Quote Originally Posted by Squire Doodad View Post
I mean, the way that cases were climbing but deaths were lagging made it so a few people were contemplating the possibility that Omicron could spread so fast that it'd trap itself if people also got serious about masking and all that.
Unfortunately neither of those happened, so Omicron is here to stay for the time being.

I don't think anyone currently thinks that's still going to happen, but a few people got hopeful and theorized about it shortly after the Omicron wave started.
I don't know why anyone would have thought that in the first place. The entirety of some folks' beliefs in many areas make slowing the virus via masking impossible.