Man, everyone I have communicated with today has either tested positive for The COVID or had a family member test positive for The COVID this week. Party tomorrow night and NYE have been blown up and I just know the PassiveSon, who is going to a bar party in Wrigleyville NYE, is going to bring it home with him....
yeah, it's pretty much game over. Had a niece catch it presumably teaching HS, another niece somehow dodged getting it from some new boyfriend (now that's taking it slow!), and another friend whose father died - had a memorial with 200 people and pretty much everyone has it (you can't stop a Boston Lebanese funeral). The one thing that might slow the NorCal spread is that it snowed so much in Tahoe that nobody could get up there.
for all the blathering misinterpretations of my position, my position is this - "more cases bad, less cases good. If we do things that lower cases, that's good. The opposite, is bad. It's understood that there are risk/reward calculations. Going to the store, will have a finite chance of me getting infected, or if I'm already infected, I infect someone else, but I need food, so shit might happen"
College basketball games with fans right now, the ROI isn't there. Tail end of last season, cases were super low, the calculus was different. In June with cases in Sonoma County at 2/100k and the vaccines showing some good work, I went to Graton Casino and played poker, which I didn't *need* to do but was great for my spirits and the risk level was low. In a similar transmission level with the same variants in play, the Bragging rights game might have been safer than poker. There are more people at the game, but I was in a smaller room, and even with high tech ventilation and plexiglass and masks, I was in close proximity for hours
But Illinois is at the highest case level of the pandemic plus delta and omicron. Bad mojo. And Bragging rights turned out to be a spreading event. Even if there are no deaths, it is gonna cost hundreds of thousands of fans 2-3 televised games which I could really use, personally. Maybe nothing could be done, if both teams had outbreaks, probably didn't come from having fans.
If everyone had upped their game by 10% the past 12 months - people who aren't vaccinated get vaccinated, combine one grocery trip, wear masks, whatever ... not a lockdown, just a 10% adjustment...
and rich countries had just dumped a ton of cash into a worldwide vaccine program...
We'd still be having a spike. Just not at this level.
Now we just wait to see if rumors of Omicron not causing as much hospitalizations or boosters keeping people upright are a thing. Fingers crossed. My hope was we never had to find out, but c'est la vie
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