Done with COVID?

As the Omicron wave winds down, most places are rightfully easing COVID restrictions. That’s a good thing and supported by data. Yet I’m still conflicted as we have a rolling 7-day average of more than 2,500 Americans dying from COVID each day. Yesterday we lost more Americans to COVID (3,261) than people killed in the 9/11 attacks (2,977).

We’ll start to move on, get back to normal or some new normal. But since a sizable post of the US won’t take preventative measures against the virus, it’s not entirely up to us when this is all over. We’ll still be living with COVID for some time.

Maybe not time to throw away all the masks, but time to start getting more things back to life out in the world. Just protect yourself as you do.

Beware of Wordle

There’s a new infection spreading like wildfire. It’s symptoms are the sharing of strangely-colored squares and random fractions in sixths. It’s infected so many people in my social media timelines and I fear it’s becoming a new epidemic.

Beware of Wordle.