Yay! But also, is it? Like i've been seeing a bunch of posts from people excited about how low numbers are, but like the closest monitoring station to me is almost 200 miles away. That's a lot of piss and poop being overlooked when, back in the heyday of monitoring, massive spikes would regularly occur completely out of nowhere and seemingly unrelated to what was happening in neighboring counties.
Pretty bleak that it took this long to go back down to COVID levels from 5 years ago. I think that future generations will look back on this time the same way we look at the leaded gasoline generations, thinking “how could they let themselves breathe this stuff?”
It’s almost closer to WWI in my head where future generations will be flabbergasted at how our “leaders” completely spiked the ball
15 days, 2240 days, on a cosmic scale it's basically the same thing when you think about it.
I try not to! 
I'm going to wait for the official pod (Death Panel) to tell me what to think about this
I thought excess mortality rates were still high too
Pretty much, yeah.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/death-rate
Ngl. Lot of optimistic leaps being made off of what is essentially a lull.
Like, nothing about this screams "Covid is going away" to me.
(Edit: and again, I really gotta emphasize, the data quality being used to make the estimates for the last 4 years are of dramatically less quality than that used for the estimates of 2021 and 2022.)
Imo, the variant churn from Memorial day weekend travel is typically what kicks off the summer surge, so I guess we'll see how that goes. Maybe high prices will tamper things.🤞
this lull, if accurate, is as good a time as any for me to run and schedule a dentist appointment for the first time in years, wish me luck x_x
Heard. Definitely check what's going down in your area first; The more zoomed out these graphs get, the much less they can be trusted to be representative of what's happening locally.
https://data.wastewaterscan.org/
Also, don't sleep on what precautions you may be able to take. Things like readimasks over the nose, bringing your own air filter, and asking them to use respirators rather than surgical masks, can help lower the risks.
Good luck!
Cool, I remember years back seeing the estimation that it might be gone by 2030 so maybe we're on schedule.
and all I had to do to get through it was get it twice that I know of and push all possibility of the potential for a Post-Covid Syndrome type recurrence out of my brain 
I guess we can watch this go endemic. A true, historic failure of capitalism that future generations will hopefully learn from.
line go.. down?
From my local wastewater it looks like a drop like there's been every year after a wave. Just a sharper drop than last spring, but covid still present.
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I thought I saw the hospitalization rate climb recently. I'll try to check.
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