It’s the holidays and everyone is traveling. Get your clickbait headlines outta here.
“Everyone”
about 23% of people participating in a weekly text-message-based survey reported having a cough or shortness of breath for the week that ended Dec. 10
Do editors even exist anymore?
Yes, they are the ones writing the headlines. 99% of what gets published online as news is titled by someone who isn’t the author. The goal of the editor is to sell the piece to the reader, not to speak truth or accuracy.
“Everyone seems to be”
It’s a figure of speech. It doesn’t actually mean everyone. It just means “a lot,” and a quarter of people surveyed is kind of a lot.
Can’t miss an opportunity to Well Acktchually. 23% really is a huge amount
23% in that week in particular, let alone the X% in the week before and after
I hate this figure of speech crap. It’s not a figure of speech, it’s lazy and wrong.
Do you also get annoyed when something not actually cold is called cool? Or if someone doesn’t actually get to a task “in a minute”?
If literally everyone in CA was actually sick, that would have a bigger impact than late-2020 COVID. I’d prefer if language wasn’t catered to the type of person who doesn’t recognize the post title is an exaggeration to convey seriousness.
When it is a news headline, yes, using “cool” wrong is unacceptable. Its a thing called “journalistis standards”.
Wait, they crapped speech in the figure of what?
I mean… this isn’t surprising at this time of year. Many are traveling, in close proximity with one another and we have two holidays relatively close to one another (Thanksgiving and Christmas) that will have many people gather in one place, usually indoors.
It all provides a great environment for things to spread.
Not to mention the large amount of people who come into work sick at this time of year too.
Nationally, COVID-19 remains the primary cause of new respiratory hospitalizations and deaths, resulting in about 1,000 fatalities a week.
1000 deaths a week? This seems like it should be newsworthy no?
people wouldn’t wear masks or 6ft distance when it was the death equivalent of 9/11 (~3000) every day for months
(note this only goes to Dec. 10-16th thus far).
I don’t know. We know covid deaths will ramp up just like flu every season now. But relative to past spikes, 1,000 per week nationally is pretty low.
Only if it was it of the ordinary.
Compared to the ~25,000 weekly deaths in 2021? The world simply decided that it was tired of dealing with COVID restrictions, and that it wouldn’t be worth trying to eradicate it. So we just decided on what an acceptable number of deaths is, and don’t bother reporting on it unless it’s outside of that norm.
If you can capitalize, yes.
They won’t report COVID. They know who signs their paychecks.
Excuse me?
if you look under a microscope you will see covid signing paychecks to keep its evil schemes under wraps
Business signs their paychecks and business does not want to do anything about COVID.
Why did things go differently in 2020, if this conspiracy theory holds any water?
It’s not a “conspiracy theory”, they outright said (over and over and over) that we need to stop COVID lockdowns, masking, etc and “get back to normal” for the sake of the economy. This wasn’t some secret and it was not that long ago! The concern was more about the impact on the economy, on whether the line went up or down, than on human lives. (Random sampling of articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.)
COVID hasn’t gone away and it’s still killing people, even with vaccines. (Sure would help if people would take the vaccines, though.)
The only material difference between now and 2020 is we have some handle on this thing, it’s not completely overwhelming our health care system and it’s better understood in general so we can treat and prevent it better.
(Edit: actually there’s a second material difference. The disease is much deadlier now than it was at the start of this. )
However, there’s also a difference in that three (or four) years have passed. The opposition to measures against COVID has largely won–the people calling the shots decided to join the war on disease on the side of the disease.
We can do this, though! We could do something about it. During the COVID lockdowns we actually (accidentally) wiped out multiple entire strains on the Flu! They’re dropping one of the strains from the Flu shot because it doesn’t exist anymore (in the wild at least). However, i worry it could go the other way as well. If this attitude about COVID takes hold in general we could make disease worse for everyone.
Here’s a long article that talks about this: https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/endemic-sars-cov-2-and-the-death-of-public-health/
It’s all over the place. Here in Texas, too. I’m fully vaccinated, and mask in public, but this has been a tough season for me, as I caught stuff from careless relatives.
The only thing wrong with me is this cough that I’ve had for more than a month and won’t go away
Cancer do be like that.
I know a guy who went to get checked for a respirator as part of a hazardous workplace PPE and found out he had a probably benign 10cm mass in one lung. Never had symptoms until he moved from the southwest to the Midwest and developed a persistent unproductive cough.
Point is that if you have a persistent cough, it might be best to sign up for some medical debt so you know what season of America’s Got Talent you will miss.
everyone in California
about 23% of people participating in a weekly text-message-based survey reported having a cough or shortness of breath for the week that ended Dec. 10
Went in last wk in SF. NP said obscene levels of adults with strep, COVID, RSV, cold, flu, and frequent cases with 2 or more. Shit on the “clickbait headline” but my medical provider said it verbatim…
I had to miss out on a lot of family stuff because I came down with croup or something nasty that developed from rhinovirus/common cold.
Nearly 6 weeks later and I still have some coughing fits. I faired better than many though. Nasal irrigation, vitamins, and saltwater gargling probably helped.
I’m visiting family in the middle plain states and lots of sick ppl here but it’s also just that time of year
