#soft lockdown

[astro-nomaly]

Bro it is too goddamn early for a lockdown can this freak leave 😭🙏

[pics-and-fanfics]

Pray for me our school is in a soft lockdown rn bc of a car chase turned to an on foot chase

[kalgalen]

hi that is so soft i will actually die omg?

GOTTA GO SOFT!!!

[i-am-iron-man-3000]

Guys, my school just went into soft lockdown, i’m really really scared.

We aren’t being told what’s going on. My three year old brother is in the building right now.

[bulldogedition]

[parttimereporter]

Nobody wants to mandate business closures, but so many people are getting sick that businesses are closing anyway.

THE ATLANTIC REPORTS:

For Brent Young, who runs a butcher shop and two restaurants in Brooklyn, it began last week when, one by one, staff members tested positive. “It’s more or less decimated our workforce,” he says. One of his restaurants had been booked solid with parties for a week—the holidays are one of the busiest times of the year for restaurants—but people started canceling those parties too. At this point it’s not worth trying to stay open, Young says, “because the anxiety’s so high no one’s wanting to eat.” For most vaccinated people, Omicron will be mild. But even a mild cold, sufficiently widespread, can disrupt a city.

A voluntary suspension of activity—a soft lockdown, essentially—will help dampen transmission of the coronavirus. This happened all over the country in spring 2020, when people began staying at home before official stay-at-home orders came down, says Saad Omer, an epidemiologist at Yale and a co-author of a paper that studied the phenomenon using anonymized cellphone data. It’s intuitive, really. “Things become more salient; you react on that,” Omer says. This feedback loop, which conventional epidemiological models entirely ignore, can help determine the shape and duration of the Omicron wave—but exactly how is hard to predict.

[the-kestrels-feather]

Do other countries have lockdown drills? I mean obviously gunmen aren't as big of a problem, but like we get put on lockdowns for drug busts, bomb threats, if crimes happen nearby, one time we even got put on it because a dog in one of the nearby got out and found it's way on to school grounds and they didn't know if it was aggressive or not, so I'm just curious

[boxdragon]

And finally, 2 and a half hours later, I'm home...