emeritrix on Nostr: from Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet: "75,603 deaths in one year [2023] makes COVID ...
from Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet:
"75,603 deaths in one year [2023] makes COVID the infectious disease killing the most people in the US by far, and likely to remain so."
"We are currently in a “lull”, but “lull” is a relative term, and “low” in 2024 isn’t the same as “low” in 2020-2021. In 2021, shortly after vaccination, our summer low hit 12k cases a day. This year it’s never gone below 160k new cases a day- over 12 times higher than the low of three years ago.
"Let’s bear in mind that in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, when Dr. Fauci was asked when things could fully “go back to normal” and mitigations like masks could be dropped, he projected that when new daily COVID cases were under 10k, we could expect to fully resume normal life. During the surge this winter, we had over one million new cases a day. Not only have we never for one day had under 10k new cases since Fauci made this prediction, we have never had under 100k new cases on any day since then."
"Celebrating the period of temporary immunity that follows mass infection is, as Dr. Lucky Tran put it, “like celebrating a low in heat wave deaths during winter.”
"But objectively, deaths are much lower than they were in 2020-2022. How do you explain that?
"Let’s start with the obvious: dead people can’t die twice. When you’ve already killed over a million people, you simply have a smaller pool of vulnerable people to kill. . . . No matter how we’d responded to COVID, no matter who was in charge of the response, no matter if we’d had longer or shorter lockdowns or more masking or fewer vaccines, deaths would be drastically lower now than they were in 2020-2022. "
#CovidIsNotOver
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/covid-lulls-arent-being-earned-by
"75,603 deaths in one year [2023] makes COVID the infectious disease killing the most people in the US by far, and likely to remain so."
"We are currently in a “lull”, but “lull” is a relative term, and “low” in 2024 isn’t the same as “low” in 2020-2021. In 2021, shortly after vaccination, our summer low hit 12k cases a day. This year it’s never gone below 160k new cases a day- over 12 times higher than the low of three years ago.
"Let’s bear in mind that in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, when Dr. Fauci was asked when things could fully “go back to normal” and mitigations like masks could be dropped, he projected that when new daily COVID cases were under 10k, we could expect to fully resume normal life. During the surge this winter, we had over one million new cases a day. Not only have we never for one day had under 10k new cases since Fauci made this prediction, we have never had under 100k new cases on any day since then."
"Celebrating the period of temporary immunity that follows mass infection is, as Dr. Lucky Tran put it, “like celebrating a low in heat wave deaths during winter.”
"But objectively, deaths are much lower than they were in 2020-2022. How do you explain that?
"Let’s start with the obvious: dead people can’t die twice. When you’ve already killed over a million people, you simply have a smaller pool of vulnerable people to kill. . . . No matter how we’d responded to COVID, no matter who was in charge of the response, no matter if we’d had longer or shorter lockdowns or more masking or fewer vaccines, deaths would be drastically lower now than they were in 2020-2022. "
#CovidIsNotOver
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/covid-lulls-arent-being-earned-by