“People I know are yet again talking about sudden health problems:
Hearing loss. Loss of smell. Movement issues. New onset asthma. Heart conditions. Clots in the legs. Zero connection being made to COVID.
The only thing public health succeeded at is covering their own ass.”
“So one can only conclude that the CDC purposefully redesigned their COVID graphic to downplay the severity and reduce attention paid to the —by far— number one cause of death by infectious disease.
Why? What purpose does this suppression serve?”
The CDC dropped the darkest colors and went from 10 levels of wastewater viral activity to 5.
Making the map look MUCH MORE APPEALING.
This change was made with zero announcement, AGAIN, between September 4th and today.
“We haven’t seen a widely distributed virus in recent human history that has had this property.”
“I don’t think the majority of scientists who were looking at this early in 2020 or at the end of 2019 expected that, four years later, we’d be dealing with unrelenting waves of variants, which are immune evasive…
…We haven’t seen a widely distributed virus in recent human history that has had this property.”
“Covid-19 was presented as a one and done infection, that ‘only’ killed the vulnerable, that didn’t harm kids, that was spread by droplets not air. That vaccines would prevent. Now NONE of the above are true, we are floundering in denial with no plan. Covid is not over.”
“I genuinely thought there might be a momentary lull between the summer and autumn waves this year here. But no. There's tons of infections around, and XEC (which seems to be able to reinfect due to the T22N mutation on the spike, growth below) is not hanging around.”
News from yesterday's work call:
A former manager died on a plane, age 57.
A team in Europe lost 3 people over the summer, 2 from heart attacks and 1 from cancer. All under 60.
Other team members were annoyed that it left them with extra work. 😑
Cryptosporidiosis was one of the original AIDS-defining conditions.
This chart overlays Covid surges and cryptosporidiosis.
September 2, 2024 Covid levels
Overall, fewer than 20% of COVID-19 deaths are being reported in these public places in all provinces (a bit higher in Quebec in fall/winter season, but not much).
Provinces are only reporting 20% of COVID deaths, that would mean that Alberta's 735 deaths in the last 12 months is actually around 3675. Which would be by far the #1 cause of death.
US record-keeping is similarly limited/skewed
She’s on day 4 of covid & says:
“I had a lot of errands to run. I didn’t wear a mask—when I have covid, I can’t breathe worth a flip as it is… it’s not like I’m in anybody’s face, breathing all over them. Bash me if you want, but I’m not wearing a mask when I’m sick like this.”
translation/analysis thread on German Long Covid video which equates it with MECFS and calls ME “the most serious form of long covid.”
“currently it looks like an autoimmune disease where something has gone wrong with the vasculature, and both the mitochondrial dynamics and glycolytic metabolism are disturbed.
There are at least 500k patients in Germany.”
