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for example:

  • any rise in wastewater data where you live
  • any sudden deluge of friends/family getting sick
  • etc
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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

its become a pain in the cock to get a fucking shot. past years we just rolled into the public health office, now its fully privatised and fenced off so the health tyrants can get their bags. kind-vladimir-ilyich

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Lotta people sick, lotta people talking about running in to a lot of sick people. Me? I don't give a shit anymore. I made a deal with Nurgle and in exchange for hosting his fetid diseases I am immune to pain and hunger forever more.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Several of the undergrads in my lab have had covid recently, the grad students and staff have managed to avoid it though. One of my professors caught it from their kid who got it from school.

I have a box fan taped to a bunch of MERV13 air filters next to my desk to hopefully keep the amount of virus in the lab pretty low. I also use covixyl nasal spray and actually wear a mask in obvious situations like on the bus.

[-] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

How effective are the nasal sprays, how often do you reapply it, and how long does it last?

Study I read said it reduces risk of infection by about 66%. Lasts 6 hours, I usually just do it before I go into work but I work strange hours, you’d probably want to reapply if you work a normal 8 hour day

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spouse is an RN and thinks she got covid at work a couple of weeks ago thanks to some unmasked pigs she was forced to spend a lot of time with. Many people around here seem sick but wastewater levels are still quite low.

Two weeks ago at my kids’ soccer game I overheard adults asking: “how are ya avoidin’ this terrible cold that’s goin’ around?” Hundreds of people were present and maybe five were masked (including my family). I’ve been avoiding people generally since the pandemic began but lately I’ve been forced back into society. It’s sometimes amazing to overhear people’s conversations. All of them are frequently discussing societal collapse without ever connecting the dots.

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[-] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wastewater seems to be trending up, but it has been hard to tell since they changed their charts to logaritmic and the testing method to something that is supposedly more sensitive. So it's no longer comparable to say last year.

But regardless of the minimizing efforts, there is an upward trend currently where I live.

Lots of people sick around me atm. But that seems to happen once a month now during the school year.

[-] Sandinband@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Tons of people I work with are sick and still coming in while claiming they feel like they're dying. It usually lasts 1-2 weeks.

[-] Sandinband@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Also we work in a virology lab and have masks available and half refuse to wear them when not doing lab work angery

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

None of the staff at my local hospital wears masks anymore. Haven't seen a single staff member wearing a mask in several recent visits.

We're in a rural area with low COVID numbers, but it's still incredibly frustrating having my doctor look at me as if I'm weird for wearing a mask.

[-] Sandinband@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

We were literally in the radiation section of a major hospital to talk to the doctor about "my" brother's cancer and the doctor and nurses just let my adoptive parents not wear masks agony-shivering

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

This is the most jokerfying thing ive read all day

[-] Sandinband@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

One of my coworkers reads virology textbooks "for fun" in his spare time and didn't know covid increases your risk for stroke. Every one of my coworkers that I've told that to has been shocked which like it is because they aren't looking into covid but also shows just how shitty the dissemination of info about covid is

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

I know a bunch of people with COVID right now and one of them was in the hospital last week. So I know at least it's still happening

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Wastewater data collection ended in July so no clue.

Anecdotally:

  • Seen a surge of cases mostly among folks in their 40's or older.

  • Jesus Christ is it spreading 'round the pubs again.

  • Buncha them got similar symptoms that I hadn't seen in COVID before this summer (like throwing up frequently and stomach pains).

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I got Covid a couple weeks back and it did make me lose my appetite and I did throw up a couple times, which was unusual for sure

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, I can tell I got it cause it invariably fucks with my hormones and makes me very horny, the flu doesn't do that

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Lmao why is being trans so weird commiku

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah no clue why this happens to me lol, my hormones are usually fine

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I've seen covid likened to aids in its functioning on this site. Part of covid has been bodies attacking themselves, lung tissue for instance. it could be that the covid is somehow targeting either the hormones themselves, or the receptors for them in the body. In which case the lab leak was almost certainly orchestrated by ron desantis.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

yeah idk. usually it goes back to normal after a couple weeks but god damn im annoying to my bf till then

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I bet he loves that blob-help meow-knife-trans

[-] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Every one is getting sick around me, yeah.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fuck. I was using biobot.io for wastewater monitoring. Apparently, that's no longer active as the contract expired.

this-is-fine

As a fun bonus, Flu season should start kicking into the gear in the next weeks. Just gonna hermit mode, nasal spray, and n-95 for the rest of my days.

[-] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

any sudden deluge of friends/family getting sick

yes, though they insist it's a cold/flu and refuse to get tested

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

any sudden deluge of friends/family getting sick

Yes, several people I know got COVID within the past week.

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Recently? No. I have friends and family that work in medicine and teaching, and COVID never really went away. Nobody masks anymore though, so yea yea

[-] gabaghoul@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I've had more friends as first timers in the past week since the beginning.

[-] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

This is a powerful activation codephrase

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[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

People just occasionally getting it has now been completely normalized. Nobody cares. I'm just at the point where I hope Biden and the others who perpetrated this suffer horribly.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Bit of an upswing in my county for sure

[-] WalterBongjammin@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, loads of my friends in different places and their friendship groups have had it recently. I've also had it. There's definitely a lot going around rn

[-] glingorfel@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

we are at the tail end of a big surge, and will likely be in another one in about a month. pls wear respirators wherever you go

[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Seems to be a duo-demic around me, Covid19 and the flu. Most workplaces out here treat covid19 like a mild tummyache, with a catch that if you are positive you must stay away, so if you catch it and are positive you're penalized, since no such thing as sick days and x amount of days missed is an auto-termination. So, people lie about their test results/don't test and take a ton of OTC medicine to mask symptoms best they can, and go in.

Obviously everyone is starting to get sick out here (from strangers I see around town to people at work) and who knows with what, I haven't caught anything yet (knock on every surface) , but it took like 3 weeks for my mail-in covid tests to get here. Next to no one wears masks since its rural, not even doctors, probably since wearing a mask is the fastest way to piss off an angry unhinged chud and there's plenty of those out here (mask related shootings is one of this state's claims to fame and its still a thing). The state lags in tracking and has for the past year or so.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

There is a spike in COVID in the wastewater here in Houston. Luckily I WFH and most of my hobbies involve touching grass, so I believe I have either avoided it or been asymptomatic so far.

[-] Chump@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Haven’t been tracking it where I am in detail, but you definitely see a lot more people wearing masks (esp older folks), and the line for the vaccine in my cvs was longer than I’ve ever seen it (not that long, but they don’t have that many people working in the pharmacy).

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

My mom just caught COVID

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Coworkers in the office are sick all the time. All the time.

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

But it's totally just a cold. A bad cold. Going around. For weeks now.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I'm so fucking bored of working extra because of workmates out sick.

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

There was a spat of people getting sick but it's died down since. It will probably spike again after Thanksgiving.

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Every week there’s another person at work who contracted it

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