It’s not necessarily the virus itself, it’s your immunity to the virus.
It seems like governments are waiting to see what other governments are going to do, and then follow a herd mentality approach.
I got my bivalent booster in Oct 2022 and there has been no update on the Ontario website since then about what boosters are available, recommended, or planned. My guess is that as the weather warms up here the number of cases will decrease, but the COVID dashboard hasn’t even been updated since September 2022 so who knows? There isn’t a lot of data anymore because people are just getting sick, self identifying as positive, but not reporting to any central agency.
I think it will be tempting to just hope/assume that COVID is no longer a major concern. Technocrats running the health care system will need to do the best they can to understand what’s happening but I’m not even sure if the province will make further boosters available unless we see a big surge in hospitalizations again.
Holy cow-seriously this time. I worked with the Hause guy in this article back before he went back to grad school. Good for him.
Goddamnit, just tested positive for the first time this morning. I’m someone who still wears a mask in every indoor public place, but obviously not everyone does that and I got it from a careless acquaintance. Got a zoom doctor’s appt this afternoon to get Paxlovid. Congested, mild unproductive cough, mild chills, a general feeling of SHIT. I think the part that irks me the most is now I’m out of commission for however long.
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I’ve still never had it yet! Must be one of the 1%. Heard it’s rife atm but we’re supposed to pretend it’s gone now… ssshhhh!
USA thing this.
Somehow I also haven’t had it. My wife has, but daughter and I are immune.
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My wife, at least 2 of the 4 kids, but alas I seem to be resistant! Teflon Church!
But I will defo report here first time i get the lurgy :) … if i live…
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Don’t forget, they’re still estimating ~20% of cases are totally asymptomatic. Unless you’ve been testing yourself daily for 3 years, I dunno if anyone can say with certainty that they’ve never had it.
The last 2 or 3 times we’ve had an outbreak at work we’ve also had at least 1 asymptomatic person test positive.
I haven’t had it but have been hungover for 3 years so no way to really know.
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Killing the virus with alcohol is certainly worth trying.
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So far successful and better than the horse dewormer shit.
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I wonder if this has been the case for me. I’ve never tested positive or had symptoms suggesting Covid, but my wife has had it twice and numerous friends and family have tested positive.
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After listening to this podcast, it seems highly unlikely that there was any sort of lab leak, to the point that the way people have argued for it seems fairly ludicrous.
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Of Course
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The serious people have been on one side of this issue for a long, long time.
From the LA Times:
“Data from L.A. County’s sewage plants show coronavirus levels falling to levels of “low concern,” significantly down from the peak recorded in the late autumn. For the most recent week’s data available, coronavirus levels in wastewater at the county’s largest sewage treatment plants were 21% of the autumn and winter peak.”
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