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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I'm thinking it's a delta thing (and now omicron), but for the first year of this whole thing I didn't know anybody or even hear of anybody who got seriously ill. I saw the fatality numbers rising, but it was people outside my social sphere. Over the past six months, I've been hearing more and more about it hitting on a second-order basis, where friends of mine know people personally who were seriously ill. I think maybe alpha was really hitting the older vulnerable population hard and I don't know many people like that, whereas delta has been having an impact on a more broad age range.
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It definitely seems that way. I remember people maybe a year or so ago who were still on the "hoax" bandwagon because they didn't know anyone who had been seriously ill from it, and now it seems like it's happening all around us.
This stuff pretty much always has a variety of explanations, but I'm sure you're on the right track:
1. The first wave primarily hit older folks who were less likely to be in frequent contact with those beyond their own families.
2. We were still being pretty cautious (masks, restaurants, sporting events, family gatherings, etc.) so it wasn't spreading that much among younger populations.
3. Delta is more contagious.
I still think we're basically at the point where those who have decided against the vaccine have made their choice, but it sucks to see immunocompromised folks like Nzoner's wife taking the brunt of it.