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My teenage son currently has Covid. Came home from a summer trip to NYC on Saturday night, woke up Sunday morning sick.

AND...wait for it...wait for it..................NOBODY CARES!

Lots of people care, Joshua. People with immunecompromised children, elderly parents, people going through cancer, people with chronic illnesses, people who don’t want debilitating Long Covid so they can’t work/take care of their families. People who pay attention to what Covid does to human bodies.

still haven't caught it, despite america's best efforts.

That you know of. Asymptomatic cases are quite a large swath of what’s out there. If you can check your antibodies (beyond what a vaccine would give you) you’ll have a better picture of if you’ve ever had it or not. Sorry if I’m preaching to the choir here.

The reason for that is actually not “unclear”, it’s just continued variant evolution, which does not follow any seasonal pattern. I’ve continued tracking that data, guided by the work of the dedicated “Variant Hunters”. Here’s the latest picture for the US: bsky.app/profile/mike...

Well, time to mask up again. I feel sorry for my wife, because the disposable masks are too large for her face. We need to find the old cloth ones she'd modified to fit her properly and get them washed.

masking before big waves prevent the waves from happening. consider masking more often

We don't go out very often, literally less than once a week. We both work from home and are somewhat introverted, so it doesn't come up a lot. Even most of our social interactions happen online, such as a weekly D&D game we play.

Except repeat infections, cause all kinds of problems, and this doesn’t even mention Long Covid. The reason it isn’t seasonal is that it mutates way faster than flu, so NPR needs to do a little more research. And immunity to new strains doesn’t last. So, vaccinate every 6 months if you can.

I'm sure NPR will be doing their research into this. They haven't let me down yet.

They've been letting me down on pandemic coverage for three years now.

Hopefully, but as it is written now, it isn’t very informative. Besides, almost nobody thinks they’re immunocompromised. But it’s much more common than people imagine. (I am, because I have chronic blood cancer, otherwise I might not have figured myself to be in a high risk group).

Waiting for the next jab, I’m masking up in the meantime.

You can get more than one Covid shot a year, and if you're Officially Old they don't give you grief about it. I'm heading to a convention in a few weeks, so I got a booster the other week, and I'll get the fall version in a few months so it's working by the time the holiday surge hits.

I turn 65 in January. Last September, a week before my COVID vaccine was scheduled, I got COVID for the first time. I got the vaccine in February. I'm going to ask my PCP to approve a vaccine in September instead of waiting a year, since I have high risk morbidities.

Yup. It’s in my area. Idiot that got it didn’t get a booster/hasn’t had one probably since the first one. Take care of yourself people ain’t nobody coming to help.