Current Events > Does no one give a shit about covid anymore?

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I mentioned last week my sister went to my brothers house and when she came round mine after said she knew he had covid and went round anyway.

Well now we have a family get together tonight and hes going but says hes tested and is clear. But his wife is going who is Ill but they cant test. Its pretty obvious its fucking covid but they are going anyway. Then my mum messages dont worry I have a cold as well.

Just pisses me off. I have so much important work next week out of the office and cant afford to be Ill and everyone acting like this is going to be a chicken pox party.

Does no one care about protecting others anymore? Or is the FOMO brain virus making people do stupid things?

People just think it's a common flu now.

I got the updated booster shot a few weeks ago.

Id expect people to isolate if they had the fucking flu as well tbh.

CableZL posted...

I got the updated booster shot a few weeks ago.

Are you in the Us? Did you have to pay? I dont think Im eligible in the UK as Im not in an at risk group.

Why can't his wife test?

Make the best decision for you and the protection of others, TC

punkfanalways posted...

Are you in the Us? Did you have to pay? I dont think Im eligible in the UK as Im not in an at risk group.

I am in the US and I did not have to pay.

I work in an ER. (In a red state.) Anytime a patient tests positive for COVID, I have to put on a pink Daisy Duck mask and a nightgown to go and talk to them about their medication history. We've had so many COVID patients that we've actually run out of disposable isolation signs. Now, they're taping printer paper to the doors and writing COVID isolation warnings with a marker.

I don't what to say. Thanks antivaxxers for keeping the electricity on in my house?

Had a friend of the family who went to a funeral in Arizona. Her family there is very anti-vax. She came back home and came down with covid and gave it to her husband. Then she had a stroke, and then they found a hole in her heart (not sure this was covid related?).

FortuneCookie posted...

I work in an ER. (In a red state.) Anytime a patient tests positive for COVID, I have to put on a pink Daisy Duck mask and a nightgown to go and talk to them about their medication history. We've had so many COVID patients that we've actually run out of disposable isolation signs. Now, they're taping printer paper to the doors and writing COVID isolation warnings with a marker.

I don't what to say. Thanks antivaxxers for keeping the electricity on in my house?

Its not even anti vaxxers to blame. The people Im talking about have been triple jabbed.

Hardly anybody cares anymore. My son had it recently and called his work the day he tested positive. They asked if he was coming in...

I feel like people that went too extreme and made it seem like it was like super deadly to the average person kinda just made us not care after all the restrictions were lifted.

My cousin had covid for almost 2 weeks recently and only took 3 days off from work cause he had that much vacation time left and then went to work the rest of it. Dont know if he was wearing a mask at work or not, but it was incredibly dumb of him.

At my nursing job we had a few cases, but none of the other residents were tested, but at least staff had to wear masks for around 10 days.

People are selfish and really dont care.

I got the updated booster a couple weeks ago for free from my city health department. Even got the free covid tests mailed to me around that time.

Good news. I got them to both test themselves and they are both negative. Still irks me i need to press the issue.

how accurate are those test?
I don't go out and my sister was sick and tested negative

then i just happen to get sick and tested positive but this was like a few days later.

I don't know about other countries but I will say in the US, especially in the southeast, very few care, you will see the occassional mask and the folks wearing them look healthy so I assume they are being cognizant of those around them, but on the whole, it seems like no one cares. I attribute it to two things, one we live in a very selfish society, especially in America and I think their is an overall lack of understanding or knowledge about the risks and negative aspects of disease for most people because, again, especially in America, there are ton of willfully ignorant people.

Corbenik posted...

I feel like people that went too extreme and made it seem like it was like super deadly to the average person kinda just made us not care after all the restrictions were lifted.

It *is* super deadly. It's just that the average person isn't smart enough to understand that even the most extreme pandemics in history, of which Covid is absolutely on the list (in the top 5, in fact), don't have 90% mortality or something. Sort of a "but real life isn't like my movies!?!?!" affair where people cannot comprehend that pandemics are deadly because of the large numbers at play and not because they in particular are a dead person walking the second that they contract the disease.

If anything I worry about something worse coming along now some day and it getting the same treatment or even more laissez faire.

HudGard posted...

If anything I worry about something worse coming along now some day and it getting the same treatment or even more laissez faire.

This tbh

Now I'm not even worried about hurricanes in Los Angeles since they really blew that shit up. We had regular storms worse than that.

HudGard posted...

If anything I worry about something worse coming along now some day and it getting the same treatment or even more laissez faire.

You can look into the bacteria that is immune to basically all of our (and in one case, all of them) anti-bacterial medications. We already have the "something worse that no one actually gives a crap about."

Lmao they didnt check the test properly . It was positive. Ffs.

I finally got covid in September. Luckily it wasn't that bad. I thought it was a cold up until I was almost negative anyway.

Got the flu and covid boosters a couple of weeks ago.

I was supposed to go to a concert last night but the artist and his entire crew got covid so they postponed it.

Half the patients I saw during the height of delta variant deaths after vaccines were available still didn't give a shit about it

until I put them on a ventilator

at least two people asked me if they could have a vaccine before they were intubated, one later died.

One of many reasons I walked away from clinical practice: the worst part of medicine, any doctor will tell you, is the patients.

My sister's is wedding is tomorrow and the rehearsal is tonight. I can't not go obviously. I'm nervous to be honest. Our Dad's side of the family are mostly dumb rednecks.

punkfanalways posted...

Or is the FOMO brain virus making people do stupid things?

This has been the issue from the start. Ive been saying from the beginning that COVID was the perfect time to learn how to deal with not being able to go out. Learning new hobbies and how to be content with staying in.

Of course rather than do that, people would rather bitch and moan about muh rights and muh freedom!

I just assume all get togethers are COVID parties

ellis123 posted...

You can look into the bacteria that is immune to basically all of our (and in one case, all of them) anti-bacterial medications. We already have the "something worse that no one actually gives a crap about."

The scary part is the adaption and sharing can be so quick. Because it exists, it can be shared.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/31b5501b.jpg

93,000 people all packed together.

No, they don't give a shit about Covid.

Covid is just hear to stay. It's like the cold and flu every year. Expect to catch every single one now forever. Easier to just come to terms and accept it

Got my up to date shot yesterday.

CableZL posted...

I got the updated booster shot a few weeks ago.

And, I didnt have to pay, but I have insurance.

What would yall have people do? Stay shut up in their homes for the rest of their lives? Covid is never going away. Get vaxxed and go on about your business.

Akuryu posted...

What would yall have people do? Stay shut up in their homes for the rest of their lives? Covid is never going away. Get vaxxed and go on about your business.

This isn't about covid. It's just common decency. If you're ill and you know it don't go out spreading it. I'd say the same thing regardless of if we were talking about Covid, the flu or an STD.

wackyteen posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/31b5501b.jpg

93,000 people all packed together.

No, they don't give a shit about Covid.

The horror.

Its not going away, as people said before, its going to be like the flu now. I think basically everyone will get it sooner or later.

The original 2020 version was also deadlier. The newer variants became more spreadable, but less serious.

I had it for the first time last month. It was weird, definitely feels different from a regular cold. I had a headache and it was slightly harder to breathe. The second morning with symptoms, I felt a but sick like I was going to throw up. I was of after sleeping. I had a bit of a cough, but didnt lose taste/smell.

I still see the random person wearing a mask. For whatever reason it's almost always a younger black female.

punkfanalways posted...

This isn't about covid. It's just common decency. If you're ill and you know it don't go out spreading it. I'd say the same thing regardless of if we were talking about Covid, the flu or an STD.

Thats nice and all but people still have mandatory shit to do and bills to pay regardless. so you can mock and shame them as much as you want, none of it will change a thing in said regard. Assuming they even care.

I need to give a shit because wifey is immunocompromised and even though we're both multi-vaxxed, if she caught it -- from me or anyone else -- she could be severely ill and take a long time to recover (if she's lucky). So we have to live our lives, take the same precautions, pretty much as if it was still 2020, while nevertheless trying to function as normal people out there in the world. It's a difficult balance to achieve.

If she caught Covid from someone who was knowingly Covid-positive but didn't give a shit that they were infecting others, and the worst happened to her... Let's just say I would blame that person.

I don't know the official numbers but Covid is just not as severe anymore. Its rare that we see someone in the ICU purely for COVID pneumonia and nothing else contributing - out of the ones we do they are usually immunocompromised or they've never actually gotten it and never been vaccinated. Enough people have been vaccinated (multiple times) and have had it (multiple times) that heard immunity is likely taking effect. This is an expected progression of virus, this is what we thought would happen. The exception is if there happens to be tough strains any given year where the previous exposures/vaccines just aren't as effective. It will similar to flu in that there are ups and down years. Tbh if someone gets covid at we're evaluating them in the ICU, we look for other causes of low oxygen before pinning it on covid. Maybe I'm biased because I'm in california where 85% of people have received at least 1 shot, and where I work that number is probably higher, based on the assumption that people in central valley are probably less likely to be vaccinated.

I just searched the numbers to confirm my own observations:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
As of the last 90 days, deaths in the US are 0.08 per 100,000 people. In California its 0.06 where 74% of people are fully vaccinated (at least 2 shots). Worldometers describes 0.5 deaths per 1mil in the US.
https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/
In california at least we have 0.03 deaths per 100,000 from mid august to mid october, with 0.4 per 100,000 hospitalization rate. And tbh most rapid tests are not reported and alot of people with mild symptoms aren't even bothering checking anymore.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
Flu deaths appear also to be 0.06 per 100,000.

I'm not saying covid doesn't matter anymore, but it really is becoming more similar to flu as time goes on. Its not the same beast it was early on. Source: I was an ICU doctor in the trenches from the beginning of covid.

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Omicron is a hell of a lot more mild than Delta on average. This has been proven.

punkfanalways posted...

Id expect people to isolate if they had the fucking flu as well tbh.

Ive heard people say that my whole life. If you have the flu, dont fucking bring it to work. I figured it was normal etiquette.

I spent nearly 2 years really scared of it

At some point it becomes better to just not think about it

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It is a well known, and studied fact that viruses become less deadly over time.

Well then, I stand corrected.