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Happy new year! This is now the second highest covid wave of the pandemic, according to CDC wastewater data. (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We did it!

https://nitter.net/luckytran/status/1742319364181787110

And we are probably a week away from the peak.

This is what we call an "exit wave", meaning we have reached super-herd-immunity!

Here's to another year of unpredictible worldwide waves and rapid mutations making vaccines obsolete before they are rolled out.

For financial reasons we shall now refer to it as an Endemic+ virus.

I look forward to having all mention of it in the news disappear as we get closer to next election.

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

I'm thankful for COVID because now it's a fun race between it and climate change to see which massive solvable societal issue kills humanity first

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Never rule out old reliable: Nuclear war babyeeeeeeeeeeee

[-] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago

Imagine if it’s just one guy with crazy ass diarrhea

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

he'd have shed his total mass into shit thousands of times over by now

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Yes yes, we’re all familiar with what Checkers does to the human digestive system.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

There's rumors this is the doo-doo ass variant.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago

I got naturally boosted in november because my partner caught it from work even though they were wearing a mask. Thanks antimaskers, very cool stuff!

I tested positive 2 days before my UNNATURAL pharma booster was scheduled. sick for about 3 weeks, but i fully recovered, luckily. Checkmate liberals, i avoided a few hours of mild arm pain for the low low cost of being sick for 3 weeks and rolling the dice on chronic illness

covid-cool

now i gotta wait a few months before i can get the real booster, fun times

everyone should get their booster asap if they haven't already, for real serious tho for real for real

[-] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Do american officials realize that the plague will negatively impact american imperial power

If a large number of people are dead or chronically ill there'll be less healthy bodies to throw at whoever america is at war with at the moment

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

I dont really think any of them think of anything

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

They think about their next victims and when they can next do violence. That's about it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

If they were capable of thought, they wouldn't be in power

[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

All they care about is the next quarter. Shutting business down, even for a few months, is unthinkable.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Maybe thats why they're mostly happy working through proxies such as Ukraine or Israel or Taiwan

[-] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

Oh boy I sure do love living in a world where people care about each other and work together to make all of our lives better! normal

[-] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

https://corona-pandemieradar.de/de/abwasser

According to this, Germany has now 2.5x more gene copies per liter than compared with peaks.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Lightweights to be honest. I can handle way more liters of wastewater with exponentially higher amounts of gene copies.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

My entire family has covid. It's our 4th time. My 16 year old already has long covid. I just learned COVID toes are a thing. And my husband has a rash because COVID is making his kidneys not work. This is awesome

[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

so-true vote blue

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

anti-fascist covid normalization

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

[-] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

usians are the most propagandized people on earth

[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

lol half of the cities/states in the country don't even report wastewater data

[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Everyone has just accepted the line that there are no potential long term issues with getting COVID and that “it’s mild now no worse than the flu”.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Or they think long term issues only happen to "others", who would suffer from something else if it wasn't for covid, anyway.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

so-far

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

I am pretty sure this anti-masking thing is a plot to cull the poor. Imagine how bad unemployment numbers would look with a million extra people

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

But a cut in the reserve army of labor puts upward pressure on the price of labor.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There are enough other pressure keeping the labor power low they think they are better off without consumers that can't consume

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

capital wants more poors, not less

[-] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I think the math has broken down. I don't think we really produce anything anymore. So we are only valued as consumers. Poor sickly people have no value as consumers

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

It's everywhere in the UK too

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The UK fixed the wastewater problem by no longer collecting wastewater data. think-about-it

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

frothingfash grillman pigmask-off : "AT LEEST I HAVE MUH FREEEEEDUMZ!"

Posadas was right. Let's give the dolphins a chance.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

wastewater data

implying that liberals are reporting any signs of their decaying societies

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

The Return of the King

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

~~COVID is less deadly now, so we won't be seeing hospitals overwhelmed or anything like the first waves, thankfully. Excess mortality in the United States has stabilized since January 2023 to normal levels, and hasn't risen throughout last year, at most there were 3% more excess deaths than expected. For context, it peaked at 46% during January 2021.~~

~~However this latest COVID wave is really bad news if you are immunocompromised or old, and as we all know the US government does not care about that. And there's also the risk of chronic illness from a COVID infection for everyone. So still bad, just not 2020 and 2021 bad, though that should not be used as a comparison, that was a worst case scenario.~~

Please read my reply to @[email protected] the CDC seems to have fudged the data. This makes everything I said irrelevant and I apologise for the misinformation.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

As a heads up, here's a chart that compares excess deaths to before 2020 without any assumptions: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=~USA

It's never really gone below 10% more deaths. You can make your own judgement on which chart is more useful, but I think it's useful to understand the contexts of these calculations. The chart you shared (and the charts the CDC shares) are including pandemic years in their predictions for 2023, so of course excess deaths seem like they're back to "normal".

[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's extremely sneaky by the CDC. Most of the other countries compare with deaths from previous years to make their projections on the original graph I shared, so it makes the USA look better by comparison. Compare this chart, with the projections, to this one, which just uses data from previous years. Suddenly the USA looks substantially worse versus South Africa...

There is something really wrong with the USA's projection if there's such a difference when compared to other countries projections. That is just data manipulation. That's honestly criminal by the CDC. Thank you for pointing this out and correcting my misinformation. Your contributions to this community in this regard are very valuable. Thank you for your patience when dealing with idiots like me.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

I definitely don't think you're an idiot, it was very intentional on their part. I appreciate the reflection and willingness to dig into what was going on, though!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

It's certainly less deadly, which is good but can change if a new crazy variant shows up, but I don't see why anyone is content with "Several times worse than a bad flu season, all the time". There's been 1000-2000 dieing of it a week since August, and the wave just starting to peak in most of the country, so we'll see how it goes. I think the first omicron wave was reported as mild, but it was still incredibly deadly.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Also worth noting that if we went back to "normal" we likely would also be seeing less deaths than pre-pandemic levels and negative excess deaths because the most vulnerable in society were killed off en masse the last few years.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Damn, I didn't even think of that. Just an extra layer of jesus-christ

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Hey there's me!

I'm povid (positive for covid). I'm really surprised, with -ovid being so well-positioned in terms of obvious origin and zero existing usage, that it hasn't been used more. Besides povid, there could be novid for negative and fovid for fuck covid, which is where I'm at. Lovid for long covid, d'ohvid for getting it in a predictable and avoidable fashion, make up your own!