All indications are that omicron is turning COVID into a fifth common-cold-producing coronavirus (there were four, plus about 20 adenoviruses), and by all indications, I mean, the lack of any cases of serious disease, the symptoms observed in known omicron variant cases, and the biochemistry with a lot of the adaptive features distinguishing it from earlier identified variants being shared with common-cold-causing coronaviruses, but not earlier variants.