• Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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        Funny thing about that. Viruses don’t care if you do or do not talk about them. Good luck with your denialism. Did you know that practically every respiratory infection has some form of post acute syndrome?

        Beyond the acute phase: a comprehensive literature review of long-term sequelae resulting from infectious diseases https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2024.1293782

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          I used to wear masks and I even got a booster shot. It’s not like I don’t believe the virus is dangerous.

          At the end of the day, though, the lockdown’s effect on the world was much bigger than the virus’. Everyone has had COVID a few times by now and the world has moved on… But a lot of people got unemployed and everything got more expensive. Now everyone’s quality of life is still down years later.

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            Your opinion is common, and incorrect. And you can change your opinion, if you wish to inform yourself. It’s not my job to convince you.

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    The extreme measures during COVID were unnecessary and just made it worse and more difficult to contain, if they weren’t such idiots they could have told people to wear masks for additional safety to protect themselves from infection but they aren’t mandatory, it’s simple psychology, give people a choice and they’ll accept it more easily, however they choose the dystopian approach and people fought back, escalating an already difficult situation.

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      No.

      People are stupid and will mostly choose badly, especially the Fox News crowd. Not to say it deserves a beating but what you are saying is flat wrong.

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        Yet we’ve all stopped wearing masks and most people don’t get booster shots anymore. So maybe it doesn’t actually matter much to society if a few more people die, as horrible a thought as that is.

        Could’ve just left everything unrestricted and things would’ve just sorted themselves out mostly the same