Los Angeles County lifted the mask mandate on Friday, and my city extended it to yesterday. We popped into grocery store today wearing our masks and thought we’d get some sour looks. Happy to report that ever single person who I could see in the store (and there were a lot of people) had a mask on! 
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No idea why it makes any sense to stop requiring vaccination proof.
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Some pundits and pols protesting mandates said their biggest concern was the gubmint forcing them to do something. They’re supposedly OK with it when a business owner does the same thing. 
However, they are pro-business in the same way they are pro-police and supporters of forced birth…when it has no impact on their lives at all.
So, I won’t be surprised if they immediately start going after private businesses that require proof, too. Remember all those performative videos with anti-maskers in retail stores & restaurants, reading from scripts, and demanding to see the manager? There might be repeat coming, along with lawsuits, in an effort to intimidate business owners into letting them have their way.
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On cases per capita they’re even better than some of their Nordic neighbors.
UK Survey to December 2021, so just into Omicron:
… 1.0% of primary school-aged pupils and 2.7% of secondary school-aged pupils … experienced long COVID lasting at least 12 weeks.
Primary school pupils … were significantly more likely to have a probable mental disorder (30.0%) than those without long COVID (7.7%); the trend was similar for secondary school pupils (22.6% compared with 13.6%), but this is not statistically significant.
However, that’s all pupils of whom 19-25% (going by the error bars) were diagnosed with COVID. That suggests a long COVID rate of 4-5% for primary school pupils and 11-14% for secondary aged students. I suppose that’s in line with what we knew before, but still disappointing.
I’d love better stats soon for Omicron and long COVID. With testing going to zero in a lot of the world I’m not hopeful.
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That matches (fairly closely, but current stats are all like that) what we are seeing and what has been published from other countries. The mental health impact (both behavioral and cognitive, as i am of the opinion that these ade not separate concerns) worries me most, especially as we abandon mitigation efforts in schools. I don’t think we are ever going back to 2019. I just hope we manage to find support for mental health providers, because we need many, many more than we have currently. Our counseling center is one of the better ones locally and has a waiting list over 400 kids long.
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To add an additional worry: a (German) lawyer I know told me that insurance’s as well as employer’s and professional association’s coverage of long term effects of COVID-19 would require a positive PCR, as a baseline.
I already have one case in the family who had COVID-19 recently and didn’t get a diagnosis.
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At hospital admission, low levels of ionized calcium (<1.10 mM) seem to be predictive for the need for further intensive care medical treatment.
I am not a medical professional, and my physiological knowledge is too little to speculate on this.
ETA: can’t post another consecutive reply, so editing this in;
Well, shit.
By the way, heard about this one?
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Philadelphia’s rolling average is 93 new cases/day, 36% lower than a week ago. Daily positivity rate is averaging 2.0%, down three-quarters of a point from a week prior. [PDPH]
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Statewide, the rolling average is 2,160 new cases/day, 31% lower than a week ago. At last report, statewide positivity rate averaged 6.6%, down three points from a week prior. [Pa. DOH]
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I guess my only hope is folks like him continue to be as vocal about changing their minds as they were about being anti-mask and anti-vaxx. Nothing worse than burying the truth and leaving followers to repeat their mistakes.
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Great flick.
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For the second time, carnival was canceled in the vast majority of Brazilian capitals because of the Pandemic. But this time people took to the streets in clandestine parties. I hope that by the middle of the month the cases don’t increase wildly.
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A very good movie.
I always thought the reason that Paul Newman’s character couldn’t supply an alibi would become dated. Now I’m not so sure. I just know I was very unhappy with the choice made by Sally Field’s character.
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The Attack Rates are so damn high.
But we can reduce them. Ain’t to difficult, on paper, at least
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I mean, I tried to be tested but the sample wasn’t usable. There was no way that I was going to take more time off time to get retested. So I just assume that I had Omicron since my husband tested positive and we have to share everything 
I bet there are many of us that went through the quarantine but aren’t officially counted.
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I see covid is gone at the State of The Union.
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