Covid Cases have gone up nationwide right now by 10% in the last 2 weeks. The problem being that BA5 which is called the "Houdini" Omicron variant is causing a lot of people to get sick and lose work time because of it of up to a month working. So, wearing a mask indoors is wiser than not. Where my son works in Portland he is one of the few people still wearing a mask indoors where he works and he says he is one of the few that has never got Covid as a direct result and hasn't lost any work time because of this whereas almost all other people he knows at work have lost up to a month not being able to work because of getting covid because they don't ever wear masks anymore. Why don't people wear masks? Mostly they are not studying when the Covid Surges hit like right now nationwide.
While I was traveling I religiously wore a mask indoors in all public places and so did my wife. However, friends of ours traveling with us and playing music various places had to take their masks off performing. So, by Spokane or Yakima in Washington the lady got Omicron and then later after he drove his wife to their home about 8 hours away he later got it too and is still having relapses almost a month later.
So, now is the time to wear a mask indoors throughout the U.S. because otherwise you could get covid BA5 Omicron which is the dominant one and if you are over 65 like myself this is very dangerous indeed to your future longevity.
Then when we got back our dog sitter got Omicron a few days after she gave our dog back to us. My wife took a home Covid test simply because you can get covid from your dog but it is only a slight chance that this could happen.
So, more and more people we know are getting Covid BA5 Omicron lately because of the surge in cases nationwide now.
