https://biobot.io/data/covid-19
The infections will continue until you have so much brain damage that morale improves, because you forgot what was wrong.
because you forgot what was wrong.
This reminds me of SCP-3848, where people forget about random concepts (like the existence of dogs), but they never even know that something is wrong, since they've forgotten all about it.
Some thinktankie was looking over the 2020 election results and determined Biden won cuz of covid, so they're bringing it back for nostalgia voters
Biden absolutely won because of COVID. The margin on his victory was pretty small. Trump was the incumbent while the economy was doing well. There’s no way Biden wins on “but muh norms” in that situation. Didn’t help that Trump nearly died of COVID like a month before the election. No wonder Biden doesn’t take COVID seriously, he’d be a retired loser right now if not for the pandemic.
Yea even setting aside literally killing their constituents Trump could have said
"this man, Dr fauci, many are saying the best virologist in the world, very smart i.portant people. I'll be telling him what to do and he'll be giving a weekly update on hownwell were doing"
And liberals would have been lining up to re-elect him in a landslide
I like changing the meaning of tankie to thinktankie. Libs would be so confused.
Oh good, the slope is steep enough that we can reuse "flatten the curve" jokes
lol, yeah. Just last week Monroe County, down at the tip of Florida, spiked higher than Miami-Dade county ever has. (initial omnicron) Which is funny because they're right next to each other and M-D is considerably more populated and an international flight hub. It's mindblowing that scientists across the spectrum of disciplines aren't fighting for more data collection, simply for the massive benefit it could give science as a whole. But then I remember capitalism, so...
Pretty sure scientists have been at the "fuck all of you, we tried to help and you tried to kill us" stage for about 3 years now
What are they gonna say "hey remember all that stuff we told you years ago? Same thing, maybe fucking listen to us this time."
Where I live, a few percent of people still wear masks. But ever since school started back up it seems like only a few per mille bother.
When I visited my friend who was stuck in the hospital around this time last year, where similar covid rates were happening, they were constantly at capacity, and that was before they dropped mask mandates in hospitals.
It’s so hard to tell what’s going on. During the delta wave you could read nursing reddit and see people complaining about overflowing icus etc. now there’s not a peep. Like I can’t tell if the virus is less dangerous, everyone who was susceptible died already, or it’s just fallen out of fashion to talk about these things. I just really wish I had some fucking data you know?
Yeah, they've just stripped away the ability to know what's going on outside of wastewater monitoring, anecdotes from social media, or checking hospital capacity. If they aren't stacking bodies in refrigerated trucks we aren't hearing about it.
My impression is that over the past year it hasn't been as devestating as before, less deaths and vaccines and immunity from previous exposures are helping, but it's still causing hospitals to max capacity when covid is peaking, and it's still several times more of a problem than the flu, with much greater risk of long term health impacts, and the waves aren't seasonal.
The wastewater for my city shows a wave starting every three months, and it seems to match covid outbreaks in the long term care home my friend ended up. Less hospitalizations and death, which is great, but it's still a huge problem, especially if repeat infections accumulate damage and increase risk of... everything, like a lot of data is showing. And the amount of variants out there, still being detected, and with crazy mutations, is troubling.
Yeah the mutations are freaky for sure. One errant bit and the thing starts killing en masse again.
Yeah, by helping I mean the acute phase is generally less severe and deadly. Also treatments have gotten better since the start.
Long term consequences are being ignored.
Whelp, guess I'm masking up again in populated indoor spaces now.
My threat model threshold is about 500 copies per milliliter in the sewage. I wouldn't dispute anyone who had theirs as low as 200, or who was immune-compromised.
I invite you to check what Monroe County did this summer.
-Jul 12th, 52 copies/ML
-Jul 19th 657 copies/ML
-Jul 26th 2.501 copies/ML
-Aug 9th 2023 copies/ML
-Aug 23rd 2067 copies/ML
-Aug 30th 4717 copies/ML
This is the county I talk about in another comment that is right next to Miami, and has just exceeded Miami's Omicron peak. Florida is monitoring 9 out of 67 counties and we weren't monitoring them before March. Unless you're in an area where more regions are being monitored than not, there's probably quite a few massive spikes that are just not being recorded. We started out in this thing with waves that were largely in sync and are now at a point where varied amounts of immunity timings have made it so that the areas we're not monitoring are probably at a considerably higher average than the areas we are. If you go state by state, you'll find a lot of spikes like these where lone counties had a super spreader event or something that put that them far higher than other counties monitored nearby. Honestly, I'm mostly just using Wastewater to tell when we're in big waves so I've got agitprop to try and convince people that covid isn't gone, but I wear a mask all the time because I'm in a massive monitoring blind spot and people around me have been coming down with covid even during the lulls.
I know I'm taking a risk, just like I am whenever I get in a personal automobile or interact with a stranger.
If masking didn't present any issue, we would have seen noticeable amounts of people doing it before the lockdowns. If/when I help establish an intentional community, I'll mask up all the time outside of it for the sake of keeping it as an immunological island.
I make a guess of whether it's above a certain likelihood that I'll come across someone infected in there, based on extrapolating from national and regional data.
If it looks like we're in a spike, I take more care to mask.
