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10th COVID wave now surging in the US, amid total silence in the corporate media

www.wsws.org 10th COVID wave now surging in the US, amid total silence in the corporate media

The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned to unending waves of mass infection, death and debilitation with Long COVID.

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10th COVID wave now surging in the US, amid total silence in the corporate media

www.wsws.org /en/articles/2024/12/20/irud-d20.html

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10th COVID wave now surging in the US, amid total silence in the corporate media

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The issue is that it’s less severe, partially because people have immunity and partially because the virus is weaker (this happens with new illnesses - they get less fatal and spread more).
But wastewater isn’t newsworthy. It never has been. It’s disingenuous to say the media isn’t covering this when ERs are NOT having issues and people aren’t dying.
Many doesn’t the media have mass coverage of the common cold? Why don’t they cover norovirus? Endemic shit that doesn’t kill people isn’t really newsworthy.
- Copying from my response where you copied this elsewhere, because it's good to quash misinformation:
  because the virus is weaker (this happens with new illnesses - they get less fatal and spread more).
  This isn't true. It's a debunked theory from the 1800s. Viruses evolve chaotically, sometimes strengthening sometimes weakening. There's no general rule that they get weaker and COVID's reduction in lethality is due to other factors.
- Eh, shifts on the stock market and pretty random political moments make the news all the time. Not to mention the weather and sports.
  A little, “hey, contagions are about at the moment, if you’re vulnerable or just not keen, act accordingly” wouldn’t be misplaced at all.
  Bottom line is we have a cultural problem with general illness. Something something capitalism something something.
  
  Yeah, there's an important difference between having covid and having covid with no herd immunity.
  I caught covid during the pandemic, it was around a month after receiving the vaccine. So actually I never even got a fever. I had like a day of cold symptoms, never even showed positive on lateral flow.
  But since my girlfriend did test positive, as per the rules here at the time, I did a proper lab test. That confirmed that yes I had covid at the time or close to when I had the test.
  So at the very height of the immunity provided by the vaccine I still technically caught the virus. Which makes sense.
  So, with the general increase in immunity there can be a lot of covid detected in wastewater, but many or most of those people putting that waste out may only be having cold level symptoms.
- Less severe at first maybe but plenty of studies showing long term damage from what starts as a mild cold. If reporting was being done on the science, that's what it would say but reporting is very very limited.
- You’re spreading disinformation. This one is not less severe. I know a couple of people who were hospitalized with this strain, and everyone else I know who’s gotten it were knocked on their ass.
  
  By all means, I’d love to see your data.
  Not sure why you’d bring anecdotes into this?
  
  This sounds like an anecdote.

Unfortunately, misinformation coupled with the potential expense of paying for a costly vaccine have resulted in extremely low vaccination rates for COVID-19. Per the latest CDC data, only 21.0 percent of American adults reported that they have received the latest vaccine released at the beginning of the Fall. Coverage of children is even worse at 10.6 percent, or approximately half the rate of adults.
Woke up Christmas day (today) with a sore throat. So far testing negative, we'll see in two days. I'm still one who wears a mask in every public indoor place, but it's impossible to be safe if everyone else is judging precautions by feels and not science.
Yes, it's too late to eliminate it, but 21% vaccinated is not just willfully ignorant about the long-term health effects, it also shows an astounding lack of care and concern for each other. Just depressing.

Remember when Trump would hide the effects of COVID, but the media did it for him anyways, and it's treated as a victory for public health?
Remember that the CDC was told to stop documenting COVID stats, even though it helps everyone, not just Americans?
Dystopias seem better than reality lately.

What is so dystopian about this?

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