2022 was the year that - from the perspective of the government and most Americans - the COVID pandemic was "over". Practically speaking, Americans just collectively stopped even pretending to take it seriously. Something like 12-13% of Americans got the most recent booster.
And yet, this year over 4X more people died of COVID than died from the flu in the most recent "bad" year. If you take the average of the numbers in the chart here, COVID deaths in 2022 were 6X what they are for the average flu season.
This is so goddamn ridiculous. Before 2020, if you had said there will be a virus that kills 6X the number of people in a typical flu season, we would have said that's SUPER serious and I think mask mandates would probably be a thing. But we're done with COVID now, no one wants to think about it anymore; just let it rip.
:amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: DON'T FORGET ABOUT COMRADE "Unidentified respiratory disease" LMAO
And the true scope of the damage from COVID will probably never be known cuz it can trigger a myriad of other health conditions/diseases that people can die from. :yea:
Even just last week I saw a That Guy who somehow both believed COVID-19 was a Chinese bioweapon and refused to do anything to protect himself or anyone else from it at the same time. Whatever happens, I'm struggling to even feel sad about it.
:biden-troll: covid's over, jack! good thing we believed the science unlike the orange man!
All anti-maskers, no matter their class, are complicit in this genocide. Fuck all the working class people betraying their class for consumerism and the mirage of "normal".
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To be fair, we have a huge propaganda apparatus, and almost all health authorities the world over, telling people if you got vaccinated, or even infected, you can go back to normal.
Agreed this isn't something you can blame invidual people for per se. There have been decades of intense anti-science, anti-vaccine, and anti-medicine propaganda. A lot of Americas have a very reasonable distrust of medicine because our system is a blatant scam and the quality of care can often be bad or downright criminal. The government's messaging has been horrible and flown blatantly in the face of science and even the most basic common sense.
Put all these things together and you have a population that is primed for all this anti-vax anti-mask BS.
There's a huge gro up of casual "anti-maskers" now who just, you know, don't wear masks because nobody else is and it's "normal" and "safe" now. The CDC avoiding the word "mask" for months helped, I'm sure.
I blame them less than the frothing chuds, as they are, theoretically, swayable by health authorities and those authorities are actively failing them. They don't really comprehend that "the experts" are lying to them, either blatantly or by omission.
It's kind of our job to organize around this and point out the absurdities. It's a shame there are so few of us.
Something like 12-13% of Americans got the most recent booster.
Us filthy commies holding it down :shrug-outta-hecks:
Also has anyone noticed an increase in clear headedness after getting the vaccine? I had covid again (:agony-shivering:) somewhat recently and getting a vaccine a month afterwards made me feel very clearheaded after the normal month-two month fog.
I was just reading a crime novel from the '50s in which a character describes another as a hypochondriac who, "ever since that cancer stuff," has gotten so crazily health-conscious that he's switched to filtered cigarettes.
:biden-point: yeah the pandemic is over jack this is the endemic
Last I saw you have a 1 in 6 chance of long term health complications from a covid infection AFTER vaccination. Literally Russian roulette odds. And we can be infected several times a year. Those seem like terrible odds to me?
Now we get to find out how many covid infections you can survive before organ failure sets in or your thymus is gone. Cool.
I guess not a big deal if you can get paxlovid on demand?
I'm not too sure on Paxlovid. From what I understand it reduces acute symptoms, but I'm not sure how much it does beyond that.
There's a lot of people on Twitter freaking out about people in their 30s up and dropping dead from strokes and other conditions you generally don't get in your 30s, but I haven't seen anything that can turn those anecdotes in to data yet. I think there are studies showing that subsequent infections have higher chances of complications though.
There are a lot of studies linking covid infection to adverse cardiovascular events in all age groups.
https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2022/01/covid19-increasing-stroke-risks.php Comparison of COVID and influenza
(until years later when the statistics are undeniable)
You'd thinks so, RIGHT? :pika-cousin-suffering:
That's the thing that really gets me. This is the climate change Adaptation strategy playing out. This shoulda been a simple layup compared to what's coming. Now we're just gonna normalize half a million deaths a year... so far.
Saw it on the most recent Weather Report on the People's CDC website.
Their source is here: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00
The halfway point for 2022's deaths was in early March, which would almost be encouraging if it weren't for the fact that circumstances are still ripe for new variants to give us another winter like last year's.
Yeah, I've been looking and not having much luck on ytd deaths. Last I heard we surpassed the 250k mark back in mid september.
2022 also progressed in its mechanisms of undercounting, so it's surely higher, relatively speaking, than we think compared to 2021.
