A new study showed that at least 75% of the American general population is wrongly convinced that the pandemic is over. Any trip to the supermarket or any other public venue however will show that you will likely see only one or two other people wearing a mask.
Despite this, over 300 people are dying every day from COVID-19. That is the equivalent of 3 commercial airplane crashes every day but that level of death has become acceptable and easy to ignore in the United States. It is after all no where near as bad as it was back in January of 2022 when about 1,900 people were dying every day.
Dr. Greg Poland of the Mayo Clinic said, that “America is in a sad situation now.” There are right now over 100,000 KNOWN new cases a day. Since testing is so scarce and since people test at home or do not test at all those numbers are way higher partly because the new BA4 and BA 5 variants are so transmissible. People continue to die from this very preventable disease. The country is falling backwards, as everyone is returning to “life as normal” with no simple safely precautions. Because people are continuing to get re-infected, the virus will continue to mutate.
BA4 and BA5 will infect everyone weather they have been vaccinated or infected in the past. This all could be avoided with basic mitigation measures but people are done caring about their own health or the health of others. Measles is the most contagious virus known to man, and the BA4 and BA5 variants are almost that infectious.