Just to be clear about a brief comment I made in Saturday's post, I'm fine. I don't even know if what I came down with over New Year's was COVID-19 or merely the common cold. My husband came down with something, too, at about the same time, but tested negative for exposure to COVID-19. Twice.
With news reports these days of children coming into hospitals for unrelated reasons and then testing positive for COVID-19 — and even newborns testing positive — I do wonder whether exposure to the virus is going to become like having microplastics in our bodies: bad for you, eventually harmful, but universal.
Now, don't mistake me for one of those denialist Pollyannas blithely dismissing coronavirus as something we'll all get herd immunity to. It has been a small blessing that the current omicron variant, while more contagious, seems to be less fatal.
But it could yet turn out to be the lull before pi, rho, sigma, or tau.
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