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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.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Right? I haven't had any kind of infectious disease - cold, flu, rsv, whatever, nothing, since 2019! It's awesome. Yeah, i wear a mask and that sucks, but i also don't get sick ever!

    We should have been doing this all along. Like, it was right there the whole time!

    • Ildsaye [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      And it protects your lungs from wildfire smoke, and it makes it harder for the authorities to identify you, plus you look like a ninja