can we just have ONE online community where covid is still taken seriously?
can we just have ONE online community where covid is still taken seriously?
like there are legit covid sceptics on this site saying shit like "lol just touch grass" and "you need to go out" while we are currently heading to another peak (https://biobot.io/data/). and most claim to not be "covid sceptics" with weak defenses of their treats like "i cant just put my whole life on hold" and "im not just gonna live in fear" :yea:
while these ppls presence on this site is enough justification for this post, i wanna add that i woke up this morning w a sore throat and had a slight cough yesterday thats getting worse. gonna take a triple test today (covid, RSV, flu), but im p sure its covid bc my gf's mom tested positive 2 days ago and she still doesnt wear a mask around the house. i cant skip work bc i have bills to pay (living alone, gf lives w parents), but im lucky and dont see many ppl at my job so i can distance and mask while working. ive never gone "back to normal": go out only when necessary, drive thru theatre is big for us bc of safety, always wear mask even tho NOBODY else here does and me and my gf get strange looks and sometimes these fucking crackers around here COUGH IN OUR DIRECTION. i sacrificed my social life for 3 years and bc everyone else is too selfish to do the same, i have to face a 1 in 6 chance of disability and a chance of hospitalization/death. i hate this country so damn much
so despite everything i got the :covid-cool: . from now on were taking covid seriously. n95 + cloth mask EVERYWHERE. even at her house bc we obv cant trust her parents. im not letting us take off our masks unless we're alone, no exceptions. UGGGHHHH it sucks, ive avoided this disease for 3 years and now im so afraid that ill lose some neurological function, get GI problems, liver problems, sensory disability, etc. its so horrifying and stressful. guys pls take this seriously. nobody else is but i expected more empathy from ppl on this site
:100-com: percent. My spouse and I are still one of the last few holdouts wearing their masks in public places. Everywhere online is telling us to go back to normal. I loved coming here because for the vast majority of time this place has been a refuge for people taking covid seriously. Glad the mods are taking it seriously though and deleting those comments.
Its really not hard to wear a mask when you go out and do things, jesus.
Yeah I'm with you, COVID just deadass isn't over, sorry guys
Yeah I've had people walk behind me in the grocery store and cough into my head, makes me want to
:jokerfied: I visited in-laws for the holidays and we both got covid for the first time. They are all going out to eat, gyms, etc without masks so this is the price for spending time with family. Mixed feelings to say the least. The options really are be alone and never have a meal with friends and family, or get sick. This sucks.
i dont wanna get arrested for assault w deadly weapon so i think a good middle ground is carrying pocket sand to throw in the face of scumbags who do this
It's not hard to vaxx (if you aren't immuno-compromised), wear an n95 when you're in public (even outside around people), and to support the idea of public health whether online or off. There's no need to say "I need to get back to Arby's" here, since the entire corporate media has been screaming this in people's ears for years. My spouse's coworker's newborn baby just got RSV and is intubated in the hospital because the entire family consists of nothing but white liberals and fascists who think the tripledemic either isn't a big deal or is some kind of Jewish-Chinese conspiracy. The parents, of course, do not have health insurance and are now begging facebook for donations. Fuck this family, obviously, but the baby doesn't deserve this, and there are countless other stories just like this happening out there right now.
edit: mods please ban everyone who is saying "I need to get back to my life" or upvoting these posts. These boomers-in-training can take that shit to the comments sections of news articles on Facebook.
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I avoided covid until like two weeks ago and im really pissed I still got sick after 4 vaccines, masking, avoiding crowds, not going out much, etc. I took paxlovid and then a week after got a rebound again and now im positive and sick again, this shit sucks. I missed way too much work cause of this shit and I have no idea how I even caught it but probably cause morons dont care to wear masks anymore on public transit and crowded places. idk wtf is wrong with people
At this rate it's starting to seem like this is going to turn into another vegan situation, where there are still carnists on the site but discussion between the two groups is de facto banned because it devolves into arguing every time
Serious question - what happened?
I haven't seen a single anti-mask thread or comment. For the record - I'm entirely pro-mask and pro-sanity because covid is a poorly understood vascular disease that causes neurological dysfunction.
anti-mask shit gets removed by mods quickly. but there is a swarm of ppl who hear "guys pls lets not go 'back to normal'" and take that to mean "dont leave ur house, u are personally evil if u go to the grocery store". maybe a better way to rephrase my plea is "pretend its March 2020 again, and dont go to events that are likely to have high transmission rates"