🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@Pat

Call it whatever you will, the plain fact of the matter is the number of deaths from covid in the USA as a result of the new strain and new therapeutics is in the same range, and even lower than, common every day diseases.

The pandemic is over, no two ways about it.

@inanna

@stux did they open the dutch borders yet? I think I can slip off for a visit soon and we can have that beer

@inanna

Its almost like its a completely different strain or something ::shrug::

@Pat

@Pat

The pandemic death rate right now is on average ~ 1/4 what you state, around 250 give or take, This is in the same ball park as other common respiratory illnesses.

@icedquinn

@icedquinn My solution is to defer all votes to dogs. World peace over night!

@Pat Apples and oranges... in 2020 it was an entierly different strain and the mortality rate was significantly higher than we see with covid today.

Comparing the two like they are the same is nothing less than dishonest.

@Pat @icedquinn

> In mid-2020, Fauci said 20,000 cases a day was bad and unacceptable. We're at about 200,000 cases a day now.

Looking at cases and not deaths, especially over long periods of time is not helpful. We have different strains and different ways to handling the disease now. 20K cases int he past equated to a lot of death, 20K cases now equates to relatively little death.. apples and oranges.

The fact is the death rate is minimal and at a rate comparable, and even below, many common disease, the pandemic is over.

> We just had every major news network clear the decks and spend virtually every minute of air time to cover the deaths of 20 people who were shot in Texas. But hundreds of people dying every day gets no coverage. More people died from COVID-19 during the time that that shooting was taking place than died from the shooting itself.

They were stupid for putting so much emphasis on 20 deaths out of 300 million people. They would be almost as stupid for focusing on a disease that is causing a death rate comparable to common every day diseases like the flu.

> And what about the more than one million people who died needlessly? When will there be accountability for that? Don't their greiving family members count?

People die during pandemics, its tragic and we should learn from it and figure out how to better handle it in the future, no doubt. But that doesnt change the fact that the pandemic is over and COVID is no more worth our attention than the flu at this point.

Looks like in about a month I will officially be in charge of running an entire company that is publicly traded.. Will be weird running a company on the stock exchange but I'm up for the challenge,

@stux Not blocked in china here, and thankfully we do have chinese people who use our service to get access to the fediverse and post anti-chinese content,

So effectively chinese users can reach your server through us,

@Pat

Influenza deaths per day (143) are at a similar scale right now as covid deaths (280) with covid. If we compare lower respiratory disease as a whole without counting covid it is a significantly higher rate (428).

As far as I'm concerned the pandemic is over and covid is no more a concern than other common diseases.

@icedquinn

@Hyolobrika@mstdn.io

Now I can see it...

@scenesbycolleen

@conatus@octodon.social Fuck all the fruit!

@Hyolobrika@mstdn.io

I assume this is meant to be a reply to some post, but I cant see the original post.

@scenesbycolleen

@louisrcouture Oh is M1 that arm based one?

@Hyolobrika@mstdn.io

If he wanted me I'd be down

@wjmaggos

@stux Whats new, how ya been doing lately.

@divVerent lol probably :)

@icedquinn Can I help?