From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   ### - was a very quiet xmas here this year, the main streets increasingly   
   deserted as more & more peeps were (and still are being) forced into   
   isolation after testing positive, something which is now being termed a   
   'soft-lockdown' heh...   
      
   current figures suggesting that as many as 1 in 10 londoners are infected,   
   previous peaks only reaching one in 40 in london...   
      
   this meaning that it's basically now impossible to go out on the street   
   here without encountering someone whose infected, enough of them still   
   wandering around out there carelessly shedding this shit everywhere they   
   go, touching & breathing on items in the supermarkets, gas stations &   
   shops, no social distancing + half of them not even wearing masks or   
   gloves! duh!   
      
   AND the after-xmas sales are just beginning??  lol   
      
   heh methinks/observes we're determined to all get infected here, everyone   
   prolly holding onto the hope it's only gonna be mild - there hasn't been   
   some 'huge' corresponding rise in fatalities anyway!   
      
   so far at any rate that is!   
      
   because it can take 10 days to make peeps ill enough to end up in the   
   hospital like boris that time (on day-10 he was shipped to the hospital   
   and the next put on oxygen) and because we're only just about coming up to   
   this 10-day period around about now/over the next few days...   
      
   the best emerging/speculative 'medical' news re omicron, so far, being   
   that it 'might' just confine itself to people's upper airways and throats   
   unlike previous strains which replicated better/faster in deep lung tissue   
   leading to a killer form of pneumonia... colds & flu also preferring our   
   upper airways for example, in which case ya feels like shit + have a sore   
   throat/cough for a week and then it goes, problems only arising due to any   
   secondary bacterial infections, which not everyone gets and which usually   
   responds to antibiotics anyway...   
      
   but it's gonna be another few days before we'll know all this for sure, i   
   guess...   
      
   meanwhile am just staying-put :)))   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)