Lab grown gems have almost zero chance of being haunted by the souls of the children that died mining them. Of course they are of a lesser value. Does anyone actually want some lonely soulless rock?

It seems that these reports are all from waste water not from hospital admissions or worse reported deaths. It gives a bit of hope that folks have it and don’t even realize it. It has become indistinguishable to a cold to a lot of people. Which is hopefully an indicator that the vaccines were successful. It does make you think that maybe we could have gotten to this point much sooner if people were more open to getting vaccinated earlier.