Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 4)

/r/news itself is fine, just stay off the front page

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Imagining COVID is ā€˜like the fluā€™ is cutting thousands of lives short. Itā€™s time to wake up

Omicron has evolved faster than the tools we are using to combat it.

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Speak Black Woman GIF by Robert E Blackmon

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Imagining COVID is ā€˜like the fluā€™

Now the politicians at Public Health Ontario have lumped COVID and Influenza together on our only remaining, updated bi-weekly, data source.

That data source now has the summer numbers for Ontario :canada:. Over the 14 weeks from the end of may to the start of September, deaths were

  • 333 in 2020
  • 423 in 2021
  • 853 in 2022

Wow, double last year. :persevere:

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I have no idea who these people are but itā€™s an interesting story.

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Biden:

"The pandemic is overā€¦ We still have a problem with Covid. Weā€™re still doing a lot of work on it ā€¦ but the pandemic is over. if you notice, no oneā€™s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think itā€™s changing.ā€

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Good to know that Iā€™m no oneā€¦ :+1: Thanks Dark Brandon.

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So fucking sick of this crap. The pandemic is not over. The government is not ā€œdoing a lot of work on itā€. If anything the government is scaling back efforts to help people preferring to shrug and tell people to figure it out for themselves.

I fucking hate this timeline.

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Donā€™t worry, Marge knows what to do.

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Is the gym always that empty?

I guess when you have no committee work you have the gym all to yourself.

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Or when you have Empty Geeā€™s personality?

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I guess if that means providing gym memberships to everyone, free child care and a living wage so people can afford time to exercise, and minimum free check ups and preventative medicine, sounds good to me!
But I somehow doubt thatā€™s at all what she meansā€¦

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Sheā€™s just trying to grift again. Getting Congress to send money to gym owners, like herself. Though I think she sold hers.

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Well, her soul was sold off pretty quickly, thatā€™s for sure.

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Agreed, very much so.

Is that some kind of reverse psychology trick to get the republicans to actually DO something about the pandemic? Or is that some kind of "oops, I forgot to say NOT! The pandemic is NOT over!

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So youā€™re for addressing the needs of impoverished communities that are unable to afford healthy meals? Or that may not have access things like trainers, gyms, or exercise equipment? (And no, Marjie, running from the police doesnā€™t count.) And, you do know that healthy people can still get sick, right? Of course not. And whatā€™s the dig about not wanting big pharma to make a profit? I thought you were a capitalist!

Donā€™t put your lives and your future in the hands of government

So says the elected official. I thought people took up public service to serve their communities rather than sabotage them.

Christ, what a repugnant person.

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