BA.2 surge hitting US in April/May

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It's coming, folks.

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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.

Sorry PP, with people's urge to treat the whole 2 years of the pandemic as a nothingburger, just based on the mildness of Omicron (friends have had Delta, and you would not have wanted that one) any medical professional that wants to talk about the actual patient loads in the hospitals is going to get "canceled."
Thanks for your work.

Come on. The Twitter thread was full hysteria that simply didn’t happen. Here is what else she said, among other things:

When we go to grocery stores & find shelves empty, to pharmacies & find them closed because every single employee is out sick themselves or tending to a loved one. Please get what you need to look after your household. Fill prescriptions, get over the counter meds & staples…

And on and on. And that simply didn’t happen.

This level of hysterical ranting does nobody good.

Those things completely happened! Did you not try to get any errands done around New Years? Nothing was open , everyone had Omicron!

What are you talking about? I did my grocery shopping, pharmacy visits, etc like normal. Obviously masked, and there were periodic things missing or slower, but it was nothing like what that hysterical thread said would happen. And everybody knows it.

That's great! My pharmacy closed and my kid's asthma meds were held hostage there until they reopened 5 days later (with a 2+ hour line to pick up prescriptions when I arrived). Our schools closed for an extra week. And my niece injured her ankle and was unable to be seen anywhere despite trying for 3 days straight at urgent cares.

Where do you live? It was nothing like that in Nova. Schools were closed due to snow the first week back from winter break. And my DH injured himself the following week and was able to get an appointment at OrthoVA the following day.

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^ And my CVS was open. I actually went a couple of times for my daily meds.

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Anonymous wrote:It's coming, folks.

So stay locked in your basement forever. The rest of us are over it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's coming, folks.

It's been here a while, hasn't it? Looks like the Netherlands peaked well short of their first omicron wave and are on the way back down, for what it's worth.

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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.

Sorry PP, with people's urge to treat the whole 2 years of the pandemic as a nothingburger, just based on the mildness of Omicron (friends have had Delta, and you would not have wanted that one) any medical professional that wants to talk about the actual patient loads in the hospitals is going to get "canceled."
Thanks for your work.

Come on. The Twitter thread was full hysteria that simply didn’t happen. Here is what else she said, among other things:

When we go to grocery stores & find shelves empty, to pharmacies & find them closed because every single employee is out sick themselves or tending to a loved one. Please get what you need to look after your household. Fill prescriptions, get over the counter meds & staples…

And on and on. And that simply didn’t happen.

This level of hysterical ranting does nobody good.

Those things completely happened! Did you not try to get any errands done around New Years? Nothing was open , everyone had Omicron!

What are you talking about? I did my grocery shopping, pharmacy visits, etc like normal. Obviously masked, and there were periodic things missing or slower, but it was nothing like what that hysterical thread said would happen. And everybody knows it.

That's great! My pharmacy closed and my kid's asthma meds were held hostage there until they reopened 5 days later (with a 2+ hour line to pick up prescriptions when I arrived). Our schools closed for an extra week. And my niece injured her ankle and was unable to be seen anywhere despite trying for 3 days straight at urgent cares.

Where do you live? It was nothing like that in Nova. Schools were closed due to snow the first week back from winter break. And my DH injured himself the following week and was able to get an appointment at OrthoVA the following day.

Baltimore

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Why are some of you people so obsessed with masks? Its creepy. They have become a religious talisman of protection.

As for me, I'm never doing any of this again, and I will actively fight it next time. I put up with this shit last time even though I disagreed with it, but this is stupid. Seriously I never thought I would find myself agreeing with republicans but here we are.

I don't think restrictions will happen though, bc politics....we have elections in november lol.

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Anonymous wrote:It's coming, folks.

As will the next variant. But we have a lot more immunity in the population now, from natural immunity to that provided by vaccination, and much better treatment options. This isn’t March 2020.

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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.

Sorry PP, with people's urge to treat the whole 2 years of the pandemic as a nothingburger, just based on the mildness of Omicron (friends have had Delta, and you would not have wanted that one) any medical professional that wants to talk about the actual patient loads in the hospitals is going to get "canceled."
Thanks for your work.

Come on. The Twitter thread was full hysteria that simply didn’t happen. Here is what else she said, among other things:

When we go to grocery stores & find shelves empty, to pharmacies & find them closed because every single employee is out sick themselves or tending to a loved one. Please get what you need to look after your household. Fill prescriptions, get over the counter meds & staples…

And on and on. And that simply didn’t happen.

This level of hysterical ranting does nobody good.

Those things completely happened! Did you not try to get any errands done around New Years? Nothing was open , everyone had Omicron!

What are you talking about? I did my grocery shopping, pharmacy visits, etc like normal. Obviously masked, and there were periodic things missing or slower, but it was nothing like what that hysterical thread said would happen. And everybody knows it.

That's great! My pharmacy closed and my kid's asthma meds were held hostage there until they reopened 5 days later (with a 2+ hour line to pick up prescriptions when I arrived). Our schools closed for an extra week. And my niece injured her ankle and was unable to be seen anywhere despite trying for 3 days straight at urgent cares.

Where do you live? It was nothing like that in Nova. Schools were closed due to snow the first week back from winter break. And my DH injured himself the following week and was able to get an appointment at OrthoVA the following day.

Moscow.

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Can you get infected with BA.2 after a previous infection with BA.1 omicron?

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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.

Sorry PP, with people's urge to treat the whole 2 years of the pandemic as a nothingburger, just based on the mildness of Omicron (friends have had Delta, and you would not have wanted that one) any medical professional that wants to talk about the actual patient loads in the hospitals is going to get "canceled."
Thanks for your work.

Come on. The Twitter thread was full hysteria that simply didn’t happen. Here is what else she said, among other things:

When we go to grocery stores & find shelves empty, to pharmacies & find them closed because every single employee is out sick themselves or tending to a loved one. Please get what you need to look after your household. Fill prescriptions, get over the counter meds & staples…

And on and on. And that simply didn’t happen.

This level of hysterical ranting does nobody good.

Those things completely happened! Did you not try to get any errands done around New Years? Nothing was open , everyone had Omicron!

What are you talking about? I did my grocery shopping, pharmacy visits, etc like normal. Obviously masked, and there were periodic things missing or slower, but it was nothing like what that hysterical thread said would happen. And everybody knows it.

That's great! My pharmacy closed and my kid's asthma meds were held hostage there until they reopened 5 days later (with a 2+ hour line to pick up prescriptions when I arrived). Our schools closed for an extra week. And my niece injured her ankle and was unable to be seen anywhere despite trying for 3 days straight at urgent cares.

Where do you live? It was nothing like that in Nova. Schools were closed due to snow the first week back from winter break. And my DH injured himself the following week and was able to get an appointment at OrthoVA the following day.

Of course nothing like the hysterical Twitter thread happened. Honestly it is insulting in a world of Ukrainian war for people to pretend that having to wait an extra thirty minutes at the pharmacy was some sort of harrowing experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you get infected with BA.2 after a previous infection with BA.1 omicron?

Yup. Buckle up folks.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you get infected with BA.2 after a previous infection with BA.1 omicron?

The data shows it is unlikely. You can probably google it.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Where are you looking? In the District almost everyone is wearing N95s or KN95s. Our offices are handing them out and we're all ordering them online now that they're widely available. Because... we're not idiots. Your cloth mask-focused arguments do not match reality.

I live and work in DC and this just isn't true. Most people, if wearing masks at all, are wearing cloth or the fake "surgical" or "medical" masks. A few wear KN95s. Definitely not most.

Yup. And the ones wearing KN95s are definitely not wearing them correctly. They think they are though! And that’s what counts!

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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.

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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.

“Unshackled?” What a moron.

Yes, unshackled. My kids haven’t picked up a mask in the past couple of weeks. It’s been great seeing them break that bad habit.