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the covid pandemic never ended, people are doing a dare every day by going outside unmasked
Its become endemic & can be mitigated with basic hygiene and vaccine programmes.
MASKING IS A BASIC HYGIENE PRACTICE! washing your hands while hotboxing stranger's lung cum in public won't do shit.
endemic according to who? eugenicists?
vaccines don't prevent long covid or infection. there is still no sterilizing vaccine on the market. going in public unmasked while vaccinated doesn't absolve you from the disabling or deadly consequences of you infecting vulnerable people
Virologists actually.
I hate wearing facemasks and I did so during the actual pandemic but they're simply not needed now.
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.01426-23 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8784533/
My boss is a virologist and she says WEAR A FUCKING MASK.
you only think masks aren't needed anymore because your privilege prevents you from experiencing the full consequences of your violence.
the long covid community has been clear that you shouldn't go outside unmasked for years now. if you decide to continue ignoring us, that's on you. and no, linking science that doesn't consult disabled people doesn't absolve you from your dangerous views
I feel like this is such an overreaction. Violence?! I've got some permanent symptoms after COVID and mono, and I won't judge anyone for wearing a mask. I'd happily comply with masking requirements in places where vulnerable people often visit like hospitals or elderly homes. But violence?
Masks were quite annoying and honestly didn't seem too effective here. Not because a well applied mask doesn't help, I fully believe that it does, but the average person just didn't use them correctly and other measures like vaccination were way more effective. When the hospitals are filling up it absolutely makes sense to enforce these kind of rules, every little bit helps. But it's not 2021 anymore. The virus at this point is more like a spicy flu than the unknown hospital filler that it was in 2020-2022. Expecting people to mask everywhere is unreasonable imo and calling it violence or dangerous is definitely an overreaction.
At this point, I don’t even care. Let a new Covid infest the anti-maskers and take them out of our misery.
except that's how pandemics get more deadly
Sadly, this is true. But since common sense is lost on those cretins, they can get what’s coming. I’m done giving a fuck.
ah yes, progressive eugenics
When there's an easy, widely available solution to ensure the safety of yourself and those around you, which you loudly refuse?
Yeah that's on you bud
Viruses are progressive, now. 😂 Good luck to you, and wash your hands. You seem like the type that needs to be reminded.
you seem like the type of dipshit that assumes airborne viruses go away with handwashing
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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