It can't be perceived as covid because that might make line go down.
I'm not joking there. That's why.
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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"What could it beeee! Also why are you still masking?"
Folks were giving me grief for masking up when I caught it while visiting my grandma. Well, they can eat my ass, my 80 year old Grandma did not contract Covid because I took it seriously and masked and isolated.
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Just seasonal. Ignore the excess deaths 
Deadly august flus are totally common right?
Thats summer right?
Was supposed to video chat with my friend the other day.
he hits me up and goes "sorry man I can't talk today. I'm sick and can't get out of bed."
With a cold? A cold has so knocked you on your ass that you haven't been able to get out of bed for days? Of course he won't actually test so to him he just has a cold.
To be fair, I recently had an illness of some sort that fatigued the absolute fuck out of me. I tested 6 times for COVID and all of them came up negative. Still have no idea wtf it was.
the BEST covid tests have 80% accuracy on the BEST day to test
your shitty rapid test prob has 60% accuracy on that day, and declining every day afterwards
alternatively your immune system is fucked from covid and now colds and flus fuck you up
the best way to test for covid is stool tests but crackers are dumb so this doesn't happen
Or it could be the chronic fatigue I've been dealing with for almost 15 years now. I just haven't dealt with it in about a year so I had forgotten about it.
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A "common cold" can still knock you on your ass for sure
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The last couple of time I’ve thought I’ve been sick I used the tests I got from Biden but they always come back negative and so has my partners. I feel like/assume the tests don’t do a great job with the new strains
E: not saying people shouldn’t test this just reminded me about my frustration around testing
Yeah the rapid tests can only really tell you if you have it, they can't really confirm a negative. The CDC recommendation is to test twice within 48 hours, thrice in 72 if you're having symptoms. Which sort of negates the usefulness of the free tests when you're only giving out like a couple per household. We need free and abundant PCR testing.
They also might have expired, and have a pretty bad false-negative rate.
This actually is what happens to me every time I get a cold, the flu, RSV, anything other than just seasonal allergies.
A few years back I had a cold for like 6 weeks. Tested negative for Covid, Influenza, and RSV multiple times each during the illness but could barely even make it to the bathroom, drink, or eat.
as someone whose body also goes "you must sleep for 18 hours straight anytime you feel bad" I get it.
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FYI this seasons Flu and COVID boosters are now available. get vaxxed!
i'm probably putting mine off til october or so to see if i can survive the holiday season without getting covid this year
Yeah, at $200 a pop, I gotta time it for my money's worth.
I wonder if novavax is any cheaper.🤔
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Source so I can dunk on libs?
I’ve been diligently masking and handwashing and I feel a tingle in my throat like there’s an illness coming on :/. I’ve seen exactly two masked people in the entirety of the last year.
I hope it's not the Rona. If you do test positive try to get Paxlovid if you can. It stopped my symptoms overnight.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askTO/comments/1f543q5/is_everyone_getting_sick_lately/
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1dfaipb/what_is_the_reason_everyone_is_sick/
https://www.reddit.com/r/plano/comments/1dzj928/why_is_everyone_sick_right_now/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Adelaide/comments/1f9iayq/constantly_getting_sick/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sandiego/comments/1f7g88k/i_feel_like_everyone_is_sick_right_now_whats/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/1f2trj9/i_am_seeing_a_lot_of_people_getting_sick_whats/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FortCollins/comments/1f77ahb/sickness/
My husband just spent five days in a Plano hospital. They took a chest xray and a chest CT, and tested him for flu and RSV. Refused - refused - to test him for Covid.
Which tells me cases are on the rise and the local hospitals don't want the numbers associated with them.
Same thing happend two years go at a different Plano hospital. He developed a fever and symptoms while in the hospital recovering from surgery. Hospital absolutely refused to discuss Covid, consider Covid or do a Covid test. Two days later I had Covid. (I had been masking everywhere except occasionally alone in the room with him.)
Then they tested him. And immediately sent him home so that I, so sick I could barely move, could continue his surgical recovery care at home. Those bastards.
wtf hospitals just straight up refusing to test for COVID.
pretty soon the all-cause general mortality rate will be doctored as well
all data will be even more fake than it already is and millions will die and their deaths will not even be registered in order to keep up the facade of normalcy
they are already banning masks and banning covid tests
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That wastewater level spike in the askto thread 
I knew everyone was sick here, but that’s impressive. I’m still curious about the death rate stat.
haha I don't know what I was thinking about. For some reason I was focused on the "what is this stomach bug" part of the post and for some reason thought you were asking for a source on that lol
lol, that’s fine. Thank you either way :)
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looks like excess deaths in the USA as of June were <10%
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=~USA
Which is obscene. Outside of a natural disaster, if you were to just randomly kill off millions of your elderly and immunocompromised population you would be running a negative excess mortality for years.
my personal favorite (not) is that traffic fatalities are up :(
Possibly also related to COVID, since it affects people's brains.
I almost got hit by TWO different drivers on Tuesday, within minutes, and immediately encountered THREE other shitty drivers.
The first was a truck that ignored a stop sign and almost T boned me. The second was some jackass I guess not paying attention behind me because the car in front of me stopped, I stopped, and then I hear screeching brakes behind me and see this car turned at an angle like a foot behind me, almost fucking hit me
while i was looking behind me processing that, some dipshit turning left across traffic decided now was a good time to squeeeeeze through the narrow gap between my car and the one in front of me, fucking jackass
Then within literally a minute of that Im being tailgated real bad by some shithead who rides my ass until he peeled off into a turning lane at 60mph
Then I'm at the store, driving in front of it, car in front of me stops for pedestrians..... and then DOESN'T FUCKING MOVE. FOR LIKE, 30 SECONDS, WHILE I'M GOING HEY WHAT THE FUCK, THEN THEY START CREEPING FORWARD AT 2MPH AHHHHHHHH GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY
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"The Leftovers" was a show about how 2% of the population vanished into thin air simultaneously. The world goes fucking bananas trying to figure it out and come up with an explanation. It was aired from 2014 to 2017.
It's almost comical now that we're """post"""-covid. It's killed around 0.4% of the US population. Looking back at the show, the government was way too competent and people were way too rational. Zombie shows/movies have been the same way. Not only do people try to hide or ignore their symptoms, other people will deliberately risk infection to "own the libs" or whatever the fuck.
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ive also been masking in an area where no one else does it's so frustrating
REAL. I'm still testing negative on the covid tests I am still going through from the last time I got some free ones (and thus I am pretty sure they don't detect the new strain) but I am convinced this is what I have because 
my entire body is sore, my throat is still raw from vomiting every other hour Tuesday night after bed, and I keep coughing.
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I was just in a stuffy auditorium with 1000 other students for an hour (I did not know in advance that I was going to be there), so I'm pretty sure I'll get sick. 
I need to start bringing a mask in my book bag, even if nobody else on campus wears one. I managed to make it all these years without the rona (until now?)
Could be west nile
It got dr. fauci. 
Didn't finish the job though. 
Basically going to have a double to triple flu season every year now for the foreseeable future ...
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Ok, seriously, what should be the approach on a societal level? The whole point of masks and isolation was to prevent spreading not in general for the sake of preventing it, but as a way to "flatten the curve" as a way to make people get vaccinated hopefully before catching it for the first time, and to prevent the overload and collapse of the sanitary system.
I'm asking from ignorance because I'm not an epidemiologist, whether it makes sense for individuals to wear masks to slow the spread during normal periods of healthcare not collapsing, and in a scenario where already the overwhelming majority of the population has been exposed to the virus and to vaccines; or whether it's best to let people get immunity through normal exposure to the virus as we've been doing with basically every other seasonal virus in existence (with vaccinations available for at-risk individuals)
Quarantines based on contact tracing, ample sick leave, culture of wearing a mask when feeling sick, easy access to tests, vaccines.
If every country did it, covid would still be around, but getting stuck in quarantine would become a less and less frequent annoyance. Eventually the spread would be low enough that the mutation rate would settle down, and vaccines would start being more effective.
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exposure to the virus does not grant immunity. notice how it's still raging
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The ~~Gulf War~~ COVID-19 Pandemic Did Not Take Place 
Never understood that. Since covid hit I have tested obsessively every time I get a stomach ache, a cough, clogged sinuses, anything that's even one covid symptom. Never had it (all tests returned negative) and am an N95 enjoyer, and I'm still worried as fuck.
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