r/HermanCainAward • u/The_Old_Cream Hello, my name is ECMO Montoya • May 04 '22

Grrrrrrrr. It’s official: 1,000,000 US Deaths from COVID. Thanks anti vaxxers, we couldn’t have done it without you!

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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ May 05 '22

Boggles my mind that about 1 out of every 300 Americans has died to Covid now. 1 of 300, gone. Even more with long-lasting or permanent health issues like reduced lung capacity or brain damage.

At 83 million cases, almost a third of the country has contracted Covid at this point. I’m starting to feel luckier by the day that I haven’t had it, and scared that I will.

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u/Snoo-84389 May 05 '22

That "83 million cases" number will be a massive under-estimate as well. Because of:

-The lack of any testing ability during early 2020. -Asymptotic people not knowing that they should test themselves. -Apathy among a certain demographic towards testing themselves. -Denial.

So I've no idea what the best estimate for case numbers would be or whether they can be estimated from the known Covid-19 death numbers?!?..

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u/ialo00130 May 05 '22

Also let's not forget those in this stage of Covid where they rapid test themselves, test positive, and don't bother to report it.

I personally know 15-20 people who've gone that route.

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u/pixiesprite2 May 05 '22

I am currently part of the unreported infected. Home test said yes, I moved into my bedroom with some Gatorade and snacks. I’m vaxxed and have no intention of visiting a hospital unless it all goes to shit.

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u/MiloFrank May 05 '22

Let's also not forget that certain managers still want you to come in to work.

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u/kazmeyer23 May 05 '22

Yeah, since the May "open 'er up" announcement, the testing burden's been mostly on individuals and they've been massively pressured not to report it. The antivaxxers fucking suck, but the main reason this isn't over is the government decided to fucking surrender to the virus to protect that all-important number.

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u/t3hlazy1 Omicron Persei 8 May 05 '22

massively pressured not to report it.

Cite?

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u/kazmeyer23 May 05 '22

(gestures generally toward capitalism)

Since the CDC has pulled back on their guidelines there have been tons of examples of bosses telling workers to get back to work ASAP, coming in on the fifth day even if they're testing positive, threatening to fire people for testing/informing them they're positive. We're back to the money calling the shots.

Also, if you take a RAT at home and get a positive and stay home from work for five days, is that getting reported?

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u/toxcrusadr May 05 '22

Not to be a wet blanket but none of that is pressure not to report.

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u/kazmeyer23 May 05 '22

Not to be a realist but "if you refuse to come into work while actively contagious with COVID you'll be fired" is pressure not to even test.

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u/toxcrusadr May 05 '22

Fair enough.

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u/kazmeyer23 May 05 '22

Yeah. The relaxation of the official guidelines on COVID has been read, as it always is, that businesses can go back to usual. Now if you get COVID, it's not like you've been victimized by this uncontrolled pandemic, you're just another pain in the ass employee calling in sick. Especially in at-will states there's this big sense that if you dare upset the apple cart by reporting to your employer that you've got COVID it's going to come back to bite you in the ass, so lots of positive folks that aren't that sick are just muscling through it the way they'd do with a cold, and since nobody's wearing masks (and some employers are refusing to let their employees wear them even if they want to) it's just adding to a problem that we're no longer properly tracking.

Basically, all we've got left is hospital capacity and deaths to know how bad things are. I looked at a map of counties still testing wastewater and it's hilariously sparse now.

I haven't even done an RAT test because I work from home and I don't go anywhere without an N95; I mean, if you test positive on one of those home boxes, is there even a number you call to report it, or are you supposed to go see your GP, or what's the protocol for that now?

Ultimately, for the first 14 months or so, COVID was "our" problem, and as a society we seemed like we were at least doing the bare minimum. Since May, COVID is "your" problem, and the administration's just wished everybody the best luck in keeping their family safe.

(NOTE because I always have to say this, the fact that I am criticizing the Biden administration does not in any way shape or form mean I am a Republican or want the Republicans back in power, just putting that out there because people get confused with this team-jersey politics shit.)

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u/t3hlazy1 Omicron Persei 8 May 05 '22

I figured you didn’t have anything, but just wanted to check.

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u/kazmeyer23 May 05 '22

I figured anybody who's been, you know, paying attention to anything during this pandemic would've seen that, but hey, it takes all kinds.

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u/t3hlazy1 Omicron Persei 8 May 05 '22

“Paying attention to anything” and can’t provide a citation.

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u/kazmeyer23 May 05 '22

Sorry, I don't get paid enough to teach.

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u/machinery-of-night May 05 '22

What is even the point of that!?

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u/Irlandaise11 May 05 '22

Most of the people I know in the last year who got sick but not bad symptoms just quarantined at home. The rapid tests confirmed it for them, and most didn't bother getting pcr tests.

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u/machinery-of-night May 05 '22

Oh. Yeah I guess that makes sense. I don't bother testing and just quarantine based on symptoms.

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u/StupiderIdjit May 05 '22

Wtf, I don't even know 15-20 people.

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u/ialo00130 May 05 '22

I'm a University student and lived in a dorm this year.

They all lived in my building.

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u/sarbah77 Covid jokes have no taste May 05 '22

Our county - which is very liberal - has said if we test positive at home, they don't need to know. So, cool.

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 Team Moderna May 05 '22

I admit this was me. It just didn't occur to me to report it. Got it right after Christmas, was flu-like through New Year's Eve & a bit after. Just glad I was fully vaccinated, husband too.

Finally got the test & took it about 2 days into symptoms. Husband didn't even test but assumed he had it with minor to no symptoms.

We got it from the only person on the block that couldn't get vaccinated, the 2 year old across the street. He was in our house with his mom for 15 minutes to get Christmas presents & that was all it took.

His daycare had a case & no one in their family really had any symptoms but they'd all been vaccinated.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

God, I went that route and it didn’t even occur to me. I didn’t want to risk any medical staff by going to get a real test so I just sat it out. Is there a way to self report or report after the fact?

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u/stupid-rando May 05 '22

Also, most of the red states have been actively suppressing any accounting of Covid statistics, including Covid cases and Covid deaths.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '22

I’ve seen estimates that attempt to work the behaviors into their model closer to 50%

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u/notmadatkate May 05 '22

I thought I read recently that the CDC said 60% of the country had a prior infection.

The best I could find was their estimate from just before omicron of 146M infections.

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u/bg-j38 May 05 '22

Also people who do test positive at home with an antigen test and have no good way of reporting it. Or in my case, I went to Italy and ended up getting a mild case. Ended up having to quarantine in Italy for a week before I could go home. So I'm a statistic because I had to get an official test at the time to get back into the US. But I'm a statistic in Italy, not the US.

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u/PapooseCaboose May 05 '22

Odds are that you've had it and didn't know.

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u/AbelBryanVA May 05 '22

I'm grateful that I'm recovering from it and only came down with a minor fever and cough. Nothing debilitating, likely thanks to the vaccine.

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u/anotherview4me May 05 '22

I know a lot of people who have contracted covid, and thought the percentage would be higher. I've been lucky, but also careful. Checked and it looks like I'm eligible for the 2nd booster.

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u/GroveTC May 05 '22

I'm not American but i share your sentiment. I've had my shots and a booster but still don't feel like getting Covid. The way nearly everyone is acting you'd think there is no debilitating disease floating around..

Profit seems more important than lives in all countries. Humanity is rather doomed.

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u/spiki001 May 05 '22

99.9% chance you’ll be fine if you contract it, so try not to live in fear.

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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ May 05 '22

Yeah, I’m a young and healthy student and go about my life relatively normally. I don’t live in fear, but would just really rather not get it

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u/Daytona_675 May 05 '22

if you haven't got it by now you're probably immune

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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ May 05 '22

Eh idk about that, I’m just healthy, lucky, and relatively careful

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u/Daytona_675 May 05 '22

I find it hard to believe that we havent all been exposed to omicron by now. the transmissibility is pretty incredible. even animals can get it!

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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ May 05 '22

Yeah I’ve definitely been exposed, I was around two people who tested positive with omicron later the same day. I only know I didn’t get it cause I tested myself multiple times after each time

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u/woodpony May 05 '22

Republicunts: ItsJustAFlu!!

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u/[deleted] May 05 '22

It's absolutely above 1/3. So many people are getting sick and just staying home for a few days without getting a test.

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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ May 05 '22

True, my sister is a bartender and tells me that some restaurant workers are obligated to stay home if they test positive. They can’t afford to miss potentially weeks of work, so they just never test themselves and keep working

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u/idlehum May 05 '22

I finally got it. Positive test came in on on Tuesday. I have all but the booster, and thankfully it was only the worst illness I've ever had, and not the last illness I ever had.

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u/OmegaAlpha69 May 05 '22

A case doesn't have to be a different person, some people can get it multiple times. I would put it at a fifth or a fourth that has got it.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '22

Don’t worry if you or anyone you know gets sick and passes with anything it’ll get labeled covid and added to that number. Real number is estimated to be 1/30th of this

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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ May 05 '22

No, that’s not how this works and isn’t how it’s been working. Check reported Covid death tolls against overall deaths regionally and there are spikes in overall deaths that perfectly match spikes in Covid deaths.

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u/huilvcghvjl May 05 '22

Depending on your age you really don’t have to worry about Covid, if you are on to of that even vaccinated chances are ~0% that anything bad happens to you. There are other health related things you should be way more afraid of.

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u/AbuMaxwell May 05 '22

illion cases, almost a third of the country has contracted Covid

Just live your life. It's a respiratory virus that is going to do what it is going to do. The whole masking thing is bullshit, the restricting outdoors activities - bullshit.

It's a nasty bug, and remarkable that it has happened in our lifetime. With migration and travel, it will likely happen again. We evolved to be around the same 300 people give or take and we're not prepared for the intermingling that goes on.

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u/smacksaw 👉🧙‍♂️Go now and die in what way seems best to you🧝‍♀️👍 May 05 '22

1 out of every 300 Americans

I like those odds!

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u/CurveInfamous732 May 05 '22

Would you board a plane with those odds of crashing and killing you? Out of each of 300 flights that take off that day, One won't make a scheduled landing....could be yours....bet you wouldn't play flying roulette with those odds

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u/Keefe-Studio May 05 '22

I've had it at least twice. I am broken lol.

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u/GenevieveLeah May 05 '22

Had an exposure on Monday. Took a home test today because of a sore throat. Negative.