Current Events > COVID levels are so high, they're hovering near 2020's initial peak

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Unless you are wearing N95s, masking doesn't do shit. Even the government admitted to that long after.

I already had it for the second time.

I thought the pandemic was over. I never see any news about covid just like a small blurb. The pandemic is over move on with your lives. And I am not just saying it is over the President himself said it and as far as I am concerned that is all I need to hear.

I'll be returning to masking up indors after seeing this.

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Technically but the effectiveness is so minor. I first got COVID while me and my supervisor were wearing masks. Caught it from him.

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I didn't say you were the only one saying it was a problem. The numbers don't lie. Covid is still here. You're preaching to the choir my friend. I lost both of my parents 22 days apart to Covid during it's height, so you don't have to preach to me that is still a "problem".

Everyone should be masked up in public. Full stop.

That's the thing. You're suggesting solutions that would be near impossible to implement. All you can do is set guidelines and hope as many people as possible adhere to them.

chaos_knight posted...

Unless you are wearing N95s, masking doesn't do shit. Even the government admitted to that long after.

Still at it with the misinformation huh

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I said at the beginning of the pandemic that I wasn't going to let peer pressure dictate whether or not I masked up, and for about three years I held firm to that; For all but the first month of the pandemic I was the only person in my office who masked up, to the point where most of my coworkers didn't know what the lower half of my face looked like. I stopped wearing the mask at work about two weeks after I got the bivalent booster last year; coincidentally that was the same day that Hurricane Ian hit, so we were without power for a week in Floridian late summer weather. I couldn't hack wearing one of those while doing physical labor with no AC in Florida, and after that ordeal was over I decided that I was as protected as I could get, so I finally said fuck it and dropped my guard at work at least.

Anyway, as to the whole 'peer pressure' thing, while I haven't faltered on masking up in public outside of work, I have to admit that a few months ago it was really starting to feel uncomfortable being the only person wearing a mask while shopping. I'm lucky in that I've gone the whole pandemic without my mask making me a target for a redneck with a bone to pick, and it really started to sink in that my luck is running out on that front. The current wave reinforced my motivation to stay masked up in public, but after I get the next shot and once this wave dies down, I might end up dropping it in public as well. You can only fight a losing battle for so long before it starts weighing too heavy on you.

Will_VIII posted...

Still at it with the misinformation huh

Not really. Misinformation is calling me a MAGA.

chaos_knight posted...

Not really. Misinformation is calling me a MAGA.

You aren't fooling anyone

I stay inside virtually all day because I work from home. No need for a mask

Will_VIII posted...

You aren't fooling anyone

Cool. You are going the SaikyoStyle or Tony Kojima route. Imma pass.

chaos_knight posted...

Cool. You are going the SaikyoStyle or Tony Kojima route. Imma pass.

It's like you're surprised people are familiar with an earned reputation.

chaos_knight posted...

Technically but the effectiveness is so minor. I first got COVID while me and my supervisor were wearing masks. Caught it from him.

Okay but just because you got a concussion wearing a shitty helmet doesn't mean you just say well fuck it no helmet for me. You should wear what you have until you get a better one.

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Sure, we can do that. But it needs to be mandated. Guilting people online isn't going to make people do it.

Will_VIII posted...

It's like you're surprised people are familiar with an earned reputation.

Earned reputation. Ha. I barely post as is. Maybe message me later when your main is out of purgatory, speaking of reputations.

chaos_knight posted...

Earned reputation. Ha. I barely post as is. Maybe message me later when your main is out of purgatory, speaking of reputations.

Weirdly fixated on that

Pikachuchupika posted...

Sure, we can do that. But it needs to be mandated. Guilting people online isn't going to make people do it.

You're absolutely, 100% right. It's one of the chief reasons I don't browbeat or even all that much blame individual people irl who choose not to mask up, even if their refusal does take another chip out of my faith in humanity (well, that and just being a generally non-confrontational person, not gonna lie). And failure to mandate masking / vaccinations remains one of the major failings of the Biden admin, imo.

Will_VIII posted...

Weirdly fixated on that

Not weirdly. You said stupid shit to get yourself into GameFAQs trouble. It's fun you keep getting defensive though.

chaos_knight posted...

Not weirdly. You said stupid shit to get yourself into GameFAQs trouble. It's fun you keep getting defensive though.

It's definitely weird because you've pivoted to it twice now despite it's irrelevance to the discussions.

Will_VIII posted...

It's definitely weird because you've pivoted to it twice now despite it's irrelevance to the discussions.

What relevance? You keep deflecting like you think you owned me at some argument or whatever.

chaos_knight posted...

What relevance? You keep deflecting like you think you owned me at some argument or whatever.

You don't understand what that word even means.

Done with you. You are boring with the Tony Kojima level rebuttals and just fishing for something to mark me over. I'm out.

chaos_knight posted...

Done with you. You are boring with the Tony Kojima level rebuttals and just fishing for something to mark me over. I'm out.

K.

Just going to point out that in response to me calling out your mask misinformation and damage control for Boebert's actions, your response was to comment on my main being in purgatory.

chaos_knight posted...

Unless you are wearing N95s, masking doesn't do shit. Even the government admitted to that long after.

Damn, risking a 10k karma account with blatant misinformation

Calwings posted...

I still wear my mask whenever I go into a crowded place (if I'm just quickly popping into the gas station to grab something and it doesn't look crowded I might leave it behind) and I have appointment for the latest booster scheduled for tomorrow.

Welp, my local Walgreens texted me earlier today and said they cancelled my appointment. I called them to see what happened, and they said "we ran out". On one hand, it sucks that I have to reschedule my appointment to Friday because that's when they said they would get more. But on the other hand, enough people getting vaccinated in my area that "they ran out" is good news... and honestly kind of surprising given the red state I live in.

Calwings posted...

Welp, my local Walgreens texted me earlier today and said they cancelled my appointment. I called them to see what happened, and they said "we ran out". On one hand, it sucks that I have to reschedule my appointment to Friday because that's when they said they would get more. But on the other hand, enough people getting vaccinated in my area that "they ran out" is good news... and honestly kind of surprising given the red state I live in.

I went on Monday to my local CVS and they said they were delaying giving out the new booster because there was a delay in billing and a lot of insurances aren't covering it yet.

bigblu89 posted...

I went on Monday to my local CVS and they said they were delaying giving out the new booster because there was a delay in billing and a lot of insurances aren't covering it yet.

I don't know if it depends on where you live, where you get them, or something else, but they were always free for me. I never paid a dime for the original vaccine or any of the boosters since.

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We don't treat politicians like gods. Only the MAGA party does that.

Hopefully most people have a base immunity to covid now. I imagine the majority of the population have caught it at some point and have also been vaccinated. Its still dangerous and people should get their boosters and self isolate if ill but Id say that regardless of if its covid or anything thats highly infectious.

Calwings posted...

I don't know if it depends on where you live, where you get them, or something else, but they were always free for me. I never paid a dime for the original vaccine or any of the boosters since.

I haven't either, but I usually go to urgent care where they offer them for free.

I'm not sure if the local pharmacies do them for free. I just happen to be there picking up a prescription and asked about the,

Gee people on CE being wildly aggressive towards other users about lackluster preventative measures is sure helpful

pinky0926 posted...

Gee people on CE being wildly aggressive towards other users about lackluster preventative measures is sure helpful

What post is this in response to? I cba to read through 9 pages of posts.

SHRlKE posted...

What post is this in response to? I cba to read through 9 pages of posts.

Basic formula is this:

Ceman 1: is covid still something we need to be actively vigilant aboutl? people don't seem to be wearing masks and I'm out of the loop
Ceman 2: shut the fuck up you qanon piece of shit

pinky0926 posted...

Basic formula is this:

Ceman 1: is covid still something we need to be actively vigilant aboutl? people don't seem to be wearing masks and I'm out of the loop
Ceman 2: shut the fuck up you qanon piece of shit

yeah thats not going to help anyone.

SHRlKE posted...

What post is this in response to? I cba to read through 9 pages of posts.

You have 10 posts per page?

Why?

What comes next?

I dunno why this is an argument at this point, this shit gives me a headache. Everyone has their lines drawn at this point, no one is changing them outside of personal tragedy if we're being honest. Yes, that sucks for literally everyone involved no matter how much we wish it didn't.

Personally, I still mask, but... I'm tired of that fight, and we're not going to change anyone's mind after the gov basically gave the "all clear" to not mask. All we can do is hope everyone stays as safe as they can.

Good, maybe this can stop companies from forcing us back into the office.

Free at-home COVID-19 tests starting on Monday, September 25, 2023.

https://special.usps.com/testkits

Someone might want to post a topic on this when the time comes. :)

BadKarma_JT posted...

Good, maybe this can stop companies from forcing us back into the office.

We can wish, but how else will they dictate our lives for those hours. Monitoring how many clicks your doing on a computer isn't anywhere near as menacing.

BadKarma_JT posted...

Good, maybe this can stop companies from forcing us back into the office.

haha, no

the only way that'll ever happen is if the CDC imposes more strict restrictions again which is very unlikely, since the corporations basically control everything at this point.

luckily I live in MA and from what I've heard the state health department has actually recommended doing covid tests for any new admissions(for nursing homes. I think hospitals have still always been doing them) and masks for anyone who may have been in contact with someone who had covid.

they'll probably put out mandatory regulations again within the next month or two depending on how many cases there are

^^^ good care homes are a massive at risk group. If we learn anything from the peak of covid its thats at risk groups need to be protected.

Yawn_Master2 posted...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

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1% death rate. Yea lets cripple the economy again for that. I love inflation, so lets give them another excuse to gouge.

Remember when companies were forced to give out 14 sick days for Covid? Now people are burning through paid time off (assuming their job even has that) so a lot of people are coming to work with asypotomatic or mild Covid so they get paid and/or not fired.

HOON posted...

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1% death rate. Yea lets cripple the economy again for that. I love inflation, so lets give them another excuse to gouge.

It's not even really 1%. About a million of those deaths were before the Omicron variant took over. I remember reading updates in Humble Novice's COVID death counter thread he always had on 261.

HOON posted...

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1% death rate. Yea lets cripple the economy again for that. I love inflation, so lets give them another excuse to gouge.

1% is still a lot of deaths. I imagine we all know 100 people. Thats one of them gone.

Edit: it wasnt too long ago posts like this would get modded and rightly so.

HOON posted...

screenshot for the people in the cheap seats
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/5/6/AAfaUTAAE3DI.png
1% death rate. Yea lets cripple the economy again for that. I love inflation, so lets give them another excuse to gouge.

I mean, everything going on after the COVID pandemic has shown that they don't need a reason to gouge prices any more, so that's a cheap excuse.