Lol we could still just do an actual lockdown (worldwide) for a few weeks and be in vastly better shape, but it would ruin capitalism.

End capitalism, global co-operation, lockdowns, mobilise emergency forces and army to help, strict enforcement. Pandemic would be over in 3 years max

Yeah, the pandemic is "over", now it's just endemic, so you can get COVID randomly in the same way you can catch the flu.

There's plenty of things we could be doing to make the world safer from covid (and other respritory viruses), but only very marginalized peoples are fighting for them. Better air filtration. Widespread use of Far-UV technology (UV lights that are harmless to humans, but absolutely destroy viruses and mold). Better sick time policies.

None of these are a solution, but we could probably live in a world with even less viral influence than 2019 if we really tried.

The climate change thing is the number one reason that I still keep up precautions. Like oh how did ignoring scientists for the last 70 years go for us?

Point is, anglo culture is too focused on its pleasures to sacrifice anything even for its own survival.

You can't blame this one on anglos (other than in the sense that they engineered it), everyone is non-masked and pretends it's gone

"How many realities can I deny with one stone?"

Wow, we are still claiming this shit? Lol

Endemic means predictable seasonal patterns, which isn't happening because of our constant mass incubation of new mutations. The pandemic phase won't end until universal zero covid is implemented by communists, or a magic sterilizing vaccine covering all possible variants appears

The more you zoom out, and the longer this has gone on, the less data points we've had resulting in far less accuracy when averaged at greater scale. At a county level, there's been traveling spikes moving throughout the country in unmonitored counties that are basically feeding the surrounding areas and keeping the floor raised.

Also as this has gone, and with the variety of variants, the synchronicity between people's immunity to any specific variant has become wildly out of step. So you get half your population immune during one wave, and then a few months later their population wanes and you see a sudden spike because the next county over caused an outbreak in your now immune less population.

I'm afraid I don't have the screenshots for it anymore but a really good example was in Monroe county Florida they began monitoring out of nowhere, and then suddenly spiked higher than anything the neighboring (and well populated) miami-dade county saw the entire pandemic. Monroe county (and eventually Miami-Dade) then stops monitoring and we have no clue what's happening down in that area of Florida.

Anyway tldr, the raised floor we're seeing is being sustained by the unmonitored counties spiking that we're not seeing.

Oh, I do have Seminole county which did something similar, but we had much more data. Seminole County neighbors Orange County (Disney, etc) and popped higher than any recorded data we had the Disney area.

Here's when I noticed Monroe county spiking and saved some of the data. https://hexbear.net/comment/3919179

No it’s not.