Interesting fact I looked up just now.

[conuly]

Approximately .68 million people died of AIDS in 2020. Confirmed deaths of covid that same year were at 1.8 million, and total excess deaths reached over 3 million.

Unsurprisingly, people living with AIDS have a much higher covid fatality rate than the general population.

Merry second third pandemic Christmas! (Wait, is it the second or the third? Do we even count Christmas 2019?)

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[sabotabby]

JFC.

We don't count Christmas 2019 unless we were in China, I think. I had spent Christmas 2019 on a plane, arrived in Seattle, and had a lovely week without any knowledge of what was happening elsewhere in the world.

[dewline]

You're correct on this point. It's a geopolitical as well as a temporal distinction here. I was in Ottawa, starting what I think I was still hoping would be just another job search, and that it would be a short one. By the time I finally got that sleep study done in February, I think I knew what was coming for us all.