https://twitter.com/joaquinlife/status/1579421275843448834/photo/1

I believe this user pulled the data from this site: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-icu

I don't like this new normal :yea:

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    My partner and her entire family got it in a span of the last few days. One of them is elderly and two are immunocompromised. She is away as her granddad died from a respiratory illness (wonder what that could have been :thonk:) and they're sorting that out.

    • MF_BROOM [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      My condolences to your partner, with the passing of her granddad.

      I'm amazed at how many people who shed all precaution and invariably get sick insist that their sickness is anything but COVID, as if it literally isn't one of the most infectious viruses of our lifetime.

      • Barabas [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Her granddad wasn't pretending that he didn't have it or anything, he was very cautious as he was 97 years old. Got hospitalized and died within a day and a half. The official diagnosis was pneumonia, but the underlying cause was likely have been covid.

        • MF_BROOM [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Oh no, I didn't mean to imply your partner's grandfather specifically was downplaying it, I just mean more broadly that there are a shit ton of sick people in recent months who refuse to acknowledge the possibility that they have COVID. Like it's always just a "cold" or the sniffles or whatever.

            • MF_BROOM [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              My heart beating out of my chest at 180 BPM while I go on a slow walk is just the sound of freedom ringing in my body :amerikkka-clap: