New Covid variant has been identified and is already spreading in 25 states
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I recently got hit with COVID and so did my wife and kids. We all tested positive and have had recent boosters for COVID and flu. Since I'm in a city where one of these states is listed, I kind of wonder if I got this variant.
i had it last september, the razor blade throat pain was very intense, also because it prevented me from swallowing too and anything entering the eosphagus would cause me to immediately cough up thick phelgm. i couldnt eat or drink for a few days.
Jfc, that sounds miserable. I'm glad you made it through.
So, this will be extra, extra bad if we have another covid-like event in the USA. People are already divided, things are rough otherwise, and lockdowns will not work under this administration. It would be total fucking chaos
Wait, I thought they wanted to declare marshal law to avoid the election... I bet we start hearing kore about how we can't have an election because of covid...
No worry under trump there will be no covid.
Or, will it be so bad we can't have an election... hmmmm
Quite possibly both in the same sentence
Or, will it be so bad we can’t have an erection
Just like how there were no gays in Iran, according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
And again, the population will be affected disproportionately based on population density, which happens to correlate strongly with political leanings.
That's not how it played out though. Rural areas had higher death rates.
Number of infected and rate of spread was higher in higher density areas.
funny how they stop reporting or study epidomiology covid, when businesses started demanding things to open up, its likely we wont see the true statistics of covid.
Just wear a mask. I bought 400 of them a while ago on Amazon for $40. One way masking sucks, but is highly effective.
If Trump's dumb ass hadn't understocked the PPE last time, we could've just all worn masks and then generally went about our business otherwise.
with rfk jr, trashing all vaccine initiatives, it will be a combo of OLD favorites, measles, tdap, mmr, CHICKENPOX. we might see TB again since people are likely to not comply with antibiotic regime, TB being a very persistent bacteria, its naturally resistance to most antibiotics due to its waxy coating the bacteria has, and it develops immmunity to drugs in general.
I wish there was a map by county or something. Some states are just too large that it would be great to be able to see hotspots in particular.
We don't have that kind of granularity anymore, both because RFK Jr and DOGE have significantly cut public health funding and because there are so many variants out there now and so little difference between them in terms of presenting symptoms
Track CDN data.
Toronto has a huge spike this week in wastewater. That's a region of 6 million.
https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/health-inspections-monitoring/communicable-disease-surveillance-reports/integrated-respiratory-diseases-dashboard/
That doesn't break it down by variant either tho
theres usually one dominant one causing the latest symptoms. last year was the nasty razor blade sore throat one that was bypassing vaccines(i was vaccinated to covid few months prior) i was still hit with the covid full force.
Well, you don't get one.
Because RFK Jr is in charge, after DOGE gutted basically all the staff in charge of doing things lile that, as well as exposing basically all internal government webservices for foreign actors and random hackers to nose their ways in.
We could try and crowd source one, but at this point, doing so might mean the government decides those involved are domestic terrorists.
Welcome to fascism, with Ya'll Qaeda characteristics.
Reminder that during the less insane Trump Term 1, Trump spent the crucial initial months publically telling everyone it was China's fault, stymying coordination and response planning / early stage plan activation and eventually settled out selling Federally controlled supplies to the highest State/Hospital bidder.
Oh and don't forget to consider injecting yourself with bleach.
Remember when he paraded out the CEOs in front of TV cameras and said all these parking lots around the country would be set up for testing and vaxxing when the vax was ready? And that was his big plan to address the pandemic ...
Fudgy remembers.
They still exist, but the number of samples is orders of magnitude away from what we've been used to in the early years of the pandemic.
https://covariants.org/per-country?region=United+States
WEARING A MASK IS LIKE WEARING A CONDOM.
Would you risk a permanent disease for the sake of "ehh I dont like how it feels"?
Considering how well preventable STI's still get around, I'd say that sentiment is a little too common. That or a lot of people are hot garbage at risk assessment.
People are, in fact, hot garbage at risk assessment. See, for example, how many people refused to mask/vax during the height of the pandemic, and the concurrent death rates...
I think it's people believing it won't happen to them. There is risk, but I will be an exception.
I happen to know when my (now ex-) wife cheated on me, she raw dogged him... Never would have expected that from her, she's such a germophobe otherwise...
THE "D" was just too good for her.
we are evolutionarily disposed to take risks with sex.
"I can only breathe with a mask on my face when im hiding my identity to beat up on people of color!!! Any other time though, fuck off!!!"
I mean I would say its a heck of a lot easier. Having a condom all day would be kinda hard to deal with but wearing a mask is essentially the same as wearing a hat.
A mask is like socks and underwear for me: I feel weird if I don't have it on, especially when wandering about.
Yeah it does not have that much of a natural feel to me but its never been much of an imposition. The most difficult thing is I have glasses and live in a place that has winters so like my glasses can get fogged although my scarf does that to. I actually have an idea for next year on that. You know though it is kinda wierd though because now I kinda relate unmasked as kinda private and intimate. Like it feels a bit lewd to be walking around without one. Maybe like walking around without a shirt as a guy. So maybe more impolite than lewd.
For my part, I no longer have to figure out what face I should wear when around people. As someone with autism, adjusting to humanity can be troubling.
its kinda nice to because you see someone else with one and you give a little nod or such. I sorta miss hanging in a subculture and in a way this provides that nice little thing.
anti-vaxxers, conservatives likely dont wear condoms too, hence they have higher pregnancy and STDS.
Hard to find one small enough
It's more like wearing a condom so you don't spread your STI.
Forget the STI how is 18 years of child support gonna feel?
It’s actually only a good analogy if you have an STI you’re preventing giving to others.
Masks keep YOU from spreading what you have unless it’s KN-95 or better iirc.
Going to refer to my favourite meme of the pandemic and say masks work both ways
I like you.
<3 o7
Hell yeah
If this one doesn't take out Trump, I'm eating a Chinese bat myself.
Well, like last time, Trump will get treated by the latest medicines at Walter Reed and a vaccine while the rest of the country can get fucked.
country! try world. they made sure to specifically fuck other countries as well.
I am sniffing unpasteurized lines of pangolin right now so two steps ahead of you.
That doesn't sound like a succulent Chinese meal
trumps a GERMAphobe, thats why he got the it in the first place he most terrified of germs, alcohol, he and his father drove one of thier brothers to suicide through alcohol.
I don't know if I should upvote, like or downvote this news :D
It's good to spread important news, but it is a bad news, and a reminder of a failed containment, so how the some system is supposed to work!? Non-serious answers only
Downvote. Reasons:
This is clearly fake news by the LAME STREAM fake news media to damage
glorious leaderthe President's fantastic work to MAGA.By allowing other users to see this news they start holding the concept of a new variant that is spreading fast in their head and therefore they manifest it. If enough people manifest it, it becomes true (even though it is clearly not, see above).
Even though it is not real, COVID is also just a Chinese hoax that is just a flu so any reporting on it is spreading Chinese propaganda and therefore TREASON (and we downvote treason).
Are americans orks from 40k?
Naw Americans are the Imperium of Man. ie: hates anyone that is different, destroys everything it can't control, highly xenophobic (racist), and filled with more propaganda than Nazi Germany. and as of the past decade... most worship their emperor (Trump) as God.
Now Indians (India not Native Americans) and any country third world country... they are Space Orks. they can cobble together random trash and seemingly broken bits of technology to make cheap but useful stuff for their communities. while Americans (IoM) toss out old and broken tech... they take that broken/old tech and make computers and solar powered devices that look like they shouldn't work but somehow magically do.
Any evidence that they aren't?
Orks are pretty clever
great guys. now we are holding the concept of orks in our head. this is how you get orks.
Waaaaaagh
I'm American, and I found myself agreeing with this snark. Most of us are morons. I'm finally allowing myself to recognize this unfortunate reality.
The unfortunate reality is that a huge percentage of people are really stupid
Ashton Kutcher is instrumental in age controls in Europe by the way.
To be perfectly clear, he's a fucking piece of shit and the enemy. Stop using his fucking picture please. For reference I give you an alternate opinion on Ashton Kutchmer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UrEuQnoz6GA
oh yea they are part of the Scientology crew, him and mila kunis both fled to EUROPE after defending masterson's SA, they dint get the response they wanted faced increasing criticism, so they fled. likewise ELLEN degeneres fled shortly after when diddy got sentenced/convicted, speculating she was likely involved as well, it was on a reddit post a while back, im suprised it wasnt reported more.
asthon was responsible for harming SEX WORKERS, women more than he claimed help catch "child predators", it allowed police to SA and harass these women.
Alright if we get remote jobs again this time agree to absolutely not let this one go.
They listed jobs as remote before forcing us to come anyway last time and they will try again.
They’ve told us we can’t work from home. So that’s what I’m going to say. If they try to fire me I’ll use their own words against them.
We have stronger employment law where I live.
gotta have it in the contract.
The Pedophile-In-Chief will save us. Just like last time.
He's saving the rest of the world by unwittingly discouraging travel to and from the US.
Time to invest in ivermectin suppliers.
That was a fun little county fair roller coaster ride. Well worth the 2 tickets.
Figured it was going to be about his best friend being a horse - did not see that coming lol
and cattle, the dewormers for horse and cattle is much HIGHER does than for humans so it becomes toxic to people.
I've been boofing it for years now and my doctor says I'm as healthy as a horse
I wonder if boofing edibles weed is a thing
Be the change you want to see in the world
Fuck yeah, just in time for WWIII.
Influenza killed far more people than WW1.
Fortunately we have better mass destruction weapons now.
Influenza killed more than WW1, WW2, Vietnam and Iraq combined.
Yet, we spend infinite money on weapons, and $0 on virus research.
There won't be any vaccine for this one.
It's in my state but I'm not worried bc between Jesus and essential oils, all will be well. /s
Lotta people here getting "medical newsworthy" and "general populace newsworthy" confused...
with measles and polio much more virulent and antivaxxers are on the rise.
Good. Fuck humanity. We all deserve death. /HalfSARCASM
/r/im14andthisisdeep
This needs to be modernized to something like Billie Eilish, the modern version of Avril Lavigne.
I'm too old for either but I think Billie Eilish is a bit more substantial?
You might be right but the default for me is assuming these personas are all carefully crafted by their corporate handlers. We know Avril's was even though it wasn't known at the time. It seems like a requirement for someone to reach that level of pop stardom.
Could it be any more obvious?
FTFY
Friendly reminder that it's the most
improvisedimpoverished, uneducated, and imprisoned who inevitable suffer from these policies.RFK Jr will be fine
MacGyver is fucked
Yeah, thats why i advocate for physician assisted suicide. No matter what happens, its going to be me and people like me who suffer most. It doesnt really seem like anyone is actually inclined towards helping, so im pretty sure most of the people like me just want a humane way out.
Won't ever happen in US. Medical industry cashes in big time at end of life.
as he bathes in sewage laden waters, and drinks methylene blue, and bathes in animal carcasses.
Well not all at once, you gotta pace yourself. Also, y'know, wrap it up.
Nurgle dropping a remix of an old dish
Travelers spending way more time in the airport, increasing the likelihood of catching and transporting the virus, isn't the most optimal combination with this news.
thoughts and prayers /s
Incoming:
“It is what it is”
So, everywhere, then. Virus don't care 'bout no state boundaries.
Can we stop talking about this? Covid has evolved to the point of the common cold. The fact that it is spreading so quickly means it is minor.
Very few people die from colds.
A pandemic and works shut down and some people still don't know the difference between a cold, the flu and covid and the risks for each. Especially for the very young, elderly or immune compromised.
covid is anything but minor lol, its much more severe than a simple cold and it produces certain symptoms worst than flu, stop with the misinformation.
Im aware I had it 3 times.
Isn’t it just a bad cold at this point?
One could say the same for the original for some people. While others died from it. It has reduced its effect overall as variants and spread have built immunity. The danger of 2020 was not having any immunity at all while it spread like wildfire. But the fact that it's still around and mutating makes it at influenza level at a minimum, the next variant could be nasty, and look at us, joking about how it's not a big deal now. Until it suddenly is again, and we have politics running our science.
Don't let the guard down; disease is a bad thing, even if it's just a cold.
I hear ya. Honestly, if it were just as bad as the original, we’d be fucked. Society learned all the wrong lessons from the first pandemic.
What I learned from Covis is that we definitely won't be solving or surviving the environmental collapse.
The scary thing is that we'll have no way of knowing if a variant as bad or worse than the original appears. Or something else presenting a similar danger. Who's gonna tell us, or even know? RFK and the HHS he leads? I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.
We’ll know from the hospitals filling up or from the WHO warning everybody. It’ll be too late.
europe, japan, canada, australia, korea, etc. maybe.
We're fucked regardless. The only mystery is how it happens, as all vectors come closer. It's almost like the threats to society are sperm, and society is a fertile egg. They're all fighting to be the first, and it's a pretty close race at the moment.
What are we supposed to do though. We can't stay bottled up forever. And they don't give us vaccines anymore (only 70+ and risk groups here). I'd take it if I could.
Tell them you smoke and are therefore in the high-risk category.
No. The risk of long-term disability remains substantial.
Damn. You don’t hear about that stuff as much. I wonder how many people are affected by it and just don’t realize it.
You know how it seems like people got dumber?
Nah, that’s just TikTok. Jk
Around 10% of people get Long Covid after the first infection, chances go up with follow-up infections. Long Covid has a long list of possible symptoms (a friend of a friend had a really bad cough for three months and was always exhausted) with the more severe symptoms being rarer but still fucking scary (like ME/CFS).
If you never got tested for Covid, can you know if you have long covid?
Not sure. Afaik the symptoms can happen after any viral infection, it's just more frequent with Covid.
You don't hear that COVID was the #5 killer in 2025.
Literally no. But I also don’t check those stats. That’s crazy.
My uncle was one of those "it's just a cold" people, and now he's mostly disabled from long covid. Severe breathing problems and barely survived heart surgery last year. Before covid he was an active middle aged guy, working on a ranch and regularly going out hunting and fishing.
I knew it was bad originally, I just haven’t heard anybody I talk with having experiences with it in a long time. That’s why I assumed it wasn’t harmful anymore.
What kind of long term disabilities?
Diana Cowern of the Physics Girl YouTube channel is a great example of the impacts of long COVID - she was bedridden for 3 years, and still cannot function normally today. There are a handful of videos on the channel from throughout her struggle if you want to understand better.
Pulmonary complications. you’d have to walk around with those oxygen tanks if you want to do a brisk walk.
It's similar to chronic fatigue syndrome, caused by other viruses.
A couple of friends of mine got it recently as in a couple months ago and are still fucked up from it so its quite a bit worse than that depending on the person. I on the other hand can get away with a few weeks of recovery time from it.
Fair question, but I have seen a chest CT of a bad covid case and the lungs looked like a snowstorm.
The experience varies every case between the person, the vaccines, the variant, underlying issues, etc. Two holidays in a row, my family got it. In Jan 2021, our first experience and before any of us had vaccines, whatever we got knocked me out for 7 days but gave my dad a cold for 3 days. Jan 2022, round 2 but after a mix of vaccines, I got a tickle in my throat for a few days but it knocked my dad on his ass for a week.
What was last holiday season's variant, razor throat? There's multiple variables. We may be improving our immune responses over time as a whole, but logically, the reason we're hearing about variants spreading fast is because they've varied into something more successful. That includes, typically, something that improves its rate of spread. Don't rule out spread caused by trying to care for the immensely sick.
I love that you're already tagged with "idiot" lmao
Lol. We got tags here? Calling someone an idiot who just doesn’t know things is a great way to heal society.
Probably depends on the client. I have tags using the Thunder app.
They were tagged from before this, obviously.
either way. Number one rule here is “be civil”.
More like pneumonia.
Generally the variants have been getting less severe but easier to transmit. This is fairly common as variants with those characteristics survive better. Forcing your host to remain at home in bed makes transmission harder, so those variants are more likely to die out.
This doesn't have to be the case, but it is the trend.
This is why I was wondering if it was as like the cold now. Apparently not.
Oh, are we doing this again?