Omicron is already so yesterday it isn't even a memory.
Why aren't you upset with your governments for not making this a non-issue? You gave them 2 years to figure it out and all I hear are excuses like "you can't just spin up new staff". Bullshit. These governments have virtually unlimited resources to build healthcare capacity to deal with covid. If there was a will to do so, they could have built capacity specific for covid that includes proper staffing.
The fact that entire regions of 17 million people get thrown into month-long lockdowns and asked to cancel christmas because the region can only support like 400 people in the ICU is a travesty.
People should be furious with their governments continuing to blame the public for "possible healthcare collapses". We paid with 2 years of our short-ass lives waiting for them to fix capacity issues. There are zero excuses.
I will stop wearing one much sooner. I hate the muffled voices. I can't see anyone smile. It's dehumanizing.
Grocery stores are not for socializing. I don't want randos to try to start a conversation with me beyond asking quick questions.
For you.
Do you wash your hands between when touch a bottle of salad dressing, and before you eat?
- Infected Mushroom in the Midway: hardly anyone wearing masks, irregardless of if they are drinking or not
- Chvrches in the Civic Auditorium: most people wearing masks, maybe 20% of the audience unmasked. Even people with drinks mostly just removing it drinking and putting it back on.
- Spiderman in the AMC Kabuki: mostly everyone wearing masks
- Karaoke bar in Japantown after Spiderman: no one wearing masks, not even the barman and the owner of the bar that were of course not drinkingIt's not necessarily correlated with age either. We went out to eat at a bar-like place that mostly 50-somethings go to. Most people didn't have a mask, even if they were just hanging around the bar doing nothing.
I think some of it is a self selection process. People that think the virus isn't a big deal are more likely to not care about masks, go to these places, and I would bet also not be vaccinated.
My wife and I have discussed this a lot. We are much more likely to do things with people that are taking it seriously but still have a social life, than people that never thought it was a big deal - the latter are much more likely to be taking absolutely zero precautions.
Real talk, wth is going on in your head...