Covid-19 remained a bigger killer than the flu last winter, despite hopes the pandemic virus would eventually blend into the background with other respiratory germs that cause seasonal epidemics, a US study showed.
Patients hospitalized for Covid had a 35% higher risk of dying within 30 days than influenza patients, Ziyad Al-Aly and colleagues at the clinical epidemiology center of the Veterans Affairs St Louis Health Care System in Missouri found. Covid posed a 60% higher mortality risk than flu in hospitalized patients during the 2022-2023 season, the same researchers showed last year.
Funding studies on completely magical thinking now. It's still amazing how heavy handed all the narrative spinning was. "Viruses get less virulent over time" some reddit comment says, half remembering something that applies to viruses that kill their hosts before they can be transmitted. And somehow that becomes the public consciousness in a world that's had HIV for 50 years. Of course covid is more deadly than the flu.
And of course no mention of long covid, which is the bigger issue.
Each COVID strain was more contagious than the last with no reduction in lethality and they stuck their heads in the sand
I can't wait till it turns me into a bird. I hope I'm a crow!
These people who use the flu as a metric fail to realize that the flu is actually really dangerous and we made the decision to sacrifice the old and immunocompromised every year for the sake of convenience.
Post modernists call this necropolitics and it's cringe as all fuck. I hate it. This is a much better term for it.
I prefer Social Murder as well, as the term acknowledges the violence being wielded against us.
Social murder is a subset of necropolitics, since the latter encompasses not only the state of living death induced by policies of social murder, but also the political, social, and even physical management of the dead and the process and aftermath of dying. When the IOF fills the nth mass grave with a bulldozer, that is an exercise in necropower as surely as is the state of exception in which they imprison the living.
One of the reasons I'm honestly happy my job still has us all wearing masks
I don't want you to dox yourself but how the hell is that happening? I'm in florida so even the libs abandoned precautions in early 2021. I thought the rest of the country had as well by now.
I know some people who work in stay in facilities for elderly folks and they have to wear masks still.
Healthcare because we have iso rooms and still get covid patients (so yeah definite exposure risk). Still I'd rather be masked up and now if I was around someone with an illness than just rolling the dice at a rando store
Still I'd rather be masked up and now if I was around someone with an illness than just rolling the dice at a rando store
Me working retail and being one of the only people that masks :yea:
Oh, wow. Yeah, that's pretty fortunate. I keep hearing horror stories from immunocompromised folks trying to get treatment and finding that their providers have lost their damn minds.
So jealous, there's probably like ten people in my store still masking. My manager and supervisors both were sick last week, and didnt have grace to stay, or mask while at the store. Thankfully my mask keeps me safe but this shit is never going away. We saw a better way, wearing masks to prevent spreading illnesses and the westoids only made up bullshit about how it was moderately uncomfortable.
Death to america (and Canada).
saw a better way, wearing masks to prevent spreading illnesses and the westoids only made up bullshit about how it was moderately uncomfortable.
They claimed that its "not in our values" to wear a mask, which is pretty amazing that they don't realize what they're saying. They try to sidestep what they're implying by claiming mask don't work, but the reality is, Thinking about or caring about others isn't in our values. And they're right. Rugged individualism is antisocial. And capitalism is the sociopaths economic system fr. Liberal society conditions antisocial behaviors and creates antisocial people, calling them Individualistic just hides the reality.
Only the orientals wear masks in public silly because of their dirty air and wet markets or something idk I can't commit to this bit.
Okay, so according to CDC Wonder a search for top 15 Leading Causes of Death for 2023 brings Covid in at #10 with 49,872 which really only gives us a starting point because that's only including deaths that are properly coded for covid, which we know is not happening in many places. Excess mortality rates are still running at like 5% even after millions dead which should be a major red flag.
You'd think that'd be an easy number to find, wouldn't you?
TF flu
