I have a new standard (/boundary) for communication with friends:

If they want to brag about the covid precautions they are taking, I am the friend to tell! I want to hear all about your new masks, air purifiers, jabs &, the things you're doing well.

If they want to talk about taking unnecessary covid risks, I can't hear it. It makes my heart hurt. Just don't tell me about it.

It's a great pass/fail test.

(The fact that most people fail it explains my isolation.) 1/2

#CovidIsNotOver

Raj's dashboard, updated yesterday, shows Stratus wildly diversified, having spawned multiple third-generation pango aliases and descendant recombinants. This after months of data suggesting XFG evolution had been stagnant.

GISAID data for the most recent three-week-and-change period is dominated by submissions from New York (178 sequences), followed by Colorado (137), Oregon (77), Nebraska (58), and Minnesota (39).

#CDC's most dataset, updated September 26, showed Stratus XFG family dominating, with Nimbus NB.1.8.1 / PQ in second place, down to one-fourteenth share, this nearly neck-in-neck with FDA Vaccine Target LP.8.1 (or its family line) at one-seventeenth share.

Note that, in absence of robust data from states, CDC has given up modeling historical estimates, instead giving only shares of reported sequences.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #variants #CovidIsNotOver #dataviz #datavis

Raj's dashboard, updated yesterday, shows Stratus wildly diversified, having spawned multiple third-generation pango aliases and descendant recombinants. This after months of data suggesting XFG evolution had been stagnant.

GISAID data for the most recent three-week-and-change period is dominated by submissions from New York (178 sequences), followed by Colorado (137), Oregon (77), Nebraska (58), and Minnesota (39).

#CDC's most dataset, updated September 26, showed Stratus XFG family dominating, with Nimbus NB.1.8.1 / PQ in second place, down to one-fourteenth share, this nearly neck-in-neck with FDA Vaccine Target LP.8.1 (or its family line) at one-seventeenth share.

Note that, in absence of robust data from states, CDC has given up modeling historical estimates, instead giving only shares of reported sequences.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #variants #CovidIsNotOver #dataviz #datavis

Tiens tiens... y a plus de tests antigéniques en pharmacie et la situation est telle qu'un article de presse informe que tout le monde peut se faire vacciner gratuitement !

https://www.20minutes.fr/sante/4177795-20251007-covid-19-autotests-rupture-stock-certaines-pharmacies

#CovidIsNotOver

Tiens tiens... y a plus de tests antigéniques en pharmacie et la situation est telle qu'un article de presse informe que tout le monde peut se faire vacciner gratuitement !

https://www.20minutes.fr/sante/4177795-20251007-covid-19-autotests-rupture-stock-certaines-pharmacies

#CovidIsNotOver

This makes me very sad, and it's horrible that pharmacists have to be in the front line of this mess.

Covid boosters really ought to be free to everyone who wants them.

The government says it's not cost effective, and yet they also moan that they spend too much money on sickness benefits (which they deliberately ignore in their cost effectiveness calculations). Can they really not join the dots?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28q5gqvppo

#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

This makes me very sad, and it's horrible that pharmacists have to be in the front line of this mess.

Covid boosters really ought to be free to everyone who wants them.

The government says it's not cost effective, and yet they also moan that they spend too much money on sickness benefits (which they deliberately ignore in their cost effectiveness calculations). Can they really not join the dots?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28q5gqvppo

#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

I have a new standard (/boundary) for communication with friends:

If they want to brag about the covid precautions they are taking, I am the friend to tell! I want to hear all about your new masks, air purifiers, jabs &, the things you're doing well.

If they want to talk about taking unnecessary covid risks, I can't hear it. It makes my heart hurt. Just don't tell me about it.

It's a great pass/fail test.

(The fact that most people fail it explains my isolation.) 1/2

#CovidIsNotOver

well daym, just found out the sickness I've had for ~6 weeks is not hooping cough as expected, but #COVID-19 😬
Symptoms are so different every bloody time. All it's been this time is a constant cough and fortnightly intermittent waves of exhaustion.

#CovidIsNotOver

The Wellington #maskbloc at the Newtown library is up and running! 😷😍
Many thanks to all the people who have donated money and masks to make this possible. You're amazing!
We have already achieved our current $500 goal but if you want to further support this project, we will aim to provide free RATs in the future.
https://chuffed.org/project/151076-wellington-mask-bloc

#MaskUp
#CovidNZ
#CovidIsNotOver

The Wellington #maskbloc at the Newtown library is up and running! 😷😍
Many thanks to all the people who have donated money and masks to make this possible. You're amazing!
We have already achieved our current $500 goal but if you want to further support this project, we will aim to provide free RATs in the future.
https://chuffed.org/project/151076-wellington-mask-bloc

#MaskUp
#CovidNZ
#CovidIsNotOver

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPlus #covid19 #covid #SARSCov2 #DavosSafe #BringBackMasks #CovidConscious #CleanAir #CovidCautious

Look, we’ve been here before.

My grandpa smoked two packs a day for most of my memory of him. Everyone did. Doctors literally prescribed cigarettes for stress. They said it was good for you. Made you look cool. Helped you lose weight. Whatever.

He felt fine until he didn’t.

That’s exactly what’s happening with COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it. People are catching this thing two, three times a year and acting like it’s nothing. Just a cold. Just the sniffles. Meanwhile, their blood vessels are getting shredded. Their organs are taking hits. Their brains are leaking.

But sure, tell yourself it’s fine."

https://www.dilatemag.com/post/covid-isn-t-a-cold-it-s-cigarettes-all-over-again

#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

Look, we’ve been here before.

My grandpa smoked two packs a day for most of my memory of him. Everyone did. Doctors literally prescribed cigarettes for stress. They said it was good for you. Made you look cool. Helped you lose weight. Whatever.

He felt fine until he didn’t.

That’s exactly what’s happening with COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it. People are catching this thing two, three times a year and acting like it’s nothing. Just a cold. Just the sniffles. Meanwhile, their blood vessels are getting shredded. Their organs are taking hits. Their brains are leaking.

But sure, tell yourself it’s fine."

https://www.dilatemag.com/post/covid-isn-t-a-cold-it-s-cigarettes-all-over-again

#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPlus #covid19 #covid #SARSCov2 #DavosSafe #BringBackMasks #CovidConscious #CleanAir #CovidCautious

"There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers (metastatic progression)."

https://buds.org.uk/covid-and-cancer/

#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

https://x.com/SMpwrgr/status/1971532910273679570

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5PWCFTJ

Link to Aussie health care survey. Please take 10min to advocate for clean air in health care.

#CleanAir #Covid #covid19 #AusCovid19 #WearAMask #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPlus #covid19 #covid #SARSCov2 #DavosSafe #BringBackMasks #CovidConscious #CleanAir #CovidCautious

"It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, 'We knew how to protect you and we didn't do it. We have access to a technology to prevent airborne disease, something that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today would kill for, and we refuse to use it,'" she said while pointing to her mask.

https://www.today.com/health/violet-affleck-un-address-covid-children-rcna233387

#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver