COVID-19

[eddy]

These last two days have not been fun at all after thinking I was over it. Can't imagine how shitty I'd feel if I wasn't vaxxed.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

yeah but what's the point of the vaccine if you got it anyway??

checkmate atheists

[meow]

These last two days have not been fun at all after thinking I was over it. Can't imagine how shitty I'd feel if I wasn't vaxxed.

You don’t feel too shitty when you are dead

[AuthorTony]

Local yokels are using the news that the Omicron wave is peaking and things should be getting back to normal next month as PROOF that the whole thing is a conspiracy. Their reasoning? "They're able to predict what's going to happen because they're controlling it!"

I considered trying to explain that they're using modeling from other countries who have already gone through Omicron, then realized it's not worth the effort. Sigh.

[LITT]

let's give everyone ill-fitted n95s and make them feel good that they are protected

[tifosi77]

Hey here's a good news article:

Omicron Is in Retreat
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/brie ... =url-share

This combination [declining cases, lower risks, booster effectiveness] means that the U.S. may be only a few weeks away from the most encouraging Covid situation since early last summer, before the Delta variant emerged.
...
When should schools resume all activities? When should offices reopen? When should masks come off? When should asymptomatic people stop interrupting their lives because of a Covid exposure?

Who wants to tell him that school activities haven't been stopped, offices have already reopened, masks came off when the CDC said they should, and asymptomatic vaccinated people don't have to quarantine due to exposure? Other than that, it's an optimistic outlook on what's currently happening with Omicron.

I can't speak for what it's like in bumblef**k wherever-the-s**t you live, but in places with people things have very much been reigned in, offices are delaying in-person reopening, asymptomatic positive cases are isolating, and we are still masked up in public.

[LITT]

Hey here's a good news article:

Omicron Is in Retreat
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/brie ... =url-share

This combination [declining cases, lower risks, booster effectiveness] means that the U.S. may be only a few weeks away from the most encouraging Covid situation since early last summer, before the Delta variant emerged.
...
When should schools resume all activities? When should offices reopen? When should masks come off? When should asymptomatic people stop interrupting their lives because of a Covid exposure?

Who wants to tell him that school activities haven't been stopped, offices have already reopened, masks came off when the CDC said they should, and asymptomatic vaccinated people don't have to quarantine due to exposure? Other than that, it's an optimistic outlook on what's currently happening with Omicron.

I can't speak for what it's like in bumblef**k wherever-the-s**t you live, but in places with people things have very much been reigned in, offices are delaying in-person reopening, asymptomatic positive cases are isolating, and we are still masked up in public.

if the previous waves have taught is anything is that this is just delaying the inevitable wave. open up the gates and let everyone get omicron and let this be over with

[Gaucho]

nope

[skullman80]

This n95 stuff just seems like a bunch of "lets do something to do something" at this point. It's silly IMO.

[Gaucho]

nope

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

vanessa hudgens isn't the hottest woman on the planet

[Gaucho]

n... hm

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

[meow]

let's give everyone ill-fitted n95s and make them feel good that they are protected

Thanks Biden. And Trump.

[nocera]

I don't think we can say that anything happening in California is at all representative of the real US.

By the way, I live in the Paris of Appalachia. So how dare you, sir.

[faftorial]

Hey here's a good news article:

Omicron Is in Retreat
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/brie ... =url-share

This combination [declining cases, lower risks, booster effectiveness] means that the U.S. may be only a few weeks away from the most encouraging Covid situation since early last summer, before the Delta variant emerged.
...
When should schools resume all activities? When should offices reopen? When should masks come off? When should asymptomatic people stop interrupting their lives because of a Covid exposure?

Who wants to tell him that school activities haven't been stopped, offices have already reopened, masks came off when the CDC said they should, and asymptomatic vaccinated people don't have to quarantine due to exposure? Other than that, it's an optimistic outlook on what's currently happening with Omicron.

Everywhere I go I still see masks.

[nocera]

Source of the post Everywhere I go I still see masks.

Anecdotally, I'd say we're at about 50% masked in stores in the city. The local GE is higher than, say, Costco.

[count2infinity]

Local yokels are using the news that the Omicron wave is peaking and things should be getting back to normal next month as PROOF that the whole thing is a conspiracy. Their reasoning? "They're able to predict what's going to happen because they're controlling it!"

I considered trying to explain that they're using modeling from other countries who have already gone through Omicron, then realized it's not worth the effort. Sigh.

PLANdemic...

[meow]

That’s too many letters for Wordle…

[NTP66]

CUΝT

[Dickie Dunn]

I’m just gonna wear a mask forever.

[meow]

Good. No one wants to see your ugly mug anyway.

[Troy Loney]

Bad omen

[AuthorTony]

Bad omen

With Omicron I think we'll see this happening a lot more. People are thinking this is the end. I hope they're right.

[King Colby]

I can't speak for what it's like in bumblef**k wherever-the-s**t you live, but in places with people things have very much been reigned in, offices are delaying in-person reopening, asymptomatic positive cases are isolating, and we are still masked up in public.

if the previous waves have taught is anything is that this is just delaying the inevitable wave. open up the gates and let everyone get omicron and let this be over with

Boris Johnson agrees with this. All we heard was about the UK getting smoked but most of the anticipated NIH issues never came to fruition.