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haykpodrthanks t1_ixx4yfq wrote

Reply to comment by joeydokes in RSV - and what I thought/hoped was Mainers common sense by joeydokes

Yeah, sorry its frustrating. We have been at 500+ covid deaths a day, notice they basically stopped reporting in October, and the CDC hasn't mentioned masking on their website since September. Rolling right up to the holidays with no reporting but we can imagine the death toll will be large.

Can't have people not going out shopping or flying around. The elephant in the room is that Covid is disabling people, each time you get it it gives you a little (or a lot) more organ damage including your brain. When you tell people this, their eyes glaze over. We are fucked, this is the beginning of the end.

Enjoy it I guess by going out and coughing on people and spreading it to your family. Make sure to complain about how China isn't making your electronics fast enough because they are trying to actually prevent a mass die off event. /s again in case it wasn't obvious.

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joeydokes OP t1_ixx76g5 wrote

I try to keep from getting dramatic about it just accepting that its here, not going anywhere and that most healthy people seem to be surviving it well enough. In some queer way, that was the conservative (scientific) POV from the outset, but not to their credit that it was vaxing that made minimizing even your sad stats possible

If if means more isolating w/a close circle and avoiding gatherings, keeping distances, masking up, whatever; no hardship for me. Issue is the strain a cavalier POV takes on the health system; making dr/dds/eye appointments and procedures and the like. To say nothing of real, non-covid, emergencies. Or the tax/costs of treating people with severe covid.

And, as you say, the prospect of long-term effects of multiple infections is likely going to be consequential. And its not on people's minds unless their already noticing brainfog:)

Germs, and non-adaptive people, are Nature's population controls.

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haykpodrthanks t1_ixxpz3g wrote

I'm 200% okay with wearing a mask in public for the rest of my life if it means countless people get to live longer healthier lives, including myself, and its disturbing to me that its uncommon to think this way.

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Frankdrebbinnotacop t1_ixz23lq wrote

For what it's worth, thank you for being this way.

I didn't think that it would be this hard of a lift for people (10-15 minutes of mask wearing at the grocery store/pharmacy/unavoidable-indoor-space).

I have lost family from covid in multiple ways. Some have passed from the disease itself, other's have shown very clearly that their convenience is more important than my ability to draw breath.

I would "stay inside forever" as many have suggested I do since the beginning of covid, but unfortunately that's impossible to accomplish without being independently wealthy.

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joeydokes OP t1_iy0acjh wrote

wearing a mask in public, indoors, is a courtesy; specially if your coughing or potentially shedding. It's like farting in a closed space. Just don't, please.

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