California is in the middle of its worst summer COVID wave since 2022, with virus levels and infections surging across the state.
    • leisesprecher@feddit.org
      141·
      7 months ago

      At least for covid, hand sanitizer is completely useless, though. It’s not transmitted via smear infection (or at least very very rarely).

      For other stuff it might be helpful, but even then moderation is a virtue, since that stuff dries out your skin and might create more open wounds - ask any nurse.

        • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          7 months ago

          Don’t worry, I’m sure he also refuses to wear his seatbelt and washes everything in the house with ammonia and bleach mixed together thoroughly.

      • jaemo@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        7 months ago

        You’re awesome 😎!

        I’d love to give you a Dixie cup of apple juice and a Graham cracker, and a little square of carpet so you can be comfy with a full tum-tum during story time, but I don’t know where your kindergarten is.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    413·
    7 months ago

    In countries that have high pollution rates, wearing a mask is normal, for pollution. Only in America is trying to take care of yourself viewed as wrong. I literally don’t care if other people think I’m bizarre, I will wear a mask whenever I feel like it.

    • No_Eponym@lemmy.ca
      5·
      7 months ago

      I have never understood how people would want to get sick more, or be served by people who could get them sick. Who has time and money for all this illness?

  • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world
    291·
    7 months ago

    Uh yeah. Those of us can’t afford to be more sick that we already are never stopped wearing masks. I’m disabled and catching COVID once, while not too bad in the acute phase, has wreaked havoc on my health long term. It’s not worth fucking around and finding out.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    113·
    7 months ago

    Right from the outset, my wife’s coworker got her sick, which spread to my two little kids and then to me. They only work two days a week in person and it’s not heavily enforced, but people still lack the fucking common sense to quarantine themself after symptoms go away but when you’re still contagious. Smh

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 months ago

        The CDC guidelines aren’t about prevention but a trade off between prevention and economic activity.

        You can very well be contagious during that period, but it’s too much of a burden on the system to wait until you are definitely not contagious.

        Up here in Canada when they changed the rules and had the big press conference they even explicitly mentioned that it was in part due to economic reasons and it would allow some additional spread when asked directly.

        Edit: and they even recommended wearing masks to work for a few more days afterwards just in case, but of course no one did.

      • Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.eeEnglish
        53·
        7 months ago

        While I think the CDC is correct in this particular case, you’ll have to excuse those of us who no longer trust the CDC after they intentionally lied to the public numerous times during the Covid-19 pandemic and contributed to the death and permanent injuries of US Americans who became infected due to their misinformation.

        • PrettyLights@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 months ago

          you’ll have to excuse those of us who no longer trust the CDC after they intentionally lied to the public numerous times during the Covid-19 pandemic and contributed to the death and permanent injuries of US Americans who became infected due to their misinformation.

          I hear this same line from anti vaxxers

  • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
    7·
    7 months ago

    I was recently traveling around the pacific and 20% of all chinese, australians, and americans were coughing up a storm, not a mask in sight (other than us)

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
    2·
    7 months ago

    I think avoiding crowded indoor areas and washing your hands every time you return home, or before eating or drinking anything, are good policies in general. If more people just did those things we’d see less communicable disease overall.

    Then again I’m routinely horrified by the amount of people who barely wash (or don’t wash at all) their hands before exiting public restrooms…

    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
      1·
      7 months ago

      Recently got to help clean some piece of shit’s old apartment so friends could move in. There were yellow-ish stains around the lightswitch. And plenty of other places around the loo too, but point is: some people are disgusting.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      7 months ago

      You can absolutely become infected with Covid by having touched something someone coughed on.

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
    12·
    7 months ago

    My work has moved to a “hybrid” model, aka forcing people into office. I was in 2 weeks ago… And caught COVID. For over a week, existence has been… Not great. I do not feel like myself yet. First day in a while I even played video games, and it took a lot of effort. My breathing is way better than it was a few days ago. But my mind is still so… Cloudy isn’t the right word… It’s like if your brain is normally powered by your local power grid… It’s now powered by a AA battery that you found in the junk drawer. There are things I can’t remember to things that I know I know very well. There were days I woke up drenched in sweat so I assume I was running a high fever for a few days.

    All that to say is I wish we weren’t at this point we’re covid still a thing. We had an opportunity to eradicate it. I did everything right. I got all my shots, I got boosters regularly, and even when I was forced into office I isolated away from people but it wasn’t enough.