• BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    So uhhh…what’s gonna happen when folks have to congregate inside cooling centers this summer in order to survive, just as BA4/5 and Monkeypox are getting into the real swing of things

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Already happened in the PNW last year with the heat dome, though with less infectious strains, and IIRC there was only a small spike in cases. The baseline's already so high it kind of doesn't matter.

      • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        The baseline’s already so high it kind of doesn’t matter.

        :yea:

        Looking forward to that Moderna bivalent shot based on the first Omicron strain that doesn’t confer immunity to BA4/BA5….

        • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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          2 years ago

          if wastewater levels are to be believed, cases are actually ~3x higher right now than reporting indicates, or in other words 230,000 cases daily