Omicron shares many key mutations of Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta and others
I wanted to watch the movie Songbird in December 2020 because I occasionally like the dystopian quasi-apocalyptic movie. It was panned for being insensitive to make a movie about COVID during the pandemic. Like making WWII movies or Vietnam War movies during those wars was OK. Funny thing is a some of the criticisms were about it being unrealistic and fear mongering because it takes place during COVID-23, has lock downs in a global police state, and people are selling false immunity IDs. Granted the movie is not at all that good by standard film critic metrics, but it is very amusing that the narrative is not too far from reality. COVID-22 now, not yet COVID-23. Let&#x27;s see.<p>On another note, I am glad my family and I have innate immunity from previous COVID infection, so that we are not as prone to ADE (Antibody Dependent Enhancement) or to the variants that are arising as much as those who are dependent on the vaccine, since as far as I know, the vaccines are still based on the alpha variant (why haven&#x27;t they produced boosters for delta, gamma, etc...) I know seasonal flu shots are a concoction of previous flu types, but this is not your regular flu shot. Given you can carry a substantial if not equal viral load, or suffer a breakthrough infection, it seems these variants will still spread with or without the vaccine, although you are hopefully still protected from hospitalization or serious illness from these variants. Time will tell.