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I will be comfortable with unmasking two weeks out from SXSW if the numbers are still low. 

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    He didn't get COVID.  He just ran out of immunity.

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12 minutes ago, Deej said:

I will be comfortable with unmasking two weeks out from SXSW if the numbers are still low. 

That’s very courageous of you.

18 minutes ago, Deej said:

I will be comfortable with unmasking two weeks out from SXSW if the numbers are still low. 

Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker.

Wait, you think I'm Rex Kramer? 

Lulz.

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Fuck that guy!

I'm pretty sure your mom already did.

I tried to get in today and it says I need a login for the Dashboards.  Anyone else having this issue?  Do I need a login to access public information now?

When can we drop this stupid requirement for Americans to have to take a Covid test when returning from international travel? There is no way it has any public health benefit, and all it causes is wasted time, money, and anxiety for our own citizens.

2 hours ago, Stringer said:

I tried to get in today and it says I need a login for the Dashboards.  Anyone else having this issue?  Do I need a login to access public information now?

Same. Looks to be a free login but they seem to want to know who is using the page.  You can use Microsoft or google or Apple ID I think I saw, right before the “fuck this” and tab close. 

Edited by Pato del Muerto

Probably has to do with this:

NOTICE: The dashboard is down for maintenance on Thursday, March 3. Dashboard data will be updated every weekday in the early afternoon.

19 hours ago, Deej said:

Wait, you think I'm Rex Kramer? 

Lulz.

It happens.

Most people know me by my other handle.

Q…

It’s back and the number is 14. 
 

they took it down to add some deaths info 

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18 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

When can we drop this stupid requirement for Americans to have to take a Covid test when returning from international travel? There is no way it has any public health benefit, and all it causes is wasted time, money, and anxiety for our own citizens.

About the time we stop taking our shoes off at the general airport security. Our government does very illogical things in perpetuity until enough people force them to change it.

I enjoy taking my shoes off at the airport.  I have a collection of very fine, very expensive socks.  How else is the world to see them?

My church, which is a bunch of librulz, just announced that it's doing away with masks starting on March 13.  Because God is our copilot. 

14 minutes ago, South Austin said:

My church, which is a bunch of librulz, just announced that it's doing away with masks starting on March 13.  Because God is our copilot. 

My office did the same, for the Monday after. Presumably not for the same reason. 

Edited by Pato del Muerto

10 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

My office did the same, for the Monday after. Presumably not for the same reason. 

Oh, and my firm is doing the same on that Monday as well.  I've been hearing of other companies doing the same that week.  Maybe everyone feels confident that we'll be at Stage 3 or lower by then.

Looks like the ATX dashboard has been cleaned up to reflect actual test dates instead of reporting dates. 

Saw Jeff Tweedy at The Paramount last night and man were they ball busting strict on masks inside plus vax proof to enter. Had dinner across street at Perry’s and zero masks or fucks were given. Strange transitionary time we’re in.

I'm OK with masks in a enclosed space where people are shouting, cheering, and singing along, and that's without COVID. 

3 minutes ago, Deej said:

I'm OK with masks in a enclosed space where people are shouting, cheering, and singing along, and that's without COVID. 

No lies detected. That means you too, churches. 

Edited by Pato del Muerto

Happy 2nd Anniversary.  This was the beginning of the shutdowns...

 

 

Holy shit that’s right and I think if I remember correctly we were going to play the 1130 game in the big 12 tournament and I remember listening to it in a parking lot going to a lunch meeting and Craig Way said that the officials were conferring at the scores table.  And they decided to cancel the whole tournament and then the rest of the day was just one cancellation after another all over the world.  And here I am posting this in a parking lot going to a lunch meeting two years later.  
and we just tipped off with Tcu

We went to the She Believes Cup in Frisco and saw USWNT vs Japan. About half time the stadium had a weird buzz and everyone was staring at their phones reading about everything going on that night.

On 3/4/2022 at 5:15 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

No lies detected. That means you too, churches. 

Mrs. Brat wears her KN95 at church and doesn’t allow others to get close.

11 hours ago, Lobo said:

Holy shit that’s right and I think if I remember correctly we were going to play the 1130 game in the big 12 tournament and I remember listening to it in a parking lot going to a lunch meeting and Craig Way said that the officials were conferring at the scores table.  And they decided to cancel the whole tournament and then the rest of the day was just one cancellation after another all over the world.  And here I am posting this in a parking lot going to a lunch meeting two years later.  
and we just tipped off with Tcu

did we win by more than 5.5? Thats something I would like to know by say, 11:30AM tomorrow. K thx.

Yeah I thought 9/11 was going to be the main ‘there I was’ storyline of my generation but I remember thinking ‘that’s a bit extreme’ when a coworker was told to quarantine for two weeks after returning from Japan in late February 2020.  
 

Then in mid-March was on a conference call with her, telling me I probably shouldn’t be in the office, but I brushed it off.  After the call I stood up, looked around and realized I was one of only about a dozen people on the whole floor which normally held several hundred.  Started reading the news and everything was being canceled in short order.  That was my last day in the office and doubt I’m ever going back. 

  • 2 weeks later...

So are we going to see a slight uptick in cases after Spring Break? McCallum High reported 4 cases today. Not a lot, but this is after pretty much nothing for the past several weeks. And my son’s friend’s mom tested positive today.

8 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So are we going to see a slight uptick in cases after Spring Break? McCallum High reported 4 cases today. Not a lot, but this is after pretty much nothing for the past several weeks. And my son’s friend’s mom tested positive today.

Dashboard still looks great. How much of Texas was off last week vs 2 weeks ago or this week?

I’ve seen a few articles today reporting significant levels of Omicron Subvariant in wastewater but no increase in cases.  Also, significant percentage  of subvarient being identified in positive cases, again without surge in total cases.

17 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So are we going to see a slight uptick in cases after Spring Break? McCallum High reported 4 cases today. Not a lot, but this is after pretty much nothing for the past several weeks. And my son’s friend’s mom tested positive today.

School sports are going full-bore, both spectators and participants, and masks are (mostly) off at schools.  While I'm sure spring break will cause an uptick, it would probably be hard to distinguish from those other things.

1 minute ago, Incredulity said:

I’ve seen a few articles today reporting significant levels of Omicron Subvariant in wastewater but no increase in cases.  Also, significant percentage  of subvarient being identified in positive cases, again without surge in total cases.

The wastewater thing is simple - because enough people are vaccinated and/or plenty have had it recently, and because current variants are milder, a lot of people won't notice if they have it, or they'll brush it off as allergies or a cold.

Just now, atomheartbevo said:

The wastewater thing is simple - because enough people are vaccinated and/or plenty have had it recently, and because current variants are milder, a lot of people won't notice if they have it, or they'll brush it off as allergies or a cold.

That, and levels are so low that they can double or triple and still be very low, but provide a nice attention grabbing headline. 

5 people in my pharmacy, including myself, got covid over the past 2 weeks. Since the pandemic began we had never had more than 2 out at once. There are 18 of us or so working each day. While we have been a bit more lax than before we are all still masked 95 percent of the time. I still can't wrap my head around so many people getting it with how careful we are. If the new strain is this contagious I don't see how we avoid another wave. And my symptoms kinda sucked. We are all vaxed. 

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We had 3 new cases at work. One last week and two this week, after not having any for almost two months.

17 hours ago, UTGrad98 said:

If the new strain is this contagious I don't see how we avoid another wave.

Wait, when you say “new strain,” are you talking about Omicron, or something else?

On 3/3/2022 at 1:40 PM, wild_turkey said:

When can we drop this stupid requirement for Americans to have to take a Covid test when returning from international travel? There is no way it has any public health benefit, and all it causes is wasted time, money, and anxiety for our own citizens.

It accomplishes zero for preventing further spread of the virus. This rule has to change 

29 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Wait, when you say “new strain,” are you talking about Omicron, or something else?

it's the new omicron.  BA.2.  

 

Another wave is coming this summer.  And then another one next winter.  It's already started in the UK. 

Fortunately, lockdowns and school closures are done for good.  Masks will probably come back, which sucks because I don't think they do much (based on RCTs and the way most people use them), but I'll go with the flow for my fellow man.  

10 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

it's the new omicron.  BA.2.  

 

Another wave is coming this summer.  And then another one next winter.  It's already started in the UK. 

Fortunately, lockdowns and school closures are done for good.  Masks will probably come back, which sucks because I don't think they do much (based on RCTs and the way most people use them), but I'll go with the flow for my fellow man.  

I'll be shocked if the top of the curve of the next wave related to BA.2 is 1/2 of peak Omicron from December/January.  Just way too many Omicron antibodies out there. It's been circulating in the US for quite some time now and barely moved the needle statistically

...and what's interesting is hospital admissions are super low.  Austin metro moving average of admissions is sitting at 5... pretty much stage 1.

3 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

it's the new omicron.  BA.2.  

 

Another wave is coming this summer.  And then another one next winter.  It's already started in the UK. 

Fortunately, lockdowns and school closures are done for good.  Masks will probably come back, which sucks because I don't think they do much (based on RCTs and the way most people use them), but I'll go with the flow for my fellow man.  

There will be other waves just like there is for the flu every year but ultimately it won’t affect society like before. It will become a slightly more deadly and more contagious version of the flu that is more deadly because ignorant people refuse to get the vaccine. That’s their choice I guess.

On 3/24/2022 at 7:12 PM, JimmyJames said:

There will be other waves just like there is for the flu every year but ultimately it won’t affect society like before. It will become a slightly more deadly and more contagious version of the flu that is more deadly because ignorant people refuse to get the vaccine. That’s their choice I guess.

I think this is the most likely outcome.  We have long had one respiratory virus that can kill 80k a year in a bad year.  Now, we're going to add another that, going forward, may kill twice that in a year.  And we'll learn to live with that way of things.

And as to both, there will be an easy, safe vaccine available that will dramatically increase the survivability, and millions upon millions will refuse to get it, because reasons.

How we made it this far as a species is a mystery to me.

2 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Tested positive yesterday.  Feel like garbage.  Double vaxxed and boosted. 

If your experience is anything like my wife and I, you’ll get over it quickly with a lingering week of not being 100%

https://www.dallascounty.org/Assets/uploads/docs/hhs/2019-nCoV/2022-COVID-19-Summaries/2022-Summaries-03/DCHHS COVID-19 Summary 03-25-2022.pdf

Dallas County summary for week ending 3/25 (data is actually through 3/19).

350 cases for the week ending 3/19 and 2.6% positive testing. Both lower than we were last summer in June.  Improvement in South Dallas on fully vaccinated status.  Still a couple of hold out zips but overall pretty good.  

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

How we made it this far as a species is a mystery to me.

Survival of the fittest is nothing new

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