I think he wants them to stop having restrictions so he can watch his kid play footy.
Fair enough.
We have got to that stage now.
spot on. they’ve only been capturing data on high-risk-of-exposure demographics but using those numbers to enforce the restrictions on the general population for 2 months now.
I’d turn that around the other way. Restrictions are being relaxed with no real data on case loads, the only indicators we have are hospital admissions and the wastewater signal. In terms of guiding what we do, hospital admissions are simply too late. But both hospital admissions and the wastewater signals are turning upward - very similar to where we were at the end of November. It seems almost inevitable that we will have another wave of sorts, as Omicron benefits from increasing contact.
I am not against relaxing restrictions, but I’d much prefer it if that was accompanied by getting data back to the level of precision we had last Fall. It is as if several provincial governments have just decided that covid is over. It frankly infuriates me that Saskatchewan was the first to relax measures, when their prior management of the situation was so piss poor they had to ship ICU patients out of the province.
I just hope to hell we don’t see another variant.
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well maybe in Ontario but the situation here has improved very little since the new year.
and our housing prices are out of control. two of my neighbors have listed and sold for 1.5mil. and these houses are NOT worth that. but now, our taxes are being levied at those rates. it’s madness.
BC didn’t have as tight restrictions as Ontario did pre-Omicron though. But yeah, BC has not moved as fast as Ontario, which I think is smart if testing is not a possibility. What Ontario has done seems reckless, making changes before the effect of a prior change can be observed. What I don’t understand is why provinces have not gone back to the prior testing regime now that the demand numbers seem more manageable - although perhaps that is a tacit acknowledgement that they still aren’t. Ontario’s CMO stated they think the cases are 10x as the test data suggests. Anecdotally, that fits with what I have been seeing - loads and loads of people testing positive with rapid tests, losing a week to it, and that’s it.
that’s pretty accurate. we had a massive outbreak of Omicron here. wastewater testing through the roof. the province basically threw their hands up and said “fuckit, let’s go for herd immunity here” and cancelled PCR testing.
Not that it’s important, but I visited my mother this weekend and on Sunday she tested positive for Covid. So I probably got it I guess. She was sick yesterday, but is already better now. Must be a very mild variant. I have no symptoms at all, but there may be incubation time and I still can get a bit sick I suppose. My mother only has it like a very, very mild flue though. But we both have 2 doses of Phizer and 1 moderna booster dose, so I suppose infection isn’t important then. I am just kind of grounded here, that’s it.
Tbh, I couldn’t care less about Covid anymore. Anyone who does not refuse it, are vaccinated. It’s only relevant for care homes and hospitals mostly and those with a very bad immune system if you are vaccinated. Unless you are super unlucky. War is immensely more important.
You’re right, of course, but seeing the comments about how paranoid Putin is about catching it, maybe we should try and deliberately infect him?
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If only he could catch one of the earlier more dangerous variants…
Herd immunity is a misnomer, but there is increasingly strong evidence that the 3 exposure rule seems to be holding pretty well. When contrasted with what Omicron is doing in Hong Kong right now, being milder was mostly a function of prior exposure and vaccination.
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I must have had COVID decades ago. 
Oh yes am familiar
I’ve got this horror cough at the moment and head cold. Otherwise I don’t feel too bad but I do feel worn out. Had it for 5 days now. Multiple tests are all negative.
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Easy to forget that there’s loads of nasty colds that we’ve all been laid out by over the years. We had zero exposure to them through lockdown. No surprise they’re running rife now. We’ve all had a real head batterer of late, no COVID though.
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I’ve had four properly shocking colds over the last year or so. Every time I’ve gone ‘right, here we go then…’ only for it to be negative.
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Yeah, feeling proper run down today.
2 more paracetamol I guess and yet another test to be sure.
Got to watch out the oxygen level too. If you feel high as fck without a reason, you need to go to hospital.
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