David Axe/Daily Beast: Two COVID Variants Just Combined Into a ‘Frankenstein’ Virus First identified in the U.K., the ultra-infectious “XE” subvariant could already be spreading undetected in America. The first subvariant of Omicron, the latest major variant of the novel coronavirus, was bad. BA.1 drove record cases and hospitalizations in many countries starting last fall. The second subvariant, BA.2, was worse in some countries—setting new records for daily cases across China and parts of Europe. Now BA.1 and BA.2 have combined to create a third subvariant. XE, as it’s known, is a “recombinant”—the product of two viruses interacting “Frankenstein”-style in a single host… But don’t panic just yet. The same mix of subvariants that produced XE might also protect us from it. Coming so quickly after the surge of BA.1 and BA.2 cases, XE is on track to hit a wall of natural immunity—the antibodies left over from past infection in hundreds of millions of people.
76.6 year life expectancy in the USA in 2021 Ho LEE **** Our life expectancy is lower then China's I think life expectancy is probably the more important single factor in identifying the quality of life of a place.
Why do you care? Why is he a fool for doing something that has 0 effect on anyone's life but his own?
Yup, and bad diets, sedentary life styles, and then Covid deaths made a massive hit by taking 2 years off the top of all that.
I don't care whether he wears a mask or not. Just pointing out that "the virus ain't over" forever. So it logically follows that if that his is reason for wearing a mask, he has to wear it forever.
