We no longer have access to any solid data on this. But hospital admissions is a good data point with relative stability.

  • @carpe_modo@lemmygrad.ml
    19•2 years ago

    And now the pox disease! And here in the US, were blaming it on the queer community. That’s certainly never resulted in bad things./s

      • @bleepingblorp@lemmygrad.ml
        10•2 years ago

        Targets of hate keep on accumulating…

        • Westoids think they can hate Asians because of COVID
        • Westoids think they can hate LGBTQTIA+ because Monkey Pox
        • Westoids think they can hate Asians more because of increasing war cries against China
        • Westoids think they can hate Eastern Europeans because of the Ukraine thing
        • Westoids think they can hate Communists again because of increasing war cries against China

        Stay safe comrades…

        • @TheConquestOfBed
          7•2 years ago

          Hating Africans and black people because…well that’s just normal.

          And Latinos are still “illegal foreigners” to a lot of people, even if they’ve been here for generations.

            • @bleepingblorp@lemmygrad.ml
              7•2 years ago

              All patriotism in the US is white supremacy. The entire nation and every aspect of it was founded on principles of white supremacy.

              The “founding fathers” were rich white property and slave owning Christian men who didn’t want to pay taxes. The thirteen colonies were stolen and the indigenous all but eradicated. The fifty states is all more stolen land from people who were all but eradicated. The thirteen stripes and the fifty stars on their beloved flag all represent this.

              None of the founding documents include any language which elevates any minorities to equals save the “women can vote” amendment. All the 13th did was change the name of forced labor for minorities from “slavery” to “imprisonment”. And since a huge portion of prisoners can’t vote the amendment allowing the black vote is toothless.

              Also you still need to have an address to vote, so while you don’t necessarily need to be a “property owner” anymore, the homeless are still being fucked over.

              So yeah, this country needs a hard reset button. The founding fathers need to be remembered not as heroes but as criminals, the flag completely replaced to something completely different, not a single fucking drop of resemblance, the borders redrawn for indigenous liberation (ie “land back”), all present colonial territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, etc) the option of independence, all documents put to history and remade for the modern communist era, the name of the country and each remaining state changed (it represents a minority portion of the Americas and we have no right to monopolize the name for an entire two continents, and many state names appropriate names from the indigenous, the very people we massacred), all branches of the military disbanded and replaced with a Peoples’ Army, Navy, etc., all branches of government disbanded and restructured to fit a government for the working class and not some elites, etc etc the list goes on.

  • @NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml
    17•2 years ago

    It really bothers me, that no one here in the West even gives a shit about masks anymore. It feels like I’m the only one wearing them, when I go out to the street. Funny thing is that I always see Chinese emigrants with masks.

      • @NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml
        8•2 years ago

        Yeah, I don’t understand why Western governments decided to drop the mandatory mask usage, at least keep it for interiors like gas stations, stores, restaurants. They just stopped giving a shit.

    • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
      6•2 years ago

      I always wear my mask unless it’s a big open area or someplace with lots of light and airflow. Only place I’ve been without one so far is my local farmers market and I felt pretty uncomfortable still but I had ridden with someone and forgot it in my car. Honestly I like it just cause it dampens smells and I have come to realize a lot of people and places just… Stink. Lol. I use a cloth mask and cut a piece of merv 13 filter material to fit the inside so all my air is filtered. And I mean it’s the full shape of the mask not just an insert in the little pocket.

  • Deer Tito (She/Her)
    13•2 years ago

    There are no words to describe what this government is doing to vulnerable people.

    I know what words I would use: social murder.

  • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
    9•2 years ago

    My aunt died BECAUSE of COVID but not FROM COVID. She had cancer and it was in remission. She was doing very well. She also had been vaccinated against COVID. She still got COVID despite this but the vaccine helped her kick it’s ass in a few days. BUT COVID did some fucky shit with her immune system and/or the cancer before it left. Cancer got out of control and she was gonna a month later.

    The ONLY way for her to have not died was to simply not be exposed to it. So all these anti lockdown, anti-vax people really piss me off. I basically ended a friendship with someone because they were antivax and the dipshits got COVID twice now. I have a LOT of mistrust if the US healthcare and pharma industry, from being prescribed meds I didn’t need that I got addicted to and had and still have issues from, and I still got the vaccines. I also work for a pharma company that manufactures one of them. They could be safer. They SHOULD be safer, but as it stands you’re still far safer getting them then getting COVID 100%. The biggest concern is your genetics with your bodies ability to process Ethylmercury which is used as a preservative in a lot of adult focused vaccines. It’s a pretty small portion of the populace and isn’t super well known but it’s still an issue people should be aware of but aren’t. What’s dumb is we can totally make these things without it but it’s a little more difficult and more costly. As far as the mRNA scare is it’s all BS. We’ve been studying these kinds of vacs for a while now it’s just this gave us the opportunity to start using it en mass.

      • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
        6•2 years ago

        Last bit of #3: Oh yeah, it’s caused a lot of problems with our company because all these clients got used to being able to skirt regulation and production timing with their COVID projects and got super removed when we told them “no” for their other projects they want to run through us the same way. Like sorry, we could expedite this shit for COVID because the govt basically ordered it, we can’t do that for everything. It’s caused a lot of issues and so many deviations that some of those companies are using the deviations as an excuse to not pay us for all the COVID products we made for them. There’s is no end to the sleezyness of these fucking Pharma companies. Our facility is just a contract manufacturer. We don’t own or do any of the development of them meds other than figuring out how to make them en mass for clients. Not that our company is innocent. The upper management is basically brain dead and their entire business strategy feels like some corporate sabotage because that’s more believable than “there’s fuckers really are this incompetent.” lol. If the job market wasn’t so trash I would have changed professions years ago and gotten out of pharma all together. It just fucking sucks working for these demons.

  • @mylifeforaiur@lemmygrad.ml
    6•2 years ago

    This pandemic taught pharma a dangerous lesson. If you offer USians a free preventative, they’ll fight it their last breath. But if you wait until they are sick and offer a $100,000 cure, they’ll eat it up and call you a genius.