So Covid revisited our house this past week. Luckily only one of us was Covid positive so that I could take my son and our team to a wrestling tournament last Saturday. (He took second, but he absolutely could have and arguably should have won the final. We are still bitter.)
Anyway, Covid positive, but we had tests and tested a lot. She went on Paxlovid and was pretty miserable for about 4-5 days but is testing negative and is on the mend. No pneumonia, thank Dog.
China has finally relaxed its Zero Covid policy of lockdowns and quarantines. Super happy for the people of China who can do normal stuff again. Here's the problem: China's vaccine sucks and their vaccination rates ain't great. Which means we have over a billion people who are going to see Covid race through their population and then the virus will mutate.
As this weekly collection of Covid stories points out, we have dismantled much of the surveillance architecture surrounding Covid and now we won't know what will hit us until it hits us. We are still seeing a couple of thousand people a week die from Covid and if we see another January spike (we will) that number will go up. People aren't getting boosters or variant specific boosters.
TL;DR: we are headed for another Covid surge, but we will shrug as a few tens of thousands of Americans die. If they were all Trumpist QAnon types, that would be...interesting.
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