Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. I shall never change my life for Covid again.

And people like you are the reason people are getting sicker and sicker and dying from Covid.

Actually, this is NOT what is happening now.

Yes, yes it is:
Cases are up: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzk34uotrccib1.png

Hospitalizations are up: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-hospitalizations-rise-fourth-week-eg-5-variant/

What more proof do you need?

Murders in DC have been growing at a much faster pace, and you probably agree that being murdered is a tad worse than getting covid.

I assume you live in a bunker under your (fortified) house?

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Anonymous wrote:Was just at Dulles last night and easily half the people were masked. This is getting serious.

huh. was at DCA last night and saw 1-2 masks.

Was just at Dulles and saw maybe 2 or 3 masks over the course of a few hours

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On a plane right now. Maybe one out of 15 wearing a mask

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Anonymous wrote:On a plane right now. Maybe one out of 15 wearing a mask

Insane that only one in fifteen has a brain!

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Anonymous wrote:On a plane right now. Maybe one out of 15 wearing a mask

Insane that only one in fifteen has a brain!

Even worse, she's not the one wearing a mask!

But that's a separate discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:On a plane right now. Maybe one out of 15 wearing a mask

Insane that only one in fifteen has a brain!

I know you wish this was the case but really, it’s not.

The rational people, who can make decisions without emotion interfering, are the ones who aren’t masking. They know the risk is low, and getting Covid is just the new norm. If you want to pretend that masking makes you smarter, then feel free to partake in that delusion.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. I shall never change my life for Covid again.

And people like you are the reason people are getting sicker and sicker and dying from Covid.

Actually, this is NOT what is happening now.

Yes, yes it is:
Cases are up: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzk34uotrccib1.png

Hospitalizations are up: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-hospitalizations-rise-fourth-week-eg-5-variant/

What more proof do you need?

Murders in DC have been growing at a much faster pace, and you probably agree that being murdered is a tad worse than getting covid.

I assume you live in a bunker under your (fortified) house?

And if you look at wastewater data, cases are already leveling or dropping in the Northeast and South. https://biobot.io/data/

There is no "surge." Take the graphs farther out on the x axis to 2020 to get a real picture of what's happening. The slope of increase is much smaller than it has ever been for any surge.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s scary out there these days. I thought it was all behind us. We’ve stopped going to the stores if we don’t need to - all Insta art/door dash/Amazon. We aren’t meeting friends unless outside.

Hahahhaa. You sound like a lot of fun. Glad people like you are staying home, don't have to deal with COVID KARENS in public.

People like you is the reason why Covid will always be around. If you would just stay home and mask up in the limited instances where you need to leave the home, it would be better.

I love this argument. All about moral superiority. Lady, even China with their massive lockdowns where they welded people into their homes could not stop the spread. Humans cannot stop nature. Virus is going to virus and no amount of hand sanitzer, masks, and weird covid rituals work.

Please girl. All the preventative measures work - that’s how things got better and will continue to do so. People should stay home and try not to socialize or go out to public places, especially those indoors, and schools should go virtual to minimize the spread. Doing so is best for the community as a whole. It’s not that hard to doordash and instacart everything! Spend more quality time with your immediate family!

The vaccines worked. That’s what got us out of this mess. Not masks. Not virtual school. Not a two week shutdown.

Not quite. Vaccines made us comfortable enough to leave our homes en masse and get infected, which provided some real immunity, which is what actually got us out of this mess. The reason cases went down is the reduction in available hosts because people built up infection-induced immunity.

Actually, the virus is mutating fast enough that your "immunity" doesn't protect you as much as you think. That's why people are having Covid multiple times, and sometimes getting sicker the more times they have it.

At least the vaccines and some immunity mean a significantly smaller number of people are dying.

Well, right, but that’s the point. Vaccine and infection-induced immunity made covid effectively equivalent to other common viral infections, like influenza.

Omicron is more equivalent to other viral infections like influenza because it is milder than ancestral strains. The CDC reviewed cases in December 2021 when both Delta & Omicron were circulating. They found that those infected with Omicron had substantially less severe outcomes than those infected with Delta, irrespective of vaccination status or prior infections:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.22269045v1.full.pdf
"we identified substantially reduced risk of severe clinical outcomes among patients with presumed Omicron variant infections [versus Delta]. Within the subset of our cohort ... Omicron variant infections were associated with 52%, 53%, 74%, and 91% reductions in risk of any subsequent hospitalization, symptomatic hospitalization, ICU admission, and mortality, relative to Delta variant infections. … Reductions in disease severity associated with Omicron variant infections were evident among both vaccinated and unvaccinated patients, and among those with or without documented prior SARS-CoV-2 infection. ... Consistency of the association of Omicron variant infection with reduced risk of hospitalization across age and comorbidity categories, and regardless of prior immunity from vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection, during the same month and in the same population, argues against host or behavioral factors as causes of the observed disease attenuation with the Omicron variant.”

[Anonymous]

The COVID crazies need something new to glom onto. It's such a stretch now that they seem extra psychotic.

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Anonymous wrote:Was just at Dulles last night and easily half the people were masked. This is getting serious.

Lies!! I was there today and counted 3 masks.

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I never believed COVID was serious. I never quarantined in 2020 and continued to live life as normal seeing friends. So needless to say, the answer to your question is no.

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Anonymous wrote:I never believed COVID was serious. I never quarantined in 2020 and continued to live life as normal seeing friends. So needless to say, the answer to your question is no.

You and people like you are the reason why it was so bad before and why it’s coming back with a vengeance.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. I shall never change my life for Covid again.

And people like you are the reason people are getting sicker and sicker and dying from Covid.

Actually, this is NOT what is happening now.

Yes, yes it is:
Cases are up: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzk34uotrccib1.png

Hospitalizations are up: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-hospitalizations-rise-fourth-week-eg-5-variant/

What more proof do you need?

Murders in DC have been growing at a much faster pace, and you probably agree that being murdered is a tad worse than getting covid.

I assume you live in a bunker under your (fortified) house?

And if you look at wastewater data, cases are already leveling or dropping in the Northeast and South. https://biobot.io/data/

There is no "surge." Take the graphs farther out on the x axis to 2020 to get a real picture of what's happening. The slope of increase is much smaller than it has ever been for any surge.

Thank you.

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No!

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. I shall never change my life for Covid again.

And people like you are the reason people are getting sicker and sicker and dying from Covid.

Actually, this is NOT what is happening now.

Yes, yes it is:
Cases are up: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzk34uotrccib1.png

Hospitalizations are up: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-hospitalizations-rise-fourth-week-eg-5-variant/

What more proof do you need?

Murders in DC have been growing at a much faster pace, and you probably agree that being murdered is a tad worse than getting covid.

I assume you live in a bunker under your (fortified) house?

It's so funny-- the people freaking out about Covid shooting up are so chill about crime spiking in DC (and elsewhere but especially DC, where I live and work. Our office is still requiring masks!).