BA.2 surge hitting US in April/May

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, the news has been saying this stuff for weeks: people who have even mild cases of covid at greater risk of heart issues, at greater risk of stroke, at risk for other diseases due to lower level of T cells etc, and people start talking about some of the fallout they have seen and people hopped up on hopium are all "what are you talking about covid is mild and its over now amyway" etc. smdh

You can probably say this about most viral infections.

Also the majority of people out there have had covid. Just anecdotally everyone I know except for a few people has had covid and I’m unaware of anyone who is still sick. For most people it was a mild cold. Most people read news stories about long covid and ignore. Earlier on during COVID it was easier to get scared since there were more unknowns. But everyone I know is back to normal and recovered from omicron. Even if they hadn’t - don’t know what we can do forever to prevent catching COVID.

Citation for this lie, please.

DP who comments but is actually knowledgeable on the facts unlike you. Let me Google that for you.
58% of kids have had covid:
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article258988768.html

It’s about 43% of the country as a whole.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

If you keep reading that tweet thread, she went further and further off the deep end. Twitter doctors and epidemiologists lost their credibility a long time ago. They have a small obsessive fanbase, but they've truly become white noise in the background to everybody else.

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I think it will come to US, and I hope that it is a mild new variant. Well, now all kids schools are mask optional, so indoor mandates are removed in most dmv area. I hope that no more school closing in person, and I am fine that they bring back the rules that kids are required to mask to keep it open.

We were vaccinated and had 2 weeks of covid. It was worse than a bad cold, but I survived. DH said if we were not boosted on top go fully vaccinated, probably I might ended up going to ER.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

The worst part is those people never return to their old predictions, never hold themselves accountable, just go on posting about the State of the Union and the war in Ukraine like they weren’t sensationally stoking fear just weeks earlier.

THIS! It drives me crazy.

Not so much when a random twitter doc does it, but very much so when the media does it. We see these crazy headlines and stories on CNN or in the Washington Post stoking fear all the time and people read it as the inevitable truth.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it will come to US, and I hope that it is a mild new variant. Well, now all kids schools are mask optional, so indoor mandates are removed in most dmv area. I hope that no more school closing in person, and I am fine that they bring back the rules that kids are required to mask to keep it open.

We were vaccinated and had 2 weeks of covid. It was worse than a bad cold, but I survived. DH said if we were not boosted on top go fully vaccinated, probably I might ended up going to ER.

How old are you? Do you have other medical conditions? Are you obese?

If you were under the age of 50, otherwise healthy, the data shows that you would likely NOT have ended up in the ER. Especially if you were vaccinated. There is little data to show that a booster makes a difference for healthy people under the age of 50x.

Sorry, but your DH might have been wrong about this.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll need too dead bodies in the bread aisle of Giant before I go back to wearing a mask. Omicron wasn’t sht when I caught it.

+1

Don’t care at all about new variants. This is life now. Not wearing a mask ever again.

Cool. Enjoy not flying.

I flew this week. It was the first time in nearly six months that I wore a mask. It was more awful than I remembered.

Grow up.

Nope. It was awful. Hot and stuffy. I can’t believe my kids were only recently unshackled from this nonsense.

With all of the actual suffering in the world, and plenty of it fairly visible to anyone following news at all, I have a really hard time understanding how a rational adult can believe wearing a mask rates at all. My conclusion is that you must not be a rational adult.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll need too dead bodies in the bread aisle of Giant before I go back to wearing a mask. Omicron wasn’t sht when I caught it.

+1

Don’t care at all about new variants. This is life now. Not wearing a mask ever again.

Cool. Enjoy not flying.

I flew this week. It was the first time in nearly six months that I wore a mask. It was more awful than I remembered.

Grow up.

Nope. It was awful. Hot and stuffy. I can’t believe my kids were only recently unshackled from this nonsense.

With all of the actual suffering in the world, and plenty of it fairly visible to anyone following news at all, I have a really hard time understanding how a rational adult can believe wearing a mask rates at all. My conclusion is that you must not be a rational adult.

So if you get a headache do you not take advil because eyour suffering does not rate against all that in the world?

If you are hungry do you not eat because it does not rate against all the hunger in the world?

If your leg itches do you not scratch it because there are bigger problems to be solved?

I agree there are bigger problems than masks but it’s still fine to try to avoid unnecessary discomfort/annoyance in your daily life.

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I firmly believe to each their own, but do not find a mask bothersome at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

Lol. Life was not "unrecognizable" for most Americans.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll need too dead bodies in the bread aisle of Giant before I go back to wearing a mask. Omicron wasn’t sht when I caught it.

+1

Don’t care at all about new variants. This is life now. Not wearing a mask ever again.

Cool. Enjoy not flying.

I flew this week. It was the first time in nearly six months that I wore a mask. It was more awful than I remembered.

Grow up.

Nope. It was awful. Hot and stuffy. I can’t believe my kids were only recently unshackled from this nonsense.

With all of the actual suffering in the world, and plenty of it fairly visible to anyone following news at all, I have a really hard time understanding how a rational adult can believe wearing a mask rates at all. My conclusion is that you must not be a rational adult.

And I conclude you are incapable of walking and chewing gum simultaneously.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

The worst part is those people never return to their old predictions, never hold themselves accountable, just go on posting about the State of the Union and the war in Ukraine like they weren’t sensationally stoking fear just weeks earlier.

THIS! It drives me crazy.

Not so much when a random twitter doc does it, but very much so when the media does it. We see these crazy headlines and stories on CNN or in the Washington Post stoking fear all the time and people read it as the inevitable truth.

How does one hold someone "accountable" for their opinions on Twitter?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it will come to US, and I hope that it is a mild new variant. Well, now all kids schools are mask optional, so indoor mandates are removed in most dmv area. I hope that no more school closing in person, and I am fine that they bring back the rules that kids are required to mask to keep it open.

We were vaccinated and had 2 weeks of covid. It was worse than a bad cold, but I survived. DH said if we were not boosted on top go fully vaccinated, probably I might ended up going to ER.

How old are you? Do you have other medical conditions? Are you obese?

If you were under the age of 50, otherwise healthy, the data shows that you would likely NOT have ended up in the ER. Especially if you were vaccinated. There is little data to show that a booster makes a difference for healthy people under the age of 50x.

Sorry, but your DH might have been wrong about this.

My overweight 50 year old friend only had one J&J shot and got covid nearly a year later. She was sick for ten days. Never needed the ER.

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Most people wear cloth masks or flimsy “medical’ masks from China (that I’m pretty sure are full of chemicals as evidenced by the breakouts and odd smell). Are they really protecting anyone?

I rarely see high quality masks properly worn by people.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll need too dead bodies in the bread aisle of Giant before I go back to wearing a mask. Omicron wasn’t sht when I caught it.

+1

Don’t care at all about new variants. This is life now. Not wearing a mask ever again.

Cool. Enjoy not flying.

I flew this week. It was the first time in nearly six months that I wore a mask. It was more awful than I remembered.

Grow up.

Nope. It was awful. Hot and stuffy. I can’t believe my kids were only recently unshackled from this nonsense.

With all of the actual suffering in the world, and plenty of it fairly visible to anyone following news at all, I have a really hard time understanding how a rational adult can believe wearing a mask rates at all. My conclusion is that you must not be a rational adult.

So if you get a headache do you not take advil because eyour suffering does not rate against all that in the world?

If you are hungry do you not eat because it does not rate against all the hunger in the world?

If your leg itches do you not scratch it because there are bigger problems to be solved?

I agree there are bigger problems than masks but it’s still fine to try to avoid unnecessary discomfort/annoyance in your daily life.

Those are terrible analogies.