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COVID-safe dentists: (thanks sovietknuckles)
New wastewater tracking (replacing biobot): https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker
People also underestimate the danger of the flu. The flu kills people every year, and that's the mild, endemic one. Only reason it doesn't kill more is that we vaccinate at risk groups and people at high risk of spreading it. People sometimes call other things the flu, but if you get the real thing you know it.
We've avoided several major flu outbreaks because we look for them and take the threat seriously, and frankly, got lucky.
Influenza in the USA does 2x 9/11s a year.
In Australia last year covid killed 4x as many people as the flu. It's probably similar in other countries but most, like the US, stopped bothering with testing.
In terms of risk, it's now similar to the flu on an individual level, but way way more contagious. On average most people get a flu every 3-5 years, or something like that. While you can get covid 1-3 times a year, depending on how mutations play out.
And now it's being treated like it's a common cold.
Anybody even watching wastewater or anything anymore? It's so inconsistent and unavailable around me that I've basically accepted that we're always at a minimum of like half the level of the Delta surge. I'm just constantly on edge around people who don't mask.
This is the best resource for wastewater info if you're in the US:
Yeah, the problem with the nationwide stuff is the more you zoom out from the source the less resolution you have for your data. Like honestly it feels kind of reckless for researchers to be making nationwide claims based on wastewater nowadays when there are so many states with only a handful of monitoring sites. A single monitoring site doesn't tell us anything about the distribution of cases within that site's territory and the estimates only become dramatically more inaccurate the larger the territory the monitoring site is estimated to represent. Especially when we're outside of the typical large surges and the handful of monitoring stations you have in a geographic area aren't showing synchronous elevation in levels of infection. 
My state still offers a site with the info. but I'm also in a major city which probably makes useful data more available; every national source keeps shutting down, though…
I stopped bothering like a year ago; if it hadn't gotten better by then, I don't think it's likely to get better any time soon.
(Plus my city stopped reporting data)
can someone tell me why 95% of liberals and leftists are like this
a bad thing, XYZ will happen 10 million times
in an effort to warn about the dangers of XYZ, the liberal/leftist will say:
"dude, THOUSANDS of people are suffering from XYZ"
when really it's 10s of millions
Long Covid doesn't affect "hundreds of thousands" of people. The low end of estimates is 10%. That means at least 35 million people. Grow an amygdala
