Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any good news today?
Could really use it

Nationwide hospitalizations continue to plummet.

https://covidtracking.com/data/national

Currently at ~93k, down from ~132k on Jan 6th.

Anonymous wrote:Any good news today?
Could really use it

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From the NYT: The vaccine news continues to be better than many people realize.

https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/NN_sample.html

The news about the vaccines continues to be excellent — and the public discussion of it continues to be more negative than the facts warrant.

Great! Perhaps they could take their own advice? Because the NYT has been doom and gloom about the vaccines and the pandemic in general. All their headlines are like "J&J vaccine offers strong protection, BUT MAYBE NOT AGAINST DEADLY VARIANTS" and "Infection numbers are down, BUT DEADLY VARIANTS WILL REVERSE THE TREND"

Anonymous wrote:From the NYT: The vaccine news continues to be better than many people realize.

https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/NN_sample.html

The news about the vaccines continues to be excellent — and the public discussion of it continues to be more negative than the facts warrant.

Anonymous wrote:From the NYT: The vaccine news continues to be better than many people realize.

https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/NN_sample.html

The news about the vaccines continues to be excellent — and the public discussion of it continues to be more negative than the facts warrant.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highly recommend this reddit post for anyone like me who badly needed some good ones today. It's full of links to cites/videos and generally very worth reading IMO.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/l97t6x/comment/glhwpu8

It's waaay long to just paste here, but here's a sample.

The currently approved vaccines work against new variants, all of them. Even that new one you just read about. Seriously, it's very probably, not going to be a problem.

You can feel free to ignore any news story or blog or comment that uses the word “strain” instead of “variant”. There are currently no Covid19 “strains”, only variants.

Many variants aren't that great at being viruses. Some have already gone extinct, and the rate of extinction will probably increase over time. Yes, that mink variant you were worried about last year is probably gone forever.

Thank you!

This pandemic has made me realize that there are 100% people in the media who are 100% putting out BS or BS-adjacent stories that are 100% meant to scare people. So that they can make money. I'd thought maybe this was true before, a little bit; I'd spoken with news people who said it was hard for them b/c they got excited over bad news after being in the media for a while, but seriously, these stories are false and they are still being reported, and the reporters know that they are false and they are purposefully misleading readers. So that's Uplifting and hopeful news in that we can stop believing the bad news and the ridiculous headlines.

Yep. I have media fatigue.

Way too much overall negativity

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highly recommend this reddit post for anyone like me who badly needed some good ones today. It's full of links to cites/videos and generally very worth reading IMO.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/l97t6x/comment/glhwpu8

It's waaay long to just paste here, but here's a sample.

The currently approved vaccines work against new variants, all of them. Even that new one you just read about. Seriously, it's very probably, not going to be a problem.

You can feel free to ignore any news story or blog or comment that uses the word “strain” instead of “variant”. There are currently no Covid19 “strains”, only variants.

Many variants aren't that great at being viruses. Some have already gone extinct, and the rate of extinction will probably increase over time. Yes, that mink variant you were worried about last year is probably gone forever.

Thank you!

This pandemic has made me realize that there are 100% people in the media who are 100% putting out BS or BS-adjacent stories that are 100% meant to scare people. So that they can make money. I'd thought maybe this was true before, a little bit; I'd spoken with news people who said it was hard for them b/c they got excited over bad news after being in the media for a while, but seriously, these stories are false and they are still being reported, and the reporters know that they are false and they are purposefully misleading readers. So that's Uplifting and hopeful news in that we can stop believing the bad news and the ridiculous headlines.

Anonymous wrote:Highly recommend this reddit post for anyone like me who badly needed some good ones today. It's full of links to cites/videos and generally very worth reading IMO.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/l97t6x/comment/glhwpu8

It's waaay long to just paste here, but here's a sample.

The currently approved vaccines work against new variants, all of them. Even that new one you just read about. Seriously, it's very probably, not going to be a problem.

You can feel free to ignore any news story or blog or comment that uses the word “strain” instead of “variant”. There are currently no Covid19 “strains”, only variants.

Many variants aren't that great at being viruses. Some have already gone extinct, and the rate of extinction will probably increase over time. Yes, that mink variant you were worried about last year is probably gone forever.