COVID-19 Megathread 6: Return of the Omicron

[Bandit3 the Worker]

7-day positive rate is now down to 3.52%.

[Person Man]

7-day positive rate is now down to 3.52%.

If it’s under 2%, I’m going to try to stop wearing masks. If people don’t get vaccinated and they end up missing work, on a ventilator, or worse, it’s their own goddamn fault.

People who say things about the vaccines or do things to discourage vaccinations should be sued.

I’ll change my tune if this thing gets out of containment again but if it does, what good does public health do if enough people are this mentally ill?

Maybe there should be a rule where patient dumping is allowed if it is determined that the patient actively participated in a disinformation campaign.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Los Angeles County, the most populous (by far) county in the U.S. with about 10 million people, reported zero new COVID-19 deaths yesterday.

[Calthrina950]

7-day positive rate is now down to 3.52%.

If it’s under 2%, I’m going to try to stop wearing masks. If people don’t get vaccinated and they end up missing work, on a ventilator, or worse, it’s their own goddamn fault.

People who say things about the vaccines or do things to discourage vaccinations should be sued.

I’ll change my tune if this thing gets out of containment again but if it does, what good does public health do if enough people are this mentally ill?

Maybe there should be a rule where patient dumping is allowed if it is determined that the patient actively participated in a disinformation campaign.

A coworker at my job, who refused to get the vaccine because they "didn't trust it", contracted the virus earlier this week and is now out sick. At this point, that is what is going to happen with many people, and it shouldn't be allowed to prevent those of us who have been vaccinated to return to normal life.

[Person Man]

7-day positive rate is now down to 3.52%.

If it’s under 2%, I’m going to try to stop wearing masks. If people don’t get vaccinated and they end up missing work, on a ventilator, or worse, it’s their own goddamn fault.

People who say things about the vaccines or do things to discourage vaccinations should be sued.

I’ll change my tune if this thing gets out of containment again but if it does, what good does public health do if enough people are this mentally ill?

Maybe there should be a rule where patient dumping is allowed if it is determined that the patient actively participated in a disinformation campaign.

A coworker at my job, who refused to get the vaccine because they "didn't trust it", contracted the virus earlier this week and is now out sick. At this point, that is what is going to happen with many people, and it shouldn't be allowed to prevent those of us who have been vaccinated to return to normal life.

Again. The time of public health of ending and the time of personal responsibility is beginning. There is still a public responsibility of education so people can be responsible, however.

[DINGO Joe]

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1389070256480550917

[DabbingSanta]

"DeathSantis" is trending on Twitter because the left is enraged that Florida has ended all remaining COVID-related emergency orders.  The real stats show that there is no correlation between lockdowns and rate of transmission.  California and Oklahoma, two states which took very different approaches, have two of the lowest rates in the country.  Michigan, Florida, and Colorado have the highest.  Texas, which ended their remaining COVID measures over a month ago, is still seeing a decrease in cases.  It is time to reopen America now.  To all the communists who think otherwise, you are still welcome to wear a mask in public and isolate yourselves indefinitely.

[Holmes]

DeathSantis is pretty funny though.

[Zaybay]

"DeathSantis" is trending on Twitter because the left is enraged that Florida has ended all remaining COVID-related emergency orders.  The real stats show that there is no correlation between lockdowns and rate of transmission.  California and Oklahoma, two states which took very different approaches, have two of the lowest rates in the country.  Michigan, Florida, and Colorado have the highest.  Texas, which ended their remaining COVID measures over a month ago, is still seeing a decrease in cases.  It is time to reopen America now.  To all the communists who think otherwise, you are still welcome to wear a mask in public and isolate yourselves indefinitely.

...really? You're still doing this?

[It’s so Joever]

"DeathSantis" is trending on Twitter because the left is enraged that Florida has ended all remaining COVID-related emergency orders.  The real stats show that there is no correlation between lockdowns and rate of transmission.  California and Oklahoma, two states which took very different approaches, have two of the lowest rates in the country.  Michigan, Florida, and Colorado have the highest.  Texas, which ended their remaining COVID measures over a month ago, is still seeing a decrease in cases.  It is time to reopen America now.  To all the communists who think otherwise, you are still welcome to wear a mask in public and isolate yourselves indefinitely.

Well actually, you are the communist.

[QAnonKelly]

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1389070256480550917

Can we please stop posting stuff from this guy? He’s a doomed grifter that’s not even an MD.

[Frodo]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1389327388824293377

[Crumpets]

Los Angeles County, the most populous (by far) county in the U.S. with about 10 million people, reported zero new COVID-19 deaths yesterday.

https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1389341462052155396

[pbrower2a]

Michigan has lots of elderly "snowbirds" returning from Florida.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/Steve_Irvin/status/1389363707105333249

[DabbingSanta]

"DeathSantis" is trending on Twitter because the left is enraged that Florida has ended all remaining COVID-related emergency orders.  The real stats show that there is no correlation between lockdowns and rate of transmission.  California and Oklahoma, two states which took very different approaches, have two of the lowest rates in the country.  Michigan, Florida, and Colorado have the highest.  Texas, which ended their remaining COVID measures over a month ago, is still seeing a decrease in cases.  It is time to reopen America now.  To all the communists who think otherwise, you are still welcome to wear a mask in public and isolate yourselves indefinitely.

...really? You're still doing this?

Yes, really.  These are the facts.  I don't live in a left wing fantasy land like many people here.  Keep up the attacks, though.  I think more and more Americans will see through them as life returns to normal in red states.  I am really looking forward to President Ron DeSantis in 2025! 😂👍

[Holmes]

"DeathSantis" is trending on Twitter because the left is enraged that Florida has ended all remaining COVID-related emergency orders.  The real stats show that there is no correlation between lockdowns and rate of transmission.  California and Oklahoma, two states which took very different approaches, have two of the lowest rates in the country.  Michigan, Florida, and Colorado have the highest.  Texas, which ended their remaining COVID measures over a month ago, is still seeing a decrease in cases.  It is time to reopen America now.  To all the communists who think otherwise, you are still welcome to wear a mask in public and isolate yourselves indefinitely.

...really? You're still doing this?

Yes, really.  These are the facts.  I don't live in a left wing fantasy land like many people here.  Keep up the attacks, though.  I think more and more Americans will see through them as life returns to normal in red states.  I am really looking forward to President Ron DeSantis in 2025! 😂👍

Wouldn’t the facts actually lead you to believe Newsom would be the best president to handle the COVID crisis?

[QAnonKelly]

Also apparently on top of being a grifter and a doomer, that Ding guy is also a hypocrite. Allegedly he moved to Austria (where his wife is from) about six months ago and put his kids in a bougie private school because they weren’t doing well with digital school and kids in Europe don’t wear masks while he posts constant doom porn about schools reopening. Whatever if he has the money and the ability to do this and they’re his kids but it’s the hypocrisy of the matter.

[It’s so Joever]

https://twitter.com/Steve_Irvin/status/1389363707105333249

Good news.

[It’s so Joever]

"DeathSantis" is trending on Twitter because the left is enraged that Florida has ended all remaining COVID-related emergency orders.  The real stats show that there is no correlation between lockdowns and rate of transmission.  California and Oklahoma, two states which took very different approaches, have two of the lowest rates in the country.  Michigan, Florida, and Colorado have the highest.  Texas, which ended their remaining COVID measures over a month ago, is still seeing a decrease in cases.  It is time to reopen America now.  To all the communists who think otherwise, you are still welcome to wear a mask in public and isolate yourselves indefinitely.

...really? You're still doing this?

Yes, really.  These are the facts.  I don't live in a left wing fantasy land like many people here.  Keep up the attacks, though.  I think more and more Americans will see through them as life returns to normal in red states.  I am really looking forward to President Ron DeSantis in 2025! 😂👍

I am looking forward to a bunch of things, unfortunately PC right wingers would throw a fit if I said any of them.

[Dr. Arch]

The updated numbers for COVID-19 in the U.S. are in for 5/3 per: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

I'm keeping track of these updates daily and updating at the end of the day, whenever all states finish reporting for that day.

ΔW Change: Comparisons of Weekly Day-to-day Growth or Decline of COVID-19 Spread/Deaths.

• IE: Comparing the numbers to the same day of last week, are we flattening the curve enough?

Σ Increase: A day's contribution to overall percentage growth of COVID-19 cases/deaths.

• IE:What's the overall change in the total?

Brackets []: These represent the total change for the day, including backlogged reports, if any.

• These numbers are inflated relative to the actual reports for the day, so they are not used to calculate the comparative percentage shifts.

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4/25: <Sunday>

• Cases: 32,824,389 (+34,736 | ΔW Change: ↑7.43% | Σ Increase: ↑0.11%)
• Deaths: 586,152 (+272 | ΔW Change: ↓10.82% | Σ Increase: ↑0.05%)

4/26: <M>

• Cases: 32,875,045 (+47,456 [+50,656] | ΔW Change: ↓7.96% | Σ Increase: ↑0.15%)
• Deaths: 586,611 (+459 | ΔW Change: ↓4.57% | Σ Increase: ↑0.08%)

4/27: <T>

• Cases: 32,927,091 (+52,046 | ΔW Change: ↓15.27% | Σ Increase: ↑0.16%)
• Deaths: 587,384 (+773 | ΔW Change: ↓15.43% | Σ Increase: ↑0.13%)

4/28: <W>

• Cases: 32,983,695 (+56,604 | ΔW Change: ↓13.69% | Σ Increase: ↑0.17%)
• Deaths: 588,337 (+954 | ΔW Change: ↑9.15% | Σ Increase: ↑0.16%)

4/29: <Þ>

• Cases: 33,044,068 (+60,373 | ΔW Change: ↓9.99% | Σ Increase: ↑0.18%)
• Deaths: 589,207 (+870 | ΔW Change: ↓2.90% | Σ Increase: ↑0.15%)

4/30: <F>

• Cases: 33,103,974 (+59,906 | ΔW Change: ↓9.35% | Σ Increase: ↑0.18%)
• Deaths: 590,055 (+784 [+848] | ΔW Change: ↓2.85% | Σ Increase: ↑0.14%)

5/1: <S>

• Cases: 33,146,008 (+42,034 | ΔW Change: ↓22.79% | Σ Increase: ↑0.13%)
• Deaths: 590,704 (+649 | ΔW Change: ↓12.53% | Σ Increase: ↑0.11%)

5/2 (Yesterday): <Sunday>

• Cases: 33,180,441 (+30,701 [+34,433] | ΔW Change: ↓11.62% | Σ Increase: ↑0.10%)
• Deaths: 591,062 (+312 [+358] | ΔW Change: ↑14.71% | Σ Increase: ↑0.06%)

5/3 (Today): <M>

• Cases: 33,230,561 (+39,767 [+50,120] | ΔW Change: ↓16.20% | Σ Increase: ↑0.15%)
• Deaths: 591,514 (+452 | ΔW Change: ↓1.53% | Σ Increase: ↑0.08%)

[Roll Roons]

So looks like we'll almost certainly have a 7-day average of less than 50K tomorrow. How quickly will it take us to reach 40K? 30? 20?

[jamestroll]

So looks like we'll almost certainly have a 7-day average of less than 50K tomorrow. How quickly will it take us to reach 40K? 30? 20?

Pretty quickly. Warmer and more humid weather will help, with a bell curve of course. When it is very very hot in the sun belt you may see some small increases in Arizona and Texas. But overall the levels should be around 20k a day in a month!

I am sure we will have a winter surge next winter but topping out around 70k cases in a day rather than 300ksomething like last winter.

[DabbingSanta]

"DeathSantis" is trending on Twitter because the left is enraged that Florida has ended all remaining COVID-related emergency orders.  The real stats show that there is no correlation between lockdowns and rate of transmission.  California and Oklahoma, two states which took very different approaches, have two of the lowest rates in the country.  Michigan, Florida, and Colorado have the highest.  Texas, which ended their remaining COVID measures over a month ago, is still seeing a decrease in cases.  It is time to reopen America now.  To all the communists who think otherwise, you are still welcome to wear a mask in public and isolate yourselves indefinitely.

...really? You're still doing this?

Yes, really.  These are the facts.  I don't live in a left wing fantasy land like many people here.  Keep up the attacks, though.  I think more and more Americans will see through them as life returns to normal in red states.  I am really looking forward to President Ron DeSantis in 2025! 😂👍

Wouldn’t the facts actually lead you to believe Newsom would be the best president to handle the COVID crisis?

What about Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Alabama?  They are also among the lowest rates.  Stop cherry-picking data!

[It’s so Joever]

So looks like we'll almost certainly have a 7-day average of less than 50K tomorrow. How quickly will it take us to reach 40K? 30? 20?

Probably soon enough given vaccinations.
It could be all of these hit within the next few weeks.