like there are legit covid sceptics on this site saying shit like "lol just touch grass" and "you need to go out" while we are currently heading to another peak (https://biobot.io/data/). and most claim to not be "covid sceptics" with weak defenses of their treats like "i cant just put my whole life on hold" and "im not just gonna live in fear" :yea:
while these ppls presence on this site is enough justification for this post, i wanna add that i woke up this morning w a sore throat and had a slight cough yesterday thats getting worse. gonna take a triple test today (covid, RSV, flu), but im p sure its covid bc my gf's mom tested positive 2 days ago and she still doesnt wear a mask around the house. i cant skip work bc i have bills to pay (living alone, gf lives w parents), but im lucky and dont see many ppl at my job so i can distance and mask while working. ive never gone "back to normal": go out only when necessary, drive thru theatre is big for us bc of safety, always wear mask even tho NOBODY else here does and me and my gf get strange looks and sometimes these fucking crackers around here COUGH IN OUR DIRECTION. i sacrificed my social life for 3 years and bc everyone else is too selfish to do the same, i have to face a 1 in 6 chance of disability and a chance of hospitalization/death. i hate this country so damn much
so despite everything i got the :covid-cool: . from now on were taking covid seriously. n95 + cloth mask EVERYWHERE. even at her house bc we obv cant trust her parents. im not letting us take off our masks unless we're alone, no exceptions. UGGGHHHH it sucks, ive avoided this disease for 3 years and now im so afraid that ill lose some neurological function, get GI problems, liver problems, sensory disability, etc. its so horrifying and stressful. guys pls take this seriously. nobody else is but i expected more empathy from ppl on this site
But here's my problem, there is nothing to be done except choose to wear a mask and isolate or don't. Everyone on this site could follow every precaution to a T and it wouldn't actually put a dent in covid deaths. The problem isn't that there is misinformation or denial happening. The power structure is not a spirit bomb that gets stronger when people online have opinions that align with it. That's the tail wagging the dog. The problem is the power structure did fuck all about covid, purposefully stoked and put people with terrible opinions into power, wrecked public health, and then the good guys saved the day by doing the same shit. That's why disabled people are dying. Not because stalinfan69 went out to eat with their parents and didn't mask up. Systemic problems are systemic, not individualistic.
When someone points that out, they called a mass murderer covid denialist. I agree that it's gouache to breathe on people during a pandemic, and that it increases everyone's chance of getting sick. Don't fucking do it, wear a mask it won't kill you. But I get why those people aren't wearing one. It's not because they're supremely evil beings who just want to hurt others. It's because they're doing the same thing we are. Which is react according to your personal predilections. In this case, it's being as conscientious as possible because we're leftists and we do that kind of thing. They're doing because that's the only thing we can do, react individually and hope it does something.
Yes there's a few people who were like "I went to a concert without a mask because I'm tired." There was that one person who was saying that covid deaths are down so it's fine (even though they half-assed tested dead people throughout the pandemic). Okay, ban them. Move on. We've done it before when the vaccines first came out. No need to drag it out into this huge "I thought hexbear was safe but it turns out everyone here also wants to kill me" thing.
You have made up a person to argue with. Disengage.
It actually would concretely lead to less people on average dying though, it just would look miniscule next to the national numbers