COVID surging in California. Is it time to bring back masks, hand sanitizer? What experts say
COVID surging in California. Is it time to bring back masks, hand sanitizer? What experts say
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In countries that have high pollution rates, wearing a mask is normal, for pollution. Only in America is trying to take care of yourself viewed as wrong. I literally don't care if other people think I'm bizarre, I will wear a mask whenever I feel like it.
I have never understood how people would want to get sick more, or be served by people who could get them sick. Who has time and money for all this illness?
Uh yeah. Those of us can't afford to be more sick that we already are never stopped wearing masks. I'm disabled and catching COVID once, while not too bad in the acute phase, has wreaked havoc on my health long term. It's not worth fucking around and finding out.
I hate that COVID has become normal. I know it was destined to become normal the moment it spread outside of China, but I hate that it has. It wouldn't bother me if it was just COVID - it'd suck but it wouldn't be a big deal. However, the fact that COVID can be so destructive, even in mild cases, is what concerns me. The fact that someone can have a mild case of COVID but have the symptoms stick around for months, years, or even permanently, makes me wonder if COVID is going to be the next lead (alongside microplastics). The more you get it, the higher the chance it'll fuck you up, and if everyone gets COVID >10 times over their life, that's a pretty big chance to permanently fuck up your brain and body; and the damage is going to add up every time you get it.
I know that >10 cases seems like a lot for one person, but considering the vaccines don't have a 100% prevention rate and that vaccinated people can still get long-covid, I don't think it'd be far off for people who were under 20yrs old during the lockdown. I've had COVID 23 times (one was unconfirmed but *felt* like COVID) so far despite the fact that I still don't go out much, I've been trying to keep up with vaccines and I've been trying to stay masked (though I've gotten kinda lax on the latter). That means I have an average of about 0.50.75 times a year since COVID first happened despite trying to avoid it. Someone who doesn't bother trying to avoid it might have a significantly higher rate.
Is COVID gonna be the new dementia? It sounds like we're making some pretty big strides in figuring out dementia so I'm honestly betting that it won't really be a thing in another 20yrs (or we'll discover that it's basically impossible to prevent without another 100yrs of biotech); is COVID gonna take over as the primary cause of abnormal mental and/or physical decline?
Already 4 million people out of work in the US because of long covid, and 8% of the population are reporting it.
Yet like dementia was a couple decades ago, it is being treated by parts of the medico-political establishment as if it is the patient’s fault, or even a mental illness.
We never learn, nearly every new chronic illness that popped up was first treated as “hysteria” or “mental” or “psychosomatic” in the past, until we figured out the pathology. From most autoimmune diseases, to peptic ulcer to epilepsy…
Right from the outset, my wife's coworker got her sick, which spread to my two little kids and then to me. They only work two days a week in person and it's not heavily enforced, but people still lack the fucking common sense to quarantine themself after symptoms go away but when you're still contagious. Smh
but people still lack the fucking common sense to quarantine themself after symptoms go away but when you're still contagious. Smh
CDC says to go back to work and resume normal activities 24 hours after symptoms start to improve but they may still be present.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0301-respiratory-virus.html
What common sense are you relying on here and why does it go against CDC guidelines?
While I think the CDC is correct in this particular case, you'll have to excuse those of us who no longer trust the CDC after they intentionally lied to the public numerous times during the Covid-19 pandemic and contributed to the death and permanent injuries of US Americans who became infected due to their misinformation.
The CDC guidelines aren't about prevention but a trade off between prevention and economic activity.
You can very well be contagious during that period, but it's too much of a burden on the system to wait until you are definitely not contagious.
Up here in Canada when they changed the rules and had the big press conference they even explicitly mentioned that it was in part due to economic reasons and it would allow some additional spread when asked directly.
Edit: and they even recommended wearing masks to work for a few more days afterwards just in case, but of course no one did.
Bring back? I never stopped using either.
Well done! Shame not more people are doing it.
Covid is airborne so not sure why they mention hand sanitizer.
I think avoiding crowded indoor areas and washing your hands every time you return home, or before eating or drinking anything, are good policies in general. If more people just did those things we'd see less communicable disease overall.
Then again I'm routinely horrified by the amount of people who barely wash (or don't wash at all) their hands before exiting public restrooms...
Recently got to help clean some piece of shit's old apartment so friends could move in. There were yellow-ish stains around the lightswitch. And plenty of other places around the loo too, but point is: some people are disgusting.
My work has moved to a "hybrid" model, aka forcing people into office. I was in 2 weeks ago... And caught COVID. For over a week, existence has been... Not great. I do not feel like myself yet. First day in a while I even played video games, and it took a lot of effort. My breathing is way better than it was a few days ago. But my mind is still so... Cloudy isn't the right word... It's like if your brain is normally powered by your local power grid... It's now powered by a AA battery that you found in the junk drawer. There are things I can't remember to things that I know I know very well. There were days I woke up drenched in sweat so I assume I was running a high fever for a few days.
All that to say is I wish we weren't at this point we're covid still a thing. We had an opportunity to eradicate it. I did everything right. I got all my shots, I got boosters regularly, and even when I was forced into office I isolated away from people but it wasn't enough.
Bring back? Some of us never stopped.
At least for covid, hand sanitizer is completely useless, though. It's not transmitted via smear infection (or at least very very rarely).
For other stuff it might be helpful, but even then moderation is a virtue, since that stuff dries out your skin and might create more open wounds - ask any nurse.
I'm with you. I was on a plane in January and couldn't believe I was the only one.
I never wore one, I'm still alive.
As the internet ancients used to say... Cool story bro
All those people who are so scared of masks are freaking weird man.
Almost like my uncle. Almost, because he’s dead.
Good for you? Over 7million people aren't.
You're awesome 😎!
I'd love to give you a Dixie cup of apple juice and a Graham cracker, and a little square of carpet so you can be comfy with a full tum-tum during story time, but I don't know where your kindergarten is.