His face is like, "again with this shit??"

The data is coming from the CDC. They need to wait for partnered hospitals to identify positive cases and sequence them for variant tracking. We're currently waiting for our contract with them to be approved again. They're getting very limited information right now, so things are probably even worse than they look. Yay!

Edit: the last update I got from my area says about 20% of people tested for covid are positive, including close to 10% of asymptomatic people. Stay safe, everyone!

A tempered glass cutting board would be a good alternative. Definitely more fragile than wood, but non-porous and dishwasher safe.

If only you could still get a used car for $5k. I had to replace my 20+ year old car due to a hit and run that absolutely destroyed it structurally. The best I could find on short notice (I didn't have a choice because I live too far from work to bike and public transit is a joke here) was $20k. It is older than my previous car was when I bought it and nearly 4x the price.

There's a lot of different strains going around, but it's a bunch of different subvariants of Omicron.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

Calicos are always such beautiful cats. She does look done with all your picture-taking shit though.

My cat is always either telling me he wants to go outside unsupervised, or that he wants my food instead of his.