#wearamask
#COVID19 is exploding in the US. Biobot just reported a 28% increase in COVID in wastewater in one week. The Midwest rose even more--33% in a week to the highest level since January 2022. This could turn into the second-worst surge of the entire pandemic before we get through the holidays. At present, it's estimated that a room with 25 people in it has an almost 50% chance of including someone infected. By Jan 1, one of every 26 people in the US could be infectious. #WearAMask (1/3)
This was the third time that PH president Marcos Junior tested positive for COVID-19.
#Philippines #Filipino #Asian #COVID19 #PhilStar #Balita #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #CovidIsAirborne
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/12/05/2316620/marcos-tests-positive-covid-19-again
My husband was heckled for the first time today because of his mask. He was dropping off returnable bottles at the Return-it Depot, and some guy also returning bottles started loudly calling my husband "dirty," "disgusting," "an abomination," and saying, "you're in Canada, take off your mask."
My husband just ignored the guy and kept sorting the bottles. Dude continues randomly trying to insult my husband, as well as going around to other people at the depot to point out the mask and rail against it. Everyone else ignored crazy guy, too.
The ranter was in line at the cash out counter in front of my husband, and starts complaining at the clerk, too. She was like, "THERE'S SOMEONE BEHIND YOU IN LINE, MOVE ALONG."
I'm still trying to work out the "dirty" and "disgusting" bit. 🙄
#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #DoNotReadQAnon #TrudeauIsADisappointmentButABC
Very short update for 12/4/2023!
Good morning SARS2PAians!
I keep checking the Tableau variant leaderboard and other stuff and nothing is updated yet.
The only thing updated as I post this are some CDC health care maps.
This update will be brief and I'm sure there will be more info available on Friday.
Lots of new hospital admits all across the State for the lastest CDC county update from the end of November, along with some areas decreasing. It's either-or.: https://ibb.co/NT5yvR3
Decreasing the most around Centre Co, Harrisburg, the southwesternmost corner, and up by Bradford/Susquehanna.
Almsot everywhere else stable or showing substantial increases.
Staffed inpatient beds filling up a bit in the center of the State and along the southwestern border with Maryland and W Virginia. Everywhere else stable.: https://ibb.co/Pj2hskV
Staffed ICU beds showing a lot of increases, border-to-border, right in the center of the State from Tioga all the way down to Bedford and Somerset, and over East to the old coal region (Schuylkill Co and counties east of it.).: https://ibb.co/1KY5KPL
PA showing moderate increases in ED visits on average, and there are many states surrounding us and in the general Northeast showing substantial ED visit increases.: https://ibb.co/6N6g6Fv
That's all I have for this morning, stay safe and Friday will probably have better variant info! 🍁❄️❄️
Stay safe!!!!! 🍁❄️❄️
#covid #Covid19 #SARS2PA #CDC #CovidIsNotOver #Pennsylvania #PA #BA286 #JN1 #HV1 #WearAMask #CleanTheAir #VaccinesSaveLives
HAPPY MONDAY!
Your Monday #COVID19 reminder that a virus cannot mutate, if it cannot incubate.
We wouldn't have variant after variant after variant, if people would #MAKEBETTERCHOICES.
Friend's boss went to a concert on the weekend. Came to work again on the Thursday and spent the day with said friend coughing and sniffling.
Today, 4 days later, my friend now has a sniffle, sore throat, and headache.
Boss said it wasn't covid. Friend has tested positive.
Neither masks at work.
This is why #COVID19 will be with us forever. This is also one reason I #WearAMask everywhere.
This is my friend's second positive test in 12 months. Now her husband, and her disabled parents are possibly infected, which will make yet another outbreak in her mother's aged care home.
Some kind person has posted our open letter to the the anarchist library ;) (A): https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/some-comrades-an-open-letter-to-our-anarchist-socialist-and-radical-leftist-comrades
And, the zine has been featured on sprout distro ;) (A): https://www.sproutdistro.com/2023/12/03/november-zines-1223/
This is fantastic news.
#Anarchy #Disability #AntiAbleism #COVID19 #PandemicIsNotOver #WearAMask
Per WHO, every 12 minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in the United States.
Entering April, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.
The emergency is over—covid is not done with us.
[Share chart has stalled w/ low global reporting.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: Rolling Year Pandemic Mortality: United States
Data: CDC, NCHS, Census
[ beadsland on Ko-fi ]
Line chart plotting various mortality measures on a logarithmic scale, with reference percentages on right-axis.
Legend:
• Elevated Deaths vs. 2017-2019 (adj. for pop.)
• Est. Excess Deaths — All Causes / Rolling Year
• Acute Covid Deaths — Rolling Year
• Share of Excess Deaths Not Attributed to Covid
• Percent Elevation Observed Deaths over 2017-2019 Average
First two figures held ~325K & ~190K, respectively, Feb-Jun—despite annual acute covid deaths down from ~190K to ~120K same period. Entering Aug, ~300K & ~150K—with 3rd down to ~100K entering Sep.
Share of excess deaths reflects above—holds ~30% since May. Percent elevation observed deaths—over 20% mid 2022—holds near 11% since Feb.
Caption (in relevant part):
As of April 1, over one in four excess deaths in the U.S. were “not covid”. This ratio has been above three in ten since May.
That includes: covid deaths not reported as such or for which no covid test was administered; deaths from post-acute sequelae of prior covid infection (whether consequences of symptomatic Long Covid, post-acute organ damage not specifically identified as Long Covid or otherwise asymptomatic, heightened risk for sudden adverse health outcomes); and deaths from causes that would otherwise had not been fatal but for deferred medical care, continued strain on understaffed hospitals, and inadequate availability of vital medical supplies.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/519/402/472/764/058/small/6624e05a5e1ff7dc.png)
![Chart: U.S. Share of 28-Day Covid Deaths
Data: WHO (via Our World in Data), NCHS (via CDC), official srcs (via Wikipedia)
[ beadsland on Ko-fi ]
Shows covid 28-day mortality as reported for the U.S. as share of G8, G20, and global 28-day mortality, for 3 years through Nov 14, 2023, this being the most recent date on which at least 50% of world population was represented in weekly reporting (see note regarding ◇ data points, below). Share of population for each comparison is provided for reference.
With the end of PHE aggregate tracking, U.S. ceased reporting covid deaths to WHO. After 5/14/23, chart uses provisional covid deaths from NCHS.
◇ data points represent sum population (via Wikipedia) of those countries that reported at least one death in prior week, as percentage of world pop. [Down to near 60% as of July. Was 90% last August.]
7-day avg of U.S. share of G8 covid deaths flattened somewhat, around 76.7%, well exceeding share of pop. (~38%). Same date last year, share of G8 covid deaths was 39.3%, jaggedly climbing toward winter.
Avg. U.S. share of G20 covid deaths down to 49.1% (vs. ~7% of G20 population). Same date last year: 21.9%.
U.S. share of global parallels: now 49.1% (vs. ~4% of pop.). This date last year, U.S. share of global covid deaths was 24.1%.
All three metrics were near or below respective populations roughly May–Aug 2021; thereafter have been profoundly higher than population but for few troughs, including a data dump by China in May 2023.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/519/402/627/783/561/small/b916bce7378b72d1.png)
I’ve been wanting to make a post for a while now, about how trying to rely on family to continue with Covid precautions is reminding me of when I was vegan and asked family to make a vegan dish for me at family dinners. This @jessicawildfire article reminded me.
They would sound interested in making a vegan dish. They would proudly serve it to me.
And then later, it would come out that they had used butter, or eggs, or even chicken stock.
They would say it must be ok because I didn’t notice and didn’t get sick. Actually, they would phrase more like, “well it didn’t kill you, did it?”
With Covid, I’m fortunate that my spouse agrees, we can’t rely on family. Because it actually could kill us.
"Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit covid-19 within minutes"
"Thus, our data show that exhaled aerosols from a single person can transmit covid-19 to others within minutes at normal indoor conditions."
How about if these business owners remember that these "homeless" ARE THEM! It's their former neighbours, grocers, teachers, children - and their current community members and fellow human beings.
Homeless people are fucking people! They need somewhere to not freeze to death, just like you demand, in your vacant hotel.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/homeless-shelter-court-injunction-1.7046551
#nb #NewBrunswick #compassion #miramichi #housingFirst #harmReduction #haveAHeart #wearAMask
A few days ago, my stepmother's sister died. She had covid that led to pneumonia(was hospitalized for a week and then had a heart attack). She was on life support but had requested not to be kept on it. After a 24 hour period, she was taken off it and she passed. My stepmother is still in shock.
#wearamask
I know this is a wild fantasy but it would be nice if someday some Canadian journalist asked the Prime Minister why he's allowing Medicare to be dismantled by Covid and neglect in every province and territory in confederation. My fantasy goes even further. The reporter asks follow up questions about enforcing the Canada Health Act when the PM tries to pass the buck to the Premiers. #trudeau #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #canpoli
Hello Fediverse, hello Bits&Baeume,
I’ve moved recently, time for a (re)introduction — and a heartfelt Thank You! to @ben
I am a writer, copywriter, online editor, and I generally write a lot; I design websites with plain HTML/CSS/JS or using WordPress and other CMS; occasionally I work as a speaker, podcast producer, sound designer — to mention the most important bits.
My blog: https://wernerprise.com/blog (mostly German, but I am considering making it bilingual at some point.)
Climate catastrophe is on my mind, degrowth close to my heart; capitalism needs a short leash!
Also, I still take SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 very seriously. Thus:
#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #NoCOVID #LongCOVID #COVIDIsNotOver #WearAMask #TeamCaution #CleanAir
#NewHere #Intro #ClimateCatastrophe #Capitalism #WealthRedistribution #TaxTheRich #Democracy #AntiAI #AntiFa #StopConsumerism #WeAreThe99Percent
#HTML #CSS #JavaScript #Webdesign #WordPress
Hallo Fediverse, hallo Bits&Baeume,
ich bin umgezogen und erst seit ein paar Stunden hier auf dem neuen Server, deswegen eine kurze Vorstellung — und ein herzliches Dankeschön an @ben
Ich bin Texter und Online-Redakteur, schreibe auch sonst viel; ich gestalte Websites in HTML, mit WordPress oder anderen CMS, arbeite außerdem gelegentlich als Sprecher, Podcast-Produzent, Sounddesigner – um mal die wesentlichen Dinge genannt zu haben.
Mein Blog: https://wernerprise.com/blog
Mir liegt die Klimakatastrophe auf der Seele und Degrowth (Décroissance) am Herzen; Kapitalismus braucht straffe Zügel!
Außerdem nehme ich nach wie vor SARS-CoV-2 und COVID-19 ernst. Daher:
#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #NoCOVID #LongCOVID #COVIDIstNichtVorbei #WearAMask #MaskeAuf #DieMaskeBleibtAuf #TeamVorsicht #CleanAir
#NeuHier #Intro #Klimawandel #KlimaKatastrophe #Kapitalismus #Umverteilung #Reichensteuer #Demokratie #AntiKI #AntiFa #Konsumstop #WirSindDie99Prozent
#HTML #CSS #JavaScript #Webdesign #WordPress
A lot of sick people around. Listen for all the coughs and sneezes. We can help protect ourselves. #WearAMask
Two people, including me, with a mask on in the grocery store this morning.
I guess the airborne whatever from the people in the store is more important than the family you're going to visit this month.
Seriously. I don't get it. Why in the world would anyone at this point bother to #WearAMask but leave it completely under your nose? If your nostrils are exposed and you're breathing through them, you're not wearing a mask.
"There is no scientific reason to assume that COVID-19 is more dominant at low than high temperatures."
"The increase in cases and deaths was also observed in those months where COVID-19 SOPs were not properly followed."
💲 Bezahlartikel im Online-SPIEGEL, aber eigentlich reicht schon die Überschrift:
»Ich glaube nicht, dass ich jemals wieder zu 100 Prozent belastbar sein werde«
Junge Erwachsene mit Long COVID, die das Magazin Anfang 2022 (vor fast zwei Jahren) interviewt hat, und wie sich ihre Krankheit bis heute auswirkt.
https://www.spiegel.de/a-67b376c3-bdc4-4501-8b30-217599e7a81b
#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #NoCOVID #LongCOVID #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIstNichtVorbei #WearAMask #MaskeAuf #DieMaskeBleibtAuf #TeamVorsicht #CleanAir #HEPA #Filter
@augieray I am so thankful that I made my friend install a Corsi box & make everyone wear masks, when her sister-in-law passed from cancer. So many of the people coming over to offer condolences were potentially infected, claimed they had just gotten over an infection or came down with Covid after. #COVID #CovidIsNotOver #CorsiRosenthalBox #WearAMask
NB Respitory Watch
November 12 to 18, 2023 (Week 46)
COVID-19
* Number of cases: ↑ 161
* Percent positivity: ↑ 16%
* Hospital admissions: • 71
* Outbreaks: ↑ 15
* Deaths: • 2
Influenza
* Number of cases: ↑ 26
* Percent positivity: ↑ 3%
* Hospital admissions: • 4
* Outbreaks: • 0
* Deaths: • 0
View the full report (PDF): https://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Corporate/Promo/respiratory-respiratoire/Respiratory-Report-2023-24_Week-46.pdf
#nb #newBrunswick #covid #flu #respitoryWatch #covidStats #wearAMask
Update for 12/01/2023!
Good evening Fediverse SARS2PAians!
It's getting super chilly out there! I hope your early Winter is going healthy. 🍁❄️❄️
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VOCs
Nationally, HV.1 still at the top with over 25% of random sequencing. JN.1 almost at 5%.: https://ibb.co/z7F23GR
There are quite a number of upcoming variants faster than HV.1 out there, (JD.1.1, JG.3, JG.3.1, etc.) and they're highlighted on the chart screenshot. Not as fast as JN.1 but together they'll easily drive out the XBBs.
It's not just JN.1 on its own that's going to cause a problem....it's the comnibation of ever faster and faster varaints that will create a high tide that will never lower if we don't do some common sense things for each other (respirators, clean air, staying home) and attack the source of viral infection.
In PA, HV.1 at over 25%. JN.1 at almsot 2%. You can see the XBBs are all the way at the BOTTOM of this graph already.: https://ibb.co/Fk1qcgN
In NY/NJ, HV.1 at 28% of random sequencing, and JN.1 blazing riiiight behind it, in 2nd place already, at almost 9% of sequencing. Crikey this thing is fast. Yikes.: https://ibb.co/0XhGGW3
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Wastewater
Nationally, proportions are still being adjusted upwards a bit every time the levels are posted.: https://ibb.co/WpWkXtL
Regionally, all regions showing levels staying the same or increasing. Especially the Midwest which is going vertical right now.: https://ibb.co/0XhGGW3
I don't have the graph prepared for the PA sheds...there's only a very few updated to current data. Most sheds are waaaay behind with reporting.
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Research news
Bloom Lab has shared some important vaccine info on BlueSky about the latest version of the COVID vaccine that features XBB.1.5.: https://ibb.co/SdSKQC9
Turns out that the updated XBB booster is acceptably effective against the newest variants (BA.2.86.x.y). It's power is cut a bit by antigenic drift but overall it remains VERY advantageous to get a vaccine as XBB varaints are still very much around!
Viral geneticist Federico Gueli has shared information from other researchers that clearly show the immense growth advantage of JN.1. (The text and arrows on the screenshot are my own additions). In my humble non-pro, armchair opinion, there is no way something this fast will NOT cause a wave.: https://ibb.co/6D96R5G
JN.1 has a 50% (which means very good, not 50% "iffy") chance of becoming the leading variant even BEFORE the late December holidays which means......we're not gonna have a good time in January if we don't control it now.
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CDC
Here's the screenshot of the latest CDC NOWCAST. You can see the fast growth JN.1 (still not separated from BA.2.86) is clocking in here.: https://ibb.co/yRSB93L
Lots of new hospital admits statewide. in fact the only counties that are NOT showing levels staying the same or increasing are the old coal region (Schuylkill and counties immediately west of it) and the northern tier counties from Tioga Co. to over to Pike.: https://ibb.co/7XQCVGY
(EDIT: I accidentally wrote "decreasing" and changed it to "increasing".)
To me, looks like essentially a new wave of hospital admits that are going to filter through the terrible and unfortunate admits--> inpatient bed --> ICU pipeline.
Inpatient beds very stable throuhgout the State, increasing substantially in Elk Co.: https://ibb.co/5rmXhFX
Staffed ICU beds overall in a decline, with most substantial inceases in a few counties: Tioga, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, Crawford.: https://ibb.co/GJfFwch
Deaths over a 3 month period are substantial in most states. Unfortunately, we have lost 759 Pennsylvanians to COVID in the last 3 momths.: https://ibb.co/SwrV1Fw
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Using common sense methods for source control is more important this time of year than ever. Respirators, clean air, vaccines, and staying home if sick all work together to prevent life, learning, and financial loss now and in the new year!
Stay safe!!!!! 🍁❄️❄️
#covid #Covid19 #SARS2PA #CDC #CovidIsNotOver #Pennsylvania #PA #BA286 #JN1 #HV1 #WearAMask #CleanTheAir #VaccinesSaveLives
COVID still kills 1,000 people and infects 15,000 a week, per the CDC. Every month, more people succumb to it than died on 9/11. I know it looks weird, feels less than comfy, and can attract scorn from the gullible, some of our wonderful neighbors who probably voted Republican and should not be relied upon for medical advice.
After 16 weeks, CDC yet again had thrown up its hands for more than half of all HHS regions.
Eris dot6 child HV.1 at ~¼–⅓ share in all tracked regions, w/ Hyperion-2 kid EG.5 another ⅛–⅕ share.
Omicron-2 kid Pirola 2.86 already over ⅛ share in NY/NJ, nearing ⅒ in Mid-Atlantic.
[See toot above for variants CDC map color key & links to sources for charts.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: SARSCoV2 Variant Dashboard - USA | 30-DAY TRENDS
Source: NYITCOM Research Report (Raj Rajnarayanan)
Caption (in part): Circulating Variants in…following US States: All - Specimen Collected in…last 30 days | Updated on 12/1/23 4:50:03 AM [GMT?] | Source (sequences): GISAID
Bubble chart showing tallies of each identified variant for each state. Data has been filtered to show over a hundred Pangolin subvariants, excluding EG.5.1* lineage and EG.5.1* recombinants, for collection dates 11/7/2023 to 11/20/2023. Top subvariants: Pirola dot1 kid JN.1 (14.70%), Fornax FL.1.5.1 (10.11%), Kraken dot102 grankid JD.1.1 (8.52%), Arcturus dot6 XBB.1.16.6 (8.33%), Arcturus dot11 XBB.1.16.11 (5.06%), .
Raj has standardized bubbles to orange (Kraken XBB.1.5.*, incl JD), pink (Hyperion XBB.1.9.1*, incl. FL), red (Hyperion-2 XBB.1.9.1*, excluding EG.5.1 lineage), green (Arcturus XBB.1.16.*, incl. JF & HF), yellow (Acrux XBB.2.3.*), brown (XBB.1.18.*), purple (XBB.1.22.*), blue (BA.2.75.*), violet (BA.2.86.*—not mentioned in color key as provided) and grey (all others but for EG.5.1 lineage).
Bubbles largest and most prominent for: JN.1 (violet) for New York (38), Iowa (29), New Jersey (19), Nevada (18), Washington; FL.1.5.1 (pink) for NY (29) & Utah; XBB.1.9.2 (pink) for Texas (26); XBB.1.5 (orange) for Texas (22); XBB.1.16.6 (green) for Utah & Iowa.
Numerable additional variously smaller bubbles for well over 100 variants, across various states.
ALT-text by beadsland at ko-fi.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/507/936/985/644/446/small/75c6a55fbe1ac892.png)
With about every hospital in #Montreal being overcapacity by ~200% and wastewater data showing an explosion of C19, you'd think it would be a good time to bring back masking in at least some spaces, no?
Fourth week of Eris EG.5.1 wave, after CDC Nowcast added Omicron-2 kid Pirola BA.2.86 & Arcturus dot6 kid JF.1; with Eris dot6 child HV.1 at over ³⁄₁₀ of CDC samples.
For 2-wk GISAID sequences, Eris EG.5.1 fam over ½ share, with HV.1 already over ¼ share. Arcturus XBB.1.16 family almost down to ⅛.
[Srcs: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/USAVariantDB/VariantDashboard]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: SARSCoV2 Variant Dashboard - USA | 30-DAY TRENDS
Source: NYITCOM Research Report (Raj Rajnarayanan)
Caption (in part): Circulating Variants in…following US States: All - Specimen Collected in…last 30 days | Updated on 12/1/23 4:50:03 AM [GMT?] | Source (sequences): GISAID
Bubble chart showing tallies of each identified variant for each state. Data has been filtered to near three dozen Pangolin subvariants and recombinants of EG.5.1, including parent, for collection dates 11/7/2023 to 11/20/2023. Top subvariants: Eris dot6 kid HV.1 (50.49%), Eris dot1 kid HK.3 (13.50%), Eris dot1 EG.5.1.1 (6.88%), Eris EG.5.1 (6.35%).
Raj has standardized bubbles to red (XBB.1.9.2*, here only EG.5.1*) and grey (here, X* strain recombinants of EG.5.1* with other lineages), although some newer pango aliases may still be getting unique colors assigned by Tableau.
Bubbles largest and most prominent for: HV.1 (red) for New York (121), Utah (50), Minnesota (43), Virginia (37), Texas (34), Iowa (29), California (24), Delaware (24), New Jersey (24), Arizona (19), Maryland (19), Illinois, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wyoming; HK.3 (red) for New York (36), Washington, Iowa, Minnesota, California, Utah, New Jersey; EG.5.1 (red) for Texas; EG.5.1.1 (red) for New York, Utah, Iowa, Nevada; JG.3 (red) for New York.
Dozens of additional smaller bubbles for various variants and states.
ALT-text by beadsland at ko-fi.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/507/664/490/890/580/small/24031a5ddacd72a5.png)
From an article about RSV vaccine shortages:
“Families should be aware of everyday preventive measures to limit the spread of RSV and other respiratory illnesses, including washing hands, covering coughs and sneezes, cleaning frequently touched surfaces, and staying home when sick,” the agency says.
I think something is missing, but I have absolutely no idea what it might be. #WearAMask
https://ctmirror.org/2023/11/30/rsv-vaccine-infants-ct-pediatricians/
@bicmay I wish to hell when they report on this, they would say that the pandemic is over, but immediately include the fact that it has morphed into an endemic. I can’t tell you the number of idiots who tell me Covid is over you don’t need to wear a mask. I also wear a shield with my mask in crowded enclosed places if I can’t avoid them. COVID is a numbers game. Your eyes have a permeable membrane. #CovidIsNotOver #Endemic #Covid #WearAMask
1,156,484 Americans Dead From COVID 19
2023-December-01 Friday
1,339 Americans Dead Last Week
U.S. - 4.19% of the global population
Calculated 2023 Aug 07
U.S. - 16.38% of global pandemic deaths
#America #AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Death #Deaths #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Monday #News #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Politics #Saturday #Sunday #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
Don't spread it
Don't interfere with people who are not getting it.
#WearAMask
this might mean political action but it depends on your local context what that might be, otherwise
I haven't had a Cold in 3 years, Have you?
(nore have I had Influenza or Covid)
I'm not just good at learning Social Media, I learned how to keep social infections away too #WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver
Fisherman's Friends are not just great Cough Lozenges. They are tasty candy for me. ♥them.
I told the company I liked their Lozenges, and they say my #Klout score and sent me a large case of bags and cans of every flavor. The power of #SM
#Shick #PERKS #Neutrogena #Influencer #KLOUT #trends
Just knowing that #CovidIsNotOver and millions of people have been visiting family and traveling is enough for me to be more cautious this week.
I don't trust leading indicators as much as hospitalizations, but they can indicate that a new wave may be starting.
NYC #covid19 case counts and wastewater samples indicate a recent rise in observations of the virus, so I scheduled a booster for my mom and will get mine soon.
And I #WearAMask in doctors' offices, pharmacies, trains and elevators!
"As the number of COVID-19 cases increases again in Malaysia, medical experts advised local residents to continue to take preventive measures such as wearing masks in crowded places and washing their hands regularly."
#ABCovid #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/malaysians-urged-to-maintain-covid19-preventive-measures/272078.vnp
In my new filmmaking video that is coming soon, I go over some of my on-set safety precautions for illness transmission prevention. Really excited to share them, hope it can help some other micro budget filmmakers stay healthy and safer while doing their work!! #filmmaking #VideoProduction #WearAMask
so uhm 9 people i know have coronya right now.
I am really scared of this shit. I have asthma and i am not insured.
Last time i had coronya, it hit me hard. I had a pneumonia. It was horrible.
Please, just #WearAMask (if you can, not everynyan is able to. One more reason why you fucking should if you are.).
Let's take care of each other.
The pandemic is not over.
@Cbfoley @jacqui76 I wear mine any time I go to the shops, which is about once a fortnight; or the hairdresser, which is once every six weeks. I don’t go to social mixing events any more - no theatre, pubs etc. Hopefully more people will start wearing them again. #WearAMask
#wearamask - protect yourself from a slew of potential health problems.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-22/covid-long-term-disease-parkinsons-alzheimers-risk/103112864
🟧🟨🟩🟪🟥
Sometimes trends say much more than the positivity rate.
Remember: #COVID19 knows about exponential growth. #WearAMask #CleanTheAirWeShare
https://x.com/dr_kkjetelina/status/1729620672870015042?s=46&t=qEya17FQSjp9bz3bzc2DGg
»Can You Catch Covid Outside? Yes, You Can.«
Jessica Wildfire once again says what needs to be said.
https://www.okdoomer.io/can-you-catch-covid-outside-yes-you-can
#COVID #COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #LongCOVID #Sequelae #WearAMask #N95 #CleanAir
Brilliant response to a poster whose careless, blaming husband is asking what the endpoint is for her continued insistence on COVID. mitigations:
"I sincerely recommend asking him what HIS end game is. Get Covid over and over until one or both of you is either dead or so disabled that you can’t care for yourselves? If he’s got some proof that Covid won’t eventually destroy your bodies, he oughta show it.
Otherwise, I think you should try putting your foot down on his denial of reality and his habit of trying to make it sound like you’re just imagining things when your fears are confirmed (and then some) by a rapidly increasing number of scientific studies. You’re not the one being irresponsible and weird here. He’s playing games with your lives because he doesn’t have the emotional strength to accept reality.
Like make him tell you what his logic is. “Do you know what Covid does to people’s bodies, and just not care if it happens to us? Do you not know? Do you have some compelling reason to believe it can’t happen to you or me? Do you want information, or are you committed to avoiding it? Are you willing to sit down with me and make plans for how we’re going to manage if one of us can no longer work, care for the kids, and/or do things around the house for a long period of time?” "...cont'd
Via: Kashid Pirzada, MD
"Colleagues and I are doing far more resuscitations, crash intubations, and seeing far more patients in cramped and packed ERs. A bunch of bugs are to blame, including that-which-shall-not-be-named, and it's only getting started.
Some advice:....
https://nitter.net/KashPrime/status/1728990042742280519#m
@novid #covid #surge #sarscov2 #wearamask
Two strains dominate, more are around. More people dying. More people becoming #disabled. More people with damaged blood vessels, brains, hearts... More people slipping suddenly into dementia. More young "healthy" people unable to explain why they always seem to be sick these days.
Not one mention to #wearAMask. Not one mention to #avoidCrowds, or to #stayHomeIfYouAreSick.
What they should say: Avoid all #covid at all costs.
Covid: not even once.
Chinese students with pneumonia doing schoolwork while being hooked up to drips.
2023 is the year when humanity capitulated and began ‘learning to live with Covid’. I suppose this photo sums up the year and the chosen direction.
What’s your photo of 2023?
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #covid #covid19 #maskup #WearAMask #SARS2 #pneumonia @novid
@GottaLaff And please #WearAMask because vaccination is unfortunately not enough to slow the spread.
After 16 weeks, CDC yet again has thrown up its hands for more than half of all HHS regions.
Eris dot6 child HV.1 at ~¼–⅓ share in all tracked regions, w/ Hyperion-2 kid EG.5 another ⅛–⅕ share.
Omicron-2 kid Pirola 2.86 already over ⅛ share in NY/NJ, nearing ⅒ in Mid-Atlantic.
[See toot above for variants CDC map color key & links to sources for charts.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: SARSCoV2 Variant Dashboard - USA | 30-DAY TRENDS
Source: NYITCOM Research Report (Raj Rajnarayanan)
Caption (in part): Circulating Variants in…following US States: All - Specimen Collected in…last 30 days | Updated on 11/23/23 6:36:51 AM [GMT?] | Source (sequences): GISAID
Bubble chart showing tallies of each identified variant for each state. Data has been filtered to show over a hundred Pangolin subvariants, excluding EG.5.1* lineage and EG.5.1* recombinants, for collection dates 11/1/2023 to 11/14/2023. Top subvariants: Fornax FL.1.5.1 (13.14%), Arcturus dot6 XBB.1.16.6 (10.20%), Pirola dot1 kid JN.1 (9.18%), Arcturus dot11 XBB.1.16.11 (6.89%), Kraken dot102 grankid JD.1.1 (6.25%).
Raj has standardized bubbles to orange (Kraken XBB.1.5.*, incl JD), pink (Hyperion XBB.1.9.1*, incl. FL), red (Hyperion-2 XBB.1.9.1*, excluding EG.5.1 lineage), green (Arcturus XBB.1.16.*, incl. JF & HF), yellow (Acrux XBB.2.3.*), brown (XBB.1.18.*), purple (XBB.1.22.*), blue (BA.2.75.*), violet (BA.2.86.*--not mentioned in color key as provided) and grey (all others but for EG.5.1 lineage).
Bubbles largest and most prominent for: FL.1.5.1 (pink) for New York (27), Iowa (12), Louisiana (12), Arizona & New Jersey; JN.1 (purple) for NY (17), NJ (15), Washington & Iowa; JD.1.1 (orange) for NY, NJ & Utah; XBB.1.16.11 (green) for Arizona.
Numerable additional variously smaller bubbles for over 100 variants, across various states.
ALT-text by beadsland at ko-fi.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/485/693/846/689/688/small/ad99e80d959a391d.png)
Third week of Eris EG.5.1 wave, holiday-delayed CDC Nowcast adds Omicron-2 kid Pirola BA.2.86 and Arcturus dot6 kid JF.1; with Eris dot6 child HV.1 now over ³⁄₁₀ of CDC samples.
For 2-wk GISAID sequences, Eris EG.5.1 fam at ½ share, with HV.1 already over ¼ share. Arcturus XBB.1.16 family below ⅕.
[Srcs: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/USAVariantDB/VariantDashboard]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: SARSCoV2 Variant Dashboard - USA | 30-DAY TRENDS
Source: NYITCOM Research Report (Raj Rajnarayanan)
Caption (in part): Circulating Variants in…following US States: All - Specimen Collected in…last 30 days | Updated on 11/23/23 6:36:51 AM [GMT?] | Source (sequences): GISAID
Bubble chart showing tallies of each identified variant for each state. Data has been filtered to over two dozen Pangolin subvariants and recombinants of EG.5.1, including parent, for collection dates 11/1/2023 to 11/14/2023. Top subvariants: Eris dot6 kid HV.1 (49.03%), Eris dot1 kid HK.3 (13.26%), Eris dot1 EG.5.1.1 (8.88%), Eris EG.5.1 (5.60%).
Raj has standardized bubbles to red (XBB.1.9.2*, here only EG.5.1*) and grey (here, X* strain recombinants of EG.5.1* with other lineages), although some newer pango aliases may still be getting unique colors assigned by Tableau.
Bubbles largest and most prominent for: HV.1 (red) for New York (84), New Jersey (37), Arizona (32), Illinois (23), Iowa (23), California (23), Minnesota (22), Virginia (17), Utah (14), Washington (14), Nebraska (13), Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Texas and Delaware; HK.3 (red) for New York (30), New Jersey (13), Washington, California, Minnesota, Utah and Iowa; EG.5.1.1 (red) for New York (13), New Jersey, Arizona; EG.5.1.3 (red) for New York.
Dozens of additional smaller bubbles for various variants and states.
ALT-text by beadsland at ko-fi.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/485/571/670/233/487/small/80c10f66ed63ba78.png)
Update for 11/27/2023!!
TL;not going to read: This whole update is basically "Here comes JN.1. Get ready."
Good morning SARS2PAians!!
There are no new CDC or Biobot data today.
The CDC will put out a new Variant Proportions/NOWCAST chart today including BA.2.86 (which includes JN.1) but I will not be able to be where I need to be to grab it for you when it's released as I have lots of stuff to do today.
(Side note, the latest Biobot national levels graph has yet again been sliiiiiightly adjusted upwards.)
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VOCs
It's all about the VOCs the morning even without the rest of the info. JN.1 is fast, folks. SUPER fast. PLEASE get those xbeebee shots in, flu shots, and get yourself some quality respirators (at least a well-fitted head-loop KN95 or better) and run those CR boxes.
Nationally, HV.1 still at a massive lead with over 25% presence in random sequencing.: https://ibb.co/k6nhDMh
JN.1 (which this update is about more than ANYTHING else) is already at 3.71% of random sequencing. I can't reiterate how fast it is.
This thing went from 0 to 45% of sequencing in Singapore in one month, and Singapore is more disciplined with mask wearing and communal viral control than the West is.: https://ibb.co/s5gnh4X
It's nowhere near what original Omicron was (OG Omicron was at 700% growth rate compared to the absolute baseline) but the problem here is it is faster than HV.1 AND has massive immune escape abilities, and can REINFECT super-easily.
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It's bonkers but it MUST be mentioned that there are estimated faster BA.2.86 mutations than JN.1 right around the corner (JN.5.1, XDD) and if we don't want a high tide that never lowers, we MUST keep infections down through the winter.
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Don't want to get infected twice in one season? Don't want mass calloffs at your workplace because everyone is sick at once?
WEAR A QUALITY RESPIRATOR.
In PA, JN.1 is HERE and over 2%. It's going to make PA go through some things if we do not excercise some basic, common-sense ways to control spread.: https://ibb.co/9ZRD6mJ
In NY/NJ, JN.1 is already at almost 6% of random sequencing. It's in fourth place after HV.1, FL.1.5.1, and HK.3.: https://ibb.co/3CmB65v
Mask up, New Yorkers and Jerseyans.
I know I'm yelling. But again, if we COOPERATE and use some common sense methods to control the source of spread, it will prevent much life, learning, and financial loss during and after the holiday season.
Stay safe and healthy, PAians. 🍁❄️❄️
#covid #Covid19 #SARS2PA #CDC #CovidIsNotOver #Pennsylvania #PA #BA286 #JN1 #HV1 #WearAMask #CleanTheAir #VaccinesSaveLives
“Some research suggests #SARS-CoV-2 may also result in immune dysfunction after the infection, which may explain the unexpected rise of other infections, including streptococcal #infections and Mycoplasma, since the #pandemic.”
Erm….’most’. Not ‘some’.
#WearAMask
Per WHO, every 12 minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in the United States.
Entering April, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.
The emergency is over—covid is not done with us.
[U.S. holiday no data—share chart advances 9 days.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: Rolling Year Pandemic Mortality: United States
Data: CDC, NCHS, Census
[ beadsland on Ko-fi ]
Line chart plotting various mortality measures on a logarithmic scale, with reference percentages on right-axis.
Legend:
• Elevated Deaths vs. 2017-2019 (adj. for pop.)
• Est. Excess Deaths — All Causes / Rolling Year
• Acute Covid Deaths — Rolling Year
• Share of Excess Deaths Not Attributed to Covid
• Percent Elevation Observed Deaths over 2017-2019 Average
First two figures held ~325K & ~190K, respectively, Feb-Jun—despite annual acute covid deaths down from ~190K to ~120K same period. Entering Aug, ~300K & ~150K—with 3rd down to ~100K entering Sep.
Share of excess deaths reflects above—holds ~30% since May. Percent elevation observed deaths—over 20% mid 2022—holds near 11% since Feb.
Caption (in relevant part):
As of April 1, over one in four excess deaths in the U.S. were “not covid”. This ratio has been above three in ten since May.
That includes: covid deaths not reported as such or for which no covid test was administered; deaths from post-acute sequelae of prior covid infection (whether consequences of symptomatic Long Covid, post-acute organ damage not specifically identified as Long Covid or otherwise asymptomatic, heightened risk for sudden adverse health outcomes); and deaths from causes that would otherwise had not been fatal but for deferred medical care, continued strain on understaffed hospitals, and inadequate availability of vital medical supplies.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/479/127/442/444/430/small/017e2fc1f2833c8b.png)
![Chart: U.S. Share of 28-Day Covid Deaths
Data: WHO (via Our World in Data), NCHS (via CDC), official srcs (via Wikipedia)
[ beadsland on Ko-fi ]
Shows covid 28-day mortality as reported for the U.S. as share of G8, G20, and global 28-day mortality, for 3 years through Nov 14, 2023, this being the most recent date on which at least 50% of world population was represented in weekly reporting (see note regarding ◇ data points, below). Share of population for each comparison is provided for reference.
With the end of PHE aggregate tracking, U.S. ceased reporting covid deaths to WHO. After 5/14/23, chart uses provisional covid deaths from NCHS.
◇ data points represent sum population (via Wikipedia) of those countries that reported at least one death in prior week, as percentage of world pop. [Down to near 60% as of July. Was 90% last August.]
7-day avg of U.S. share of G8 covid deaths flattened somewhat, around 75.3%, well exceeding share of pop. (~38%). Same date last year, share of G8 covid deaths was 39.3%, jaggedly climbing toward winter.
Avg. U.S. share of G20 covid deaths down to 45.2% (vs. ~7% of G20 population). Same date last year: 21.9%.
U.S. share of global parallels: now 46.4% (vs. ~4% of pop.). This date last year, U.S. share of global covid deaths was 24.1%.
All three metrics were near or below respective populations roughly May–Aug 2021; thereafter have been profoundly higher than population but for few troughs, including a data dump by China in May 2023.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/479/127/564/130/118/small/12de8b2d9d2b129c.png)
Remember the time Boston U. randomly announced chimeric viral research involving wild type and omicron #COVID19 strains two years ago and nobody blinked, even when it seemed to fall into an approval loophole?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/science/covid-virus-laboratory-experiments.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/11/coronavirus-boston-lab-experiment/
https://www.science.org/content/article/was-study-created-hybrid-covid-19-virus-too-risky
But hey I guess if the RESEARCHERs didnt feel it met the need for Federal review, then problem solved hey?
Self policing always works.
On my way to a party in downtown #Munich using public transport. I am the only one that still sticks to #WearAMask😷 At least nobody seems to care. Good.
Update for 11/24/2023!
Good Morning SARS2PAians!
I hope you had a great day yesterday no matter what your thing is. 🍻 and you have a great and especially SAFE kickoff to this year's shopping season!
There is no new CDC stuff today.
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VOCs
Nationally, HV.1 still at a solid lead at over 24% of random sequencing.: https://ibb.co/p4SRhDk
In PA, JN.1 👀 👀 👀 has already reached 2.44% on the variant chart and has been over 3% as new samples roll in and are tested.: https://ibb.co/MCP7xwK
It was only at .73% a few days ago on Monday, the last time I did this variant thing.
This variant is turning out to be much faster than predicted by some experts. Hold on to your hats quality respirators, folks.
in NY/NJ, JN.1 👀 👀 👀 already at 4%.: https://ibb.co/YLmqz3Y
I'm no expert but...this thing is yikes so far.
Get those XBB.1.5 shots....they will help.
:ms_arrow_right: BA.2.86 has been upgraded to VOI (Variant of Interest) by the WHO.: https://ibb.co/1bWQmhc
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Wastewater
Nationally, levels still rising but haven't been adjusted much upwards since Monday.: https://ibb.co/pv33gh5
Regionally, not huge changes yet since last time. Regions have been adjusted a bit. The Northeast has been adjusted significantly upward, though.: https://ibb.co/ZNSsxCp
It's a volatile time for viruses so keeping a closer watch on this data for the next month or two will be vital.
In PA, levels kinda volatile right now (along with a lot of holes in the data) with everything from waaaay above national levels and climbing (Bucks) to way below (MontCo.): https://ibb.co/8XZX3BC
Harrisburg reports on WastewaterSCAN and levels there are rising.: https://ibb.co/vL2S42J
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A very short update today, so again I'll wish you a very happy, safe and healthy kickoff to the early winter! 🍁🍁❄️
#covid #Covid19 #SARS2PA #CDC #CovidIsNotOver #Pennsylvania #PA #BA286 #JN1 #XCT #JD11 #WearAMask #CleanTheAir #VaccinesSaveLives
"Covid lijkt er voor te zorgen dat het immuunsysteem verstoord wordt. Dit werd al duidelijk waargenomen in ernstig zieke Covid patienten, maar het lijkt erop dat Covid dit ook veroorzaakt bij relatief “milde” (in de acute fase) infecties. Zelfs kinderen, waar steeds van beweerd werd dat zij nauwelijks last hadden van Covid, lijken nu de gevolgen te ondervinden."
https://alleburgers.nl/2023/11/18/oversterfte-ziekte-en-verspreiding-covid19-2023-45/
Who will care for you when you get Long Covid?
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #covid #covid19 @novid
Since our government won't do it, I have created an account for the #NewBrunswick #RespitoryWatch #dashboard which contains a weekly report on #covid, #flu, and possibly others in the future.
It includes the number of death, hospital & ICU admissions, # of outbreaks and a few others.
Follow it at @nbrespwatch
There’s an awful lot of spread of lots of things in #yeg right now folks… just wear a mask already, they work against all these things.
Covid spread high and sustained, Influenza A AND RSV spiked sharply in the last week.
We know how to stop this, we have the tools to stop it, so that makes it a choice. Consider your contribution to the collective choice we make: are you helping, are you doing your part?
JAPAN. Screen shows CO2 levels in a cinema.
#COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask @novid
So for folks not following them on their mailing list or elsewhere, Project N95 just announced they're shutting down on December 15th. Here's the announcement info: https://www.projectn95.org/winding-down/
I wish they'd made more announcements, because they've been one of the few places to reliably get Aura 9210s and their donation program rocks. I do wonder who can fill those shoes, and how to keep this going in the future if someone takes up the mantle.
Per WHO, every 12 minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in the United States.
Entering April, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.
The emergency is over—covid is not done with us.
[Share chart advances only 2 days—low reporting.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
Real Mental Health and COVID:
I remember people worrying, fretting, complaining about ‘lockdowns’ and the effect on their mental health. We never had actual lockdowns. The path to ‘mental health’ was comprised of moving freely around without a mask. And consuming.
They called it ‘socialising’. Which meant consuming. They congregate in restaurants, go en masse to concerts, movies, hold celebrations, hit the bars and festivals. Ostensibly to hang with others, but more importantly, to consume. Because one can’t socialise without consuming, it seems.
'Mental health’ means *doing* something with your friends/family. Life as one big party; life as one big distraction. Such is our dependence on sensation, entertainment and consumption. It is a relief. A comfort. Makes life normal.
Except. That isn’t real mental health. It’s an avoidance and immersion in self-soothing. Being in the social fray gives us warm fuzzies. But we can’t seem to be able to do it in isolation, without the trappings of camaraderie- music, food, drink, diversion. And we can’t do it wearing a mask.
Real mental health depends on empathy and support, on the nurturance of family, friendship, community and communal care. It has little to do with socialising in a bar. A walk in glorious nature is better than a bar. Showing that we care for each other is better than a party. Showing our support for each other’s well being by wearing a mask is better than dancing maskless in a stadium. That is where real mental health lies.
Why do so many people seek therapists? It is self-evident when we are deprived of common basic decency and acknowledgment of each other’s worth, dignity and humanity. Now imagine this deterioration in mental health multiplied exponentially by the effects of billions- uncaring, unsupportive, hedonistic, self-absorbed, greedy, while this plague rages. Billions of people happy to pretend and lie to each other. For the sake of convenience and consumption. To ameliorate visions of wreckage. Instead of a coming together in common purpose. It could have been so easy.💧
The person who can’t socially consume is not traumatised; the person who has to navigate the gaslighting, indifference, casual cruelty and isolation might be. There is not one of us left untouched mentally and emotionally by this plague no matter how you mask it.
The world is rife with anxiety and fear. Let’s hit the bars and drink to that! I’m all right, Jack!
@novid #Covid #Sarscov2 #CovidIsNotOver #mentalhealth #CovidMentalHealth #WearAMask
The continuing loosening of brains and the ruination of society:
"I’m worrying now that I’ll get over this and then catch another at the wedding we’re at *later in the month*, they’re always virus central at this time of year."
A person with Covid. Not the first infection. What's missing here? Any mention of MASKS or any mitigations.
If you trawl most sites where COVID is mentioned, people have accepted consecutive infections and show a profound indifference to mitigation; they'd rather buy and buy and buy expensive pills and potions $$$$$. Magical thinking and snake oil for comfort.
It looks as if masking especially has become so stigmatised, that it doesn't enter into anyone's consciousness. When COVID is mentioned as a probability people ignore it, most don't test, or test and accept it as par for the course. They walk plague ridden out into the world as a weapon of mass destruction.
It turns out people really do think it's like the common cold. Society is blithely, cosily spiralling down into sanctioned extinction.💧
Your Sunday #COVID19 reminder that a virus cannot mutate, if it cannot incubate.
We wouldn't have variant after variant after variant, if people would make better choices.
I don't want to merrily play Ring around the Rosie during the pandemic, turning death and disability into a laughing game. I don't find joy in it. We don't have to play this silly game where we all fall down. We could all stand up, take a few steps back, and put on a respirator mask. Like grown-ups. #CovidIsNotOver ... but it could be #WearAMask #n95
NYC #covid hospitalizations appear to be leveling off below 4 per lakh, and wastewater samples continue to drop. I've been singing karaoke!
But #CovidIsNotOver and I've heard about several people getting sick. If this is like previous years we'll get an increase after Thanksgiving.
I still #WearAMask in doctors' offices, pharmacies, elevators, trains and grocery stores, and eat outdoors whenever possible. If hospitalizations rise again I'm prepared to take further precautions!
After 14 weeks, CDC still had no estimates for New Englnd; again dropped PNW & Lower Midwest.
Eris dot6 child HV.1 at ~¼–⅓ share in all tracked regions, w/ undifferentiated Eris fam EG.5 another ⅙–³⁄₁₀ share.
Eris dot1 child HK.3 approaching ⅒ in Southwest, NY/NJ and Great Lakes.
[See toot above for variants CDC map color key & links to sources for charts.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
Second week of Eris EG.5.1 wave (after 3-week Hyperion-2 XBB.1.9.2 wave), with Eris dot6 child HV.1 near ³⁄₁₀ of CDC samples as of last week.
For 3-wk GISAID sequences, Eris EG.5.1 fam all but ½ share, with HV.1 already over ⅕ share. Arcturus XBB.1.16 fam below ⅕. Hyperion XBB.1.9.1 holds above ⅒.
[Srcs: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/USAVariantDB/VariantDashboard]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
@BlackAzizAnansi
I still mask, and it's very affirming of my choice when retail workers admit to me that they actually are anxious about the virus. Partly I mask because I don't want to relapse as I come out of long covid; partly I mask because retail workers' safety matters, at least to a few of us.
It's not even that hard to #WearAMask and it's a great savings on makeup.
After 14 weeks, CDC still has no estimates for New Englnd; again drops PNW and Lower Midwest.
Eris dot6 child HV.1 at ~¼–⅓ share in all tracked regions, w/ undifferentiated Eris fam EG.5 another ⅙–³⁄₁₀ share.
Eris dot1 child HK.3 approaching ⅒ in Southwest, NY/NJ and Great Lakes.
[See toot above for variants CDC map color key & links to sources for charts.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
Three-week Hyperion-2 XBB.1.9.2/EG wave crested into Eris EG.5.1 wave last week, as CDC adds Kraken scion JD.1.1 & Arcturus dot6 XBB.1.16.6 kid JF.1 to Nowcast. Eris dot6 child HV.1 near ³⁄₁₀ of CDC samples.
For 3-wk GISAID sequences, Eris EG.5.1 fam all but ½ share. Arcturus XBB.1.16 fam below ⅕.
[Srcs: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/USAVariantDB/VariantDashboard]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
Per WHO, every 12 minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in the United States.
Entering April, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.
The emergency is over—covid is not done with us.
[No U.S. deaths update this week due to holiday.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
@anniegreens @kmck @jmcrookston So true. I had to try a bunch of masks--mostly N95--before zeroing in on the 3M Aura N95 ones. They were comfortable and didn't move around when I would talk. The three-section design helps a lot. I also agree that you need to get familiar with the nose piece fitting your face. Practice helps. A good fit means no fogging of glasses over the mask. #COVIDisAirborne #WearAMask
Me: *wearing my N95 mask at an event*
The Armorer: "Have you ever removed your mask?"
Me: "No, I have not"
The Armorer: "Has anyone seen your face?"
Me: "No, they have not"
The Armorer: "Have you been infected with The Virus?"
Me: "No, I have not"
The Armorer: "This is the way"
Me: "This is the way"
When are you going to be brave and take off that parachute??
#COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #covid #covid19 @novid
For the 2nd time this morning, I ran across a study suggesting #COVID19 has a longer-term impact on male reproductive systems:
“In both groups of semen samples from coronavirus disease 2019 recovered men (1–6 months and 7–30 months post SARS-CoV-2 infection), sperm vitality, total and progressive sperm motility, and putrescine levels were significantly decreased when compared with samples from the uninfected group.”
#WearAMask and save your sperm!