My partner and i where really sick when we visited a seaside town near us that has a high population of chinese, spanish and a fair bit of tourism, it was around december 2019, i read about the issues happening in Decemeber in Wuhan so i tried to order masks incase it spread, i couldnt get any anywhere, previously having a job running a builders merchants i had aceess to a lot of sales reps in the UK and across Europe to order materials for the shop, i contacted many people with no luck but was told by one individual that he had been told himself that china had called back a huge amount of stock, not sure how legitimte this is but i couldnt get masks untill the 2nd week of Feb.,(reply>), @A R I kinda feel the same way, recently I've been sick again, it lasted a month which never happens to me I usually get violently sick and recover very very quickly, I've been told this is an aggressive immune response type I have compared to other people since what lasts others weeks my body usually fights off in 48hrs. everyone around me has been really sick too and then all of a sudden Omnicron is announced as a new variant. Let's see if the theme continues next year. Common sense tells me that people's immune systems are shot to hell due to the current situation everyone's in, its only obvious people will get more sick than normal during flu season and numbers will rise. I still fail to see how such a small percentage of infection warrants continuous restrictions.<br>Here in the UK bars and pubs where people get drunk and are allowed to behave irresponsibly are forced to wear a mask to enter a shop. Makes absolutely no sense to allow contamination in an alcohol fueled environment but enforce it where people generally behave sensibly,(reply>), Cool story bro