I wrote this three weeks ago (ish), so you can quite reasonably assume all the numbers to follow are much higher. Bigger. More, is what I’m saying…
It’s amazing! It’s splendid!
There is, apparently, no such thing as Covid in San Diego. Well, sure, there IS Covid, but nobody actually DIES from Covid. At least I don’t think so. I can’t tell, based on the San Diego website.
The reason I can make this preposterous claim (tongue stuck firmly in my cheek), is because all anyone has to do to check these facts is “simply” this: look at the San Diego county official website. Sure, you’ll find Covid cases (and plenty of them), it’s just that you won’t find the number of deaths from Covid, or at least not easily.
On the San Diego County Dashboard, you can find all kind of information: genders, ages, race and ethnicity, names of second cousins around the world, numbers of cases. These are things people are interested in, especially if you have loved ones in San Diego, like I do. However, it takes a hell of a lot of work to find the number of actual DEATHS due to Covid, which leads me to my conclusion: You can get Covid in San Diego county, which people are doing by the many, many thousands. You just can’t die from Covid in sunny San Diego. Cool. I’m moving to San Diego.
As of February 1, 2022, there were 699,841 Covid cases in San Diego county. Number of Deaths? 4710. Or, well, not, because that’s just the number that’s increased. It’s an increase in numbers (from what, exactly) to 4710, because, frankly, I think San Diego County would rather give just a gentle, slightly troubling, but not completely terrifying number (the increase in Covid cases) rather than provide the actual number of Covid cases. Or deaths.
LA Times reports about 1 out of every 4 people in San Diego county has tested positive, 741,615 in total. That’s a lot of people. A hell of a lot of people. Still, how could there be so many cases? How could there be so few deaths? Finally, I understood: in San Diego County, also according the The New York Times, 93% of residents are at least partially vaccinated. (It turns out that vaccine fraud thing works pretty well for that virus hoax thing, too).
With just a few jumps around the internet, you can find a neat little example of what’s actually going on, like I did. Just for fun, I looked at some campus information from the UC San Diego Daily Dashboard, which lists infection sites by campus building based on the previous two weeks.
Since winter term 2022 started, as of February something, there are 3303 UC San Diego Students with Covid. Even more specifically, you can see “on-site infectivity dates,” a word that good ole spell check here doesn’t recognize, and which almost sounds like a good time. “Hey, how did it go with your on-site infectivity date? Did you eat pizza?”
Here’s a sprinkling of UC San Diego Covid numbers on campus: T. Denny Sanford Medical information and Telemedicine Center had only three infectivity dates in January 2022, probably because the folks inclined to go there are seeking degrees in medical information, and therefore more likely to come from a science background. (Right?) Then again, housing, dining, and food services, also had only three in-fectivity dates (1/19, 1/28, 1/29), which sounds pretty good. Not bad, even. “Do you want fries with that?” On the other hand, “Camp Snoopy Residence Hall #10” also had only three infectivity dates, so there goes my theory that it’s the science-minded and the hungry who would have reduced infectivity. Science. Food Services. Snoopy. Clearly, my theory sucks.
Random glances at different campus buildings found a range, too: eight possible infectivity cases. Twelve. Seven in the Spanos Athletic Training Facility, and, my favorite: Frankfurter Hall, which had only one “infectivity date.” One. This, for sure, is my favorite, plus if you lived there you could always, you know, eat a frankfurter. (For those few who don’t know, a frankfurter is just a fancy name for a hot dog.) I prefer to think of frankfurter as someone from “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which has given me endless enjoyment over the years, both from watching it, and because, when I was six or seven, my Mom took we kids to see it…because she thought it was a musical. Which it is. It’s just not one that people would usually bring children to.
“I’m just a sweet transvestite from sexual Translvania.”
Rocky Horror Picture Show 1976, Dr. Frank-n-Furter (played by Tim Curry)
Apparently, as we lift Covid mask restrictions and other stuff (with little or no scientific reason to do so, I might add), some places are just safer from Covid than others. Beautiful places. Sunny places. San Diego type places. Since I couldn’t readily find clear, simple, or easy total numbers on their shitty county website, I will have to trust that San Diego residents really don’t die from Covid, at least not that often. Now I only have to save just a couple million dollars and move to San Diego, ASAP. Does anyone want to grab me a lottery ticket, please?