Indoor masking requirements and vaccine checks are no longer mandatory in King County, signaling a purposeful shift into the “live with it” phase of the pandemic. (Granted, some businesses are keeping those mandates going for a little longer out of an abundance of caution.)
Unfortunately, this all happens to coincide with the rise of a Covid subvariant—yes, such a thing exists because of course it does—called BA.2 or stealth omicron. BA.2 has about 40 mutations that make it distinct from regular ole omicron, known as BA.1, but not enough to grant it a completely new Greek moniker. For the record, it’s been nicknamed “stealth” because it’s not easily distinguishable from delta using a
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