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RENO, Nev. (KOLO) -As COVID-19 cases increase, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised Washoe County’s level to medium.

The Washoe County Health District urges people to take steps to limit COVID-19 risk. This includes:

Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines.
Follow CDC recommendations for isolation and quarantine, including getting tested if you are exposed to COVID-19 or have symptoms of COVID-19.
Wear a mask on public transportation. Consider wearing a mask at any time as an additional precaution to protect yourself and others. If you are at high risk for severe illness, consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Maintain improved ventilation throughout indoor spaces when possible.
If you have household or social contact with someone at high risk for severe disease, consider self-testing to detect infection before contact and consider wearing a mask when indoors with them.
Starting Monday, there will be changes to drive-through testing at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center The testing entrance will be moved to 9th Street as there will no longer be access from the Wells Avenue or Sutro Street entrances due to the Reno Rodeo.  There will be signs to guide people to the correct entrance.

LAX had periodic announcements over the PA that face masks were required in the terminal.  I'd est. 40% were wearing them, more were not.  Nobody seemed to care, at all.  SD was wide open, very few masked bandits.

When we arrived, I had set my backpack on top of some carts nearby to put up my headphones, waiting on luggage.  Some dude came over and claimed they were his carts, and I said "Yes, OK, I just need them a second." and he snarled at me he didn't want me touching his carts.  He had a mask on.  I pretty much ignored him as he stood there fuming, then I finished up and removed my backpack.  (Our luggage came on another location, the wife got an email but our entire flight was standing at the wrong carousel but her, as we left they announced the right one.)

Every time I fly somewhere I marvel at how out of it some folks are in life.  They probably marvel at me at times.

We went to lunch today at Killer Burger, had two burgers and onion rings and a pitcher of beer for $30, would have been $60 easy in SD.

Their "house beer" is $10 a pitcher, it's not great beer of course.  420 was $12, which is better than anything else around here.  Killer Burger is pretty good overall, honest burgers, nothing fancy.

We strolled through the farmer's market here today, one booth was doing vaccinations.  They were not busy and my wife was lagging so I chatted with the lady a bit.  She said nearly everyone she knew was getting Omicron, they were vaxxed, and it was mild.  We all discussed WAY back how hospitalizations was a key metric.  This variant seems more like a mild cold than anything else, mostly.  We're done.

Well if I hadn't had it before, which is possible that I did back last December, I definitely got it and tested positive a couple weeks ago.  It was inevitable, even though I work from home and rarely encounter people for the length of time/distance it takes to become infected, my wife is a physical therapist and spends 1+hours per visit in close proximity to her patients.  So when a patient of hers told her a couple of days after a visit, that she had started feeling unwell shortly after their appointment and then later tested positive, it was inevitable.

Within a couple of days my wife started having mild symptoms, and then a couple of days later so did I.  We both tested positive on at-home tests within 2 days of first symptoms.

It was very mild, basically like seasonal allergies/cedar fever.  Except it didn't last as long because for me, cedar fever usually lasts a couple of weeks and this was only 3-4 days.  Mild body aches, a little bit of a headache, slight cough, and then at the end, a sore throat for a couple of days.

Neither of our kids got it, but one of them was away at summer camp for most of that week, and the other is a teenager who rarely emerges from her cave-like room. 

Anyway, glad to have had it and checked that box. Also glad to see the US has lifted the international air travel reentry testing requirement, since we're flying down to Playa del Carmen in a few weeks.

Good to hear it was mild for both of you!

Cheers mate!

Be sure to report back on the travel thread too.

Yup, really looking forward to this trip. I haven't traveled by air since 2019.