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My PCP is of the fact-based opinion this is the herd immunity strain. Almost everyone is going to have it at some point until it burns itself out. As others have posted, this seems to be pretty minor if one is vaccinated.
My PCP is of the fact-based opinion this is the herd immunity strain. Almost everyone is going to have it at some point until it burns itself out. As others have posted, this seems to be pretty minor if one is vaccinated.
I have not heart that specific take but I've heard this is gonna be the strain that burns out. I know sooooo many people who have it or think they do but can't get a test.
My PCP is of the fact-based opinion this is the herd immunity strain. Almost everyone is going to have it at some point until it burns itself out. As others have posted, this seems to be pretty minor if one is vaccinated.
I have not heart that specific take but I've heard this is gonna be the strain that burns out. I know sooooo many people who have it or think they do but can't get a test.
Represent - never got our results from Mako and they so far have been unreachable. It's been a week. Will not go to anything that uses Mako/Lumina.
Maybe when sick people stay home and stop spreading this thing. And if you are sick and have to go out ....wear a darn mask!
We saw so many people out yesterday clearly sick coughing away with no mask. If we come down with it in the next few days we know where we got it from. And I know what you will reply with...."but shouldn't your mask protect you???". It can help but it is not 100% effective. I had a guy in the aisle with me that came to where I was and coughed and sneezed right next to me. There are just way too many people that still don't give a darn about others and quite frankly it almost feels like they are purposely trying to be jerks about this virus.
I'm sick for the first time since the pandemic. Treating it just like any other virus, rest, fluids and staying at home.
Almost everyone I know has gotten sick in the last month or two. Vaccination status hasn't appeared to have any effect on that. It was always a fool's errand to assume that we could vaccinate or test our way out.
Maybe when sick people stay home and stop spreading this thing. And if you are sick and have to go out ....wear a darn mask!
We saw so many people out yesterday clearly sick coughing away with no mask. If we come down with it in the next few days we know where we got it from. And I know what you will reply with...."but shouldn't your mask protect you???". It can help but it is not 100% effective. I had a guy in the aisle with me that came to where I was and coughed and sneezed right next to me. There are just way too many people that still don't give a darn about others and quite frankly it almost feels like they are purposely trying to be jerks about this virus.
I'm sorry but you need to stop with this thinking - it's not healthy. I know it's hard after almost two years, but we have to do away with the paranoia that any cough, sneeze, or sniffle you hear means someone has covid and they're definitely infecting you. Humans cough and sneeze when they aren't sick. It happens. For some it happens a lot. I choose to trust these people - the vast majority of people are good about not going out or wearing a mask when sick. Yes as with anything you'll get bad apples, but I can assure you they aren't driving the spread of Covid. As I'm sure you know by now, Covid doesn't only spread via the symptomatic. With Omicron it may actually be the exact opposite, but who knows for sure.
And no, I won't reply with "but shouldn't your mask protect you???" because nobody has ever said that a mask gives the wearer much protection. The obsession over masks is getting old. We now know what many have assumed all along, that cloth masks offer zero outgoing protection with Omicron (and possibly past variants). Yet 90% of the people in public are still wearing cloth masks versus surgical or N95/KN95. Why? Because it makes them look like they're "doing the right thing" even though they know themselves that it's not doing diddly. Even the people I see wearing N95's, the fit is so terrible that again, it's doing absolutely nothing. If most of the people I see wearing N95's coughed or sneezed next to you, it would literally be no different than if they were unmasked. Those aerosols will just billow out of all those gaps and holes.
We've become a crazy, obsessed society over what now is a very minor illness for the vast vast vast majority of people. It's really no way to live.
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