hard to believe the US is hit that much harder

is it though, considering the us response?

they stop mid 2022. people were still get nasty covid infections, one of parents had covid that caused very painful sore throat a year later, gave us a minor infection. then last year when the razor blade variant was running around, i had in sept. i believed it was partially responsible for triggering atopic dermatitis.

they also arnt reporting all the raping resulting in pregnancies thats been happening too.

its called sequelae, alot of viruses can cause post-viral syndromes, long covid is the unofficial term. i believe it triggered my atopic dermatitis more early than usual.

long covid isnt a medical term, i thinks it called sequelae for complications outside of an infeciton.

did you have any other symptoms. usually coughs dont last that long. could be bronchitis from cold, flu. i had covid last year and it cause really nasty symptoms. funny thing is the covid dint really cause alot of coughing per se, as it resulted in so much sputum from the lungs it irrittated me to cough instead.

amazon has pretty cheap tests, grocery store sell its, but they are quite expensive.

its only gets reported in the news, if the new variant is particular severe, like last year, otherwise you never hear about covid. also people around me, dont think it exists anymore, even in a covid-conscisous city.

they are expensive, online t hey are super cheap when ordered in bulk. i ordered some last year.

like the US, the fear of covid makes businesses nervous, so they pressure the govts to stop reporting it, also they are afraid of making REMOTE work a thing again, because they lose out on revenue from people going to businesesses.

Covid 19 is regarded as endemic by most epidemiologists. It doesnt matter how many strains there are, its purely that fhe disease is now at a relatively steady and predictable level.

Unlikely, it remaina a reportable disease in the UK. We're about 1/6 the population of the US yet we're not getting 1/6 of the deaths. Most of Europe will also closely monitor covid deaths and the population of europe as a whole is over twice that of the USA.

I suspect one reason more people are dying in the US is because more people.refused to get vaccinated during the pandemic? And if those people are disproportionatelt more elderly (because elderly people tend to be more conaervative) then they are also more vulnderable to dying from covid when they get it.

Oh that's good to hear!

I've heard it from them, but maybe there's not that much being done in our area/country to find a solution for long covid ( or maybe there is and we just don't know about it/have any breakthroughs ).

It's rare but not impossible. A Case Report: Long Post-COVID Vaccination Syndrome During the Eleven Months After the Third Moderna Dose - PMC

Colds don't cause chronic illness and brain damage.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/150-research-primates-got-diarrhea-flooding-lab-with-priceless-vaccine-data/

Shigella is a gastrointestinal horror, striking more than 200 million people in the world each year and killing more than 200,000, mostly children

Or lack thereof

Makes it easier to share, like this.

I'd rather not order from amazon. I had to order from aliexpress once, because there was literallly no other place to order a three-way cord switch. Got bombarded with spam for weeks. Amazon is equally vile as aliexpress imo. I'll check my local drug stores first.

It can attack every system within our bodies, and even hurt our brains if we're unlucky. We failed to contain and stop the spread. Now it's mutated and will be with our species for the foreseeable future. Videos of those with really bad long covid are so sad. Physics Girl had her whole YouTube channel flipped and talked about it openly. Fascinatingly horrifying.

I got long COVID and now my memory is like the guy from Memento.

Obviously I'm exaggerating, I have trouble remembering what I've done yesterday though

I'm afraid that statement precludes your parents from being described as intelligent. Intelligence is the ability to extrapolate meaning and truth from information, which they evidently cannot do.

This year I had a nasty cough for 5 weeks. It was HMPV. Never knew such thing even existed before taking the test.

Check if you can get a pack of multpile tests. I was able to get one that checks for covid, flu and hmpv.

Couldn't find the one I've used, but just discovered that Boiron, the fake pharma company, is making covid tests as well. We're doomed.

Wut. You can take a screenshot of a data table.

But it makes it a lot more difficult to share the text. And it's impossible for blind people to read

I bet the avg age is 97

I was chatting with someone recently with lots of long covod symptoms. They were mild but persistent for over a year. Her doctor said it's not long covid as too mild. I was thinking to myself, isn't everything on a spectrum. If her match, it's covid, unless he has an alternative answer. Unless you see black and white, it's horwes, not zebras.

Then how would you have done it, now that you have access to the data?

Your downvotes are wild and really indicative on the type of people here. Jesus Christ lemmy likes to exist in a bubble and as soon as you provide critical thought or say something someone doesn't want here (and yet is still on topic)? Downvoted.

Anyways, you're right. It sucks but you're right.

Case in point couple of years ago we had a trifreca of influenza, COVID and RSV. Health Canada was reporting on all 3. To your point the people who die to this day of influenza and RSV is insanely high. We don't hear about them constantly. COVID is now part of that crew. Will never go away. Too transmissible and it adapts too fast.

If you are older get the RSV shot yearly. Everyone else, get your flu and COVID shot yearly.

YMMV but in Canada recommendation is once a year. Flu & COVID shot. I do it because I'm a good citizen and I care about those around me including and not limited to my son with diabetes and my aunt's recovering from cancer and my elderly parents.

It's surprising how many of the long COVID symptoms are common with ADHD. I will expand on this topic later but right now I have to find my car keys.

Have you checked behind the fridge?

Young people too are increasingly requesting assisted suicide. I read an article about how in 2025, of the 8 people that made a request through the largest assisted suicide association (DGHS) due to ME/CFS, 5 were between 24 and 29 years old. There are sadly no official numbers for total assisted suicides due to ME/CFS (or any other reason) available.

Looking at a statistic I found, in 2024 the same association helped just 4 people in the same age range request assisted suicide:

A table.

Sorry, this is wrong. Right now it's about 200 people per day

https://www.pmc19.com/

And that's not worldwide. That's just in the US.

Still, we are talking about 90+% for 4ish% of global population. It's not school shootings, these numbers should be outlandish for everyone

Between TikTok, ADHD, and COVID, I genuinely can't tell what's to blame nowadays.

There's a really bad surge in Texas right now that hit me like a truck. I'd had it a few times before, but this was by far the worst and the shortness of breath and brain fog aren't going away this time.

doesn’t that say 5.4 daily?

Meanwhile RFK Jr, the anti-vaxx nut job that is in charge of the HHS, is doing his damnedest to prevent the most recent version of the covid vaccine from making it to market.

that is not how endemic vs pandemic is defined and covid is not currently the same strain for most of the world

Can you point me to where it mentions that 5.4 stat? I'm probably misreading a chart.. I found this section which I think moldy_rice was reverencing:

you’re probably right

Y'all are so cordial, wtf

The mental and physical degradation is just brushed aside.

COVID 19 was a scam.

Viral diseases have always caused many deaths per year, especially in susceptible and vulnerable populations.

COVID was the only one to receive abnormal media coverage.

Question: "infections per 100,000" - with what disease? in what time or spacial frame? Personally and professionally I'm not just concerned with SARS-CoV-2. What disease? What sort of exposures are likely for you? Influenza is not yet on the rise, but likely will be. When it starts up get your vax, you'll likely get about 3 months of protection. If you have immune issues, consider a second flu shot in 3-4 months. Masking, handwashing. Rotavirus sucks, but handwashing takes care of most of the risk. Measles? Get your vax!

Time and intensity are important. Are you going to be outdoors, with a small distantly space group and/or over a shorter time frame? Is this event/ time with a larger group, lots of heavy breathing (gym, singing, use your imagination), indoors, for a longer period of time?

Many infectious diseases have post acute syndromes. Consider which of those is worth the risk to your life and those around you.
Beyond the acute phase: a comprehensive literature review of long-term sequelae resulting from infectious diseases
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10864624/#s3
Then mask up.

At the moment PMC19 modeling shows that we are in the beginning of the 13th peak in Covid19. Ask yourself, do you wish to participate in this peak, or no?
If no then mask up.

Go a little more granular, local, small, find the waste water surveillance for your county, if it's available.
Look at the county level for PMC19, which alas is from the previous weeks data. PCR takes time to run. Same for waste water surveillance.

Consider if your town is a big tourist destination/ had a big influx recently for some big event. My town has huge events nearly every weekend of the Summer, which attracts people from other areas. I generally avoid such events, since 2020. And if I decide to go, I wear a mask.

Consider where you are going:
Regardless of those numbers, anyplace where large numbers gather (big group choral event), or large numbers pass through (grocery store), wear a mask.

Consider how much your death from cardiovascular disease, which is increased for 3 months post covid19, yes even a mild case, will mean to those around you. Also consider how much the death of someone you care about will mean when you get a mild/ asymptomatic and pass it along to them, e.g. your unvaccinated!?! elder parent.

Consider social implication in a small group - does everyone vs anyone vs no one in that group do anything useful in preventing the spread of infectious disease, e.g. testing, masking, handwashing, vaccination, participate or not if obviously sick (oh it's just a sniffle, oh, it's just allergies, oh X obvious symptom goes without any change in behavior whatsoever).

Apparently I can keep going on this, and have probably already "flooded the zone". These are some consideration.

tl;dr - wash hands, wear a mask, get vaxxed, avoid exposure to ignorant people who don't give a care for themselves or for you.

Over 7 million reported deaths is not a goddamn scam. COVID 19 is an order of magnitude more dangerous than your average seasonal flu, and often causes severe long-term harm to survivors.

Most of all, we had a chance to get rid of it. Even if it were just another flu, that would be incredibly significant. Now it's endemic, the world is permanently a worse place for it, and idiots like you are a contributing reason why

where can I read about that cause wtf?!

(also those poor victims)

Wait a minute, you say that covid will be with us for ever but didnt a number of covid AND influenza species actually go completely extinct back in the end of 2020 or 2021 because of how well the lockdowns were implemented snd adhered to?

WHo is to say that such a lockdown cant be reimplemented and surprisingly extincts certain species of respiratory transmissible illnesses ...like ALL covid species?