OPINION
“Why not just catch Omicron and get it over with? It’s a mild cold and will boost immunity, right?”
Not a day goes past when the opinion is expressed widely, and often, on various social media around the world, where they mix their school biology classes with various theories on the internet and come up with a “cunning idea”.
Go out and catch Covid.
“If you’re full vaccinated, and even better, boosted, you’ve got nothing to worry about, right? Time to move on and live with this virus.”
Now, the idea of intentionally catching Covid has become a ‘thing’. Including from some of the anti-vaxxer crowd who remain both the most “at risk” and the most likely to drag out this pandemic.
Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director of the Havey Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, says the idea “has caught…
