Keep in mind that some people have accounts but don’t log in very often. Obviously if they made 20 recent posts that’s not the case, but in some of those cases it might be.
oh yeah, i mean the people who clearly logged in to be all, i’m a real estate broker AND LOOK AT MY RECENT SALE!
yeah, fuck you!
I just took my first COVID test ever: negative!!! It’s probably just an ordinary cold. 
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but you said you were in the covid cooties club. did you not take a covid test to officially enter it?
It was extremely obvious I had COVID: my sister and her kids all tested positive and I had very clear symptoms. Me was sad. 
Did you go for brunch on your recent visit???
The brunch place i wanted to go to closed early monday, and my 2nd choice next door also closed early, so i went to a random im starving and this sucks place that wasnt good.
I extended my stay until jan 22, but will mostly be working other than weekends and will try and hit up my first choice again
Was originally gonna leave today
This visit was work, wait for covid, have covid, 2 days of neither of those 2 and back to work
So assuming that the variant i had on Christmas likely wasnt this xbb variant, does that mean i can get covid again today if im exposed to it and what I had doesn’t protect me at all?
I have no idea what variant I had on Christmas. I suppose it could have been that one, but seems that one is more about to take over than has yet.
This pandemic is bullshit.
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it also says that this variant is behind the majority of cases in new york, so when i go back to new york in a few weeks, i’ll just get covid again since i likely had a different variant. this is complete bullshit.
in scanning stuff, they seem non-committal, but i’m thinking that my so recent infection does give me protection against this new variant and if i get it, it will likely be mild.
It’s almost like the mutation that’s most transmissible is most likely to be the next dominant variant.
back in dec 2021/jan 2022 my brother’s wife got covid 2x in 5 weeks. Full blast both times. my guess was she got delta in Dec and then Omi in jan.
that may have just been unfortunate back to back variants.
ugh, DO NOT WANT!
and why are they calling all the new variants still omicron? they sound like clearly new variants.
actually, the googles tells me there is a reason why it’s still called omicron rather than a new name and this isn’t an entirely new variant like omicron was from delta.
Omicron (all of them) are more different from delta, alpha, etc. than from each other. But the different strains of omicron are almost as different as the various pre-omicron strains were.
I can’t find a recent “map”, but here’s one recent enough to show Omicron BA.1 and BA.2
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yeah, but the person LuckyHat is referring to went from having a Delta strain to an Omicron strain which would be far different than going between omicron strains from what you’re saying.
so, i wouldn’t have full protection, but would likely have more protection than that person.
in the end, covid was annoying, but not life changing for me. if i caught it while living in my apartment, i might die from annoyance in being stuck there though.
Anecdotally, I know a lot of people who caught omicron after another covid, and can’t think of anyone who’s had omicron twice. So you are probably right.
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oh, my sister had what was likely omicron twice, but the second time was extremely minor for her. first time was december 26, 2021 (exactly a year prior to my bout in 2022). second time was around yom kippur, so around October 4, 2022. the only reason she even tested the 2nd time was because she was around people who tested positive. she had some symptoms, but it wasn’t bad at all.
My two theories on why we seem to be stuck on omicron, despite the continued mutations, are:
- The folks responsible for designating variants with Greek letters got tired of the pandemic and went back to their day jobs; or
- Someone realized that we’d run out of Greek letters (especially with them skipping nu and xi) before we ran out of variants, and they went into conservation mode.
This has been my hypothesis.