People do get sick, people do die, and Omicron is so contagious that it's spreading very much like that movie with Dustin Hoffman. But it's not killing anywhere near the same rate. So hopefully it'll run through the population very quickly, cases will drop way down, and things will get back to normal. That's what happened in South Africa. Whether you believe there's a legitimate virus out there or not, the powers that be are pushing it. If cases drop to almost nothing there's no longer a weaponized pandemic to scare everyone with. At some point given the above scenario things will have to reopen. Milk it all they want but I doubt they can stretch lock downs until the election with hospitals empty. Not saying this is exactly what will happen, just hoping it plays out this way.