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by thesaintlives 927 days ago
Covid over? Not a chance. Still here, still contagious as ever. Media brainwashing may be over, wealth transfer maybe over - Covid no. I have had it 3 times. Every time around 5 days after an international flight with no mask. Mask for me in future and maybe even in the supermarket.Five days in bed I can not afford!
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wkat4242 927 days ago
Over as a risk to society I mean.

I'm fully expecting to get it many times. It's just unavoidable. Wearing a mask just reduces the chances of getting what is now a light inconvenience.

For what it's worth I've never even been bedridden by covid. Once I sniffled a bit for a day or two, the one weird thing was that it wasn't in my usual hayfever season. The other time I had a bit of a headache and things tasted funny for a day.

But anyway I do a lot of things in my life that are way way riskier (including from a disease point of view) than getting covid so at this point there's just no more need to worry about it. It's just not in the top 30 things that are most likely to kill me anymore.

I don't worry so much about being overweight, about who I kiss, about exposure to pollution, about climbing steep slopes, about crossing the road even. These things are now way way more likely to kill me or make me sick than covid.

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nikolay 927 days ago
It's not over, and it will never be over if we don't admit that it's here and still killing people, witnessed by the excess mortality. We're like an ostrich with a head in the sand!
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wkat4242 927 days ago
But there's so many things killing people. And the people it kills now are so weak they will die rather soon from something else if not covid. They'll get a cold, a food poisoning or whatever else comes our way in normal life.

Here in Holland there aren't even any patients in ICU with covid anymore.

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