One thing testing positive for 12 $*%&#^# days makes you think about is how often you've walked back into society still contagious with the flu or cold you felt mostly recovered from.
Having a long bout of Omicron really convinced me that there's just no good policy answer for this thing.
It's not mild enough to treat cases as meaningless.
It's so infectious that if you don't really isolate, you give it to everyone.
It is mild enough, for enough people, that the weeks and weeks of isolation it can visit on an (already exhausted) family feels excessive.
It's so infectious that if you don't really isolate, you give it to everyone.
It is mild enough, for enough people, that the weeks and weeks of isolation it can visit on an (already exhausted) family feels excessive.
The worst policy debates are the ones where there's no actually good answer. That's Omicron.
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