I suspect that, at this stage of the pandemic, people are less likely to report their COVID19 status than they were a year ago

Could be, or could be that people fancy isolating and working from home :)

I read a post by @francesleader that claimed that writers were getting cancelled on other platforms for talking about COVID19 and the roll out of 5G.

Interesting. Well the 'cancelling' wont happen here, although views may differ and votes can be up and down. Personally, I've not read into much of the link, but did joke today with friends that 5g news seemed off the radar of late - I might be off radar with that thinking.

I had Covid recently and whilst being a bit discomforting, it was similar to the flu for me and I'm not too sure if planetary shutdown and mandatory vaccinations are needed here - there could be more than meets the eye.