Using wastewater data- the only data that measures the amount of circulating COVID-19 in an era of inaccessible tests and discouraged reporting- infectious disease modeler J.P. Weiland estimates that the US has yet again crossed the million-infections-per-day mark as of August 9, with about 1 in 33 Americans currently infected with COVID-19.

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I’ve written before about how, in November 2021, nearly a year after the debut of the vaccines, Fauci publicly declared that US COVID cases would need to fall “well below 10,000 a day” for us to get a “degree of normality,” and allow us to return to pre-pandemic life. In the nearly three years since, the US has never had a single day with under 10,000 new COVID cases per day; in fact, we have never had a single day with under 100,000 new COVID cases per day.

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    I’ve unfortunately had to fly a ton this summer for various reasons and I’ve pretty much resigned myself to being the only person on the plane wearing a mask anymore. Of course that didn’t help me when I ended up getting it from a doctor who showed up maskless and very obviously sick to a social event that I foolishly assumed would be safe (outdoors and all doctors who presumably should know better)…

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        Speaking in liberal platitudes will get you unbearably far in this god forsaken shithole

        You can be the most fascist person in existence but as long as you cover your vitriol in a layer of academia-infused buzzwords and cultist behavior, you will appear intelligent enough for the average American blockhead.