Public sentiment on the rising COVID-19 cases in India, particularly in Kerala, is largely skeptical and dismissive. Many view the surge in cases as exaggerated, driven by media and pharmaceutical companies for financial gain. The pandemic is increasingly seen as akin to the common flu, causing fatigue and frustration towards COVID-related news. Concerns over vaccine efficacy and personal health issues post-vaccination are mentioned, along with the belief that governments have relaxed restrictions, shifting more responsibility to individuals to assess personal risks. The overall sentiment reflects distrust in media and authorities, contributing to a reduced sense of urgency.

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iphone4Suser

You’re not panicking bro… we need to take care of ourselves &amp; our family 😌

lowkey-individual

No need to panic just maintain precautions. As precautions are always better than cure.

Beautiful_Sort5736

_Makky_

Start making reels. Mere mehboob woo woo woo qayamat hogi aha.

mayudhon

I remember a few days ago whole of the Mumbai had flu. Everyone I met had something or the other problem. Crazy it didn’t even cross my mind that it could be covid.

Afraid-Proposal5436

From what I have heard, these variants are different from the original Covid variant and aren't causing severe cases or long Covid, most of the people unalived already have some other condition and can be classified as died with Covid and not because of Covid. I can be wrong though.

lonewolf2169

My uncle who is a doctor told that nothing worry, this strain similar to common cold, and due to season change also many patients are getting affected

Ok-Reveal-2587

A lot of people are not even vaccinated. They have fake certificates. I wonder if these people are the ones who are getting infected or are vaccinated people also being affected.

Chaat__Masala

Numbers are low. Hopefully you're vaccinated and that's going to play a major role in keeping you safe. Wash hands with soap regularly, wear a mask out if possible.

PalmitoylCoA

pan-galactica

I hope it becomes a pandemic. And I die. Please god. Atleast this wish isn't too bad

Son_of_fate26

Oh yeah. I’ve had chemo the last 5 years, two surgeries and one BMT, and my doctor sent me this picture today! If a doctor asks you to be on house arrest because you’re immunocompromised because of Covid, I think it is time we all were wearing masks and practicing social distancing. 

This is EXACTLY how it spread like wildfire in 2020.

Arwen3101

If it makes you feel any better, Maharashtra's population is 12.5 crore. 457 cases out of 12.5 crore is nothing, imo. I’ll only start panicking if the number crosses at least 1 lakh

No-Signature3576

Cases will decrease; such spikes keep occurring and then subsiding.

Khasta_khachori

This data is so incomplete without the number of people getting tested, hai na?

Broad_Pin_8499

Heyy ... I need help so ... I have to visit Mumbai on 23 june ... So is there any chance that due to Covid i might get in trouble during my visit ???

Sorry-Change-7687

Nothing will happen. Its all just to manipulate market.

HarshThanvi

Precautious? Bro more people die of other reasons each day. Relax, its just another common disease now. If it were serious, sarkaar panic create kar rahi hoti, tum sarkaar ka kaam na karo.

Hnd2

salazka

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but when I was recently admitted to the hospital for high blood pressure, it turned out I have diabetes too along with fatty liver. I

I told the doc that all this happened in last few years and his first question was "Did this happen after you took the Covid vaccine?"

I think the vaccine had something to do with it. All of a sudden my health deteriorated.

11magnanimous11

Dhruvi-60

metrogossip

There is no such thing as Covid. Please open your eyes

mob1killer

Yup, surging in Shanghai. Kinda strong symptoms this time.

Intelligent_Dog_2374

It's definitely a thing in HK/Shenzhen, just came back and with COVID. Relatively mild but still out for a week.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/covid-cases-spike-in-hong-kong-singapore-as-new-wave-spreads

DutchDev1L

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I am visiting china next week (3rd june) for almost two weeks. 
What is the covid situation like in china, I’ve been reading on the news that covid cases are rising in china.
Should i continue with my visit? I don’t really want to risk it but I already paid for my tickets and it’s not refundable. 

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You basically can’t avoid catching it now. It will spread to whichever country you’re in. All governments have long given up any kind of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID (perhaps reasonable in a post-COVID-vaccine world). So your only question should be: do I want to be sick while traveling ? 

shchemprof

现在中国根本不管理它了，就是个流行感冒一样的病例。

没有什么特别的，如果你在家乡能抵抗得住，那在中国也没有什么特别的。

bellinwinder

Did you search the sub first?

Nothing major being reported though it’s always about. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1kr3txn/covid_alert/

GZHotwater

Nobody missing from my school right now. In Foshan.

TexasisBetter

I’m down south. I know people around me who have gotten mild covid recently, they’re thankfully recovered, and I’ve been spared so far (touch wood). Not too aware of any public health headlines or any alarms raised along these lines so far. 

If you’re visiting, have some sanitiser handy, and mask up if you’re not politically allergic to that sort of thing.

T41k0_drums

a friend of mine passed away. had the flue then he passed away from  heart failure 3 days later.

ftrlvb

It’s getting around now. It’ll never go away. I still remember those lockdown days, can never forget.

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I am very excited to go back to China on the 14th of June. However, I’ve received some news that there might be an issue due to Covid.

Does anyone know more? 

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Yep, going around where I am - quite some people off. Supposedly a more deadly variant as Eason Chen concert also got cancelled.

UristUrist

Had my youngest first 3 days with mild fever day and night and then the oldest. Kinda annoying but nothing serious at least for them. Covid can be nasty though, early 2022 my wife got it and she was proper sick for a week, day and night high fever. On the other hand a couple days later I got it, 2 days uncomfortable and that was it. 

Masks don't hurt, possibly some fever blockers just in case.

Dear_Chasey_La1n

Lost my sense of smell for a week with mild cold like symptoms last week. I think that’s number 4 for me…0

Upward_Fail

The only way I see any stay at home policy being accepted as a "yep, that's a good idea" from nearly everyone is if the next virus causes something horrendous to happen externally to people. Like all of your skin falling off, or projectile blood vomiting. Other than that, any government advisories will be ignored by at least half the population in the US.

dE3L

I seem to have the opposite opinion. All it takes is the hospitals to approach capacity and governments will have to do it again.

Dying of a broken arm because the hospitals and urgent care centers are jammed with sick people from a pandemic is a public crisis and governments will act.

analyticaljoe

The 2020 pandemic was in a “sweet spot” of being dangerous enough to be a threat to people with previous health issues, but not dangerous enough to your typical fairly healthy person. This, coupled with its extremely high rate or transmission, made it disruptive without being something that was constantly on display. For a lot of people their experience with Covid was “I got it, my friends got it, we were sick for a few days, but now we’re better.” If the average experience was “me and all my friends caught it, and now two of them are dead” then it would have been taken much more seriously by the population as whole. Again, deadly enough to kill millions, but not deadly enough that it to feel personal for a lot of people.

Stillwater215

If they want to pay me to stay home, I will

bodhidharma132001

It depends on the severity of the virus. Ebola? I think people would tolerate a lockdown. SARS? Probably not.

cwood1973

I'm not worried about the next lockdown. What I am worried about is that the next virus may have a 70 percent mortality rate and thanks to covid, my loved ones will refuse to either isolate or use respirators (not masks) because they listen to dumb ass talk show hosts instead of someone with a fucking masters in mechanical engineering with a specialization in robotics and pneumatic filtration (me).

This happened with covid and it is a miracle that I got my parents to use a respirator or got them to stop eating out. Then they found OAN.

I consider myself conservative, but I also have a degree and a brain and 3/4 of what I have overheard on that network I consider to be straight up fucking idiotic, yet my folks treat it like religion.

That is what I fear.

RGrad4104

No lockdown will ever happen again. Corporations will *ensure* this.

voitlander

I honestly enjoyed lockdown. Less traffic. Less people.

ilovenyc

TheDayiDiedSober

In the US no one was ever "locked down".  Businesses were largely closed so there was nowhere to go and people were advised to stay home, but "lock down" never happened.

wi_voter

Presumably it will need to be different.

Turns out we dont care that elderly and overweight people die.

But if the pandemic starts killing kids and young adults, look out.

sascourge

Z0diaQ

After COVID, we could have a new pandemic in the US with a 10% fatality rate and close to half the country would say it’s all bullshit and/or “You got a 90% chance of surviving. If you’re scared stay home!”

thebuddy

seigezunt

I think we don't need lock downs if everyone wears proper protection. It's kind of sad they made masks into a culture war

anonareyouokay

Covid killed more than 10 million people but morons can’t be asked to wear a fucking mask.

Original-Baki

If anyone here plays video games and has played the The Division. " the dollar flu" has a 90% mortality rate. That may cause it

Artystrong1

It's the antivax that pisses me off, too many folks have no memory of how it was before vaccines, many of the diseases we have vaccines for used to be disfiguring, could cause many lifelong disabilities, death of course. But even if you didn't die, you could end up sterile, deaf, blind, scarred, paralyzed for life, and or brain damaged. 


Measles wipes your immune system, chicken pox comes back as shingles. Polio can come back to haunt you, post polio syndrome is a thing. So even if it didn't kill you or paralyze you the first time it can come back and disable you years later. Smallpox survivors were horribly scarred for life. Mumps can make men sterile. Whooping cough still kills babies. RSV kills babies. The flu kills people every single year. 


What are you going to tell your deaf or blind child when they find out they didn't need to be disabled but you didn't believe in vaccines. 


We as a society worked very hard and spent billions of dollars to make vaccines to save lives, and to prevent disability. 


So much stupid in the world. It pisses me off so much. It makes me so sad too.

mountainsunset123

We’re worried about hospitals during another pandemic? Here a crazy idea. Fix it. They don’t want to.

kittenfarmer

100% it would happen. Look how much richer it made the 1%.

TheRedScarey

Again? When did the first lockdown happen?

Noughmad

I don't give a fuck what other people do, but I'll be staying in doors. If all the stupid people kill themselves that's fine with me.


Lots took themselves and their families out with covid, the sensible will survive inside while the stupid blame 6g towers. 

MasterLogic

Corporate America will do their utmost to prevent another lockdown, I will have to work as an essential service again, and yet again risk my health as well as my families, by getting sick another four times from the same damn virus...Mostly by locations that don't enforce the required preventive policies of at least wearing a mask (I did wear a mask for almost three years everywhere I went, and still got infected).

outamyhead

VintageLunchMeat

I’m from Melbourne Australia, I think we had one of, if not the, longest lock down - or was it most days in lockdown?

I don’t really remember as lockdowns fucked with me so much I needed ECT. 

I’ll be packing up my 4WD and going bush with my dog if they try to implement lockdowns again.

UniqueLoginID

Thankfully I like to be outdoors. If I gotta become a suburban forest hermit again I will

Crezelle

sirwaltermelvin

Hate to say it, but if children were more affected instead of the elderly, yes.

TriscuitCracker

I really enjoyed my small lock downs in NZ.

newaccount252

it-was-justathought

Isn't it weird how even this article, which is fairly level-headed, still exaggerates the length of the lockdowns?

"\[T\]here were three lockdowns, each several months long", it says. But they weren't. And it's documented fact that they weren't. [https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/timeline-lockdown-web.pdf](https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/timeline-lockdown-web.pdf) 

Somehow, people simultaneously know how long they really were and also believe they went on for months. You even come across the claim on here &amp; elsewhere that we were locked down for two years. Bonkers.

CensorTheologiae

I think it will only happen if it's an extremely visible and deadly disease that scares people.

MauPow

If it were something like ebola then it wouldn't transmit as easily. So the next big one would be more similar to COVID then it would be to ebola. Maybe it's bird flu. Either way the public won't give a fuck until it's too late. In 2019 I thought about going back to school to become an epidemiologist. Glad I didn't do that. I can't think of a more unappreciated job in the last 4 years. Would have spent $40-50k to go back to school, work hard and then find out no one wants to listen to public health data anyway.

randomusernamegame

In order for this to happen, the next pandemic will likely need to be something made for the movies. Corpses on the street, rapid infection, absolute chaos.

Only_Patience6661

After all the prolonged mandates and elected officials breaking their own rules there is little good will to do another lockdown again.

Money-Weight8302


Is there anyone here who can share their experiences having done something similar? Getting MPH after a specialization and their motivation behind doing so? How their practice is affected by it? If anyone is from India who knows more about doing family medicine here or alternatives which I can explore? 

Thanks!

killmyselz

Any pediatricians out there working with telehealth companies as a side job?  If so, which telehealth companies have you used?

Imaginary_Policy_963

Hi all, I’m soon to graduate EP fellowship and am in the process of interviewing for jobs. These are my top two at the moment, and I was hoping some seasoned EPs could share a little of their guidance.

Job 1: Upstate NY (HCOL, high taxes)
Formerly a private group, now purchased by a large healthcare system. 5 current EPs (3 20ish years out, 1 10 years out, 1 5 years out), looking to add a 6th. 4 total EP labs, one of which is for devices only. Average of 2.5 days/week lab, 2.5 days/week clinic. Typical lab day is 2-3 outpatient cases +/- 1 add-on inpatient device. FaraPulse for all AFs. Strong APP support. Clinic is 20-40 patients per day, depending on if you see work solo vs with 1-2 APPs (MD usually sees new consults, APPs see follow-ups and stable devices). Outreach clinic 2 times per month with limited support (ie you do your own device checks). See inpatient consults between cases on lab days, read Holters/Zios/ILRs/remotes between clinic patients. $650,000 guaranteed for the first 2 years, then $60/RVU. Current EPs doing 12,000-15,000 RVUs/year. Heavy on MDT and BSX for devices, seldom use Abbott. Also Carto heavy, have Rhythmia for FaraPulse, but no EnSite. 4 weeks PTO (this is my biggest reservation). Rotating General Cardiology fellows help with consults, and if interested scrub in the lab with you on their elective blocks. Call would be 1:6. EP covers TVPs overnight, on average they told me expect to have to go in 2-3 times/year overnight. Good public schools. They are looking for someone with a particular interest in extraction and VT. Good relationship with CT surgery. LAAO is shared with IC 50/50, Watchman only, no Amulet.

Job 2: Suburban/Rural Midwest (LCOL, low taxes)
Also formerly a private group, now employed. 4 current EPs, looking to add a 5th. Much younger group: 1 senior guy who has been there 25 years, 1 who is 3 years out of fellowship, and 2 who are completing their first year out of fellowship. Really good vibes at dinner as all are friendly, and the young attendings are in a similar stage of life as I am (young kids, first time homeowners, etc). 4 EP labs across 2 hospitals. Similar 2.5 days/week clinic (25-30 patients per day) and 2 days/week lab. Their lab is much more efficient, 4 cases per day at minimum. Have Carto, Ensite and Rhythmia. All FaraPulse for AFs. Watchman and Amulet, though these are done in the cath lab and shared with IC, so unable to do concomitant PVI + LAAO. Excellent relationship with CT Surgery. Less robust APP support. No fellows. Half a day a week is blocked off for consults (clinic patients in the AM, hospital consults in the PM). TVPs are covered by IC and cath lab, so really never have to go in at night. Have to round at both hospitals on the weekends. $775,000 guaranteed for 1 year, then $62/RVU. Current partners are doing between 16,000-20,000 RVUs per year (!!) and the 3 young attendings all hit the productivity threshold 10ish months into their first year. 8 weeks PTO. Have a good relationship with Abbott, MDT and BSX. Recently started using AVEIR, are in negotiations with Medtronic for Affera/Sphere-9. Looking for someone with an interest in extraction, PVCs and leadless PPMs. Most MDs in the system send their kids to private school.

I should note that these are both initial offers, with Job 1 kind of reluctant to negotiate (have to go through HR for a large system) and Job 2 open to negotiating.

Ibutilide

Are there any specialties in which you get adequate time to counsel patients about how to make lifestyle changes for their chronic conditions?  I'm a PCP and have a number of patients who "don't like to take medications" but who also don't make any progress when I give them a chance to try non-medication treatments.  Are patients any better about this in concierge practice or direct primary care or some other type of cash practice?  At this point, I'm seriously thinking about giving up medical practice and becoming a certified health coach.  I figure that I won't have to deal with patients wanting pills, labs, imaging, etc. as a simple solution to their poor lifestyle habits.

abjectus_ero

Thanks for the reply. I guess the question is really, assuming she has a signed contract in hand, let’s say next month (June), is she under any legal obligation to inform her current employer about her plans to submit her resignation in October? Morally, she’s torn about this because she doesn’t like the idea of having a contract in hand and not telling anyone at her current job for four months. But she also doesn’t want to lose her paid vacation scheduled for December.

mcdj

Sorry this is a silly question - in terms of start date from an attending job, does that usually mean the day you start doing clinical work/seeing patients.

Or is there usually an orientation that occurs on the start date?

Curious-Quokkas

My wife is a physician who is currently negotiating for a new position in another state. She has a written offer and is in the final stages of negotiation.

Her start date would be around Jan-Feb 2026.  She is required to give 90 days notice to her current (hospital) employer. Her current contract ends in mid October 2025.

She is already being asked by her current employer about scheduling and commitments for next year.

Since she hasn’t officially signed with the new employer, she is reticent to mention leaving or even potentially leaving. But she feels bad about committing to a schedule she likely won’t be around to fulfill.

She’s also nervous that if she gives her current employer any more than 90 days notice, or if it somehow gets out that she’s leaving, the hospital may just tell her to pack her bags so they can save some money.

What is the protocol when signing with a new employer? Can she sign a contract with the new hospital and keep silent about it until giving her 90 day notice? Are there any legal ramifications?

I’ve told her that people leave jobs all the time, even after making plans with staff and management that they are unable to fulfill. As long as she abides by the stipulations in her contract, she has nothing to worry about. But I’m not in medicine so I defer to you guys!

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