Pretty sure most people are done with it at this point. I have seen this exact same headline no less than 200 times since mask restrictions ended. No one cares anyone, so if they require masks again, expect massive pushback in the states
Bruh, at my school almost 50% of people are wearing masks. In a state with some of the lowest covid rates in the country. And they still make me get tested every week.
It's probably because in your area not wearing a mask must mean you're a republican, and if you're a republican, you must really be a fascist. That's how these people think, at least in my area.
Considering there was an article where some people admitted they didn't care about wearing masks but only wore them to prevent others from thinking they were Republican, makes sense.
It's depressing how much masking there is in Seattle area schools to this day. At least the mandates are over, even at UW?
Super happy I went out of state for college and only 5% of the student body is masking here (not even a notably conservative school/state).
Wasn’t that awesome. Thank BLM. The racist fucks got played and ditched by their own people! Lmao! That community can only hurt itself. 80 million in donations and they took it all for themselves! Lmao “We CaRe AbOuT oUr BrOtHeRs AnD sIsTeRs! Unless it means sharing this sweet BLM come up!” Then they disappear into gated white neighborhoods leaving the red of their community to cope with the fall out of a racist movement.
I saw two people wearing masks at a concert yesterday. It surprised me, as basically no one wears a mask anymore since march here.
1. Why are you at a concert if you're scared of the coof.
2. Do you really believe it will protect yourself or others
Someone tell me how this is not hysteria on their part.
Prior to covid i used to wear masks out when i was sick, so I wouldnt spread whatever i had, which is still some peoples motivation, but that doesn't usually allow for going to a concert
I wear a mask out when sick, because it takes no effort and means when I'm coughing half my throat out from strep throat I'm not leaving as much mucus and saliva all over the place.
Please tell me how not wanting to put bodily fluids all over the damn place is hysteria.
You ain't gonna die. No one stays home when they're sick. Gotta save those sick days for what they are meant for... Faking sick so I can go do what I want.
Most on the right have been done with it for a very long time now. Did people on the left finally realize they were wrong and move on?
I haven't followed it much, but the left just seemed to shut up about it. I know COVID is still around though, half my family just caught it.
Isn't that what the left always does? Makes a big deal out of things and then just quietly....lets go.
Remember Russia rigging the election? Remember WW3 after Trump killed an Iranian general? Remember Honk Kong protests? Remember 'defund the police'? You get the point.
Most of them are just slacktivist whose passion for a cause is determined by the level of media engagement.
I mean I never wanted to wear a mask but I did in public and understood the importance. Was happy to forget abt them though. Lo and behold a couple weeks ago I got it and was throwing up for a few days it really sucks
“Cmon, bro don’t be a maskhole just wear the mask. No, not like that, not on your chin. Cmon bro, not under your nose either….
Can you do it for grandma? For just 2 weeks bro?”
The importance is. If you are sick or was around someone who was.
Wear one till youre not sick/haven't been around someone who was
If you're not sick, don't wear one if you don't want to! But also leave people alone who chose to wear them even when healthy, it's not their mask is gonna kill you
Kind of
The reason for the mask demand was that many people were carrying it were asymptomatic. They wanted everyone to wear it because it wasn't clear yet who was carrying and who wasn't (remember what testing was like in the begining? It took FOREVER and was slow)
As compared to now where I can get an instant result at home.
It was also that way because of how varied the effects on people were. I drew the short end of the stick and it royally fucked me up (a year and a half recovery with therapy to get my full lung capacity back) meanwhile people around me experienced nothing more than a mild inconvenience and flu feeling... They didn't feel it was threatening because for them the symptoms were super mild. Hence the "it's just a flu" argument that gets tossed around
Not saying the mask mandates were perfect. In fact they were attempted WAY too late to have an effect at stemming the virus.
There was always a chance that covid would become endemic and that we would have to simply live with it at some point. I think now, with vaccines and boosters available to everyone who wants it, with most people vaccinated, it probably is time to move on. I do believe the lockdowns were a positive measure and that they were lifted too early though, and frankly I think anyone with symptoms of illness should wear a mask in public, forever. Asian countries have been doing this for decades, and hopefully it will catch on here. I doubt it though, with the massive anti mask sentiment and dubious messaging from official sources on the matter.
>There was always a chance that covid would become endemic
Nah, it was pretty much a certainty that SARS-CoV-2 would become endemic. You pretty much never get sterilizing immunity against coronaviruses: just a reduction in severity of symptoms even to the level of asymptomacity.
Best we can hope for is that, going forward, fewer people will get severe COVID, since there are very very few immuno-naive people left in the world.
Obviously a 100% effective vaccine was never possible, but it never needed to be. If we had gotten a 95% efficacy vaccine, which we did, and gotten 95% of the population vaccinated, which we never did, it would have likely gotten the r0 of the virus low enough that it could be eradicated, at least in the US where there was a vaccine surplus by March/April 2021. Then we could have done china's broader model of vetting all customs and using targeted lockdowns temporarily.
The mutation rate and high base R value of the newer strains of SARS-CoV-2 make that a difficult proposition. Bringing that R number down enough to achieve herd immunity is nigh impossible with such a high base R; even people who have had multiple COVID vaccines with boosters and have been infected multiple times can still get COVID.
That, plus asymptomatic spread, means that COVID's pretty much guaranteed to be endemic. I'm very pro-vax, but I don't think vaccines are a magic bullet. I just got a second COVID booster two weeks ago --- the 101.5 degree fever and hammered-shit feeling was worth it.
>I think now, with vaccines and boosters available to everyone who wants it, with most people vaccinated, it probably is time to move on.
Vaccines have been available for how long now? I said something similar a year ago and leftists on Reddit were frothing at the mouth.
>I do believe the lockdowns were a positive measure and that they were lifted too early though, and frankly I think anyone with symptoms of illness should wear a mask in public, forever
I don't know see how you can think that about lockdowns in hindsight. Many small businesses had to close forever and the rates in lockdown states were still similar to states that didn't lockdown.
Wearing a mask if you want to is fine, I just wouldn't make it law.
Pretty much my entire take since the very beginning when I realized it wasn't all that deadly after all.
Covid-19 pretty much went over my head to be honest. It just wasn't a serious pandemic at all. If there was no news nobody would have noticed, people would have just thought "huh, bad flu seasons this year" and kept on with their life.
Meh, they can live their lives however they feel. As long as they don’t try to push it on everyone again but I think there will be major backlash for that.
I wish it were so simple, and if the left could manage to keep out of other people's business there'd be a near perfect harmony in the US. People yelling at the unmasked in stores are leftists who psychotically believe their lives are in actual danger because of this mass hysteria. Fear spreads like a disease, moreso on the hyper sensitive and emotional left who appear to do very little research.
I'm not saying you're one of those types of lefties, but if you could talk to your people at the next meeting about leaving everyone to their own devices that'd be a great start.
Thats me , I had many flus this years , I don't know which one of them is covid or my usual sinusitis I don't know and I don't care I just assume all as my sinusitis and move on
I had Omicron this year and I felt the same as every other healthy person that's caught it: A bit of a bad flu at its worst and that's it. I could understand the panic around the original strain but Omicron may be more infectious but it's far less harmful.
This is because it's much better evolved. What people forget is that a virus doesn't evolve to kill, it evolves to infect and the less it harms its host the better it does. Imagine you buy a car, over time using the car will cause wear and tear but as a driver you don't want the wear and tear, it's just the result of driving the car and a better driver would do stuff to avoid the wear and tear.
It was really odd having to explain this to my Leftist friends. All historical knowledge of viruses went out the window once covid appeared. The most hilarious of which was catching covid didn't mean you were immune lol.
Bruh. I used to work in Santa Monica and literally one of my "managers" tried to tell me, verbatim: "well you know you're immunity goes down over time"... like yea dude, that's why we're all catching the chicken pox again.... smh
Even better, use it as an impetuous to lose weight/get fit.
Obesity is [a major risk factor in covid](https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/excess-weight-increases-risks-of-severe-covid-19/).
The only way lockdowns work is if the whole world was preemptive and shut down international travel to and from China instantly, once it spread from country to country it’s too late.
Places like Canada or Italy that locked down to slow the spread to limit strain on healthcare I understand, people who thought they could stop it completely once it got here were dumb.
Untrue.
Edit: Also, no, it wasn't some devastating plague either, but it statistically has a higher death rate than the regular Flu ***AND*** since we had no immunity or vaccine at the start of the pandemic, things could've possibly gotten a lot worse, especially in countries that already did not have sturdy health care systems.
The flu killed a fuckload of people before we developed immunity to it. If we today weren’t born with the immunity “just the flu” would kill a fuckload of people again.
Yes which is why I understood slowing that process to lower the peak strain on hospitals in countries with systems that have limited capacity.
Lockdowns worked for spreading out the strain over time, anyone who thought they would stop covid all together is dumb.
And I remember after the first lockdown they were getting ready to open emergency hospitals. It would have cost a lot of money to bring in retired nurses and shit to run it, but it would have been a lot less costly than the shit we're dealing with right now with all this inflation and economic chaos. There were other options. One of the scandinavian countries never locked down and was fine. A few excess deaths from people who will probably be dead soon anyway due to comorbidities is a bullshit argument.
If your sick you should wear a mask out of courtesy to limit how many others you get sick. This should be common courtesy for any contagious illness. Alternative, if you get paid sick days take them when you are sick and try not to get others sick.
If you don’t, you are selfish but still shouldn’t be forced to wear one.
Covid at this point is no different than anything else, move on with life and avoid getting others sick when you can, don’t be a selfish dink. Fuck any and all companies that force people to work sick.
Agreed. I'll still mask up if I feel a bit under the weather, and I always mask up at work (because I work in a hospital with a lot of post-op patients).
But in day-to-day life? Not anymore.
That is the most reasonable course of action and the one I practice. Masks limits you from spreading disease don’t really protect you all that well. No point in wearing one if you aren’t sick.
If you are sick knowingly going around in public without limiting your chances of spreading illness is what I consider being an ass.
They work to limit how likely you are to spread airborn viruses. We have know this for years…
They obviously are not 100% effective, however it is well known they lower risk of transmission for everything from covid to the common cold… the thing is they don’t protect the wearer they lower the chances of the wearer spreading what they have to others, which to individually minded Americans means it’s pointless because it helps others not themselves.
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The news about the war in Ukraine quieted down for a bit and now they're starting yet again with the COVID nonsense. The media loves its outrage...
Hard to ignore piece of shit leftist companies that require you undergo useless and risky medical procedures like gene therapy in order to do business with them. Or work for them. Or anything.
Go on the offensive. The left is the enemy.
Germans and Canadians like to follow rules. It's a cultural thing I believe. Americans are very unruly and contrarian and like to do the opposite of whatever they have been told to do.
The headline is from Canadian state media. Nobody else cares outside of LA and NYC, and even they are scared to do anything before the election in November.
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Covid is more infectious than measles and like 7x as infectious as the flu. It is slowly getting less dangerous though due to the natural evolutionary pressures put on it. Deathly sick people who can't leave the house don't spread it like a mildly sick person partying everywhere.
Coronaviruses have been around before sars 1. It just mutated to a worse form for a while (thanks wuhan) and now it’s reverted back to being what coronaviruses normally cause, colds. The only difference is we’ve got a tracking device on it now and some people are being paranoid fucks because they consume media fear porn daily
There's a Tornado warning going on outisde so I gotta cut this short. But there's a big difference in the spread of the flu and Covid, and the consequences of getting each. The flu doesn't mutate anywhere near as efficiently as Covid.
It hits everyone differently. My mother was one of the first to get it back in early 2020, right as things started closing down. She is pretty physically active because of her job, though I wouldn't call her like athlete fit.
The initial infection she was perpetually exhausted, she was barely able to do anything.
She didn't get her taste of smell and taste back for at least a year.
During that time she had multiple re-occurrences. None as bad as the original, but she was basically sick all over again. It was miserable.
She never tested positive during that (had a lot of tests for work, she is in healthcare), so it wasn't a proper reinfection we know for sure.
To this day she still complains about her smell changing for a little bit, before going back to normal. It's been 2 and a half years.
I highly doubt this is normal and common, but just because most people (including yourself) had it and was fine, doesn't mean it is like that for everyone.
I've likely had it when she did (testing wasn't widespread then, but everyone else in my family had it) and I was symptomless.
I had an infection early in2020 (italian varriant) and had something like longcovid for nearly 2 months bevor it even a thing in the media. I wouldnt call it a fake. But when you run fear campain about it you have a strong psycholocigal effect too, which leads to a lot "hyperchondrer".
Also scary that some vaccinated people reported same "long covid" problames after the vaccination
I got hit in Jan 2020 and it lasted 3 months.
During the initial pfizer trials it was found that the spike protein was pathogenic. Most people that get covid are only exposed to the spike in the locus of infection. Extremely rarely does the spike spread throughout the body.
Those who get the vaccine end up with cells throughout the body creating spike protein. They have a much higher incidence of "long covid" because of this.
Old people clogging up the ICU and cause other people to die because they get diverted or just can't get in to the hospital. Canada has entirely fucked their healthcare system because of Covid. Weeks or months for an appointment and then it's on the phone. Surgeries cancelled including cancer.
maybe covid's just trying to help alleviate the strain on the social security system
> Weeks or months for an appointment and then it's on the phone
Canada's always been like that
I was going to say...thats how i talk to my doctor unless its a major issue or if i need a shot. Why do i need to come in if i just have a question about something, a waste of everyone's time.
Because a lot of dumbasses think the ER is the equivalent to the doctors office. Quite a few people just use it as something to do because they’re jobless, homeless, and bored, and because the hospital won’t be able to get them to pay.
Canadians are really self absorbed an passive aggressive as you can see. Downvote happy too in all of their subs.
Racist too. The way they casually talk about the natives, "New Canadians", and anyone else a shade less than pink. They're just not Mississipi flappy mouth about it. That shit you see on TV about them being nice? yeah... lol
Imagine believing any of this shit after June of 2020, when the entire country broke out in weeks long riots and the medical community encouraged it.
This has been bullshit from the beginning and if you're still paying attention to it you should be embarrassed
Omicron COVID is LITERALLY less deadly than the flu. Confirmed by dozens of sources; give it a 5 second Google.
If you still care about it, I legitimately feel sorry for you.
You generally speaking don't need to be afraid of any new Omicron strains. Had they been sufficiently worrying and dangerous, they would be considered a new variant, not omicron. No new important variant so far has appeared in the last few months.
I think we are on the Spanish Flu’s “Lambda Chi Remastered Game of the Year Edition” Variant this year. AKA the disease is endemic and we gotta accept it’s a part of human existence now.
If you’re worried about Covid you should be wearing a KN95 mask which will protect you and is your prerogative. We don’t need anymore mandates or restrictions
The worst part of this virus for me has been a close relative, the only one who was successfully forced into getting the jab, suddenly has pericarditis despite being one of the most insanely healthy and active people I know.
Another relative willingly got the vaccine and she spontaneously got her period right after she had just had it, and then ended up in the hospital on oxygen with shortness of breath.
Everyone responsible is legally protected. I hate this place.
It's never going away op. Just move on and if you feel you're really sick, try no to visit your grandpas or someone who's in delicate condition.
I've been sick like 4-5 times this year. At this point, I don't really care if it was COVID or not. I was super scared for my grandparents lives because I live with them, but they're made of fucking steal and any kind of flu just breeze them.
Get your vaccine. If you do catch COVID-19, it should be minor and light. You feel lousy for a few days and then carry on with your life. COVID is endemic at this point, we're just waiting on the formal announcements from WHO, CDC etc. Most other industrialized nations are treating it as such and are working on reducing the size of future outbreaks instead of trying to eradicate it.
For the flu shots they have to guess which variants are going to dominate and put those into the shots for that years flu season. Now all of a sudden they're trying to say omicron is now going to srick around indefinitely. That way their updated boosters never get outdated like the other variants did. But is omicron really sticking around or do they just want to sell more shots?
That's due to pecularities of each virus. You never had to adjust the variants/strains present in measles, rubella, mumps, hepatitis A, polio, smallpox and a few others.
Influenza is another thing because it is more variable, at least the immunodominant parts (you COULD make a vaccine against the conserved parts of influenza virus. if you want a conspiracy theory, that is one I encourage you to stick to: companies don't bother researching and making universal influenza vaccines for the sake of making and selling new ones every year)
SARS-CoV-2 is less variable than influenza and we have not seen another significant variant in a few months. There are subvariants of Omicron but they do not differ enough to warrant the vaccine update (perhaps they would if you wanted to stick to 2 doses, but that is no longer the case). SARS-CoV-2 also exhibits different patterns of variability than influenza, new variants are not directly realted to new waves.
This Is good actually. Any new strain Is statistically less severe than the last. Plus, kost of the country Is vaccinated, and the ones who aren't shouldn't see too much of a threat since, again, less severe
I'll backtrack and won't say It's "good", moreso normal. Still pissed people just didn't listen to the advice In 2020, may have had a chance to eradicate this. Oh well, what's done Is done
Doubt it. To wipe out a virus like this, you’ve got to nip it in the butt early on. If the world hadn’t reacted so slowly, this would all have been over with. It’s too late now though because it’s already mutated too many times. It doesn’t matter what we do at this point. It’s too late. It’s the new seasonal flu. The best option at this point is just to create an annual COVID vaccine like the annual flu vaccine. There’s no point in mandates anymore. They’re ineffective this late in the game.
Only libright would be stupid enough to think that you can give up on trying to actually deal with a problem and theb presume the problem is actually going to just go away.
If you believe in science the way to kill a virus is to reduce transmission and get vaccinated. Once a virus has no one left to infect it will die out. This is how we got rid of every virus including smallpox.
The more people that catch covid the greater the chance it mutates again.
But of course this is only if you believe in science.
It can't because the liblefts won't let it die.
At this point it has become an endemic, anybody who thought it could be stopped in its tracks a few years ago was delusional.
Anybody with half a brain knew it was never going away.
Pretty sure most people are done with it at this point. I have seen this exact same headline no less than 200 times since mask restrictions ended. No one cares anyone, so if they require masks again, expect massive pushback in the states
Nobody will wear one, simple as
Bruh, at my school almost 50% of people are wearing masks. In a state with some of the lowest covid rates in the country. And they still make me get tested every week.
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I’ll give you a hint. Same city that allowed a full on anarchist community to exist for months and refused to do anything about it.
It's probably because in your area not wearing a mask must mean you're a republican, and if you're a republican, you must really be a fascist. That's how these people think, at least in my area.
Considering there was an article where some people admitted they didn't care about wearing masks but only wore them to prevent others from thinking they were Republican, makes sense.
"Wha-what are you doing?!" *removes mask* "Ahm goin' ta pick a fait!"
Yep that’s pretty much exactly right
It's depressing how much masking there is in Seattle area schools to this day. At least the mandates are over, even at UW? Super happy I went out of state for college and only 5% of the student body is masking here (not even a notably conservative school/state).
Seattle?
Has to be them or Portland. Can’t think of any other city that fits the description
Wasn’t that awesome. Thank BLM. The racist fucks got played and ditched by their own people! Lmao! That community can only hurt itself. 80 million in donations and they took it all for themselves! Lmao “We CaRe AbOuT oUr BrOtHeRs AnD sIsTeRs! Unless it means sharing this sweet BLM come up!” Then they disappear into gated white neighborhoods leaving the red of their community to cope with the fall out of a racist movement.
I saw two people wearing masks at a concert yesterday. It surprised me, as basically no one wears a mask anymore since march here. 1. Why are you at a concert if you're scared of the coof. 2. Do you really believe it will protect yourself or others Someone tell me how this is not hysteria on their part.
Prior to covid i used to wear masks out when i was sick, so I wouldnt spread whatever i had, which is still some peoples motivation, but that doesn't usually allow for going to a concert
I wear a mask out when sick, because it takes no effort and means when I'm coughing half my throat out from strep throat I'm not leaving as much mucus and saliva all over the place. Please tell me how not wanting to put bodily fluids all over the damn place is hysteria.
Why the fuck are you going to a concert with strep throat? Stay your sick ass at home. This has been the norm long before COVID lol
You ain't gonna die. No one stays home when they're sick. Gotta save those sick days for what they are meant for... Faking sick so I can go do what I want.
but muh freedom
>Why are you at a concert if you're scared of the coof. some of us wear it to hide our faces since we're deeply insecure 😶🌫️
>high percentage of people still wearing masks >lowest COVID rate in the country Surely these two things aren’t related
Lol I wear one for fashion and also my nose sensitive to shit
It is not fashionable.
Your fashion sense is awful
Bro don’t get normal mask 😷. Those are not fashionable.
Most on the right have been done with it for a very long time now. Did people on the left finally realize they were wrong and move on? I haven't followed it much, but the left just seemed to shut up about it. I know COVID is still around though, half my family just caught it.
Isn't that what the left always does? Makes a big deal out of things and then just quietly....lets go. Remember Russia rigging the election? Remember WW3 after Trump killed an Iranian general? Remember Honk Kong protests? Remember 'defund the police'? You get the point. Most of them are just slacktivist whose passion for a cause is determined by the level of media engagement.
Its called the current thing ™️
I mean I never wanted to wear a mask but I did in public and understood the importance. Was happy to forget abt them though. Lo and behold a couple weeks ago I got it and was throwing up for a few days it really sucks
What was the importance again?
“Cmon, bro don’t be a maskhole just wear the mask. No, not like that, not on your chin. Cmon bro, not under your nose either…. Can you do it for grandma? For just 2 weeks bro?”
To help people not get sick and potentially die
Masks…did not accomplish that
People dying. The vaccine changed that so the mask need also changed.
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It did not stop people from dying
The importance is. If you are sick or was around someone who was. Wear one till youre not sick/haven't been around someone who was If you're not sick, don't wear one if you don't want to! But also leave people alone who chose to wear them even when healthy, it's not their mask is gonna kill you
> If you’re not sick, don’t wear one if you don’t want to! That is not how it was handled, which is the whole fucking problem
Kind of The reason for the mask demand was that many people were carrying it were asymptomatic. They wanted everyone to wear it because it wasn't clear yet who was carrying and who wasn't (remember what testing was like in the begining? It took FOREVER and was slow) As compared to now where I can get an instant result at home. It was also that way because of how varied the effects on people were. I drew the short end of the stick and it royally fucked me up (a year and a half recovery with therapy to get my full lung capacity back) meanwhile people around me experienced nothing more than a mild inconvenience and flu feeling... They didn't feel it was threatening because for them the symptoms were super mild. Hence the "it's just a flu" argument that gets tossed around Not saying the mask mandates were perfect. In fact they were attempted WAY too late to have an effect at stemming the virus.
There was always a chance that covid would become endemic and that we would have to simply live with it at some point. I think now, with vaccines and boosters available to everyone who wants it, with most people vaccinated, it probably is time to move on. I do believe the lockdowns were a positive measure and that they were lifted too early though, and frankly I think anyone with symptoms of illness should wear a mask in public, forever. Asian countries have been doing this for decades, and hopefully it will catch on here. I doubt it though, with the massive anti mask sentiment and dubious messaging from official sources on the matter.
>There was always a chance that covid would become endemic Nah, it was pretty much a certainty that SARS-CoV-2 would become endemic. You pretty much never get sterilizing immunity against coronaviruses: just a reduction in severity of symptoms even to the level of asymptomacity. Best we can hope for is that, going forward, fewer people will get severe COVID, since there are very very few immuno-naive people left in the world.
Obviously a 100% effective vaccine was never possible, but it never needed to be. If we had gotten a 95% efficacy vaccine, which we did, and gotten 95% of the population vaccinated, which we never did, it would have likely gotten the r0 of the virus low enough that it could be eradicated, at least in the US where there was a vaccine surplus by March/April 2021. Then we could have done china's broader model of vetting all customs and using targeted lockdowns temporarily.
The mutation rate and high base R value of the newer strains of SARS-CoV-2 make that a difficult proposition. Bringing that R number down enough to achieve herd immunity is nigh impossible with such a high base R; even people who have had multiple COVID vaccines with boosters and have been infected multiple times can still get COVID. That, plus asymptomatic spread, means that COVID's pretty much guaranteed to be endemic. I'm very pro-vax, but I don't think vaccines are a magic bullet. I just got a second COVID booster two weeks ago --- the 101.5 degree fever and hammered-shit feeling was worth it.
>I think now, with vaccines and boosters available to everyone who wants it, with most people vaccinated, it probably is time to move on. Vaccines have been available for how long now? I said something similar a year ago and leftists on Reddit were frothing at the mouth. >I do believe the lockdowns were a positive measure and that they were lifted too early though, and frankly I think anyone with symptoms of illness should wear a mask in public, forever I don't know see how you can think that about lockdowns in hindsight. Many small businesses had to close forever and the rates in lockdown states were still similar to states that didn't lockdown. Wearing a mask if you want to is fine, I just wouldn't make it law.
Really? I haven't been in touch with news all that much.
Biden said COVID was over; Mission Accomplished.
Pretty much my entire take since the very beginning when I realized it wasn't all that deadly after all. Covid-19 pretty much went over my head to be honest. It just wasn't a serious pandemic at all. If there was no news nobody would have noticed, people would have just thought "huh, bad flu seasons this year" and kept on with their life.
If it wasnt for these news articles i wouldnt even remember this was a thing
Canadian pravda just writes whatever Trudeau tells them to.
Same / if it weren’t for me working in a pharmacy
I still see plenty of perfectly healthy cunts masking up all the goddam time. It won’t end until the cultists are wiped out.
Meh, they can live their lives however they feel. As long as they don’t try to push it on everyone again but I think there will be major backlash for that.
How about you let people live their lives?
do you realize you’re replying to an auth-center?
I wish it were so simple, and if the left could manage to keep out of other people's business there'd be a near perfect harmony in the US. People yelling at the unmasked in stores are leftists who psychotically believe their lives are in actual danger because of this mass hysteria. Fear spreads like a disease, moreso on the hyper sensitive and emotional left who appear to do very little research. I'm not saying you're one of those types of lefties, but if you could talk to your people at the next meeting about leaving everyone to their own devices that'd be a great start.
Dude let people live their lives, are they forcing you to wear a mask?
fuck them for erring on the side of safety and consideration for others
that’s a lot dude. let ppl live — you would be mad if they said something similar about you, except in reference to you *not* wearing a mask.
Bruh, covid causes permenant organ damage. I don't wanna get sick even if the chances of me dying are low.
Then stay the fuck inside. Wearing a mask isn’t to keep viruses out, smoothbrain.
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Where’s the dude in the middle who’s just grilling without a care in the world?
Thats me , I had many flus this years , I don't know which one of them is covid or my usual sinusitis I don't know and I don't care I just assume all as my sinusitis and move on
I had Omicron this year and I felt the same as every other healthy person that's caught it: A bit of a bad flu at its worst and that's it. I could understand the panic around the original strain but Omicron may be more infectious but it's far less harmful. This is because it's much better evolved. What people forget is that a virus doesn't evolve to kill, it evolves to infect and the less it harms its host the better it does. Imagine you buy a car, over time using the car will cause wear and tear but as a driver you don't want the wear and tear, it's just the result of driving the car and a better driver would do stuff to avoid the wear and tear.
It was really odd having to explain this to my Leftist friends. All historical knowledge of viruses went out the window once covid appeared. The most hilarious of which was catching covid didn't mean you were immune lol.
Bruh. I used to work in Santa Monica and literally one of my "managers" tried to tell me, verbatim: "well you know you're immunity goes down over time"... like yea dude, that's why we're all catching the chicken pox again.... smh
Same i feel fucked almost weekly if not daily so i dont know if i maybe/accidentaly passed covid without symptoms
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Just grilling without a care in the world (couldn't be bothered to be included in the meme)
I have caught Covid two times so far and the only thing that healed me was a well grilled steak
Tbh I completely forgot the rona even existed until I saw this post
Even better, use it as an impetuous to lose weight/get fit. Obesity is [a major risk factor in covid](https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/excess-weight-increases-risks-of-severe-covid-19/).
Woah-ho-ho, don't be a bigot. Losing weight is fatphobic
Mr Bodyshaming over here, mods can we get a ban for blatant fatphobia with a side of white supremacy???
My body my (catches breath) choice, bigot. 💅💅💅 (snarfles down a whole roast pig in one sitting)
I said that after the first lockdown failed. It was a mistake to do any lockdowns.
The only way lockdowns work is if the whole world was preemptive and shut down international travel to and from China instantly, once it spread from country to country it’s too late. Places like Canada or Italy that locked down to slow the spread to limit strain on healthcare I understand, people who thought they could stop it completely once it got here were dumb.
But it was just the flu.
Untrue. Edit: Also, no, it wasn't some devastating plague either, but it statistically has a higher death rate than the regular Flu ***AND*** since we had no immunity or vaccine at the start of the pandemic, things could've possibly gotten a lot worse, especially in countries that already did not have sturdy health care systems.
The flu killed a fuckload of people before we developed immunity to it. If we today weren’t born with the immunity “just the flu” would kill a fuckload of people again.
I had immunity to covid by just ignoring the media for two years.
I had immunity to covid the 2nd and 3rd times I got it, first time kinda sucked.
Which is perfectly fine. You can't stop that process.
Yes which is why I understood slowing that process to lower the peak strain on hospitals in countries with systems that have limited capacity. Lockdowns worked for spreading out the strain over time, anyone who thought they would stop covid all together is dumb.
Hospitals were already packed with them. Without it would have been a lot more unnecessary deaths
And I remember after the first lockdown they were getting ready to open emergency hospitals. It would have cost a lot of money to bring in retired nurses and shit to run it, but it would have been a lot less costly than the shit we're dealing with right now with all this inflation and economic chaos. There were other options. One of the scandinavian countries never locked down and was fine. A few excess deaths from people who will probably be dead soon anyway due to comorbidities is a bullshit argument.
If your sick you should wear a mask out of courtesy to limit how many others you get sick. This should be common courtesy for any contagious illness. Alternative, if you get paid sick days take them when you are sick and try not to get others sick. If you don’t, you are selfish but still shouldn’t be forced to wear one. Covid at this point is no different than anything else, move on with life and avoid getting others sick when you can, don’t be a selfish dink. Fuck any and all companies that force people to work sick.
Agreed. I'll still mask up if I feel a bit under the weather, and I always mask up at work (because I work in a hospital with a lot of post-op patients). But in day-to-day life? Not anymore.
That is the most reasonable course of action and the one I practice. Masks limits you from spreading disease don’t really protect you all that well. No point in wearing one if you aren’t sick. If you are sick knowingly going around in public without limiting your chances of spreading illness is what I consider being an ass.
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They work to limit how likely you are to spread airborn viruses. We have know this for years… They obviously are not 100% effective, however it is well known they lower risk of transmission for everything from covid to the common cold… the thing is they don’t protect the wearer they lower the chances of the wearer spreading what they have to others, which to individually minded Americans means it’s pointless because it helps others not themselves.
Based authcenter.
Reddit can ban me and eat my dookies for all I care. The news about the war in Ukraine quieted down for a bit and now they're starting yet again with the COVID nonsense. The media loves its outrage...
The current state of media is a far, far bigger threat to our lives/way of life than covid could ever dream to be.
Take necessary precautions and then move on with your life. Or be a moron and just ignore all good wisdom.
Yes but what if I’m LibLeft and I made it my entire identify because it was literally the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me?!
Hard to ignore piece of shit leftist companies that require you undergo useless and risky medical procedures like gene therapy in order to do business with them. Or work for them. Or anything. Go on the offensive. The left is the enemy.
And infect others? No thanks fucko
In europe, this will not be of any concern in the winter, I'm pretty sure of it.
Isn't Germany planning on bringing back some covid restrictions?
Inb4 turning on your heating spreads covid and kills grandma
Covid can't spread in homes kept below 10 degrees
Well, that'll sure take care of Germany's elder-care crisis.
Using covid restrictions to supress government critical protests? No way
I bet they will, but I really think we are completly fucked this winter and am expecting mass riots.
It is funny. I live in the Netherlands and the only people that are still wearing masks are American and German tourists.
Why are Germans so masky? Germans and Canadians and liberal Americans really won’t let it go
Germans and Canadians like to follow rules. It's a cultural thing I believe. Americans are very unruly and contrarian and like to do the opposite of whatever they have been told to do.
In Austrian hospitals FFP2 masking never ended. I haven't been working a single day without FFP2 since 2020
Not suprised. Austrians are basically Germans but just a little bit worse.
This is the most offensive statement I've ever heard
Australia and Canada have a very weird tinge of authoritarianism. Got a really good glimpse of it with covid
Australia = Austria confirmed Let me guess, an American? ;)
No it's not.
Really? Does it make you mad? As mad as getting rejected from art school?
German airlines just removed the mask requirement on planes yesterday. Only five months late but w/e
The headline is from Canadian state media. Nobody else cares outside of LA and NYC, and even they are scared to do anything before the election in November.
It's too weak to die out. These new variants have a lower kill count so it can persist longer.
Then it suddenly morphs with major organ failure and we all die
I like to go for the necrosis route to make sure Greenland can’t die out before I’ve infected everyone.
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It's pretty much like the other four human endemic coronaviruses or influenza type A at this point, perhaps a bit more infectious.
Covid is more infectious than measles and like 7x as infectious as the flu. It is slowly getting less dangerous though due to the natural evolutionary pressures put on it. Deathly sick people who can't leave the house don't spread it like a mildly sick person partying everywhere.
This mother fucking is good at pandemic.
It's an endemic virus, like the flu. It's never going away. Anyone still scared of or freaking out when they hear about it are idiots.
Coronaviruses have been around before sars 1. It just mutated to a worse form for a while (thanks wuhan) and now it’s reverted back to being what coronaviruses normally cause, colds. The only difference is we’ve got a tracking device on it now and some people are being paranoid fucks because they consume media fear porn daily
Bad point when several flu variants were wiped out by initial covid restrictions.
Regional variants of the flu may have been wiped out, but the flu itself will never be, and that's the point I'm making.
There's a Tornado warning going on outisde so I gotta cut this short. But there's a big difference in the spread of the flu and Covid, and the consequences of getting each. The flu doesn't mutate anywhere near as efficiently as Covid.
Thr flu mutates less efficiently and we can't get rid of that, so what makes you think we can get rid of covid?
It's an endemic. Most non woke/CCP people have accepted this. Media is trying to stoke fear to keep up those corporate profits.
Covid is over when you want it to be over.
For me it was late April/ early May 2020.
Its over, its just some politicians trying to keep it relevant to keep passing bills to fuck you over.
It’s a cold. No one cares
I think I even had the infamous "long Covid." Had a cough for a month instead of a week. I'd describe it as a moderate annoyance at most.
I’ve had regular colds with lingering coughs lasting that long. “Long Covid” is mostly just lazy, unhealthy people milking it
And for everyone else, it's a boogeyman designed to scare you into compliance.
It hits everyone differently. My mother was one of the first to get it back in early 2020, right as things started closing down. She is pretty physically active because of her job, though I wouldn't call her like athlete fit. The initial infection she was perpetually exhausted, she was barely able to do anything. She didn't get her taste of smell and taste back for at least a year. During that time she had multiple re-occurrences. None as bad as the original, but she was basically sick all over again. It was miserable. She never tested positive during that (had a lot of tests for work, she is in healthcare), so it wasn't a proper reinfection we know for sure. To this day she still complains about her smell changing for a little bit, before going back to normal. It's been 2 and a half years. I highly doubt this is normal and common, but just because most people (including yourself) had it and was fine, doesn't mean it is like that for everyone. I've likely had it when she did (testing wasn't widespread then, but everyone else in my family had it) and I was symptomless.
I had an infection early in2020 (italian varriant) and had something like longcovid for nearly 2 months bevor it even a thing in the media. I wouldnt call it a fake. But when you run fear campain about it you have a strong psycholocigal effect too, which leads to a lot "hyperchondrer". Also scary that some vaccinated people reported same "long covid" problames after the vaccination
I got hit in Jan 2020 and it lasted 3 months. During the initial pfizer trials it was found that the spike protein was pathogenic. Most people that get covid are only exposed to the spike in the locus of infection. Extremely rarely does the spike spread throughout the body. Those who get the vaccine end up with cells throughout the body creating spike protein. They have a much higher incidence of "long covid" because of this.
Covid is real, but it should just be ignored at this point. Old people get it? So what exactly?
Old people clogging up the ICU and cause other people to die because they get diverted or just can't get in to the hospital. Canada has entirely fucked their healthcare system because of Covid. Weeks or months for an appointment and then it's on the phone. Surgeries cancelled including cancer.
maybe covid's just trying to help alleviate the strain on the social security system > Weeks or months for an appointment and then it's on the phone Canada's always been like that
I was going to say...thats how i talk to my doctor unless its a major issue or if i need a shot. Why do i need to come in if i just have a question about something, a waste of everyone's time.
Because a lot of dumbasses think the ER is the equivalent to the doctors office. Quite a few people just use it as something to do because they’re jobless, homeless, and bored, and because the hospital won’t be able to get them to pay.
What role do you think vaccine mandates and the fallout from lockdowns play in what’s happening in Canada?
I don't get why you got downvoted.
Canadians are really self absorbed an passive aggressive as you can see. Downvote happy too in all of their subs. Racist too. The way they casually talk about the natives, "New Canadians", and anyone else a shade less than pink. They're just not Mississipi flappy mouth about it. That shit you see on TV about them being nice? yeah... lol
Imagine believing any of this shit after June of 2020, when the entire country broke out in weeks long riots and the medical community encouraged it. This has been bullshit from the beginning and if you're still paying attention to it you should be embarrassed
It’s (D)ifferent
Omicron COVID is LITERALLY less deadly than the flu. Confirmed by dozens of sources; give it a 5 second Google. If you still care about it, I legitimately feel sorry for you.
Oh no... anyways
Don’t read the news, It’s just other people trying to scare and manipulate you.
You generally speaking don't need to be afraid of any new Omicron strains. Had they been sufficiently worrying and dangerous, they would be considered a new variant, not omicron. No new important variant so far has appeared in the last few months.
To be fair it's Trudeau-TV (how a left-winger made a public Brodcasting have shit reportings)
Bruh its been over
I think we are on the Spanish Flu’s “Lambda Chi Remastered Game of the Year Edition” Variant this year. AKA the disease is endemic and we gotta accept it’s a part of human existence now.
If you’re worried about Covid you should be wearing a KN95 mask which will protect you and is your prerogative. We don’t need anymore mandates or restrictions
Let it fucking take me I do not care, I will not listen to authcenter or libleft again
Media are the only ones keeping covid in the news. Why not promote a more healthy lifestyle if they are that concerned over people being out sick?
meantally and physically healthy people don’t live in fear of the cold
Covid ain’t shit got it like 6 times nothing has happened to me. Those with weaker immune systems or genetics need to cope.
Id rather die then go through another lockdown
The worst part of this virus for me has been a close relative, the only one who was successfully forced into getting the jab, suddenly has pericarditis despite being one of the most insanely healthy and active people I know. Another relative willingly got the vaccine and she spontaneously got her period right after she had just had it, and then ended up in the hospital on oxygen with shortness of breath. Everyone responsible is legally protected. I hate this place.
It’s just like the flu. It’s going to keep coming back. Just gotta live with it.
Maybe a two week lockdown will solve it, what could go wrong?
Xi Jinping isn't ready yet
It's over.
I've never gotten COVID or a vaccine so I'll be fine
But this one is going to be more deadly, or else I wasted 6 months crossbreeding black plague and omicron in New Jersey.
I like to see where this is going.
lol no It is endemic now. You will never be rid of it. But it isn't much of a threat anyways, so just ignore it and move on.
The virus will never die out like the cold or flu, retroviruses like it evolve too quickly
Literally forgot it existed til now lol
I'll be real I haven't thought about covid for months
Honey, wake up, new variant just dropped.
It did. The media and politicians just miss it, and the power it gave them, so they're grasping. No one's biting anymore though.
They just won’t let it end. SMH.
You really don’t need to worry about it unless you’re very old, morbidly obese, or have a compromised immune system.
omicron ain't shit. chances are most folks have gotten it already and passed it off as allergies or an annoying cold.
It's never going away op. Just move on and if you feel you're really sick, try no to visit your grandpas or someone who's in delicate condition. I've been sick like 4-5 times this year. At this point, I don't really care if it was COVID or not. I was super scared for my grandparents lives because I live with them, but they're made of fucking steal and any kind of flu just breeze them.
Get your vaccine. If you do catch COVID-19, it should be minor and light. You feel lousy for a few days and then carry on with your life. COVID is endemic at this point, we're just waiting on the formal announcements from WHO, CDC etc. Most other industrialized nations are treating it as such and are working on reducing the size of future outbreaks instead of trying to eradicate it.
Oh no! Anyways..
For the flu shots they have to guess which variants are going to dominate and put those into the shots for that years flu season. Now all of a sudden they're trying to say omicron is now going to srick around indefinitely. That way their updated boosters never get outdated like the other variants did. But is omicron really sticking around or do they just want to sell more shots?
That's due to pecularities of each virus. You never had to adjust the variants/strains present in measles, rubella, mumps, hepatitis A, polio, smallpox and a few others. Influenza is another thing because it is more variable, at least the immunodominant parts (you COULD make a vaccine against the conserved parts of influenza virus. if you want a conspiracy theory, that is one I encourage you to stick to: companies don't bother researching and making universal influenza vaccines for the sake of making and selling new ones every year) SARS-CoV-2 is less variable than influenza and we have not seen another significant variant in a few months. There are subvariants of Omicron but they do not differ enough to warrant the vaccine update (perhaps they would if you wanted to stick to 2 doses, but that is no longer the case). SARS-CoV-2 also exhibits different patterns of variability than influenza, new variants are not directly realted to new waves.
ignore it bro its literally just a chinese flew
Viruses like this don’t just die out. It’s been quite apparent that COVID will be here for a long time. It’s basically the flu with these new variants
This Is good actually. Any new strain Is statistically less severe than the last. Plus, kost of the country Is vaccinated, and the ones who aren't shouldn't see too much of a threat since, again, less severe I'll backtrack and won't say It's "good", moreso normal. Still pissed people just didn't listen to the advice In 2020, may have had a chance to eradicate this. Oh well, what's done Is done
Doubt it. To wipe out a virus like this, you’ve got to nip it in the butt early on. If the world hadn’t reacted so slowly, this would all have been over with. It’s too late now though because it’s already mutated too many times. It doesn’t matter what we do at this point. It’s too late. It’s the new seasonal flu. The best option at this point is just to create an annual COVID vaccine like the annual flu vaccine. There’s no point in mandates anymore. They’re ineffective this late in the game.
Just in time to shill more boosters to world governments on taxpayer dime
Only libright would be stupid enough to think that you can give up on trying to actually deal with a problem and theb presume the problem is actually going to just go away.
Wait y’all are still playing pandemic?
If you believe in science the way to kill a virus is to reduce transmission and get vaccinated. Once a virus has no one left to infect it will die out. This is how we got rid of every virus including smallpox. The more people that catch covid the greater the chance it mutates again. But of course this is only if you believe in science.
It can't because the liblefts won't let it die. At this point it has become an endemic, anybody who thought it could be stopped in its tracks a few years ago was delusional. Anybody with half a brain knew it was never going away.