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AEW posted...

Fair play to admit that. I respect that. Ill get the data out with sources properly when I can get on my laptop.

The UK is quite interesting. Scotland and Wales had way more restrictions in place than England over Christmas and believe the data suggests very little variation in hospitalisations and deaths between the three countries suggesting the added restrictions did little to prevent the spread.

Im personally of the opinion everyone is going to get it at some point and the most important thing is to prevent the hospitals being overrun. During the first year of covid masks and isolation were an important part of this.

But with the fact omicron is so transmissible and also that vaccines reduce the need to go to hospital we are in the situation where more draconian restrictions arent necessary in the balance of things.

I appreciate this is going to differ from country to country so the guidance the US gets is going to be geared towards the specific vaccine and hospital capacity situation over there.

That's one way to interpret the data. Another interpretation is that at this point, people are ignoring restrictions. That seems more likely to me, but I don't have anything concrete to back up that thought other than the obvious question of, if people were actually isolating, how would the virus be spreading?

Even with omicron spreading and people growing lax about precautions, I'm still gonna do my duty as I see it. Every person I don't infect is the potential start of a long chain that could impact large numbers of people and have untold effects on their health. And the more the virus spreads, the higher the chance a new variant will show up to fuck us over even worse. I'm gonna do my part to prevent that, however small a part that is.

Further, there's not enough data on the long-term impacts of Covid, even when a case isn't bad enough to put you in the hospital. Shit wrecks your insides in a way that the flu doesn't.

I have loosened up in the past year. I don't get groceries delivered anymore, and I am seeing friends in limited settings. But if I tested positive, I'd stay home for 10 days just to be safe.