“The science of COVID has not changed,” Nuzzo says. If you test positive for COVID-19, you’re likely contagious for a few days at least and risk spreading the coronavirus to others.
The policy change under consideration may be a reflection of the fact that the impacts of spreading COVID-19 are less consequential than they used to be, at least from a public health perspective. Deaths and hospitalizations went up this winter, but nowhere near as high as they did in previous years. In fact, hospitals were mostly OK — not overwhelmed — this virus season.
Translation: Many of you will still die, but the economic effect of your labor offsets the cost of your suffering and death.
Translation: we murdered many of the most vulnerable, have already written off those that managed to evade the orphan-crushing machine, and don’t give a shit about the tens of thousands of Americans that become vulnerable every day.
Translation: Pretty much everyone has antibodies for COVID now. Try not to get it; try not to pass it on if you do get it. But it’s endemic now; this is the new normal.
Translation: Many of you will still die, but the economic effect of your labor offsets the cost of your suffering and death.
Translation: we murdered many of the most vulnerable, have already written off those that managed to evade the orphan-crushing machine, and don’t give a shit about the tens of thousands of Americans that become vulnerable every day.
Translation: Pretty much everyone has antibodies for COVID now. Try not to get it; try not to pass it on if you do get it. But it’s endemic now; this is the new normal.