It will be years of variants before it becomes endemic. Years of waves choking hospitals. Years of cloistering yourself and your family so you don’t die, become disabled, or go bankrupt because of it. Years of hoping all the variants become less infectious, that one doesn’t beat the math and become the next “smallpox" after further mutating in a reservoir species.

No way out but through now.