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What you said is largely spot on and I don't want to diminish it, especially because I have no idea if you're in the US or not. People are testing far less, making wastewater a more reliable indicator(even if different variants may show up in different amounts in wastewater so comparing variant to variant is probably not a good idea). Here, too, doctors aren't doing COVID tests anymore, no matter the symptoms. It's all designed to keep it out of sight so it will be out of mind.
But, if you are in the US, it just goes to show how few people, even those making a real effort to stay up to date, know that you can report at home tests now to the NIH:
