Conavirus......

[bae]

The tested are more likely to be those with serious outcomes. If you don't even know you are sick why would you get a test unless compelled to?

I don't believe I'm sick. I'm still testing every two days. Because I care about other people.

[jp1]

3% that were tested. Many people who caught it early on before the government admitted it was here weren't tested; others never went for testing because they were mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic, or were not tested because they did not have access to tests, so they are not included in these figures. Not all countries have the resources to robustly test, trying to ferret out every single case.

The tested are more likely to be those with serious outcomes. If you don't even know you are sick why would you get a test unless compelled to?

You're changing the goalpost. Back in the summer you were "why would anyone get tested if they just had cold-type symptoms?" We have the resources. Everyone that had any indication that they might have gotten infected in P-town in July got tested. Mainly because they were gay men and we have a different relationship to public health and the health of others thanks to HIV. They were also all vaccinated. As a result what could have been a major spreader event turned into a nothing burger. If everyone else in the country gave a crap about other humans we could largely eradicate this. But we can't and won't because "muh freedumb". Instead of us acting like a first world country with a can do attitude history will see us as a sad cautionary tale of how not to handle a pandemic where the individual freedom of not wearing a little piece of cloth on one's face and not getting vaccinated took priority over protecting everyone.

Canada's infection and death rate has been a fraction of ours. Unlike them we're going to continue to slog along with stupid high infection rates because muh freedumb. They should probably build a wall on their southern border. I've mentioned it before but it bears repeating again and again and again for everyone in the peanut gallery, when all of our health insurance premiums have tripled three years from now because covid, both acute and long, are still thriving here I'm going to tell all the "muh freedumb" folks to eff themselves. But hey, at least they didn't have to wear a god damn mask...

[Yppej]

Well the mask does nothing compared to social distancing and Canada paid everyone $2000.00 a month so they could stay home and not have to go to work.

If we have so many resources we could have done that.

[Rogar]

Our local news says the state has requested FEMA to help with hospital staffing due to a big rise of cases. The figures they offered were that 80 percent of the adult population has recieved at least one Covid shot, and 80% of the hospitalized Covid cases are unvaccinated people.

[jp1]

I think Yppej secretly made a trip to Marin County California. Our mask mandate ended yesterday because we've had several weeks of low case counts (average of 10 per day per 100,000 population for the last week), really high vax rates (over 80% of total population/95% of eligible population) and only 1 current hospitalization. I went to safeway today for a few things and everyone was still wearing a mask except one middle aged woman...

[ApatheticNoMore]

I went to safeway today for a few things and everyone was still wearing a mask except one middle aged woman...

haha

I don't know if mask mandates will ever actually end here, it's just part of life at this point, there is no end goal, there is no goal, there never has been (I mean there wasn't even a goal of avoiding hospital overwhelm in the bad old days of the pandemic, or else maybe it would have happened) and there is no goal now either.

[Yppej]

I think Yppej secretly made a trip to Marin County California. Our mask mandate ended yesterday because we've had several weeks of low case counts (average of 10 per day per 100,000 population for the last week), really high vax rates (over 80% of total population/95% of eligible population) and only 1 current hospitalization. I went to safeway today for a few things and everyone was still wearing a mask except one middle aged woman...

Actually yesterday was city election day so after work I found a bunch of politicians hanging around my polling place and I lobbied them on my mask issue.

One was concerned about his uncle undergoing chemo and I told him about preventive prophylactic covid treatments as discussed in this article:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcr...tober-24-2021/

Dr. Gottlieb says with this treatment no one needs to die of covid anymore. The vulnerable can get it, and everyone else can get vaccinated.

[happystuff]

Mandate or no mandate, I'm still wearing my mask out into the general public - and I'm not the only one!

[Yppej]

Check out the picture in this article. (I was trying to cut and paste it but couldn't figure it out.)

https://www.ledgertranscript.com/COV...2#lg=1&slide=0

It's a thing of beauty - I'll do me and you do you when it comes to masks. This is why I want to move to New Hampshire someday.

[jp1]

Apparently 50% of the global adult population has received at least one dose of vaccine. That that has happened in less than a year is a remarkable accomplishment. Hopefully that pace will continue.