Using wastewater data- the only data that measures the amount of circulating COVID-19 in an era of inaccessible tests and discouraged reporting- infectious disease modeler J.P. Weiland estimates that the US has yet again crossed the million-infections-per-day mark as of August 9, with about 1 in 33 Americans currently infected with COVID-19.
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I’ve written before about how, in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, Fauci publicly declared that US COVID cases would need to fall “well below 10,000 a day” for us to get a “degree of normality,” and allow us to return to pre-pandemic life. In the nearly three years since, the US has never had a single day with under 10,000 new COVID cases per day; in fact, we have never had a single day with under 100,000 new COVID cases per day.
I love our new summer respiratory illness season.
this time around i know 3 people that either currently have covid or recently had it in the past few weeks… and one of them is a professional cheerleader who ended up going to the ER and has been out of work for 2 weeks, still having a fever and can’t get out of bed
one other says they can’t think straight and need to sleep a lot, and the other said “it felt like a very minor cold, little head fog for a day but that’s all”
the “cant think straight need to sleep alot always feel tired” is the long covid i have. 3+ years going. it got a bit better. not a whole lot.
the only thing that saves me is my amphetamine prescription
i wonder if that happened to me too or if im just lazy and didn’t realize it before… over the past few years it seems i can sleep 11+ hours a day if i had the ability and i’d still not feel fully rested… but at like 7 hours my body burns and hates me… so i try to get 8 minimum where possible
i had an Rx for adderall for a couple years but i realized it wasn’t really helping me do much other than just not sleep
i’ve felt like this way before covid lol
Seems bad
I’ve had COVID 3 times and each time has fucked me up a bit more. God knows how society will function if this keeps going on and seeing as Capitalism must continue so rich people can carry on with their pedo hobbies, it’s not getting better.
I was lucky to have only caught it once in dec 2020, though my grandma got it from the same place and she died.
I do have trouble breathing sometimes and my taste and smell are still altered, albeit mildly.
I’ve unfortunately had to fly a ton this summer for various reasons and I’ve pretty much resigned myself to being the only person on the plane wearing a mask anymore. Of course that didn’t help me when I ended up getting it from a doctor who showed up maskless and very obviously sick to a social event that I foolishly assumed would be safe (outdoors and all doctors who presumably should know better)…
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all doctors who presumably should know better
Some of the worst people I’ve ever met were doctors. They ain’t smarter than the rest of us, just privileged enough to afford medical school.
Speaking in liberal platitudes will get you unbearably far in this god forsaken shithole
You can be the most fascist person in existence but as long as you cover your vitriol in a layer of academia-infused buzzwords and cultist behavior, you will appear intelligent enough for the average American blockhead.
Every time I think about ‘getting my shit together’ and getting a pmc job instead of delivering boxes outside, I see a headline like this.
at least at the pmc job maybe you can be remote? but honestly fully remote jobs seem to be still declining because of the management birdbrains who demand to have everyone in person
Hey, that’s me! I got it right now!
Hope you feel better soon!
Samesies, I also am doing my part
Three of my coworkers have had it in the past month and I’ve been around each of them before they tested positive. So far I have tested negative but I feel like its a matter of time. Mask up everyone.
I guess doing abatement work is good right now eh
Uhm… sorry sweaty, but Biden ended covid, remember?
COVID ended Biden
What’s the best booster for this recent variant? My girlfriend and I are going to a convention in 2 weeks and this is the last thing I want for us
The best time would’ve been 2 weeks ago, but the second best time is now. Like literally tomorrow.
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o7 I’ve got it for tomorrow morning
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Thanks!
Hahahaha fuck everything. I’m flying today and i’ve seen, like, maybe a dozen people with any kind of mask.
I’ve decided I’m not flying anymore if I can avoid it, last time I flew was 2022 for a wedding and the experience was terrible enough to completely turn me off to that form of travel.
Not even taking into account that my wife and I were the only masked people, the whole hearding cattle experience makes me want to be a hobbit.
This one I truly can’t comprehend. Even if we somehow made covid disappear tomorrow there’s no way in hell I’m rawdogging airplane air ever again.
Even ignoring COVID, I just don’t want to be sick on my vacation? I feel like that’s obvious? I don’t want a cold, I don’t want the flu, I really don’t want covid.
iirc the airport is worse than on the plane
I got stuck in Fort Lauderdale airport in 2020 when Covid became a thing. This was pre-masking when the government was saying they didn’t work. Most germ infested place I have ever been, got Covid on the way back home
Lol i forgot the CDC just flat out lied and justified it with some bullshit about conserving masks for healthcare or some shit. I made a whole slew of cloth masks that never worked. I mean, they “worked”, but not enough to matter.
Cloth masks were never going to stop you getting sick, they were to stop you from spreading virus too far from your body. But that only works to slow spread if people even bother to wear them
And even as shitty as they are on an individual basis, they actually really helped when we had near universal masking at the beginning of the pandemic which significantly reduced the amount of virus in the air! The more people who are masking, the less perfect any individual’s masking has to be. Amazing what we can accomplish when we all work together to protect each other’s health!
But of course, we live in “personal risk assessment” hellworld, so you’d better have an N95 or better and make sure it fits perfectly or you’ll get got thanks to everyone else blasting their aerosols into every cubic inch of the environment.
I do believe that’s true and I was even stricter about keeping my mask on in the airport last time I was in one
Right? I haven’t had any kind of infectious disease - cold, flu, rsv, whatever, nothing, since 2019! It’s awesome. Yeah, i wear a mask and that sucks, but i also don’t get sick ever!
We should have been doing this all along. Like, it was right there the whole time!
And it protects your lungs from wildfire smoke, and it makes it harder for the authorities to identify you, plus you look like a ninja
Ugh, stay safe. Mask, nasal spray, concealed carry, mouth wash, etc. you know the drill.
Hand loading my bullets with fish mox and st. John’s wort as we speak.
One of these is not like the others.
Sorry. Not mask. Respirator.
Yeah I’ve been going shopping looking like Bane with my n100 respirator
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Mood.
It’s a surprise tool that’ll help us later
Yep. When I ride on public transit I’ll see maybe a handful of people wearing masks… Shit’s fucked.
My pharmacy’s pick-up line is on top of the aisle with all the cold medication. I’ll be one of the only masked people in there, while obviously symptomatic unmasked bozos squeeze in between folk to look for Dayquil, which is often out of stock.
gotta start going through the drive thru
on foot/bike if you have to
I flew recently and also just saw like maybe a handful of people masked.
It’s really worrisome with the plagues and the failing planes. Wish you a safe trip!
I caught Covid a month ago and then had a rebound infection that resulted in a middle ear infection. I still have a cough.
You should try to get the cough seen to if it’s lasted that long, if it’s enduring it might be bronchitis
I am between health insurance but will be covered in 2 weeks and am planning on it.
NGL, sometimes I feel weak and want to give up being the weird dick who N95s everywhere and always eats outside. But then I see shit like this.
The key thing, for me, is holding on to a sense of contempt. Like, yeah, pity and compassion, but also contempt at a society that did this to all of us. Who are they to judge the few who are still trying to protect themselves and others? They’re not worthy to judge people wearing masks. Their social violence is harming people who want to wear masks but are unable due to vast coercive social pressure. Whenever i feel it bothering me, i remind myself that many of these people are fine with all the death and suffering, and perhaps those who do want to mask will take inspiration when they see people masking.
So, contempt, and also remembering that by wearing a mask publicly it may help people who want to mask to find the courage to tell society to fuck off.
Oh you’re right. I do contempt very hard right now. Sometimes I get soft and want to be on good terms with the non maskers, but it’s just a passing thing.
Indeed, the non-maskers have nothing I want. What’s there to be self-conscious about? The reflex to conform assumes the group you conform to will protect you.
Yes. We can’t stop getting angry.
“They’re trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
“No one’s trying to kill you,” Clevinger cried.
“Then why are they shooting at me?” Yossarian asked.
“They’re shooting at everyone,” Clevinger answered. “They’re trying to kill everyone.”
"And what difference does that make?”
It’s the best Catch there is. Catch 22 should really be required reading for trying to make some kind of sens of the 21st century.
This is exactly where I’m at as well. Pure contempt and resentment.
i remind myself that many of these people are fine with all the death and suffering
It’s depressing when you realize that they are all okay with it because it means they can cram into packed concert venues and restaurants to enjoy extremely mediocre entertainment and overpriced restaurant depot slop.
I feel like a broken record, but the average person really doesn’t care about anything except their treats and vibes.
This is what I did. Got too confident with not getting covid and wasn’t as secure as I’ve previously been, but still masked. Then got it.
It’s all a numbers game. You can reduce the risk, but you can’t eliminate it. Don’t beat yourself up, getting sick isn’t a personal failure. And the effort is worth it; every time you don’t get sick, every time the precautions work, you’re saving yourself that much grief. You might catch it once when other people have had 2, 3, more symptomatic cases and who knows how many asymptomatic cases.
Thanks for that. I keep going back and forth over it
If you masked, you definitely reduced your viral load, which reduced the severity. So you did a lot for yourself already.
