Culture and society – Page 5 – An Echo That's Reversing

Coronavirus–13 Jan 2022–A new kind of surge

Confusion is the coin of the realm deep into this Omicron variant.

Taken from the CDC’s *Covid Data Tracker Weekly Review* for 7 Jan 2022

Taken from Johns Hopkins’ US map on 12 Jan 2022, with Utah and Nebraska standing in for North Korea

Coronavirus — 18 Aug 2021 — Uncertainty

Why Vaccinated People Are Not Taking Delta Seriously Enough w/ Dr. Eric Topol (The New Abnormal, 13 Aug 2021)

Dr. Eric Topol (good reporting on his Twitter feed) reports that current vaccines provide protection from delta at around 40-60% effectiveness and a booster would bring that to 90%. The data from a CNN report expands/clarifies those numbers but provides no data on boosters (see images below). On 13 Aug 2021, the CDC advised that immunocompromised people start getting boosters and there are reports that the federal government will recommend all others to get one eight months after their previous shot (our 2nd dose of the Pfizer was 11 Apr 2021, so hello Dec 2021).

Coronavirus – 31 Jul 2021 – Republicans are intentionally killing people (again)

‘The war has changed’: Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe (The Washington Post, 29 Jul 2021)

Coronavirus – 28 Jul 2021 – Square zero (again)

A little over a year ago, I felt like we had a reset and were back into panic mode.

It feels again like we’re realizing there’s a catastrophe starting and the shock is as if we’ve never felt it before.
Coronavirus – 9 Jul 2020 – Square zero

Here we are again.

Coronavirus – 25 Oct 2020

I had abandoned these updates almost exactly three months ago (24 Jul 2020) and it’s been nagging me. My process had been to slowly build a list of notes over days and weeks and to review liked tweets that were my bookmarks of useful information. I would then try to organize it. When I stopped posting, I had very little new that I was experiencing and so updates and observations began to stagnate. From the start, I wanted this to be a way to remember each moment of a world that could radically change within weeks or days. Even though my July experiences were anemic, much still happened in the three months since then, and those months will be a dark age when I look back a year/years from now.