I saw a post here that I can't find about how COVID-19 transmission is "low" and 'while some precautions are worthwhile it's not as essential as it used to be' but like, I realise this is entirely anecdotal but if that's the case why is now the time where I am seeing a mulitude of friends, colleagues, and family get it seemingly every other week, huh?
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i read somewhere this week that hospitalizations are higher now than in december
i think it's tricky because from a public health perspective i'm sure all of the positive stuff is true, and I know the one I reposted was specifically rebutting a total doomer post of "covid is as bad as its ever been and nothing can save us", so it might have gone too far the other way.
but personally the fact that nobody talks about it anymore, plus the total lack of masking in places that do make sense (like airplanes, public transit, concerts, etc.) just sucks.
unfortunately in my old age i've become a "the answer is probably somewhere in the middle" kind of person. except for leftism, where the answer is "15 miles farther left than any public figure endorses" lol
yeah, like, I am probably being quote-unquote "too cautious" about it at this point but I do not want to get this thing, life is hard enough with my existing agonies yknow?
100%.
i think labeling people "too cautious" is kinda messed up anyway. I know exactly one person who I would consider "too cautious" and it's mostly because she won't let her husband leave the house at all, basically. And even she's backed off recently.
i've lucked out and somehow never caught it, at least symptomatically, and i'd also like to keep it that way.
A library patron walked up to me the other day and went "Huh. I didn't know COVID was still around. Aren't we all vaccinated?"
Are you talking about the post by anselmhare? I thought it was pretty even-handed. Heck, if we went with my anecdotal evidence there’s been one infection in my friend group over the period of many months and that’s after they went to a concert and it came and went like nothing - but I’m not going to use these experiences to declare COVID doesn’t exist anymore.
yeah I think that's the one, and to be clear I recognise that it isn't 100% doom or whatever but it just squicks me a bit the idea that "well at a state/national level it's fine so whatever" is a valid take, IDK, it's messy
It’s a huge mess. They brought up wastewater data as well and checking my own local area (in the US) shows its trending up again so there’s fun regional differences as well
I don't know what the specific numbers are like where you are, but at least in the US we get a lot of misleading claims that things are better than they actually are that seem to stem from the rise of over-the-counter testing (and possibly no testing?) causing positive cases to be undercounted. Wastewater data—which correlated almost exactly with case counts until OTC tests became available—is currently low-ish in a relative sense (again in the US), but nowhere near as low as it was in the post-vax pre-Delta nadir, and beginning to rise again in the last month.
Assuming that pattern holds reasonably well, you're not crazy to continue to take serious precautions. If anything, the lack of accurate data and advise from government bodies makes things more dangerous.
yeah I mean we've given up on the systematic testing, it's all over the counter now, with no actual means for reporting, meaning we're down to wastewater measurements too, for better or worse
fortunately, wastewater does seem to correlate extremely well to real case rates (from historical testing data before OTC tests) so it's at least useful data if you look at it. obviously that doesn't solve the problem of government health bodies refusing to use it to report estimated case rates
I know reported data is down over the last little bit but I have no idea how much of that is the end of the public health emergency declaration (in the US) that changed the reporting requirements for covid tests and such. I dont feel like anything has changed and I certainly feel like people just take it less seriously/have stopped masking/etc. Its frustrating because I already live with someone who is immunocompromised and I really dont want to be the death of them
yeah im like
still doing all the precautions and refuse to be around people who arent, because ive seen some very bad things happen to actually real people i know
like someone had their partner just wake up basically unable to breathe because of blood clots in his lungs and like, if that were me, there's be nobody around to help me
so my life basically only exists at home and locked away in my corner lab at work, and it's... very small
and it kinda sucks to see the world just pretending it's fine
anyway uh sorry if that was a lot kinda out of nowhere?
not a lot of people still talking about any of this is all, i guess
Thank you for sharing the story.
Most people want to pretend that evening is fine.
Must people don't want to think about the consequences.
The virus, meanwhile, is indifferent to peoples' perceptions.