As predicted by covid variant tracker nerds on twitter in recent weeks, JN.1 is exploding. A 40% increase in covid cases since last week. Most sequences coming in to variant trackers are JN.1.
The biobot chart shows the last six months, if you zoom out we are at or approaching covid levels not seen since last winter, so not totally unexpected... but the CDC expects cases to peak in February. However JPWieland predicts it will peak after christmas due to the rapid growth of JN.1.
There are also outlier cities in Europe showing more covid in wastewater than ever measured during the pandemic. Canada isn't doing much better. The UK isn't doing well either.
Along with covid, flu and RSV are also hitting pretty hard at the same time, especially in the South, with a touch of mystery pneumonia in various places around the world as a treat.
Thankfully the latest vaccine helps against this variant. Unfortunatly vaccine uptake rates are abysmal now because capitalism.
I'm mainly still posting about covid out of anxiety and watching the health of friends and family who have been infected and "were fine" slowly deteriorate.
Good luck, everyone.
EDIT:
The CDC director is recommending wearing masks. So things will probably get pretty bad...
https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1732547659292967203
I hope i don't get a beat down for saying this, but i can't afford to care anymore. The people around me won't, and at first i tried to do my part and theirs. But it's not ending. I see now that there's never going to be an end.
So hey, i used to care you know? I used to try. I knew despair and apathy would come but i did fight! I just don't have the bottomless well of will required to keep runnin when there's no finish line
if you won't mask you're just another threat the rest of us who can't afford to stop caring have to contend with.
there is no compelling reason not to mask. none at all.
Most people I know stopped masking.
But on top of getting vaccinated, using anti-viral nasal sprays might improve your odds of avoiding the worst consequences of covid.
I get where you’re coming from. And thank you for being willing to wear a mask if you feel sick. COVID will likely continue to get less and less asymptomatically spread, hopefully. It’s not a really selected for trait now that it’s endemic in our global population. At least that’s what a lot of the virologists and immunologists I read have to say.
We can't do everything, so we do what we can. We all know this feeling of burnout. Just hang in there and do the little things.
If you held out even just a day longer than the people around you then you did a good job. Thank you.
It’s always a good idea to care for yourself enough first in order to better care for others. It’s hard out there.
The problem is other people, not you
You can't be expected to care 10x as much just because 90% of people refused to wear masks inside even back in 2020. Also it's not like this would accomplish anything because you can't make up for their unmasking by wearing 10x as many masks lol
it's not just the government's fault for making the disease (https://imgur.com/a/CRwan3n), for hiding the urgency of it in the early days ("Don't wear masks and ride the subway" -- Fauci March 2020), and for not instituting an ACTUAL quarantine. It's also the people's fault because they couldn't even wear a piece of fucking cloth over their face
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Biden's last act as president will be to ban even this sort of tracking of COVID.
Whatever happened to those Greek letter names? Is this somehow still Omicron? Still not giving us a new one?
Omicron was so dominant that it pretty much outcompeted all other variants like delta and gamma and stuff. At this point nearly all variants existing are descendants of omicron in one way or another.
yeah they need to change it already. If not for Omicron, then for BA.2.86. Also I should've acknowledged people have been trying to bring back the cooler names, like calling BA.2.86/JN.1 "Pirola," I just feel like it hasn't caught on as much. Maybe because normal people just don't care about covid anymore, so anyone still talking about covid is a scientist/has dug into the science, and using the pango terminology is just more specific
We can appeal to the evangelicals if we stop calling it COVID at all and just pretend there's a new disease called Leviathan or Behemoth or something else biblical.
I keep hoping that COVID will buck the odds and attenuate.
Me talking to me: maybe next time, sweaty.
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Hospitalizations and deaths in Finland
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This is the highest hospitalizations have been in Finland since the pandemic started.
are those deaths from all-cause mortality, or only covid-caused deaths?
also what's the website?
https://www.koronatilastot.fi/fi/sairaala/
It's covid. Hopefully deaths don't track as closely to cases as last year.
Let's go COVID, disrupt Christmas and cause an economic downturn! I believe in you!
Seriously though, fuck all this shit. Everyone is coughing all the time.
just one more wave I promise dude just this one last imperialism just one more military base bro I promise I swear to god man after this last false flag I'll be good broski
the dude quoting 1984 under the CDC director barely mentioning masks
satire is deadI keep wondering if I'm being unreasonable, and covid isn't a big problem anymore, but the reality is pretty clear even if it's a huge bummer.
And 1000 people have been dying of covid each week in the US since August, and it's about to get a lot worse. It's hard to wrap my head around that and seeing hardly anyone else give a shit. All this death primarily to save the political fortunes of an octogenarian genocidal racist and his psychotic political party, who couldn't be bothered to change anything for the better post-pandemic.
As an immunocompromised person, I appreciate you seeing how awful it really is. It's now been years where I've continued to see excited headlines about how "only" people like me are dying now (also untrue, but that's the narrative). It feels dehumanizing in ways that I have a hard time describing, but comrades like you make me feel a little bit less alone.
Just chiming in to say that you're right about COVID continuing to be a major crisis and your posting is appreciated
I had covid really bad two weeks ago, the whole house did actually. And my housemates girlfriend had covid a week ago. I wonder if it was this variant.
It's possible, especially if you live in one of the states that's dark blue on this map: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html
Thanks comrade! We are all fine and no long covid, but we are also all young and got our boosters. Even so it was really rough and I was basically comatose in bed for a week.
https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1732547659292967203
I didn't watch it. Did it at least start with a illustration showing people in masks? My guess is a big "no" because she's a ghoul and she wears a mask or shows masks an absolute bare minimum. And it's really great that a rando is better on this shit than she is.
Good video. Been distributing around.
Please
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add filtration (HEPA and MERV13)
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clearly direct to Health Care and Schools also.
While sharing I only found the video on twitter
- not yet on the CDC website
- not yet on the youtube playlist Check with Dr. Cohen.
Please fix.
And update the school, community and hospital recommendations.
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JN.1
Who names this stuff? They could at least give it a nickname?
It's unofficial nickname is Pirola, which can be shortened to "Pi"
There are so many variants that they can't nickname them all, so they stick to naming the the ones with mutations that look most concerning.
"As we prepare to record "Covid Year Four," Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss what is left of national covid data following the end of the public health emergency, how what's left has become so thoroughly abstracted, and how the CDC prioritizes representing deaths as an abstract percentage even as the official death count has been over 1,000 a week since August."
https://podbay.fm/p/the-death-panel/e/1701907200
