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Remember less that a year ago when Covid went from a pandemic to nonexistent?
That was because state governments stopped collecting the data, not because covid went away.
It was also because we have medicine now and Covid isn't swamping the ER with cases. Most people can just take the medicine at home.
Yes. Vaccinated peoples don't tend to need ventilators. As much.
But that's not why numbers stopped being collected. They stopped being collected because of political consequences for reelection for the lack of action elected officials took. So their response was to do less.
I am 2 jabs in and zero covid infections in. Because I'm not a petulant 5 year old, I still wear a mask, and I still social distance.
Can't wait for an incubator to infect me and put me on a ventilator.
The infection rates of COVID are still variable and it hasn't really gone away. The dangers still exist, for the most part. However, I personally think it is going the way of the flu and its almost there.
The biggest danger of COVID was that it was new, there were no vaccines and nobody had an immunity to it. It was a quick killer and nobody knew why, yet
TBH, it's good practice to keep wearing a mask if you want to limit yourself from getting sick. However, I do believe that the risk of death or needing a ventilator has gone down significantly. Post-infection treatments exist and the virus isn't much of a mystery anymore.
I have always tried to socially distance even before it was a thing. (Malls were always an unpleasant experience for me. I can't stand smelling other people as they walk past me...)
My point, is that the risk of being put on a ventilator is much lower even without masks or social distancing. You do you, by all means! It just seems that being as fearful of it is not necessary any more. (It's still a nasty little virus, don't get me wrong.)
IMO, covid has gone the way of leaded water.
Long covid is still a thing.
But some folks don't want help.
Cool, I can wear this mask for years.
They stopped collecting because it is too expensive. Some cities are monitoring virus titer through waste water. Hospitals, etc are not regularly testing or reporting. Source - know the state deputy directory for infectious disease prevention and control. Their department doubled during the pandemic and has now been cut in half. Epidemiologists are expensive, as are national guard personnel used for contact tracing.