You'll likely see news coverage celebrating the fact that the WHO declared the COVID-19 pandemic over, this is an utterly misleading representation of the WHO's statement.
The WHO said the pandemic is over because COVID-19 is now ENDEMIC because we've failed to contain it so spectacularly that it's just something we have to deal with like the flu, which is not good news, it's literally the worst possible news. They actively warned people not to misunderstand and let their guards down because of their statement, which the way their announcement was presented by mainstream media is exactly what people are doing.
For the love of god please be safe out there, every time you catch COVID you're rolling the dice and your odds get worse every time.
Yes, please please be safe out there. Wear a mask (KN95/n95 or better).
We protect each other (and ourselves).
Masking and other COVID precautions are still super important!
Seemingly California has decided iPhones don’t need to do COVID Exposure tracking anymore, and my phone has just stopped doing it, which sucks! That feature was really useful and kept me extra cautious. If that and other community-wide efforts to curb COVID are now being retired, I worry we’ll only have individual effort to keep each other safe…
