Booster shot done!
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I hope theyâre right, too, but so far Iâm seeing it reported in the US only by right-wing and conspiracy sites, which makes me worry itâs just another âitâs just the fluâ argument building.
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True, hopefully it is less severe. Time will tell
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I sure hope so. When I heard âitâs a lot more contagious than Deltaâ I was like isnât Delta super contagious already? Is Omicron like someone breathes near you and you get it? Thatâs terrifying.
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Thereâs a superstition that if you ear itches it means someone is thinking about you, how many variants do you think itâll take to get to that level of contagiousness?
âHey friend, I was thinking about you the other day!â
âOh, so thatâs how I caught this.â
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Sometimes things which are more contagious are less deadly. It is maladaptive to kill your host.
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Thatâs what I was thinking. And I think that is a possible covid goal. Like we get it down to a normal cold minor flu and just live with it. Since weâre obviously living with it either way
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But too deadly for viral success is a lot different than just âmore deadly than Delta.â
If it was fatal in 2% of cases instead of 1%, thatâs a lot worse but probably not enough to put much selective pressure on it ;especially if itâs more contagious.)
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Iâm seeing it a lot more places now - hoping this means that at least she (the doc from South Africa) believes it.
Weâll know more fast. Itâs just that âfastâ on a scientific scale is a different order of magnitude than âfastâ on a news cycle scale. Iâm going to try to just not dwell on it for a few days or a week and then weâll have much better info.
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+1 to This times a thousand.
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I was very happy that Denver and most of the surrounding counties put in place a mask mandate last week. It says that all businesses must enforce masks unless they are a âvaccinated facilityâ which they define as requiring proof of vaccination and having above a certain threshold of people vaccinated. I canât remember the % but it was in the 90s. Theoretically, this means a private business could go mask free but a store canât because you would have to have someone at the door checking vaccine cards and constantly updating the % of vaccinated people in the store.
I was very disappointed this weekend when I went to Ace and Target and neither store was enforcing masks. Ace didnât even have any signage up anywhere mentioning masks, and Target just had the old signs that said if you arenât vaccinated they request you wear a mask. At Ace the employees didnât even have on masks and most of them did at Target, but lots of people in the store didnât. Itâs like nothing changed and no mask mandate was put into effect.
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Yeah, I keep seeing articles in the newspaper about how Denver is a warning sign for us here in California and we should be worried because we have the same vax rate but cases are surging there. What they fail to mention is that all of the highest population counties (LA and Bay Area) have had stark mask mandates for months. It doesnât matter if youâre vaccinated or not, if youâre indoors then masks are required. I suppose the exception is eating in restaurants but many people are still dining outdoors which is possible thanks to the extra warm November (85 here today, ugh). At least in my part of LA county, Iâm surprised when I see at nose indoors, and many are still wearing masks outdoors at places like parks. I really think thatâs contributing to the different trajectory vs Denver.
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Wow. Living in oregon, I keep forgetting that other places donât have a mask mandate. Weâve had required masks inside and outside when social distancing not possible regardless of vaccine status, with no exceptions, since?? July or August? Anyway, mask compliance is decent but I do see a lot of noses peaking out if mostly accidental.
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Had a guy tell me the pandemic was over when I went into Target yesterday with a mask on. Maybe 20% of folks inside were masked.
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Very interested to see how this differs in Finland.
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Guess who lost her vax card (Iâve had the digital one, okay!) and now need to bike 24 miles round trip to pick up a replacement before she leaves on an international trip in 4 days?
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I keep mine with my passport. Maybe thatâs where yours is?
Oh trust me I looked. All the places have been looked in. I also appear to have lost my OTHER vaccine card that contains my yellow fever vaxâŚwhich I need before Feb. (remember when vax cards werenât just for covid?)
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Pandemic is absolutely over here. We were the only people in masks when we went to Walmart this weekend. Not even the staff wears them anymore.
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