Our old friends at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say so.
A case of Covid no longer means isolating for five days, according to the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday. It’s the latest sign of the virus’s normalization four years after it upended our lives.
You should now follow the same precautions with Covid as you take with the flu, according to new guidelines from the CDC. That means staying home until you’ve gone a day with no fever and improving symptoms. Take other precautions for the next five days, including wearing a mask and limiting close contact with others.
Those are the same steps the CDC recommends for other respiratory viruses.
Down there with the common cold?
That can’t be. Whoever wore a mask for the sniffles?
I remember when the panic was announced, looking up what to worry about and reading I can’t remember where, about coughing and sneezing as what to keep your distance from.
As for going outside, what ever happened to Vitamin D? I went walking as I had been doing, taking in the presumably clean-enough air sans mask, even when a squad car went by and I felt a twinge of law-breaking.
I did run into trouble, twice — when a man on his porch saw me walking by and wiped his face with the no-mask sign. I explained that I’d forgot it. (I had.) He did keep his eye on me until I got past his house.
Other time, when a woman left the sidewalk as we were about to walk by each other. stopping at the curb and we had an exchange — Me: it’s bullshit. She: It’s the law. Me: Arrest me.
If we had gone beyond that, I’d have ask the law’s number but was happy enough to lose her from my life for a while at least. (Turned out it was forever, far as I know.)
Blithe Spirit 