The COVID-19 pandemic

[Bjays93]

While it seems like most people in the West appear to have this belief that South Africans don't know what they're talking about and we should not listen to them, they are once again stating that they are optimistic regarding omicron as cases are beginning to already peak.

South Africa optimistic as Omicron case numbers pass peak: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3db59...134275da60

I dont think its this as much as south africa is in a completely different place and situation than us over here. Low vaccination rates and most people have likely already caught covid once, that's a completely different type of immunity against covid than what we have over here with mostly vaccinated and very few who've been sick. 

How the virus affects these different settings is what remains unknown at this point. I don't doubt that it is in fact more mild in south Africa however.