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thank god the pandemic is over! it would be crazy if my parents both just got covid 2 days ago, they must be wrong since it's over.
I'm so sorry to hear about your parents, comrade. :meow-hug: Hoping for a speedy, full recovery for them.
My COVID-cautious friend recently got COVID for the first time and had to be hospitalized. In her mid 20s. Had to fly internationally on like a 10-hour flight, and she doesn't do well if she goes long periods of times without eating. So she took her mask off for a short period of time to eat and drink and she's almost certain that that's how she caught it.
She's had most symptoms clear up a week-plus later, but still, definitely some scary shit.
Yeah, she was up to date on all the boosters. Started with a high fever, then vomiting, body aches, fatigue, and a really sore throat. Now she's just fatigued and has a stuffy nose and ears.
The only major change is going to be vaccines costing money/requiring insurance now, though, right? It seemed like they already rolled back most other efforts ages ago.
Hospitals/long term care/etc near me just repealed mask mandates which is fucking insane.
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i am losing my fucking mind in this country
Medical facilities, famously known for not having a bunch of sick people in them, including people who are highly vulnerable to viruses.
:mission-accomplished-1: :mission-accomplished-2:
I can’t comprehend why we didn’t require masks in health care facilities before covid!
I think they are actively trying to cull the numbers old and vulnerable people at this point.
Here's an article I'd found from a few months ago indicating what exactly ending the emergency would entail: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/politics/may-11-end-of-covid-and-public-health-emergencies/index.html
That's basically the most major change with the emergency ending, yeah. Although it's technically decoupled from the emergency now, the biggest impact this month was that states started up the Medicaid redetermination process at the beginning of this month. And as a result of resuming the redetermination process, HHS estimated that 15 million could lose their insurance, including millions of children. :doomjak:
Not a fucking peep from media outlets at the disastrous implications of potentially 15 million people losing their coverage in a short period of time: https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/cnn-sunday-morning-shows-completely
It's only 5% of the population. No big deal. I heard there's good jobs, probably with insurance, down at the racism factory.
And as a result of resuming the redetermination process, HHS estimated that 15 million could lose their insurance, including millions of children.
At least with the rolling back of of child labor laws, those children may be able to access employer sponsored healthcare! :bear-despair:
I still think a lot about how COVID protections in the US (however half-assed they were) had the secondary effect of almost getting rid of the flu completely in the 2020-2021 season (damn, it's almost like masks and other community-based measures work for all kinds of viruses or something). And instead of learning anything from that and how you're only as healthy as the people around you, nothing was actually gleaned and society decided that there were too many preventative measures implemented.
Can't wait for the next pandemic when something even worse rolls around and the government leaves safety up to the individual from the get-go :yea:
There's been so much pro-covid propaganda that liberals would probably support Trump doing this by now. Death to America
