omicron update and two years of the new world

 A mini covid (omicron variant) update:

• Jan 19: one of Dd's preschool classmates had a case, but with the new policies (and shorter incubation period of this variant) he was only home for two school days.  No one in his class got it, even though all the kids are necessarily unvaccinated and they have relatively close contact.
• Jan 21: two whole years have passed since Washington announced the first confirmed covid-19 case in the country
• Jan 26: one of D's classmates had a case, but school continued as normal and again there was no transmission in his classroom
• Jan 27: D's principal shared that 60% of the students in his school are fully (2 dose) vaccinated and 73% have had one shot.   The New York Times reports that nationally those numbers are 18.8% and 28.1%.   I am soooo grateful to be in this vaccine-friendly community.

This pandemic has generated a lot of data that will probably be discussed for years to come, but as it lingers, the snapshot of how we feel about the information we have at a given moment might get lost.   It is tragic and still shocking how much politics predict vaccination rates.

Just for Dec 25 - Jan 23 in King County, this is how the impact of vaccinations is playing out.

We kept D off the school bus for the last two weeks after there were  two isolated positive cases on the bus for the first two weeks of January.  We've also not seen our parents indoor since late December.   We've used quite a few rapid home tests, which are still kind of difficult to acquire. 

The state has a great online resources for looking up vaccination records.  Early last week I checked it to see if my covid booster showed up yet, because soon I expect proof-of-booster will be necessary for going out and about.   It wasn't, but my doctor's office was able to add it for me.   

At the same time I noticed that all of D's infant and toddler vaccinations were missing from his record.   I knew he was actually fully vaxxed so I didn't take any action.   My subconscious was not satisfied however and served up a stressful dream about him getting denied entry to school.   Lo and behold, three days later in the real world I got a slightly irate email from the (way overworked) school nurse about this being the second notice and how we needed to call to explain our plan to get him up to date.  It turns out it was an automated email and the district now is tech savvy enough to check the state record, rather than the parent-submitted record we wrote out when he entered the district in in 2019.  I contacted the doctor's office again and they updated his record to.  Now, what should I do with my ability to predict the future?