back to work tomorrow
I bet that dip around Christmas is literally just people not getting tested because they were either A) busy with Christmas celebrations or B), they had plans and mild symptoms and were like “well if I don’t get tested I don’t for sure have it, so I can still go to the family super spreader event!”
same for thanksgiving. if you look at the day to day number of cases , both thanksgiving and christmas had the lowest number reported for weeks in either direction. by a lot.
Ehh you cant have it both ways though. In FL, yesterday there were officially 0 cases. And today there were 30 thousand, by far the most in one day. You gotta average these last couple days out
it might be too soon to tell and the dips are just report artifacts. time will tell
Really crazy. I would’ve never guessed that doing nothing for the third time wouldn’t put a dent in it
Same thing is happening with climate change, it's just easier to obfuscate.
Jesus, I remember when the July numbers were insane and now they’re tiny in comparison. Hyper normalization is a bitch
It's surreal to me. When things started I entered a deep depression, just feeling totally crushed by the death and suffering. When the July wave hit it was even worse, since it felt like we should have known better.
Now, seeing this, I feel nothing. I've had to make peace with the fact that we might realistically see 1 million deaths from this virus. The current trend has only gotten worse as of yet, and from the rhetoric and normalization so far, it doesn't seem like rock bottom is anywhere close.
Being a depressed sack of meat does nothing for me nor to solve it, so all I can do is keep working to radicalized those close to me and organize with other leftists for larger action. I don't have the time or emotional energy to reckon with the tragedy as such, so I guess I'll just have to process this after the fact.
Covid is just part of capitalism now, here in America at least. The same tragedy as people wasting their lives working a cash register for slave wages
Wednesday tends to be the biggest numbers day, right?
edit: if the drips really have been pretend, since early November and you just do a basic straight line estimation, easy to imagine 300k/day
over 4k deaths in the US yesterday. called it :agony: we need a remindme bot also
Tfw you ignore a worsening situation and it gets worse :surprised-pika:
is it fucked that i almost want to get it right now? i'm stuck in a potentially endless work period (no days off, just keep going until we hire more help) and covid almost sounds like a fucking vacation. my body hurts. and i know it could destroy me if i survive it but still.
I mean, while there's some kind of peace in certainties, as in, you know you got it and you're mostly done with it; you do not want to get it. It's absolutely nasty, some comrades got it and talked about its effects, but the scariest thing are the permanent neurological scars it leaves.
Regardless, I can only sympathize with you feeling that way, work is a bitch.
Can you tell me some of the neurological effects folks have had? I'm not in the US and don't know anyone who has gotten it, just wondering.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-hidden-long-term-cognitive-effects-of-covid-2020100821133
Basically, we do not know the virus well enough today, but some research have confirmed that it does permanent damage to lungs, heart, brain areas with smell/taste, language, behaviour, and more. It's batshit insane.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200622-the-long-term-effects-of-covid-19-infection
you're probably better off intentionally breaking a bone or something, although even with that you'd still have to go to a hospital that has the covid virus all over it
We all need to think about when we are just gonna stop going to work because possible homelessness would be safer
i mean its a very uncomfortable thing, i had a very mild case of it with no coughing and i still felt like i was always in an extremely stuffy room with stale air. and my heart would just randomly start racing sometimes
im almost entirely over it after 3 weeks of that shit
ugh that sounds like a permanent low level panic attack that never ends. o7 i'm glad you are feeling better now
i caught it from a boss going to a huge 100+ chud thanksgiving and then calling the entire office into a meeting and giving my boyfriend it when he got back
we've been safe as possible, of course capitalism forced it on us
Capitalism be doing that. Hopefully you have the anti-bodies now, at least
And this is before Flu-k starts ripping through the US because everyone that's already had it thinks they're immune now.
