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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]I just don’t care anymore. I did all the things they told me to do and still got Covid and it was a bunch of nothing. Sorry but nothing will get me to panic again.

I was one of those who stayed shut inside for 2020 and I now regret it because it was a bunch of fear and nothing more.

Not saying it’s not a bad disease, but I’m treating it like the flu and moving on with living. I took 3 shots, masked all 2020-2021, and I’m sick of being gaslit. [/quote]

You were not gaslit. Unfortunately following the rules wasn’t enough. That’s why so many have fatigue over caring about precautions. Being good isn’t always enough to protect you. To be honest that’s true if pretty much anything. I hear you though. Realize not caring won’t matter to the virus if you cone across it anyway. Hopefully you’ll not get any version though.  [/quote]

I think you totally missed the point.  The PP isn’t angry he got it, he is angry is went to great lengths for a year+ thinking he would be gravely  sick, and it was a cold. [/quote]

That’s pretty simplistic and a bit of retroactive rose colored glasses. It was not a simple cold two years ago. [/quote]

Even so, it is now.  We have vaccines to lessen severity and effective treatment.  But STILL people are wanting everyone to cling to the guidelines, quarantines, restrictions, and mitigation efforts of 2020[/quote]

Clearly you are not keeping up with current variants.  [/quote]

I don’t understand what data you are looking at that is telling you the current variants are causing severe disease in people with vaccine or naturally acquired immunity. [/quote]

Because for me it’s not about severe illness it’s about catching it.  We have it now.  We did not report it so I can tell you numbers are not accurate.   It is miserable.  I don’t want this again.  Guess it’s time to start digging out a basement to hide in.  [/quote]

I’ve had it too. Being sick isn’t fun, but I would rather be sick occasionally than go back to 2020 restrictions. [/quote]

We never had real restrictions and I’d rather have precautions than go through this again.  You can get it multiple times.  Come school start it’s going to be a hot mess.  [/quote]

My kid really did kindergarten on an iPad, so don’t tell me there were no restrictions. Also we were warned school was going to be a disaster when they started 2 days a week in spring 2021 and then again for full time in fall of 2021 and then AGAIN after winter break in 2022 and yet again after spring break in 2022. You know what? It was fine. We will be fine. [/quote]

This! And then there were things that were not strictly restricted but made incredibly difficult (to impossible) due to restrictions. Like childcare. The idea that we haven’t sacrificed for this thing because society never *technically* locked down is ridiculous.

Look, I accept that this isn’t just a cold. But it’s not smallpox or the Black Death either. It’s a novel virus that poses an elevated threat and has killed millions of people. But we also have to be realistic about what can be done. At this point, eradicating it through lock downs is off the table. Look at New Zealand. That’s an island nation that really seemed to have beaten this thing through travel restriction and lock down. Cases have skyrocketed there. You can’t lock down indefinitely, and it’s a very contagious virus. It will come for you eventually.

I think we have to accept that this is something we live with now. I just don’t see what the alternative is. People who complain constantly about how everyone just wants to “move on” aren’t explaining what the effective, realistic alternative is. You are not going to get lockdowns, 100% masking, or any other severe restrictions again. Not if it’s on an indefinite basis. And there’s no evidence that doing that for a couple weeks or a couple months will help, unless everyone on the planet participated, which they won’t.

This is life now. We have to find a way to live it.[/quote]

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