## Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID - The Atlantic ### Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID - The Atlantic  #### Metadata * Author: [[Sarah Zhang]] * Full Title: Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID - The Atlantic * Category: #articles * URL: <https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/omicron-mild-covid-pandemic-reset/621207/?cmdid=ZUFZD004GXCK2W> #### Highlights * With so many people getting COVID, our mindset toward the virus is changing. Breakthrough infections are the new normal. For a while, in certain highly vaccinated bubbles at least, people who got breakthrough infections racked their brains about what they did "wrong." But now—excuse the hyperbole—everyone has COVID. And if you don't, you probably know someone who does. Even the most careful people are getting sick. "I think the silver lining, to the extent there is any silver lining, is that the shame [of getting COVID] is quickly melting away. And thank goodness," Lindsey Leininger, a public-health-policy expert # Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID - The Atlantic  ## Metadata - Author: [[Sarah Zhang]] - Full Title: Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID - The Atlantic - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/omicron-mild-covid-pandemic-reset/621207/?cmdid=ZUFZD004GXCK2W ## Highlights - With so many people getting COVID, our mindset toward the virus is changing. Breakthrough infections are the new normal. For a while, in certain highly vaccinated bubbles at least, people who got breakthrough infections racked their brains about what they did “wrong.” But now—excuse the hyperbole—everyone has COVID. And if you don’t, you probably know someone who does. Even the most careful people are getting sick. “I think the silver lining, to the extent there is any silver lining, is that the shame [of getting COVID] is quickly melting away. And thank goodness,” Lindsey Leininger, a public-health-policy expert