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    Omicron? Many Americans give it a shrug

    Donna Smith was vaccinated, booster shot and all, and ready to travel. Then came reports a new fast-spreading COVID-19 variant, Omicron, raising the specter of a new wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. There was a time when such news might have alarmed her. But not now. She has no intention of changing her plans to spend Christmas with her kids in the Appalachian Mountains of ...
    by Jaweed Kaleem, Kurtis Lee and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Dec 01, 2021 4 minutes

    Donna Smith was vaccinated, booster shot and all, and ready to travel.

    Then came reports a new fast-spreading COVID-19 variant, Omicron, raising the specter of a new wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths.

    There was a time when such news might have alarmed her. But not now.

    She has no intention of changing her plans to spend Christmas with her kids in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and then taking off in her motorhome on a tour of the Southwest.

    “You have to live life,” said Smith, 53. “The virus is with us forever; we have to adjust.”

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