While the data might be incomplete…
There isn’t reports on all the cases anymore….
Some people get sick and don’t tell anyone because of home tests….
And officals and Americans are wary of virus ‘fatigue’….
And politican’s of political and economic impacts…
Covid-19 is surging around the United States again in what experts consider the most transmissible variant of the pandemic yet.
But something is different this time: The public health authorities are holding back.
In Chicago, where the county’s Covid warning level was raised to “high” last week, the city’s top doctor said there was no reason for residents to let the virus control their lives. The state health director in Louisiana likened a new rise in Covid cases there to a downpour — “a surge within a surge” — but characterized the situation as concerning but not alarming.
And the public health officer in King County, Wash., Dr. Jeffrey Duchin, said on Thursday that officials were discussing reissuing a mask mandate but would prefer that the public mask up voluntarily. “We’re not going to be able to have infinite series of mandates forcing people to do this, that and the other,” he said.
The latest surge, driven by a spike of BA.5 subvariant cases in this country since May, has sent infections rising in at least 40 states, particularly in the Great Plains, West and South. Hospitalizations have climbed by 20 percent in the last two weeks, leaving more than 40,000 people in American hospitals with the coronavirus on an average day.
More than two years after the pandemic began, though, public health officials are sounding only quiet warnings amid a picture that they hope has been changed by vaccines, treatments and rising immunity. Deaths are rising, but only modestly so far in this new wave. And state and local public health officials say they also must now factor in a reality that is obvious along the streets from Seattle to New York City: Most Americans are meeting a new Covid wave with a collective shrug, shunning masks, joining crowds indoors and moving on from the endless barrage of virus warnings of months past….
Dr. Fauci said total Control vid is here to stay.
Stay vaccinated and wear a mask if you want.
The American people are implicitly saying that we are ok with hundreds of thousand getting infected and 50000-100000 deaths a year.
These weekly reports of yours are just taking up space.
No one cares anymore.
In fact some of us do…..
But like i said…
Politics, Economic’s and Fatigue ARE factors…
Lucky the numbers are nowhere near the past two Years…..
There are actually OVER 200,000 virus’s out there right now….
Scientists will be out with new vaccines, or this strain will burn itself out like the others have….
And then?
There will be something else……
From the article…
“Most Americans are meeting a new Covid wave with a collective shrug…”
I reiterate my points above.
The American people are now accepting of certain effects of Covid.Waves? What’s new? There’s a new “wave ” every few months.
Are people going to continue to be hospitalized?Yes
Are people going to continue to die? Yes
What’s amusing about your new found “caring?” Is that at the height of the pandemic you took asanguine view of the whole thing.I well remember your refusal to verify your vaccination status, idiotic suggestions that. Vaccine was on the way in that would essentially end the whole thing and breathless “reports of every insignificant downturns in the “number “ of cases even when those making the reports conceded that they knew such were subject to inaccuracies.
Now?You “care?”
That’s nice.
I anxiously await next weeks “report!”
I ALWAYS’ cared……
Still do……
What has happened is that fatigue has taken over….
In addition?
The vaccine rate has climbed….
A good thing….
But I said it would never get to be above a certain percentage and it hasn’t….
Some people just are gonna gamble against common sense…..
We’re lucky the current upswing is nowhere near the highs of before….
Covid
There IS Definitely another Covid wave upon us…
Well we were told to “live with Covid.”
That’s what’s going on.
There has been way way too much bad info put out about this.Im not blaming Fauci or anyone ,unlike the Right Wingers ,as this is a new disease and there have been so many unknowns.However,that’s the simple fact.
Accordingly, it is not surprising that people are simply going about their lives.
I repeat ,the American people have now made the collective decision to “ live” with this disease and accept the consequences of such ,including hospitalizations and deaths ,often at higher levels.
“Waves?” Yeah, so?
Changes nothing.