Can’t have those pesky communists bring up “9/11 every week” all the time
Johns Hopkins to shutter 9/11 tracker as national rate falls below 2 planes per week—"We're just used to it at this point"
No one wants to work! :frothingfash:
Seriously though. Can you imagine how fucked we're gonna be by the end of the decade, between those living with long covid and those who die...
If only the left was any good at spreading misinformation that the right does.
Imagine how quickly we could deal with COVID if we made up some bullshit about long covid making people overweight, or messing with their brain in a way that makes them more left-leaning.
Sounds good in theory, but probably would have just created another splinter group to work against us.😅
wtf is with all the crap graphs these days. There isn't an option to have the y axis start at zero..
Friends of mine just contracted it last week. One's an pulmonologist and the other is a career professional horse trainer.
On the plus side, the pulmonologist tends to keep us abreast of what's going on at the local hospital. And cases are nothing like they were at the start. Between the vaccinations and paxlovid, the mortality rate is on par with any other respiratory illness. Relatively few people are experiencing extreme symptoms. If you're going to get it, now's hardly the worst time.
They both quarantined. They both recovered inside a couple of days. I'll be back to business as usual by next week.
But the desire to just not talk about this thing is deeply weird. One of the bigger challenges of COVID tracking, at the start, was building up the information infrastructure to identify and report cases as they became known. We never really did this properly, and it shows, as we still struggle to report out of rural areas or in communities that don't have large standing clinics and hospitals.
Rather than taking this as an opportunity to scale up domestic health care access, this seems to be one more step along the path to being as unprepared and understaffed as we were when the outbreak originally occurred. Over three years of this shit and we refused to learn a god damned thing from it.
the mortality rate is on par with any other respiratory illness
It's still killing a lot more people than the flu
this seems to be one more step along the path to being as unprepared and understaffed
I think the response to the next pandemic will be even worse in the US
Johns Hopkins is reporting it's more like 267,000 COVID deaths - which makes sense because daily fatalities weren't averaging 100 deaths at any point in 2022
Yes, 35,000 is a vast undercount, that's how many people were dying in the US every few weeks at the beginning of 2022 with the first omicron wave. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00
I have no idea where you got 35k for the number of covid deaths in 2022, but for America it was over 250k deaths in 2022.
I saw it somewhere. Can't find the link anymore. Mea culpa. That number was totally wrong.
1 death is too many, for COVID-19 OR Influenza. Any sane, rational, non capitalistic society would work to completely eradicate these diseases, no matter how Quixotic it seems.
Eradicating disease used to be a serious goal, even in Western states. The eradication of Small Pox, for instance, was historic. Utopian, even. Vaccination campaigns to eliminate measles, mumps, and rubella changed the nature of the world we live in.
I don't really expect COVID to go away. But at least take it as seriously as we take influenza. Christ.
It's an improbable task, but so was the first vaccine. I'm tired of settling for half measures and getting even less. I will graciously be locked in my house for a few weeks if it means ending the plague. I'll just start gnawing on the raw lasagna sheets I bought five years ago.
I mean, ditto.
But the Chinese basically tried that for years. And while they curbed the spread, limited mortality, and eliminated the risk of new variants for a time, as soon as they relaxed regulations it flared up again.
At some point, the solution has to be pharmaceutical. It can't just be holding our breath and hoping enough people don't harbor infection past an arbitrary cut off point.
My Comrade in christ, the solution is political. Zero covid is class struggle. Sure vaccines are important, but it's the same fight we've been fighting. It's Capital pushing the anti-vax, anti-mask, and anti-lockdown movements. If you're waiting on Capital to give us a pharmaceutical solution you're going to be holding your breath anyway.
It’s Capital pushing the anti-vax, anti-mask, and anti-lockdown movements.
Japan is capitalist af, and I've never seen this level of adherence to masks, sanitizers, and vaccination. They've got this shit locked down.
Not incidentally, rivaling China for low rates of contagion and spread.
The social reaction in relative nations has far more to do with domestic confidence in good government. Japanese capitalists aren't courting the same political forces as their America peers. The Japanese elites see COVID as a real threat to their wealth and power. The Americans don't.
They both quarantined. They both recovered inside a couple of days. I’ll be back to business as usual by next week.
Now they get to worry about heart disease, strokes, organ damage...
:sicko-yes:
Cant wait for avian flu to take off and :biden-harbinger: to run with “we’re not doing that rigamarole folks, we’re not doing Covid again, take your mask off man, breathe!”
may their angry shades tear at the seams of this rotten edifice of a nation
They aren't wrong the pandemic is over. It is endemic now. If we ever make it to the stars as a species our decendants will have covid with them
our decendants will have covid with them
Plus other pathogens and contaminates.
this is because the vaccines are hitting the private market and you don't want to make it look that they should be a public good
My inevitable fleeing to Cuba accelerates. After all the COVID deaths, no one cares. Hell, air pollution alone kills 200,000 Americans annually and still no one gives a shit
I never want to hear about leftists being lazy from these zombies.
It's so weird to me that republicans think NPR is some insanely leftist outlet that seeks to destroy America and resurrect Stalin via cloning. It's true that NPR isn't right-wing enough to say it's okay to hunt the poor for sport but the org is unbashedly pro-corporate, pro-capitalist, and pro-status quo.
