I kind of hate these "journalists" and "doctors" who refuse to even mention respirators. Getting vaccinated is a good idea, but all but 1 person I've known to get long covid was fully up to date on their vaccines at the time they got the covid infection which gave them long covid. Meanwhile I mask religiously, have never had covid that I know of, and have no symptoms of long covid ( I also get vaccinated once a year )
Yeah, they work great, yet a lot of people think they don't do anything. At the very least they should be used in hospitals, but we can't even normalize mask use in fucking hospitals.
Which was a more severe flu season than normal:
I see this every year now. And not once have i seen a mainstream media in canada like cbc have the guts to say that is from immune system damage from covid. Recently saw the old immune debt bullshit. Like that halfassed "lockdown" six years ago is still causing people to get more sick lmao
Yeah, there's been record rates of nearly everything. Could it be that neuroinvasive airborne vascular disease is having an effect on people? Nah, it's because we couldn't get drunk at the pub for a while.
The disease has essentially disabled and permanently reduced the intellectual and physical capability of the entire human race, forever. It’s kind of crazy to think about.
I wonder how much of that increase in flu cases was due to immune system damage caused by COVID. It is shocking the amount of cognitive dissonance people are willing to put up with just to not wear a mask.
Right? People complain about being sick all the time like they dont remember what it was like before covid. Its not normal to be sick all the time.
Meanwhilen I'm going on 7 years without even a cold.
It sucks being around plague rats all day, because an N95 is only so effective and I still get sick occasionally, though no COVID so far. On the upside I make sure to just randomly call in sick a few times a month to take some extra days off 
because an N95 is only so effective
I wish more CC folk internalized this. CC seems to largely have become put a mask on and go Back to Normal, with the Swiss cheese model thrown out the window. Like, you still wanna avoid large crowds and have proper air circulation/filtration whenever possible.
I understand why people end up in this position, though. Like, I mentioned in a meeting at work that we should upgrade our ventilation or at the very least test it to know how much air change we have, and was told that it was too expensive and that I was some kind of woman and/or gay for caring. I'm in a solidly blue city. 95%+ of the population are hogs on this one, and if you can't convince anyone else to take wider action then you can only take the actions available to yourself.
Totally, I get that. But I see a major difference between 'I need to take the risk of work and shopping' vs like 'I want to go to a Taylor swift concert' or something. Lotta folks treating masks like invincible talismans rather than a layer of protection that still relies on other layers to build a system of safety. And on an individual level, fine, but like that's a prevalent mindset over on /r/zerocovidcommunity.
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