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Roccus7 said:
Well this sucks. Hope everyone has gotten where they need to be...

More than 1,900 Christmas Eve flights are canceled globally amid the spread of Omicron

Thousands of would-be travelers received the same troubling message on Thursday: a last-minute cancellation of their Christmas Eve flight because of the recent spike of Omicron cases.

United Airlines canceled at least 150 flights scheduled to leave dozens of airports on Friday — along with 44 more that were supposed to take off on Saturday, according to Flight Aware. Other airlines, including Delta, JetBlue and Allegiant, did the same.

In Australia, dozens of flights were canceled at airports in the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne as coronavirus cases in the country surged to their highest since the start of the pandemic.

The number of cancellations globally as of Friday morning added up to more than 1,900, the Flight Aware website showed.

It was the latest blow to the holiday season, mainly caused by the new and highly transmissible Omicron variant, which now accounts for more than 70 percent of new coronavirus cases in the United States. Nearly 170,000 people are testing positive every day in the country, a 38 percent increase over the last two weeks, according to The New York Times’s coronavirus tracker.

In its statement, United said that Omicron’s “direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation” had led to the cancellations. Crew members have been calling in sick, according to a spokesman, Joshua Freed, who said that United had alerted customers as soon as it was able to. And while Mr. Freed said he did not expect the airline to cancel more flights, it remained a possibility.

“We are really managing this day by day,” he said. “There may be some more flight cancellations for Saturday. It’s possible.”

The airline said it was working to rebook as many people as possible in time for the holidays.

Customers took to social media to air their grievances about the cancellations.

In Australia, which has recorded more than 500 Omicron cases, many airline staff members are unable to work after being identified as close contacts of positive coronavirus cases, airline officials said. Under government requirements, they are required to isolate for seven days.

“A large number of our frontline team members are being required to test and isolate as close contacts given the increasing number of cases in the general community,” a representative for Jetstar Airways said by email on Friday. “As a result, we have had to make some late adjustments to our schedule.”

Eighty flights arriving at and departing on Friday from Sydney, the country’s most populous city, had been canceled, a spokesman for the airport said, out of a total of 500.

According to Melbourne Airport’s flight-tracking website, more than 70 flights departing or arriving from the airport on Friday had been scrapped, out of 700 flights. Brisbane Airport said that 45 flights had been canceled.
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Wow, that's a lot of flights. I heard over 400 this morning, but guess that was just domestically.
 
For me the closest thing(s) I can compare this to is a mix of a cold, minor sinus infection / Bronchitis. More closely to bronchitis and sinus.
I backed off the dayquil/nyquil on Thursday... doing the nasal flushes with Sinu Orega, which is a natural oregano oil. Works wonders. No fever in 24 hours (98.3 - 99.5 range)
At this point, after 3 days, it's all pretty much an annoyance more than being sick.

Do I get some antibodies now??

Biggest concern is that my daughter doesn't get it as we are housed up together. So far she is fine.
 
I know at least a few ppl that were housed up with their children , where the kids have it and not the parents
Going on ten days
Kids are better
Parents nothing
 
dsedy said:
For me the closest thing(s) I can compare this to is a mix of a cold, minor sinus infection / Bronchitis. More closely to bronchitis and sinus.
I backed off the dayquil/nyquil on Thursday... doing the nasal flushes with Sinu Orega, which is a natural oregano oil. Works wonders. No fever in 24 hours (98.3 - 99.5 range)
At this point, after 3 days, it's all pretty much an annoyance more than being sick.

Do I get some antibodies now??

Biggest concern is that my daughter doesn't get it as we are housed up together. So far she is fine.
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Glad you're better. Hopefully this blows over and we laugh about it. Ultimately, without our health we have nothing!
 
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OVERBORED said:
Glad you're better. Hopefully this blows over and we laugh about it. Ultimately, without our health we have nothing!
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Hopefully
I’ve been laughing at it
About it
And at you for months on end

now your observations about lower hospitalization means something after 2 years of brushing other ppl real world experience aside
TFOH
 
which is why I just use a cotton bandanna and sometimes a pull-up gaiter. doesn't fog my glasses or interfere with the hearing aids and glasses hanging on my petite little ears. just to comply with the harried shopowners struggling to just stay in business.
 
Can't wait until the bill comes due for all this testing.

It's overused.

We have a 15% increase in cases with a 500% increase in testing.

Non-sensical.......

Tell me hospitalizations with positive tests, vax vs. unvaxxed and those admitted with comorbidities.
 
OVERBORED said:
Can't wait until the bill comes due for all this testing.

It's overused.

We have a 15% increase in cases with a 500% increase in testing.

Non-sensical.......

Tell me hospitalizations with positive tests, vax vs. unvaxxed and those admitted with comorbidities.
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So its a bad thing to get tested now?
 
moronic government drives panic

Panic drives testing

testing drives up cases

push’s moronic into a frenzy
And repeat

at this point I know at least 25 households that have cases
None more serious than a cold

and still 2 years later we have no real number on how many ppl have actually had it

and I bet my last dollar at this point a lot of folks are going through round two or maybe more
 
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