My Covid Compliance Officer working my current shoot said this BA.5 omicron subvariant is no joke.
So I guess everybody is getting Covid
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It’s interesting that the news is acting like people who haven’t gotten it are a rare miracle, but it’s still the case that most people I know haven’t gotten it. Although I guess if we’ve all had “symptomless COVID”, then the point is moot.
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I'm going to Disneyworld in about a month with my cousin and uncle - 3 "kids", the youngest of which is 47.
I imagine between the cross country flights and the parks I'll be coming home with more than just good memories.
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Welp, my kid just tested positive. She sounded a little nasally on Friday, and told me there were kids at school coughing and sniffling and when she asked them to wear masks around her they told her that they didn’t need to because my daughter wears a mask.
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She’s had four shots, but not the bivalent yet - she is scheduled to get it in a couple of weeks, though now we’ll postpone.
Protocols now are pretty much “mask optional except in medical facilities.” She wears a mask at school but it is no longer required, and they don’t do testing at school anymore. The last I heard, they follow the “come back to school on day 5 after positive test or symptom onset if you have a negative test” scheme. I emailed the contacts at the school to ask them what we are supposed to do. Obviously she’ll miss at least a couple of days of school.
My wife’s out of town, so I’ll need to work from home tomorrow. Then I’ll return to work and keep my mask on unless I test positive.
The only setting that people are required to wear masks here anymore is medical facilities (even dentist offices don't require them anymore). I do still see a few people wearing them in grocery stores, but they're only about 5%?
More variants that escape any protection that people have spawning every day:
I really don't understand why they're not forcing people to wear masks on planes and trains anymore. We should have kept all of our protections in place until this thing became as common as smallpox.
More variants that escape any protection that people have spawning every day:
Omicron sublineage BA.2.75.2 exhibits extensive escape from neutralising antibodies
SARS-CoV-2 omicron sublineage BA.2.75 expanded rapidly in parts of the world, but it has so far not outcompeted BA.5 globally. Despite similar geometric mean neutralising titres (GMT) to BA.5, BA.2.75 remained sensitive to classes of antibodies that BA.5 had escaped,1,2 suggesting scope for...
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I really don't understand why they're not forcing people to wear masks on planes and trains anymore. We should have kept all of our protections in place until this thing became as common as smallpox.
The number of sub-variants (all in the Omicron lineage) has expanded massively in the past couple months, to the extent it's very difficult to keep track of them. One thing we know for sure is they are more adept at evading immunity conferred by prior infection and/or vaccines their predecessors. Unfortunately, it's difficult to do studies that account for the many variables in play. I agree that requiring masks indoors and on public transportation would help reduce transmission of COVID-19, flu, and other pathogens. But people rail against even simple measures.
