after that weird data lapse on monday I no longer trust the accuracy of these numbers (not that I trusted them much before)
The second pandemic is on folks. In my supremely doomer and pessimistic estimate, it will be an official pandemic by the fourth of July, and catastrophic by 3 months from now
I can't wait for a year from now when I have long covid, went blind due to complications with monkeypox, and am paralysed by polio, and then get fired from my job and sent to debtors prison for my inability to work :so-true:
Catastrophic was probably the wrong word, but I meant its impact is felt far and wide as severe measures are taken, or in the US's case nothing is done and lots of people start dying, like the huge initial spike in case mortality from covid in late feb-early march 2020, except this time we won't even pretend to do lockdowns so it will be worse
I am also not a doctor, but that doesn't sound right, is that a thing?
Yes, that is the one thing I am sure of. Viral marketing (one of my things) uses the same methods of measuring spread. Herd immunity is dependent on there not being enough infectable individuals for infected individuals to come in contact with. If you go to a party with a weak virus and everyone around you is strong enough not be an infection vector then you're not a threat to the overall health of the vulnerable people that may come in contact with people who were at that party. But as the number of vulnerable people at the party increase, the odds of them coming in contact with those same vulnerable people outside the party also increase. That's how herd immunity ultimately works; It's a community defense by playing the numbers. Covid supposedly damages immune systems making people more vulnerable to virii they wouldn't otherwise have spread or be vulnerable towards.
supposedly?
Since I can't trust the CDC, I have to rely on Twitter checkmarked doctors and their interpretations of studies. :sadness-abysmal:
mood