Is CoVid a vascular disease or a respiratory illness?

Or both?  How you answer might suggest how you feel today about parents throwing indoors princess spa parties during the peak of the omnicron pandemic, then complaining when the schools ask kids from quarantined households to stay home until 10 days after the illness has passed through the household.

We get it: you want to host chickenpox-like spreader parties, to get the exposure over with, so you can return to your routines, including out-of-the-house daycare / schools for toddlers and those too young for organized pre-school.

The problem is when you impose your childcare choices on the rest of the society (or school district) by trying to send a sick, but not symptomatic, youngster back to school early, potentially infecting the rest of the class.  Why is this so hard for educated people to understand?

Every appointment you have nowadays, they ask if 1) you have a fever or symptoms, 2) if you have travelled outside of the country / state recently, and 3) if someone in the household is infect with Covid now or in the immediate past.  

Even with vaccines and booster and the ants-in-the-pants restless types champing at the bit to get back to busywork, we need to stop people from spreading and encourage them to stay home in their bubble until the virus clears.  Locking old people up in institutions might protect them, assuming the workers in there are smarter about spreading than the suburban parents throwing the parties, but luckily not all older people live like that.  Some can live independently without government care, and trust me, they're hoping others are following the rules and answering honestly when going to their medical appointments too.

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Confidential to the new winter driver:  Don't go through the car wash in below-freezing temps.  It's not good for the car.  Take a napkin and wipe your windows clear of salt with the wiper fluid if you need to be out and visibility is limited.  But wait until temps are above freezing to treat the little ones to a car wash.  The machine will thank you in the long run. 

Also, it's unsportsmanlike to pursue wildlife in motorized vehicles, whether you're shooting them from the roadside with a camera causing them to run while you give chase, or pursue them in snowmobiles.  THink of it this way:  if your presence in your vehicle causes the animal to change route, you're endangering them.  Sadly, many already are endangered due to suburban "people" growth in lands that had once been theirs.  WHen you see, during daylight, foxes and deer -- especially big bucks -- driven into backyards and out of hidden hunting grounds, they're more likely to be struck by cars or poisoned in people land.

If you spot them, say a prayer.  But if you pursue them, don't put up the pictures proudly. You're helping to kill off something majestic that is visible to you now before it passes.  It's like all the roadkill kitties this time of year being harvested after somebody raised up an unnatural crop they later abandoned supporting. Sad.