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by morvita
1380 days ago
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I actually don't see anything in the OP's comment to indicate whether they are pretending COVID has gone away or accepted that it has become endemic, it's clear that we both interpreted their statement through our own biases. If we take your more charitable interpretation, I still think it is fair to ask whether we are ok just accepting 100,000 new infections/day of a serious respiratory illness as a normal thing in the summer months, a time that we usually see lower infection rates for this type of illness. For every endemic disease, there is a number of infections that are considered acceptable and public health measures are taken to keep the real infection rates at or below that. I, for one, do not think 100,000 daily is an acceptable number of infections in the US and we should be speaking out to say so. We can collectively do more to bring that rate down, but we don't want to because we're tired of wearing masks on the bus and for some reason have tied protecting yourself personally to a political ideology. We can do better as a society and should be demanding as much from our leaders, not encouraging them to do less. |
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This is so incredibly rude and dismissive. It's straight up bullying. It requires a serious amount of privilege to think people should hunker down in some kind of "new normal" like the die-hard zero covid people suggest.
Perhaps the vast majority of people are well aware of the actual risks of covid and have decided that there are thousands of problems in their life that have to to take priority over one single respiratory illness with a vaccine. To expect the entire world to live this kind of myopic covid-centric lifestyle for years on end with zero defined end-state is complete and utter nonsense. It is scary to me how long society managed to get fooled into playing along.
This might come as a shock to some of the more hard-core covid people but there exists millions of other problems in the world besides just COVID.