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New COVID-19 subvariant EG.5 confirmed in Manitoba
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I never had COVID until everyone stopped caring about it. I'm on my 4th time having now.
Do not recommend.
It was such a an opportunity to normalize masking in public, especially when sick with any respiratory illness and the opportunity was squandered by selfishness and greed. The pandemic also served to gut my faith in humanity, so there's that.
The pandemic ruined the phrase "Avoid it like the plague", because obviously that's not a thing people actually do, and I hate that they took that from us.
I remember having my mind blown back in 2020 when reading about a bubonic plague outbreak in the early 1900s in California and learning that wealthy businesses owners and investors tried to pull a lot of the same stuff that they were again pulling in 2020 to keep businesses open. It was the same political game, the same use of media to undermine the attempt at a public health response.
I guess it always was a bit of a fantasy that we would all respond according to our own self interest.
Yes.
I try to remind myself that I do see a few good people with the strength of character and heart to wear their masks still.