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I find this article weird, I can't think of anyone I know who currently has COVID, and despite the fact most people are going around maskless things seem pretty quiet on the viral front. This makes it seem like just everyone has COVID. I realize numbers are going back up but I don't think it's quite like they make it out?
I will still be masking until the dawn of time and am at six shots and counting. I absolutely do not understand why anyone stopped masking.
contrastly I know at least a handful of people in the last couple months that have had it
I work in a hospital. We have a scattered handful of people who are there for something else and also have a mild case of COVID, but nobody unvaccinated on a vent or ECMO or anything.
It's not that surprising. "Only" about 0.2 % - 2 % get infected per week (depending on where you are), so there got to be some people who don't know anyone who got it recently.
Yep knew some ppl who had it last month but I don't know any one with it lately
I did read that the CDC says 1990 people died of COVID in July. But I just feel like it's pretty quiescent. Idk maybe just us.
Wasn't it closer to 2,000 per day during 2020?
I'm not sure.
They have COVID, they have the normal COVID symptons just people are not crazy about it