I'm just getting over it, and I can attest: in the best case scenario it totally fucks up your month because you have to cancel so much stuff and can't go into work. 

Also, that link to wastewater testing is about the hundredth time during the last two years that I've wondered why I'm learning a piece of what feels like critical information for making good decisions from informal word-of-mouth. We can trace the virus through waste-water!?!?! SINCE WHENENENENNE!!!!f AHGHGGH WHY ARE WE DOING SO BAD AT FOLLOWING THIS AND COMMUNICATING RISKS!!!!!!1

Okay. I'm good. Patrik, thank you for sharing this.

I think we should base the masking requirement on the asymptomatic test rate and then just have a sign on the door and an email that goes out when the masking policy returns to effect or goes out of effect.

Andrew R Gross, (he/him)
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On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:43 PM Patrik D'haeseleer via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:
With the discussion around masking, let me just forward this email that I sent to the Omni discuss list yesterday...

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 9, 2022 at 4:44 PM
Subject: Covid numbers rising rapidly around the Bay

For those of you who have gotten used to thinking that Covid is over - here's a reminder that we are still very much in the midst of a pandemic!

The two metrics that I personally put most stock in these days include wastewater monitoring, and *asymptomatic* test positivity rates.

Covid levels in East Bay wastewater have been rising rapidly over the past few weeks, and are now back at levels we've seen during the main Omicron surge early January:

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As far as I know, only UCSF reports asymptomatic test positivity rate, which is currently around 3.4% - see https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/dashboard Meaning that if you are in a room with 30 perfectly healthy looking people, there will likely be at least one who has an asymptomatic infection and may be infecting others.

The good news is that infection fatality rate has dropped to almost the same level as the flu, thanks to vaccinations, protection from prior infections, and improved drugs to treat Covid patients. It is still a pretty nasty disease though, so do yourself a favor, and keep that mask on indoors and whenever you're in a crowd!

Patrik
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