So Covid just went away, huh?

[live love laugh]

We have gotten updates about Covid rates and vaccines every year around this time starting in October. This year it’s just crickets. I guess we’ll just have to monitor ourselves and our families.

America is Youre-on-your-own-istan now.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. My primary-care team gave me the latest COVID shot last week.

I'm imminocompromised, so am high priority.

[a kennedy]

2. Yah, I think this gawd damn administration trashed the department that would have followed and kept track

of this info. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Silver Gaia]

23. They did.

I remember it.

[mucifer]

3. Get vaccines while you can

[Raftergirl]

4. I am subscribed to 'Your Local Epidemiologist". Excellent information source.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/

I also listen to This Week in Virology. It’s a weekly podcast. It is excellent and does a lot of in depth discussions on the latest studies, etc.

[Scrivener7]

5. I'm a vax fan. Got the new one in September.

[wiggs]

6. Correct. 'If there's no testing, there's no Covid.' TSF. nt

[GopherGal]

7. And vaccines do nothing but give you autism

Public Health activities slashed by the DOGE-bags and/or BrainWorm Bobby include monitoring/inspecting for things like food poisoning and, of course, flu. IIRC epidemiologists have been worrying about a new bird flu jumping species (again) but ya know, it takes funding to look for it...

In addition to that, there's a new flu variant going around. It seems to have taken hold in Japan, UK, and Canada, but we don't have robust data collection on how much it's spreading in the US.

[Johonny]

8. Luckily other countries are tracking.

It's going to be a bad flu season, unfortunately

[erronis]

9. Remember how the white man tried to wipe out the indigenous people with smallpox?

Well, it's coming back to bite us.

[not fooled]

12. Acting President Stephen Miller says US should have 100 million people, tops

200+ million people gotta go...draw your own conclusions.

[czarjak]

19. 100,000,000 White People

Doubtless.

[Lemon Lyman]

10. -

We'd been waiting for our primary care doc to get the vax in for months this year. They'd requested it, but it was not arriving. We finally gave up a few weeks ago and got it at Walgreen's. Was surprised to learn that my shitty health coverage no longer covered the Covid vax, at least not at Walgreen's (the flu, Tdap, & MMR were covered at my doc's office). It was $250. Paid it b/c I'd waited in line already for so long.

The only other time over the past 5 years that a Covid vax wasn't covered is when I got the Novavax at Costco 12/23. Costco didn't take my insurance. Didn't know about it before time. Again, paid it b/c we'd waited in line and all that.

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. I got my shot yesterday at a CVS

Intended to make an appointment earlier after reading about the hassle people were having getting it.

Walked in about 1pm, no wait, no hassle about being under 65, and was done less than 20 minutes later.

Ordinarily I'd go to a local pharmacy, as I hate big corporations and chains, but I was driving by and decided to give it a shot. The last couple years I was turned away by the local place as I wasn't quite old enough.

[moonscape]

13. Our local hosp put back a mask rule, and

at my oncology they did as well.

[Tanuki]

14. This may be helpful:

https://www.cdc.gov/cfa-modeling-and-forecasting/rt-estimates/index.html

[Trueblue1968]

15. I always wear a mask. Diagnosed w serous uterine cancer and thyroid. My immune

System is bad. I am having surgery on thyroid and when that is removed, later in 2026 I should be ok. I will always wear a mask. Scared of bad flu and covid.

[cliffside]

38. And a reminder for those who are sick to stay home or if that is not possible to wear a mask. nt

[Intractable]

16. Got my booster today. They usually don't hurt afterwards, but I got a real sore arm now.

[Aussie105]

24. That's a good thing.

Your immune system says . . . OI! What is this shit? ATTACK!

[Bluejeans]

17. Ohio's Department of Health publishes Covid-19 infection data

Look here: https://data.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/data/view/ohio-department-of-health-respiratory-dashboard?visualize=true

They even provide an option to view the data overlaid on a map of the state so you can see where the infections are occurring.

On a related note, we received our Covid shots yesterday. We got Covid last year after evading it for four and a half years and five vaccinations. I got a moderate case which felt just like when I had pneumonia in the late 1980s; not fun at all!

[Diamond_Dog]

34. One positive note from living in a Rethug controlled state, eh!

[spanone]

18. My son and his family of four just got over covid.

We have a crazy man running our Health department.

[niyad]

20. My supermarket has a Little Clinic inside. Very handy. Every time I am in

the store, regardless of the time, there are regular announcements reminding people that they have the covid, flu, and rsv vaccines, and urging everyone to get them. And there are posters with the same message throughout the store. I checked one day, they actually had the Moderna, I was in and out in less than 20 minutes, and just continued wuth my shopping.

Damn it, I STILL am waiting for that third arm!!!

[Hugin]

46. I only got a pathetic little sprout of the super cool prehensile tail I was promised...

It dried up and fell off.

[niyad]

47. That is just so disappointing!

[homegirl]

21. My M.D.

gave me a prescription for a special COVID shot for seniors just last week! And a flu shot while I was in the office.

[Aussie105]

25. Special COVID shot for the seniors?

Yep, a good thing - it's a cocktail of every current vaccine against COVID.

Them little buggers don't stand a chance when they come visiting!

[SunSeeker]

22. My son, my husband and I all got our flu and covid shots this fall.

Because we're not fools.

[rickford66]

26. Got Flu and COVID shots at CVS no appointment

[mnhtnbb]

27. The CDC is still monitoring waste water

and providing data on the level of viral activity detected in communities and states where the water is tested. Detecting the level of viral activity in waste water may be interpreted as to the level of a particular virus circulating in a community.

NWSS Wastewater Monitoring in the U.S. | National Wastewater Surveillance System | CDC https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html

[Coldwater]

28. My PCP at the VA told me

If I want a covid-19 shot, then go to CVS because they no longer offer the shot here at the VA

....and yes, that includes seniors.

[appleannie1]

29. I had it the very beginning of September, just before my appointment to get vaccinated.

A soon as I no longer had it, I got vaccinated for that and for the flu. I just spoke to a nurse today that had it a couple weeks ago. She said it was worse this time than it was the first time. She never wants to be that sick again. And she gets vaccinated.

[lastlib]

30. Hey, don't worry, people! The CDC....

is out there protecting us........oh, wait........ (Never mind!)

[KitFox]

31. Luckily I had a current vaccination, because I got covid for the first time

and it still hit me hard. I took Plaxovid and that really helped ease the razor sore throat and pounding headache. I had a dry cough and loss of taste and smell for several weeks. I don’t like to think how this strain would have affected me without having been vaccinated. This anti vax idiocy is infuriating! Be well, everyone!

[live love laugh]

43. I had it last year and the loss of taste and smell is very troubling. We only have 5 senses.

Losing two is huge. It took about 3 weeks to regain them even though all of the other symptoms were mild.

[markodochartaigh]

32. In addition to the vaccine, masking, and social distancing,

you might want to ask your doctor about Astepro nasal spray.


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40892398/

I have no other connection with the company other than using the nasal spray myself. I've been vaxxed and boosted all along, and with Asperger's social distancing is my superpower.
But I live in an area where people don't take the pandemic seriously and I got covid. It almost killed me and now I have long covid. My stamina is 10% of what it was before covid. I intend to do whatever I can to avoid another bout of covid.

[FakeNoose]

33. Almost every store and retail place I go into, the employees are all wearing masks

Almost none of the customers are though. What do the employees know that we don't?
On the other hand, getting vaccinated and boosted is the best way to fight Covid in its many forms.

[Melon]

39. Where?

I think I see a mask in public maybe once a month. Usually very elderly.

[FakeNoose]

41. I live in Pittsburgh PA, where store employees have been masking at least since last summer

Masking isn't required by law here. But the stores and employees seem to think that it's the safest thing to do.
I'm seeing a lot of it, and it makes me wonder.

[IronLionZion]

35. WHO still exists if you want info from outside MAGA control

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

Here's an EU agency https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/situation-updates

CDC is badly weakened these days.

I actively sought out and got the vaccine this year. Lots of folks did not. I'm hoping our side still has enough residual immunity built up since the other party is less vaccinated. COVID is with us forever. Variants descended from the Spanish flu from 1918 still exist in circulation.

[LogDog75]

36. I got my vaccination in early October

I got my Flu and COVID shots over a month ago so hopefully, I won't get either one this year.

[Initech]

37. Remember, half of this country was perfectly OK giving the demented psycho with a worm in his brain...

The keys to America's public health, along with his dangerously unqualified team of reality show hosts and wellness industry "experts".

[no_hypocrisy]

40. My dear friend passed away in May from Covid pneumonia while

in a hospital. He died and they diagnosed Covid after he passed.

[Swede]

42. Got my latest vax about a month ago.

It's still out there folks.

[Raftergirl]

44. My neighbors across the street are both down with Covid right now. Fortunately we don't live in a place

where our doctors are idiots, so they were both prescribed Paxlovid. Her husband is feeling better (got sick on Sunday) but she didn’t start feeling sick until Tuesday and tested negative until yesterday, so she is a few days behind him. She still is feeling awful and sounds terrible.

My H was worried as he hasn’t seen their cars move for days, which is very unusual. So I called and she told me what was up.

They get all the boosters but I don’t know if they had gotten their fall booster yet and I didn’t ask.

[Xavier Breath]

48. I'm noticing more masks in public since it turned colder.

At least some are aware of the danger.