Experience suggests that we cannot rely on people taking the necessary steps - other than vaccination - not to be infected with omicron. There are just too many holes in the dike. Anything can happen, and a more virulent strain resistant to vaccines and omicron-recovery immunity could arise, but isn't the much more likely scenario that omicron gets us significantly closer to herd immunity, both by spreading and by prompting people to get vaccinated?

Meanwhile, the cost of ducking omicron, not in luxury dollars, but in livelihoods and public health (e.g., reduced exposure - and, eventually, increased susceptibility - to community-spread pathogens that we routinely encounter and are immune to), is significant. The behavioral changes necessary to prevent infection by omicron are, IMO, already too costly. So, yes, count me among those who say give me my shots and bring it on.