A friend posted photos at a huge, crowded, loud concert two nights ago. Tonight, she posted a photo snuggling her face against her granddaughter.
I wouldn't have thought twice about it four years ago. Now, I think, “Does she know there is more #COVID19 transmission today than in over half the pandemic to date?”
I wish more people were cognizant of stacking their social activities. One way to protect others is to avoid close contact for up to a week after doing high-risk activities.
@augieray I am pretty sure I got COVID from the corn maze I went to. I kept thinking about all the places I could have contracted COVID since I wasn't really all that much in contact with people, and looking back I'm pretty sure it was this moment making corn angels amongst a bunch of kids with a lack of good germ health habits. I went to eat right after this. Sigh.
And COVID sucks so bad. Worst illness because it wasn't just a day or two of being sick, it's been a week and I'm just now recovering. That's WITH Paxlovid. And my youngest son, who did a good job of isolating in his room, masking and washing hands, still ended up getting COVID while his brother and I were at the tail end of recovering (in isolation in my room).
I had gone 3 1/2 years being so careful and this was probably the first big contact event I went to where I dropped my guard. Worse was I was trying to schedule my booster but this month was full up busy.
Not anymore. Masking at big events from here forward. Getting my booster ASAP. And no more crawling around in corn kernel pits for me.
@NerdRage42 I'm a bit like you. I am maybe a little less cautious, but still more cautious than most. And I lasted 3+ years until a single small professional event where I spoke without a mask, and I got my first infection. I recovered fully, but it was several weeks of profound fatigue and other symptoms.
I hope you get well soon!
Reporting of deaths and hospitalization has been stopped in much of the nation. They are not valid signals.
The transmission data I cited comes from COVID in wastewater, which remains the best way to track COVID now. You can track this via biobot or the CDC website.
Your worldview needs to be updated to stop paying attention to bad data & to be more aware of the hundreds of studies that show COVID isn't a mild illness but causes risks of Long COVID and chronic damage to health.
@0daystolive I'd prefer you do your work rather than sniping at people doing the work for you, but...
COVID in wastewater:
https://biobot.io/data/
Positive rate tracking:
https://www.walgreens.com/healthcare-solutions/covid-19-index
CDC data on wastewater/ positive rate:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#wastewater-surveillance
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_testpositivity_00
A good site that interprets this data:
http://pmc19.com/data/
300+ studies on how COVID can damage hearts, brains, reproductive, immune systems, etc. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/edit?usp=sharing
I trust you'll update your worldview.
@0daystolive Sorry, where did I say everyone should lock themselves away in a protective bubble? I block people who create strawman arguments about COVID when my guidance to people is always to make smarter decisions and tradeoffs.
Also, to be clear (since you obviously only care about your POV and didn't spend any time with the link to studies I provided) the damage chronic COVID causes to brains, hearts, and other organs can be independent of Long COVID.
And yes, you're sniping.