{"id":6582,"date":"2022-01-31T02:58:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2022-01-31T02:58:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:58:47","slug":"down-the-omicron-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/31\/down-the-omicron-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the Omicron Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Collin County, Texas, is heading down the mountain of Omicron. This strain burned through the population of the Dallas-Fort Worth region, causing the most significant damage to people who have not been vaccinated. We have a ways to go, but the momentum is heading us back toward a lower level of SARS-CoV-2. Where we go after that we cannot say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Collin_New_Cases-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Collin_New_Cases-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Collin_New_Cases-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Collin_New_Cases-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Collin_New_Cases-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Collin_New_Cases-2048x1024.png 2048w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Collin_New_Cases-640x320.png 640w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Collin_New_Cases-1568x784.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It took 30 or more days to make the climb to the mountaintop. It&#8217;s reasonable to expect it will take the same amount of time to get back to the valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collin County, Texas, is heading down the mountain of Omicron. This strain burned through the population of the Dallas-Fort Worth region, causing the most significant damage to people who have not been vaccinated. We have a ways to go, but the momentum is heading us back toward a lower level of SARS-CoV-2. Where we go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Collin_New_Cases.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6584,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions\/6584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}