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I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron - Here’s how I thought through the decision.
The Atlantic ^ | 12/17/21 | Ed Yong

Posted on 12/17/2021 9:21:49 AM PST by BusterDog

I turn 40 today, and I was planning to have a party. The Delta surge made me nervous about it. The arrival of Omicron made me cancel it.

The plan was to have an extended house party, with a couple dozen people popping by over the weekend. On the one hand, it would have been an unmasked, indoor event—the kind in which the coronavirus, in all its incarnations, spreads most easily. On the other hand, everyone who was going to be there is fully vaccinated, and most of them, myself included, have been boosted. A month ago, I would have felt comfortable about that trade-off, especially if people got tested in the preceding days, as eight friends did when they came over for Thanksgiving.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; bloggers; covidchump; covidstooges; edyong; mediawingofthednc; moronic; obamacare; panicporn; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; theatlantic; vaccinemandates
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To: BusterDog

Wow. People who jump on hand grenades to save their friends got nuttin’ on this hero.


41 posted on 12/17/2021 9:45:59 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: BusterDog

You know it’s funny, before the vid if you had a cold or flu you stayed home from work or school until you got better then continued to live life, schools, places of business did not close because of flu season. This ahole is just a pu$$y snowflake


42 posted on 12/17/2021 9:47:17 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: metmom

Second panic porn post by this user I have seen today.

Whats up with this dude?


43 posted on 12/17/2021 9:48:00 AM PST by crz
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To: BusterDog

I don’t need to read it. He’s a commie hypochondriac idiot. I hope he never comes out of his high-rise Upper East Side or Castro Section (I’m guessing) apartment ever again.


44 posted on 12/17/2021 9:48:36 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: mund1011

So I went ahead and read the article. Can’t ever get those 3 minutes back in life. Ed Yong has a wife? Can’t be female. What a steaming pile of verbal diarrhea.


45 posted on 12/17/2021 9:49:21 AM PST by mund1011
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To: caww

WHY DID YOU WEAR A MASK? MASKS DON’T FILTER VIRUSES!


46 posted on 12/17/2021 9:49:28 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: BusterDog

I don’t care if people wear a diaper over their face, hell, cancel their entire life out of fear of getting covid. just don’t try to make me do the same.


47 posted on 12/17/2021 9:49:32 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: BusterDog

Why not just wait and have a Coumadin party for all the clots you and your buddies will have.


48 posted on 12/17/2021 9:50:30 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: backwoods-engineer

Well they can lessen the load. I took precautions because I already have an immune deficiency.....so don’t be so quick to judge people.


49 posted on 12/17/2021 9:51:21 AM PST by caww ( )
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To: BusterDog
That's a lot of words for someone to avoid expressing what he really fears deep-down in the recesses of his mind, that the vaccines don't really work.

-PJ

50 posted on 12/17/2021 9:51:48 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: mund1011

The selfie generation.


51 posted on 12/17/2021 9:52:49 AM PST by dznutz
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To: BusterDog

52 posted on 12/17/2021 9:54:23 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: BusterDog

Poosy....


53 posted on 12/17/2021 9:54:44 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: BusterDog

The Delta surge made me nervous about it. The arrival of Omicron made me cancel it.

I’m quite sure this skinny jean wearing, pajama boy cuck is afraid of his own shadow.


54 posted on 12/17/2021 9:55:11 AM PST by qaz123
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To: BusterDog

soy boy pussy


55 posted on 12/17/2021 9:56:06 AM PST by GQuagmire
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To: BusterDog

First of all who throws a party for themselves? Second of all birthdays are fur children. Third of all what a wuss.


56 posted on 12/17/2021 9:56:30 AM PST by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: BusterDog

Evem though leftists struggle to rise up to even the middle of the Bell Curve, the Atlantic seems to have unmatched talent to find those six sigmas to the left idiots.

Perhaps it’s a false article. Must be. Folks who think and write like this are normally called studies majors.


57 posted on 12/17/2021 9:57:15 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: metmom

There are millions just like him.

If someone were to roll up to his house, tell him that they were taking him someplace safe, wifi, craft beer and dog parks, he wouldn’t hesitate to get on the bus, that would them take him to the train station, that would then take him to his new home. Surrounded by thousands just like him.

And they would be willfully ignorant of everything happening around them.


58 posted on 12/17/2021 9:57:24 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Intar

‘The author is both a coward and a willfully ignorant fool.’

Couldn’t have said it better. They are filling the air with this crap.


59 posted on 12/17/2021 9:57:37 AM PST by Luke21
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To: ConservativeDude

effective vaccines and a new administration on the horizon....

What effective vaccines?

What new administration?

I’m unaware of either.


60 posted on 12/17/2021 9:59:06 AM PST by qaz123
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