Only a couple of quickies today. I didn't want to resort to Twitter-news, and that's where most of the covid info seemed to be this morning. BQ.1.1 and BQ.1 are on track to become the dominant strains in the US in a few weeks; they currently account for 27 percent of new US cases. And the XBB variant is now dominant in both India and Bangladesh, but there has been no rise in cases or deaths ... as Son #2 would say, for now.
With tomorrow's being Halloween, perhaps we can put discussion of to mask or not to mask to rest for a day. At one point, masks were illegal in Virginia for people over the age of 16. There may have been a loophole that the mask could not be worn to hide one's identity; I don't recall. In terms of identity, masks have made things interesting the past two years. I would not, for example, recognize the physical therapist I used this summer, and it is likely she would not recognize me. I have enough trouble recognizing people I do now when they are masked, but then I have a hard time with names and faces to begin with.
Happy haunting!
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Since you used the T word...I'm really hoping Musk's Twitter will be condensed to form a new name for the platform: Mutter.
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