How's everyone holding up this summer? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 days ago by transbyanism@hexbear.net to c/covid@hexbear.net

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Everyone around me is veryyy sick but I've been fine so far wearing my Zimi N95. Sadly have to cohabit with my family and I'm just having relatives come over via plane and go to restaurants... I hope I'll be fine it's very stressful and I wish people took Covid seriously. Got harassed for masking in a hospital by the staff recently.. :/

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[-] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

For my country the wastewater monitoring went to "not detected" in June. Haven't seen that since 2020. The monitoring is now on some summer break so will see come autumn what happens next.

But I feel like we might be getting gaslit somehow and it no longer shows up in the testing or something.

Nobody around me has been sick in some time though so feeling a bit more ok.

[-] transbyanism@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

Might be a lot of asymptomatic cases too. It sucks to not have reliable hard data and only act at this point out of fear of getting infected, people that immediately saw "low cases" and are like "wow its finally over!" are way too optimistic about this and I've seen a push about this in LC spaces

[-] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

True. But those would show in the wastewater still and it has not gone to "no virus" even once in the last 6 years, one summer there was a short lull of "detected, but in small amounts", but it didn't last.

We have a network of testing sites and this going to zero has now happened across the board everywhere in the country.

No reason to assume it's over though. In the summer of 2020 it got completely eradicated from this country and then tourism brought in a new (worse) wave come autumn.