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Anonymous

07/14/2022 08:05 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

PP here, and I should have also said that living with COVID should include some caution, we have to end impossible quarantine policies like those for younger children at daycares. While that might involve accepting more risk of transmission, these policies are extremely burdensome and probably lead to fewer people testing when appropriate for fear of lost wages and other harm caused by quarantine policies.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 07:58 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

I agree with much of what you say, but not all of it. "Moving on" should not be pretending that COVID does not exist. We don't need 100% masking or restrictions to live with COVID in a responsible way, which means testing when exposed or sick, staying home when positive or exhibiting symptoms, masking after exposures, when symptomatic, or when returning to activities after a positive test (up to 10 days). It also makes sense to be extra cautious with activities or tests after higher risk activities, like travel or crowded indoor activities (and maybe outdoor as well). We can't get rid of it, but can we treat COVID like the flu, when it is so much more transmissible? In truth, we are probably to lax about the flu as well, but I guarantee if there were hyperlocal outbreaks of the flu, like we have seen within some families, schools, etc., measures would be taken to control the spread.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 07:57 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

I feel like you’ve said everything I’ve been thinking. I had it two months ago. Yes, it was bad, in that I missed a week of work and had a cough for a few weeks afterwards. But it’s two months later and I’m fine. This thing is here. We have to live with it. People didn’t quarantine for life after the 1918 flu. There was a crisis period for a couple of years, and then it became an endemic illness and people adapted. Same thing here. We’re past the crisis point of 2020 with overrun hospitals and funeral homes. It’s time to adapt and move on.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 07:54 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

We know of so many. Memories are short.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 07:44 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

Yes, thousands of businesses weren’t run out of business due to decisions by the stupidest people who will never live with any consequences.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 07:39 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

Republican troll or crazy who actually thinks this? So hard to tell sometimes.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 04:36 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

Shopping for food is sort of necessary. Most urban dwellers don't have any fields to plant.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 03:40 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

Those are not restrictions. Schools were not closed. They were virtual. We never had real lockdowns or restrictions. Sorry you struggled having your kids home. It’s too bad that things at home are that bad for you.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 03:30 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

There will be no lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures, or other “restrictions” put in place ever again, and you and everyone else are going to get covid multiple times in your life. Your angry impotent screeching into the internet void is powerless against this reality. Die mad about it I guess!

Anonymous

07/14/2022 02:56 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

That was not a restriction. Schools were virtual and you choose to have your child go virtually. You could have sent them somewhere else . You don’t get what a restriction is.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 02:53 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

They said no and go to the er to be seen. Yes, it is that bad.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 02:38 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

This! And then there were things that were not strictly restricted but made incredibly difficult (to impossible) due to restrictions. Like childcare. The idea that we haven’t sacrificed for this thing because society never *technically* locked down is ridiculous.

Look, I accept that this isn’t just a cold. But it’s not smallpox or the Black Death either. It’s a novel virus that poses an elevated threat and has killed millions of people. But we also have to be realistic about what can be done. At this point, eradicating it through lock downs is off the table. Look at New Zealand. That’s an island nation that really seemed to have beaten this thing through travel restriction and lock down. Cases have skyrocketed there. You can’t lock down indefinitely, and it’s a very contagious virus. It will come for you eventually.

I think we have to accept that this is something we live with now. I just don’t see what the alternative is. People who complain constantly about how everyone just wants to “move on” aren’t explaining what the effective, realistic alternative is. You are not going to get lockdowns, 100% masking, or any other severe restrictions again. Not if it’s on an indefinite basis. And there’s no evidence that doing that for a couple weeks or a couple months will help, unless everyone on the planet participated, which they won’t.

This is life now. We have to find a way to live it.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 02:23 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

I have COVID now and also think this variant is worse. I had it before (BA1? 2?) and i hardly had any symptoms. Now I have fever, cough, night sweats, congestion.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 01:42 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

It’s ridiculous how personally persecuted some of you are behaving.

Anonymous

07/14/2022 01:41 Subject: BA.5 Variant, the worst version of Omicron, is vaccine evasiive and surging across the country

I’m with others - I couldn’t care less about a new variant. Pretty much any family with kids I know has gotten it and everyone is fine. Im not saying everyone is risk free - they’re not. But I’m not sure why we’re not treating this like the flu or similar at this point. Didn’t the death rate from Covid dip below the flu death rate after the vaccines and paxlovid came out?