back to work tomorrow

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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!”

    • Not_irony [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

    • acealeam [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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

      • Not_irony [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        it might be too soon to tell and the dips are just report artifacts. time will tell

  • opposide [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Really crazy. I would’ve never guessed that doing nothing for the third time wouldn’t put a dent in it

  • jareducation [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Jesus, I remember when the July numbers were insane and now they’re tiny in comparison. Hyper normalization is a bitch

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • Not_irony [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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

    • Not_irony [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • Jorick [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • GraydonCarter [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-hidden-long-term-cognitive-effects-of-covid-2020100821133

        • Jorick [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          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

    • spinachupper [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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

    • Not_irony [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      We all need to think about when we are just gonna stop going to work because possible homelessness would be safer

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      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

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        ugh that sounds like a permanent low level panic attack that never ends. o7 i'm glad you are feeling better now

  • kristina [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    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

    • Not_irony [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Capitalism be doing that. Hopefully you have the anti-bodies now, at least

  • Posadas [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    And this is before Flu-k starts ripping through the US because everyone that's already had it thinks they're immune now.