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Jodi
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Several people have eaten my cooking and survived.
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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch
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fear is the thief of dreams
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Jodi
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Jodi
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
quote:Originally posted by markj:
The gift that keeps on giving.
Ugh.
quote:A pair of new Omicron subvariants has emerged, raising the possibility that survivors of earlier Omicron strains can get reinfected.
BA.4 and BA.5 have gained increasing attention in South Africa as weekly coronavirus cases tripled in the last two weeks, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
"It really came out of the blue over the weekend. We were already settling down with BA.2.12.1, and then BA.4 and BA.5?" said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious diseases expert at UC San Francisco. "It just seems like the latest chapter of a never-ending saga."
The rapid growth of BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa has implications for a potential future surge in California and the U.S. Until now, scientists had been reassured that people who survived the first Omicron variant over the winter, BA.1, were unlikely to be reinfected by the even more infectious subvariant BA.2, which is now dominant nationwide.
But the surge in cases in South Africa of BA.4 and BA.5 follow an earlier Omicron wave. An estimated 90% of South Africa's population has immunity to the earlier Omicron variants either due to surviving a natural infection or through vaccination.
"If 90% of people are immune already, and they're seeing a surge in cases, it means that this particular dynamic duo [BA.4 and BA.5] are causing more reinfections — even in people who already had Omicron," Chin-Hong said.
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
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pj, citizen-poster, unless specifically noted otherwise.
mod-in-training.
pj@ermosworld∙com
All types of erorrs fixed while you wait.
quote:Originally posted by pianojuggler:
What happened to Omicron XE? I thought that sounded like an Oldsmobile from the 1980s.
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Several people have eaten my cooking and survived.
quote:Originally posted by CHAS:quote:Originally posted by pianojuggler:
What happened to Omicron XE? I thought that sounded like an Oldsmobile from the 1980s.
Yes, I think I drove a convertible model once.
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Life is short. Play with your dog.
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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch
quote:Originally posted by jodi:
Eventually it’s going to infect more people multiple times and become less deadly. Thats what successful viruses do.
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pj, citizen-poster, unless specifically noted otherwise.
mod-in-training.
pj@ermosworld∙com
All types of erorrs fixed while you wait.
quote:I've never gotten COVID, but I figure that I will eventually.
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