If you've been lax about masking, now is a good time to pick it back up. Especially in busy public places.
There are two different variants that might be at play, the one that started in Asia/Australia is more contagious due to better ACE2 binding, which seems bad.
But the new strategy our country and most people I know are going with is "just catch it, spread it to as many people as possible, and get it over with so you can go back to brunch" so good luck to everyone.
Florida is seeing the largest increases in transmission of any state right now. Almost 3x higher than any time in the past 9 months.
Other southern and west coast states are rising too but not as quickly. Everywhere else is staying low+flat.
people @ work: "everybody's sick!" "some kind of virus going around" "people keep calling out"
me: "you know covid is still around right"
it's weird how that flips a switch and triggers a brief flashback followed by return to previous brainstate
and i work in a frontline job where people we know died from it during the first waves. so maybe there's just an extra layer of trauma there
My workplace has fired about 5 people in the past year for calling out too much, as they were dealing with new chronic health problems.
You can fire someone for that??
Yep, if you call out too much. My workplace isn't unionized and we can get fired for pretty much any reason.