There's a lot of Covid anxiety around at the moment and quite rightly so. Looking at the numbers over the last few weeks it seems as though we're on a roller coaster ride of infections and hospitalizations with massive jumps in both in recent days. It's not just us here in the UK that the Omicron spike is having an impact, the charts above show viral load analysis of sewage outflows from the city of Boston, USA, as you can see there's definitely something bad going on there too! I think we'll just have a quiet new years celebration this year (as last year) it seems logical that the sooner this spike has flattened the sooner we'll get back to normal again and the less likely it will be that yet another new variant will appear, although the latter looks inevitable at these super high rates of infection. We did a spot of shopping yesterday and popped into Reading on the train, I was astounded to see around 30% of people still not bothering to wear masks (mostly young people, it must be said) - let's hope the stats don't continue to track as they currently are, although I'm not optimistic. I think I'll apply my usual bellwether in these situations, which is listen to what Boris Johnson says and assume that the opposite is true! At the moment he's claiming that we're in great shape so you can figure it out for yourselves.
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