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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about



Hopefully by the fall. Note this is for BA.1 which is long gone by now and the newer BA.5 variant has significant immune escape on BA.1... Soooo this is gonna be an outdated product BUT it will broaden immunity significantly and this is way the fuck better than the OG vax. So while I wouldn't expect anywhere near 90+% effectiveness, it should be much better than what we had after dose 3. Broadening immunity = good and undoing the imprinting from the Wuhan strain = good too. So while we desperately need next gen (variant-proof and/or intransal?) vaccines, this will do just fine for now.
 
is covid still a thing in Toronto? I'm sure it'll be back but it feels like it's dead right now.
 
Wastewater says there's a lull. But much, much much higher numbers than the previous 2 summers. Each summer has given us more covid since 2020. Our "lulls" in infections are more comparable to prior peaks these days.

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With that said I would assume the January peak will be hard to match anytime soon with all sorts of immunity. Next challenge is likely BA.5 which evades BA.1 pretty much entirely.. So those infected in January are likely to be pretty susceptible to reinfection when BA.5 becomes dominant. Those hit by BA.2 might be alright if they were boosted as well. Think we'll get 1-2 month lulls and peaks similar to what we saw in April moving forward. Lots of selective pressure on variants now with those variants that evade prior immunity becoming dominant and reinfecting people over and over again.
 
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CH1 said:
is covid still a thing in Toronto? I'm sure it'll be back but it feels like it's dead right now.
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It’s becoming increasingly rare to see masked up people in public in Toronto, even in crowded supermarkets.

And tbh, I’m pretty much back to normal life myself. I usually don’t mask up anywhere unless the employee who’s serving me is—then I’ll do it as a courtesy. And I’m long since back to going out, having get-togethers with friends, back to working at the office, etc.

Still, to my knowledge, I’ve never caught Covid myself. And it’s been a while since anyone I know has caught it.
 
LeafGm said:
It’s becoming increasingly rare to see masked up people in public in Toronto, even in crowded supermarkets.

And tbh, I’m pretty much back to normal life myself. I usually don’t mask up anywhere unless the employee who’s serving me is—then I’ll do it as a courtesy. And I’m long since back to going out, having get-togethers with friends, back to working at the office, etc.

Still, to my knowledge, I’ve never caught Covid myself. And it’s been a while since anyone I know has caught it.
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Same
 
In my neighbourhood I’d estimate 60-70% of people are still masked in supermarkets, etc.

I was in NY recently and it was MAYBE 1-2% of people.
 
Probably a 50% masked where I'm at, which is a fairly Asian and Persian centric area. It's basically Asians = masked. White people and Persians = unmasked.
 
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Still mask up in crowded spaces or places I see others masked as a courtesy. But mostly normal.

Most social stuff has been outdoors anyway.
 
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Same. Avoid them whenever I can, mask up when I can't. Society can try to act like we're back to normal but the data is very clear that we're not.
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yeah in the span of like three months, we've gone from maybe (all anecdotally) 70% of folks in the climbing gym being masked down to 50% and then this week at one point I was one of two people in the entire gym in a mask.

at the office it is just me and one other who still mask.

most people are over it...
 
Understandably over it! I also don't think most people understand the risks. I'd be way mroe careless if the acute infection was where the risks ended, because that part is fairly mild for basically everyone now. For me personally I don't think it's worth risking the rest of my life when I'm fairly confident that science will come through and find a way to make covid barely a real threat at all within the next few years through both next gen vaccines and long covid treatments.

For old people, I get it. Live your life, there's not much time left to wait for science to save us. But for those with a lot of life ahead of us... I don't know. I've seen how it can impact people and it sucks.
 
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Hopefully by the fall. Note this is for BA.1 which is long gone by now and the newer BA.5 variant has significant immune escape on BA.1... Soooo this is gonna be an outdated product BUT it will broaden immunity significantly and this is way the fuck better than the OG vax. So while I wouldn't expect anywhere near 90+% effectiveness, it should be much better than what we had after dose 3. Broadening immunity = good and undoing the imprinting from the Wuhan strain = good too. So while we desperately need next gen (variant-proof and/or intransal?) vaccines, this will do just fine for now.
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Pretty good for those already infected but sorta poop for those not. Likely only a small increase in VE, but who knows what it will do on BA.5. Could be due to imprinting so maybe a 2nd dose performs better.
 
I still wear a mask in indoor settings like shopping, banking etc. I notice fewer masked people than a month ago. Mostly it’s government and retail workers. Seniors about 40-50% still seem to mask up.
 
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