If you are someone who "warns" people of the dangers of COVID on social media

[Anonymous]

I was just on an international trip with an ER doctor. He says the worst of the triple-demic is over, RSV and flu hit earlier this year than usual because of COVID keeping kids at home. He says that the ER is slowing down a lot, back to normal the last month.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. Masks don’t do squat. There wasn’t some major breakthrough in 2020 that proved they worked. If they did, why haven’t we been wearing them for centuries???

We are human. We need to see each other’s faces. If you look at your fellow people as disease vectors, you are a sad, sad, person.

But fine. Keep playing pandemic and living in your dystopian fantasy. Don’t force this crap on others.

Clearly you take it personally.

Yeah. I do. I don’t want to live in a faceless society. But I guess you do. I’m not interested in playing out your Handmaids Tale fantasy. Unlike you, I like seeing others faces and smiles.

I'm not interested in whatever whackadoodle theories you have about why I mask. You and your theories have zilch, zero, zip to do with my choices. I'm going to do what I can to avoid this disease and protect my loved ones. Your projection is sad - try some self reflection.

And youll likely still end up getting Covid at some point, just like everyone else. But your mask worked right?

I have a rock that I keep in my house that prevents elephant attacks. I’ve never gotten attacked by an elephant yet! Therefore, my rock works!

The logic of these gullible COVID freaks hurts my head.

I have been around Covid positive people in a few different situations with my N95 Aura on, including a car with the windows up. They are pretty awesome masks. I'm sure it bugs you that they actually do work because it makes your rants look even more petulant. Covid has clearly done a number on your head, indeed.

And it’s done a number on you, I see. Wearing a magic force field around your face, when you never did this prior to 2020. However did you survive????

Stop deflecting.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. Masks don’t do squat. There wasn’t some major breakthrough in 2020 that proved they worked. If they did, why haven’t we been wearing them for centuries???

We are human. We need to see each other’s faces. If you look at your fellow people as disease vectors, you are a sad, sad, person.

But fine. Keep playing pandemic and living in your dystopian fantasy. Don’t force this crap on others.

Thanks, internet rando, but we’ll listen to the actual experts. JFC indeed.

I BELEIVE IN SCIENCE!!!! Boost me harder Fauci!!! Have we forgotten critical thinking? Let’s just blindly follow “the experts”. We cannot ask questions, else we are a labeled trump supporter and a non-science believer.

SCIENCE IS NOT A RELIGION

Oh, you’re an imbecile. Message received.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop fcking taking your sick kids out in public! Or at least put a GD make on them.

I was making a Target return and a mom came in with her sick kid. He was visibly and audibly sick. His face was flushed and sweaty and he was hacking all over the store up front. His coughing was so violent that he gagged a few times.

They were just doing normal shopping, too. He was picking out a Gingerbread village from the front of the store (and hacking all over them b/c he wasn't covering his mouth, either).

I'm almost at the point where I want to start recording and shaming these moms. This is like the 3rd or 4th time recently that I've been out and about and encountered an extremely ill kid.

What is sad is how unimportant the kids are to this parent if they'd drag them out sick. Its one thing for medication, its another for regular shopping.

You think they should just leave young kids home alone?

You don't go, you have someone else watch the child, you go in for only needed items like medication or have it delivered. Or, have someone else get it for you.

A lot of people don't have a support network of people waiting to watch their sick kids or do their shopping for them.

Then you mask up yourself and your sick kid if you must go into target/grocery store/etc with a quality KN95/N95 mask. Simple to show you care about the community you live in.

You’re not going to keep a KN95 mask on a young child that’s coughing. Come on.

You can’t be part of society without accepting some risk of illness. This isn’t new. People have always gotten sick.

So
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Again, not everyone has back-up care for sick children. I think it’s fairly safe to say most people don’t.

Too bad. Welcome to parenting. And get your frigging groceries delivered, you selfish jerk.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop fcking taking your sick kids out in public! Or at least put a GD make on them.

I was making a Target return and a mom came in with her sick kid. He was visibly and audibly sick. His face was flushed and sweaty and he was hacking all over the store up front. His coughing was so violent that he gagged a few times.

They were just doing normal shopping, too. He was picking out a Gingerbread village from the front of the store (and hacking all over them b/c he wasn't covering his mouth, either).

I'm almost at the point where I want to start recording and shaming these moms. This is like the 3rd or 4th time recently that I've been out and about and encountered an extremely ill kid.

What is sad is how unimportant the kids are to this parent if they'd drag them out sick. Its one thing for medication, its another for regular shopping.

You think they should just leave young kids home alone?

They should not drag their sick kid to Target for a stupid GINGERBREAD HOUSE, but then, you already knew that.

And before you bother with the predictable clapback, if they need groceries and truly have no one to watch their sick kid, that’s what grocery pickup is for. Yes, you can deal with some substitutions so you don’t spread your kid’s sickness all over the store. Truly. You can.

I highly doubt they went to Target specifically and solely to get a gingerbread house. You have no idea what else they needed from the store. But then, you already knew that.

Sweetheart, I’m going to type slowly for you, since you apparently can’t read and you’re saying something that’s already been covered.

You do not “have” to take your sick kid to the store. It’s 2022 and there are other ways to get the things they “needed from the store.” Yes, even groceries.

You’re an adult. You’re not helpless. Figure it out.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. Masks don’t do squat. There wasn’t some major breakthrough in 2020 that proved they worked. If they did, why haven’t we been wearing them for centuries???

We are human. We need to see each other’s faces. If you look at your fellow people as disease vectors, you are a sad, sad, person.

But fine. Keep playing pandemic and living in your dystopian fantasy. Don’t force this crap on others.

Clearly you take it personally.

Yeah. I do. I don’t want to live in a faceless society. But I guess you do. I’m not interested in playing out your Handmaids Tale fantasy. Unlike you, I like seeing others faces and smiles.

“We neeeeed to seeee smiiiiiles” is COVID Right Wing propaganda. You’re lost, Trumper.

Oh ok. Right wing propaganda. I see. Again, anyone who questions the narrative is labeled a trump supporter. Got it. I thought you were so tolerable of everyone? Or is it only if they agree with you on everything?

Keep wearing that mask. I’ll continue living my 2019-style life and enjoy seeing smiles and faces of people around me. You stay home and isolate in your Covid bunker, wearing 4 masks

“Why are you intolerant of my intolerance” is also an ignorant Right Wing propaganda talking point.

Begone Trumper. Parler is that way.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people are vultures who have made watching and waiting for people to get CoVID and suffer and hopefully develop long CoVID their entire personality. If we won’t all stay in our houses forever like they want us to then they’re going to wish CoVID on us in the form of “warning” us about it so they can say they told you so when someone gets sick. It’s pathological at this point. That virus has been here for 3 years. Learn to cope.

It sounds like you are the one who needs to learn to cope.

The way this comeback makes absolutely no sense. I got 3 vaccines, masked until mandate were dropped, mask my kids when they’re sick and followed protocol when we did get Covid, and all of that is completely normal and a reasonable way to live. Fearmongering and moralizing on the internet about a virus that is increasingly impossible not to get and will be with us for the duration of our lifetimes is nuts at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people are vultures who have made watching and waiting for people to get CoVID and suffer and hopefully develop long CoVID their entire personality. If we won’t all stay in our houses forever like they want us to then they’re going to wish CoVID on us in the form of “warning” us about it so they can say they told you so when someone gets sick. It’s pathological at this point. That virus has been here for 3 years. Learn to cope.

This so describes the one person I know in real life who remains shuttered in her house and has been homeschooling her kids and keeping them almost completely isolated since 2020. She is on Twitter wondering when everyone is going to realize that she’s right and they’re wrong, and it often sounds like she’s wishing mass suffering upon everyone else just to come out a winner. She’s lost all of her friends in real life, many of her family members won’t talk to her anymore, but she’s found this community on Twitter—many of whom might not even be real people—stoking her anxiety and paranoia. So sad for her kids.

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Anonymous wrote:If you call virtue signalling having to see people literally die and/or have a stroke in their 50s w/o any other underlying conditions other than a recent COVID infection, by all means, I'll own the virtue signalling.

The question is, why does it offend you?

I am about to be slammed in the hospital yet again because people like you get so offended by COVID.

Here is what I recommend:

1. Wear a well-fitting, high quality mask (KN95 or N95) during surges in all indoor settings when mixing with non household members.

2. Test before gathering with non-household members

3. Do 1 and 2 to keep schools and daycares open

4. Do 1 and 2 so I can do my job in hospitals.

Again, sorry if this offends you

OP here. Thank you for sharing. Speaking specially to your post, I appreciate you being specific about what you want. I'm sorry that things in healthcare settings are difficult right now. What "offends" me about your specific post is basically the implication that COVID (and the flu, and RSV) is the fault of anyone who is engaging in indoor dining in restaurants/indoor activities with people they don't know and can't be sure are testing. And I'm curious - aside from the fact that we're going on three years, which is a long time for people to avoid these types of activities (my child was 12 months old when the pandemic hit, which means these have been three very key years in her social development and yes it has impacted her very much), it also means that many businesses and their employees lose their livelihoods. I know I know, how can I possibly put MONEY above PEOPLE'S LIVES. I think that's a pretty dumb and selfish argument because you're not the one who can't put food on the table.

So I think we can agree that you think I am a terrible person, and I think that's [b]quite unfair at this point.[b]

I'm the HCW poster that you, OP, responded to. What I think you and I can agree on is that it is unfair that our leaders have put us all in this position. Did they try to address air ventilation from the get go? No. Did they distribute tests and high quality masks from the get go? No. Did they share clear messaging about this being an airborne virus? No (just focus on cleaning surfaces). Did they support workplace safety for the businesses that you want to support? No.

[b]I don't have an issue with indoor activities----you seem to have an issue with indoor activities + masks. Why is that?

And by the way, I had to live apart from my high risk child at the start of the pandemic, so I get what you mean about children being impacted.

Like many people I find that I don't enjoy activities when I am wearing mask. Bash me all you want, that won't change the fact that the vast majority of people right now clearly feel the same way given mask usage rates at social events. Three winters of no enjoyable activities is too much for anyone, especially those of us with young children who never got a chance to develop socially pre pandemic.

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I'm the HCW poster that you, OP, responded to. What I think you and I can agree on is that it is unfair that our leaders have put us all in this position. Did they try to address air ventilation from the get go? No. Did they distribute tests and high quality masks from the get go? No. Did they share clear messaging about this being an airborne virus? No (just focus on cleaning surfaces). Did they support workplace safety for the businesses that you want to support? No.

I don't have an issue with indoor activities----you seem to have an issue with indoor activities + masks. Why is that?

And by the way, I had to live apart from my high risk child at the start of the pandemic, so I get what you mean about children being impacted.

Like many people I find that I don't enjoy activities when I am wearing mask. Bash me all you want, that won't change the fact that the vast majority of people right now clearly feel the same way given mask usage rates at social events. Three winters of no enjoyable activities is too much for anyone, especially those of us with young children who never got a chance to develop socially pre pandemic. It sounds like your child is older so you may not understand what that means and why it is important for us to give her opportunities to interact with other people outside of daycare, but that doesn't change our reality.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. Masks don’t do squat. There wasn’t some major breakthrough in 2020 that proved they worked. If they did, why haven’t we been wearing them for centuries???

We are human. We need to see each other’s faces. If you look at your fellow people as disease vectors, you are a sad, sad, person.

But fine. Keep playing pandemic and living in your dystopian fantasy. Don’t force this crap on others.

Clearly you take it personally.

Yeah. I do. I don’t want to live in a faceless society. But I guess you do. I’m not interested in playing out your Handmaids Tale fantasy. Unlike you, I like seeing others faces and smiles.

I'm not interested in whatever whackadoodle theories you have about why I mask. You and your theories have zilch, zero, zip to do with my choices. I'm going to do what I can to avoid this disease and protect my loved ones. Your projection is sad - try some self reflection.

And youll likely still end up getting Covid at some point, just like everyone else. But your mask worked right?

I have a rock that I keep in my house that prevents elephant attacks. I’ve never gotten attacked by an elephant yet! Therefore, my rock works!

The logic of these gullible COVID freaks hurts my head.

I have been around Covid positive people in a few different situations with my N95 Aura on, including a car with the windows up. They are pretty awesome masks. I'm sure it bugs you that they actually do work because it makes your rants look even more petulant. Covid has clearly done a number on your head, indeed.

Did you realize the household secondary attack rate for Covid is well under 50%? It really isn't surprising that you didn't catch Covid in those situations, mask or not.

But I thought we all were gonna get it? Which is it?

What makes you think those are mutually exclusive? We’re all going to be exposed many, many times.

And if you are protected with an N95 while exposed, your odds are much lower. Of course if the infected person was masked, we'd be in much greater shape, but we get to play dodgeball with SARS COV2 daily now. Fun.

And even the best dodgeball players still get hit eventually.

Not everyone is going to get Covid, but you were told that to help the economy. Foolish.

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Anonymous wrote:JFC. Masks don’t do squat. There wasn’t some major breakthrough in 2020 that proved they worked. If they did, why haven’t we been wearing them for centuries???

We are human. We need to see each other’s faces. If you look at your fellow people as disease vectors, you are a sad, sad, person.

But fine. Keep playing pandemic and living in your dystopian fantasy. Don’t force this crap on others.

Clearly you take it personally.

Yeah. I do. I don’t want to live in a faceless society. But I guess you do. I’m not interested in playing out your Handmaids Tale fantasy. Unlike you, I like seeing others faces and smiles.

“We neeeeed to seeee smiiiiiles” is COVID Right Wing propaganda. You’re lost, Trumper.

Oh ok. Right wing propaganda. I see. Again, anyone who questions the narrative is labeled a trump supporter. Got it. I thought you were so tolerable of everyone? Or is it only if they agree with you on everything?

Keep wearing that mask. I’ll continue living my 2019-style life and enjoy seeing smiles and faces of people around me. You stay home and isolate in your Covid bunker, wearing 4 masks

DP. Ah, the Covid bunker trope. I moved to Italy, but keep thinking we are all afraid of our shadow living in our basements. We aren't the ones so utterly ruffled by what perfect strangers do...

You are weak.

Lol, Italy. Right.

When I went to Italy this year no one was wearing a masks. And they were hit hard by COVID early on.

It's obvious from my IP address. Yes, Italy. And the government required masks in school until last June. Select people still wear them - I saw a handful (besides me) at the mall this weekend. You do realize that no matter where we live, those of us choosing to mask would still do so despite what the masses are doing? Not sure you thought through that comment.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people are vultures who have made watching and waiting for people to get CoVID and suffer and hopefully develop long CoVID their entire personality. If we won’t all stay in our houses forever like they want us to then they’re going to wish CoVID on us in the form of “warning” us about it so they can say they told you so when someone gets sick. It’s pathological at this point. That virus has been here for 3 years. Learn to cope.

It sounds like you are the one who needs to learn to cope.

The way this comeback makes absolutely no sense. I got 3 vaccines, masked until mandate were dropped, mask my kids when they’re sick and followed protocol when we did get Covid, and all of that is completely normal and a reasonable way to live. Fearmongering and moralizing on the internet about a virus that is increasingly impossible not to get and will be with us for the duration of our lifetimes is nuts at this point.

+1 Amen

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Anonymous wrote:Some people are vultures who have made watching and waiting for people to get CoVID and suffer and hopefully develop long CoVID their entire personality. If we won’t all stay in our houses forever like they want us to then they’re going to wish CoVID on us in the form of “warning” us about it so they can say they told you so when someone gets sick. It’s pathological at this point. That virus has been here for 3 years. Learn to cope.

This so describes the one person I know in real life who remains shuttered in her house and has been homeschooling her kids and keeping them almost completely isolated since 2020. She is on Twitter wondering when everyone is going to realize that she’s right and they’re wrong, and it often sounds like she’s wishing mass suffering upon everyone else just to come out a winner. She’s lost all of her friends in real life, many of her family members won’t talk to her anymore, but she’s found this community on Twitter—many of whom might not even be real people—stoking her anxiety and paranoia. So sad for her kids.

That's an extreme case if true. In reality, most of us masking are not shuttered in our houses, and while we do fear real damage is being done by the disease, we aren't wishing for mass suffering (and I doubt she is either). Quite the opposite, as I hope we continue to explore new ways to protect the population instead of just pretending like it doesn't matter anymore. I want CO2 monitors like Belgium, Hepa filters in schools, a mass campaign for clean air indoors and next gen vaccines. I don't feel it's my job to warn anyone.

[Anonymous]

I still wear masks in certain settings like medical facilities, grocery stores and drug stores. Vulnerable people still need to get medical treatment and food.