Flatten it straight up into the stratosphere :doomjak: |
Edit: after doing some cursory checking, this is equivalent to the surge that india experienced a while back, except its actually 3x worse since we have 3x fewer people
so that's cool. It's twice as bad in the UK as it is in the US, too
NPR: "Are China's lockdown measures going too far? We talked to an American businessman who lost two weeks of his month-long vacation due to quarantine in Beijing."
Reminds me of a comment I read on /r/medicine just today about a woman who had been the only one to get vaccinated in her family. She lost both her parents, her husband, and her two adult sons. I can't even begin to imagine how that would feel.
I mean you're left totally on your own in the US, so when help is definitely not coming I kinda see where some people are coming from.
Welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway, the show where the numbers are made up and the people don't matter.
That’s already happening. It’s basically impossible to get a test in huge parts of the US right now. This is a huge undercount.
Had a covid scare at some point during this recent nightmare and prescheduled tests at medical sites were nearly a week away, and given how dangerous it is to sit in an urgent care waiting room right now, we decided to get at home tests. I think we literally went to about 10 pharmacies before we found a single one.
My manager the other day was happy because she managed to order a whole 6 at home tests for a lab of 20 people, which won’t even arrive for 2 weeks.
We didn’t get the most covid cases of any university in the world by not having people get sick!
That already happened in Italy. A friend of mine had had a close contact with a bunch of positive people and they couldn't find even a rapid test, much less a PCR one.
We're so far beyond COVID-zero that Queensland's Chief Health Officer Dr John Gerrard said it baldly this week: infection with COVID-19 was required for the pandemic to evolve to be endemic — a constant presence in our lives.
"Not only is the spread of this virus inevitable, it is necessary," he said on Thursday. "In order for us to go from the pandemic phase to an endemic phase, the virus has to be widespread."
"If you don't fulfil this definition of a close contact then there is no need for you to be in that line," Mr Morrison said.
"You should go home. Go to the beach, go and do what you want to do. Read a book in the park.":this-is-fine:
I keep seeing people casually talk about COVID becoming endemic as if that means COVID being over. Lmao no that just means we failed and have given up trying to do anything about it.
Now that i think about it, i guess for healthy young people that is basically COVID being over. Sad they can't see beyond themselves
casually
it's been the national agenda since forever. We're kicking the can down the road and we're running out of road
Now that i think about it, i guess for healthy young people that is basically COVID being over
Not really because long haulers exist and reinfections cause cumulative damage lul
Covid isn't over for me as long as it can still kill my loved ones who are older, and give myself and others long term effects.
But given less and less people care, there's less and less I can do to limit mine and their exposure. So it may be over soon whether we want it or not. Failed states; the whole West.
… He does realize that a virus becoming endemic is bad… right? Like, that is a bad thing. Endemic viruses are bad.
If it was a normal virus, then becoming endemic might be good
But since it's a Ft. Detrick bioweapon, there's no reason to think that "it'll become less virulent so it doesn't kill its host" lul
Thank goodness this bioweapon hasn't mutated yet. Could you imagine!
I know you’re just doing a bit, but I’ve genuinely seen people say this and I’m always like, you do know the flu kills thousands every year right? And the fact that flu is endemic in animal populations is why we can’t fucking get rid of it.
Hundreds of thou. Anywhere from 2~700k depending on who you ask I think.
Feeling pretty scared tbh
It's over guys, there's no way it's going to evolve to be more deadly, like it's already done several times. Letting the virus spread without taking measures to stop it hasn't worked to prevent devastating covid waves anywhere it's been tried, but this time is different.
To be fair, they didn't specify if they were gonna flatten it horizontally or vertically
Nah its just that omicron is really infectious and this was terrible timing for it to exist
This is the outcome of neoliberalism. It's been like this for decades but there weren't any pandemics to test the fragile system en masse. Though the poor can tell you similar stories about the hospitals they've had to visit before COVID.
is there anything Boris Johnson could do that would cause the people of England to tear him limb from limb?
just checked, money line seems completely unaffected. DOW is up 5% from a month ago and 55% from 3 years ago
given the new year it's gonna be horrifying 2 weeks from now
brazil was doing OK, but i'm afraid the holidays might have brought the shitstorm in
It’s worse now than it’s ever been, and restrictions are completely lifted. I hope deaths decouple here or Biden is gonna make trump look positively benevolent
They're not going to decouple because the hospital system will be overwhelmed.
But the numbers may shift away from confirmed COVID deaths and instead pop up in excess mortality statistics.
