Let's hope omicron is the common cold variant, contagious but mild, so this thing can just freaking end already. I am so over it, like everyone else. I'm sick of wearing a mask everywhere, sick of the shots, sick of staying home all the time, sick of not seeing people, and tired of all the insanity. We continue to do worse here locally than we ever did before. The test results are quite backed up. One place did surveillance testing for a potential outbreak nine days ago and they STILL do not have the results. By the time they get them, it will be useless anyway.
What the heck is with the 61 people testing positive on the flight in the Netherlands? Were the pre-flight test results fake? The post flight results wrong? Do the rapid tests even work well enough to be useful? I am aware of too many false negatives for me to have any faith in those.