Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusFeb 3, 2023
Periodic reminder that we are not anything like "post"-pandemic. We are mid-pandemic; Peri-pandemic; Right smack dab in the fucking middle of a goddam pandemic and no amount of squeezing our eyes shut and plugging our ears and going "la la la it's not real" while wishing it were otherwise will make it so.
Show threadDr. Damien P. Williams, MagusFeb 5, 2023

Other periodic reminder that the idea that COVID is "only" killing 500 people a day— like a 9/11 every [six days] is "acceptable" somehow— is generally agreed to be a gross undercount: https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2023/covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-continue-to-be-undercounted-research-shows-despite-claims-of-overcounts/

Did you know people are still misidentifying or even intentionally mislabeling cause of death wgen COVID is concerned? And that the lack of widespread free testing in official centers where results get recorded and tallied only makes that worse? And that doing things like ending the access to free AT-HOME kits will make that EVEN WORSE?

Because that should like… obvious, no?

Putting on heavy rubber gloves and boots and telling everyone the electric fence is perfectly safe; putting on suglasses at high noon and saying it's dark outside.

*Deep breath interlude*

Stuff's not over. And pretending it is and intentionally making it harder to know for sure for the sake of political expedience will only ensure we're stuck in it LONGER.

COVID-19 Deaths in the US Continue to Be Undercounted, Despite Claims of ‘Overcounts’

Following recent claims within the public health community that US COVID death counts are overestimates, Andrew Stokes and Dielle Lundberg present new excess mortality data in a commentary in The Conversation, revealing the opposite.

Show threadisotope239 🥸💻📚 🇺🇦
@Wolven I've never understood the massive mismanagement of testing throughout the pandemic. It wouldn't be that difficult to set up a database for each state that allowed folks to enter their self-test results, just as an example. The NM DOH has done an excellent job of vaccinating people, but they've done little to track testing results which is baffling. Allowing people to formally submit their self-tests wouldn't be perfect by any means, but it'd give a clearer picture of what's going on.
Feb 5, 2023 at 1:46pmWeb
Show threadisotope239 🥸💻📚 🇺🇦Feb 5, 2023
@Wolven And don't get me started on masking, it's easy to do, reduces risk for you and others, and is simply the practical thing to do. In the US, at least, not wearing a mask in public is pure laziness. I went through DFW airport yesterday and while there were quite a few people masking, a great many of them were wearing surgical masks below their chin. Is there some magical thinking that if the mask is just on your face somewhere it wards off the virus like a charmed amulet?