One of the biggest stumbling blocks to overcoming Covid is people who act like Covid is already over…
Multiple reinfections can be cumulative in their effect on your body…
In a perfect world, everyone has sufficient sick leave and doesn’t feel guilty about calling out or worry about how many coworkers are off sick or how short-staffed your workplace is as well. (Spoiler alert: We don’t live in a perfect world.)
Had a conversation recently with someone who said they followed the guidelines after their Covid infection and isolated for five days (which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do of course.)
couldn’t help mention that I have some doubts about the accuracy and effectiveness of “the guidelines” – especially when they’ve changed so much over time and also because they are so clearly influenced by non-scientific (and frankly, non-sensical) political and economic influences. (“Do you mean like people going back to work before they’re ready?” Yes, that’s a huge part of it.)
Or just that the guidelines sometimes fly in the face of common sense – just like someone who told me it was just as safe to have two people eating lunch in the same room as long as they were six feet apart as eating lunch in two completely different rooms – wha????
https://www.twitter.com/_OntarioTeacher/status/1579974984247963649
Another huge part of the reason Covid is still so bad (and getting worse again) is because of the reluctance of a large part of the population to do the most simple things like wearing a mask, whether you’ve had Covid already or not. (Full disclosure: I’m not perfect in this regard either!)
https://www.twitter.com/subzerocovid/status/1579912162268483586
Schools are particularly likely to be places where Covid spreads – bad airflow, crowded classrooms, little to no masking, shared lunchrooms.
https://www.twitter.com/driusan/status/1579896828220542976
Even people who have been as cautious as you can probably be are catching Covid…
