I don’t think there will be an official lockdown, even in my home state, Ohio, which is in a mess with the hospitals being full of mostly the unvaccinated. The governor has mobilized the National Guard to assist in some hospitals in the state.
Even though we are vaccinated and boosted, we are reining in some things we have been doing until this post-holiday surge shakes out. We have been pretty blasé about our masks, but will be wearing them again and more carefully picking and choosing where we want to go, for a while. (Please don’t get all grouchy and bent outa shape, golfing eagles, we will not be wearing our masks while driving in our cars.
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Omicron is so highly and quickly contagious that we have decided to be more careful for a while. We are still in Ohio, for now.
NJ, MD, OH, & NY are getting pounded with hospitalizations. And lots of people have traveled in the past few weeks.
Omicron might not be quite as good at killing people — but it sure is good at hitching a ride. The holiday exposures are taking their toll. I think we are in a wait-and-see phase, so that’s what we are choosing to do for ourselves. We are seeing this thing hit close to home, with people we actually know.
We have plenty to do around here anyway. But we hope our self-imposed, semi-house-arrest does not have to last long.
Semi-optimistic Boomer