From: slider@anashram.com

Washington (AFP) – Millions of Americans were on the move Thursday during
one of the busiest travel days of the holiday season, as Covid infections
with Omicron surpassed the peak of the Delta wave and hospitals ran out of space for patients.

The festivities are expected to further drive up Covid cases as the
heavily mutated Omicron variant pushed the nation's stretched hospitals --
and exhausted health workers -- to the brink.

The strain now accounts for more than 90 percent of all cases in some
regions.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211223-millions-of-americans-on-the-move-amid-omicron-s-christmas-surge

According to Covid Act Now, the seven-day average of new daily cases is
running at 171,00 -- about to pass the Delta peak seen in September.

Intensive care units are running at more than 90 percent capacity in many
parts of the country, an official tracker showed.

"There are more people in the hospitals this year, at this time of the
year, than there were last year," John Carney, governor of Biden's home
state of Delaware said in a weekly briefing, where he announced all
elective surgeries will be postponed.

In New England, hospitals in Rhode Island and Massachusetts have found it
hard to retain health workers, with many leaving due to burnout, Steve
Walsh, CEO of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association told Boston.com.

And in New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced there would be scaled back
New Year's Eve celebrations at Times Square, with the event fully
outdoors, masked, and attendees required to show proof of vaccination.

Viewing areas will be filled with fewer people to allow for social
distancing.

### - wot: with an agent SEVERAL orders MORE infectious than before??? riiiight...

this is the same as in the uk then, in that they've obviously now
completely 'abandoned' any further idea of 'stopping' this infection
beyond what we've already gots: the different vaccines everyone's had by sweep-stake lol! (am ridin' the astra-zenica horse here boss haha)

so ok then folks, it's all aboarrrrrd the roller-coaster vaccine-ride(s)
from hell lol, and where we all gonna ends up nobody knows! whoo-hoo!

i mean, if there's NADA you can DO about it then ya might as well smell
the coffee/flowers right?

so merry xmas then peeps + make sure to enjoy it, just in case it's our
last heh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEEgIti8sM

:)

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