people s minds, look, it s everywhere. inevitable, might as well try to get to it. that is very, very poor reasoning. you re putting yourself and others at risk. so sandy lamont, good friend and colleague here at cnn wrote a wonderful cnn.com piece about the five reasons you don t want to get covid. take a look. number one, it s not a bad cold. i know people keep saying that but i personally know people who have covid and are miserable, out for days and days and days. do anything to avoid it. don t try it. recently the omicron kind. remember long covid. we hope people who get omicron don t go on to get long covered id but we just don t know. eve an mild illness with omicron it s possible you will get long covid. the virus surprised us before. also, if you intentionally get omicron you might spread it to children who cannot be vaccinated, meaning little ones under age of 5. might also spread it to adults whose vaccines didn t work well.