Who would've thought? Who could've possibly foreseen this happening again? It was all supposed to be gravy now. We defeated COVID, didn't we? Al Pacino heading back inside, "Just when I thought I was out, COVID pulls me back in!"
Best part is that they're not gonna re do lockdowns or mandates anymore. Not even gonna give hospitals extra gear or funding. Just oof
Sorry sweetie, theres much more important things we need that money for, like arming the nazis in Ukraine to take down Putler
Putler
You've given me a great idea for a WWII themed mini golf course
May 8, 2024: Donald Trump in an inflammatory campaign speech blasted Joe Biden for "not taking [Covid-19] seriously". "2 million deaths under Joe. With me, they said 2 million was the worst case, and we came in way under. Way under. And we had Operation Warp Speed, just incredible, which gave us the VACCINES. Sleepy Joe won't even send you a check, disgrace. "
Lol @ that other thread asking what we're doing with our "month" between waves. Lmao even.
Big oof. Guess I better get my bi-yearly socializing in
Just when I thought I was out, COVID pulls me back in!
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Sad thing is that once again the most affected people will be workers. When the mandate was lifted, it was primarily lifted for consoomers to get their treats. So it's the restaurant, retail, healthcare, and other services workers that will be bearing the brunt of this new wave as they are constantly exposed to several people who simply don't care anymore.
And I doubt any significant mandate will be reenacted until it's too late, despite this following the same pattern we've seen these past 2+ years. Fuck Hochul, Eric Adams and the rest of the neoliberal establishment.
Sad thing is that once again the most affected people will be workers.
Know that all to well at this point. Have already had COVID twice now, the first time very early in the pandemic without being vaxxed. The way they've opened up in my city, I know a 3rd bout isn't too far away. You can be masked up and vaxxed up all you want, but when its literally just laissez-faire bullshit with everyone else around you, at some point you will slip up.
Fortunately anyone with any semblance of political power or attention paid to their issues can work from home or afford to take time off. The working class who will be disproportionately impacted? Not so much.
It really sucks that mask mandates are just very unpopular and therefore politicians are cautious to enforce them. 100% of americans, except for me of course, are incredibly dumb.
Yeah, this is about the outcome anyone should have anticipated when the Trump admin did nothing to stymie the spread.
I distinctly remember telling people that there was no plan coming, US states are on their own and you'd better hope there's a neutralizing vaccine or they're just doing herd immunity. And the vaccines weren't neutralizing so now the US is going for herd immunity (though they seem to reduce risk for most people enough that I'd tell people they can ignore the adverse reactions if they're >30, have a comorbidity/risk factor, or are exposed to a lot of people due to work or other obligations). I'm not even sure why the Dems are taking their foot off the gas for their trip to election devastation though? They're obviously pulling back on the masks and whatnot because it's not effective and it helps their polling... But why? They can't lose anything more than they're going to, it's not like they could have lost so badly that Joe would actually get impeached and removed afterwards, but given how badly they want to lose the House & Senate you'd think they were trying to lose that badly... But then they pull back on the mandates and shit? Such a confused strategy.
On the plus side for me, the first time I had it there was no effect. I found out I had antibodies when I requested they check for them during routine bloodwork in Jul 2020. Still present in May 2021, and then I'm 99,% certain I had omicron during New Years period because my brother-in-law tested positive and we were adjacent to each other a lot during that time - though I may have been sleeping in a weird position the night prior because it only manifested as a stuffy nose for an afternoon the day after he tested positive. Then my partner (who's 59) had it in February and confirmed it with a test and we didn't do anything differently - cooked/ate/slept/sex together - and I never had any symptoms.
Is this written badly, or did New York only have 2600 new positive cases in a day? Because in that case New York has lower covid-numbers than my country, while having twice as many people in it, and a significantly higher population density.
