Hexbear refuses to let me post the link in the URL field. And the article was the only one I found that laid things out so clearly. The American media simply does not give much of a fuck about covid anymore.
CDC: Nearly Every American Can Drop Wearing Masks Indoors
COVID-19 transmission levels, however, remain high across the majority of the country.
The CDC is really on a pre-election roll. This is from a few days ago...
The CDC has decided to stop tracking and releasing COVID-19 case and death data on a daily basis. These metrics will now be updated only once a week, the agency said today.
Why do they do this shit every time there's a new wave? They have consistently picked the absolute worst possible times to loosen restrictions, at every single opportunity. They have to be trying to get people infected, it's the only explanation that makes sense.
They are trying to infect everyone, because they think the virus is only dangerous due to its novelty, and repeat infections will "build immunity" and turn it into a normal cold.
Yeah, you know, how viruses totally definitely work
Thing is natural active immunity caused by covid infections don't really last that much and aren't that beneficial with comabting new variants :desolate:
Legit wasting hours of empire due to perpetual plague.
I'll never give up on the normalization of wearing a mask in public places!!! Chuds are so busy being reactionary, they completely miss the benefits to health, but also the added privacy. Big Ole commie gubmint tracking you everywhere. Put on a mask and hoodie.. You can convert back and forth to black block without suspicion.
Big Ole commie gubmint tracking you everywhere.
It is amusing how the chuds scream about freedom and liberty yet they can never get it into their heads that the less privacy you have - ultimately the less freedom and liberty.
It's freedom and liberty when a corporation does it :amerikkka-clap:
the death spike after the mid terms will be monumental. not being a doomer or whatever, i just don't see how it plays out any other way. we don't have enough anti-virals at this point afaik
I don't know if it'll be monumental but I assume it'll be at least bad. And everything will be an extra 10 times as fucked because the covid money is gone or misspent (like on the cops), nothing has been done to improve filtration (and ventilation) and - of course - most Americans will simply refuse to put their masks back on.
The biggest spikes will probably be a few weeks after Christmas. I wonder how people will cope with the fact they visited grandma and a few weeks later she was dead of covid.
We can rest assured that CDC surely went to extreme lengths to be certain any wave would happen after election day.
The inevitable mass death and disablement will be waved away by libs stating that “you’re exaggerating” and “I don’t know anyone in hospital or that’s got Long COVID, this is alarmist disinformation to harm the economy”.
MFs I work with didn’t even know that a new vaccine is available, let alone get it. I’m so tired of people talking about “during the pandemic” and how they’re now “post-pandemic”. I’m so tired of people saying “yeah it didn’t affect my family that much, we all just lost our sense of smell for a few weeks”, as if neurological damage is no big deal. Mask wearing has utterly collapsed in California in the last couple of months.
:stalin-stressed:
Friendly reminder that the CDC isn't stupid not are its scientists on pure ideology when it comes to knowing what the country actually needs to do in terms of public health.
Where ideology comes in is (1) leadership, which still has a bunch of Trump-appointed conservatives and (2) a pervading ideology to "work around" bullshit psychoanalysis of what Americans will do vs. what they're supposed to do, and always erring on the side of the former. Do people want to wear masks and will they do so consistently? Some fuck in the CDC says no, so they temper their recommendations even though they know every single person should wear one. Repeat ad infinitum and with full cover from leadership.
Shit is fucked, yo.
bullshit psychoanalysis of what Americans will do vs. what they’re supposed to do, and always erring on the side of the former
Which ironically is the exact opposite of what you need to do. If you know that Americans won’t wear masks, you should tell them that everyone should be wearing an N95 even outside so that more people wear them more often.
Less people are going to wear masks than you tell to wear masks, so tell EVERYONE to do it!
Yes, which is where I think the "guard rails" of capital kick in. This approach is favored by capital, which has its tendrils in everything and is threatening to gurgle and die because of lockdowns and masks etc etc, and so "well I guess we should do what people will already do" is allowable discourse by the higher-ups, but "IT'S A PANDEMIC FROM AN AEROSOLIZED VIRUS OBVIOUSLY WEAR THE MASKS" is frowned upon.
Almost three years of me only existing in my house or in the hospital for a rheumatology appointment to keep my medicine.
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
*Except healthcare settings because we gotta pick up the pieces that leadership leaves behind while explaining to grandma she’s never going to be able to truly catch her breath again as she slowly dies because COVID finally pushed her down the hill.
