I know this post was a few days ago, but this article is relevant so I’m sharing it here as well: https://hexbear.net/post/248329

The people I know with kids have had “strange completely unidentifiable respiratory diseases” that definitely aren’t COVID basically once a month.

We mask whenever indoors in public spaces, which is almost never. My kids are homeschooled, I am unemployed, my spouse is an RN at a small hospital where masking is still required for staff (but notably not for patients—you will sometimes see these ridiculous FB photos of smiling unmasked octogenarians surrounded by double-masked medical workers). None of us has even had a cold for quite a long time, many months at least. We are all fully vaxxed.

AFAIK, the situation at the local school is okay? I see newsletter pictures where maybe 1% of the people are masked, and things appear to be normal (I mean, the kids look bored and depressed). I have to wonder if they’re hiding and removing their masks to take the pictures, however.

A close lib friend of mine who lives on the West Coast told me he had covid pretty badly for a week about a month ago.

Going from the wastewater data alone, last year was the worst of the pandemic.

If libs admit that there is any kind of problem, they will blame Biden / Republicans and say we just need to vote more progressives into power. Conservatives will not admit that there is a problem. If they come to that point, they will find a way to blame Jews / Muslims / the Chinese / the globalhomo agenda.

A couple of wealthy boomer neighbors are about to vacation in Florida for a month, presumably unmasked. I’m kind of wondering if they’re going to come back alive.

Somehow I’ve still managed to avoid getting it despite me being really un careful about not getting it at the start of the pandemic