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Covid won't shut things down, that only happened because we didn't have a defense against it and how bad it would be. Turns out it wasn't that bad except for select groups of people too stupid to get vaccinated.
What planet do you live on…?
Vaccination makes you a carrier, it isn't magical virus killer juice.
Covid is virulent enough that at endemic capacity, it will mutate too wildly to keep up with vaccination.
We shut down to stop it from being endemic, but idiots couldn't be bothered to mask up and social distance, so it went endemic.
Mark my words, wave 3 is coming for everyone.
Edit: I need to say I got the vaccinations.
They reduce fatality.
What I'm not jazzed about is endless boosters because of dipshits.
It will not play any impact on normal day to day life.
Tell that to all the people who died. Oh wait....
It’s not a few hundred people you smooth brain. Millions of people around the world died from it, and millions are still suffering effects of Long Covid. They aren’t all high risk.
Your lack of education is showing.
Worldwide in August 2023 you are looking at ... 50 total deaths due to covid. Down from 4400 deaths in January 2023. Average is a few hundred.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-deaths?tab=chart
You have already been told multiple times.
REPORTED deaths.
Most of the reporting systems were (prematurely) terminated because of ding dongs like you.
So we should just believe YOU based on nothing? Have you considered running for the Republican nomination with that logic?
Get your head out of the sand.
It's 2023, we don't know what or how many mutations are going to occur over the next year, but we know we have made ourselves the perfect petei dishes to maximize the process.
Covid is here forever but it's so weak now it's nothing more than a cold for 99% of the population. You can live in fear or you can move on and follow basic hygiene against any and all viruses and bacteria.
Seriously, stop proudly proclaiming how little you know about the topic.
We understand you are still scared. That is okay. The rest of the population have moved on after the threat was removed. I'm vaccinated as well as my family and that is enough for most people.
The virus doesn't care about your feelings.
You are willfully ignoring the simple science of the fact.
Please, PLEASE get a handle on your emotions, and do some learning.
People don't even moderately care that 50 people on the planet died from covid this month. I honestly can understand why. It's clear you are deathly afraid of it, that's you, not everyone else. You're not selling your argument . Next time come with something legitimate and maybe you'll get the attention you are looking for.
It was quite bad until we 1) got an effective vaccine and 2) the post-Delta mutations became less deadly over-all. If we get another bad mutation things could get ugly again.
You just refuse to listen to reason.
You are the equivalent of someone so terrified of HIV that they decide that they are going to refuse to be afraid by fucking everyone they can raw dog, while proclaiming "live in fear you losers!"... until you reap the consequences of your idiocy.
Only difference is that this isn't HIV, and the mutation you create is going to kill everyone.