Thank u brandon covid-cool

      • RustyVenture [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Best time imo would be in about 10-12 months, hoisting the Democrats by their own petard on both covid AND backing this ancient ghoul with no reasonable backup plan in case of death and not enough time before the election to implement one.

        Please covid-cool I never ask you for anything…

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Well yeah but that would mean that the government would have to do something, and that's impossible. We can only engage in grifts private-public partnerships.

      • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        But they could've done both! Just funnel a bunch of money to retrofit buildings and the very same grifters could've whet their beaks. It was a huge missed opportunity

        • bumblebeehellbringer [fae/faer, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Ahh but why not cut out the middleman, capitalism is efficient! /s For real though, I feel like they are doing everything they can to brainwash people into not noticing anything is different. No masking means no visual and tactile reminder that things are different. No added ventilation or air filters means no change in routine... If there's nothing different, then people won't be asking what the government needs to do to bring things back to normal. You're totally right though, the government should take simple, effective measures like this to protect people and reduce unnecessary disability and death.

  • TheCaconym [any]
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    1 year ago

    Beyond the death, let's not forget also the ton of people that either got long COVID or will get it eventually

  • macabrett
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    1 year ago

    And that's without us really keeping track of it. Excess deaths should be higher than they are for 2023, but they readjusted how they calculate it to include 2020's data.

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    i was wondering what death rates were for unvaccinated people, but this document seems to indicate the chance of death is only slightly higher if unvaccinated. So that's interesting. I thought the disparity would still be big.

    Edit: looks like the disparity is now with hospitalizations more than death

    https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/421-010-CasesInNotFullyVaccinated.pdf

    • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      at this point it’s a difference between natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity. almost nobody is getting it for the first time, so almost everyone has some natural immunity. plus, the newer strains are supposedly less acutely harmful than initial strains

      also, reporting methods are only getting worse. with a shortage of covid tests, there are less confirmed cases, so many covid deaths are reported as “pneumonia”

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        • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          I'd love to get another, but my insurance won't cover it. It has been 11 months and I still can't get another, fuck

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