[dragontamer]

Were smiles banned or something? I've smiled to my niece and she smiled back to me last time I checked.

But in public, its important to reduce the hospitalization rate and COVID19 rate of spread. As corrosive as you "think" masks are, I guarantee that the long-term effects of COVID19 are more corrosive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/rxwnbl/i_am_a_new_york...

Just 10% of this school has gotten infected with COVID19, and you can see how much of a nightmare its become. Not enough substitute teachers to watch kids. Kids mingling in the auditorium because there's not enough teachers to watch them. Spreading COVID19 further and further, causing more kids to be absent, causing more teachers to be absent, preventing school from effectively functioning as a learning environment.

[spookthesunset]

Seems like a self created problem. Imagine if we simply stopped all this testing. I bet a lot of money you wouldn’t even know omicron was a thing. This would be “that thing that is going around”

[dragontamer]

I was standing in a 4-hour line to get a nurse to give me a regular TDAP vaccine (wooping cough). I decided to come back later when the line was shorter, and stood in line __before__ the clinic opened. I was then met with a 2-hour wait instead.

You can't ignore this crap. Its evidently and immediately an issue right now.