How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Ryanna Enfield]

Keep in mind other countries are way better at tracking COVID than the US. Our system is largely based upon people testing themselves, and voluntarily reporting their positive cases. Keep checking waste water statistics. We don't even have enough waste water testing, giving us an incomplete picture. Now that mask rules are pretty much gone, it is important to know the US will remain behind the tide of future COVID outbreaks. We are treating it as endemic now and forcing society to just deal with it (let it rip! ), despite still not having vaccines for children under five .

 

[danielravennest]

Keep in mind other countries are way better at tracking COVID than the US. Our system is largely based upon people testing themselves, and voluntarily reporting their positive cases. Keep checking waste water statistics. We don't even have enough waste water testing, giving us an incomplete picture. Now that mask rules are pretty much gone, it is important to know the US will remain behind the tide of future COVID outbreaks. We are treating it as endemic now and forcing society to just deal with it (let it rip! ), despite still not having vaccines for children under five .

The US is at 65% vaccinated, and new vaccinations have nearly stopped. That leaves too many people open to spreading new variants.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Wasn't sure which thread to put this in, but apparently Justice Clarence Thomas is in the hospital for "flu-like symptoms."

Is it wrong to hope he doesn't make it?

Yeah, I know. Bad Kat! But, still...

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

America Is Zooming Through the Pandemic Panic-Neglect Cycle

All epidemics trigger the same Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect. Even so, that cycle isn’t meant to spin this quickly.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Archer]

Keep in mind other countries are way better at tracking COVID than the US. Our system is largely based upon people testing themselves, and voluntarily reporting their positive cases. Keep checking waste water statistics. We don't even have enough waste water testing, giving us an incomplete picture. Now that mask rules are pretty much gone, it is important to know the US will remain behind the tide of future COVID outbreaks. We are treating it as endemic now and forcing society to just deal with it (let it rip! ), despite still not having vaccines for children under five .

This is the website I look at for that:

Massachusetts Water Resource Authority

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Lexxi]

Year?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Report: wanting COVID to be over and it actually being over technically two different things

TORONTO - As provinces around the country abandon vaccine and mask mandates, a shocking new report has concluded that just because we'd all like the pandemic to be over, doesn't actually make it so.

www.thebeaverton.com

In related news, we are definitely going to re-share this article when restrictions have to be imposed again in a couple months.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Beebo Brink]

The Truckers In The DC Convoy Are Dropping Like Flies With What Sounds Like COVID

Truckers in the DC convoy that is protesting masks and vaccines are now getting very sick with something that sounds like COVID.

www.politicususa.com

 

[bubblesort]

Has anybody else seen Pfizer's "COVID oral treatment" ad? It's everywhere, and the wording is so weird. IMHO, referring to a pill as an, "oral treatment," is a little too on the nose for sexual innuendo.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I did not anticipate that one of my peak celebratory moments of 2022 would involve scoring a 12-pack of Friskies canned paté cat food.

Grumpy old semi-toothless cat is very pleased.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Has anybody else seen Pfizer's "COVID oral treatment" ad? It's everywhere, and the wording is so weird. IMHO, referring to a pill as an, "oral treatment," is a little too on the nose for sexual innuendo.

Then you probably don't want to know what their second choice was.

 

[Soen Eber]

Consider their target audience, as noted by the truck convoy discussion above.

 

[danielravennest]

Has anybody else seen Pfizer's "COVID oral treatment" ad? It's everywhere, and the wording is so weird. IMHO, referring to a pill as an, "oral treatment," is a little too on the nose for sexual innuendo.

Pfizer also makes Viagra, and they are probably using the same ad agency.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Two years ago I said I was taking Covid ‘with a pinch of salt’ – perhaps I was wrong | Simon Jenkins

March 2020 was a nightmare month in the game of prediction. But I stand firm that some of my scepticism may be borne out, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Has anybody else seen Pfizer's "COVID oral treatment" ad? It's everywhere, and the wording is so weird. IMHO, referring to a pill as an, "oral treatment," is a little too on the nose for sexual innuendo.

Be thankful it's not administered via the opposite end.

 

[Free]

Shanghai in lockdown as officials work to test all 26M residents

Officials fear the surge could turn deadly amid low vaccination rates among the elderly.

arstechnica.com

Coronavirus cases in China are spiking to record highs, leading officials in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai to make the snap decision late Sunday to lock down the city of around 26 million people. For weeks, officials denied that they would institute lockdowns in response to rising cases.

But this month, the spread of the ultratransmissible omicron variant has driven China's highest case rise in the pandemic, and Shanghai has seen some of the highest numbers. On Sunday, the country reported more than 6,000 new cases, with 3,500 of those in Shanghai. According to data tracking by The New York Times, the number of daily new cases has increased 233 percent in the past 14 days. The current case count is the highest yet for the country, which saw its previous peak in February 2020 when new cases reached just above 3,000 a day.

Starting March 28, Shanghai residents on the east side of Huangpu River entered a four-day home lockdown and mass testing campaign. From April 1 to 5, people on the west side will take their turn locking down and testing. Officials are aiming to test the entire population during the sequential lockdowns, sending health workers in white hazmat suits to residents' front doors.

 

[WolfEyes]

Be thankful it's not administered via the opposite end.

Reminds me of an old (really old like 50 years old) cartoon I saw in one of my dad's Playboys I wasn't supposed to see. Sexy chick with the cigarette tray and a sign that says "cigars, cigarettes, suppositories". I have no idea why I thought it was funny but, I still do.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]