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You've no doubt heard that there is "more #Covid transmission today than "x%" (90%) of the #Pandemic."

Here's what that looks like:

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSurge #MassDisabling #LongCovid

#MaskUP with an #N95 or better and Stay Safe!!

a graph showing the SURGES of Covid over the entire pandemic. From the marker of today and under is shaded with only a big spike and 3 very tiny spikes sticking up over the shaded area. 90% below and 10% above today.

@zeroes Followup in case anyone wants to know how it's gone:

She's not going to be able to access Paxlovid or Metformin, because BC Public Health has decided that #MassDisabling events are essentially only risky for the immunocompromised now, and her risk of death to acute COVID-19 doesn't cross their threshold.

She and her household are going to try iota carrageenan nasal sprays if they can get some.

They reaffirmed their other in-house isolation protections are in place (ventilation, purification, isolation, masking). I wish they'd do pressure zones.

She said she'll gargle salt water but she might've been humouring me.

Thanks to everyone who so quickly provided citations.

Hi.

@zeroes suggests we post an #introduction, so here's why I'm here:

In naive earlier times I thought clear data would compel policy solutions.

In slightly later naive times I thought that once the popular media cracked each story, that things would change.

In embarrassingly recent times I thought politicians might see the political and practical advantages of acting in accordance with reality.

But only groups like militaries and actuaries, whose near term survival depends on getting the analysis right, and whose analysis is dissociated from peer pressure, are COVID-conscious in action.

So here we are, knowing #COVIDisAirborne, #CovidIsNotOver, #LongCOVID has a higher #MassDisabling burden than Polio had, and left struggling, yet again, to understand how in light of these truths we might steer society to a less harmful path.

I don't know what to do, but I know that logical conclusions require a basis in fact, and I'm here to try to contribute to the collective effort of figuring it out.

#Introductions
#NewToMastodon
#ProbablyMisusingHashtags

Day 1,255

#Pandemic #SARSCoV2
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #MaskUp

#Aerosols #NewVariants #BringBackMasks #BringBackPCRs #Disabled #MassDisabling

#WeAreNotOK

#VascularDisease #ImmuneSystemDamage #CognitiveIssues #BrainDamage #POTS #MECFS

#Superspreader #MasksWork #AirInSchools #CorsiRosenthal #N95 #KN94

#KidsGetCovidToo

#ExcessDeaths #FromCovid #WithCovid #WeAreOnOurOwn
#EveryoneIsSickOfThis #DenialIsNotSafe #CovidIsNotDoneWithYou