People were saying that a week or two ago on MR’s threads. I said it was way too soon to tell and back then I was right it was not a peak then. Yes on the chart it looks like a peak now. We’ll see. In any case these numbers can’t be sustained indefinitely. Ideally this volume of cases + cases already cleared in the past creates a herd immunity.
Deaths are a lagging indicator so we may yet still see high death numbers. Proportionally they may be lower relative to the case count, but still very high numbers.
I have some symptoms. Saturday, a slight fever a touch over 101, chills and aches - but they were gone by Sunday. But Sunday I woke with a horrible sore throat - worst I can remember since being a kid with strep throat. No redness or white spots on my tonsil yet it still hurts a lot. Horrible cough and hoarse voice (neigh!). It’s not constant but when I cough it is productive, and clear so doesn’t look like a bacterial infection. Also digestive issues. From what I read those are all omicron symptoms except I don’t have nasal congestion. I went and got tested but they are taking their sweet time getting me there results. Been staying at home. Would rather be at work.
Being at home may save some oldster down the line. Good job.
This wallowing in optimism . . . it’s very hard to get people to accept that optimism is 1000s of times more dangerous than pessimism. They want to hear things have peaked and all will be well soon and they rage when 1) they hear something different or 2) the numbers actually turn out to be something different. If you want to think everything will be fine soon, you can book your cruise tix. Then when your cruise date arrives and the US has death counts 2X what they are today, the expenditure influences your choice of getting on the boat.
Stop with the rosy scenarios. It gets people killed.
Good you decided to stay at home. Even if it isn’t Covid, it is something nasty you would not want to share. Maybe a good thing that will come out of this mess is that more people will take sick time away from work and isolate themselves and employers will be more generous with offering sick leave. I remember working for one awful place back in the 1980s and pretty much the attitude was, unless you were in a coma you were expected to show up for work.
How is your sense of taste and smell? For some people, taste and smell is gone for months after COVID. It might cause people to lose weight—a good thing.