No wonder chacha exhibits so much vaccine skepticism. r/PCM is gonna have a field day with this.

  • GraydonCarter [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I live in Japan rn and it's legitimately so insane seeing how Americans react to something just considered normal and being polite is. I totally understand being skeptical of power, I totally understand being furious with the failure of the response in the US and even am somewhat sympathetic to those who are skeptical of the vaccine. But even if you want to buy into the most out there conspiracy theories about covid, wearing a mask is just common courtesy. It wouldn't have anything to do with it. It's just revolting against living in a society where anyone should give a fuck about anyone else.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Even most Finns have learned to wear masks. Granted, it took like until October until I started seeing most people wearing them in public and you're still bound to see some maskless people (who I wish I could strangle) everywhere you go, but there's been a definite change from the start of the pandemic

      • duck [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        In Sweden I think it's like 1/10 who wear masks if not less, idk what it is

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Maybe your government downplaying and horribly fucking up everything during the whole pandemic has trickled down to the public.

          Your deaths and infections are grim as fuck

          • duck [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah it's inexcusable, they somehow thought our epidemiologists knew better than pretty much every other countries' or just wanted to be unique, it's not the time to be quirky y'know

            • CTHlurker [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Sweden has pretty much singlehandedly fucked up the Danish governmental efforts as well, since we compare ourselves to Sweden at litterally any opportunity. So no matter how badly we are fucking up COVID, we are still gonna say "at least we are not Sweden". Come to think of it, now I finally know how Canadians feel about America.