OT: Omicron effect

[Cornell Lt]

This is a UConn WBB forum and the President of Cornell will handle his own business.
That's why he gets paid the big bucks, because he's responsible for his decisions.

That's sesxist...The president of Cornell is a female

 

[ClifSpliffy]

looks like ol 'week 48' did what it always does. every year. as expected.
the good news, and as reported here in january of '20, this bug will/is devolving in its 5? year expected evolution into the common cold.
wash ur hands! don't lick doornobs!
u'll be fine. gesundheit!
(context: in a world of seven and a half billion people, currently there are around 250 million infected with around 6 million departed. do the math.
chinese freaking out cuz it just dawned on them that, also reported here loooong ago, it's rife in the animal kingdom. whatta they gonna do? kinda hard to get a wolverine to sit still for a flu shot.)

 

[Cornell Lt]

I was under the impression that Cornell is only sending home students who test negative, with students who test positive remaining on campus, isolated in quarantine, until they test negative.

Cornell is not sending anyone off campus. They are encouraging those who have not tested positive to leave as reasonably can be expected. They are encouraging those who have tested positive to self quarantine, but no one is enforcing the quarantine or isolation. These kids will be spreading the bug like wildfire in their home towns.

 

[HuskyNan]

Agreed, but in this young man’s case, he had no underlying conditions and the doctors who treated him when he contracted Covid were completely mystified once he took a turn for the worst.

I was thinking of Sergei Grinkov, an Olympic skater for Russia who was in excellent physical health. He dropped dead at 28 of an undiagnosed genetic heart defect.