@augieray Sadly even the enlightened have been caught in the anti-vax cult, in practice.

Here in Toronto, my condo had a simultaneous flu/COVID clinic (one in each arm).

So, I'm pleased to still be able to protect myself so easily (and without cost).

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It is going to get ugly out there thanks to our collective stubbornness and stupidity.

We traveled by plane with less than 5 % of the people masked including the two flight attendants figuring out how they would get cold medicine in btw flights “ I just need to make it through tomorrow’s flights and then I’ll test”

#MayTheForceBeWithYou because the #OddsAreNotInYourFavor

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Perhaps consider moderating your plans for New Year’s Eve and take steps to mitigate the increased risk of infection during this outbreak.

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Soon, there will be two people in the same room that have Covid and have the same birthday.

@augieray This week is a personal all time shock of people known and second hand reporting illness'. An array: 'atypical' covid, GI covid, Norovirus, RSV, Flu, even shingles and scarlet fever. It is astonishing already how many are so sick, debilitated level.

Maybe folks are talking about health more or the stories are more magnified because the illness caused big plans to be disrupted - so perhaps people are talking more openly because they lost health and plans they'd looked forward to both, but the sheer volume astounds.

To think gatherings lately and soon ahead will ensure an increase staggers the mind. So many I know, and know of, have already been hit by something the past 10 days.

This seems like a worse year/wave of illnesses than ever from my brief vantage point. Kinda bracing for what the numbers are and will be when the hard data emerges.