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With Omicron surging, is it still safe to fly, dine out or attend large indoor events? UC Davis virus expert Dr. Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics weighs in on this “horribly contagious” new variant and how to navigate the next couple of months in the December 30th 2021 article in @sactownmagazine.
This is sadly one of the most (if not the only) detailed pieces that covers a lot on how you can reasonably protect yourself and others from Omicron, especially while in a surge as the CDC continue to be capitalist bootlicking liars who lie.
As always please remember to centre disabled people who have borne the brunt of vicious ableist and pro-eugenics rhetoric + policy from every direction for the past 2 years.
Wearing a mask is more than an individual protection, it is an act of solidarity and community care. It acknowledges that you have no idea who might be vulnerable around you and that you value the health of others.
🇻🇳 Please share this as widely as possible and recommit to showing up for each other when we need it most.
Many thanks to @disabilityandday6 who has lived with a post viral illness for over 10 years, for sharing and turning the article into graphic form for us to post! Please DM us if you would like the slides to repost but everyone is welcome screenshot.
![Screenshot of article: We spoke to Dr. Eisen about how the Omicron variant is different from its predecessors, his recommendations for the community, and what precautions he’s taking in his own life to stay safe. What kind of risk are we looking at right now with Omicron? The Omicron variant is way more infectious [than Delta]. It’s horribly contagious. Even people who are boosted are still getting infected. [The vaccine] does not seem to provide a huge protection against getting infected. I think that’s part of why it’s spreading so fast—people who have been vaccinated and/or boosted have mistakenly thought they were not going to get infected, and so they were going maskless everywhere. But if you have five times as many people infected, that’s going to create havoc, and that’s what is happening in New York and the Northeast, where the hospitals are full. They’re already sending people away who have any other types of emergency or nonemergency health needs. I think we’re in for some tough times; that’s my prediction.](https://caukieucollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/3.jpg)
![Screenshot of article: What about contracting the virus through surfaces? You’ve studied this. That was a mistaken assumption made by many people in the medical and infectious disease community based upon other pathogens. And it looks like [the danger] is virtually zero [with Covid]. It’s almost completely a nonissue. I mean, it is true that if someone is infected, and they cough and it gets on a surface, and if you go and lick your hand or that surface, then yeah, you can pick it up. But we can find almost no documented cases of transmission [via surfaces]. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, but it’s not something to worry about. If you estimate the risk of getting Covid from the air versus getting Covid from a surface, I would estimate that something like 99.9% of transmissions happen from the air and 0.1% happen from surfaces.](https://caukieucollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/7.jpg)
