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.
Karoli@escott it would be awesome if people would deign to wear masks indoors. I don’t understand the resistance to it.
@karoli After nearly three years, I get the reluctance. Masks are a minor annoyance, sure. But really: how hard is it for people to take 15 minutes every six months or so to get a booster vaccine?!
@escott honestly, no one has been wearing masks for the last 6 months. I’ve gotten all the vaccines and wear a mask indoors. It’s not that inconvenient. Compared, that is, to long COVID or blood clots or worse.
@karoli I only stopped routinely wearing masks a few months ago (I still wear them in crowded spaces [in theory—in practice I avoid crowded spaces like the. . . well you know], healthcare settings, airplanes, etc.). But I wore one the past two weeks because I had a cold.
But I live in a place where people absolutely refused to mask even at the peak of the pandemic. And I'm still pretty pissed about it.