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FYI: There's still a pandemic, people...
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03-09-2022, 12:44 PM
 https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coron...-and-maps/ Averaging 1390 COVID deaths per day. United States leads the world in the daily average number of new deaths reported, accounting for one in every 5 deaths reported worldwide each day... How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?
03-09-2022, 02:01 PM
That map looks different than ones I’ve seen, but:
- the morning paper tells me that three COVID deaths of young people in their 20’s and 30’s were reported yesterday in our state. Normally this would be big news, but you know. - at the current death rate, although down considerably, it looks like we will still hit a million dead Americans in a month or so. - which makes it incredible to me that some nut jobs are calling for Congressional investigations into how “our freedoms” were so horribly pinched by CDC advice regarding simple, basic public health measures during the worst pandemic in a century. (I believe I read that sentiment expressed by someone involved in the “freedom convoy”, which fortunately passed like a fart in the night.
03-09-2022, 03:27 PM
This is why I will be masking for at least another year or longer...I don't want to get sick.
Do I care if I'm the only one masking? Nope... NPR had a segment about how people are reluctant to take the mask off yet in spite of mandates being lifted.
03-09-2022, 03:30 PM
That map appears to be out of date. Of course, that depends how the CDC defines "high" "medium" and "low."
From the CDC, March 3 2022:  I'm curious to see what happens now that mask wearing has been all but abandoned in my neck of the woods. We may well end up back at the map shown in the first post.
03-09-2022, 03:37 PM
An important difference is that the last map looks to be based on the recently revised CDC methods of determining High, Medium and Low levels. I would have to look at the Reuters site, they do provide a link on how the levels were determined. But visually it looks more like how they would have been determined under the prior CDC guidelines.
03-09-2022, 04:19 PM
Media coverage sucks. 2021 US passes 100,000 deaths and NYT does a front page blast of as many individual names as it can pinpoint; 2022 US passes 1,000,000 deaths and it's front page is crickets - war crimes in Ukraine and the price of gasoline.
03-09-2022, 06:02 PM
It will be endemic in about three weeks, maybe six to ten weeks in low information counties.
Still hoping to get my second booster in the second week of April.
03-09-2022, 09:40 PM
It’s the potential for long-term damage that I worry about.
For example, I have a friend whose 30-something daughter was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes several months after coming down with a bad case of COVID. Looked it up online: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/08...-diabetes/
03-09-2022, 09:54 PM
As with everything else, the polarization here is amazing.
I was looking at the twitter feed from one of the health guys (Jha maybe?) who was commenting positively on the new CDC guidance. And on the need to get ready for the next variant, etc. The comments from the crazy were AMAZING. Only it was not the MAGA crazy. It was the absolutist, everyone-should-be-locked-down-until-there-are-no-cases crowd. Just astonishing to me how nasty and aggressive these people are. Their core argument is that many folks are compromised in some way so we should all happily lock down to protect them. For as long as it takes. Their lack of thinking clearly about how the world works--even just getting food into stores--is troubling. But their ability to be nasty is very robust. I considered myself on that "side" of things. I am surprised at how willing we are to accept 2k deaths a day. My lovely wife and I have yet to go anywhere or eat out. Masks everywhere. I get the sense that MRF is closer to this than MAGAworld. But this was so extreme that I was stunned. You could not pay me enough to be a local public official right now. |
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