Quote Originally Posted by farothel View Post
We will have to do the same. Even if you have a cold, you wear a mask so as not to infect others.
Yes. It's good manners. I hope it catches on for other things besides COVID; if you have a contagious disease, mask up if you can't stay home. Perhaps we need to 'encourage' companies not to force employees to come in to work at, say, a burger joint when they're coughing all over the food.


So the rest of the world seems to be recovering from Covid, but China is not

Quote Originally Posted by National Review
From overwhelmed hospitals to overflowing morgues, the scenes from Hong Kong’s COVID-19 crisis were strikingly similar to those that unfolded around the world in the early months of the pandemic.

Except that for the wealthy city of 7.5 million people, the sight of bodies piling up in hallways and around patients in hospitals emerged only this month, a year after vaccines against the virus became widely and freely available in the territory. . . .

In a matter of weeks, the contagious Omicron variant of the virus has infected more than 1 million people and caused more than 5,000 deaths, mostly among unvaccinated, elderly people.

Why is this happening? There appear to be at least two answers:

1) Draconian 'zero covid' policies. That might have worked with Covid Alpha, but Covid Omicron is just not having it. We need a certain degree of natural transmission among the vaxxed population in order to further strengthen immunity. Having 'hybrid immunity' -- vaxxed plus boosted plus natural immunity -- is a " Superpower " .

You can slow the spread, but you can't stop it. Not of Omicron.

2) They're using Sinovac, not Pfizer or Moderna or even Johnson & Johnson. For some reason it's not as effective, and even less effective against Omicron.

And of course the more spread there is the more likely another variant will appear.

Respectfully,

Brian P.