Reading the "fine print" it looks like Omicron is needed/designed to get the children vaccinated:

NOTE: This article below is corporate media (Bloomberg) republished by ZH.

Ferguson: Omicron Sounds The Death Knell For Globalization 2.0

Yet these are not the data that worried me the most last week. Those had to do with children. Between Nov. 14 and 28, 455 people were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 in Tshwane metro area, one of the largest hospital systems in Gauteng. Seventy (15%) of those hospitalized were under the age of five; 117 (25%) were under 20. And this is not just a story of precautionary hospitalizations. Twenty of the 70 hospitalized toddlers progressed to “severe” Covid. Up until Oct. 23, before experts estimate omicron began circulating, under-fives represented only 1.8% of cumulative Covid hospital admissions in South Africa. As of Nov. 29, 10% of those now hospitalized in Tshwane were under the age of two.

[link to www.zerohedge.com (secure)]

So it quite conveniently leaves vaxxed adults mildly affected but children vulnerable.

I have to say the timing is impeccable, just when Fauci needs it. (sigh)