In an apartment with omicron might have just opened the door at the wrong time.
It is everywhere, an epi on twitter estimated 10 percent of the population locally likely infected
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The pediatrician also thought it was unlikely that he got it a week ago. So itās possible that he got it from me although that timing also seems weird if we consider my āhigher riskā activities like shopping at Target with a surgical mask before Christmas. Conceivably I could have gotten it from more recent low probability encounters, like walking by the doormen in my building or running outside without a mask.
This as well. Remind us how old is the pozzed son? I worry about my 3 year old grandson and infant granddaughter. She at least has some protection from Moms first shot in utero and from nursing while Mom got second shot and then boosted.
Plus the 3 year old has a Dad that manages a restaurant and a kindergarten going 6 year old brother. In a lot of ways I hope he already had a mild case of Omicron.
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Heās five (barely). Heās in high spirits today since his sister is playing a Sonic the Hedgehog Minecraft mod with him over our wifi.
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Bet he powers through like a champ.
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As contagious as omicron is, I absolutely think this is possible. Itās the most likely of a bunch of low odds explanations imo. Thereās just so much virus out there.
Thereās also been at least one case confirmed where someone who never left a quarantine hotel got the virus inside the room from someone who was staying across the hallā¦
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Itās amazing that we just throw our hands up at remote learning. Seems like some energy could have been spent coming up with a system to make it work better. My nieces teachers were completely unprepared for this latest round.
I donāt think we should plan on month after month of it, but 2020 and 2021 have taught us that maybe Thanksgiving through the 2nd week in January might be a good time to utilize remote learning if this thing drags another year or more (likely).
Idk, maybe teachers and software developers could come up with some canned collective online modules that are plug n play for a day or week long teaching plan depending on the need.
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Yeah the hybrid stuff seems what is real hard to execute and is max stress for individual teachers if they are just told you have in person and remote. Remote learning isnāt going to happen here unless forced. Even governors are like remote learning is a failed experiment, so the rest is hypothetical in the US anyways.
I think the way to do it is resourcing online classes separately and then having parent opt kids in or out of online every x period of time (I donāt know if it is six weeks, a semester, whatever the educators can figure it out best). Since, like it or not, we are moving to a choose your own risk adventure and are settling in for the long-term, seems like this is the best way to meet community needs.
Since no one seems to like my calendar shift plan, maybe we could jump off what Dan suggests and extend holiday break and have a couple of planned remote weeks to full November through January and then a shorter summer break. Long summer break has its own learning loss issues anyways.
More broadly, think we are past two week lockdowns doing anything but saving the healthcare system at this point. Thatās a worthy goal on its own, but the post lockdown steps to keep things under control just not happening here without a million changes that never happen on the right time scale.
Hopefully people arenāt in shock in the likely scenario that we are in the same place or worse next January.
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I think itās equally likely it just āmostlyā goes away. I mean, even without vaccines thatās what has happened in the past with coronavirus pandemics, so why not? IDK maybe thatās just my coping mechanism at this point, but it doesnāt seem likely to me that this continues indefinitely with massive waves for multiple more years on end.
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I think it eventually goes away but i donāt really have a good reason to say this is the last wave. Hope it is. Could be the last wave, could be a 20 year thing, think it is prudent to prepare for next winter being like this one.
Omicron is uber transmissible and immunity wanes, so Iām sort of struggling with how this gets us to some sort of herd immunity rather than making it less possible.
Im on day 5 of symptoms. Getting tested again this afternoon
We are fucking idiots. The collective āweā I mean.
You donāt think that omicron infection now likely lessons the more severe outcomes of a delta/delta-like future variant? From what I recall, delta mostly fucked up the completely un-vaxxed.
Iām also not even sure we could have prevented much of what has happened short of long term hardcore lockdowns. And we could have saved a bunch more lives and made the lives of healthcare workers less of a hell. But we prolly end up roughly here in the same spot anyway considering our current state of technology.
I wanted the whole damn country on a 6/2 week schedule where weād try to limit public interaction cyclically to mange things. This was before Delta even and before vaccines.
I hope the Aussie officials show that right after he claimed he got an exemption for testing positive.
What a fucking clown. No defense or sense. Either
A the poz was a lie or
B heās an even bigger POS to expose others like that.
But the outcomes shouldnāt be nearly as bad the next time? As omicron is going to infect almost everybody this time. There where still plenty of āvirginsā for delta to fuck up before. I thinkā¦ Iām just spit balling here of course.
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Still many plot twists to come. My gut thinks one or more nastier surprises is still in store.
I have that on a mug.
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My dad does too. Except it doesnāt have that stupid āThe End?ā text on it.