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covid seems evitable
2022-02-03 11:55With the onset of the omicron strain, various people who are just done and eager to just trust their vaccines and who make fun of "zero covid" people, gleefully announced that getting covid was inevitable, that omicron was going make its way to everyone no matter what we did.
Well, out of all the people I'm in frequent contact with, I'd say the vast majority have not yet gotten covid. The first wave of omicron has peaked and declined while claiming only two households.
And it's not like we're all super hermits. One is a doctor who is face to face with covid patients every day, and has two kids in physical school. Another goes into a lab to work, and has a kid in school and dance classes (edit: and goes to a gym that requires masked workouts). Others have flown (in December) from Philadelphia to Honolulu and back, from San Francisco to DC and back (for an SF convention of 2300 people, that avoided being a superspreader event), from Toronto to Vancouver (me!), and other travels. Another teaches in schools -- she did get Original covid back in Jan 2021, thanks to her husband's workplace, but has so far avoided a rematch.
The one common element is a commitment to avoiding unmasked mingling. Somehow, the people I become friends or even online acquaintances with, agree that dining out and partying in a respiratory pandemic should be avoided.
As for community control, please compare Denmark with Shimane, Japan.
Well, out of all the people I'm in frequent contact with, I'd say the vast majority have not yet gotten covid. The first wave of omicron has peaked and declined while claiming only two households.
And it's not like we're all super hermits. One is a doctor who is face to face with covid patients every day, and has two kids in physical school. Another goes into a lab to work, and has a kid in school and dance classes (edit: and goes to a gym that requires masked workouts). Others have flown (in December) from Philadelphia to Honolulu and back, from San Francisco to DC and back (for an SF convention of 2300 people, that avoided being a superspreader event), from Toronto to Vancouver (me!), and other travels. Another teaches in schools -- she did get Original covid back in Jan 2021, thanks to her husband's workplace, but has so far avoided a rematch.
The one common element is a commitment to avoiding unmasked mingling. Somehow, the people I become friends or even online acquaintances with, agree that dining out and partying in a respiratory pandemic should be avoided.
As for community control, please compare Denmark with Shimane, Japan.