I'm not a doctor or epidemiologist or virologist or anything but have seen some coverage over the last day or two that does offer some cause for optimism re: the omicron variant.
Note from the above the head of South Africa's medical association saying their omicron patients have very very mild symptoms, are so mild most are just staying home to rest (not requiring hospital stays), her own particular jurisdiction hasn't seen any omicron patients admitted to hospital at all.
Of admissions at one particular hospital, it's certainly the case they're seeing a lot of younger patients being admitted. But, as was the case when Delta first popped up, they're not seeing vaccinated patients admitted; 65% of admissions were unvaccinated, nearly all the rest only partially vaccinated (1 of 2 doses):
There's no taking anything for granted and the situation can always change, but I suppose it could be a bit comforting to know this variant has been in circulation at least a couple of weeks already but they're not seeing hospitals being overrun or anything approaching overrun, and vaccines may be holding up. Only time will tell, but I figured a little bit of good news to offset the doom and gloom could be nice!
(the caveat being SA has a pretty low vaccination rate so there aren't as many vaccinated people to contribute to the sample size. Nonetheless, 30% or so vaccinated and 0% vaccinated being in hospital is somewhat reassuring).