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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thread title is misleading.

The vaccine still protects against Omicron variants. They are more contagious so you may still get it, but being vaccinated, and especially boosted, protects you against serious illness.

If Covid starts killing/hospitalizing healthy vaccinated people under the age of 70, please let us know as that would really big.

If Long Covid differs significantly from the longer term issues people have from other, common respiratory viruses like the flu or RSV, that would be big.

Neither of these things are true, so maybe stop flipping out about people choosing not to wear masks anymore, or doing normal things like grocery shopping, going to work, and socializing with friends.

We should all try to avoid catching Covid (I have still never had it) but for most of us, we aren't going to work harder at it than we currently work at avoiding the flu or head colds because there is no reason to. Get vaccinated, stay home and/or mask if you are sick, take care of yourself and your family. Beyond that, you can of course take greater precautions but you cannot expect others to do so, especially not when they limit people's ability to enjoy their lives on a daily basis.[/quote]

COVID already does kill healthy, vaccinated people under 70. Long COVID is already a bigger public health problem than the post-viral syndromes we already know about because it is more common than they have ever been—because COVID is so common.

To summarize, this situation already passes both of the thresholds you claim you would care about, but you don’t care because reasons.[/quote]

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