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Expert predicts up to 5 MILLION could skip work next week with COVID, putting strain on businesses and transport as US hits its second highest daily case count of 900,832 infections: Omicron peak is expected to crest at end of January
Daily Mail ^ | 01/08/22

Posted on 01/08/2022 4:14:14 PM PST by BusterDog

The United States has posted its second-highest daily total for new COVID-19 cases, as one expert predicts some 5 million Americans could call in sick in the coming week in a major disruption to the economy and essential services.

On Friday, the US recorded 900,832 new COVID cases, second only to the more than 1 million cases recorded on Monday. The nation's four highest caseload days since the start of the pandemic were all recorded in the past week.

The average daily case increase over the past seven days has been 664,732, a 64 percent increase from a week ago, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University. Deaths ticked up on Friday to 2,615, a 22 percent increase from week-ago levels on a rolling-average basis, but still well below the peak a year ago.

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Let's all just stay home then.

When is Easter this year? Let's all just stay home till Easter, see what happens.

1 posted on 01/08/2022 4:14:14 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

I won’t stay home, I have bills to pay.


2 posted on 01/08/2022 4:18:36 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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Wait and see what happens if the mandate holds.

But, keep in mind.....one employee is the threshold between a company having a risk for spreading the wuhan and not being a risk for spreading the wuhan.

3 posted on 01/08/2022 4:18:59 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: BusterDog

Well, the stampede is ON to herd immunity...


4 posted on 01/08/2022 4:19:36 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: EvilCapitalist

“I won’t stay home, I have bills to pay.”

****

Name checks out . . . .


5 posted on 01/08/2022 4:21:03 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: Paladin2

Yep. Time to end this.


6 posted on 01/08/2022 4:21:04 PM PST by CommieCutter (LETS GO BRANDON! 🇺🇸)
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To: BusterDog

If dem governors push for lockdowns, it will put a fork in the mid terms for them (and 2024), and they know it.

I fully expect some new proclamation by ‘Herr Fauxi’ which flies in the face of all his other blatherings to reduce emphasis on the doom & gloom.


7 posted on 01/08/2022 4:21:43 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Just do a smash and grab.
You just need some homies...


8 posted on 01/08/2022 4:23:28 PM PST by EEGator
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To: logi_cal869

“I fully expect some new proclamation by ‘Herr Fauxi’ which flies in the face of all his other blatherings to reduce emphasis on the doom & gloom.”

*****

Next week I expect the guidance to be, you don’t need to test, and unless you are really sick, don’t bother the doctor.


9 posted on 01/08/2022 4:24:05 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: Paladin2

Whatever happened to us getting to herd immunity? I haven’t heard anyone in the news talk about that subject in the longest time.

I suspect we all have “covid fatigue”, as we have been living under various restrictions and threats and fear since March 2020, almost two years now. Which leads us all to wonder, when the heck does this ever end?


10 posted on 01/08/2022 4:24:43 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Are they actually sick?

Or just tested positive?


11 posted on 01/08/2022 4:25:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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I won’t stay home, I have bills to pay.

And millions are counting on you to fund those stimulus checks.

12 posted on 01/08/2022 4:25:26 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BusterDog

Has more than one person died from Omicron?


13 posted on 01/08/2022 4:26:53 PM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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And I’m heading back to work next week, Lord willing.

Until they get rid of me for refusing to be jabbed. So I need to get busy finding other work.

Started my SSI early for backup.


14 posted on 01/08/2022 4:26:54 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: dfwgator

My Uncle always tells me to keep paying into Social Security for him. Lol!


15 posted on 01/08/2022 4:27:18 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Remember the common cold?

Or the flu?

I never see any mention of them without Covid-1984.


16 posted on 01/08/2022 4:28:11 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: EEGator

Not too many Homies in my town.


17 posted on 01/08/2022 4:28:42 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Thank you! 😜😜😜


18 posted on 01/08/2022 4:28:44 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Brandon is going to cancel everybody’s bills. Easy peasy.


19 posted on 01/08/2022 4:29:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: logi_cal869

The gloom and doom is so built-in here in California that it’ll take years, a decade, or more to excise it. Ugh. It is awful.


20 posted on 01/08/2022 4:30:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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