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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 47 points 18 hours ago

Given the known incidence of Long COVID, the current levels of transmission are generating an estimated 200,000 new cases of Long COVID per week.

Holy fuck, it's making us dumber. That explains a lot!

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 145 points 1 day ago (4 children)

O RLY?

NBC

MSN

Colorado Sun

Sky News

Fox News has a Coronavirus Category with 5 new stories this month

If you're going to be an alarmist asshole you might as well avoid adding a bunch of lies to your headlines in addition to it.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 16 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

although i agree with the post title being a bit incorrect, and your comment of "alarmist asshole" not really called for, its not front page news and that's because people are over COVID and could care less while people who are at risk from severe infection are getting it and dying still. People are just going to get super sick and say "yeah its a flu covid is over so it cant be that"

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 15 hours ago

This is honestly the seocnt time I'm hearing about this. Though it may be out there, it's not front-page news for sure.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Given how silo'ed everyone's media consumption is now a days I find it entirely too plausible that someone could avoid any new COVID news.

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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 27 points 22 hours ago

“it’s totally silent if i plug my ears and totally dark if i close my eyes”!

thank you for your service. this is the type of post i wish would get downvoted to the floor. if we can’t get basic googleable facts right in !news@lemmy.world how can we have any hope for accuracy in reporting on climate catastrophe and genocide? hawt damb

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 12 points 18 hours ago

Definitely everyone should be wearing masks inside in public this time of year.

“If we don’t talk about it anymore, stop testing, stop taking statistics, it’s almost like it doesn’t exist and we can just focus on growth” —Corperate media funders, probably

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Getting a flu + covid shot is free or nearly free for every American that has health insurance. It may be less convenient, but there are places to get a free flu and covid vaccines, if Americans do not have health insurance. Anecdote: This year, I had zero side effects from the shots besides a sore arm!

[–] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t realize the importance of getting a flu shot prior to living through the COVID pandemic. I do my best these days to inform people my age that getting vaccinated is about protecting others who might not fare against the virus as well as you might.

Zero side effects from my last flu + COVID booster. Get it done, even if you’re not personally worried about getting sick.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 13 points 23 hours ago

Getting a flu + covid shot is free or nearly free for every American that has health insurance

that is a lot of conditions for the accessibility in a country notorious for people having no health insurance.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah but now Bill Gates can track you and that's not even mentioning the reptilians! Then you'll get autism and die.

Add RFK to that mix and one-two years from now, were all fucked because that leper colony beill be sharing all it's ~~goodies~~ cooties with the rest of the world.

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