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[Iduno]

Whichever variant of COVID I managed to catch, this is the sickest I've been in my life. I try to be safe, got vaxxed, wear a mask, etc. But my employer doesn't see any reason why customers should have to do the same, so I regularly get exposed. I've had a few times in the last few years where I've been sick with an unknown illness that might well have been COVID, and this is the second time I've been sick for over a week. But reasonable precautions aren't acceptable.

The news is doing another push right now telling people that they should be tired of caring, and just go back so the economy returns to normal. At best, the people in charge are willing to let everyone get sick and die to make more money. At worst, they've noticed that poor, old, or disabled people are dying faster, and it's eugenics.

I haven't even been able to go to a hospital for what are now old injuries, because the hospitals haven't had capacity here due to all of the COVID patients.

I'm sick of not being able to live my life, because so few people (and none of the people who make decisions) are willing to take responsibility.

Edit: Especially good to note that we have 2 years of experience that shows that there is no "get sick then you're immune". It's a virus that mutates fast enough that if everyone gets it, there are suddenly several more variants. Not spreading the disease is the only solution.

[martinuzz]

Queen Elizabeth has tested positive for corona.

[heydude6]

My God! How did that even happen? She should be the most protected person on earth.

People have often joked about the queen living too long, but it's still sad to consider that she make actually go this time.

[Rolan7]

Queen Elizabeth has tested positive for corona.

https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/1495377711405015046

I am sorry for her.  Not even monarchs deserve covid.  Though perhaps I could save my sympathy for people without her level of medical care.

[Starver]

Though it isn't done yet, parts of the UK are within a few weeks of nobody needing to do anything about infections, no legal requirement to (nor support for) isolation if you happen to be tested, and (in England at least) they're looking to stop all the free testing too.

And already many people are lapsing into post-pandemic behaviour, misunderstanding the possible continuing dangers of an endemic. (Endemic malaria isn't a walk in the park, but there's the "it's just a bad cold" mentality. Never mind those for whom even a cold aint 'just' anything.)

Anyway, Prince Charles and later Camilla both tested positive, as reported. Even if it wasn't either of them, directly infecting Mummy(in-law), there could easily have been a contact-of-a-contact-of-a-contact of some deputy-bottle-washer at Windsor, and from there it rattled around the rather limited Royal Household to eventually reach HM. And no testing regime is entirely waterproof/immediately conclusive, so it maybe was a matter of time. But I'm not sure it helps that it's helpfully being spread around by the more casual attitude that's been increasing outside in the not-so-sequestered world.

[LordBaal]

She always had a corona on her head.

[wierd]

not always. Sometimes it's just a giant floppy hat.

[scriver]

You merely adopted the corona. She was born under it, molded by it.

[Frumple]

Let's hope it doesn't mold her, probably?

[LordBaal]

Or can we say Covid-19 got Queen Elizabeth?

[martinuzz]

Depends, has there been a corona ceremony?

[LordBaal]

All I know is that if she manages to get over this we all can stop pretending and just crown her Inmortal Emperor of Mankind.

[martinuzz]

Isn't she a bit old for a gender transition treatment?

[LordBaal]

Meh, she is the closest thing well ever had. So now let's conscript in the Human navy to plunder some Martian gold. And our ration of grog of course.

[Pwnzerfaust]

The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects
(archive)

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."