I don't even bother. I can't change my decisions based on it. All I can do is keep being the only masked person in the city and keep going to work. :deeper-sadness:
I'm one of the only people at work that still masks up and I"m working with a high turnover of patients so it's going to come back eventually and the population is already vulnerable. They stopped providing N95s for us so now I'm down to the final stashed one and a personal box of KN95s.
I'm just planning to operate under the assumption that it's high forever
Same. I'm waiting until I can go several months without someone mentioning that they or someone they know got COVID recently.
Yeah if you're checking the numbers everyday forever you're just going to drive yourself insane
I’m not, I’m just wearing a KN95 and feeling an overwhelming sense of dread everyday
honestly covid has broken me and I just ignore it now, no mask and shit, whatever. I know full well everything. I know. But it's hot as fuck as work, I cannot bear it, at least after "the health inspector" said my giant industrial fan had to go (it could "blow particles onto the food" but like I had it angled towards the floor. Yeah it moved a lot of air but like... nothing large is gonna get picked all the way up, and like particulates... idk the regular ass HVAC I'm sure blows a lot of dust around. I saw a vent in a different area blowing near food that looked visibly nasty! but hey). My partner also is like, done. She doesn't wear a mask to the store or anything. She does kickboxing at a gym with no AC and like can't mask for that
i'm just resigned to the fact that I'll probably get it over and over until it kills me. That will be true no matter what personal steps I take, honestly
Hell maybe covid is why the artery in my neck keeps visibly throbbing + it sometimes feels like a hand on my throat. hahaha I should see a doctor but $$$$
Hell maybe covid is why the artery in my neck keeps visibly throbbing + it sometimes feels like a hand on my throat. hahaha I should see a doctor but $$$$
When I stretch my arms over my head I'll occasionally get a searing pain below my collar bone that radiates across my chest.
I look at it from time to time but can't take it seriously. The few people who even bother to test anymore use RATs with laughably high false negative rates and who knows how many of even those bother to report it, probably only in the event they have bad enough symptoms to want access to paxlovid. I work in a public space and can hear a constant stream of people coughing all day. It is wild to me that my coworkers can so easily deny the evidence of their own ears. At least I get shifts because I'm called in every week to cover someone else with a "cold" and am the only person who reliably shows up (the fact I am also the only person who still wears a mask is just a strange coincidence as far as anyone else is concerned).
:camus-gaze:
Wastewater, but it's florida, so like only 9 counties of 67 are monitored. I check once a week, N95 it even at home, and basically live like a hermit while working on my van to go hide in the woods. A married couple down the street, my family is friends with, have both come down with shingles in the past few months despite barely being over 40. My family is unphased and not masking. :pain:
Its basically a genocide right now against disabled people, so I don't really track cases. All I do is wear a good mask and give anti-maskers shit whenever I can; my city is full of libs and plague rat leftists who fold pretty quickly once you meet their eugenicist bullshit with fury.
I got nothing.
:mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2: :covid-cool:
I don't, it wouldn't meaningfully change anything. I just wear a mask most of the time.
I wear a mask when I can but yeh paying attention to the numbers is meaningless. Just assume that if you're in large crowds, there's a decent chance at it. Honestly tho, I've given up with smaller crowds even when by myself because living with people who don't mask just means it's gonna come to me anyway. Still do with the larger indoor ones though at least like the store.
I go by how well I know the people instead of size. If it's mostly people I see a lot and talk to frequently, I'm gonna be exposed anyway.
I'm not. I just wear a gas mask when I go out in public. I have no idea what's really happening. As far as i can tell there is no form of testing at all in my county.
https://biobot.io/data/ to track wastewater rates.
According to it, on average we are at a relatively higj plateau, with modest decreases recently.
There is a wastewater monitoring site close to where I live so I'm relying on that. Otherwise hospitalization rates and anecdotal accounts of people I know. I figure most people have stopped testing altogether unless they are sick enough to seek help at the hospital. Lots of hospitals and care homes dropped mask requirements, so I doubt they are interested in finding covid cases unless someone shows up at the hospital with the typical symptoms. While people die by the 1000s every week, and "mysterious" excess deaths and abnormally severe illness continue to be much higher than before covid, the "it's just a cold, who cares" mentality has won out in most places.
uk government website still has a case tracker thing
though testing is way down as it's not pushed as hard any morehttps://peoplescdc.substack.com/ is probably one of the best options, but yeah, data is incomplete and only getting worse.
