The summer surge of COVID-19 doesn’t appear to be slowing down — instead, a key indicator for tracking the spread of the virus has increased, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In an update shared Friday, official data showed wastewater activity for COVID-19 is now at a “moderate” level nationwide, up from “low” the previous week.
Wastewater levels for the virus are currently the highest in the Western U.S., the data also showed. States in this region showing high levels include: Alaska, California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah.
As someone “over there”, it isn’t just vaccinations. The increasingly (and now fully) fascist government and corpocratic economic structure have given rise to what I perceive to be significantly higher rates of Social Darwinist and other “fuck you, I got mine” attitudes, especially among men but also in general. This, combined with a total dereliction of duty on the part of regulators (see: Fascist Corpocracy) and the fact that people are facing both economic and direct verbal pressure from their bosses to come in when they are sick (again, see: Fascist Corpocracy), and finally with the coup de grace of people being whiny-ass imbeciles who “can’t stand” having a mask on, has led to a completely uncontrollable spiral towards what I can only conclude will be the breeding ground of another pandemic (because, as this news proves, THIS ONE AIN’T OVER YET, despite what seemingly everyone wants to pretend). I wear a P100 half-face respirator everywhere I go, including 9 hours a day as a high school teacher. I’ve had COVID 6 times. The only reason I’m still alive is because I’ve gotten the vaccine re-upped at every possible opportunity.