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[-] Why9@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm so bored of people like you.

It's like when a child grabs a pair of scissors and you need to politely educate them that it's dangerous. We're bored of it too, trust me. But we keep doing it because it saves lives.

Like you say, COVID is weaker

It is weaker. Precisely because of the efforts of governments to isolate, observe social distancing and wear masks. If they'd done a better job to address it sooner, and if people like you chose being mildly inconvenienced over saving lives, who knows? COVID might have been eradicated altogether.

yet you're linking the death toll from when it was actually a serious problem as though that applies today in equal measure.

I'm simply highlighting the fact that it's not a mild illness. People who are older, and those whose immune systems are weakened due to other diseases e.g. cancer are absolutely still dying of COVID. We're in flu season, going into a cold winter. The governments aren't enforcing lockdown and isolating and aren't reporting the rise in COVID cases. Go to any hospital and ask them how bad it is already. People are still dying my dude.

At the height of COVID, there were people hooked up to respirators, still absolutely defiant that COVID even existed, refusing the vaccine even as it took their lives. Death by stupidity. I still can't believe people like you exist. Take the virus seriously and it'll disappear. Ignore it and governments will be forced to enforce lockdown again.

[-] Duck@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

For the record, both my partner and I have kept up with our vaccine schedule, and both mask (I'm on immunosuppressive medication) - I've likely not caught it once, and he's only caught it once, likely bc he got careless. I still travel fairly frequently, internationally. We go out, have fun. Neither of our lives have stopped, we're just more careful. Keep our distance from others. As an added bonus, I don't have to smell the underground anymore, at all. Personally masking is 100% worth it. Improved my health and his, and doesn't really impede on us. Though I am tired of nurses asking if I'm I'll bc I'm in a mask when I go in for appointments :/

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