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