COVID-19 2020

[grateful]

I think there's some kind of twisted time warp going on here...or as site admin, kosmo knows how we're going to respond even before we hit post.

[sweetcell]

I have come to believe covid in the US would have been a shit show regardless… I mean tons of people have died from covid under Biden and that’s with the vaccines

there are degrees of shit show... would have been a smaller shit show had H been prez and we all followed the science - but, as you point out, a shit show nonetheless.  you know, maybe 300K dead instead of 400K.

[grateful]

3 Omicrons in Maryland, all in Baltimore.

[challenged]

The Hold Steady's merch guy tested positive for Covid.
He also sings one song with the band, and sang it Saturday night, it's called "Stay Positive."

[BrettnotBritt]

This is both a terrifying and depressing read. Kinda crazy how fast the country got, err, crazy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/comments/rakxun/my_career_of_treating_patients_has_ended/

[sweetcell]

i wonder if trumpers will point to this as the reason why covid got so bad in this country, as opposed to inane (lack of) policies and general anti-scienceness on the right:

The Coronavirus Attacks Fat Tissue, Scientists Find
The research may help explain why people who are overweight and obese have been at higher risk of severe illness and death from Covid.

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

That means the number of Americans who have died from the virus could be closer to 1 million, not the roughly 793,200 deaths officially recorded as of Thursday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-us-is-undercounting-covid-deaths-researchers-say-now-they-have-a-tool-to-figure-out-why/ar-AARDINd?

[Starsky]

Well I only been saying this forever

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

you say a lot of things

[Starsky]

Boo

[Starsky]

Fourth wave is here….and in most places..we are a little behind Europe (as usual) and ahead of South America…

World

[Space Freely]

A couple of PG County Schools and at least one DC school already back to virtual.

[Starsky]

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/As-covid-cases-rise-in-the-region-Maryland-16706012.php

[grateful]

...wastewater samples show that the new omicron variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the Florida county that is home to the nation’s largest theme park resorts.

https://wtop.com/life-style/2021/12/omicron-is-dominant-in-wastewater-samples-in-florida-county/

[Justin Tonation]