COVID is back, says French PM

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34. In that post, I only reported on the deaths, not on the cases

When I do report on cases, I try hard to remember to specify "reported cases". If reported cases are trending up, as they are in the U.S. and the world currently, that is bad news, given the general trend of a declining percentage of the cases being reported.

Anyway, I'm assuredly not one of the Covid bubbly boo brigade that posts about how fine things are, as long as we're vaxxed and boosted, and the rest can fuck off and die as many here do. I wrote my post to support what you were saying that it is not riskless by showing, according to the stats, that Covid deaths for the fully vaxxed and boosted elderly are still several times their vehicle crash fatality rate. Obviously if covid deaths are being seriously undercounted, then the multiple of actual covid deaths to vehicle fatalities is even worse. Some say covid deaths are being overcounted by ascribing the cause of death to Covid when they died with Covid, not because of it. EDIT: I don't doubt that that's true, but the reverse also happens -- their cause of death is abscribed to something else, but Covid exacerbated it enough to cause the other condition to be fatal.

In my post above, I linked to this post, https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3000544 , I said

So those "smartest people in the room" types that constantly console us that we're perfectly safe and everything is fine if we are keeping up with our boosters are, well, right if one considers 4.5 times the auto crash fatality rate to be perfectly fine

At 4.6X the auto fatality rate, I don't feel perfectly safe. But I'll admit I'm a tentative driver, not a "real man" driver like I am supposed to be.

Back to covid -- I don't want the hospitalization risk and the long covid risk either.

As a progressive, I don't want to be responsible for spreading the damn thing around or aiding in the development of new mutations. But I realize that's a silly "woke" personality glitch of mine.

And I don't want to blow off the risk to the unvaxxed immunocompromised who are following sound medical advice and wish them all dead.

Edit: Covid deaths for the elderly are still several times the vehicle crash fatality rate. ==>

Covid deaths for the fully vaxxed and boosted elderly are still several times their vehicle crash fatality rate.