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Anonymous wrote:They are riding high on the moral ground that COVID gives them to look down on anyone who doesn't agree with them. "I'm such a good person! I wear my mask! I do whatever the cdc tells me to do. If Fauci says boost, I say shoot me up!"

Thankfully this forum isn't real life. No one cares irl.

It differs from place to place. My in laws live in a community full of Trumpsters and nearly everyone is unmasked and few are fully vaccinated let alone boosted. Although many of their neighbors and coworkers have had Covid more than once or are struggling with long Covid, they can’t deviate from what the people around them do. Yet they are shocked when Grandma dies or Junior is hospitalized.

Both are wrong. COVID purity moralizing is extremely off putting. Nobody who doesn't already agree with you is going to be convinced to change their behavior. If you are just literally posting about rising case rates or your personal experience with long COVID, I do think that can be valuable. But if you are just shouting into the abyss about people not taking COVID seriously enough, you're not achieving anything.

Please take your admonishment that "Nobody who doesn't already agree with you is going to be convinced to change their behavior" to heart. People have picked their sides at this point. Thinking of people on the other side of the line from you as psychopaths and P.O.S. isn't helping sway them to your side, and I don't think it's healthy mentally for the person who's doing it, either.

I don't think of "people on the other side of the line" are psychopaths and P O Ss. I think there are some pro mask/lockdown posters who behave horribly/dishonestly on these boards who are P O Ss and psychopaths. These are people who post falsehoods repeatedly and ignore when someone posts proof that they are wrong. People who say any child's mental illness was caused by their parents. I've seen that gem a lot. People who insist than anyone who isn't masking right now didn't make any sacrifices in 2020-21 - also a common talking point. Those posters are psychopaths.

Everyone on the pro-masking side will eventually give up masks. In other words, the people in favor of normalcy will "win." It's truly crazy that people are planning on giving up normal socialization for themselves and their children indefinitely. Lack of normal socializing will also cause changes to the brain and remodeling of circuitry...

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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.

Then that comment isn’t talk about you! There’s clearly a wide spectrum of how people treat Covid. The person in that comment is at the extreme end of remaining overly cautious and building their life around “taking CoVID seriously.” If you simply still mask, you are not in that group. But those people ARE out there- mainly on Twitter. They’re the ones saying things like “people are really hosting cookie exchanges? In a panini? I wouldn’t risk long CoVID for cookies but have fun.” Those kinds of people.

Well gee, it sure would make a lot more sense to ask on Twitter then wouldn’t it? OP said she wanted to be anonymous though, and none of those Twitter posters have responded after 20 pages, so I don’t see the point. Maybe make an anonymous Twitter account OP?

For someone so traumatized by toddler masking, maybe a better use of your time is to stop dwelling on random people that you are afraid to confront and focus on joyful time with your kid? This topic isn’t healthy for you. I truly hope you aren’t the POS poster. If so, you honestly need anger management help.

DP the sad thing is my toddler was actually harmed by masking, but of course to you all anything having to do with mental health is a hilarious joke, and yes that makes you a POS.

No one thinks it’s a hilarious joke lady, but dwelling on random posters in social media is not the solution. It’s completely unproductive. Name-calling doesn’t help anyone come to your side.

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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.

Then that comment isn’t talk about you! There’s clearly a wide spectrum of how people treat Covid. The person in that comment is at the extreme end of remaining overly cautious and building their life around “taking CoVID seriously.” If you simply still mask, you are not in that group. But those people ARE out there- mainly on Twitter. They’re the ones saying things like “people are really hosting cookie exchanges? In a panini? I wouldn’t risk long CoVID for cookies but have fun.” Those kinds of people.

Well gee, it sure would make a lot more sense to ask on Twitter then wouldn’t it? OP said she wanted to be anonymous though, and none of those Twitter posters have responded after 20 pages, so I don’t see the point. Maybe make an anonymous Twitter account OP?

For someone so traumatized by toddler masking, maybe a better use of your time is to stop dwelling on random people that you are afraid to confront and focus on joyful time with your kid? This topic isn’t healthy for you. I truly hope you aren’t the POS poster. If so, you honestly need anger management help.

DP the sad thing is my toddler was actually harmed by masking, but of course to you all anything having to do with mental health is a hilarious joke, and yes that makes you a POS.

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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.

Then that comment isn’t talk about you! There’s clearly a wide spectrum of how people treat Covid. The person in that comment is at the extreme end of remaining overly cautious and building their life around “taking CoVID seriously.” If you simply still mask, you are not in that group. But those people ARE out there- mainly on Twitter. They’re the ones saying things like “people are really hosting cookie exchanges? In a panini? I wouldn’t risk long CoVID for cookies but have fun.” Those kinds of people.

Well gee, it sure would make a lot more sense to ask on Twitter then wouldn’t it? OP said she wanted to be anonymous though, and none of those Twitter posters have responded after 20 pages, so I don’t see the point. Maybe make an anonymous Twitter account OP?

For someone so traumatized by toddler masking, maybe a better use of your time is to stop dwelling on random people that you are afraid to confront and focus on joyful time with your kid? This topic isn’t healthy for you. I truly hope you aren’t the POS poster. If so, you honestly need anger management help.

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Anonymous wrote:Still calling people psychopaths and P.O.S., okay. Have fun being angry.

I call it like I see it

Why do you care so much is the real question?

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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.

Then that comment isn’t talk about you! There’s clearly a wide spectrum of how people treat Covid. The person in that comment is at the extreme end of remaining overly cautious and building their life around “taking CoVID seriously.” If you simply still mask, you are not in that group. But those people ARE out there- mainly on Twitter. They’re the ones saying things like “people are really hosting cookie exchanges? In a panini? I wouldn’t risk long CoVID for cookies but have fun.” Those kinds of people.

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Anonymous wrote:My boss is one of these people still hung up on covid. He's very educated, very intelligent and accomplished. But he spends too much time on Twitter, and the echo chamber of covid nonsense in his ultraliberal feed has done him in. I met with him today, and I was struggling not to laugh during our meeting because he looks like a duck when he's talking with his N95 on. I had to look down for much of the meeting so I'd stop picturing a duck.

Those duck masks are hilarious. I can't take anyone seriously who is wearing one of those. Not that I really take anyone seriously who is still wearing a mask, but at this point, it's a great way to let me know who to avoid!

Cool for you. I like my brain more.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602620024807723010.html

Which study in the linked thread are you referring to? The first one is probably the most relevant (Severe COVID-19 is associated with molecular signatures of aging in the human brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00321-w), but it studied autopsied brains from hospitalized people who died of covid from Sept 2020 to Dec 2021 and matched them with brain tissue in deep freeze from before 2019. I'm not sure how relevant the findings are to vaccinated people getting covid now. Also, it doesn't tell us anything about brain function because, well, all the subjects were already dead.

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They never have a response when you point out that, yes, if you were sick enough to be hospitalized with Covid, or any virus for that matter, that you’ll unfortunately probably have some lasting damage. Hell there was a public FB post that made the rounds a few years back about a woman who was hospitalized with a severe case of influenza and suffered lasting heart and lung damage that would likely shorten her lifespan (she was about mid-late 40s at the time). But most people, the vast majority of people, aren’t sick enough to be hospitalized. So why would those findings apply to the majority of people who clear Covid from their body just fine?

I'm in Europe, so didn't respond because I went to bed. Power went out, so now I'm up. Le sigh

That thread was posted by a Pulitzer prize winning science writer.

The thing is, we don't know that people are actually clearing Covid. Covid seems to persist in the organs even among those who feel fine.

This is why it's incredible to me that parents are letting their kids pick it up over and over and over again without doing anything at all to try and prevent it. They have their whole lives ahead of them and will be dealing with the aftermath. Really sad

It does seem like the evidence is growing that kids have been harmed.

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Anonymous wrote:My boss is one of these people still hung up on covid. He's very educated, very intelligent and accomplished. But he spends too much time on Twitter, and the echo chamber of covid nonsense in his ultraliberal feed has done him in. I met with him today, and I was struggling not to laugh during our meeting because he looks like a duck when he's talking with his N95 on. I had to look down for much of the meeting so I'd stop picturing a duck.

Those duck masks are hilarious. I can't take anyone seriously who is wearing one of those. Not that I really take anyone seriously who is still wearing a mask, but at this point, it's a great way to let me know who to avoid!

Cool for you. I like my brain more.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602620024807723010.html

Which study in the linked thread are you referring to? The first one is probably the most relevant (Severe COVID-19 is associated with molecular signatures of aging in the human brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00321-w), but it studied autopsied brains from hospitalized people who died of covid from Sept 2020 to Dec 2021 and matched them with brain tissue in deep freeze from before 2019. I'm not sure how relevant the findings are to vaccinated people getting covid now. Also, it doesn't tell us anything about brain function because, well, all the subjects were already dead.

+1

They never have a response when you point out that, yes, if you were sick enough to be hospitalized with Covid, or any virus for that matter, that you’ll unfortunately probably have some lasting damage. Hell there was a public FB post that made the rounds a few years back about a woman who was hospitalized with a severe case of influenza and suffered lasting heart and lung damage that would likely shorten her lifespan (she was about mid-late 40s at the time). But most people, the vast majority of people, aren’t sick enough to be hospitalized. So why would those findings apply to the majority of people who clear Covid from their body just fine?

I'm in Europe, so didn't respond because I went to bed. Power went out, so now I'm up. Le sigh

That thread was posted by a Pulitzer prize winning science writer.

The thing is, we don't know that people are actually clearing Covid. Covid seems to persist in the organs even among those who feel fine.

This is why it's incredible to me that parents are letting their kids pick it up over and over and over again without doing anything at all to try and prevent it. They have their whole lives ahead of them and will be dealing with the aftermath. Really sad

I don’t get it either.

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Anonymous wrote:My boss is one of these people still hung up on covid. He's very educated, very intelligent and accomplished. But he spends too much time on Twitter, and the echo chamber of covid nonsense in his ultraliberal feed has done him in. I met with him today, and I was struggling not to laugh during our meeting because he looks like a duck when he's talking with his N95 on. I had to look down for much of the meeting so I'd stop picturing a duck.

Those duck masks are hilarious. I can't take anyone seriously who is wearing one of those. Not that I really take anyone seriously who is still wearing a mask, but at this point, it's a great way to let me know who to avoid!

Cool for you. I like my brain more.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602620024807723010.html

Which study in the linked thread are you referring to? The first one is probably the most relevant (Severe COVID-19 is associated with molecular signatures of aging in the human brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00321-w), but it studied autopsied brains from hospitalized people who died of covid from Sept 2020 to Dec 2021 and matched them with brain tissue in deep freeze from before 2019. I'm not sure how relevant the findings are to vaccinated people getting covid now. Also, it doesn't tell us anything about brain function because, well, all the subjects were already dead.

+1

They never have a response when you point out that, yes, if you were sick enough to be hospitalized with Covid, or any virus for that matter, that you’ll unfortunately probably have some lasting damage. Hell there was a public FB post that made the rounds a few years back about a woman who was hospitalized with a severe case of influenza and suffered lasting heart and lung damage that would likely shorten her lifespan (she was about mid-late 40s at the time). But most people, the vast majority of people, aren’t sick enough to be hospitalized. So why would those findings apply to the majority of people who clear Covid from their body just fine?

I'm in Europe, so didn't respond because I went to bed. Power went out, so now I'm up. Le sigh

That thread was posted by a Pulitzer prize winning science writer.

The thing is, we don't know that people are actually clearing Covid. Covid seems to persist in the organs even among those who feel fine.

Ok, that’s nice. Could you please reply to the substance of the study? It is, in fact, a study of molecular changes that compared brains of dead Covid victims to other people who were in the icu, correct? The authors of the study itself made no inferences about its application to the general population. Also, could you please post support for “ Covid seems to persist in the organs even among those who feel fine.” because I haven’t seen that study yet.

The authors actually did:

“Given these findings, we advocate for neurological follow-up of recovered COVID-19 patients,” said senior and co-corresponding author Frank Slack, director of the Institute for RNA Medicine at BIDMC and the Shields Warren Mallinckrodt Professor of Medical Research at Harvard Medical School. “We also emphasize the potential clinical value in modifying the factors associated with the risk of dementia — such as controlling weight and reducing excessive alcohol consumption — to reduce the risk or delay the development of aging-related neurological pathologies and cognitive decline.”

Better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying brain aging and cognitive decline in COVID-19 could lead to the development of novel therapeutics to address cognitive decline observed in COVID-19 patients. The team is now trying to understand what drives the aging-like effects in the brains of COVID-19 patients.

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/12/study-finds-coronavirus-can-persist-for-months-in-almost-every-organ-system-a-step-towards-understanding-long-covid-19.html?outputType=amp

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Anonymous wrote:My boss is one of these people still hung up on covid. He's very educated, very intelligent and accomplished. But he spends too much time on Twitter, and the echo chamber of covid nonsense in his ultraliberal feed has done him in. I met with him today, and I was struggling not to laugh during our meeting because he looks like a duck when he's talking with his N95 on. I had to look down for much of the meeting so I'd stop picturing a duck.

Those duck masks are hilarious. I can't take anyone seriously who is wearing one of those. Not that I really take anyone seriously who is still wearing a mask, but at this point, it's a great way to let me know who to avoid!

Cool for you. I like my brain more.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602620024807723010.html

Which study in the linked thread are you referring to? The first one is probably the most relevant (Severe COVID-19 is associated with molecular signatures of aging in the human brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00321-w), but it studied autopsied brains from hospitalized people who died of covid from Sept 2020 to Dec 2021 and matched them with brain tissue in deep freeze from before 2019. I'm not sure how relevant the findings are to vaccinated people getting covid now. Also, it doesn't tell us anything about brain function because, well, all the subjects were already dead.

+1

They never have a response when you point out that, yes, if you were sick enough to be hospitalized with Covid, or any virus for that matter, that you’ll unfortunately probably have some lasting damage. Hell there was a public FB post that made the rounds a few years back about a woman who was hospitalized with a severe case of influenza and suffered lasting heart and lung damage that would likely shorten her lifespan (she was about mid-late 40s at the time). But most people, the vast majority of people, aren’t sick enough to be hospitalized. So why would those findings apply to the majority of people who clear Covid from their body just fine?

I'm in Europe, so didn't respond because I went to bed. Power went out, so now I'm up. Le sigh

That thread was posted by a Pulitzer prize winning science writer.

The thing is, we don't know that people are actually clearing Covid. Covid seems to persist in the organs even among those who feel fine.

Ok, that’s nice. Could you please reply to the substance of the study? It is, in fact, a study of molecular changes that compared brains of dead Covid victims to other people who were in the icu, correct? The authors of the study itself made no inferences about its application to the general population. Also, could you please post support for “ Covid seems to persist in the organs even among those who feel fine.” because I haven’t seen that study yet.

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Anonymous wrote:My boss is one of these people still hung up on covid. He's very educated, very intelligent and accomplished. But he spends too much time on Twitter, and the echo chamber of covid nonsense in his ultraliberal feed has done him in. I met with him today, and I was struggling not to laugh during our meeting because he looks like a duck when he's talking with his N95 on. I had to look down for much of the meeting so I'd stop picturing a duck.

Those duck masks are hilarious. I can't take anyone seriously who is wearing one of those. Not that I really take anyone seriously who is still wearing a mask, but at this point, it's a great way to let me know who to avoid!

Cool for you. I like my brain more.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602620024807723010.html

Which study in the linked thread are you referring to? The first one is probably the most relevant (Severe COVID-19 is associated with molecular signatures of aging in the human brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00321-w), but it studied autopsied brains from hospitalized people who died of covid from Sept 2020 to Dec 2021 and matched them with brain tissue in deep freeze from before 2019. I'm not sure how relevant the findings are to vaccinated people getting covid now. Also, it doesn't tell us anything about brain function because, well, all the subjects were already dead.

+1

They never have a response when you point out that, yes, if you were sick enough to be hospitalized with Covid, or any virus for that matter, that you’ll unfortunately probably have some lasting damage. Hell there was a public FB post that made the rounds a few years back about a woman who was hospitalized with a severe case of influenza and suffered lasting heart and lung damage that would likely shorten her lifespan (she was about mid-late 40s at the time). But most people, the vast majority of people, aren’t sick enough to be hospitalized. So why would those findings apply to the majority of people who clear Covid from their body just fine?

I'm in Europe, so didn't respond because I went to bed. Power went out, so now I'm up. Le sigh

That thread was posted by a Pulitzer prize winning science writer.

The thing is, we don't know that people are actually clearing Covid. Covid seems to persist in the organs even among those who feel fine.

This is why it's incredible to me that parents are letting their kids pick it up over and over and over again without doing anything at all to try and prevent it. They have their whole lives ahead of them and will be dealing with the aftermath. Really sad

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Anonymous wrote:My boss is one of these people still hung up on covid. He's very educated, very intelligent and accomplished. But he spends too much time on Twitter, and the echo chamber of covid nonsense in his ultraliberal feed has done him in. I met with him today, and I was struggling not to laugh during our meeting because he looks like a duck when he's talking with his N95 on. I had to look down for much of the meeting so I'd stop picturing a duck.

Those duck masks are hilarious. I can't take anyone seriously who is wearing one of those. Not that I really take anyone seriously who is still wearing a mask, but at this point, it's a great way to let me know who to avoid!

Cool for you. I like my brain more.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602620024807723010.html

Which study in the linked thread are you referring to? The first one is probably the most relevant (Severe COVID-19 is associated with molecular signatures of aging in the human brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00321-w), but it studied autopsied brains from hospitalized people who died of covid from Sept 2020 to Dec 2021 and matched them with brain tissue in deep freeze from before 2019. I'm not sure how relevant the findings are to vaccinated people getting covid now. Also, it doesn't tell us anything about brain function because, well, all the subjects were already dead.

+1

They never have a response when you point out that, yes, if you were sick enough to be hospitalized with Covid, or any virus for that matter, that you’ll unfortunately probably have some lasting damage. Hell there was a public FB post that made the rounds a few years back about a woman who was hospitalized with a severe case of influenza and suffered lasting heart and lung damage that would likely shorten her lifespan (she was about mid-late 40s at the time). But most people, the vast majority of people, aren’t sick enough to be hospitalized. So why would those findings apply to the majority of people who clear Covid from their body just fine?

I'm in Europe, so didn't respond because I went to bed. Power went out, so now I'm up. Le sigh

That thread was posted by a Pulitzer prize winning science writer.

The thing is, we don't know that people are actually clearing Covid. Covid seems to persist in the organs even among those who feel fine.

Anonymous wrote:Still calling people psychopaths and P.O.S., okay. Have fun being angry.

I call it like I see it

Still calling people psychopaths and P.O.S., okay. Have fun being angry.

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Anonymous wrote:They are riding high on the moral ground that COVID gives them to look down on anyone who doesn't agree with them. "I'm such a good person! I wear my mask! I do whatever the cdc tells me to do. If Fauci says boost, I say shoot me up!"

Thankfully this forum isn't real life. No one cares irl.

It differs from place to place. My in laws live in a community full of Trumpsters and nearly everyone is unmasked and few are fully vaccinated let alone boosted. Although many of their neighbors and coworkers have had Covid more than once or are struggling with long Covid, they can’t deviate from what the people around them do. Yet they are shocked when Grandma dies or Junior is hospitalized.

Both are wrong. COVID purity moralizing is extremely off putting. Nobody who doesn't already agree with you is going to be convinced to change their behavior. If you are just literally posting about rising case rates or your personal experience with long COVID, I do think that can be valuable. But if you are just shouting into the abyss about people not taking COVID seriously enough, you're not achieving anything.

Please take your admonishment that "Nobody who doesn't already agree with you is going to be convinced to change their behavior" to heart. People have picked their sides at this point. Thinking of people on the other side of the line from you as psychopaths and P.O.S. isn't helping sway them to your side, and I don't think it's healthy mentally for the person who's doing it, either.

I don't think of "people on the other side of the line" are psychopaths and P O Ss. I think there are some pro mask/lockdown posters who behave horribly/dishonestly on these boards who are P O Ss and psychopaths. These are people who post falsehoods repeatedly and ignore when someone posts proof that they are wrong. People who say any child's mental illness was caused by their parents. I've seen that gem a lot. People who insist than anyone who isn't masking right now didn't make any sacrifices in 2020-21 - also a common talking point. Those posters are psychopaths.