"covid is over, don't worry about omicron"
> 1+ million cases a day
"omicron is mild, look how few people there are in the hospital"
> hospitalizations break records
"they're mild hospitalizations, look at the low death counts"
> deaths begin to climb at the same rate as previous spikes
"no more death data for you piggies"
@kate "Additional changes concern incomes, particularly at the top level, to protect respondent confidentiality" lol
@dankwraith@monads.online @kate@shrike.club my god that's fucking bleak lmao
@LaComtesseRouge @kate the metrics are showing how the rich are looting the economy better shut that down
oh also the census bureau is cutting off the most-watched employment, wage, and labor participation data https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-14/tracking-pay-jobs-is-about-to-get-harder-on-u-s-census-changes?srnd=premium