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

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

I'm prone to motion sickness and wearing a mask (particularly a quality, well fitted one) makes it worse. Would you like me to puke on your lap while riding the metro?

But since we are talking about empathy, I hope you would at least have some empathy for the hearing impaired that rely on lip movement and have really had a hard time with everyone wearing masks. Guessing you don't know anyone like that personally but they would consider it more that "mild" effort.

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

I'm prone to motion sickness and wearing a mask (particularly a quality, well fitted one) makes it worse. Would you like me to puke on your lap while riding the metro?

But since we are talking about empathy, I hope you would at least have some empathy for the hearing impaired that rely on lip movement and have really had a hard time with everyone wearing masks. Guessing you don't know anyone like that personally but they would consider it more that "mild" effort.

You assume too much.

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

We’ve spent the past 2.5 yrs masking, having events cancelled, missing a significant amount of school days to closures and quarantines, missing weddings and funerals, having events cancelled. Covid hit our family last month. One parent had a head cold for a week, 2 kids asymptomatic, one parent and one kid unaffected. What a waste of 2 yrs

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Anonymous wrote:I think that good points are made on all sides but in many cases the people who seem to have little disregard for others would be changing their tune if it were them or a family member who is sick. Most of these people have probably not had it or had such a mild case that they don’t get it.

Most people have mild cases, period. Regardless of how strongly you feel or don’t feel about mitigation efforts

I recently had a very mild (nearly asymptomatic) case but it was still very disruptive (and expensive) because (a) kids had to be home from daycare / camp and we couldn’t hire childcare and (b) three of my four teammates were out for 1-2 weeks of flu like symptoms with it so one other person and I were scrambling to try to cover for them. I don’t recommend catching it even if you barely notice (I had a scratchy throat for a day. Got tested because one of ny children - who ended up having the flu - was getting tested at the same time.)

Easy way to have avoided this. Just sayin'

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

We’ve spent the past 2.5 yrs masking, having events cancelled, missing a significant amount of school days to closures and quarantines, missing weddings and funerals, having events cancelled. Covid hit our family last month. One parent had a head cold for a week, 2 kids asymptomatic, one parent and one kid unaffected. What a waste of 2 yrs

Because of vaccines. It would’ve been more than a head cold two years ago. Get honest with yourself. Also everyone on the planet is dealing with this. Everyone. our personal experiences are not that important.

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

We’ve spent the past 2.5 yrs masking, having events cancelled, missing a significant amount of school days to closures and quarantines, missing weddings and funerals, having events cancelled. Covid hit our family last month. One parent had a head cold for a week, 2 kids asymptomatic, one parent and one kid unaffected. What a waste of 2 yrs

Because of vaccines. It would’ve been more than a head cold two years ago. Get honest with yourself. Also everyone on the planet is dealing with this. Everyone. our personal experiences are not that important.

Right. And since vaccines are widely available, time to move on

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

We’ve spent the past 2.5 yrs masking, having events cancelled, missing a significant amount of school days to closures and quarantines, missing weddings and funerals, having events cancelled. Covid hit our family last month. One parent had a head cold for a week, 2 kids asymptomatic, one parent and one kid unaffected. What a waste of 2 yrs

Because of vaccines. It would’ve been more than a head cold two years ago. Get honest with yourself. Also everyone on the planet is dealing with this. Everyone. our personal experiences are not that important.

This exactly. I know someone right now who has it who was not vaccinated. It is no head cold for him. He's very sick and in the ICU.

I've not heard of anyone vaccinated who was this extremely sick.

[Anonymous]

I wish airlines still had their testing or mask policies in place.

I'm flying in 2 weeks for a sibling's wedding and I do not want to catch covid. Everyone I know right now who has flown has come down with it.

What's even worse is that I know someone who flew out on Saturday WITH covid because she only had light cold symptoms and she'd rather be sick on vacation than sick at home with a canceled vacation. Selfish ass hats is why we'll never be rid of this.

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

I'm prone to motion sickness and wearing a mask (particularly a quality, well fitted one) makes it worse. Would you like me to puke on your lap while riding the metro?

But since we are talking about empathy, I hope you would at least have some empathy for the hearing impaired that rely on lip movement and have really had a hard time with everyone wearing masks. Guessing you don't know anyone like that personally but they would consider it more that "mild" effort.

You assume too much.

So do you have empathy for those who find indefinite masking less "mild effort" than you or not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish airlines still had their testing or mask policies in place.

I'm flying in 2 weeks for a sibling's wedding and I do not want to catch covid. Everyone I know right now who has flown has come down with it.

What's even worse is that I know someone who flew out on Saturday WITH covid because she only had light cold symptoms and she'd rather be sick on vacation than sick at home with a canceled vacation. Selfish ass hats is why we'll never be rid of this.

Well you have a few options:

1) Drive
2) Wear an N95 plus faceshield
3) Don't go
4) Worry less

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Anonymous wrote:I just read an article from the Journal of Travel Medicine. Apparently, the original Covid had an approximate transmission of 3 per person, Delta variant 5 per person, Omicron last fall 9 per person, and BA.5 18 per person. Sure scary, if true.

It isn’t scary. If you are vaccinated you are highly unlikely to die. Worst case you feel terrible for several days. But most people are mild enough to be out of bed and going about their normal life, maybe at a slower pace.

I don't care about dying anymore. That's not the issue now. The issue is WASTING our time being sick! And passing it on to others so we have to waste our time when THEY are sick.

No one is ***scared*** . We're just practical and want to get shit done. What about that don't you understand?

A huge chunk of those people aren't even going to know they have Covid and will keep "getting shit done." You should too.

I have had it. So have my kids. So have my friends. We were sick. No thank you. If some people are walking around asymptomatic and unaware they are even infected, then good for them. That has not been our experience.

It makes people sick. I don't wan to KEEP getting sick over and over and over. (I've had it 2 times, and I'm vaccinated.) Yes, it is not death. Yes, it does not mean hospitalization. But it's still a big waste of time.

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the people who are all "it's time to move on and accept that COVID is part of life" but can't be bothered to accept that wearing a mask and being cautious is part of accepting that.

That would require empathy and mild effort.

I'm prone to motion sickness and wearing a mask (particularly a quality, well fitted one) makes it worse. Would you like me to puke on your lap while riding the metro?

But since we are talking about empathy, I hope you would at least have some empathy for the hearing impaired that rely on lip movement and have really had a hard time with everyone wearing masks. Guessing you don't know anyone like that personally but they would consider it more that "mild" effort.

You assume too much.

So do you have empathy for those who find indefinite masking less "mild effort" than you or not?

Absolutely. Especially when they’re not trolls posing as someone that has an issue with masks.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read an article from the Journal of Travel Medicine. Apparently, the original Covid had an approximate transmission of 3 per person, Delta variant 5 per person, Omicron last fall 9 per person, and BA.5 18 per person. Sure scary, if true.

It isn’t scary. If you are vaccinated you are highly unlikely to die. Worst case you feel terrible for several days. But most people are mild enough to be out of bed and going about their normal life, maybe at a slower pace.

I don't care about dying anymore. That's not the issue now. The issue is WASTING our time being sick! And passing it on to others so we have to waste our time when THEY are sick.

No one is ***scared*** . We're just practical and want to get shit done. What about that don't you understand?

A huge chunk of those people aren't even going to know they have Covid and will keep "getting shit done." You should too.

I have had it. So have my kids. So have my friends. We were sick. No thank you. If some people are walking around asymptomatic and unaware they are even infected, then good for them. That has not been our experience.

It makes people sick. I don't wan to KEEP getting sick over and over and over. (I've had it 2 times, and I'm vaccinated.) Yes, it is not death. Yes, it does not mean hospitalization. But it's still a big waste of time.

Exactly. A mild case means you aren’t hospitalized, it doesn’t mean it’s an east time. If you have a glancing case with minimal symptoms you are fortunate. That was not our experience, nor of anyone we know that admitted they’ve had this.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, it’s the concerns about long lasting damage that gets me concerned.

Same. And it’s the potential quieter vascular and neurological issues that most concern me. Having a “mild” covid experience that is causing deeper internal damage. I’m less concerned about a week of discomfort, this stuff wreaks havoc in so many other ways. Prefer to avoid.

That's what the fear mongers make you believe, but there is actually no evidence that it is a concern in the average mild infection in a healthy person.

I heard an interview on a news bit on TV, where the reporter was interviewing a BBQ chef. She said, "Tell me about the wings. Is that a different cooking?" And he said, "Yeah, it's a different cooking." WTH. I really think stumbling over basic language is a post-COVID symptom. My otherwise healthy young adult and teen kids are having a hard time coughing up simple words, too.