This site is wearing me down this past week.
edit: I am more worn down. Shouldn't have posted this thread. Feeling awful about my future.
This site is wearing me down this past week.
edit: I am more worn down. Shouldn't have posted this thread. Feeling awful about my future.
That first one is nuanced and agreeable and not related at all to what this thread is about
It kinda felt like this was in response to the threads saying "you can socialize sometimes actually" that have been coming up lately
It's not, there's been people posting borderline COVID denial stuff in threads.
I believe you, but it's worth noting that even in this thread alone I'm not the only one with this read on the situation
Weird
I see a lot of people saying "you can socialize without taking proper precautions actually" and people interpreting that as "you can socialize sometimes actually"
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I got called a "plague rat" today for essentially having the first take.
Because in the end if you're telling people they're mentally ill if they don't go into indoor environments with people who don't mask, it doesn't matter what your internal monologue about it is.
People should be wearing masks more but yes I do believe a lot of people here are suffering from health anxiety, I'm not gonna back down from that.
Covid sucks but obsessing this much over it isn't helping anybody unless they are among the vulnerable demographics who should obviously be taking more precautions than the average person.
Okay well then you're just a straight up covid science denier. 'Vulnerable demographics' include people who have gotten covid before. Reinfections are common. Damage is cumulative. There is no 'safe' population that it's okay to give covid to.
And I'll add: you can't perfectly sequester the 'vulnerable' communities with a disease that's as contagious as smallpox. And either way you slice that objective reality: you're doing eugenics.
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The science isn't whatever you want it to be. I encourage you to leave your mind palace and actually look, since it sounds like you haven't since the Omicron wave.
And yes, a lot more people did die.
What are you even disputing? Do you believe in herd immunity now as much as chuds did in 2020?
I'm disputing the general sentiment here that a healthy person getting Covid (maybe even more than once) necessarily implies doom and gloom for that person for the rest of their lives.
Someone is either ignorant of or indifferent to the observed percentage of people who get long covid. It's high.
And you're performing extreme cope if rhetorically your open ended let 'er rip campaign ends for each individual the second time they get it.
Getting real "it's not going to happen to me" vibes from this conversation
Have you checked America's excess deaths for 2022?
Looks pretty in line with expectation considering the amount of Covid infections. I don't see anything that would indicate people's immune system's collapsing en masse.
So even after killing off all the most vulnerable people, it's managing to maintain that.
As much log is burning now as kindling when the fire started.
I'm guessing you think the surges of flu and RSV above any previous year was due to immunity debt, a thing that was made up entirely by covid deniers?
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covid damages the immune system, making repeat infections more damaging. There might be confounding variables but covid damage being cumulative is absolutely settled science. Even ignoring that, if you keep rolling a d20 the chance of you rolling a 1 at some point approaches one the more you roll.
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We know that covid is particularly damaging to the immune system though. Yes, all infections cause immune system damage, obviously.
Don't pathologize people who are trying to avoid a deadly and debilitating disease
Everyone is to some extent vulnerable
This is saying "fuck the vulnerable" which is just straight up eugenics
I appreciate you, comrade.