Covid-19 remained a bigger killer than the flu last winter, despite hopes the pandemic virus would eventually blend into the background with other respiratory germs that cause seasonal epidemics, a US study showed.
Patients hospitalized for Covid had a 35% higher risk of dying within 30 days than influenza patients, Ziyad Al-Aly and colleagues at the clinical epidemiology center of the Veterans Affairs St Louis Health Care System in Missouri found. Covid posed a 60% higher mortality risk than flu in hospitalized patients during the 2022-2023 season, the same researchers showed last year.
One of the reasons I'm honestly happy my job still has us all wearing masks
I don't want you to dox yourself but how the hell is that happening? I'm in florida so even the libs abandoned precautions in early 2021. I thought the rest of the country had as well by now.
Healthcare because we have iso rooms and still get covid patients (so yeah definite exposure risk). Still I'd rather be masked up and now if I was around someone with an illness than just rolling the dice at a rando store
Me working retail and being one of the only people that masks :yea:
Oh, wow. Yeah, that's pretty fortunate. I keep hearing horror stories from immunocompromised folks trying to get treatment and finding that their providers have lost their damn minds.
I know some people who work in stay in facilities for elderly folks and they have to wear masks still.
Im honestly shocked, thats wonderful to hear though!
So jealous, there's probably like ten people in my store still masking. My manager and supervisors both were sick last week, and didnt have grace to stay, or mask while at the store. Thankfully my mask keeps me safe but this shit is never going away. We saw a better way, wearing masks to prevent spreading illnesses and the westoids only made up bullshit about how it was moderately uncomfortable.
Death to america (and Canada).
They claimed that its "not in our values" to wear a mask, which is pretty amazing that they don't realize what they're saying. They try to sidestep what they're implying by claiming mask don't work, but the reality is, Thinking about or caring about others isn't in our values. And they're right. Rugged individualism is antisocial. And capitalism is the sociopaths economic system fr. Liberal society conditions antisocial behaviors and creates antisocial people, calling them Individualistic just hides the reality.
Only the orientals wear masks in public silly because of their dirty air and wet markets or something idk I can't commit to this bit.