This site is wearing me down this past week.
edit: I am more worn down. Shouldn’t have posted this thread. Feeling awful about my future.
this might sound cliche, but people trying to persuade others about this sound like they’re also trying to persuade themselves
Easiest way to avoid multiple viruses, never going to stop wearing a mask
yup before the pandemic i used to get sick much more frequently than the average person, i’m talking like I’d probably get sick for a week at a time 4-5 times a year but ever since masks have become a thing I just never get sick
last times ive had covid its been pretty mild. ive heard the new variants are mild, but i also wear the mask becausse studies have shown it can weaken the virus if you do catch it, giving you better odds. so i’ll never stop wearing the mask :shrug-outta-hecks: :bane:
My understanding is that reducing the amount of virus particles you are exposed to means the virus takes longer to ramp up and gives your immune system more time to come online, but I don’t know how true that is.
Also, immunity to Covid is very complicated. It has a lot of properties that directly attack or evade the immune system. Moreover, it is evolving rapidly and dramatically, with new strains emerging every few months that are distinct enough from the old strains that infection with the old strain does not confer significant immunity to the new strain.
When they die or are seriously disabled by it, they’ll stop being plague rats. It’s a problem that solves itself and the only rebuttal to it is nominating them for their Herman Cain Award.
The issue is that they’re taking a shitload of innocent people down with them.
Certainly but that’s what they live to do and is why they need to be written off. The only difference between a plague rat and a bioterrorist is that the latter coughs into a container first. Only overwhelming hostility confronts them and even then it’s just a deterrent to others who are susceptible toward reactionary shit.
It was the first big psychic shift I had to take with the pandemic. There’s the era before where we could be idealistic about humanism and the era after where the material conditions have shifted and we need to adapt. Not adapting isn’t just not learning to use a computer when the information age dawned, but is actively killing everyone around them with the virus they either don’t believe in or refuse to understand. It’s as much social murder as the CDC commits when telling people not to mask. People who are fundamentally incapable of upholding some kind of social contract, who shit in the well we’re all forced to drink from, will never get better because the things compelling them to shit in the well are stronger than the condemnation of those who drink. They won’t be rationalised out of it because they’re driven by irrational things. They won’t stumble their way through the pandemic and emerge unscathed and without blood on their hands. If we ignore them we’re complicit, if we take their side for any stupid reason we’re no better, if we try to cuddle them out of their beliefs then it’s guilt through cowardice rather than malice. Without them unlearning their core beliefs they were damned the moment the pandemic began and without shunning them out of society the rest of us choose to be damned by them. If not by COVID, by the next one they’ll approach the same way. It’s a violent conflict they chose to start for nonsensical reasons so fuck them to death.
Yeah I honestly had no idea a significant number of our users became straight up covid deniers over the last year. literally just hearing them parrot all the chud bullshit 3 years late. :agony-4horsemen:
I did notice that some of them have new accounts. So maybe there’s bullshit afloat.
I would not be that surprised if we are being brigaded. Tbh Hexbear, while not perfect, is probably one of the best non-COVID specific digital spaces I encountered online when it comes to this virus. Like with the exception for the past few days it has honestly been better than like a lot of other leftist spaces I know.
I think younger people in general are “over it”. From what I’ve seen in communities I used to be part of, especially when there is eating, drinking, music, dancing involved. I think once people get past the “oh I went to a huge music festival and didn’t immediately die, I guess this is okay”, then all bets are off it seems.
I do sorta feel for young people. In my teens and twenties, I took enough drugs and went to enough clubs to kill a large family. Now that I’m in my early 40s, I’m just over all that stuff.
My opinion is: you’re welcome (albeit not advised) to go to a music festival, just please mask when you’re in front of me as I didn’t ask for the risk.
This is where I’m at. I do really stupid shit sometimes like going to clubs and bars without a mask in sight. But when I’m in the grocery store I wear my fucking mask because the people in the store didn’t sign up to go to a club, and it’s one extra chance to catch it I can cut out.
hey, as long as you’re comfortable potentially killing people then you just gotta do you homie. who cares what’s true?
i love coming to reddit.com/r/neoliberal to hang out with my pals!
