Photos from the Vegas Neon Museum.
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Augie Ray
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Semi-retired consultant and advisor on #CustomerExperience (#CX) and Voice of the Customer (#VoC). Former Gartner and Forrester analyst. Politically active to foster a world that has more #equity, respects #diversity, and embraces #progressive causes. Promoting #COVID19 awareness and caution because people, businesses, and the economy will suffer consequences for our failures to limit infections. Milwaukee, WI, US (He/Him)
If you drive 13 miles down a gravel road near Rachel, NV, you can get close to #Area51. When you see this sign, turn around. (Honestly, not worth the trek.)
None of which is to say COVID is over or we don't need to take care. I just think it's important to track real data and research without bias. We were right to worry about COVID trends in 2022 to 2024, but we need to equally feel hopeful about the COVID trends since. Chronic risks remain, and these trends could reverse, but promoting concerning trends while ignoring hopeful trends is catastrophizing, not informing. 2/2
One of the things the last two years of #COVID19 has shown me is that there three kinds of people in social media: Those who ignore COVID, those who catastrophize COVID, and a small number caught in the middle (and know care must be taken but without exaggerating risks and trends.) There were a lot of COVID accounts that shared the red line trends in 2022-24 who now ignore or deny the green line trends in 2024-26. I think facts matter. 1/2
I watched "One Battle After Another" on the flight. Great movie with some truly unlikeable characters.
Another post for the "Air is filtered and safe on planes" people. Not during boarding, it isn't!
A reading of 3805 is terrible!
I try to have faith in humanity, and then I read something like this and feel it's time to give up.
My spreadsheet of the longer-term complications associated with #COVID19 infections has reached 3,470 studies. I will be taking a week off for a trip.
If you're interested, here is the link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/edit?usp=sharing
We say flu season is over every year, even though the flu returns 9 months later. No one picks a fight with someone for saying flu season is over.
COVID certainly is not like flu as of yet. It circulates at a higher level during lulls, and it still surges 2x a year. I'm not arguing that COVID is gone.
But, if we're going to keep saying "the COVID pandemic is ongoing," we should have some idea of a definition for when we will say it is. Pandemics do NOT last forever.
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