Early covid aware people, the ones who looked for themselves, who accepted the grim reality unfolding, a lot of us knew pretty early, this could be a long time, decades maybe, we buckled up for the long haul (1 As the lies and minimization flooded the news, it didnt fool any of us, it only confirmed what we already knew was in the range of outcomes, “society blowing it for a long ass time” (2

I so badly wanted to believe we are seeing more flu in US hospitals than covid, but then I found the definition for "ILI", or "influenza-like illness", which is spreading to more state health departments, the definition would fit "covid-like illness", cant do that, here's SC DPH MN DPH participating in "influenza-like illness" reporting, coincidentally, the definition is also classical covid-19, low grade fever and sore throat

We’re going through another little lying-phase with covid variantology, XFG is not the new “variant”, singular, there are three, plural, “variants” XFG, XFG.2 and XFG.3 “dominating”, the con is to misrepresent them as one “XFG”, we did this in spring wirh LP.8.1.1 (A NB.1.8.1 got hyped all spring but the variantologists largely whiffed on projections, at least when you are told about this variant, it is a singular “variant” in reporting, unlike the nightmare of XFG which should be named after the dog, “Cerberus” and not the cloud “Stratus” (B

Many of us are observing, and have described, mass covid denial as a result of pandemic negative coping, but maybe a more fitting theory is a: Mass Illusion Of Control (a It’s better fitting because it finds a place for all the layers of rhetorical minimization and a religious-like praise for covid vaccines or population immunity, they all sum to a mental house of cards saying “we have this completely under control” (b

How do you know when most of an entire health department is not educated on covid transmission, and only a few people are "in the know", they take photos like this, outside is not a safe zone Just one example of system failure, @CookCoHealth , lets read your guidance, first this post, NO, you are not doing this ... and then you show how you don't (1

We’re not supposed to be engulfed in SARS-2 now, policy makers gambled on bad information, here’s what the virologists, immunologists, and variant chasers got wrong: evolution, 1) they believe “immune response” is the only variable shaping viral evolution, and transmission and.. The 2)nd thing they get wrong is the corollary assumption “immunity always exists”, their null hypothesis is a wildly false presumption, “always immunity”, which maybe gets justified in snapshots but not in the time dimension on the whole

WHO is clowning us again during rampant covid spread (a Where is it (b

This is an "AA" grade-pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 is "airborne", and uses an "asymptomatic" mode of transmission, the worst of the worst, if we want to exit this pandemic we need to know the enemy, characterize the enemy properly, oh how we corrupt the term... [1 Ohio public health here describes asymptomatic spread, to be digested by a lay public, they wont use the word "asymptomatic" though, because of this SARS-2 feature, covid stays busy in our social circles, "if youre sick, stay home" is weak, the situation is more complex... [2

A diabolical narrative has emerged “we overreacted, we panicked and did things to try to stop covid that really hurt society dearly, from this we should learn to never do those public health measures we did ever again, shame on public health for recommending masks” (A It’s an important gap filler for covid denial-delusion syndrome, because of what hides, if we look at deaths now and long covid now, “oh my god how badly did we screw this up”, we trace through covid impacts to today and realize the impetus to cure covid is omnipresent (B

Here’s the problem, the 30,000 of us who know how bad covid is and can contemplate destruction at scale under this level of contagiousness, puts us in the .01% of society, and the Big Boys aren’t gonna let us lead the way, the covid-edge on this platform is niche-niche (1 The algorithm wall set to keep the “covid wise 30k” at bay and on the fringe, attack every strategy we’d use, attack every piece of data and signal we uncover, paint safety as martial law, paint selectivity as Alcatraz, and paint advocates as germaphobic lunatics (2

A pandemic is like a vertical asymptote, a limiting force, The Slippery Slope Nuke, the covid pandemic, is the slipperiest of slopes, there is no such thing as “covid centrism or covid moderate”, this has always been a ruse position (1 There is no “homeostasis”-phase, endemic phase, because SARS-2s slope is vertical, the widely underestimated contagiousness score, R0, flexes 12-21, 5-7 on any given Sunday, sub 5 is minimization (2

Hospitals in West Virginia are in surge protocols, Children’s Hospital and ED are both slammed, people seeking care might wait a day, not 3 hours (1 The Register Herald is asking patients to “lessen the load” by not going to the ED or urgent care unless or until it gets really bad, catastrophic and obvious acute injury is being prioritized (2

My secret to getting better hepa at my medical appointments: put one in a suitcase and wheel it in. Get in wait room push it to the corner, when called, strut it into the exam room like a new purse, nobody cares, you get that one minute alone, plug it in, done (1 “What’s that” the nurse asks, “a hepa filter”, “…we have one” she points to an objectively insufficiently small unit on a desk, I lightly shrugged, we all know hepa is good and you can’t have too much hepa, and it’s done, out of the way, so we move on (2

There’s nothing in the textbooks for this phase of the pandemic, we were supposed to contain the threat. If this was a movie, we’re in the doomsdays foreshadow ending where the global map goes red and the credits roll, the movie where the virus wins [1] The movies taught us to fear panic, fear civil unrest. But this was overblown. The scenes missing from the movie—the real social monster to fear—is the *indifference*, the “living with covid”, the shifting of excess mortality to standard mortality [2]

When the vaccines were shown to not stop transmission, vaccine-only said they still stop transmission pretty good (1) When covid deaths in the vaccinated, aka breakthroughs, were their own epidemic, even reached beyond 50% of deaths, vaccine-only said they still stop serious injury and death (2)

"Quarantine" is from the Italian word "quaranta giorni," meaning "forty days." Ships arriving in Venice from areas affected by the plague anchored in isolation for a period of 40 days before passengers and goods were allowed into the city. This is the 14th century (A) The Greek physician Hippocrates, the guy we get the oath from, considered the father of medicine, wrote about the importance of separating the sick from the healthy. The city-state of Athens had laws that mandated the isolation of individuals with contagious diseases (B)

Science dies in a pandemic. Pure-science is discovery, a moving forward. Our response to viruses acting as sunlight on social inequality is expert-cladded gridlock. A clash of ideology, in a fight to maintain the darkness of pre-pandemic status quo. The Urgency of Normal Has anyone shifted positions, in the slightest. Vaccine-first-and-only still doing pandemic of the unvaccinated. Anti-maskers still doing masks don’t work. Anti-lockdowners still slandering isolation and quarantine. Anti-vaxers still blaming shots for the virus’s harms. Gridlock

I’m not a mind-reader, but I like guessing. What it might feel like when I ask them to practice additional safety before we get together so neither of us spreads the novel SARS-CoV-2 to each other? A list: Guess 1: they feel attacked. I must be implying that what they are doing now, choices, conduct, are inadequate. I must be implying a better than thou mentality, it’s like a put down

USA Common law says, in the event of an emergency, or serious bodily harm to another, a bystander has "no duty to rescue" the victim from the harm, subject to some key exceptions and a handful of state's legislation. @POTUS and @VP should be well aware from the law school days (1 One critical exception, which applies to @POTUS is, a rescue cannot be abandoned after an affirmative action is made to perform the rescue. Joe's declaration to "End the Covid Public Health Emergency on May 11th", flies afoul of his duty, public policy, and morality (2

There is a magnificent tragedy to @CDCDirector’s “Community Levels Map”, it’s the “faulty fire alarm effect” we have to correct it. We can’t use political signaling and pretend it’s a public health tool, the green map facilitates it’s own failure by design. Who are the authors Mistake 1) who decided to raise the ceiling for community spread assessment from 100/ to 200/per 100,000 people, essentially doubling the amount of spread allowable. The smoke alarm is desensitized. The morality and judgment behind this, for another day

The bidirectionality of masking shows why we all need to agree to society-wide social contracts. Outward capture: any mask performs a “source control” function, “keep your germs to yourself” like keeping you’re hands to yourself, or keeping your voice down in a movie or church Inward filtration: A well fitted, high filtration mask will offer a degree of “personal protection”, prevention of pathogen *entering the body. We have a shared responsibly, source control and personal protection, the “out and in”, are complementary, putting less burden on PPE