that was a joke
it wasn’t an over-reaction though. are you claiming that we didn’t lose a million americans to covid and the hospitals weren’t overrun due to it? it’s less of a threat now to younger, healthy people than it was in the past though with vaccines and the variant being not as bad as prior ones. wasn’t an overreaction in 2020 imo.
I was going to make a similar joke but I was ninja’d.
I do not disagree with actions taken in 2020. But most of those “precautions” put out by the CDC were over reactions for most of 2021. Most people were educated enough to know how to protect themselves.
there were fewer precautions in 2021 post vaccinations in the US than 2020, so i’m not sure i agree with this.
[red]I guess that’s why cases plummeted in 2021.[/red]
I mean, the BA.2 mutant make up well over 50% of the cases in my state. You probably haven’t heard of it because it doesn’t have a catchy name like Omicron.
I have superior immunity!
don’t all the ones with catchy names also have an uncatchy name like that? did they just get tired of naming them?
I hope your olfactory sense returns soon, IPD.
I think some people are just naturally immune to this thing. Not me though. I’ve just avoided it by not having much of a life plus some luck when I was out doing things.
This guy I know took zero precautions during covid outside of getting the vaccine. Took a road trip around the US going to various bars before he was even vaccinated. He acted like covid didn’t exist. My sister was likely contagious with covid and hung out with him in AC for an entire weekend over Christmas and they shared drinks. He didn’t catch it. She didn’t know she had covid until she got home.
We should petition to change the name to R2D2.
I looked it up and BA.2 is a subvariant of Omicron. So it is still considered Omicron, apparently. What determines whether it is a variant (and presumably gets a different Greek letter) or a subvariant?
Coin flip.
We discussed this briefly in one of the many other Covid threads:
https://community-new.goactuary.com/t/have-we-rounded-the-corner-for-the-final-time/1872/1179?u=marcie
The issue was not about protecting themselves, it was protecting others. Education can’t fix a lack of empathy.
Positivity rate is ticking up a little here again in the last week after being low for a while. I have a bus trip planned for Sunday. I hope I’m still in the COVID virgins club next week.
yep, this. i’m still concerned that my elderly father could still catch omicron and not do as well with it as he did with covid classic. i think he was just lucky that time. he’s a few years older now and really feeble. any time i’m going to be around him if i think there is a possibility i’ve been exposed i’m taking a covid test before going there.
my mother otoh, handled omicron like a champ. she’s not as feeble as my father though and is younger than him.
Are you thinking in NYC? Or other areas in the US?
I know that the “fewer” precautions in IL didn’t amount to all that much.
Were these others totally incapable of protecting themselves?
Here is the explanation I was given in the state DOH meeting yesterday when they were discussing BA.2. A variant is a child of OG coronavirus. A subvariant is a grandchild. Oversimplification, sure, but that’s basically it.