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So like…how do you know when and where to wear a mask? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don’t really leave the house that often, mostly to walk the dog, but I don’t then cuz it’s a huge open air space.

I do on the bus because of how confined it is and how many people use/touch it, but besides that I have no idea.

Do you always have to wear a mask in these places? Or just when there is a covid spike?
How do you even know when there is a covid spike for that matter?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

imo, the CDC can lick my BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. We're monitoring far less locations now and they've been so manipulative with their maps that it's criminal. Florida has 67 counties and the CDC has 20 locations spread among 10 of them. They average sites together that are nowhere near each other and then call it good with a MINIMAL.

Meanwhile over on the wastewaterscan.org dashboard...

The high lulls are maintained by spikes occurring in the unmonitored areas, viral spread isn't as simple as each person infects one or two people and that's how lulls are kept as they are. Viral spread needs spikes in order to make up for the people that don't spread. those are then averaged out in the wastwater and give us a "level" lull. There are random spikes occurring in unmonitored areas that people are spreading into the monitored areas.

edit: I really need to figure out how to explain this better. Maybe a with video or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the source! Also, it really is a tragedy how monitoring has been completely gutted so on top of the government providing the conditions for capital to kill all of us, we also can't even attempt to make informed decisions because the information is simply not there. i-love-not-thinking

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome! Yeah, I'm not a happy camper. Especially as the wheels on this crazy ride become more and more wobbly and we find ourselves having to deal with more than just covid. There's a big outbreak of walking pneumonia going on among kids now and I think one of my niblings has it. But hey, could be covid too. Who knows since no one is testing for anything.