If the C’ville kids venture out to Richmond or further to the NoVaDCMd area they can get boosters basically by just walking into a CVS, Walgreens or pretty much any grocery store. Word has it that in those places shots are easy to come by. I had no problem finding one in the DC area. In fact I was the only person in line. In, out.
UVa kids all drive Porsches right? /h
@ChuckV What could possibly go wrong?
The only thing that could go right would be large numbers of employees rightfully walking off the job due to unsafe conditions. 
Health officials are still having a hard time convincing the reflective triangle set to get the shots (NYT reprint)
I was so pissed when I read these new, incomprehensible, if-then sequence recommendations. The only possible outcome I can see is “Fuck this, I’m doing what I want.” And honestly, if so many Americans weren’t assholes. I would be OK with this. But they are, and we are screwed.
Seven days ago:
My complete layman’s guess is that it’s got something to do with Omicron hitting the upper and middle airways more, and not being as good as Delta at propagating in the lungs. So when people get Omicron, fewer of them get a lung infection, meaning less need for hospitalization. But if it does get properly started in the lungs, you’re just as screwed as if it was Delta.
Again, I’m wildly guessing here; please for the love of God, nobody take this too seriously!
That’s a proposed mechanism. My comment was in relation to observed clinical situation currently. Multiplying in the upper airways probably leads to higher potential for contagion via increased viral load in expired air, but the vaxxed/unvaxxed dichotomy still holds regarding hospitalization and progression, at least as regards hospitalization risk. Still, new and very different variant, WDKS, SSDD.
I saw the president of the flight attendants union on CNN last night she does not seem at all happy with the new guidelines. I copied the angry parts but there is a longer statement at the link.
We said we wanted to hear from medical professionals on the best guidance for quarantine, not from corporate America advocating for a shortened period due to staffing shortages. The CDC gave a medical explanation about why the agency has decided to reduce the quarantine requirements from 10 to five days, but the fact that it aligns with the number of days pushed by corporate America is less than reassuring.
If any business pressures a worker to return to work before they feel better we will make clear it is an unsafe work environment, which will cause a much greater disruption than any staffing shortages.
Deciding that Burger King needed clowns just like McDonald’s…
Dude in the foreground with the straw hat looks like the same guy from the Trump restaurant stunt; 3 days corpsified and still walking around.
“Mindless zombies” is what that video brought to mind for me. 
They do lack brains, don’t they.
Oh they have brains, but clearly ones that are hosting a brain-eating parasite.
I’m near LaGrange County in Indiana – I believe it’s the second largest Amish population after Lancaster County in PA – and can confirm that the Amish there do not wear masks, but unlike a lot of other populations in Indiana, they will not say anything negative or refuse to do their job if someone (like me) is wearing a mask.
Meanwhile, I’m still fuming from the time I went into a Meijer’s to get a cake for a friend’s birthday (last-minute celebration) and the bakery counter refused to wait on me, but took a total of 6 other people in line after me before I walked away in disgust. Yes, I was the only one wearing a mask. And this was back when the vaccines were just getting rolled out.
She got a first dose of Moderna in late March. But a couple of weeks later, she began feeling ill — as if she might black out. She wondered if it might be Zoom fatigue. Her professional life had moved online. She’d been teaching workshops and performing piano recitals in front of an iPad for months.
But after awakening one night feeling so dizzy and nauseated she feared she would fall down, she went to urgent care, where she tested positive for the coronavirus. She went home to quarantine.
OK, so tl;dr: She got her first shot, got covid a couple weeks later, then developed tinnitus, a recognized long covid symptom. Suck, right? But, and this is where I tear out my (nonexistent) hair, she does not blame her tinnitus on covid, but on the vaccine. Why?
Moon has some friends and family members who believe that her tinnitus came from her bout with COVID-19, not from the vaccine. But she has come to a different conclusion after hearing from an online community of people who share accounts of severe reactions to the vaccines.
Why the hell is NPR giving a platform to bullshit like this??
So here’s how Omicron is hitting the vaccinated in Ontario 
Jüni said [90% protection against hospitalization/ICU admission is] proof that the vaccines have been successful at achieving their primary goal, although he warned that the situation could change in the coming days and weeks because, up until now, most people who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 were infected with the previously dominant Delta variant.
Meanwhile, doctors in Manitoba have had enough, calling the governments measures “window dressing”. Both there and in Ontario, test positivity rates are solidly over 20% with a testing backlog of tens of thousands.
Get fucked.
