More simply, I don't think people tend to remain infected (and infectious) for a whole year (not saying they can't just that this seems a farcical assumption)
Yeah I agree with the going undetected too unless they're potentially asymptomatic (in which case why should we ever expect to find/treat them).
All leading to the same response of you can't control highly transmissible virus(vurii) once they have infected a large amount of the population. (aka a 0 covid strategy is self-defeating)
The mouse theory is interesting .... because omicron is more benign - one of the problems we have with covid is that because of all this modern medicine saving lots of lives (not enough though sadly) there's not a lot of evolutionary pressure to make things more benign.
But if omicron has been in a wild mammal population without vaccination or hospitals then there might be more evolutionary pressure to become more benign.
It's worth noting that some vaccines in the past have been 'live' vaccines - essentially viruses that get passed around with a sniffle or two but no more harm. This actually what we all hope omicron would be .... I can't see why we shouldn't give the virus a bit of a help along .... the right lab leak might be just what we all need
Yeah I agree with the going undetected too unless they're potentially asymptomatic (in which case why should we ever expect to find/treat them).
All leading to the same response of you can't control highly transmissible virus(vurii) once they have infected a large amount of the population. (aka a 0 covid strategy is self-defeating)