Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦 WILL NOT COMPLYOne in ten US deaths last week were due to pneumonia, flu, or COVID-19.
That's about a 50% higher rate than the CDC's epidemic threshold.
Bottom line: this country is in the midst of a severe respiratory disease epidemic that nobody's talking about.
Krystle the Actor@escott And it continues to spike each winter. It will continue to do so until people are killed off or have reached an effective enough level of herd immunity.
@clearlykrystle It's unnecessary to have so many deaths. Getting vaccinated, staying at home when sick, frequent hand-washing—none of these things are too much to ask.
Or at least, I used to think so.
@escott Yeah, people are way too selfish. Even someone in their families getting it or themselves doesn't necessarily change anything.
Especially now that there ARE vaccines, a lot of people getting it are comparing it to a cold. Meanwhile, people are still dying.
Matthew Burton@clearlykrystle @escott our household is wrapping up eight straight weeks of respiratory viruses right now. Covid was easy compared to the flu, which walloped us. Still not done recovering. The beginning of this was conspicuously timed with the beginning of the school year, with masks no longer required.
@clearlykrystle @matthewburton Every year I tell my friends and employees: the flu isn't a bad cold (I just came off a bad cold, and it sucked, BTW). Nobody who has had influenza ever wants to go through it again.
And they're still discovering chronic sequelae of even mild Covid cases.
Vaccination is free, effective, and painless (or nearly so). It boggles the mind that people resist it.
Exiled New Yorker- Connie@escott You should have seen what happened in the month of November in my husband’s SNF. Influenza tore through it, infecting residents, staff, visitors and I’m sure others they came into contact with.
I was in bed for a week. Some of the staff were hospitalized. Most of the residents were better off than us because they were swabbed and on Tamiflu as soon as the results got back, thank goodness.
I was in bed for a week. Some of the staff were hospitalized. Most of the residents were better off than us because they were swabbed and on Tamiflu as soon as the results got back, thank goodness.
@Pagan_Activist The SNFs have really taken it on the chin since 2020. Sorry that happened.