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Can we not drag that dip shit into literally every thing?
I was looking for a text of this story and ran across this from NBC a month ago...
XBB variant's arrival won't cause a new deadly COVID surge ...
Nov 25, 2022
You're not going to find anyone from either political party, and certainly not the business community to state the obvious. The longer the virus hangs around, the greater opportunity for strains to develop. >

The virus isn't ever going away. Your children, and your children's children, will all catch some covid strain, and we will all be vaccinated yearly for new variants. The hope of "stopping it" died after the omicron surge. >

It died in May 2020 when half of America gave up on any restrictions, sparking other countries full of different selfish assholes to also start acting like Covid never mattered. We fucked this up from day 1 >

60% of people surveyed in 2020 said they wouldn't cancel any plans due to being covid positive. >

That’s a bonkers statistic.  Meanwhile, the only people I was indoors with that year were immediate family members. >

XBB has been around for a while. XBB.1.5 is the nasty one that looks like it has a major growth advantage that may cause problems soon. >

Are those that are testing positive using the home test kits? I wonder about the viability of those as the virus mutates? Are they still useful in determining if you have Covid at the earlier stages or testing after exposure for asymptomatic cases? >

I had Covid starting last Thursday. At home test showed positive in seconds. I thought “besides a tickle in my throat I feel fine”, and within a couple of hours I felt like I was about to die! Body/joint aches, horrible fever, and vomiting. I’ve been feeling better everyday since, but those test kept showing positive in seconds. Finally, yesterday I had one that took about 10 minutes to show a faint positive. I’m feeling much better but I’ll keep masking around my wife and kids until I get a negative. >

Anyone have any more than a paragraph’s worth of news on this? >

So several different strains of covid fucked each other in what I can only assume was a massive microscopic orgy inside some sick bloke and now their mutated offspring is heading out to explore the world. Super. >

Pretty much, just hotter if you're microscopic I guess. >

I work from home now.
Fuck all y'all sick motherfuckers. >

Work from home too, it's been fabulous! >

We keep going eventually Musk may start naming kids after these variants.