Was reading this post and was absolutely terrified. It's gonna be bad.
Take away is that current lock downs are basically useless against the new strain as it has mutated enough to be more transmissible thru/around mask. Vaccines are still likely to work, and its not more deadly (seems like), but just going to blow thru our preventive measures like nothing.
Reposting because the first post didn't get enough traction and I need people to commiserate with me. Pulled out the money shot image, because I know libs don't read .
Its gonna get bad. Like the people spreading it aren't idiots from the info I'm seeing. There's been a few where its like, what the fuck are you doing, but for most they're being stupid to a reasonable extent. Like no ones staying locked down completely for a year cause thats impossible. But like, I'm seeing lots of people doing completely reasonable activities-shit you gotta do to just stay sane-that are causing outbreaks.
My family had stopped doing our Sunday family dinners (cousins, aunts, uncles, kids -- like probably 10-15 at a time depending on who comes) for a while. But now they want to start again, because everyone hates not seeing each other. I don't wanna say it to them, but it probably would have made more sense to have been doing it and stop then go back and start again when things are getting so much worse. But I understand that they just miss seeing each other.
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Is doing like a video call with them all possible?
Yeah they’ve done Zoom calls. But that’s apparently not enough. Gonna try talking them out of it but there’s only so much I can do :(
Damn; my friends and I have all gone digital, but we're all zoomers, so that was kinda the norm for us anyway
Folks I know that travelled for the holidays were super cautious ahead of going to see family (isolating upon arrival etc), but upon returning haven’t isolated or quarantined at all. Back to normal covid precautions immediately. Based on that, the new variant circulating and that I’m prone to overthinking, I fear it’s gonna get really messy from next week onwards I think, 2 weeks after the end of holiday travel.
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