Omicron.
It sounds like the name of a space ship in a futuristic sci-fi movie, like Star Trek.
It almost can be mistook for Omnicron.
Remember the Dodge Omni?, not to condescend but sports and luxury car fanatics were not up in arms about the Omni when it came out.
When you run Omicron and Omnicron together, it almost tells the story of this supposed COVID/coronavirus variant.

Just like a futuristic spaceship that still is not here yet, with thousands of people walking around on it, eating, drinking, and partying, Omicron is sort of a bell that tolls that we are reaching into further depths of time. 
For many places in the world fortunate enough to have medicine and hospitals at a certain level, diseases like smallpox for the most part are concerns of eras past.
So in order to test us sort to speak, along comes this thing called Omicron. Omicron as we speak today, December 18, 2021, has now made headlines all over the world as a huge threat.
Now remember, this thing, Omicron or a virus under a microscope, does not act alone; it acts in the ecosystem, the environment, interacting and interfacing with other factors that could cause people to get sick, such as air pollution, attitudes that people have about cleanliness, what the majority of the population know about how to defend themselves against diseases, and of course levels of self-care. 

An aspect of the mistakes made in preparation, or lack of preparation to fend off COVID-19 when it started to emerge a couple of years ago, on a world level, was it (COVID-19) started off seemingly benign, or nearly harmless, and eventually made its way further and further up the danger ladder. Eventually it started claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, even in some of the most advanced countries of the world.
Again, what happened?
What happened was, the principal of how the great divider works, and how his foot soldiers work, are involved.
The foot soldiers of the great divider are many times not like us, human beings or people, but rather teeny tiny microscopic sized creatures, hardly and rarely visible, which as evident now, could show in the form of a virus, coronavirus.
Evil today, and the dangers to society and a healthy well-being of large populations, comes in the forms of the little things, not the great big obvious things.
When signs of danger start to emerge, and they seem small, those are what could turn out later to really hurt society.
That is what COVID-19 did back when it came out big in late 2019, and that is what Omicron is doing.

And Omicron in terms of how it is a variant from that COVID-19 virus of 2 years ago, is that it basically has built in it, ways it is immune from the expected methods to crush it.
An analogy is immune abilities of rats. If you keep spraying the same rat poison all over town, as New York City for example went through a few decades back, eventually, the poisons don't work on the rats anymore because the new wave of rats have adapted and become tougher, immune from the poison, so now you need a stronger poison or some other methodology to get rid of the rats.
Omicron same thing; we need some new techniques to get rid of the problem; and while at it, clean other aspects of the world we live in up, such as the air and drinking water in general.