With a million new COVID cases per day in the US, Democrats celebrate their "victory" over COVID at their massive indoor superspreader event with zero mitigations

With a million new COVID cases per day in the US, Democrats celebrate their “victory” over COVID at their massive indoor superspreader event with zero mitigations

            • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml
              4·
              3 months ago

              Lol this is so cringe 😆😆😆 Like, you think I’m Chinese, or possibly an agent of the CCP, and so therefore, all arguments against killing children in Gaza are somehow null and void. Literally everything I’ve ever said about my personal life on this user account could be a lie! What then!?

              And what if Donald Trump said killing children in Gaza is morally unacceptable. Would he also be wrong!?

              Let’s not forget what we are actually talking about: YOU THINK THE US GOVERNMENT’S COMPLICITY IN KILLING GAZAN CHILDREN IS JUSTIFIABLE AND OK and that people like me, who disagree with it, should shut up and vote for the people who have idly stood by and let it happen

                • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml
                  4·
                  3 months ago

                  Because I don’t do what strange people tell me to do on the internet. I’m insane enough to argue with strangers on the internet but I’m not an idiot. It’s all your game to deflect from the fact that YOU THINK KILLING GAZAN CHILDREN WITH US-PROVIDED WEAPONS IS OK AS LONG AS IT’S DONE BY A DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION

                • garpujol@discuss.online
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  Because they pretty much admitted to working for the Chinese government by saying they NOW work in the private sector, suggesting they once did not.

                  My bet is, side gig working from home to pick up extra cash in the evening.

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        The pandemic is over. Now it’s endemic, significantly less lethal, and our own immune systems are better prepared. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take it seriously, but it’s not the same situation we faced in 2020.

        • Australis13@fedia.io
          3·
          3 months ago

          Unfortunately most of the world isn’t even taking it seriously anymore. People treat it like it’s a mild flu or common cold.

          The virus is still producing waves of infection consistent with the pandemic phase of spread rather than the endemic phase and has not moved into a seasonal pattern like the flu or colds. It’s just not publicised in the media. Scientific studies show that Omicron was just as lethal as the original Wuhan strain and the current Omicron subvariants are similar - the virus has not actually gotten less severe as hoped (and in the case of Delta, it actually got more severe; thankfully that lineage did not give rise to the variants we now face).

          The only difference between 2020 and now is that we have vaccines, but people need to keep up to date with the boosters. The efficacy of vaccines to prevent severe illness and hospitalisation wanes quickly, with a recent study showing it can be as low as 50% after four months.

          We also know that the risk of long COVID is cumulative - i.e. it goes up with each infection and the increase in likelihood depends on whether you’re up-to-date with the vaccine (having the most recent booster roughly halves the increase in risk from an infection). A recent study estimated that 400 million people now suffer from long COVID at an annual cost of $1 trillion to the global economy. This will only continue to get worse if people continue to catch COVID every year or two.