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Re:The case against masks at school by colechristensen on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:28PM (#30103351)
We’re not, people are pretending that we are or still have the opportunity.

Most of the US is at or past the omicron peak, it stopped growing because it’s running out of people to infect. The more cautious people will make up a long fat tail, but it really seems doubtful that anything can be done.

We’ve had 72 million detected cases in the US, if you assume a certain number didn’t test and a big number never knew they had it at all… we are really running out of people to “save” from covid infections. During the national peak, there were something like a million infections a day.

Re:The case against masks at school by nradov on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:23PM (#30104118)
The CDC estimated that we're only detecting about a quarter of actual cases.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

In Santa Clara County CA wastewater monitoring data indicates that we're past the peak Omicron wave.

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater