Omicron is brand new. We heard about it just a month ago, and we've been learning a great deal as it spread around the world. But that suggests, if we are indeed opening a new chapter here, that the way of dealing with things shod should change along with enemy. Iff we think about these non forma setcor measures such as lock downs and sing schools and and masks and so on, we're probably done away with them. Within a year or two, you may have some measures, but things like lock downs, i don't think we 're ever going to see thoes again whilst the omicron wave passes through.
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