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

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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.

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.

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

Not a temper tantrum. If you were a teacher, would you agree to go back to work if you were already being paid not to?

[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.

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.

Not a temper tantrum. If you were a teacher, would you agree to go back to work if you were already being paid not to?

What a jerk comment. People were worried for their lives and people expected schools to be daycare. Teachers matter. They were concerned for their own safety and werent trying to get a free vacation as your grifting bunch of friends would do.

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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.

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.

Not a temper tantrum. If you were a teacher, would you agree to go back to work if you were already being paid not to?

What a jerk comment. People were worried for their lives and people expected schools to be daycare. Teachers matter. They were concerned for their own safety and werent trying to get a free vacation as your grifting bunch of friends would do.

Why are we even having this conversation? What happened happened. We need to focus on the harm caused by school closures rather than assigning blame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!

You need therapy. My family traveled to four different destinations (FL,NY, CA & Mexico) over the holiday. All of us got COVID. All still dealing with it.

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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?

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.

This means that your mask does not fit correctly.

[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.

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.

Not a temper tantrum. If you were a teacher, would you agree to go back to work if you were already being paid not to?

What a jerk comment. People were worried for their lives and people expected schools to be daycare. Teachers matter. They were concerned for their own safety and werent trying to get a free vacation as your grifting bunch of friends would do.

How odd that teachers were pretty much the only group that refuses to return. I didn’t see nurses or grocery store employees refusing to go to work- did you?

[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.

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.

+2 closing everything in March 2020, fine. Extending the closures and disruptions (2 day a week hybrid, “Zoom in the room” with the teacher absent, etc.) past the beginning of the 2020-2021 SY was inexcusable. And I believe it was political because Trump and others were falling for open schools, open everything and certain people on the left had to be against it because of that reason. Now I mean Trump was wrong on a lot - A LOT - but he was right on schools. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I remember trump getting covid and pretending it was nbd. Not wearing or encouraging masks and scoffing at the need to.

And all the white house superspreaders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This means that your mask does not fit correctly.

Tell us how to wear them, then. The only success I've had with masks and glasses is literally taping the mask to my skin. I did that for work, but just wear contacts now and use reading glasses when I have to.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+2 closing everything in March 2020, fine. Extending the closures and disruptions (2 day a week hybrid, “Zoom in the room” with the teacher absent, etc.) past the beginning of the 2020-2021 SY was inexcusable. And I believe it was political because Trump and others were falling for open schools, open everything and certain people on the left had to be against it because of that reason. Now I mean Trump was wrong on a lot - A LOT - but he was right on schools. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Ridiculous and you know it's not true. We were against opening for safety reasons not just to be contrarians. Sorry if this concept is too difficult to swallow. So much was not known and schools were a crap shoot as to whether they would be safe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!

You need therapy. My family traveled to four different destinations (FL,NY, CA & Mexico) over the holiday. All of us got COVID. All still dealing with it.

What do you mean by “still dealing with it”?

My family got it it too and the worst part was the kids’ missing camp and the staggered quarantines being a huge PIA. But the actually illness was either mild or asymptomatic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!

You need therapy. My family traveled to four different destinations (FL,NY, CA & Mexico) over the holiday. All of us got COVID. All still dealing with it.

Well, we traveled to Italy for 2 weeks. Ate indoors, went to shops, museums, grocery stores, hotels, maskless almost all the time. Vans with small group tours, everyone also without masks. Unmasked on the long flight to/from. Guess what? No one got covid. And this was right before testing to return was required, so we know we were negative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!

You need therapy. My family traveled to four different destinations (FL,NY, CA & Mexico) over the holiday. All of us got COVID. All still dealing with it.

Well, we traveled to Italy for 2 weeks. Ate indoors, went to shops, museums, grocery stores, hotels, maskless almost all the time. Vans with small group tours, everyone also without masks. Unmasked on the long flight to/from. Guess what? No one got covid. And this was right before testing to return was required, so we know we were negative.

NP. Did you already have covid prior to the trip?

Everyone I know who never had covid and did indoor things unmasked came home with covid. One friend tested negative and was able to fly home, but felt ill the next day and then tested positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!

You need therapy. My family traveled to four different destinations (FL,NY, CA & Mexico) over the holiday. All of us got COVID. All still dealing with it.

Well, we traveled to Italy for 2 weeks. Ate indoors, went to shops, museums, grocery stores, hotels, maskless almost all the time. Vans with small group tours, everyone also without masks. Unmasked on the long flight to/from. Guess what? No one got covid. And this was right before testing to return was required, so we know we were negative.

NP. Did you already have covid prior to the trip?

Everyone I know who never had covid and did indoor things unmasked came home with covid. One friend tested negative and was able to fly home, but felt ill the next day and then tested positive.

Nope! One person had it over a year ago. I myself have never had it, neither did the others in our travel group. Have been living normally, unmasked, for over a year (since getting vaccinated).

Frankly, people are masking more in the DC area than in Italy - I'm talking about the locals and in small towns. And Italy was clearly hit very hard in the beginning. If the Italians can move on from Covid, then we ought to, too.

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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.

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.

Not a temper tantrum. If you were a teacher, would you agree to go back to work if you were already being paid not to?

What a jerk comment. People were worried for their lives and people expected schools to be daycare. Teachers matter. They were concerned for their own safety and werent trying to get a free vacation as your grifting bunch of friends would do.

How odd that teachers were pretty much the only group that refuses to return. I didn’t see nurses or grocery store employees refusing to go to work- did you?

Please. Go to the Jobs forum and tons of Feds and other office workers are STILL refusing to return and saying they will quit if forced. So GMAFB.