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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Until I saw this post, I hadn’t thought of COVID all week. Amazing. It’s like it never happened and we’ve all returned to our senses. Remember when people thought we were all going to die any time we left the house? Let’s not do that ever again, mmkay?[/quote]

You have to be one of the more delusional and/or ignorant posters I have seen in a long time.

[b]More Americans died from COVID than ANY US war. More than one million[/b] died of a disease that did not exist five years ago.

And you think we all over-reacted??

This is Memorial day weekend. How many ceremonies will be held, and statues laid with wreaths to honor our war dead. Think of the most devastating war in your mind.

MORE people died of COVID than any of our wars, Let that sink in (those of you who don't even see it in your rearview mirror???)[/quote]

COVID isn't a warring enemy. In war, bombs don't care who they kill. Old, young, everyone in between. The people who died of COVID were disproportionately elderly and in poor health. Hugely so. The vast majority of COVID deaths were among people with significant comorbidities. Huge, enormous overlap. Given we're now two full years post the peak COVID deaths, a good chunk of the people who died of COVID would have died by now of something else. By contrast, COVID wasn't killing classrooms of kids or people out shopping at supermarkets when a stray bomb fell on it.

I'm 42 in excellent health and no known health problems. The odds of dying from COVID is next to none. Like the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people who get COVID, it will be nothing more than a pesky feverish cold for a few days and then back to normal.

Probably the saddest outcome of COVID isn't the elderly and sick who lost a bit of life they otherwise would have lived, but the younger people who had no reason to fear COVID but who have become damaged by COVID fears that they are not able to accurately and pragmatically measure the risks. [/quote]

This is a very good point. It is sad how unnecessarily warped young people have been. [/quote]

It would be if it were not full of lies.[/quote]

What lies? I imagine this is a pointless question as some people are determined to believe COVID is a serious threat to everyone and we're all at risk of death or long covid or whatever and will come armed with their highly selective, often based on skewed data, stats or twitters to prove a point. Meanwhile, in the real world out there - life goes on. Most people have long left COVID behind. That tells you something. [/quote]

That many people cannot understand science, especially if they want to live life like it's 2019? 
That most people can not have empathy for a situation until it directly affects them?

Life could still go on with some modifications that keep everyone much safer, but wont as long as majority want to be an ostrich.[/quote]

I think the biggest lesson learned from Covid is the fact that the majority of people do not have empathy unless it’s a situation that directly affects them. This is essentially why the planet is ultimately doomed- either by climate change or another pandemic. [/quote]

The same could just as easily be said of the people that wanted restrictive covid measures to continue without regard for the impact they had on others.[/quote]

Defensive much?  No one is talking about restrictive measures for all- this response just  highlights your narcissism and lack of empathy for making this all about YOU. What actually is a huge lack of empathy when it comes to Covid is the disregard for the vulnerable and the willingness to throw them under the bus because you don’t want to wear a mask at the oncologist’s office. No one has asked you to stop “living your life” but to have a little respect for people who are way less privileged than you. Next.[/quote]

Do you really not see the irony of telling me that I’m the one making this all about me when you’re the one expecting everyone else to change their behavior for your benefit?[/quote]

I didn’t ask anyone to change behavior for my benefit. Please show me where I said that - I maybe suggested wearing masks in healthcare settings but that was it. I said Covid had revealed a lack of empathy for the vulnerable and people without privilege, health privilege and otherwise. Please point me to the place I asked “everyone else” to change their behavior for MY benefit. I’ll wait.[/quote]

Yes, I’m sure your comment about living life "like it's 2019" was simply referring to people going to the oncologist's office without wearing a mask.[/quote]

I didn’t write that comment so you’re speaking to different people. I was responding to the empathy aspect of that PP’s comment. So it sounds like you’re making a lot of uninformed comments and misconstruing what I’m saying but keep going. I’m still waiting.[/quote]

How convenient that Dcum is anonymous, meaning we can’t go back and see what you’ve previously proposed, or how concerned you were about the impact of school and activity closures on kids.

What specifically do you want people to do?[/quote]

I’ve never previously “proposed” anything - I don’t make policy and I’m not an expert (neither are you, at least I’m willing to go to Vegas and gamble on that). I think there should be consideration for people who are immune compromised or disabled to help make them feel safe in the world. They already deal with enough as it is. That might include masks in medical offices and hospitals, some movie theaters might do one night a month where people mask so immune compromised people can actually go to the movies and feel a bit safer (this is actually still being done in some theaters), putting more funding towards better ventilation everywhere, more funding towards long Covid treatments, to stop minimizing the impact Covid has had on some people (in some cases - destroying their lives), to stop mocking people who still wear masks (their body their choice). Basically things that show compassion for others. But it seems like you have a really, really hard time with that. Maybe having Covid multiple times has messed up your brain? It’s possible it made you a sociopath, unless you were already one, of course.[/quote]

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