No change in coivd cases and deaths after spring break and no masks wtf

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Anonymous wrote:How's this possible. Shouldn't there be a spike like every holiday.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Spring nreak was pretty clean. Numbers going up now with new variant. But so what?

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Anonymous wrote:Two of my close friends and their families have it after spring break trips. But they home tested. Cases are exploding. It’s just not being recorded as well.

So if they're not being "recorded as well", how do you know cases are "exploding"? What are you basing this on? Post some actual data, not what you hope is happening to help prove your point.

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If you actually follow the numbers, nothing is “exploding” anywhere. Going up a bit, maybe.

Per wastewater data, cases are not exploding. There is a slight uptick many places as would be expected with the relaxation of restrictions.

The number of cases are going up significantly. And this number is huge undercount because so many people are using home tests and not reporting.

From NYT Covid tracker for the entire country
Positives 4/20: 62,898
7-day daily avg: 43,357
Positives Per 100,000: 13
14 day change +49%

Themis is for the entire country. This is not reflective of our highly vaccinated area.

That and 13 cases/100K population is actually low.

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Anonymous wrote:Two of my close friends and their families have it after spring break trips. But they home tested. Cases are exploding. It’s just not being recorded as well.

So if they're not being "recorded as well", how do you know cases are "exploding"? What are you basing this on? Post some actual data, not what you hope is happening to help prove your point.

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If you actually follow the numbers, nothing is “exploding” anywhere. Going up a bit, maybe.

Per wastewater data, cases are not exploding. There is a slight uptick many places as would be expected with the relaxation of restrictions.

The number of cases are going up significantly. And this number is huge undercount because so many people are using home tests and not reporting.

From NYT Covid tracker for the entire country
Positives 4/20: 62,898
7-day daily avg: 43,357
Positives Per 100,000: 13
14 day change +49%

Themis is for the entire country. This is not reflective of our highly vaccinated area.

That and 13 cases/100K population is actually low.

It's actually just over 20 cases per 100,000 in highly vaccinated Montgomery County, so I'm not sure what point the PP was making.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

Actually, it's going really well. My allergies are better too. This is the healthiest I have been in years.

You’re probably less healthy than you think. If you’re not being exposed to all kinds of germs on a daily basis, you’re immune system is going to forget how to work. Good luck with that.

My virologist neighbor laughed when I told her your claim that the immune system is going to forget how to work. You must know something she doesn’t.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

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Anonymous wrote:Omicron really is less dangerous. A number of the most vulnerable, seniors and those with health conditions and those who refuse to vaccinate, have already had covid and recovered or not. Now, the virus has mutated to become more transmissible and much less lethal. The pandemic is over.

A new variant could be worse, and the pandemic could return. But right now, the pandemic is over.

Its not over.

Yes, actually, it is. I know that's hard for you and that your mask has become your identity, but cheer up. I'm sure there is another crisis on the horizon that you can personalize in a similar way.

What an immature comment, just because you want it to be true. Not over. By far. It is what it is. Also long Covid, yeah hopefully someone you know can convince you it is real.

Depends on how you define "over". There are no restrictions left, and they're not likely to come back. I haven't masked in a year (beyond a couple plane rides). I'm out in public daily, have dined inside several times a week since Summer 2020, etc. I see fewer masks every day where I am in Fairfax. From my POV, it's completely over.

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Anonymous wrote:Two of my close friends and their families have it after spring break trips. But they home tested. Cases are exploding. It’s just not being recorded as well.

So if they're not being "recorded as well", how do you know cases are "exploding"? What are you basing this on? Post some actual data, not what you hope is happening to help prove your point.

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If you actually follow the numbers, nothing is “exploding” anywhere. Going up a bit, maybe.

Per wastewater data, cases are not exploding. There is a slight uptick many places as would be expected with the relaxation of restrictions.

The number of cases are going up significantly. And this number is huge undercount because so many people are using home tests and not reporting.

From NYT Covid tracker for the entire country
Positives 4/20: 62,898
7-day daily avg: 43,357
Positives Per 100,000: 13
14 day change +49%

Themis is for the entire country. This is not reflective of our highly vaccinated area.

That and 13 cases/100K population is actually low.

It's actually just over 20 cases per 100,000 in highly vaccinated Montgomery County, so I'm not sure what point the PP was making.

Look at the stats posted directly above? Reading isn't hard...

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Anonymous wrote:Two of my close friends and their families have it after spring break trips. But they home tested. Cases are exploding. It’s just not being recorded as well.

So if they're not being "recorded as well", how do you know cases are "exploding"? What are you basing this on? Post some actual data, not what you hope is happening to help prove your point.

+1
If you actually follow the numbers, nothing is “exploding” anywhere. Going up a bit, maybe.

Per wastewater data, cases are not exploding. There is a slight uptick many places as would be expected with the relaxation of restrictions.

The number of cases are going up significantly. And this number is huge undercount because so many people are using home tests and not reporting.

From NYT Covid tracker for the entire country
Positives 4/20: 62,898
7-day daily avg: 43,357
Positives Per 100,000: 13
14 day change +49%

Themis is for the entire country. This is not reflective of our highly vaccinated area.

That and 13 cases/100K population is actually low.

It's actually just over 20 cases per 100,000 in highly vaccinated Montgomery County, so I'm not sure what point the PP was making.

Look at the stats posted directly above? Reading isn't hard...

The facts above said nothing about what the case rate is in our "highly vaccinated region."

If you are going to say that our highly vaccinated region has lower cases than the national case count, you might want to look to see if that is actually true. Turns out, it's false.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

Actually, it's going really well. My allergies are better too. This is the healthiest I have been in years.

You’re probably less healthy than you think. If you’re not being exposed to all kinds of germs on a daily basis, you’re immune system is going to forget how to work. Good luck with that.

My virologist neighbor laughed when I told her your claim that the immune system is going to forget how to work. You must know something she doesn’t.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

Talked about that too and she didn’t put much stock into that and dismissed that claim.

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There has been a 16% rise in *reported* Covid cases in the entire US this past week.

Covid hospitalizations rose 5% in the US this past week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/?itid=sf_coronavirus_sn_coronavirus-us-cases-deaths_1&state=US

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In Maryland cases have risen 30% in the the last week.
Covid hospitalizations have risen 12% in the last week.

In DC the cases have fallen 3% and hospitalizations are up 13%.

In Virginia, cases rose 9% this past week and hospitalizations are flat.

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Anonymous wrote:Why won't the government admit the new covid is not as dangerous as the old, and the vaccine only works on the old nonexistent strain

Because 1000+ people are dying of it every day?

Almost exclusively unvaccinated.

It hasn't bee over 1,000 for about a month. Find a different argument.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

Actually, it's going really well. My allergies are better too. This is the healthiest I have been in years.

You’re probably less healthy than you think. If you’re not being exposed to all kinds of germs on a daily basis, you’re immune system is going to forget how to work. Good luck with that.

My virologist neighbor laughed when I told her your claim that the immune system is going to forget how to work. You must know something she doesn’t.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

Talked about that too and she didn’t put much stock into that and dismissed that claim.

NP. Virologists have been behind all sorts of non-evidence based recommendations during this pandemic, so I'll take anything they say with a grain of salt. Now if she was an immunologist, I'd be more interested, and I would be quite surprised if they thought eliminating all exposures to respiratory viruses for the rest of a young adult's life was a good idea.

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Anonymous wrote:Two of my close friends and their families have it after spring break trips. But they home tested. Cases are exploding. It’s just not being recorded as well.

So if they're not being "recorded as well", how do you know cases are "exploding"? What are you basing this on? Post some actual data, not what you hope is happening to help prove your point.

+1
If you actually follow the numbers, nothing is “exploding” anywhere. Going up a bit, maybe.

Per wastewater data, cases are not exploding. There is a slight uptick many places as would be expected with the relaxation of restrictions.

The number of cases are going up significantly. And this number is huge undercount because so many people are using home tests and not reporting.

From NYT Covid tracker for the entire country
Positives 4/20: 62,898
7-day daily avg: 43,357
Positives Per 100,000: 13
14 day change +49%

Themis is for the entire country. This is not reflective of our highly vaccinated area.

That and 13 cases/100K population is actually low.

It's actually just over 20 cases per 100,000 in highly vaccinated Montgomery County, so I'm not sure what point the PP was making.

Look at the stats posted directly above? Reading isn't hard...

The facts above said nothing about what the case rate is in our "highly vaccinated region."

If you are going to say that our highly vaccinated region has lower cases than the national case count, you might want to look to see if that is actually true. Turns out, it's false.

Amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:Why won't the government admit the new covid is not as dangerous as the old, and the vaccine only works on the old nonexistent strain

Because 1000+ people are dying of it every day?

The actual number is closer to 300 per day, currently.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of Natural immunity since so many people had covid at Christmas. Cases reporting is low because people aren’t getting PCR anymore. Hospitalizations will lag.

Hospitalizations and death rate is what really matters. Flu-like symptoms at home will always be around for susceptible individuals. Work to beef up your immunity if you want.

How do you “beef up” your immunity?

Staying locked at home. Not in taking sun (vitamin D). Consuming fast food and processed crap. Not doing exercise. Watching a LOT of tv, especially mainstream media hammering fear and paranoia non stop.

THATS EXACTLY HOW YOU BEEF UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

And, what if we are doing those things? You cannot beef up your immune system and stop covid based off just eating better and taking vitamin D. Grow up.

Why don't you read articles about the benefits of vitamin D, sunshine, exercise, healthy food before dismissing it out of hand? Its not a "cure" for covid obviously, but a leading cause of covid mortality is obesity - so better exercise / not being overweight would be generally beneficial and increase survival odds. It probably would have made economic sense (to reduce hospitalization costs) if everyone could have been paid more to exercise during the pandemic.

Vitamin d is important but you are looking for drama when that’s not why people are getting Covid. You can be very healthy and get Covid.

And the statistical likelihood of COVID being anything other than a weak flu or bad cold like experience is essentially zero if you control for your own health and don’t have some condition not of your own making. That’s the truth.

The pandemic is over. Cower in the corner if you want. The rest of humanity is moving on.

There is no humanity with people like you. Personally I don't want a flu or bad cold...I dont get why you would.

So you’re going to wear a mask and face shield for the rest of your life so you don’t ever get a cold or the flu? Impressive! Let me know how that goes.

Actually, it's going really well. My allergies are better too. This is the healthiest I have been in years.

You’re probably less healthy than you think. If you’re not being exposed to all kinds of germs on a daily basis, you’re immune system is going to forget how to work. Good luck with that.

My virologist neighbor laughed when I told her your claim that the immune system is going to forget how to work. You must know something she doesn’t.

While “forgetting how to work” may have been a poor choice of words, I’d be shocked if your virologist neighbor didn’t think shielding yourself from all germs would have negative ramifications down the road.

Talked about that too and she didn’t put much stock into that and dismissed that claim.

NP. Virologists have been behind all sorts of non-evidence based recommendations during this pandemic, so I'll take anything they say with a grain of salt. Now if she was an immunologist, I'd be more interested, and I would be quite surprised if they thought eliminating all exposures to respiratory viruses for the rest of a young adult's life was a good idea.

Her spouse is an immunologist at the NIH and concurred.