While I pretty much agree with everything you just said and couldn’t have said it better myself, some of us WERE following protocol. When I first was getting Covid (chills going to bed), then fever, headache, malaise, cystitis the next morning, I didn’t leave the house for two weeks, except to go in my own back yard. Even though I was able to relegate it to merely a cold by day 4 and nothing by the dreaded second week, I didn’t go anywhere. Even at day 13, I missed one of my kids’ cross country meets. Technically, I was good after day 10 according to the CDC at the time and asymptomatic, but I decided to be overly cautious.
The funny thing is, on like day 17, I had to go to Walgreens to get an unrelated prescription. I walked in with my mask on tight and noticed not one other person wearing any. I remember laughing and thinking how I was more immune than any of those fukkers in there, and, with that, I decided to stop wearing a mask anywhere unless required to by the business.
Until the data says otherwise, cell-mediated immunity holds up pretty well against Omicron. The very vulnerable should probably be jabbed, but I’m not convinced we shouldn’t let this spread everywhere as fast as possible, especially among our younger population and the convalescent. Closing schools is probably one of the dumbest things at this point. How much more do we want to jeopardize our kids’ mental health and set them back? Some of my kids’ friends (graduating high school) never recovered. They are on a path to nowhere. They are the real collateral damage. Just so unnecessary but an authoritarian’s wet dream.