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(25,931 posts)I'm not trying to say it's not a transformer, but we need to wait about. Meanwhile, continue masking and getting vaccinated.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,931 posts)It does seem as if every time a new variant is identified, people totally freak out about how terrible this new version is. Wasn't there one called Lambda a few months ago? Haven't heard anything about it in quite a while.
speak easy
(9,345 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,786 posts)KS Toronado
(17,481 posts)and more variants after this one unless we get the virus under control.
madville
(7,413 posts)For years, if not decades. There is simply no way for them to keep people up to date on the vaccine and there are high levels of vaccine hesitancy on top of that.
Hugin
(33,228 posts)Based on the fact some of them refuse to do things as simple as variant and contact tracing.
They prefer to whistle past the pandemic. They wouldn't want to panic their precious investor class.
Ace Rothstein
(3,201 posts)samplegirl
(11,530 posts)Just like him wont go away!
agingdem
(7,876 posts)Every six months or so another covid variant will rear its ugly head and every 6 months or so Moderna/Pfizer will reinvent another booster to deal with the latest variant this is our lives now after 9/11 the world flipped and we groused about the long security lines not anymore years from now a twice yearly covid booster will be the new normal but not yet two years ago would any conversation start with so, are you Moderna or Pfizer?
Hugin
(33,228 posts)GPV
(72,388 posts)Hugin
(33,228 posts)Which three?
GPV
(72,388 posts)Moderna booster but accidentally signed up for Pfizer.
634-5789
(4,175 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,141 posts)We need Optimus Prime
Baitball Blogger
(46,786 posts)Son or daughter, maybe?
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)agingdem
(7,876 posts)If this Transformer variant wasnt coming to a theater near you, covid would be surging anyway because tis the holiday season family gatherings, large parties and of course theres the forever stupid anti-vaccine cretins ready to infect and infest their loved ones
DenaliDemocrat
(1,478 posts)And this doesnt help
relayerbob
(6,561 posts)Pachamama
(16,888 posts)Glad I am not alone
After years of raising kids and having to buy Transformers, it was the first thing I thought of when I heard the name of Omicron.
agingdem
(7,876 posts)Transformers so I scoured the internet for all old/new transformers (action figures?), cartoons, and movies the kid still has them and Im thinking with so many covid variants its time to give the Greek alphabet and anoint this particular strain the Optimus Prime Varient sounds so much better the the almost impossible to say Omicron
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)Its an improvement over insightful posts like were fucked or the scared emojis that will soon pass for discussion here. Its also less irritating than the clout chasing doomers/pseudo experts who think they know more than Fauci and co.
Deep State Witch
(10,482 posts)Eater of planets!
Volaris
(10,281 posts)We will know were all kinds of screwed when covid gets it's own Variant Prime.