Thank you for writing this! I have a question though. The post says “many cases” and so on. Can we get some estimates on how many people are affected now, and is it growing or decreasing?
I would guess it’s in the thousands to ten-thousands. I’ve recorded 115 specific cases on reddit, with many more that I haven’t gotten around to recording (I’m admittedly not very good or organized about this sort of data collection). Here’s a helpful directory of some of these subcommunities on reddit… and I’ve only trawled through about half of the ones on this list (in addition to some not on this list). There also seem to be similar communities on X, Facebook, Discord, and even LinkedIn. I imagine there are also a sizeable number of cases where people aren’t posting it all online.
As for the rate, I can only give my impression, which is that it’s still increasing but not as fast as it was before August.
Thank you for writing this! I have a question though. The post says “many cases” and so on. Can we get some estimates on how many people are affected now, and is it growing or decreasing?
I would guess it’s in the thousands to ten-thousands. I’ve recorded 115 specific cases on reddit, with many more that I haven’t gotten around to recording (I’m admittedly not very good or organized about this sort of data collection). Here’s a helpful directory of some of these subcommunities on reddit… and I’ve only trawled through about half of the ones on this list (in addition to some not on this list). There also seem to be similar communities on X, Facebook, Discord, and even LinkedIn. I imagine there are also a sizeable number of cases where people aren’t posting it all online.
As for the rate, I can only give my impression, which is that it’s still increasing but not as fast as it was before August.