Using wastewater data- the only data that measures the amount of circulating COVID-19 in an era of inaccessible tests and discouraged reporting- infectious disease modeler J.P. Weiland estimates that the US has yet again crossed the million-infections-per-day mark as of August 9, with about 1 in 33 Americans currently infected with COVID-19.
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I’ve written before about how, in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, Fauci publicly declared that US COVID cases would need to fall “well below 10,000 a day” for us to get a “degree of normality,” and allow us to return to pre-pandemic life. In the nearly three years since, the US has never had a single day with under 10,000 new COVID cases per day; in fact, we have never had a single day with under 100,000 new COVID cases per day.
Every time I think about 'getting my shit together' and getting a pmc job instead of delivering boxes outside, I see a headline like this.
at least at the pmc job maybe you can be remote? but honestly fully remote jobs seem to be still declining because of the management birdbrains who demand to have everyone in person
Avoided it primarily by being remote, boosting, and masking the last few years. I go to one fucking kids birthday party this past weekend and fucking got it.
classic
I'm fully remote and I've had it... honestly I don't remember, I'm pretty sure twice, both relatively early on (2021). I sincerely wish I had been more careful. And now that booster vaccines, N95s, at home NAAT tests, etc. are available, nobody uses them. It's fucking insane
Yeah I just restocked on N95s and shit, but I'm going back to full isolation for a while. People too crazy