Lmao that bodes well :doomjak:
But over the past two weeks, while the number of Covid cases in the United States has increased by 181%, the number of hospitalizations has increased by 19% and the number of deaths has decreased by 5%.
fuck you give it 4 weeks, that’s when the hospitalizations and deaths catch up
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/28/1068643344/cdc-omicron-covid-19-delta-revise-estimates
This is sort of outdated by now since there’s been such a dramatic increase in cases over the last week, but the CDC recently posted “oopsie, lol, most of these cases are actually still delta cases”. Omicron didn’t magically displace delta. It’s an ongoing process. So there’s going to be a spike in deaths even if omicron really is less severe, and they don’t really know that either.
That’s such a wild way of doing the numbers. A 5% increase in deaths is okay because there have been 181% increase in cases. As long as we get as many people as we can sick, we can accept higher and higher amounts of death. Weird how much sense that makes in the light of the recent CDC decision and the whole pandemic response since day 1. It’s almost like they realize that.
And a lower death rate doesn’t even necessarily imply less virulence! If the vax mostly stops delta from giving someone covid, but isn’t as effective in stopping omicron (but still prevents major illness), you could have two variants with the same virulence but in this case omicron “looks better” since the death rate is lower but inherent virulence is the same.
the deaths decreased by 5% (but yea this is still bullshit because the hospitalizations/deaths come later)
There was a slight dip in deaths before the peak of deaths last holiday season too, but lots of blue checks on Twitter are hanging onto that tidbit. I know pundits are dumb as hell, but it’s funny that they keep falling for the exact same fallacies during this pandemic repeatedly.
When the numbers look bad, just change the numbers!
Can’t hit the 1 million deaths high score if you change the meaning of death :eddie-murphy-taps-head:
Jokes aside but if the next month goes the way I expect, I can totally see them doing the “oh they died with Covid and co-morbitities, not of Covid” thing.
Election year, gotta make sure we :vote: for the party of Joe Biden who very clearly and uncontroversially won the battle against the virus!
we were hoping we could eliminate the virus, but it’s not in the nature of the virus to eliminate it
muh virus nature
If a disease doesn’t kill you (it definitely can) then it’s unimportant how quickly it spreads, we should probably ignore it altogether :very-smart:
