The meme “Omicron is milder than Delta” was rapidly spreading to the point of being regarded as a common-knowledge fact. Countering it with “there is not evidence that Omicron is milder than Delta” was (and still is) a valid refutation.
And not just in the technical/statistical sense, but also in a principled sense, meaning “this is nothing but a wild guess and wishful thinking, and there’s simply no reason to think that”.
This will change in the next 2 weeks (or sooner). But currently, the idea that it’s milder is just a baseless hypothesis, not an educated guess.
What is described here as “AR apps” are basically poor man’s Neural mods, as beautifully presetnted in some of Greg Egan’s works (e.g. Quarantine).