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Agonized_rufous
03/19/23 8:28:53 PM
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My area hasn't bothered with it for two years now. No one really cares, if you get sick, stay home

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rexcrk
03/19/23 10:09:40 PM
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Choco posted...
more evidence that ce lives in some strange alternate reality
Errr, that IS how it was.

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The_Top_Crusader
03/19/23 11:02:45 PM
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Town I live in mostly doesnt care anymore. Once in a blue moon Ill see someone in a store with a mask but its gotten pretty rare.

I occasionally work in another town about an hour away and that workplace reinstated their mask mandate, but the site I usually work at locally didnt. *shrug*. Not totally sure of the criteria, but I assume maybe that county had more cases or something?

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Choco
03/20/23 7:17:29 AM
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rexcrk posted...
Errr, that IS how it was.
ok, explain to me who "the right" is

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CADE_FOSTER
03/20/23 7:18:18 AM
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I live in Texas its like it never existed
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Nukazie
03/20/23 7:18:58 AM
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yeah but i'm keeping the mask

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Turbam
03/20/23 7:19:32 AM
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CADE_FOSTER posted...
I live in Texas its like it never existed


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Fluttershy
03/20/23 7:24:48 AM
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my mentality is when you get sick, you don't just start being a fuckoff the second you feel better. you go a little ham to solve the problem, once and for all.

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youenjoymyself1
03/20/23 7:47:40 AM
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People stopped giving a fuck about covid during the summer of 2020 lol
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Cuticrusader09
03/20/23 7:53:56 AM
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Fluttershy posted...
my mentality is when you get sick, you don't just start being a fuckoff the second you feel better. you go a little ham to solve the problem, once and for all.

Its a nice thought in theory, but doesnt work in practice. My kids got a bunch a colds earlier in the year so I kept them home when they were sick. I got a fucking nastygram from the vice principal that I only get 9 days I can excuse and its important that kids go to school.

So now if they are slightly sick I tell them to go to school and go to the nurse to get sent home so it doesnt count against me. The system is fucked up.
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rexcrk
03/20/23 8:34:58 AM
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Choco posted...
ok, explain to me who "the right" is
the people who decided that our health wasnt as important as businesses

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masterpug53
03/20/23 8:52:22 AM
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Itachi157 posted...
I mean short of going China-style I don't see what else we really could've done.

Wear your damn mask, get your damn shots, and (most importantly) if you can't support mask and vaccine mandates, then at least don't actively fight against them.

Still kills me that people pretend like there was absolutely no effective middle-ground between letting Covid rip and welding people shut in their homes.


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ghettoraider81
03/20/23 8:55:40 AM
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Cuticrusader09 posted...
Its a nice thought in theory, but doesnt work in practice. My kids got a bunch a colds earlier in the year so I kept them home when they were sick. I got a fucking nastygram from the vice principal that I only get 9 days I can excuse and its important that kids go to school.

So now if they are slightly sick I tell them to go to school and go to the nurse to get sent home so it doesnt count against me. The system is fucked up.


I had this same thing happen. My kid missed 3 days so far in 7 months. Got a letter about Truancy Court. So fine, Ill send him in sick if that what youre going to make me do.


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hitokoriX
03/20/23 10:03:00 AM
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This is the thing though... we were all going to get covid eventually. Before you say anything, yes I got my vaccines, even got my booster, wore a mask always, didn't make any unnecessary visits, stopped going to the gym etc. I gave a year of my life to trying to stop the spread. I didn't see my mother or my close friends -- because I believed it was worth it. The thing is though, there's no way to stamp out covid. Maybe an island like New Zealand can, but not on the east coast of the US. We've got people who have built up immunity now so yeah, I say go back to living normally.

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dave_is_slick
03/20/23 10:05:33 AM
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hockeybub89 posted...
I know a number of people who are still suffering side effects of contracting COVID.
I'm pretty sure my asthma is worse because of it but I'm not gonna preach doom and gloom because of it.

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TaylorHeinicke
03/20/23 10:23:18 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
The right wing decided profits are more important than basic health and everyone just caved to them as usual
No denying the right cares about it less than the left, but why bother still pretending the left cares at all? Doesn't Biden still have every right to declare it an emergency if it still was one? What about the CDC continuing to reduce recommendations for basically everything outside being in an actual hospital?

And saying this because I feel like I have to, lest I be roasted otherwise; I've never voted for the right or supported their response to covid in any facet.

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voldothegr8
03/20/23 10:25:50 AM
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ellis123
03/20/23 10:28:02 AM
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TaylorHeinicke posted...
No denying the right cares about it less than the left, but why bother still pretending the left cares at all? Doesn't Biden still have every right to declare it an emergency if it still was one? What about the CDC continuing to reduce recommendations for basically everything outside being in an actual hospital?

And saying this because I feel like I have to, lest I be roasted otherwise; I've never voted for the right or supported their response to covid in any facet.
Generalized fatigue post-subversion. If Republicans were never given even the tiniest quarter for the pandemic we would be over the whole thing but because there was a suicide pact from the smooth-brains covid dragged on until the average person got sick of the whole affair. Thus it is a level of political suicide to try and stop covid again. Biden's job isn't to help people, it is to get re-elected again.

This is why people "joked" about how this would go from "pandemic" to "endemic."

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Choco
03/20/23 11:00:17 AM
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rexcrk posted...
the people who decided that our health wasnt as important as businesses
every government except for china's?

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TaylorHeinicke
03/20/23 11:27:46 AM
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ellis123 posted...
If Republicans were never given even the tiniest quarter for the pandemic we would be over the whole thing
I keep hearing this though and fail to understand... knowing what we know now, how is it remotely possible to speculate this could've been reality? How easy it spreads, how long it lingers, how contagious you can be even when asymptomatic... and was China with covid-zero not already a case study? Like another user ITT said, they went covid-zero for a while and then it just blasted right back through them the moment they reopened.

I fail to see a single reality where we would ever have been "over the whole thing." Even if we went full ass martial law from case 1. It spreads too easily and too undetectably.

And a separate question -- are we not "over the whole thing" right now anyways? Might be anecdotal, but everything I've seen in the US for the last year and a half at LEAST has been let-er-rip. Feels like we're already over the whole thing anyways. But if we had gone covid-zero from the start, then re-opened for a bit, then shut back down with surges, then re-opened, etc., we'd still be in this vicious cycle with no end in sight, all while people continued to die with each re-open.

Here's my perception as to how I see it. Using 1 million deaths as an example (just a guess)

Current timeline: covid starts, 2020, people die, we close down, we reopen gradually, up to today. March 20, 2023, 1 million deaths.
Covid-zero timeline: covid starts, we covid-zero for two months. we reopen for a month. people die. we shut down. we reopen. people die. we shut down. repeat ad nauseum. eventually, 1 million people will die, but the rest of the country will be suffering by being locked up (which we know has led to rises in drug abuse, domestic violence, alcohol abuse, etc.)

If 1 million are going to die either way, is this not the better timeline than the one with zero end in sight?

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darkmaian23
03/20/23 1:56:05 PM
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TaylorHeinicke posted...
If 1 million are going to die either way, is this not the better timeline than the one with zero end in sight?
Maybe you could try being less dumb or try just shutting the fuck up if that doesn't work.

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masterpug53
03/20/23 2:01:45 PM
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darkmaian23 posted...
Maybe you could try being less dumb or try just shutting the fuck up if that doesn't work.

Muffinz will lowkey troll / sealion any Covid topic that reaches over five posts. Best to not waste the effort.

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LordFarquad1312
03/20/23 2:03:11 PM
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Pretty sure I still haven't gotten it so

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Will_VIIII
03/20/23 2:05:37 PM
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At this point not getting vaccinated and dealing with the consequences of that choice is whatever.

2/3rds of covid deaths still occur in unvaccinated people.

Given that it was 99% a year ago, it makes sense that the numbers would shift this way when so many have already died.

Personally I'm not concerned should I, as a boosted individual, pass it to an antivaxxer.

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Supersex420
03/20/23 2:07:26 PM
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Biden saying it's over was totally enough for me to realize that I didn't care that much about covid because it was easy for me to avoid. So I changed my mind and stopped wearing a mask.

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electricbugs2
03/20/23 2:07:54 PM
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good lord, move on already.

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NoxObscuras
03/20/23 2:10:16 PM
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ghettoraider81 posted...
I had this same thing happen. My kid missed 3 days so far in 7 months. Got a letter about Truancy Court. So fine, Ill send him in sick if that what youre going to make me do.
Yeah it's stupid. The way it's setup just forces kids to go to school while sick, which just spreads colds like wildfire. My son gets sick all the time

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electricbugs2
03/20/23 2:17:56 PM
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I mean, what more do you want from people? Im fully vaxed, wore a mask in public until Teresa Tam/Bonnie Henry told me I could stop, had my small social circle during the peak as instructed, and when I actually got Covid sheltered myself in my house and lived off soup for a week.

I could maybe understand if you lived with a trembling old relative with a weak immune system, but it really feels like you want the world to be shut down forever.

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Will_VIIII
03/20/23 2:19:42 PM
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Outside of statistical outliers, there's no data to suggest that you have a significant group of people who can't receive the vaccine and boosters either.

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Were_Wyrm
03/20/23 2:20:08 PM
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Well if covid isn't a big deal anymore sounds like Title 42 can be done away with.

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RyukSan
03/20/23 2:21:21 PM
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I'd argue the dramatics from some individuals don't help. Unless you have a preexisting condition(s), not vaccinated, and not boosted, then your chances are actually great of surviving covid.

Yes you can still get covid despite the above. But the dangers of it are not as great as it used to be. Some going full hyperbolic or dramatic mode as if the danger is still as bad as 2020 is not helpful on getting people to take something seriously.
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electricbugs2
03/20/23 2:25:39 PM
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I dont have a problem with you at all, hell when I had Covid myself your garlic/hot sauce soup was a godsend.

I just still dont understand exactly what you want when it comes to Covid. You mention that sports and restaurants are more important, which implies to me that you want them shut again.

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Cocytus
03/20/23 2:46:09 PM
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burns112233 posted...
The one's who are afraid should just stay home. There's Ubereats, groceries deliver now, you got Amazon, you never have to leave your house again!

You are hereby disinvited to my cuddle party.

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TaylorHeinicke
03/21/23 11:12:23 AM
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masterpug53 posted...
will lowkey troll / sealion any Covid topic that reaches over five posts. Best to not waste the effort.
Deflect and shitpost all you want, nothing I've ever said on the subject has been intended to troll. I'm sorry you feel that way.

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SlamVook
03/21/23 11:14:17 AM
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Yeah, i stopped using the mask for once at all since this 2023. I used it almost all the time during 2020-2022 tho

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creativerealms
03/21/23 11:14:50 AM
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We stopped giving a fuck three years ago.

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gamer167
03/21/23 11:54:00 AM
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Yeah we stopped giving a fuck about 2 years ago.
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BTH_Phoenix
03/21/23 11:54:24 AM
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Cuticrusader09 posted...
My kids got a bunch a colds earlier in the year so I kept them home when they were sick. I got a f***ing nastygram from the vice principal that I only get 9 days I can excuse and its important that kids go to school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_vLKlz2Mc

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ktownslayer16
03/21/23 12:06:26 PM
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no, but enough people got vaccinated that it didnt melt down the health care system which was the original concern after seeing what happened in places like Italy, etc.

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PesticideDream
03/21/23 12:16:03 PM
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I'm vaccinated and boosted, so no, don't care about it anymore. Feel like it's mostly the shut-ins that really want people to mask forever and the world locked down for 5+ years.
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