These kinds of comments baffle me. It's almost as if people can't imagine that other people might have very different experiences, and that those experiences are equally valid.

Pandemics are statistical events. Individual stories are irrelevant because the true picture is always a collective summary of cause and effect.

No one can generalise from personal experience - except possibly those working on the front lines, who have to deal personally with the consequences of poor decisions.

The reality is that when you have a rapidly mutating pathogen, the pandemic is done when it stops mutating and becomes mild enough for health services to return to something resembling normality.

This may or may not happen after Omicron. It might, but it just as easily might not.

Personal opinion is absolutely not a factor in this.