BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

Except the worst responses were local efforts. The federal government did its job- getting the vaccine done quickly and funding PPP. The feds didn't close schools or put states/counties on lockdown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The people saying they won’t wear masks and immunocompromised people need to watch out for themselves will be startled when they catch covid for the fourth time and become immunocompromised and then people start telling them they need to watch out for themselves.

I feel so sad for the agoraphobic life you're still leading. It must be petrifying (not to mention miserable) to live with so much anxiety. Good luck. Hopefully one day you can join us in the present.

Same old idiots. No one is terrified but you. Why does a mask scare you so much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

Except the worst responses were local efforts. The federal government did its job- getting the vaccine done quickly and funding PPP. The feds didn't close schools or put states/counties on lockdown.

Schools needed to be closed. It was an attempt to keep everyone safe. Don't you remember how little we knew about the virus and how hard it was to find masks? Expecting teachers to die for your kid is unreasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is going to be a new variant surging every few months for the foreseeable future. The virus is never going away, it is in the process of adapting to become endemic. Your vaccines might work, masks are dubiously effective at K95 level and ineffective below that. Society is never ever going back to 2020 levels of response. Some of you have to reach that understanding.

Bullsh*t. Masks are very effective even against this variant and those of us who have continued to wear them haven't gotten covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

Except the worst responses were local efforts. The federal government did its job- getting the vaccine done quickly and funding PPP. The feds didn't close schools or put states/counties on lockdown.

Schools needed to be closed. It was an attempt to keep everyone safe. Don't you remember how little we knew about the virus and how hard it was to find masks? Expecting teachers to die for your kid is unreasonable.

Perhaps in the spring of 2020. Not in the fall.

[Anonymous]

And closing child care centers was particularly ridiculous, even in the spring. What did they expect working parents to do- particularly those who still had to go in to work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

Except the worst responses were local efforts. The federal government did its job- getting the vaccine done quickly and funding PPP. The feds didn't close schools or put states/counties on lockdown.

Schools needed to be closed. It was an attempt to keep everyone safe. Don't you remember how little we knew about the virus and how hard it was to find masks? Expecting teachers to die for your kid is unreasonable.

NP. No, schools did not need to be closed, certainly not for this long, and DC and other blue cities were outliers on this. Other places that didn't follow their path did not have higher rates of teacher illness and death. The emerging expert consensus that closing schools was unnecessary and an epic mistake with long-term consequences is only going to get stronger over time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people saying they won’t wear masks and immunocompromised people need to watch out for themselves will be startled when they catch covid for the fourth time and become immunocompromised and then people start telling them they need to watch out for themselves.

I feel so sad for the agoraphobic life you're still leading. It must be petrifying (not to mention miserable) to live with so much anxiety. Good luck. Hopefully one day you can join us in the present.

Same old idiots. No one is terrified but you. Why does a mask scare you so much?

DP. I’m not scared of masks, but they’re terribly uncomfortable (particularly in the summer) and I can’t see when I wear them due to my glasses fogging up. If I want to have any hope of seeing, I need to use thin, single-layer masks without the filters, in which case they’re not doing much anyway. So I do t wear them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

Agree with that last part. If Trump hadn't been vocal about opening schools, blue cities might not have kept them closed for this long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

Except the worst responses were local efforts. The federal government did its job- getting the vaccine done quickly and funding PPP. The feds didn't close schools or put states/counties on lockdown.

Schools needed to be closed. It was an attempt to keep everyone safe. Don't you remember how little we knew about the virus and how hard it was to find masks? Expecting teachers to die for your kid is unreasonable.

Re-write history in your head if it makes you feel better, but we had data from Europe in Summer 2020 that schools were not super spreaders. School opening became political and that is why they were closed/hybrid for the 20-21 school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

Except the worst responses were local efforts. The federal government did its job- getting the vaccine done quickly and funding PPP. The feds didn't close schools or put states/counties on lockdown.

Schools needed to be closed. It was an attempt to keep everyone safe. Don't you remember how little we knew about the virus and how hard it was to find masks? Expecting teachers to die for your kid is unreasonable.

NP. No, schools did not need to be closed, certainly not for this long, and DC and other blue cities were outliers on this. Other places that didn't follow their path did not have higher rates of teacher illness and death. The emerging expert consensus that closing schools was unnecessary and an epic mistake with long-term consequences is only going to get stronger over time.

This. At the time of March 2020, we didn’t really know what to expect. Closing schools may have seemed like a necessary step then, although looking back we know it did more harm than good.

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain this line from an article in the Post today?

"Population-level immunity is one reason the virus remains in mutational overdrive. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/10/omicron-variant-ba5-covid-reinfection/ The line is a few paragraphs below the picture of people at the Denver airport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

Agree with that last part. If Trump hadn't been vocal about opening schools, blue cities might not have kept them closed for this long.

+1

A huge adult temper tantrum response that hurt kids so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

Agree with that last part. If Trump hadn't been vocal about opening schools, blue cities might not have kept them closed for this long.

Similarly, remember when the Democrats said Trump was rushing out a vaccine without proper testing? They wouldn't have done that if Biden/Clinton were in office at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the bottom line is that people need to listen to the actual experts on what to do (epidemiologists, immunologists, etc). You know, the people who actually study this stuff and dedicate their life to this. Listening to anonymous trolls on the internet who are looking to push buttons bc they are bored and likely sadistic isn’t the answer. Here’s some great advice from the experts in the Washington Post today: https://apple.news/AYJkCPpRLQmeu-reKPodLmg

They've done such a bang up job so far.

Stop playing games. Certain people who would gain by ignoring the pandemic intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason. Also the response was never going to be perfect and your bunch of nutjobs used every bit of it to encourage confusion. If that orange stain had not been in office things would not have been so bad.

The opposite happened. Those would gain from lockdown measures intentionally undermined anyone speaking reason, such as arguing that we should follow established pandemic response plans instead of imitating China's approach. This was a worldwide problem, not just in the US.