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JN.1 is taking off (hexbear.net)
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to-the-moon

As predicted by covid variant tracker nerds on twitter in recent weeks, JN.1 is exploding. A 40% increase in covid cases since last week. Most sequences coming in to variant trackers are JN.1.

The biobot chart shows the last six months, if you zoom out we are at or approaching covid levels not seen since last winter, so not totally unexpected... but the CDC expects cases to peak in February. However JPWieland predicts it will peak after christmas due to the rapid growth of JN.1.

There are also outlier cities in Europe showing more covid in wastewater than ever measured during the pandemic. Canada isn't doing much better. The UK isn't doing well either.

Along with covid, flu and RSV are also hitting pretty hard at the same time, especially in the South, with a touch of mystery pneumonia in various places around the world as a treat.

Thankfully the latest vaccine helps against this variant. Unfortunatly vaccine uptake rates are abysmal now because capitalism.

I'm mainly still posting about covid out of anxiety and watching the health of friends and family who have been infected and "were fine" slowly deteriorate.

Good luck, everyone.

EDIT:

The CDC director is recommending wearing masks. So things will probably get pretty bad...

https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1732547659292967203

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish the general public still cared…

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Biden's last act as president will be to ban even this sort of tracking of COVID.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whatever happened to those Greek letter names? Is this somehow still Omicron? Still not giving us a new one?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Omicron was so dominant that it pretty much outcompeted all other variants like delta and gamma and stuff. At this point nearly all variants existing are descendants of omicron in one way or another.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Omicron should have probably been called SARS-COV3 or something.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

yeah they need to change it already. If not for Omicron, then for BA.2.86. Also I should've acknowledged people have been trying to bring back the cooler names, like calling BA.2.86/JN.1 "Pirola," I just feel like it hasn't caught on as much. Maybe because normal people just don't care about covid anymore, so anyone still talking about covid is a scientist/has dug into the science, and using the pango terminology is just more specific

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

We can appeal to the evangelicals if we stop calling it COVID at all and just pretend there's a new disease called Leviathan or Behemoth or something else biblical.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hospitalizations and deaths in Finland

stonks-up

This is the highest hospitalizations have been in Finland since the pandemic started.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

are those deaths from all-cause mortality, or only covid-caused deaths?

also what's the website?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

https://www.koronatilastot.fi/fi/sairaala/

It's covid. Hopefully deaths don't track as closely to cases as last year.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Let's go COVID, disrupt Christmas and cause an economic downturn! I believe in you!

Seriously though, fuck all this shit. Everyone is coughing all the time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I keep hoping that COVID will buck the odds and attenuate.

Me talking to me: maybe next time, sweaty.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Couldn’t read any of that because my long COVID’s got my brain fog flaring up. Hopefully it’s good news.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just one more wave.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

just one more wave I promise dude just this one last imperialism just one more military base bro I promise I swear to god man after this last false flag I'll be good broski

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Morpheus saying "Here they come"

Here it comes

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

the dude quoting 1984 under the CDC director barely mentioning masks michael-laugh satire is dead

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks for continuing to post. This sucks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I keep wondering if I'm being unreasonable, and covid isn't a big problem anymore, but the reality is pretty clear even if it's a huge bummer.

And 1000 people have been dying of covid each week in the US since August, and it's about to get a lot worse. It's hard to wrap my head around that and seeing hardly anyone else give a shit. All this death primarily to save the political fortunes of an octogenarian genocidal racist and his psychotic political party, who couldn't be bothered to change anything for the better post-pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

As an immunocompromised person, I appreciate you seeing how awful it really is. It's now been years where I've continued to see excited headlines about how "only" people like me are dying now (also untrue, but that's the narrative). It feels dehumanizing in ways that I have a hard time describing, but comrades like you make me feel a little bit less alone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just chiming in to say that you're right about COVID continuing to be a major crisis and your posting is appreciated meow-hug

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

thank you

soviet-heart

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had covid really bad two weeks ago, the whole house did actually. And my housemates girlfriend had covid a week ago. I wonder if it was this variant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's possible, especially if you live in one of the states that's dark blue on this map: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Thanks comrade! We are all fine and no long covid, but we are also all young and got our boosters. Even so it was really rough and I was basically comatose in bed for a week.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

stonks

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

This is from Germany:

To the moon!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

JN.1

Who names this stuff? They could at least give it a nickname?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's unofficial nickname is Pirola, which can be shortened to "Pi" janet-wink

There are so many variants that they can't nickname them all, so they stick to naming the the ones with mutations that look most concerning.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1732547659292967203

I didn't watch it. Did it at least start with a illustration showing people in masks? My guess is a big "no" because she's a ghoul and she wears a mask or shows masks an absolute bare minimum. And it's really great that a rando is better on this shit than she is.

Good video. Been distributing around.

Please

  • add filtration (HEPA and MERV13)

  • clearly direct to Health Care and Schools also.

While sharing I only found the video on twitter

  • not yet on the CDC website
  • not yet on the youtube playlist Check with Dr. Cohen.

Please fix.

And update the school, community and hospital recommendations.

Nitter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

"As we prepare to record "Covid Year Four," Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss what is left of national covid data following the end of the public health emergency, how what's left has become so thoroughly abstracted, and how the CDC prioritizes representing deaths as an abstract percentage even as the official death count has been over 1,000 a week since August."

https://podbay.fm/p/the-death-panel/e/1701907200

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I want to die already

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The UK isn't doing well either.

What data source? UK stopped wastewater monitoring in July.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

because... reasons...

Might affect christmas shopping