Please, can we put that on every fucking media everywhere and just blast it over and over? Seriously, it is getting ugly and will only get worse.
FWIW, I think you made the right choice to not put your health at risk (for so many different possible contagions!).
But I would suggest going back to the store and talking with the manager and telling them what happened. What is their response? That will tell you whether or not you ever want to go back to that place. After all, as you point out, there were so many basic food safety health violations going on that itâs not just covid they put customers at risk for.
Thanks, I do plan on communicating with the store. I think it is about the overall standards and process rather than one individual, so thatâs what I want to emphasize.
More broken reporting. 
When one takes a moment to read the letter itself, the physicians make a measured argument that the mental health case rates outweigh the COVID risks IF far more thorough testing measures can be taken than are currently available.
A more fitting headline might be:
Fewer than 2% of Ontario Physicians Advocate Return to School, And Then Only with Rapid Tests Available Every Two Days for At-Risk Staff and Student Households
From the letter:
Numerous jurisdictions around the globe have made a commitment to keeping schools open, regardless of case counts, and we need to do the same. As such, we recommend:
- Protecting in-school attendance utilizing a âtest-to-stayâ strategy whereby children and youth,
their siblings, and teachers remain in the classroom following a close-contact exposure, with
frequent rapid antigen testing, as recommended by the Centres [sic] for Disease Control and
Prevention.
- Frequent testing (e.g. every second day) of school-based contacts has been shown to be
equivalent to self-isolation for control of COVID-19 transmission.
Their argument is based on data before Omicron, and the hope it doesnât get worse.
Today, I would treat anyone outside of my household with a sniffle as a potential exposure: our case rates are at a record, test positivity is over 25%, with over a full day backlog (weâre likely 60% under-reported today).
Weâve had the discussion with our kids, and will be delaying their return to school for at least a couple of weeks, regardless of what the Ontario 
provincial government says in the next few days.
Edit: Tests are 60k behind, but have ramped up since I last checked to ~60k/day.
Roads were clear enough today for me to go out and I got re-boostered. Letâs see how bad it is this time aroundâŚ
The article a few posts above yours was about Lurie, which is the childrenâs hospital that is part of Northwestern Universityâs medical center. I have it on good authority that at the University of Chicago medical center, 1/3 of the patients are now covid-positive children and babies. Thatâs the two main university teaching hospitals in a major city, swamped with pediatric cases.
âWe have about 16,000 ICU beds left in the country. I give it a week and a half, maybe less.â
That is chilling.
And that is way far optimistic (which she said.) The way the numbers are accelerating, I give it less than a week. But hey, the economy is buzzing right along!!
This is the thing, isnât it? Especially when it comes to workplace scenarios, itâs almost always advisable to blame the process and/or policies instead of the low wage workers. The experience you described shows a process that failed at multiple steps. Itâs easiest to pile the blame on the front-facing worker, but itâs not fair and itâs not going to fix systemic failures.
They should rename themselves Omicron Airlines.
The irony is, Delta was by far the best US carrier about enforcing mask requirements and other precautions on their aircraft.
Fair enough, but itâs a bit like any of those situations where some state or government was good about masking, or initial vaccine rollout, or locking down early, or any intervention you get right. It stops mattering quickly enough and itâs all about where you are at now as the new wave is doing its thing.
And boy is it doing its motherfucking thing across Europe right now. Itâs chaos out there. Places arenât closed but businesses are closing because there arenât enough fresh bodies to staff them. Weâre all locked up for Christmas as there arenât enough tests and public health advice is âif you think you have it, you have.â
No waiting and worrying I guess.
My ignorant state is now over 28% positivity and that does not include home testing.
Nearly 1 in 100 Michiganders were hospitalized with COVID-19, which means a person every seven minutes was admitted to a Michigan hospital with the virus.
More than 1 in 1,000 residents of the state died from the virus â bringing the total death toll from COVID-19 to nearly 27,000 people since March 2020.
Australia is having an emergency meeting of the Prime Minister and the state Premiers to discuss redefining trivial things like âwhat does Close Contact meanâ and âhow long to Quarantine forâ and âwhat counts as a negative testâ.
This is widely considered to be a deeply stupid idea.
But theyâre going to go through with it anyway, because all the states allowed travel between states contingent on a negative PCR test 72 hours before travel, and what with everyone travelling interstate to visit family they havenât seen in two years, and everyone going back to restaurants, and there being this strange, inexplicable (/s) spike in cases just after Christmas, well,
Itâs almost like the lockdowns and activity restrictions were working, and the unilateral actions of the NSW government in declaring that itâs hard so theyâre not going to do it, and in the Prime Minister for Sydney demanding that every other state be more like NSW and open up as wide as possible immediately (which is to say: take off your mask and stand real close while NSW coughs into your open mouth), while at the same time not pumping money and resources into the testing centers and not investing in RATs, have had exactly the result that everyone said they would have.
Indiana:
Total Tests Administered: 16,585,780
02/26/2020 ⌠12/28/2021
(4,735,792 Individuals Tested)
Total Positive Cases: 1,234,919
03/06/2020 ⌠12/28/2021
10,560 Statewide Reinfection Cases since 9/1/2021
Positivity - Unique Individuals: 24.4 %
7-Day Rate
12/16/2021 ⌠12/22/2021
25.9 % cumulative rate
Total Deaths: 18,338
03/16/2020 ⌠12/28/2021
State Total Population: 6,805,985
So yeah: there are over 10,000 Hoosiers who have gotten covid at least twice, despite the fact that the state actually did a good job rolling out the vaccine and testing.
Iâm sorry. I empathize. My ignorant state is at 27% positivity, 48% fully vaccinated, 28% boosted. The under 18 vaccination rate is so abysmally low, itâs criminal IMO. I guess we can expect an awful start to the new year as well.
