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This is exactly what I'm seeing in a lot of people. Puny sickness after sickness, never entirely well, circulating amongst every member of the family (all jabbed). And it doesn't really seem to dawn on them that there hasn't even been a 2 week gap of breathing through the nose without congestion for the last .... 8 months? In addition to the bother it causes themselves, think of the incubation and spread that they are inflicting on other people. All of them are working, sending kids to school and preschool, coughing their way through the grocery store......

Was at a banquet recently where a batch of these were in attendance, ranging in age from 2 to 75 (and the 75-year-olds were holding and kissing the wildly sick 2-year-old and being hand-fed by her) and the whole mass of projectile-coughing kids and responsible overseeing adults beelined for our table. That is when we tucked aside our polite upbringing and moved to a new table. This didn't prevent (nor did the parents) the kids from tumbling around under our chairs and coughing during the dinner. This same batch of characters delivered a homemade cake to our workplace, and only 2 days later when all of the cake had been devoured (including by pregnant employee who should Not get sick) bothered to complain about how everyone in their house, including the cake-baker, has had Covid for a long time but seems to be feeling a bit better now even though the tests are still positive. It was therefore of utmost amusement to see their live-and-in-person handling of hygiene behavior with the kids in a large banquet room.

This whole social scenario is oddly reminiscent of if you've ever worked in a preschool: human beings wandering around with green noses down to the chin and pants unzipped after peeing, not being aware of their state in the least.

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