I know it is weekend and cases tend to be lower and are highest Tues/Wed/Thur/Fri so we should be cautious until the next few days progress but it is hard not to see a similar effect to what happened in South Africa.
Sudden dramatic short sharp rise and a equally sudden drop downward but a little less steep.
Things may change but the weekend numbers on apparently not lower testing numbers (according to the other thread here) are not (yet) leading to cases like any of the predictions about doubling every two or three days.
We did for a few days, flattened off and now seem to be going down.
The South African data on how remarkaby milder it is - almost an entirely different disease to Delta - is being backed up by people here who have had Delta and have now caught this. Many seem to be saying they hardly recognise it as the same thing. Hospitals are finding more people test positive this time than in past waves who came into hospital for other things and had no clue they also had Covid. This is reported now in South Africa and London where the most Omicron cases have appeared over the past two weeks.
Early days and things could yet change as you have to assume our scientists are not utterly wrong about all they have been saying up to now, but I am starting to think this might be a Christmas present not a disaster.
Though, of course, another variant might yet emerge. But hard to see what would be more infective than this one is which is presumably the first thing it has to do to conquer Omicron.
