This will be the “New Normal.”
[The best case scenario is for the virus to mutate ‘down’ in malignance. Essentially become a new “super flu.”]
Phenix
Meanwhile front line workers like me have had this and are exposed routinely. I would like to see an antibody study done on essential workers.
I will not get a vaccine. We should have our antibody levels/titers checked before we a vaccine is given.
Arizona Slim
One of my neighbors is in your boat. She manages the liquor department in a grocery store here in Tucson.
A year ago February, she and several coworkers came down with a nasty illness that was unlike anything they had ever had before. My neighbor even lost her sense of taste and, ISTR, smell.
Bird Song of the Day
At the suggestion of SomeGuyinAZ, the Gray Catbird.
#COVID19
Lambert here, last Friday: Well, I said “If these declines continue through the end of the week, I’m gonna have to conclude we’re looking at a genuine fall in the numbers not the current narrative, I might add and that we are not looking at a reporting effect from the long weekend.” So I have to conclude we’re looking at a genuine fall in the numbers.
We are also not seeing an explosion from travel over the holidays, now well in the rear-view mirror. We might get a spike in ten days or so, if people were partying on MLK day, but with luck it will be small. Of course, there are those worrisome variants, so a mood of sunny optimism is not warranted.
About that Party Finder app: it’s easy to criticize people that are going to flaunt the regulations to have a good time. But asking young people to put another year of their life on hold for a virus that doesn’t kill them is absurd. Do remember how long a year lasts when you’re 19? You change as a person in an entire year.
A public health response that makes sense would appreciate human nature and ethics. Our public health response in the USA has been technocratic and dehumanizing. And then we wonder why we get bad results.
Lawrence Mulcahy