So far Omicron is only causing muscle pains and tiredness for 2 days:
sputniknews.com/20211127/south-african-medical-association-says-omicron-variant-causes-mild-disease-1091062923.html
No loss of smell or taste. It's not uncommon for viruses to get less lethal as they become more infectious. It seems that happens here.
But the fear mongering is getting out of hand in some places.
"Corona variant omicron: the horror becomes reality - new variant - the deadly corona scenario""Omicron variant: first corona case of the dangerous super-mutant in bavaria"t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/id_91217634/corona-variante-omikron-der-horror-wird-realitaet.html
infranken.de/ratgeber/gesundheit/coronavirus/corona-variante-b11529-omikron-variante-super-mutante-erster-fall-deutschland-art-5342802
If you read their ****** texts, there's _zero_ actual information about how dangerous / deadly the variant is. But hey, who gives a fu*ck.
Not every outlet writes shi*tty headlines like that, but even the mild ones contribute to absolutely unnecessary panic.