@g-man posted:My sense of smell is weird right now. Can taste fine. Hand soaps and cleaning agents that i know have a smell don't. Ditto citrus. But Garlic smells super super strong to me right now.
Apparently garlic reaction is fairly common
The title of the article implies that you could get Covid every 4 weeks from now on. That's not what the article says. What it says is that the new strain, Omicron BA.5 has shown a strong ability to overcome people who were previously vaccinated or even had the earlier strain of Omicron BA2. But NOT that you will keep getting Omicron BA.5 infections every month from here on out.
It's a bad strain, definitely. It's almost like a new disease again, in the sense that it is going to cut through a huge swath of our population. But the prior immunity from vaccines and/or prior infections appears to weaken the effects of the BA.5 strain, so yes, you are going to get sick, but no, you probably aren't going to go the hospital or die from it.
@Rothko posted:The title of the article implies that you could get Covid every 4 weeks from now on.
FIFY
Finally it got me too. I feel absolutely fine but need to stay on quarantine for a couple of days more. I guess i will be playing a lot of word games these days and using help from https://word-finder.com/words-that-start-with/s/ to solve the complicated set ups. Not a bad idea to slow down for a little.
My 32 year old daughter took a train from Seattle to Portland last week to see some concert. Came back with the 'Rona, even though she's had 3 stabs.