It's possible at some point that the U.S. economy (on a city by city basis) might need to shut down to get to the other side of Omicron

 This also might be true of China as well and other countries. We are in unknown territory right now.

If you look at Los Angeles for example if you look at January 3rd there were about 15,000 to 17,000 new cases a day. However, by the 15th it went to a 41,000 plus per day average. If it were 45,000 this is a 300% increase within less than 2 weeks. If this continues this is not a good thing for California. What if it is 140,000 a day within less than the next two weeks for Los Angeles?

30 days of 140,000 a day would be 4,200,000 people in the Los Angeles Area!

Here is where I got this information from graphs regarding omicron increases in Los Angeles.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+coronavirus+cases+in+los+angeles+today&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS750US750&oq=how+many+cases+in+los+angeles+today&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i22i30l8j0i10i22i30.8542j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8