We’re just gonna pretend like covid doesn’t exist anymore. Restrictions will lift, news reports will dwindle, cases will slowly stop being tracked and the public will move on. But the virus will still be here.
If our local hospitals are over capacity, and there are no beds available, will we even know? Sure there will be tiktoks or whatever but how are you supposed to know if it’s your hospital?
I think that just not acknowledging it, as opposed to doing nothing but still acknowledging it and providing data, is the most horrific outcome so of course this is what the monkeys paw did when our societies said “I wish I didn’t have to think about COVID anymore”
How are we ever supposed to get “back to normal” now? The world has inexorably and permanently changed for the worse, as always.
I know someone who’s had Covid 5 times. I don’t go near her under any circumstances, but I imagine people like that are going to become more common
In all seriousness: how? what the fuck. is this person “triple dipped”? (2x+Booster) what did she do? as in how did she get it and how did she treat it?
This person is not vaccinated at all. I don’t think she ever went to the hospital for it either. Just super lucky and super ignorant at the same time I guess.
To put COVID into perspective:
During the worst years of polio around ~4,000 Americans had long term side effects from polio that required hospitalization or less than 2%. For most children polio was just a fever and sometimes a rash.
Half of people who have had COVID will have some long term side effects , and with about a quarter of Americans refusing to ever become vaccinated we could be looking at millions of people with long covid who eventually become hospitalized/disabled.
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