#and im meant to just be okay with that
There was a popular post that went around two years ago that said something along the lines of “we have to be willing to look paranoid–it’s better to be overly-cautious than to be careless and prolong the pandemic!”
It’s pretty much the only thing holding my sanity together now that it’s year three of the pandemic, everyone’s decided it’s over even though it’s still killing people, local data suggests my area is under-reporting new cases, and people keep telling me VERBATIM that I’m being “overly cautious” and “kinda paranoid.”
The 7-day global death average on March 1, 2020, when everyone was terrified and started shutting everything down, was 75.
The current 7-day global death average as of today is 2,283 according to the updated graph I just looked at.
But sure. It’s “over.”
Horrific and that’s not even taking into consideration other consecuences of this pandemic regarding public health. Complications and sequels from Covid are a very real and under researched issue that’s leaving a lot of people literally disabled.
Hospitals are even more collapsed than they were before the pandemic, working under new protocols and chronic patients aren’t able to take exams, blood work and proper care for their conditions. No one is taking into consideration their deaths and worsening of their condition as another consecuence of the ONGOING pandemic.
