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amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agofuck 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.
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.