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COVID broke public health. You can't even get tested where I live. Nobody has any idea of the prevelance.
I've been saying it's endemic for the whole earth for years. Now it's just another thing to test for (in my area) when people come in for upper respiratory issues along like flu and strep.
its only gets reported in the news, if the new variant is particular severe, like last year, otherwise you never hear about covid. also people around me, dont think it exists anymore, even in a covid-conscisous city.
That's called pandemic
In this case, I'm referring to the baseline or prevalence throughout all of Earth's population. Whereas pandemic is more like an epidemic that has spread to other contries.
Covid is common now like the common cold, flu, strep. It's always gonna be with us I'm afraid. I would also believe that most every human has been exposed to the virus at this point.
https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/featured-topic/endemic-epidemic-pandemic
Tests are in every pharmacy and relatively cheap.
20 to 30 dollars is absolutely not relatively cheap. If it was 5 bucks sure I'd agree with you.
Lucky you
they are expensive, online t hey are super cheap when ordered in bulk. i ordered some last year.
That's not a public health test as it's not reportable. Just lime I can take my own temperature but public health doesn't care. Compare the treatment of COVID to sexually transmitted infections that are reported and contact traced.
You can't simply buy self tests in Canada?
Yes. But compare it to getting the clap. With a sexually transmitted disease they will report it for statistical purposes then contact trace etc. With COVID it's only reportable with a fatality. If you test positive there is no way to get it counted. You just don't know how much is out there.
When I say you can't get tested it's not like there are clinics where you can go in and et tested like you used to. Still can for STBBDs though.
Yeah, I don't. Doesn't mean though that public health officials and researchers simply stopped monitoring the situation. Just like the Flu COVID isn't going to vanish. So what's the point of continuing regular public status updates unless there is another critical situation brewing?
As I've posted in another reply Influenza kills roughly 24,000 people per month directly or indirectly worldwide. That is in a good year. In bad years casualties can rise to as much as 54,000 per month. PER MONTH. Diseases such as Influenza and COVID simply can't be eradicated because they are so easily transmitted and in the majority of cases only cause temporary discomfort.
See why this is a ridiculous post?
Your downvotes are wild and really indicative on the type of people here. Jesus Christ lemmy likes to exist in a bubble and as soon as you provide critical thought or say something someone doesn't want here (and yet is still on topic)? Downvoted.
Anyways, you're right. It sucks but you're right.
Case in point couple of years ago we had a trifreca of influenza, COVID and RSV. Health Canada was reporting on all 3. To your point the people who die to this day of influenza and RSV is insanely high. We don't hear about them constantly. COVID is now part of that crew. Will never go away. Too transmissible and it adapts too fast.
If you are older get the RSV shot yearly. Everyone else, get your flu and COVID shot yearly.
Wait a minute, you say that covid will be with us for ever but didnt a number of covid AND influenza species actually go completely extinct back in the end of 2020 or 2021 because of how well the lockdowns were implemented snd adhered to?
WHo is to say that such a lockdown cant be reimplemented and surprisingly extincts certain species of respiratory transmissible illnesses ...like ALL covid species?
Lockdowns didn’t work even when there was global news coverage of a pandemic happenening. What makes you think they would work now?
Our flu shots are still quadrivalent, but two of the strains they protect against haven’t been detected since 2019, since so many people were masking in 2020. The lockdowns worked reasonably well IMO, you can’t expect perfection.
thats similarr to what I said
I just dont get it. Did I miisinterpret their reply?
I said that a certain number of species of Influenza and COVID went extinct BECAUSE of lockdowns.
Their reply was : 'Lockdowns dont work' ...
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