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Omicron Is Pushing America Into Soft Lockdown
The Atlantic ^ | Sunday, December 26, 2021 | Sarah Zhang

Posted on 12/26/2021 1:27:38 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

“I do not see a scenario for any kind of shutdown,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared this week, as parts of New York were in fact shutting down all around him. Broadway canceled show after show. Restaurants closed their kitchens. De Blasio’s successor, Eric Adams, who will take office January 1, nixed his inauguration gala. There has been no March 2020–style universal shutdown, but New York is not back anymore, baby.

For Brent Young, who runs a butcher shop and two restaurants in Brooklyn, it began last week when, one by one, staff members tested positive. “It’s more or less decimated our workforce,” he says. One of his restaurants had been booked solid with parties for a week—the holidays are one of the busiest times of the year for restaurants—but people started canceling those parties too. At this point it’s not worth trying to stay open, Young says, “because the anxiety’s so high no one’s wanting to eat.” For most vaccinated people, Omicron will be mild. But even a mild cold, sufficiently widespread, can disrupt a city.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: lockdowns; softlockdown
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dementia Joe + Facist Fauchi + Covid Flu= The end of the America we once knew.


21 posted on 12/26/2021 1:51:43 PM PST by cp124 (Living under medical tyranny. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I got Covid yesterday. So far feels like a cold with more sleeping and fever. I feel better today. Glad to have gotten this at a good time (slow work week this week; kids out of school). Natural antibodies. (I was vaxxed last month but unboosted).


22 posted on 12/26/2021 1:52:16 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

How does your county population compare with that one?


24 posted on 12/26/2021 1:53:07 PM PST by Owen
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To: MinorityRepublican

Everything I have read on this crap is that it less than the flu is. The world has become indoctrinated by the One World mob and it is “yes sir, yes sir, tell me what to do.” Just give in and become slaves. Just see Australia as PROOF the damned planet has gone MAD!!!


25 posted on 12/26/2021 1:53:26 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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To: rktman

Clever...


26 posted on 12/26/2021 1:53:57 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: olivia3boys

(Correction: I was vaxxed last March, not last month.)


27 posted on 12/26/2021 1:54:04 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: PoeToaster

People are allowed to have preferences that differ from yours. If it’s not impacting you, you’ll live longer if you MYOB.

Oh really? is that a personal threat? Should I report you to JR?


28 posted on 12/26/2021 1:54:08 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Omicron is pushing America to mail in ballots and landslide wins for Democrats in 2022. How convenient!


29 posted on 12/26/2021 1:57:02 PM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. NEVER = a peaceful quiet slave in a new socialist America.)
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To: olivia3boys

If you were vaxed last month, you probably don’t need a boost. Though omicron is arranged to not care about immunity of any kind, vax or natural, so it sort of doesn’t matter if you are vaxed.

You got officially tested?


30 posted on 12/26/2021 1:57:03 PM PST by Owen
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
kicked by your mule

My last date LOOKED like a mule. Threatened to kick me, too. Does that count? Heh. :-)

Out here in the more rural parts of OK, things have always been more or less normal. Even in the OKC Metro area (although you'll see the cars of sheep lined up as far as the eye can see at the parking-lot CV-BS "testing" kiosks), once you're inside the grocery store, hardware store, etc., about 85%-90% of people are maskless. AND, the annoying intercom announcements to "be sure & practith thafe thothial dithtanthing" are rarely heard.

OK has its faults, but right now, I'm pleased as punch to be where I am.

31 posted on 12/26/2021 1:57:06 PM PST by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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To: Owen

oops, saw your correction. Yeah, your vax has faded to nothing by now.


32 posted on 12/26/2021 1:58:05 PM PST by Owen
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To: Maskot

You go, girl!!!!!

The irony of someone complaining about others being maskless when they themselves are not wearing one is staggering.

I cannot fathom the cognitive dissonance that exists in that kind of mind.


33 posted on 12/26/2021 1:59:36 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: cp124
Dementia Joe + Facist Fauchi + Covid Flu= The end of the America we once knew.

ONLY if it's ALLOWED to happen.

34 posted on 12/26/2021 2:00:05 PM PST by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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To: Owen
Still a small population. I live in Jersey City and will not mask there or in NYC.

COVID is endemic like the flu. Get over it sheeple.

35 posted on 12/26/2021 2:01:50 PM PST by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: PIF; PoeToaster

Oh good Lord.

Relax.

The post was bounced off you and was not addressed to you. That is easy enough to see.


36 posted on 12/26/2021 2:02:15 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

On vacation in FL. Very little sign of fear. Only a few people in masks.


37 posted on 12/26/2021 2:04:55 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: PIF

No Sh!t Sherlock.


38 posted on 12/26/2021 2:06:40 PM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
NO!

The MARXISTS are "pushing us into soft-lockdown" using Omicron as the excuse.

39 posted on 12/26/2021 2:07:43 PM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Idaho has had 4,100 “COVID-RELATED Deaths.” 3,600 were over 60 years of age and 500 below 60. Median age of deaths has been hovering around 75 years from the start. Twice we peaked at 80 cases per 100,000. Right now we have 20 cases per 100,000 — in the dead of winter, cold, snow, and no sunshine! Our county has 170,000 people. That means we have 34 cases in the county now. What are the odds that you will run into one of those 34 people? 30 miles to the west is the Washington State line where big time fear and crackdowns reign. It is insane.
40 posted on 12/26/2021 2:09:21 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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