Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare

• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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

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  • gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      fuck you and your eugenicist bullshit. “masks didn’t work” because most people wore surgicals instead of fit-tested N95s.

      also people assuming they’re diligent maskers while dining indoors where covid somehow hits the pause button and waits for you to finish eating until you put your mask back on.

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      • gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        “Biden propaganda”. Lol. Not everyone is from the US. Also, I think we agree about masks so no need to call it bullshit. They didn’t work because people wore relatively ineffectieve masks and didn’t use them properly. I agree that if everyone used the right masks properly it would’ve had a big effect. But that measure is no longer realistic given the urgency of the crisis. Everything we do as humans carries risk, we can’t live fully sterile and perfectly safe. Every time you travel you can get into an accident, a lot of food or drinks we consume are bad for us, and likewise going anywhere were people are you can get ill. I got mono before COVID started and it fucked me up. Should people no longer share drink glasses or kiss to avoid the risk?

        The COVID crisis was a crisis because the disease was bad enough for the average person to cause a significant amount of hospitalizations. That was lifted due to immunity from vaccines and infections and due to mutations. Now it’s just another flu: dangerous to the vulnerable people and it can definitely fuck you up, but not in such numbers that it cripples society.

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  • Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    violence.

    See, hysterical bullshit like this is why nobody takes you wierdos seriously.

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    • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Please don’t call mask wearers weirdos. Ever since I’ve had Covid, ANY virus does a number on me. My wife will have the sniffles for 3 days and I’ll end up with a high fever and bronchitis for weeks. And I hadn’t even had a cold for at least decade before I caught Covid.

      This guy’s a nutter, but I still get it. I’m beyond tired of this shit too.

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      • Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I meant no offence, I wasn’t mocking the mask. I was mocking the "boy who cried wolf vIoLeNcE.

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  • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    ???

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• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  On a final note, whilst we may speak of a time beyond the pandemic, we are still very much in the midst of one. We are not out of it yet. At the present time, the world continues to grapple with the Omicron variant

  good job linking a source that disproves your own claim lol

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  • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    (Check the date on that one, was in 2022)

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My boss is a virologist and she says WEAR A FUCKING MASK.

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  • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Very interesting, I’d love to see a peer reviewed paper done by her on this subject! Would be quite the interesting read.

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