Boosted AOC has symptomatic COVID

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tests Positive for Covid-19

When AOC staged her little publicity stunt wearing her "Tax The Rich " dress, she wasn't wearing a mask, but all the servants at the event were .

Do as I say, not as I do.

As far as I can tell, everyone has their foolish moments where they take off their mask. Most people seem to feel that for photos and speeches they can and should have their masks off; part of the time v distance equation as developed before omicron; I've never gotten comfortable with it, but the pattern is quite consistent. Note that it does NOT mean they aren't wearing their masks otherwise. Photos only capture a moment in time.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of more conservative politicians and pundits have caught and died from COVID than Democrat ones. Masks aren't a solution, no one has ever claimed they are, but they do improve odds at little to no cost those asked to wear them.

It's still 2020.

Masks are for little people.

I'll take AOC over MAGA losers

She'll get her [unneeded] doses of Pfizer's 3CLpro inhibitor, like the other kings and queens, as the vulnerable random citizens do without.

Most masks won't stop an airborne virus. N95 and glasses are alright. Surgical and glasses will be minimum (might lower initial inoculum so less severe outcome). The vaccines won't do all that much either outside of lowering severity a little due to the [mostly] conserved t-cell epitopes compared to b-cell epitopes. Even with this vaccine failure, it'll be better in the long run that Omicron came along due to retroactive immunity and vaccines/natural immunity providing roadblocks against the more severe mutants.

Whomever "made" it did humanity a solid.

The smart women and men with abbreviations next to their names will say vaccines and a recent booster will be a good idea as they'll aid in eradicating the more severe mutants as Omicron creates widespread retroactive immunity to said severe mutants among the population regardless of immunologic status, along with creating less personal risk against the more severe ones until that eradication happens.

Omicron kinda feels like repentance to me, but that's neither here nor there. Sometimes you get lucky.

Evolution likes to go forwards rather than backwards when similar selective pressures are there. Delta would eventually go the way of Omicron on the background of high levels of community immunity, it'd just take several years. It grabbing bits of Omicron via recombination will confer the advantages of Omicron as they'll be the fittest in the current fitness landscape, and those advantages lead to less severity (spike trimer conformation changes being one). Omicron is several years off in the future when it comes to evolution, created via a HIV community, Molnupiravir trials, cell lines incubated with neutralizing antibodies, some people feeling really guilty for their sins or something else. HIV will be the "right" one there.

There's always been a chance of an actual severe mutant arising, and they've made those in labs. They don't fit the fitness landscape in the wild it seems since they haven't arisen (not many mutations needed; sometimes just one), maybe as they lose transmissibility and/or kill the host too quickly.